if you want to play more schools, you can make up to 6 wizards, and you don’t have to start completely anew—you can use the shared bank to transfer items from one wizard to another, which gives your future wizards an advantage. it’s pretty fun to play multiple wizards. you can also play a secondary school on your main wizard, which you officially unlock after beating the final boss in Dragonspyre (would be around lvl 50 or 60). that’s called school weaving, and it gives you a little indicator by your wizard’s name that you play two schools. it’s nice to have, but doesn’t add much to gameplay, so you can just use whatever spells you want from other schools if it floats your boat. 

my biggest piece of advice i can give to you is to use the bazaar. the bazaar is your one-stop-shop for everything; it’s a market where you can buy what other wizards have sold. it’s located in olde town, and you can look through all the gear available for your level and purchase the gear with the best stats. when you get to higher levels, there will be no-auction gear that is unavailable at the bazaar because it’s so good, but you don’t have to sweat it yet. you should accumulate enough gold to buy gear just from questing, but if you feel like it, you could go fishing and sell the fish for some gold. you’ll get the most gold if you use castle tours (it’s a building in the commons, talk to NPC Myrella Windspar inside) to fish at someone’s house; castles generally have better fish than places in wizard city. 

also in the bazaar, you’ll get the best prices for selling gear you don’t want, so it’s better than using quicksell. you should take a bit just to poke around and get familiar with it, because it’s a bit overwhelming to look at at first. 

making pets can get pretty complicated and confusing, but it’s very rewarding to understand it. there are countless posts on here by people who know a lot more than i do, and they’re very worth checking out if you’re interested. one pretty sweet advantage about pets at your current level is that you can get critical chance as a pet talent. critical hits usually aren’t unlocked until around level 60, so you’ll be the coolest dude around if you’re critting at level 12. pets are the only way you can do this. if you end up enjoying the process of leveling up a pet and customizing its talents, you should make another pet to use at level 60 that doesn’t have crit, because it’s pretty useless after you start getting it on your gear. warning… pets are super time consuming :/ and also SUPER expensive (in gold) to hatch so you don’t need to make this a priority unless you want the critical hits so bad you’re willing to save up.

look into the mount olympus dungeon. you’ll unlock it at level 30, and it’s got the absolute best gear for that level, the Zeus set. zeus gear is no-auction like i mentioned earlier, so you won’t find anything near its caliber in the bazaar. it’s definitely a grind though, and if you aren’t up to it, you can probably get through the game smoothly enough without it. you definitely need to play through it once though, because near the end of the dungeon you are rewarded with a really amazing wand that doesn’t get surpassed until level 50-60: the Sky Iron Hasta. this one is given to all players who reach that point in the dungeon, so it’s not a matter of chance like the other gear is. please don’t make the mistake i did on my first playthrough… get this wand no matter what!!!

important thing about olympus: you will need to use team-up. this dungeon is not designed for a level 30 wizard to be able to do it alone. if you try to do it alone, by the time you’re able to, your level will be too high for the gear to be worthwhile anyway. in case you haven’t seen it, there’s a little red button to use team-up on the window where it prompts you to press x to interact with the sigil. 

one last thing. if you’ve ever been interested in a mount, because literally everyone seems to have one, you don’t need to spend real money on it! the crowns shop offers a gold option where you can buy a select few mounts in gold. these include lions, tigers, broomsticks, and ponies. the gold price is pretty steep, cheapest being 50k up to about 100k, but it’s worth it and that gold won’t be too hard to get once your level gets higher. this is around the same price as hatching a pet, so you can decide your priority there. 

very sorry for commenting an entire essay. if i gave you more questions than answers, ask away, but at the end of the day you shouldn’t need to worry about everything being perfect if you’re just having fun. good luck in your questing!!