[loramin]

It's sorta already been said, but just to emphasize it a little more, stat gear is almost worthless for leveling IMHO. Don't even bother. Instead, save your money for items that actually matter:

#1: Goblin Gazughi Ring - Yes it's 7k (or whatever it goes for now), but this item is literally all I twinked my druid with (plus a few meaningless stat items I had lying around) and it's really all he used up until 45 or so; about half his inventory slots were completely empty that entire time (did I mention stat gear really doesn't matter?) and a few more just had like raw leather or some other garbage I looted as I leveled

Then, at 45 when clickies start working:

#2: Luminescent Staff - Pretty much a must have for quadding

#3 and #4: Elder Spiritualist Arms/Gloves - Mana-free snare/DoT, 'nuff said (and these are cheap enough you might even want to give them to the druid earlier just for the, mostly meaningless, AC)

But other than those items (and of course your epic and, if by some miracle you acquire one, a Fungi: I found they are surprisingly helpful even for Druids at higher levels) the rest of your gear really won't matter much until you quad, and even then you only need enough of a mana pool to finish the quad and then the rest doesn't matter.

Even 45+, while I did start filling out my slots, I still had empty ones all the way up until I hit 60 (when I still had 2 or 3 slots left unfilled). Stat gear is just that meaningless that I had absolutely no issue leveling (and 99% of the deaths I incurred would not have been prevented by a few more HP or mana).