Lowbie ingredients like emetic weren't hard to get and stuff, and it would take only like 10 minutes to get a good 20 or so of those without spending a coin and stuff. Neurological was reliable to get from silverwood in bunches with some bartering and stuff, which worked great. Otherwise I mainly bought ingredients in bulk from Hamsah, Darien, Evermoon, and other thingies. So was it hard? No
Drond wasn’t planned out too well until early on I joined the Voralian thief guild by spamming gold collection at level 11. It was tedious, but I spent enough time to farm about 60 gold so I could look all awesome as soon as I joined the guild. This was before Irineth sent his note out about kicking all evils from voralia. I knew I wanted to do a poisoney thief thingy, so I chose the closest ci