Faster Crafting
Crafting in DAoC has two different components: money, and time. While being smart with what to craft using a leveling guide helps for the money part, it's always time consuming... unless you're playing Eden and there are ways to craft faster.
Get your Crafting Suit
Each capital city has an NPC near the crafting area with a quest. Each step of this quest will reward you with one part of an item set which. Each item has a bonus to crafting speed, encumbrance maximum, and strength, and can be worn starting at level 1.
The entire quest line takes maybe 30 minute to finish without knowing where to go, if you simply read the quest carefully.
With a total bonus of 50% craft speed, you really can't refuse that boost!