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Originally Posted by Jimjam
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What level do you realistically plan to take it to, what level of gear will you start/end with and how/where will you play.
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Jimjam asking the important questions. OP, if you're not planning to join a high-end raid guild and earn a bunch of really high-end gear, Wisdom is a less ideal choice, because Stamina is far more important for Shaman.
There are long posts explaining this further but in short, hit points keep us alive AND let us cast spells: mana just lets us cast spells. Personally, I can't think of any encounter where you fail by running out of mana
because your starting mana total wasn't high enough ... certainly none that don't involve high-end raiding (ie. you might fail in a group or long solo fight because you didn't regenerate mana fast enough, but that's different from not having high enough max mana to start). +6 Dragons, PoM mobs, and all the really hard Shaman solos are about casting Cannabalize a ton during the fight,
not starting with 50 more mana.
So Stamina rocks ... but you won't max stamina unless you have tons of high-end gear. I played Loramin on Blue for at least half a decade, yet I never got him true "high-end gear". He just has "best in slot" gear
for a non-raider or casual guild raider ...
which doesn't suck either: a full suit of TOV armor (except for a Vindi BP upgrade), Lodi Shield, +6 neck, Shawl, the Chardok ring, etc. I still have a few more things to acquire (eg. Spirit Wracked Cord) ...
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and yet, Loramin only has 175 stamina. That's 225 self-buffed, which is still more than 25 away from the cap. Also, I think I put most/all of my starting points into Stamina.
If you're not planning to join the Riot/Aftermath/Kingdom/Seal Team/whatever top-end guild, and do a ton of raiding, you'll be better off putting the points into Stamina. But if you do (and we're talking about not just getting to 60 and joining that guild, but also earning and spending tens of thousands of DKP on gear) then, as others have noted, Wisdom will be the harder stat to max than Stamina.