: Knight's Gleaming Mace
Secondary: Eye of the Sandstorm
Ranged: Shortbow of the Fighter
Ammo: CLASS 1 Wood Hooked Arrow (Range 75)
Ear: Fishbone Earring
Ear: Fabled Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring
Neck: Steel Collar
Face: Eyepatch of Plunder
Head: Issued Scout's Helm
Shoulder: Tattered Mantle
Finger: Ring of Hardened Ash
Finger: Ring of Ice Illusions
Wrist: Steel Bracers
Wrist: Bracer of Living Shadow
Arm: Steel Vambraces
Chest: Wind-worn Chestplate
Back: Splinted Cloak
Feet: Bailiff's Plate Boots
Legs: Steel Greaves
Waist: Plate Girdle
Hands: Plate Gauntlets
Charm:
Sorry here is my gear!

Well thanks for the bluntness, honestly. Where should I start? I mean the primary, secondary were given to me ages ago. Where the hell does one get all that plat to upgrade besides paying real money for it? All I have is 4k in bank

Yep, that's some pretty rough gear you have there. Here's a couple of suggestions:

1. Look for the common cheap paladin only stuff in baz. Some upgrades to start with that are usually quite cheap and standard pally gear include: Benevolent Girdle, Dented Draconian Helm, Blade of Disruption

2. DoN crystals. At 57 you'll prolly have a tough time getting a DoN grp. But don't let that dissuade you - if you have a regular group you play with try some of the beginning DoN missions. Tag along with a bigger tank or heavy dps and you should be able to do the Grounding of the Drakes one, just take your time. Or save your cash to buy DoN crystals in baz. The plate armor at the DoN merchant would all be upgrades for you.

3. Do Monter Missions if you have DoD. You'll find many of the items that drop will be upgrades for you. Try to get groups together and do the different ones though, doing the same MM over and over again won't do you much good once you have the drops. And don't LIVE in the MMs, you'll miss out on character progression and learning how to play something you can't afford to do on a paladin. You can look up what drops where in this post: Monster Missions Master List

4. Keep leveling, hunting, and saving your cash. You should be able to get groups in PoV though avoid being the main tank - xp is good here and occasional spell parchments for your 60s spells. Ssra would be a good place to go as well, the scales sell for decent cash and many of your 50ish spells drop there. Dulak boats as mentioned already drop gems and pp. Crystal Caverns Geonids are good to kill for pp and gems too.

Whatever you do have fun and good luck!

Edited, Fri Feb 10 15:47:13 2006 by Netos

DoN crystals are earned when you complete DoN missions. There are good side (radiant crystals) and bad side (ebon crystals).

They are like Ldon points in that you can earn a variable amount for each mission that you complete. The amount you earn depends on the difficulty level of the mission and the levels of the members of your group. Unlike Ldon however, you can also buy them from other peeps. Once you have a few you can use them in the DoN camps to purchase gear, augments, weapons, spells.

You must have 3 people to get a mission, but I recommend you always take a full group. Also, the person requesting the mission must have the faction to do so. The higher faction you have the more missions you'll have to chose from. You can raise faction with either the Keepers of Norrath (good) or the Dark Reign (bad) by doing solo tasks.

Probably the best write-up on DoN is this one: Samanna.net

You will find both good and bad camps in Lavastorm. As well as the NPCs to speak with to start your faction work and to get missions.