Agreed. Get a brand or a skewer if you can afford something better. They are usually pretty cheap for the lower level ones. Bodkin of spirits is the best for your level, but it is expensive. You can try farming presents and reselling them to get money relatively quick.
If you aren't going to buy plat, do the NativeX offers to get some. In time you will have some plat to play with. If you buy the event chests, they can be sold for 15-20k each. If you can get 5 chests and sell them for 20k, that will give you 100k and you can get that hero ammy or offhand that you want, if you can find a player selling one.
That being said, the grind in carrow is atrocious...
There are 2 points on the way to level 180 that are completely horrible in my opinion:
- level 60-65: your only real option is to kill blue wisps. And there's only like 4-5 of them on the two roads into the bloodgrove.
- level 106-115: you can either do red spiders, and then purple ghosts or you can do kelpies and trees. There aren't enough red spiders to level on, and the ghosts and spiders do a nasty DoT. Kelpies DoT you too, and the trees are way too spread out to level on efficiently.
The grind is hard at any level, but these two points are especially hard even with knowledge lix.