@temporal_spider Like others have mentioned, the brushes you can fill with water are nice, I have a whole set and use them frequently. The pencils are nice too, and you can paint the water on them with a water-filled brush, or use the pencils to add detail to a painting.

There are a lot of expensive quality water colour palettes, my teacher wanted all of us to graduate to Schminke, I don’t know what kinds you have available to you. I currently paint with Ukrainian company’s Rosa watercolours, which are lower mid tier in price, but just looking at colour wheels I’ve made with my paints, you can tell they’re packed with pigment.

I hope you find useful information to your situation and that you get to do some painting!