60 Shaman Gear Upgrades

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Originally Posted by thejester11 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I spend 99% of my time duoing with a Monk, but I assume I should be looking for AC/HP for the occasional off-tanking? My best guess is a full suite of HP/Mana jewelry and then Arctic Wyvern/Matchless Dragon for everything else, but I honestly have no idea.

What is the go-to for most high-level Shamans? Don't really have a limited budget, but I'd like to stay practical and avoid gear that requires raids/MQ. Thanks!

Arctic Wyvern is terrible, the AC is atrocious and its all +Wisdom which you have absolutely no use for. The Dragon shoulder is fantastic but expensive, same for the Chest, the rest is decent AC but lacking in HP, so depending on your trade off ratio, probably isn't worth the huge cost.

Ignoring high end raid drops, you should have :-

Arms - Gladiator Chain Arms - use Jaundiced, Ry'gorr or Giants Scale till you get the drop.
Back - Hierophants Cloak or Lodizal Shell Shield (AC to HP trade off, you make the call).
Chest - Matchless Dragonhide or Fungi. Phase Spider Carapace is decent alternative if you want value (as the Fungi is kinda redundant).
Ear - Black Sapphire Electrum. Gold is worse. Should have two and only use Gobbo Earring indoors, use Black Fur Boots outside.
Face - Crystal Spider Eyes
Feet - Barbed Dragonscale Boots
Finger - Velium Fire
Hands - Coldain Skin Gloves or Barbed Ringmail Gloves
Head - Circlet of Tallon
Legs - Gladiator Chain Leggings - use Oiled Greaves or Ry'gorr or Giants Scale or a cheaper Dragonleg than Matchless till you get the drop.
Neck - any +6 you can duo with Monk (there's quite a few). Necklace of Superiority or Chipped Velium till then.
Shoulder - Matchless Dragonhide. Tattered Mantle for a value alternative.
Waist - Spider Fur Belt.
Wrist - Sentry Bracer or MQ Skyshrine Bracer.
Secondary - Sarnak Battle Shield.
Range - Idol of the Thorned.

Personally, I'd advise you to keep a haste item, so fill whatever slot you want with that. That list will pretty much do you, you can work on some of the quest fillers - Coldain Ring, Sarnak stuff when it drops, Bracer of Benevolence and Talisman of Benevolence, etc.. There's probably half a dozen upgrades you can get from that.

Then you're pretty much done outside of upgrades from ToV.