Farm tailoring crap, sell it, buy bang for the buck gear. Not difficult. Or farm other tradeskill crap. Or farm rare pain in the butt quest items that people use for epics. Or do plat running for people killing guards. Or loot trash off guards that people leave. Endless possibilities to make your first few plats
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In fact it's much much easier as a noob now because it won't take that much time to get a a jade mace, snare whip, staff of battle, cobalt gaunts, hp rings, and other random crap for a noob warrior for example. So you're going to be grouped with rogues with epics and monks with cof/fungi. Just makes your leveling easier. Many people will probably even pass down more bang for the buck stuff in a group (or at least once you get to know them) or let you do main loot. Just don't be a stupid/bad and play bad or spend money on obvious bad/overpriced gear. I'd rather group with someone with cheap bang for the buck items than some dummy who spends all their money on one BiS / near BiS item.
The information contained here was for warriors. For other melee classes, similar applies. For casters, no one really cares.
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Trust me, if I started over here with no twinking it would be much easier than launch day of this server (crowding, no economy, no resses or high level buffs, wearing banded/bronze armor with 6/22 weapons, etc)
Also for your epic, depending what class you play this may end up being easy (rogue, shaman) that you will probably get for free once you get into a high level guild. The monk epic, I think doesn't have a major bottleneck, just pain in the ass camps (never done it). The ranger and druid (and wizard??) epics are going to get less bottlenecked. The shadowknight, warrior, magician, and cleric epics will of course be a pain in the ass still, but meh.