IMO unless you have something like a granite face grinder it's never worth slowing mobs you are solo'ing, not until level 51. Slow costs a lot of mana.
That said from level 20-29 I would use a runewood great staff to melee and tank, even untwinked. You can root rot but just also hit the enemies as well, using root rot to break camps of 2 or more. Melee'ing whenever you feel safe.
Whenever you're about to get a new charm or once charm's stop being given to shaman's I'd root rot the rest of the way to 51.
Untwinked though I think shaman's group better than they solo, in part due to dungeon ZEM. Also because hasting and slowing and buffing and healing a twinked melee character will work better than melee'ing alone untwinked. Poison wind censer is slightly better than runewood great staff, if you plan to ONLY solo absolutely shell out the extra $ for that instead. If you just want to solo while LFG the runewood great staff is much cheaper stopgap measure.
It's easy though to solo near where you're LFG as a shaman because you only take a minor hit to power level while alone. A strong group is also just one melee character away. Forming a strong core that makes building groups yourself easy.
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