Budget Shaman Leveling Gear?

[DrKvothe]

Here's something I posted a year ago:

Get a runewood greatstaff for practically nothing. Pull with a poison dot or nuke, turn on attack right as the mob reaches you, after first swing cast root, back out of range after root lands and second melee attack, and sit down a couple of feet away. Wait until you see your health/mana regen tick (for full value, since you're sitting), then move forward, hit mob once, then move back and sit down again.

This effectively resets both your delay and mob delay to 60. Since mob delay was normally 30 and yours was normally 40, the mob suffers a 50% dps decrease while you only suffer a 33% decrease compared to continuous fighting. Root is a lot cheaper to cast than slow, and since you'll be hitting every med tick you can toss out more nukes/heals than if you were continuously fighting.

I'd go for: Runewood Great Staff, 5/55 rings, spyglass, and the materials for one of the reclaim pet clicky quests (http://wiki.project1999.com/Vira). Don't worry about armor, imo, because when you're up for it, take a trip to Karnor's Castle and ask around for rotting no-drop gear:
http://wiki.project1999.com/Jarsath_Scale_Armor
http://wiki.project1999.com/Supple_Scale_Armband

Spyglass lets you remove global cooldown between spells (give it an inventory slot and create a hotkey, click it between casts and you can immediately start next spell), although if you're trying to recast the same spell it only works if it's in the number 1 spell slot for some reason. Some people put canni there , others prefer to put root there. Any instant cast infinite charge clicky will do, but spyglass is cheap and available.

Honestly, that's kind of all you need until your epic questline, anyways.

[Cawas]

Originally Posted by DrKvothe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This effectively resets both your delay and mob delay to 60. Since mob delay was normally 30 and yours was normally 40.

Can you elaborate on this? I'm trying to understand what these numbers represent; it sounds like something different from weapon delay.

[Dinbin]

Originally Posted by DrKvothe [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I'd go for: Runewood Great Staff, 5/55 rings, spyglass, and the materials for one of the reclaim pet clicky quests (http://wiki.project1999.com/Vira).

Wait... what? Shaman can quest and use that item to reclaim their pet?

Here's my current loadout:

Bruuk

Aside from a few purchases (Rygor, veil, RMB) all of my gear has been looted or quested. The waist/shoulders are obviously my next items to upgrade... can anyone make any recommendations for priorities beyond that?

Edit: OMG, they can use it. I'm an idiot for not doing that quest! Last night I summoned 7 pets (thank goodness for clarity) to get a blue one. Will start quest tonight!