What you should do when starting out in Darkfall Online

At the very beginning, you should use your starting weapon to hunt monsters. kill them to get some better weapons, like a bow and a staff, which in turn helps you get more powerful weapons to be able to kill more dangerous mobs. Thus, you can get big rewards. Using your starting spells which are very weak but helpful. The heal-self spell will cut down on your down-tome, and the mana missile spell is usedful to finish off fleeing monsters.
You should not consider much about raising your magic ability at very beginning since it is long and expensive road to be a good mage.
Kill a few goblins is a good way to make a decent amount of gold in your bank. After have gold, you should invest some on better armor nut not all, because armor is easy to lose. Make sure that you have a decent of fund in you bank so that you will have no fatal risks when in troubles.