The biggest issue for a Barbarian Shaman is going to be how isolated Halas is. Unless you can get to the Timorous Deep, the closest port in is via WK (crossing four zone lines) and that will suck even with SoW up.

At first, your best hope may be to do a '/w all blackburrow' and see if you can beg someone to clear the tunnel for you. You might make it through the tunnels with SoW, a good map and a lot of luck. Like others have said, leave Halas behind until much later. Personally, I think there's a point where you might as well just head back into Halas to pick up spells (assuming you don't get a donation of plat or help from a friendly shaman of an evil race) if you don't mind taking a break from grinding every five levels.

Assuming that you're not Twinked, make sure you kick off the http://wiki.project1999.com/Tribunal_Symbol_Quests quest.
If you're going to Qeynos & have to return for spells at 5th anyway, It's not half Bad.

Thanks everyone for the feedback! I am getting close to 5 so will be picking up the spells, and any others I can afford in the next set and banking them. Then hopefully Ionio and i can start doing blackburrow - and no we are not twinked; just started this weekend so we are fresh off the boat!

Message me on Blackhelmet in game and I'll give you a free port. I can get to Qhill zoneline very quickly.

Chaia, I am a few kills away from level 6. I'll see if I can meet you in Blackburrow over the weekend.

That is so nice of you to offer, thank you :) It looks like there is going to be a bit of a BB group going on this weekend though from what Naxy just posted, so I may not need it quite yet.

Cheers!

Haha, I talked to you in game earlier this week! (Tadhg the druid, fyi)

I also have ports...and camo and bind if you want to relocate yourself out of Everfrost so you can stop dying and losing your corpse :P :)

HA you saved my brain the other night. I was soooo frustrated. EP can kiss my kilted arse! Thanks again for your help :D

It sounds like BB is going to be the place to be at 5, so I'll be sticking around there for a while.

Wizards can port to qeynos hills zoneline with Evacuate: West. Much faster than trying to run across west karana. Try and find one for that specific port.

You're welcome!

It might be an option to get a bind in Qeynos for future endeavors, as otherwise you'll be doing CRs from Halas. If you want to venture further out into WK before you hit 14 and get bind affinity, being stuck running from Halas might become an issue.