Your equipment from 1-30

[knox]

Anybody want to list the equipment they had from 1-30? i just want to see what i should be wearing as i level up bard.

[specular]

Bard equipment (Allakhazam.com)

I found mana+ items especially useful at lower levels. A nice sword can help out the melee in your party, below 30 everyone is a damage dealer

I always bought all HQ (+1) versions of Instruments, some of them you will use forever. You can use a Monster Signa up to the point where you can use Elemental Staves, but that's a little later than LV30.

So in conclusion I'd say get good instruments, decent armor and try to get that MP bar up.