Good cheap strategy (in General)

What are some pretty good strategies for raising a character relatively quickly? Its been a long time since I have played so not really sure whats good anymore.

Cheap means not a tank. You can run a good setup with a Mage team, a familiar based team or an Robf team. Any of them work it just depends on your preference and setting them up right.

As Nem said, anything that doesn't require you to use a physical weapon is cheap. This includes any strats using mages, familiars, RoBFs (although getting armor end game would be expensive), and enchanter/GA.

Each one probably needs around 50 mill invested for their core items, but after that you are good for a long while, and you can reuse those items to run a new NCB if you choose too.

So it sounds like I shouldn't try to pursue this single archer strategy. I figured mages would be cheapest but just wanted some one elses opinion