Here's what I'd do: If you don't have 100 Plat or so, go farm Willowisps in North Karana until you have a dozen or so Greater Lightstones. Do this quest:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Research_Aid and sell the books you get back to Mrysila for the plat. Then /auction in EC until you can get someone to sell you a
http://wiki.project1999.com/Baton_of_faith for 100p or so. Or, you can camp
http://wiki.project1999.com/Shralok_Pack and sell one of those and buy a staff. The wisps are nice, because that quest will still give you decent exp though.
Camp
http://wiki.project1999.com/Guard_G%60Varr until 20 or so. He drops bronze, and there are no brownies to murder you and a zone line 10 feet away to run to with gypsy vendors in the next zone.
At 20-22 go to Ocean of Tears and camp Gargoyles until level 28, make about 2-4k doing vendoring eyes. 28-42, you should have no problem finding groups in Mistmoore, but if you do, you can easily solo Unrest basement for those levels. Somewhere in this range you'd be happy to quest or buy a Ghoulbane.
42-52 You can solo Hill Giants and Sand Giants in between groups, though you could make Lower Guk you home otherwise. 52+ You'll have little trouble finding groups, but can still solo in Lower Guk while LFG.