[Jeice]

You can easily get a set of banded just by saving up a little money and buying it. Sometimes you will get lucky and people will just give you bronze instead of selling it, I would suggest finding a guild and they can probably help you out with things like this and would be easy to find a group and so forth. Soloing as a Bard does not come all to easy unless your well geared until the 30's when you start getting the helpful songs that allow you to swarm kite. If i were you I would suggest coming to Ecom area and binding in North Freeport. It tends to be easy to find a group when Wcom, Befallen, Nro and Oasis is so close, and you can also find a regen / dmg shield somewhat easy with everyone in the Ecom Tunnel system. As for a weapon, anything will do. If your still using a noobie sword there is a good chance you can just get one of those cheap bondage whips off someone for free or even buy a Jambiya which is good for you at low levels and tends to sell for under 50p.