Tip: Don't eat wolf sandwiches.
Why? just because too *shrugs*
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Here's a real tip: pick up a tradeskill early on, make your own starting armor or whatever may be useful. The wiki has a pretty decent tradeskill section to look up, all relevant to this server by era.
Depending on your class, this could help out a lot with trying to make plats early on vs just trying to level, so you can do things like use those bone chips for turn in exp rather than just trying to not be nekid. Could last you to mid teens where farms are a little better (e.g. selling CB belts to players for plats) for getting equipment at EC to last you to mid levels at least.
Really the only armor making that would be out of reach is making plate, where as if you made your first roll a heavy armor dependent class which is not such a hot idea (even the bronze armor option really sux). But for leather or banded it's doable - banded not right away but doable by the teens with a little farming of junk to sell to players. Banded is not that much more expensive to make compared to finding a player to buy a set from.
Weapons are easy to get though, off in EC tunnel (where everyone trades). Common to see weapons for 10-20pp there, good enough to hit mobs that are invulnerable to non-magic weapons (e.g. willowisps).