Experience so far

[pillow]

You'll be okay.

PvPwise, starting out by dueling is going to be rough. There are a lot of things you have to learn and then practice to get things going, so I recommend looking out for any group fights you can participate in. Events, raids, that sort of thing. It's a lot easier to figure things out when you aren't alone in the field and can focus on things other than staying alive.

I don't want to recommend Connecticut entirely since that's a sure way of burning out pretty fast, getting repeatedly murdered over and over can be exhausting unless you have someone who's there to teach you how things work and then putting those things to practice such as how to move around, drop mines, how to get better at aiming etcetera (that's how I started, for example). Conning mindlessly against random people can be pretty fun if you have patience and are willing to accept that you're going to die over and over, though.

Good luck, hope you're enjoying the game so far.