Warrior isn't so hard untwinked. I've done it a few times and gearing up is good fun (whether through crafting, questing, hunting, shopping or just picking up whatever crap comes your way).
Aggro isn't a problem; make a hotkey that identifies the mob you are trying to tank and asks for it to be rooted. If it lives long enough to require softies casting high aggro spells like slow, then it lives long enough to justify rooting.
In terms of equipment a good start is a weapon with ~10Dmg and as low delay as possible. It will be quite a few levels until procs come close to pure swing hate. Spend your first few levels killing decaying skeletons (I find North Ro inns outside Freeport to be a good spot) and sell some of your bone chips to fund this purchase (around 50pp should buy you something like a green jade broadsword, with 11/25 ratio).
In the early levels you get probably enough AC to get by from what you loot. As such save up for some crafted fire wedding rings. These give a massive boost to HP (and decent AC too). These will set you back a few 100pp. Bone chips, spiderling silks, orc belts and high quality bear pelts you will find on your adventures and sell well to other players to fund this.
Don't worry too much about the quality of your off hand weapon to begin with; duel wield initially produces very few swings and won't produce a double attack for a long time. Consider a Polished Granite Tomahawk to pad your tanking, or an Obsidian Blade for an unreliable aggro proc, if you want to duel wield. Otherwise consider taking up a two handed weapon.
Soon, unless you are hunting where you can find bronze or questing your 'crafted' armour you may want to pad out your AC. A set of banded armour will do this nicely for circa 100pp.
The next thing you will want is haste. This will put you back several thousand pp for entry level. The alternatives are to try get a rotting hangman's noose in Trakanon's Teeth (probably not worth it when not doing the hunter/forager cycles) or skipping haste till 46 when you can loot a rotting war only haste belt in sky (may take a couple of raids, but it isn't very rare).
On the subject of scrounging equipment, the Scimitar of Ykesha (8/22 ykesha proc found in Kithicor forest) is a nice option for the late 30s... if /who all kith shows high levels, there is a decent chance they are doing rogue epic mobs and might help you get one. The second option, also related to rogue epic (and secondary slot only) comes from Steamfont Mountains, Trochilic's Skean (11/25 stun dot proc).
Hopefully, following this loose guide you can ensure you will have fun levelling to 50, and have a reasonable set of equipment ready to get you started on the expansion levels.
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