@Demon Overlord Thank you for the input. We have a tutorial section on our forum which has some information about custom areas, custom quests, magic items and more. I agree that it definitely needs improvement though so that's something I will look into doing.
We have some official magic item information here:
http://www.noxiousot.com/index.php?subtopic=magicitems
At very low levels, monsters generally don't drop a lot of equipment that can become magical. We do this to stop players from farming items like leather boots with high drop rates which could have 100+ health on them. Your best bet is to hunt harder monsters that have a decent drop rate for equipment. You can see the loot of every monster by going to the creatures page on our website. The more magic find you have, the more magical items you'll find and the higher stats they will have. The very good items are very rare, you won't find items worth hundreds of Noxious Tokens every day.
If you're new to the server and want to make money when you have nothing at all, you should play events or hunt monsters that drop items that you can sell to others. For example, a ferumbras hat sells for approximately 1300 Noxious Tokens (3000+ premium points). A nose ring sells for 100 Noxious Tokens. If you want to farm something easy, cloths (depending on color) can sell for approximately 0.5 to 1 Noxious Token each. Iron ore can sell from 0.5 to 0.7 Noxious Tokens each. Any item required for an addon or a task will have some kind of value. The economy and trading in NoxiousOT is very active and there are lots of ways to make money here.
If you play events and win, you'll be rewarded Noxious Tokens. You can sell these on our Item Market for equipment, gold or premium points. You never have to donate to get premium points and some of our richest players have never donated once.
After you earn a few Noxious Tokens, you could pick up an item like Windforce (+60 Mana) for 15 Noxious Tokens which is all you'd need to level up. (1 event, 10 minutes of your time).
I understand this all isn't immediately obvious to new players. It's very easy to get started though without donating, trying to find your own equipment or having friends that can help you. I'll see what I can do to make this all more clear.
Item Market:
http://www.noxiousot.com/index.php?subtopic=market
Item Marke, earning premium points for free:
http://www.noxiousot.com/index.php?subtopic=market&item=noxious+token