Beginner's tips

     Here are some tips to help you out with this game if you are a new player. First, you should never upgrade one of your pieces of gear above +6. At +6 gear begins needing potential crystals in order to upgrade instead of just refining stones. When you salvage gear you get your refining stones back, but not your potential crystals. So any you use on gear before level 55 is wasted.
     Secondly, you should not worry about upgrading your purple armor to pink until you have it to at least +12. Every time you "tier" up your gear it takes more potential crystals refining stones and magical binders to continue to upgrade. This will end up costing you a lot more in materials down the line.
     You really shouldn't worry to much about making sure you have all of your armor for every level until 55 either. You can make it to 55 by just buying you weapon and offhand at every tier, upgrading them to +6 and just equipping whatever other purples drop in dungeons for your class. This will save you a lot of time and money trying to continuously upgrade as you do level to 55 rather fast.
     The fastest way to level in this game is to run all of your quests and do the highest level dungeons you can until you run out of stamina. Always run a dungeon or two first so you at least always have stamina regenerating. Using exp cards and running quests will be the brunt of your leveling process though.
      If you find yourself having a hard time leveling double check to make sure there isn't a higher level weapon for you. There are also points in time where you will level your quest ahead of you and they will get very hard to complete. To avoid this make sure to run dungeons as well. That will keep a steady flow of exp coming and limit the amount of "grind" leveling you will need to do.
     A few people have asked me how to increase power in the early levels and the short answer is to level up. Every level makes you more powerful in the early game far faster than trying to equip better gear. Ultimately the first thing you are going to want to do is reach level 90.
   Also don't worry much about leveling your mount or your blood souls in the beginning because the are massive gold dumps and you just don't have the gold to spare yet. You will want to save those for at least 60+.

     This game has a lot of daily progression in it, its not a get it done in a day kinda of game. you get limited numbers of each thing you can do so you need to make sure to do them everyday and not miss things. Summon pets, roll pets free skill(if you dont like it) do guild quest and daily quest, tower of fortune, run extreme dungeons ad heroic dungeons, roll roulette, do valhalla, every day. Not doing these things means you missed them for the day.