[loramin]

Generic advice: for just about any caster you should forget about gear until higher levels and focus on leveling.

For one thing, both of those items, while popular for Wisdom casters in general, aren't so great for Shaman because we want Stamina/HP a lot more than Wisdom/HP. More importantly though, you'll progress your character much faster by XPing then by questing these items.

Imagine that you go quest either item and it takes you 10 hours (which, if you need to do faction work, is probably a big underestimate). You'll get gear that raises your max values a small amount. When you hunt, that will translate in to maybe one extra DoT before you have to med, which will mean ... maybe earning 0.33% extra XP per level? Let's use that number to keep the math simple: if you do one of these quests at level 15 then get a replacement item at level 45 you'll wind up at 45 with 10% (of a level's XP) more that you would have without the item.

Now imagine instead you just go level without questing either item. If you earn 10% XP an hour then those 10 hours will add up to 100% by the time you reach 45 and get a replacement item.

Either way at roughly level 45 you will be much better positioned to get gear, so you can replace whatever you got at level 15 (if anything). This means either approach gets you to the same place by 45, but getting the item resulted in 10% more (of a level's) XP, while skipping the item resulted in 100% more XP.

My numbers are rough, but the overall logic holds with any reasonable numbers you can use. Adding to your maxes (via gear) just doesn't impact your leveling speed much, but leveling up makes a huge difference in the gear you can get, so it's almost always better (as a caster) to wear whatever gear you pick up while leveling ("thanks for the skull cap Gnoll pup") and only worry about gear in the 40's and 50's.