First thing I do with a new character is kill every Black Bear and sell their High Quality Bear Skin for 10-30 platinum to tailors at the East Commons Tunnel.
With the platinum you get buy a magical weapon, so you can kill Willow Wisps when they are dark blue cons. Collect the Greater Lightstones and do the following quest:
Research Aid:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=374
or
Evil Research:
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/quest.html?quest=303
Turn in a Greater Lightstone and sell the reward Concordance of Research back to vendor for almost 10pp.