By far the best way to get gear is to buy it in EC from other players. To do so you'll need to farm up the plat for it - once you have a nest egg of a couple hundred platinum you can do a little shopping spree for cheap stuff. You probably won't be able to do so until level 15 or 20, as early on most of your money is spent on spells, but later on you tend to make more money from loot than you lose from buying spells. You can also farm to get money faster, but as a wizard you are not terribly gear-dependent until you are quadding, which starts when you get your Bonds of Force spell in your 20s or 30s. Really, the best thing to do is to choose what monsters you kill wisely: go for humanoids or undead since they tend to drop weapons, armor, and later research components that you can sell to vendors.
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