How do you handle gearing on the HC server?

Do you just go with whatever you find, farm specific pieces, buy augments, craft or what is your main plan?

100% fort aug from the store at level 8 seems almost obvious for most builds - avoiding crits removes some major risk.

Ravenloft level 10 free weapon seems obvious.
FoM boots from Death House seems very nice at level 10 for anyone without FoM others.
Some other Ravenloft gear seems very good.

Slavers crafted gear seem very nice - +2 resist / +2 spell saves on 5 piece seems really good - but a bit of a grind and possibly unsafe for most builds.

Cannith Crafting gear is very versatile but also quite a bit of work for the essences and in some cases the ings. Getting insightful effects is a long way in.