I rolled my first character who is a Human SK maybe little over a month or so ago, I am lvl 27 right now. I don't play all the time and I spend a lot of down time figuring out where I want to go haha. I went the first 15 levels with gear i looted and bought from NPC merchants. I was on my way to Freeport from Qeynos, when I was picking off some Gnolls outside of High Pass a lvl 60 druid came up to me and said my gear was terrible. I was rocking a mixture of patchwork/leather as I was saving my plat for a weapon, he asked me if this was my main and how long I had been playing he was then nice enough to port me to W Commons. When we got there he went to the bank hooked me up with a couple pieces of Sentient Armor and giant scalemail, along with a Sharkbone War Hammer. I got lucky, I then joined a guild and bought a 2hander for a decent price off a guildie.
My advice is start whatever you would like but don't get frustrated, I was worried about my crappy gear because i was proud to self finance myself. But a magic weapon is a must because you will run into undead which are invulnerable to regular weapons. I sorta feel like I cheated some by taking donations, but since this is my main and only character I dont regret it, if I decide I may do an alt and make the attempt to self finance my way.
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