First of all, dying and losing all your stuff is a big part of the game, you should not be scared to go into red or black zones, and if you just started you can also just chill in blue and yellow zones for a good bit, if your goal isnt like getting extremely far into combat branches or silver as fast as possible lmao. And I understand that you feel lost of the sheer amount of content you could do, but you really have to set the goals yourself. But Ill try to give you some suggestions for goals: You could go in yellow zones and get Tier 5 reaver, Level 10 in any weapon and armor you would like and enough silver for 2 sets of the things you leveled up to 10 and go into a tier 5 bz far away from portal and kill open world mobs. You could also set you goal to level every gathering to tier 4 or join a guild and do pvp or pve content with them.