My advice is to hoard knowledge, and observe every single thing that you possibly can up to level 50. I like to think the long grind is a good thing, just because of how steep the game's learning curve is. Stay in archives for as long as possible, farm every item that you can possibly think of, and hoard. A lot of people get to 50 and have no idea whatsoever what they're doing, so they fail hard and wonder why they're so horrible.
