Caster Gear...
 

Anyone have any suggestions on where I can go to get some caster drops? currently a level 12 Mage.

your pet is your gear :)

:( So no lower level drops?

Not really. Item drops are typically going to be from dungeons, you may be able to take out a few named in crushbone but that's about it. I guess you could head to befallen and maybe get damask or whatever but its no stat gear so who cares.

Supposedly Unrest is a warzone newbie massacre fest (haven't been there on this server) but in about 6-7 more levels you can do the fireplace room with a group if you can find one and there are a few decent caster drops (savant's cap, ivory bracelet).

Is there any Cheap gear that I could purchase? or for that matter any quest? for some decent caster gear?

The first places as a caster I would go is upper guk, najena, & oowomp in TD. You will need to be about level 30 for the camp in upper guk, and 36+ for najena/oowomp.

bro i started a char on blue, pretty much leveled to 40 naked. all int does is give you a bigger mana pool which is good if you like to afk med. but if you are constantly pulling it does nothing.

if you are really concerned go farm the lfay sister camp (right next door.) they drop bronze and it sells for pretty good. can probably make 1k and lvl to 16 there.

It was my understanding that intel also adds % damage to spells?

nope

Well... Critical chance?