I am a strong advocate of regen gear for the up and coming shaman so if you can farm it a Fungus Covered Scale Tunic would be a good place to start. 15 per tick regen is really handy for staying alive. Not sure if you could solo the camp though since I never tried it myself. I have heard of people who claim to have done it though.

If that's out of the question them a Ceremonial Iksar Chestplate is a good replacement. 5 per tick regen and not very hard to get with a tracker. I've farmed quite a few of them with a lower level druid partner. You can also get another good seller from the same camp (Forager cycle, Iksar Hide Mask goes for 10-12kpp) that could go a long way to helping gear up the shaman.

Another item I've always loved is the Rune Etched Icewurm Fang. A 12/19 piercer that drops in Kael. It would go a long way towards getting you piercing skill up too.

(I would recommend keeping all your weaponm skills up when you are young. It really hurts to raise them later.)

With just those two items you could solo to 51 as a shaman easily.

Once you get to 35 you should look at your cultural armor too. The Expert Frostwarded stuff is pretty sweet. It generally goes pretty cheap in the bazaar since it's a good skill-up route for higher end blacksmithing. Or you could farm the items necessary yourself and ask someone to do the combines for you. One of the drops is from hill giants (lambent stones) so you should make some nice change while you're farming it.

Just noticed Brewnoe's suggestion in an earlier thread:

Holly Longtail's Replacement Parts

This is the kind of stuff I'd like to see more of.
Anybody else got a favorite piece of questable shammy gear they'd like to mention?

(This is paticularly awesome, as I have a Cockatrice Beak still on my shammy, that I was intending to sell as vender loot.)

Edited, Thu Jul 28 16:42:35 2005 by BellamDreamguard

Welnik's quest is stupid easy and well worth doing at your level. If you like I can give you the locations of where the picks are. Three are at cave entances but I had a bit of trouble finding the fourth. I used my druid to do the quests since they travel so well and just gave the items to my alts.

There's also an Ogre shammy near the zone in to Timorous Deep. The Great Oowomp or something. He drops a nice buff extending head item that is good to level 44 and is rarely camped. Just go to your right as you get off the boat. He's standing outside a hut with only one wussy bodyguard.

One small thing about the Earthen Gloves of Wisdom is that the Nurga and Droga quest were "fixed" by the Devs and the Hand-in NPCs get reset with many server resets.

The original belief was that freeing the slaves was supposed to be a one time event on the server. The developers don't seem inclined to comment on whether this is "working as intended" now or not.

It may be difficult to find Rockshaper Dritam free on your server. Freeing the slaves in Nurga and Droga is not something you will be doing solo. And few guilds powerful enough to do it are interested in the gear any more.

I'd check to see if he is free before investing any time or money on this quest. He should stand just north of the entrance to Chief Rokgus' cave in Frontier Mountains.

I have the gloves myself but I got them when these quests were new and many players were interested in them.

Good luck with it though, they are pretty nice gloves.

BTW If the slaves are free on your server you might want to look into the Vengeance of Osvima as well. The belt is pretty nice with Extended Enhancement 3 on it and your shaman can get to her with an invis potion, do the turn-in and then gate out is he's careful.