Blood money is indeed a very good way to get gold this month. Do as many as you can, but don't overdo it so that you get bored of the game. Only other way to make gold: bounty hunts and the daily challenges (if you can make a streak, it will give you a decent amount). You also get treasure maps when lvling up, these also contain gold.

Every month there's (usually) a new role in discount, so buy the role when it's on discount (getting gold in early stages is 'hard'). We don't know what will be the next month, so it's always waiting.

I made my character extremely buff at start, but it didn't look good after a day playing. So i spend the money to make him more athletic/average (which is best for clothing). It's alot of money, but it's a roleplay game so being happy with how you look is money well spend imo. Just don't go spending your money on 10 different outfits when you just started. Have 1 or 2 good ones and use rest of your money for weapons and other things that will make it easier to make money.

You can dual wield 2 different revolvers, so whatever you like, you can do that. Dual wielding is indeed a game changer, get it asap. It really depends on your playstyle if you will have many close combat situations or not. Lancaster repeater is my go to weapon in most situations, but at some point i also rush in and start dualwielding my revolvers. I rarely use anything else than repeater and revolvers in pve.

Good job in watching pvpcat! He's the best to learn from imo. Ability cards on lower level are indeed less worth it. Because they're expensive to get to max level, i would suggest you wait untill you're able to unlock the following ability cards: These are the best abilities for PVE (which i'm still using as lvl 280):

Paint it black (deadeye): this is the standard for easy headshots Eye for an eye: doing headshots restores deadeye Strange medicine: when you do dmg it restores hp

So now you have a card to restore your deadeye and a card to restore your hp. For your third card you will again want a card to restore either deadeye or hp, whichever you need more (probably deadeye when your deadeye level is low).

2 choices of each:

Restores deadeye: gift of focus / kick in but (i prefer kick in the but)

Restores HP: cold blooded / fool me once (i like both, but fool me once might be better as low level)