New player here!

[Teneran]

I also started out here recently and offer the following advice.

1. Don't buy every spell (now anyway); just buy the essentials. You're going to be poor for a while, you just forgot that from Live.
2. Take advantage of downtime on the boats. Sure, it takes forever but I do things like cook dinner, take a shower, clean the house ... all things i need to do anyway and I just do them while on the boat, multi-tasking! Same when I have to med to full if soloing.
3. You can't really twink a caster so you're fine wearing cloth, do be intimidated.

[MEGANS LAW]

thanks

[DrKvothe]

I'm not sure how it compares to live, but one of the most important tools for a button-busy caster like solo enchanters is an instant clicky. When you click an instant clicky, all of your spells ignore the global cooldown except for the spell you just cast. For the spell in the top spell gem slot, when you cast it then use instant clicky, it becomes immediately castable again too.

This allows you to react much, much faster to SNAFU than if you don't have an instant clicky. The cheapest tradeable instant clicky is probably spyglass, which costs about 25pp worth of mats for a tinker to make and usually auctions for 75-100pp. Rod of insidious glamour, however, is quest-able in your mid-20s and serves this purpose perfectly. Just make a hotkey for it and bind it near your thumb (i use spacebar for my shaman's spyglass).