There is a great quest from pre SL that could be updated to help people get better armor after newbie armor gets old. Not sure if all factions have something like it but the concept is sound. I am talking about Tirbo Ratcatcher. That quest could be updated and he could be cloned to all start areas. How would I update it? 3 roller rat tails per piece of armor. The Armor would be non leveling QL25 (easy to equip) armor that was a full set with shoulder pads and back item. So in all ten pieces of armor for the price of 30 roller rat tails.
Armor would have stats similar to ql25 carb shoulders would be upgraded versions of newbie island pads and the back item would similar something like the vagabond cloak but with little less AAD and about 50 AC's. That puts it right between Vagabond and under TOTW cloaks.
Oh yeah and it should look Awesome. Just because we are level 20-30 does not mean we want to look like trailer trash toons. The armor should have that uber looking feel like the new social armors or something.
And there is a pretty easy way to adjust a an existing quest to be inline with current game structure and provide something that has good use value at low levels and can serve as good social armor later.
For those FC folks that read this. I am tired of all the new nice looking stuff being targeted at TL 7's. I quite enjoy my low level twinks and wish they had non itemstore options for awesome social armor.