hey, i wanted to check in here, maybe it will be usefull for other new players in the future. currently i am on a point where goldfarming is effective, got 104 red gear with a 105 katanna (not corrupted) and somewhat doing well overall i think, since it feels like i am making progress. i got a 2nd gear set with red 104 chain (which still misses some runes) and a 2h hammer. i am nowhere near any endgame content, but slowly moving forward.
what happend so far:
after a long grind on some twinks (doing goblin+malatine+dailies) and AH trading i went to phirius stat gear leather. with that i did some arcadia stats farming and still some twink farming to get stats for the red gar and things to sell for the AH. from the AH i got some red 104 gear + a 105 not corrupted katanna, it was simply cheaper then 2 daggers at the time. patience and checking the AH is really your best bet to start out. at this time i still did some twink farming, but with the gear slowly filling with runes and more stats and changing AH prices i got to a tipping point where farming gold was effective.
before i got all my red gear i sometimes did some card farming, simply to get some minor stat increases from them. they do not add much, but overtime you get a decent boost even if you do not roll them.
later i got the 30day merchant pet thing and the month after merchant+perfume. both probably the best 2 convinience buys i ever did (next to backpack space, which i add from time to time when needed and on sale). there is a 120% movement speed boost too, but it costs a bit more dias, but is one of the next things i plan to get to speed up farming.
somewhere along the line i got a celestrial pet from the free wheel spin you got each day and set it to droprate. for the perfume i got an aurora pet from the itemshop. mostly i did farming as a rogue/knight, which has some decent aoe abilities for that. i tried rouge/warden, but my pdef is a bit to low together with only having level 70 on warden.
recently i bought the knight set skill traces of the cross sword and tried knight/warlock, it seems to be the fastest farming class. i picked up a very cheap 104 red chain set in the past from the AH and a 104 2h hammer, but without the setskill it was a bit lacking. i invested some dias to get strength jewlery + stats too, so i now have a decent leather and chain set with weapons. for farming i am planing to switch to knight/warlock permanently, since it seems a bit more convinient and a bit faster (currently fairly close to my rogue/knight i think due to rogue getting a movespeed buff and minor dropbuff). slowly i am trying to save things for a 104 gold plate set and a 105 hammer with droprate corruption stat. plate is currently the cheapest of the melee armor sets in the AH, but good 2h hammer cost a lot. so both of these upgrades will probably take me a while. on the side i try to level the auroa pet a bit, there are some minor droprate and movement speed increases you can get, not much but they add up and help a bit.
i tried fishing, but found it not for me. it seems like a good way to get higher level items and cards, so probably sth i need to get to at some point... i planed to do some more card farming to fill the empty slot and get some more stats, but set this on the back burner compared to gold farming. another thing to do is some questing to get more titles, since they give you +1 in each stat for each new title. doing some more quests in talagahn is on my todolist too, but will come later it think. i have not done much in terms of events or crafting, so there is still a lot open.