I'm a recently returning player as well. Another thing you should look into is Records of Eminence. There's a lot of objectives that reward plenty of exp. I've got to 75 pretty quickly from scratch. Also as far as GoV I tend to take pages where the mobs are DC or EP because it's faster kills which means faster pages. But that is your preference.

Also look for the Records of Eminence NPC, he sells weapons for Sparks which are easy enough to get so you can always have decent weapons.

Good Luck.