Returning player with a couple questions.

[masonb502]

This weekend I decided to begin playing this fantastic game again. I did some research and decided that my best bet when choosing a class was a Magician. I decided on this class for multiple reasons. The biggest reason out of all was for the fact that I could summon elementals that would assist me in battle. After leveling for a couple hours and getting up to level 7 I feel like my damage is kinda low and I can barely win a fight with a mob that cons as white even with a ele summoned. I was thinking about it and wondered if maybe I should have went with Enchanter, Wizard, or maybe even Bard instead of the Magi. I guess my first question would be is their any really good low level weapon that I should be looking out for and striving to obtain and if there is how do I obtain it? Also if I could buy this weapon or any other pieces of gear with plat is there any way at level 7 I could farm the plat at a okay rate?