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Step 1: Find the gate with Snarbolax in it and farm it for A: a bristling buckler shield, and B: a snarble barb.

Step 2: Buy yourself a wolver or dusker set in the auction house, along with a nightblade

This will set you up for Step 3: Find the gate with Royal Jelly in it and farm it for crowns and a sealed sword.

If you find that your dodging skills in the clockworks are quite good, then skip step 4: Buy a (horned) owlite shield and a magic/elemental armor set in the auction house.

Step 5: Find the gate with the roarmulus twins on it and farm it for a static capacitor and a pulsar

Along the way, you should be finding recipes for, and upgrading your equipment with the following end-game sets in mind: If you didn't get the magic/elemental set, upgrade your wolver gear to Vog Cub. If you did get the magic/elemental set, upgrade the hood to divine veil and the cloak to Grey Feather, and upgrade your wolver to a skolver coat and a vog cub cap. Upgrade your snarble barb, bristling buckler, nightblade, plasma capacitor and owlite shield along their respective lines. Upgrade the sealed sword to a Divine Avenger, and the pulsar to a polaris.

This will set you up for most of Tier 3. On random levels, take the skolver coat and divine veil, and for Firestorm Citadel take the grey feather cloak and vog cub cap (or just the vog cub if you didn't get the magic/elemental set).

This is step 6, of course: Cart yourself down to Firestorm Citadel with your Divine Avenger, Barbarous Thorn Blade, Polaris and Voltaic Tempest, and get your char-broiled ass handed to you the first dozen or so trips. That's assuming you make it past the fiend levels that will inevitably be ahead of FSC (A valkyrie set and a dread skelly shield will help here, so long as you don't mind the skirt and ponytail).

Now, what not to do: Buy your way to endgame with CE and get yourself killed because you have no skill and poor gear choices. Buying CE in general is still a good idea if you don't have a lot of time to invest grinding levels for crowns to trade for CE, especially with the exchange rates these days, but it's not strictly necessary.

You can certainly vary this build as you see fit, depending on what types of play style you enjoy or just whatever tickles your fancy. I'm sure people will be happy to chime in with variations they prefer.

Most of all, enjoy dungeoning, make friends, read the wiki, and try not to judge things too quickly.

Way to go to show the guy personalization xD Continue and say "and turn it into Divine Avenger, get a Vog Cub set and grind Vanaduke forever".

As Lezrock says, use your current one and move on! As you uncover more and more you will see how much content this game actually has.