Quote Originally Posted by Darren_SCA View Post
What levels do you suggest buying new gear? every 5 levels?, every 10? or just whenever
There's better gear available roughly each five levels for armour and weapons, more like 10 for jewelry. Each piece varies, though.

There's a really fantastic website called Crafting as a Service. In addition to providing materials lists for what ingredients crafters need, it also has an Equipment Calculator that's pretty useful for anyone, whether crafting or not. It lets you plug in your class and level and it will show you what equipment is good for that class/level as well as the next few levels up. So, for instance, you can just click "Archer" and put in "12" under level, and click "Get my Gear" and it will bring up a page like this showing what gear is good for archers at levels 12 through 15. Any time you're not sure whether your gear needs upgrading, check it out.