might be a bit hard playing a tank as a first character but I did it on my paladin on blue
I recommend doing the lizard meat quest in oggok it gives a decent amount of gold
and when quest experience is finally enabled, it will be good exp too
can start to save towards banded armor or maybe get this item which I found to be
pretty nice actually at a low level :
https://wiki.project1999.com/Two_Handed_Practice_Sword it shouldn't be too expensive