It's not worth raising smithing/tailoring unless you specifically find it fun and want to make gear for OTHER PLAYERS (not yourself). If you just want gear for yourself and/or money, the best way to go is to farm and sell. Bone chips sell for 5-10pp a stack and there are decaying skeletons en masse in North Ro. HQ bear pelts sell for 10-20pp each. Spiderling silk sells for 20-40pp a stack; the best place to farm it is in a certain underground crypt in Field of Bone at level ~5 or higher. Spider silk sells for 5-10pp a stack; the best place to farm it is in East Karana at level ~20 or higher. Spend a bunch of time farming up this stuff and you'll buy your set of Wu's much faster and easier than if you tried to make it yourself.
Alternatively, just level up normally and you'll make enough money selling research components to merchants (runes, pages, words) and/or dungeon loot to players to buy equipment by your 20s or 30s.
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