Level 50 shaman looking for some advice on what gear to look for,

[Malkor]

So I've recently leveled my barbarian shaman up to 50 and started fighting the ice giants in Everfrost Peaks, so I have some money coming in finally, a little over 1000p so far. I'm looking to start improving my gear but I really don't know what I should be focusing on. I feel like I should focus on wisdom but all the gear with that on it seems to be low on AC, which worries me. Also, I don't know what gear I should be looking out for that would be a good bargain. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Here's what I have so far: https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Green:Malkor

I should also note that I'm hoping to fight Nagafen and Vox at least once each, so I probably won't be going over 52 real fast.

[Jimjam]

Are you running out of mana / feeling over reliant on canni or are you taking hits?

[Toxigen]

gatorscale legs, withered leather boots, chipped bone bracelets will get your wise up a bit more

i wouldnt worry about AC too much...its more important when you're torp tanking summoning mobs which you're a long ways off from

find and friend monk twinks

[Duik]

Many of you may hate toxigens advice.
EQ is a cooperative/grouping game.
Sorry.

[Malkor]

Are you running out of mana / feeling over reliant on canni or are you taking hits?

Well, right now, fighting the ice giants I'm taking hits and running out of mana to be honest but there's enough time between them to regain it all back. When I was in groups in City of Mist before that I was pretty much not getting hit at all but I did have some trouble with mana here and there.

[loramin]

https://wiki.project1999.com/Equipping_a_Shaman

In general, levels > gear, so for most people I'd say your best bet is to not even try to get more gear: Shaman are awesome and can solo fine without it. Soloing to 60, then getting gear, will be the most efficient path.

But, given this goal:

I should also note that I'm hoping to fight Nagafen and Vox at least once each, so I probably won't be going over 52 real fast.

Well, two things. First off, the dragons here aren't like the dragons on live, which is to say 95%+ of the players killing them aren't on their first level 52 char ... they're on their second ... or sixth. They're in a top raiding guild on the server, and playing a level 52 alt (or a "bot", ie. a guild shared account). Furthermore, these players are waiting on a "Batphone" (Discord message, text, etc.) to alert them when the dragons appear, so they can kill them as quickly as possible.

If you're serious about seeing Vox and Naggy, you need to join such a guild (https://wiki.project1999.com/Green_Guilds#Top_Content_Raid_Guilds). You could make some sort of deal to not join but "ride along" for no loot ... but that would likely be more work, and if you want to see Vox/Naggy, you'll probably want to Tunare and King Tormax, or maybe even Vulak`Aerr someday, so why not join now?

Second (getting back to your original request), stats are the worst thing to go for. You truly won't notice 30 more points of AC/HP/Wisdom even half as much as you'll notice the clickies from your epic or a JBB. You'll also get more "bang for your buck" from just the the instant-SoW booties from your epic quest, the 5HP regen from a Ceremonial Iksar Chestplate, or the reclaim energy of a Mage focus item (clicked from inventory ... this one sounds like nothing, but it lets you get a max-level pet for your soloing session in only a few minutes, which makes a big difference).

In short, while Toxigen had some great stat gear suggestions, if you want to go that route, I'd suggest instead checking out the "notable" items on the Equipping a Shaman page, and focus on them ... if you're not going to level.

[zelld52]

Levelled 3 shaman to 60 so far (Ogre, Troll, Barbarian)

as far as im concerned, HP and AC are way more important than wis (to a degree) for a shaman. a lot of shaman make the mistake of choosing the Low AC wisdom gear meant for druids. but shaman might wind up tanking occasionally, so AC is king. HP means more cannibalize ammo, so prioritize HP. Even between 45-54 stuff starting really whooping my ass even with slow, I was face tanking with Turgurs Insects on the shaman who i didnt buy epic MQ for (#1 and #3)

your gear looks pretty good so far - some suggestions I'd make (that are cheap or free if you can get it to drop)

If you can save up money, you can buy these - or try to camp them.

Face: Crystal Spider Eyes (https://wiki.project1999.com/Crystal_Spider_Eyes) Get a Velks group. Encourage your group to camp Crystal Eyes - or buy for (~800p - 1kp)

Arms: Crystal Chitin Armplates (https://wiki.project1999.com/Crystal_Chitin_Armplates) Also attainable in a Velks group - or can be bought relatively cheaply for like 700-900p.

Feet: Barbed Dragonscale Boots (https://wiki.project1999.com/Barbed_Dragonscale_Boots)Impossible to get solo unless you have Kael faction already... but not too expensive (900p - 1.1k)

Gloves: Coldain Skin Gloves (https://wiki.project1999.com/Coldain_Skin_Gloves) Also impossible to achieve solo at level 50 - but well worth every penny. This is near BiS for shaman. (2k plat)

Those 4 upgrades alone will net you +135 HP, +55 MANA, +5 WIS, +23 STA, +23 AC. They will also last you until you replace them with high-end no-drop raid gear.

I'm also a fan of
Shoulders: Obulus Death Shroud (https://wiki.project1999.com/Obulus_Death_Shroud) (~ 1.5k plat)

Legs: Crystal Chitin Leggings (https://wiki.project1999.com/Crystal_Chitin_Leggings) (~2k plat)

Shield: Sarnak Battle Shield (https://wiki.project1999.com/Sarnak_Battle_Shield) can't recommend switching to this shield enough. It's got way more AC than your current, +40HP and incredible +SVs. You'll lose a bit of mana switching to it, but it's a good tradeoff imo.

All this being said: you can definitely reach 60, join a raiding guild, get your epic, etc with the current gear you have. You'll get upgrades on raids, which is the best way to do it. (Upgrade droppable loot to no-drop, sell the droppable replaced items and profit)

[Malkor]

Well, thanks for all the advice everyone. I'll try and figure something out. I'm not in that big a rush so I'll take my time with it.

[WarpathEQ]

You can do Ice Giants until about 55 before the exp really falls off a cliff. The good news is you don't need any gear for it either, you already have the inexpensive jaundice bone stuff for some click buffs.

How to kill ice giants and never take a hit:
Haste pet and pet attack ice giant
Use your highest level slow on the ice giant so the pet can survive the fight
Use your highest level Canni twice
Cast plague
Use your highest level Canni twice
Cast Envenomened Bolt
Canni until your mana is 1 bar more than your health (or until your health is down to ~40%) then sit an med while your pet kills the giant.

Bonus: you can use your clicky buffs on your pet to make it even stronger.

The biggest thing that will benefit you if you don't already have one is a GCD clicky (basically anything that can be clicked with no cast time, aka instant cast). You can put the click on your hotbar and alternate between the clicky and Canni to eliminate the recast time in between casts.

The best item by far that I acquired on my shammy is the fungi staff, it serves as a GCD click and a manaless regen spell that helps you recoup HP so you can convert even more into mana faster and have essentially infinite mana (eventually at lvl 60 torpor replaces the fungi staff but you use it the same way so good practice)

[TheRusty]

So I've recently leveled my barbarian shaman up to 50 and started fighting the ice giants in Everfrost Peaks, so I have some money coming in finally, a little over 1000p so far. I'm looking to start improving my gear but I really don't know what I should be focusing on. I feel like I should focus on wisdom but all the gear with that on it seems to be low on AC, which worries me. Also, I don't know what gear I should be looking out for that would be a good bargain. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Here's what I have so far: https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Green:Malkor

I should also note that I'm hoping to fight Nagafen and Vox at least once each, so I probably won't be going over 52 real fast.

Your gear's ahead of curve for level 50, and will probably carry you to 60 just fine. But if you really wanna replace stuff on a bit of a budget...

Look to replacing the Totemic bracers with Sentry Bracers, maybe.
Sebilite scale leggings to replace totemic
Spider Fur belt replacing Crystalline belt
You should be able to start your epic and get the Shield of Falsehood as well. If you'd rather just spend plat, a Sarnak Battle Shield or Crystal Chitin Shield are good options too.

TBH your weakest item slot is probably the chestpiece and shoes. Look for some Barbed Ringmail or Sebilite Scaled Coat. GEBs are boring but decent enough, and your epic boots will stay in your inventory for your entire career.

[Malkor]

I just updated my Magelo to show the upgrades I've bought in the past week and a half or so. I haven't been able to follow your recommendations as much as I'd like due do the availability of items in the EC tunnel but I'm pretty happy with what I've bought. The notable changes are my face, back, belt, and 2nd bracer. I've increased both my AC and my wisdom. I think I'm good for now and will focus on saving money for spells at this point. My plan for armor is to go for the Coldain faction armor next, once I go over level 52.

https://wiki.project1999.com/Magelo_Green:Malkor

I did manage to go on a Nagafen raid and while I died once getting to him I didn't get in the way too much I think. We killed him anyways, so that's good, Now I just need to fight Vox.

[PatChapp]

I wouldn't bother with the dwarf armor,castle does HoT farms every week and the dragon armor is much better.
The big pieces like legs will take some time to build up enough dkp for but otherwise most of the stuff very reasonable.
Vindi bp also very reasonable to buy with dkp these days, seem to go for around 40 -50now,depending how hard we're hitting Derek.
Vox might take some time to actually go on a kill,vox is a very contested mob and a couple guilds hit her really hard.

[Jimjam]

Growth rots or HoT armor ftw. You can get by on pre-velious rather than wasting effort on thurg imo.

[Toxigen]

its guild time

epic, vindi bp, HoT armor

also scout roll, first chardok faction ring, yadda yadda

[zelld52]

go guildless til 60 if you can. or at least dont raid. it will help you learn to be self sufficient and youll get really good at being a shaman on a budget (which means when youre a shaman with baller gear youll be invincible)

lots of players on this emulator attach to a guild like a leech and wind up getting all their gear through sitting semi AFK on raids for hundreds of hours. it winds up being like the same 12 people for each raid doing all the work because everyone else just got recruited to the same guild and all they have to do is show up to earn dkp

[loramin]

go guildless til 60 if you can. or at least dont raid. it will help you learn to be self sufficient and youll get really good at being a shaman on a budget (which means when youre a shaman with baller gear youll be invincible)

lots of players on this emulator attach to a guild like a leech and wind up getting all their gear through sitting semi AFK on raids for hundreds of hours. it winds up being like the same 12 people for each raid doing all the work because everyone else just got recruited to the same guild and all they have to do is show up to earn dkp

I can't disagree with this more ... and I say this as a Shaman who solo-farmed his own fungi, Torpor, and epic.

When you're not in a raid guild, raid guilds seem big and scary, and you're willing to waste A LOT of time to be "self-sufficient" and avoid them ... or at least I was. But do you know what you're going to do once you get 60/epic/Torpor? That's right: join a guild and raid.

Once you do, you realize they're not so big and scary, and you can still solo as much as you want. But you also realize that instead of wasting months grinding Drooga (or wherever) to save up enough plat for a tear, you could simply help ten guildmates with fights for their epic, and then get a tear "for free".

Depending on the guild, you can also likely get Torpor more easily than farming 100kp, and if you want to farm a fungi or JBB yourself, you're more likely to find folks to do Seb with (on a non-raid night) than you are with strangers.

Again, I was 100% solo for my first few years with Loramin ... but once I actually gave a guild a chance, I found the game was a whole lot more fun, and I felt stupid for wasting all that time solo farming (especially for my epic).

[Toxigen]

you can get insane gear just by showing up to occasional raids

or do shit to help the most active members, kiss some elf bootyhole, they'll hand you a copy of torpor

[Malkor]

Well Toxigen, due to reading a ridiculous amount of fantasy literature at an impressionable age, I will admit to having a bit of an elf kink. (Mmm, pointy ears...) I do try to draw the line at kissing bootyhole though, lol.

[Toxigen]

Well Toxigen, due to reading a ridiculous amount of fantasy literature at an impressionable age, I will admit to having a bit of an elf kink. (Mmm, pointy ears...) I do try to draw the line at kissing bootyhole though, lol.

tastes like elf copper

[shovelquest]

I can't disagree with this more ... and I say this as a Shaman who solo-farmed his own fungi, Torpor, and epic.

When you're not in a raid guild, raid guilds seem big and scary, and you're willing to waste A LOT of time to be "self-sufficient" and avoid them ...

I'm gonna disagree here with this disagreement.

Remember folks: it's the journey that matters.

No time is wasted on a server that refuses to reset/wipe/merge.

Do not. And I repeat. Do not prioritize level's over gear on project 1999.

Take 3-4 years to get to 60 and you will enjoy this game a lot more than folks who dont play anymore because their characters require hard core raiding to make any gains.

Tox gave some great gear advice IMO.

Also: Don't get rez's.

EXP Death's are a blessing on this infernal purgatory we call a server. :o

[PatChapp]

What do you mean,getting 1 or 2(lol jk) upgrades a year is thrilling