opinions

[Aaronock]

Survivor's Manteau combos with Survivor's rod to get some crazy neutral resistance. If you want you can also do raydric in heavenly maiden robe +7 or go a bit oldschool and do this type of option.

Wear Vali's Manteau, Vidar's Boots and Odin's Blessing for its combo and add on that the Magni's Cap and Stone Buckler. This is a really easy way to build a heavy defensive based Linker for under 20million zeny. Does not have to be done all in one go, you would gather pieces slowly. Wear phen carded item to help if casting is an issue. SG can also do this combo and its pretty nice to start with. Even LK use the Stone Buckler set for tanking and for a good reason. SG are another class that make excellent use of it.

Bradium items in Nidhoggur are wearable by ALL classes BUT novice, meaning that Bradium Earring is your best int item now if you choose to not wear morph set. For SG next SVN, Bradium Ring is a godsend.

Life Tree Wooden Shoes are also wearable by SL.
All custom items on heRO are able to be worn by SL.

So where is the lack of equipment again, I even listed NEW gears, and interesting options to build upon the way.