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Ok let me be more specific.
Coldain Prayer Shawl, for example, is something I'll want.. no? Seems I'll have to go a lot of difference places for that.
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As a tradeskiller, I consider the Shawl to be my second epic quest ... but mathematically it takes many, many, many hours to get both the tradeskills necessary and to actually do the quest for the shawl. Many hours.
In return, you get ... 10 mana a minute. 600 mana an hour is what, two extra DoTs an hour? That won't even give you a single extra kill per hour, which means it will take many, many, many hours more than it took you just to get the shawl before it ever comes anywhere close to making up for all the hours you spent getting it.
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Aren't there faction related things?
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Assuming you raid HoT (ie. the place where you get Dragon armor), you'll want Dragon faction. Heck, even if you raid the other parts of ToV (for Giant armor) Dragon faction is still handy for getting in the door without needing someone to Harmony Sontalak for you. So you can't go wrong getting your Dragon faction up (although if you do join a guild that's on Giant faction you'll have to choose between keeping the Dragon faction and keeping Dwarf faction, and Dwarf faction has Thurgadin gate potion and Coldain Prayer Shawl/Ring).
Otherwise it's hard to say about faction without knowing your guild. They might do Giant faction or (if small enough) they might mainly do Kael and care about Dwarf faction. But the odds are fairly high that they will do Dragon armor, or Giant armor where Dragon faction is handy, so the odds are high that faction will help whatever guild you join ...
... but of course faction will be easier to farm at 60 than at 45, so the most efficient thing to do is level first.
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Or, similarly, keys I'll want to have?Are there other key pieces to Shaman? Or do I simply start hitting planes/raids to farm all the shaman BiS?
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Sebilis key should take you maybe an hour (less with help), and it's a great place to level. Same goes for Howling Stones/Charasis key, although it's more like half a day worth of effort to get (worth it though: my Shaman did pretty much all of 57-59 in Charasis basement).
But as far as raiding goes ... aside from a few very circumstantial items (eg. Plane of Sky Shaman FD ring) and a few clickies (some of the Velious armor pieces, eg. the BP gives mana-free Riotous Health) all you'll get from raiding is stat gear. And neither the stat gear nor the clickies will really make a meaningful difference in your leveling.
So, join a guild sooner if you want the social aspect, and a distraction from leveling when you get to go raid. But don't do it to level faster: you'll be better off (more efficient) if you just level to 60 and then start raiding.
Hope that helps.