Paladin Problems :o !

[Eye_Gore]

If your FC is not helping you people will say find another one. I'm not in a FC so I never had to ask anyone. I did level all my crafters, but just to 50. To be able to make the gear that exceeds what you have you would have to also level all crafters and get the master recipe books, that in itself will take a long time.

Couple of routes you could take, finish the main story quest and get the expansion, then you will get some decent gear once in the expansion. Or start unlocking the post 50 dungeons and running the daily roulettes that award poetic tomestones and use that to get the iron works gear, those will get you to ilvl120 and if upgraded to 135.

To unlock those other dungeons you would have atleast needed to complete the main story up to the defeat of Ultima. At which they become available talking to various NPC's. You can then also start your relic weapon, it will be an almost instant upgrade. You will get a new sword and shield. Talk to the NPC in Hirstmill in North Shroud to start this and get the weapon. It ends up being a long quest chain, but its been nerfed so that helps.

If you head on over to the FC section of the forums for your world, you may be able to find a better FC with people that will help you. Some of those FC that send random invites are just looking to increase their numbers. But there are a ton of very helpful people in this game, just need to find them.