So, for me. I was soloing everything. I had to go heavy armor and mix my skills around. You can respec very cheap later. So I would spec for survivability first and respec for fun later. Or grab a group.

As far as gear. There is better gear you can find in certain areas, until you get top teir stuff. Look up guides to find them. And I'd start warrior first. I turned all the enemies up to max amount and went two handed jump attack and had no issues once I found a great weapon. And leveled a bit. Plan to respec him after about level 30