[DrKvothe]

Gazughi breaks any charm.

You can quest your own rod of insidious glamour in your 20s iirc. In the meantime, see if you can find a kindly gnome to tinker you up a spyglass. They commonly sell for ~75-100pp each in EC, but the mats costs ~25pp and it trivials pretty early. I'm sure someone would be happy to help out a new player.

It doesn't have the stats of rod of insidious glamour, but you can click it from your inventory. make a hotkey to it in an inventory slot (not bagged), and bind that to a key that's within easy reach, like spacebar (hit it with your thumb). You can resell it when you get your rod, or save it for another character.

Hitting it will end an ongoing global cooldown except for the spell you just cast, unless that spell is in the top gem slot. That'll make more sense when you try it.

But yeah, crude stein, spyglass, 9 cha neck, 2x 7 cha bracers is a good, cheap start.