Well, as numerous people have access to Phantasm I'd suggest someone takes him over for tradeskilling rather then start from scratch. It does get difficult from the current point onwards, as due to SoE's ever insightful wisdom you'll soon be completely dependant on other classes for ever single reg you need and unable to process any raw materials od tier3 up yourself - joy. Having said that if you can get them of people sages level quite quickly as you can always makes lots of white con various spells.