First off, check out the Treasure Hunting Guide: there's a link in my signature. You're likely going to want to pick an easier camp there and just root/rot things for awhile. Alternatively you could also do a camp that involves killing lots of low level mobs (like the Goblin Ghazugi Ring or the Shrunken Goblin Skull Earring) and use your pet.
Do that until you can earn enough plat to buy some basic armor: maybe a set of Jaundiced Bone Armor, for the cheaper pieces, and just some random crappy armor to fill out the more expensive (chest/leg/bracer) slots. Also you'll likely want to farm plat for a couple of 5AC/55HP rings (or even splurge and get the 6AC/65HP ones), and possibly jewelry for other slots too.
Then, join Anonymous! Or at least join a guild that does ToV, ideally HoT. If you can join a guild that raids HoT (which Anonymous does every Friday night at 8pm EST) you can get a full suit of very good Skyshrine armor to replace whatever you bought. It won't be best in slot, but it will be pretty close. Alternatively you could also join a guild that does the Kael armor, but personally I prefer the Skyshrine set. You can compare their stats here:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Velious_...arisons#Shaman
If you do a mix of farming treasure hunting spots, buying some armor, raiding when you can, and then farming some more, you should be able to get geared in no time. And really I wouldn't put a lot of effort in to the intermediary gear: the difference between a Jaundiced Bone piece (the cheap ones are like 300-500 plat) and some better armor that sells for several K is actually relatively small,
especially for a Torpor shaman (who cares if your crappy armor makes slowed mobs do 100 damage more a minute? Torpor can heal that in a matter of seconds). Or to put it another way:
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Originally Posted by bomaroast
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As a shaman with 1k of a gear you're 90% effective as a raid geared shaman.
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(Although I wouldn't
quite agree with that: the Velious chest armor has a right-click Stamina that makes you more than 10% more effective, at least when it comes to re-buffing a raid after a wipe.)
If it were me I'd just farm enough to not look nekid, join a raid guild, and pick up Skyshrine (or Kael) armor as quickly as I can (eg. I'd go to other guild raids I don't care about to earn DKP to buy armor on HoT nights). Then you can use your cash camp earnings to focus on the kind of gear you can't get from raiding, stuff like resist jewelry, maybe a JBB, haste item, EB item, etc. And once you get decently geared, you can do much better cash camps, like stuff in Sebilis instead of annoying lowbie camps like the goblin ring.
Hope that helps.