Curscale armor is decent for low lvl's

I'll give ya a run down on how my monk has leveled so far...

1-10 Field of Bone Pit(solo and grouped)
10-20 Kurns(solo and grouped)
20-28 Warsliks Woods Giant fort(solo)
28-32 Warsliks Woods Brutes outside Dalnir entrance(solo)
32-35 Frontier Mountain Giant Fort(solo and grouped)
35-39 Overthere Groups outside FM/SF zones
39-45 Dreadlands Yeti caves(NW cave mostly - solo with a few duo's tossed in)
45-51 City of Mist

Now I did bounce around in the 30-35 range when things were camped to High Hold Keep and did guards / goblins.

I run a moderately geared iksar monk - no fungi and only fbss for haste. Weapons I ran Wu trance sticks til 20, 20-30 was wu's quivering staff, 30-45 was Imbued Fighter's Staff and 45+ has been Adamantite Club + Stave of Shielding.

I did some of the Curscale originally and ended up buying the rest from a vendor before transferring some gear from my other characters to my monk. Nothing great, but serviceable gear that should make it possible to solo for these lower levels until I can make some pp and head over to EC. I should be able to afford the wu's quivering staff by the time I hit 20, which is my main goal right now. Anything else I can afford (like another +55hp 5ac ring) would be gravy.

How camped are the DL Yeti caves? The Dalnir ones are pretty camped nowadays.

Very camped.

Knew it! Glad I didn't run over there

unless something has changed in the last month, I was always able to find them open, if not the caves, there are tons wandering around outside, there is also another cave system south west DL instead of the normal NW DL - and they are amazing xp