Thanks for the replies.

The question now is what I should be saving my gil for. I went to market ward and saw npc selling lv10-ish armor stuff and currently I am aiming to buy those... Not sure if I can stand the crafting lol... The mini-game is OK but I personally can't stand doing it for too long as it makes me fall asleep :x I tend to sell everything I got from killing mobs to NPC... is this the right approach?

Another thing is getting seriously hindering is the lags. It took me over a second to switch between passive and active stance, and so do all the skills have similar delay between issuing command and seeing my character execute the skill. Of course the actions seem to be queued up, but it takes a lot of guess work to know which part of my skill chain I am about to use on enemy, etc. Strangely, I tested on the server with least people and the lags are still there; and of course I play other online games fine with my internet connection. Anyone have similar problems?