Lv40 DE SK, hitting a wall.

[Xer0]

I have 2 major issues-- 1, where to adventure. Everyone says COM or Gukbottom, but Ive been there 2 days, and still no groupage-- too many people vying for so few camps.
Seems I'm too high for things I'm comfortable with, such as FM Gaints, and too low for the new areas I'm not quite familiar with.

The other issue is that my jarasth scale armor isn't really cutting it anymore. I camped rotting jarsath from a low level per advice form an old friend-- still using a lot of it at 40, and a lot of the stats are wasted I feel.

My gear setup is

Skull-shaped Barbute
Sarnak Hide Mask
2x Sapphire Electrum (4 str 2 int) earrings,
Jarsath Scale Chestplate,
Sebilite Scale Neckguard,
Jarsath Scale Arms,
Kunzar Cloak,
Purity Belt,
Crested Spaulders,
Hero Bracer,
Silver Plated Bracer,
Jarsath Scale Leggings, Gauntlets, and Boots.
2x Platinum Fire wedding rings
Noctivagant Blade,
Crested Mistmoore Shield
Skorpikis Claw impaler

NOw, I feel despite it's ggreat AC / Weight ratio, I have outgrown my jarsath.. even the best piece has just +stam/ac, usually containing a stat I find no use for.. wis, cha, agi etc.

Ive sort of formulated a gameplan, just involves getting the gold to buy certain piece, I would like input as to whether or not it's a good plan!

First, I intend to replace all Jarasth scale with Sebilite Scale, save for the Breastplate and Leggings in which case I want to get Darkfroge BP. (That's Boots, Gloves, Vampbraces)

My kunzar cloak could use an upgrade to Seb Scale, I beleive. My +35 HP, 13 AC Helmet may be better off replace with a +INT/+STR headguard from the Seb scale Lineup

For my shield, I know BIS is atramentous shield, but I feel 5k is a bit unrealistic at the moment (Presently I have about 100 actual plat, thousands of plat worth of gear-- WR bags, noct blade etc), being that I'm broke as a joke--- so I am actually thinking it may be more viable to actually wait for someone to down the mob in kithicor that drops the +100 HP, +25 AC +10 Stam shield?