Assume that you are starting to buy your armor at level
You must get a guardian before make level (last chaos gold) 11. They are supposed to be able to advise you on any problems you may have. Some will help, and some will not. You can have a pet and herbs and stones to feed. But all guardians are different now as to how they help apprentices. Also if you make level
Some guardians will power level you to level 20, that you can get a class event weapon and the guardian gets 10 reputation points. When the guards have gained 200 points, he can buy 100's reputation is an extreme rock. Since then, with the base 100 reputation, get 200 points for each guardian's reputation, they can get an extreme rock. Guardian can also buy armor's reputation, but the armor is useless, simply because if any decoration. To be a Guardian, you have to be level 20 on up. Anyone, from level 20 on up can be a Guardian, and there are no requirements that they even have to help you either. The same as some low level characters (lastchaos money) like to start a guild so they can say they are the GM of a guild, and they may not know anything either to help you or others.