[DrKvothe]

If you haven't bought your PWC yet, I'd hold off. Slow-tanking works best for a well-twinked shaman, but without fungi and haste, you can do better for cheap. Get a runewood greatstaff for practically nothing. Pull with a poison dot or nuke, turn on attack right as the mob reaches you, after first swing cast root, back out of range after root lands and second melee attack, and sit down a couple of feet away. Wait until you see your health/mana regen tick (for full value, since you're sitting), then move forward, hit mob once, then move back and sit down again.

This effectively resets both your delay and mob delay to 60. Since mob delay was normally 30 and yours was normally 40, the mob suffers a 50% dps decrease while you only suffer a 33% decrease compared to continuous fighting. Root is a lot cheaper to cast than slow, and since you'll be hitting every med tick you can toss out more nukes/heals than if you were continuously fighting.