That'll do fine, but you'd still get more out of maximizing your AC. Look at it like this:
Mana pool doesn't increase your DPS, regen, mitigation, or anything else that makes you level faster. It just lets you cast more spells before going OOM if you were FM to start with. While leveling, you should never be FM, and certainly will never need to be. A big mana pool becomes relevant once you start doing highly challenging things, like healing a tank through a boss fight or soloing a really tough named. When killing orcs in Oasis, it matters fuck-all whether your maximum mana is 500 or 700 and you'll probably never be FM anyway.
AC reduces the damage you take. This not only equates more or less directly into regen (and, by extension, mana regen, since you save mana you'd have had to spend on healing yourself) but also determines what caliber of mobs you can take on. Sustainability is the #1 factor in leveling quickly, and shaman is the sustainability class. This is also why mana pool doesn't matter nearly as much for a shaman as it does for classes that revolve around dumping a huge amount of raw power into a mob and blowing it to pieces, or kiting with no real risk of getting hit and thus little benefit from increasing raw survivability.
That's what really impacts your leveling pace. A big mana pool just means your med breaks are longer. If you actually get into situations where you need more than your natural mana pool while leveling up in the lower/mid-levels, you're either making mistakes or you're dead anyway. A couple hundred extra mana won't make a difference. Taking less damage makes a significant one, and since the shaman is the only caster class that can get away with routinely taking damage - and often has to in order to kill things - boosting your raw survivability, and thus your grinding sustainability, is what affects your leveling pace the most.
Nothing makes me cringe more than seeing shamans with +6wis rings, platinum armbands and things like that (unless they're just newbies with shit gear). It's the sign of a player who doesn't know how to take full advantage of the class and just plays it like a druid. These are the shamans who get mauled to 50% health whenever they take aggro from slowing, or are limited purely to root-rotting when soloing. This class has no snare and no CC besides root, has huge aggro spells, and sacrifices health for mana. If you set your shaman up correctly, you have a powerhouse character. If you don't, you just have a weaker necro.
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