Shadow Knight Starter tips?

[Hvitserk]

So after much making and remaking and thinking I decided to make a Shadow Knight. Im a tank at heart and so thats what I want to do. Paladins just dont have the appeal to me and I hate warriors. Ive always loved the knight classes so I figured this would do it for me.

Im now a level 5 orge sk in Innothule Swamp trying to get some levels but im running into a problem. It seems im dying faster than I can get xp. I wanted to hold off till i got spells for aggro to group so trying to make it to level nine.

My current gear is just some leather i found on a vendor and some cloth fromt he frogloks as well as a Two-Handed Sword.

Does anyone have any tips to make this process to 9 easier? Maybe a better place to try and kill?