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Originally Posted by Spyder73
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Best thing you can buy for any character are Platinum Fire Wedding Rings, they give +55 HPs and 5 AC. I think they cost about 250pp so your first 500pp should be towards the rings 100% without question in my opinion.
You can basically get by on looted gear as a shaman and don't need to invest too heavily, buy cheap +wis gear and maybe target specific drops you want and hunt them down (SolA for example has lots of really great low/mid-tier loots and is rarely camped).
As sad as it sounds if this is your first character you have a long road to hoe to get the items that really make shamans shine. Spells alone level 50+ will cost you ridiculous amounts of money. I would start your Fungi Tunic savings fund today as it is a game changer.
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This. Shaman
really don't need gear, or at least not purchased gear.
When I started my shammy a friend gave me a Barbarian Spiritist's Hammer and a couple of 5/55 rings, but none of that was essential. The rings were nice, but there were very few times when I could honestly say "I wouldn't have died if I'd only had 100 more hp at the start of the fight" ... I almost always died because (for instance) I should have gated at 30% but stuck around until 20% thinking I could kill the mob, or I didn't see a red and it killed me in 0.5 seconds, or some other way where a few more max HP wouldn't have mattered. As for the BSH it didn't even start proccing until 35 I think, and even then the procs were rare enough that it didn't make much difference, so it might as well have been any generic magic weapon.
I don't think I purchased a single piece of equipment until I was in the 40s; before that it was just spells and food/drink/bags.
The only thing I'd disagree with Spyder on is that I'd save up for a JBB first. It's super useful from 45 on, and once you get 30-35k more saved up you can always sell it to buy a fungi.