There have been a few posts about struggling with darkness. I guess that's another problem with coming to game without knowing the background rules. In PnP D&D, a Light spell was often the 'go-to' option for illumination, including loosing Light arrows into dark corners, dropping Light pebbles down wells, Light on the front of shields and so on. The old Continual Light was even more popular, and few wizards went anywhere without a Continual Light on the end of their staff (with leather cover for being circumspect).
Yes, this game actually makes light spells important. And fortunately you can get an item that gives you the dancing lights cantrip if you didn't know to take a light cantrip.
