Your toon should be level3. No more than a rank into 3. You should be able to get there strictly by running everything in Korthos. If for some reason you're still short after slogging thru Misery's Peak (highly unlikely), do slayers/rares in Cerulean Hills.
As a first-lifer, it's even easier than that : By doing Kothos on normal plus the Harbour solo quests plus Haverdasher on normal got me into level 3, but rank 11.
I didn't realize it was going that fast. I need to be more careful, then.
Edit : I've been reading through the ranks system again. https://ddowiki.com/page/Rank_(level)
Running with the level 9 toons was fun, except for that unexpected internet interruption on my side. I really don't know what happened, but the internet connection was recently upgraded on the provoider's side.
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