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Get your wis to a good level first (I'd say 200 but that's just me), then work on your hp. Several reasons to that (in no specific order):
- Sta is great but the return you have is fairly low (in term of hp / mana), it usually pays off to invest in straight hp gear unless you have access to top gear
- HP is important as you convert it to mana (cani) and convert mana to HP (heal)
- The 2 points before might lead you to think that your mana pool is not important (hence HP > mana). This is true to a certain extent: when you are in a "Oh shit" situation, the larger your mana pool, the more flexibility (read ease to survive) you have: instead of spending time to cani your hp down to try to keep things under control, you spend your time actually sorting things out (killing mobs, rooting them, healing your team mates...)
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No, the reason mana pool is almost useless is because you're almost never at full mana when doing anything that matters. If you are, the content is so easy that it wouldn't make a difference anyway whether you have 150 or 200 wisdom. This is true for almost all classes, although some classes just haven't really got much else to focus on, like wizards and druids. Some classes benefit a bit more from mana on raid mobs because that's where you actually do start out with a full mana pool and have time to spend it all. Shamans and necros are the biggest exception to this because their HP can be directly converted to mana, and thus extra HP allows you to not only survive better but also manage your mana more safely. You also don't have that many jobs during a raid fight as a shaman, it's not like malo+slow takes an entire mana pool. In addition, shamans tend to go for AC because slow is such a huge aggro spell and because they alone among the caster classes can actually take a beating if they gear for it, and may often have to because they lack any crowd control besides root. So does a magician, but he can't really gear for AC with any kind of meaningful result. A shaman can, so he should. Having 900AC 2000HP 2000M will help you much more than having 600AC 1500HP 3000M. You can usually tell a smart shaman by whether he uses an SBS or a PKT, for instance.