It's all pretty irrelevant since you can get to 30/40 pretty quickly then just port people for 20-100 plat donations and in no time at all you can afford decent wisdom gear.
Wisdom gear doesn't help you much pre-30, because returns are weak. You can go Mana gear instead but most of that stuff sucks post-30, and you'll want to sell it and buy wis gear anyways. (Or it's really expensive)
My suggestion was mainly focused on the OP. Who had 4k to throw around on a Druid and I suggested the ring first.
You can blast through 14-30s charming (where a ring will be immensely more helpful than a few hundred mana), then while porting people, fund your own wis gear.
Going the other route of buying up wis gear first leads to saving up for a goblin ring or you'll get tempted and buy GEBs or Gatorscale Legs or Mammoth Cloak, etc. And by the time you can afford it you've already past many of the levels when it would've been very useful (when learning charm killing)
Again - Druids have 0 reason to do anything but charm 14-60. It's the fastest way to EXP. It allows you to hone your skills at pulling, handling a charmed pet, root CCing, maintaining your own buffs, etc. You're never at the whim of someone else's AFKs or screwed if someone camps. You can AFK whenever you want. If you need plat, porting is decent at low levels and power leveling at higher levels.
If you want to group because you liked a certain zone or your friends or guildmates are going and you wish to join, by all means, join them and have fun. Don't listen to the people who say because you charm killed you will be useless in a group. Especially in your typical P99 6-man group.
Snare mobs when low on HP if they're runners (don't do at 100%, cause you'll take aggro)
Damage Shield MT (at lower levels this is tedious, around 29-39 when the duration is increasing its a lot more valuable)
Regen MT (easier to do entire group when those spells are available)
SoW puller if outdoors (if outdoors, use Harmony and pull yourself... Harmony enabled Druid is best puller)
If no CC class, utilize root before mobs get to your camp to park them out of combat (hit melee mobs first, don't root casters outside of camp)
Heal people who need it (if cleric in group let them handle most healing just cover healing the cleric or help heal everyone on big pulls)
Having spent all your money on the ring and having minimal WIS gear is really a non issue. Plenty of Druids went 1-30 in leather armor and no WIS gear. Those Druids soloed and grouped just fine. In no way are you crippling your ability to group or solo if you spend all the plat on a clicky. You'll just end up taking a break from killing sooner than a mana twinked person would.
Or just farm up like 8k on your main and buy it all hehe.
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