10k is not enough for anything useful, I'm afraid. I suppose you could grab a couple of scarab rings and an illusens earth potion, but... eh.
For the beginners first starting out (and I mean real beginners, people who haven't even trained to the 20 boosts and don't want to spend any NP), you may want a set something like this:
Main attacker: obsidian dagger, enchanted wooden bow if you have a few nps to spend
Main attacker2: scarab ring
Defence: Downsize!
Healer: lesser healing scroll (later: greater healing scroll)
Freezer (useful in one-player only): snowglobe staff
Bomb: illusens earth potion
Shield: leaf shield, mystical white cloak, virtupets x-514 super shield (depending on icons thrown at you)
One-use bomb: sticky snowball, fire muffin, whatever (search "snowball" and "muffin" at
IDB and decide) or a purple sticky hand if the 1-player opponent has something worth taking.
And the ability burrow... later, try to get the ones I listed in my above post.
Your strategy for a semi-tough opponent would be something like:
Round 1: Snowglobe staff (withdraw if no freeze) + main attacker + burrow
Round 2: Illusens Earth Potion + main attacker + fierce attack
Round 3: main attacker + downsize! + species ability (bottom one)
Round 4: one-use bomb + shield + species ability (bottom one again)
Then they should be dead... one would hope.
Now, that is a very very basic set and will be fine up until the 35 strength/defence boosts, pretty much. After that, if you want to continue on in DoN and do okay in wars and whatnot, you NEED to be willing to invest some NPs into your training and your set.