Early leveling as a Dark Elf Ench - where to?

[IceTwenty]

Currently level 5, and I figured I'd hang around East Commonlands and kill random stuff until I was high enough to join an orc group. But it's not going that well; too many greens/reds, not enough blues/whites, and there's a lot of other people here to share farm with.

So I'm wondering if I should keep at it here (maybe go snag some buffs from the tunnel bazaar) or go somewhere else, like back to Nektulos.

If I really wanted to have an adventure, maybe I could pick up the Half-Elf Illusion spell and get myself ported to the Faydark - I at least know that area quite well, having played nothing but Wood/High elves back when I played on live. But I don't know the details of how illusion spells work, and even if an illusion would let me not get shanked by guards, would it also let me access Kelethin/Felwithe merchants and class trainers?