Buy EQ evolutions.
That has 5 <i think> of the expansions. After you've been playing a bit, you can decide if you want to purchase the other expansions. Lost Dungeons of Norrath won't affect you until you hit level 20, and GoD won't effect you until about level 50 unless you want to play a berzerker. It might take you 6 hours to get to level 20, or it might take you a month. It just depends on how you play. There are beginning quests in your hometown to get some half-decent armor. There are also mail quests that give experience and coin. All the Zek servers are PvP (they have different versions- some are team, some are free-for-all), Firiona Vie is role playing server, and you can trade just about everything there (most servers have a ton of items that are no drop which means you can't trade or sell them)... Legends is for uber addicts and costs extra to play. Morden Rasp is the newbie preferred server, and there are a ton of people here who are in the guild called aude saphere or something like that. They are all really nice and have encouraged many people to join them on this board. You could probably get the best pointers and tips from them :)