Advice for lowbie Druid on gear/grouping

[moklianne]

Hello all,
I'm a lvl 18 Druid. I've been leveling slowly but surely, mostly soloing, occasionally getting a group. The problem I've found is that for a non-twink, its kinda hard to heal decently, lol. I don't remember such an emphasis being put on Druids to heal when I originally played in 2001. It appears that its almost automatic that Druids and Shamans are to heal and many believe they are viable replacements for Clerics. It reminds me of live currently actually, where shamans, druids, and clerics are the healers and have been balanced to be so. However, it doesn't work that way on P1999. At least at these low levels.

Anyway, does anyone have any recommendations on cheap gear that'll help? I'm talking under 200pp.

Or perhaps a recommendation on places at this level where healing isn't as critical and needed constantly. Such as an area with long pulls, so you have more time to med.