How long did you take in act 1?

[sarang]

Of the three ish zones in act one - I completed the first two map zones, then the third one I was like "lets get moving on."

Just saw act 2 title card at around ~16 hour mark. What about you guys? How many acts are there?

[4c 61 6e 64 6f]

4 acts, the fourth is the shadow wars. hurried as much as possible through act 1, so i can start branding in act 2

[King Shaka]

Spent 16

[Puzzlepappa]

A little under 10-11

[Weasel Biggs]

Seven or eight, I'd say. Killed a few Captains to level up, tackled the Haedir stones, picked up the Artifacts and Shelob's Memories, played through Cobblyblimblam's memories only long enough to get a skill point for each. The main quest came in last.

[Snoam]

6? did i not do enough side missions?

[Nethlem]

Somewhat around 18 hours, then I got bored of not being able to brand and just rushed through the story missions.

[Nanian]

I never noticed Act 3 message pop up.. I felt like I went from act 2 to 4 nearly with no 3 o.O

[Peek]

Just got to act 2, so it took me 14 hours to finish act 1.

[Raine]

Act one took me 1 hour.

[Lycan]

i messed around hunting orc captains for fun took me like 4.5 hours act1

[Fate (-{SoH}-)]

Act 1 took me about 7 hours,
hunted down 3 legendary orcs, 9 epic, nearly 200 normal,
Smashed every statue,
Claimed every artifact,
Found every memory,
Did all 3 barrows "that second one was painful"
Only did acouple of the challenges however "that forest one with the categors is a nightmare"

Just been messing around so far but making large progress same time :3

Up to the mission where i am gonna fight the first castle owning orc.

10 hours into the game so far.

[McShave07]

I took 21 hours to do act 1. No point in rushing things. To be honest I could have spent longer on it but forged ahead to get branding and Drake riding.

[Beltane]

13 hours and i just stepped into Act 2. Mostly because i tried to figure out what is important in Act 1 and what not. Mostly used it to refresh my combat skills,getting the collectibles and the Celebrimbor memory missions to unlock stuff. Some more stuff alongside the way for the lulz. But thats about it. Outside of that and after reading several topics i don't see much of a reason to stay for much longer than that in that big tutorial called Act 1.

[sarang]

Wow lots of varying hours - glad most of you are not rushing through the game as there is just so much fun to be had.

[jacobknighj]

rushed it because branding is so inegral and it the skill tree looked like it was just one mission away so I kept pushing and fighing massivly higher leveled orcs but got it in just 4 hours