Read up on the Basics

So while you're waiting for those patches to download, why not do a little reading about the game? If you have the Strategy Guide sit back and take a browse through it. It's not the best I've ever seen, but it was definitely better than the one for City of Heroes was. (That guide was terrible.)

Or you can take a look online. Blizzard has a number of game guides for the starting player. ign.com also has a number of guides.