Brutus's comments seem akin to the norm for a solo-based Shaman. AC, for example, has virtually no relevance to a grouping Shaman who doesn't get hit very often. The wife goes hours at a time, sometimes, between taking hits in melee--AC is thusly near-useless for her. Resists, likewise, lose some value when the only spell damage you're taking is from the occasional area effect spell (outside raids this basically means western wastes). Mana pool, on the other hand, has some real value if you get into a situation where you have a bunch of slow resists and have to keep re-casting while also handling crowd control and heals with no time to stop to canni/torpor.
Brutus isn't wrong by any means, but rather the point is that there's more than one way to run a Shaman effectively, and you want the right gear for the right job. Of course, we're in Velious now, not Kunark, so gearing isn't usually an either-or proposition anymore. Most pieces of equipment worth having come with lots of stats. All but a few of the items listed in the previous post are pretty standard Shaman items regardless of which stats a player might favor. The pieces which aren't (belt, range slot, shield, etc) can be swapped out as desired.
Danth
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