SoD made it a piece of cake to go from gimp to uber in very little time and effort. The groupable gear you can farm is on par or better than MMM, second to last raid zone in the prior expansion. Most if not all spells are easily acquired as well. None of this having to loot such and such an item which you hand in for your spell at least for the first and second ranks. Just about any clicky you could want is available now from groupable gear as well.
I have pretty much either looted or quested every aug that my shaman uses as well as most of his gear in group content and currently buff up to over 3700 AC 32K hps and 27K mana. Add in the fact that Malo Single target and AE Slow are now all AAs and our primary 4 buffs are an all in one spell ......
Hot zones now go to lvl 75 and if you can get lucky enough to pick a location where rangers can use Headshot AA etc the XP just flows like mad ... Last time I did a lesson burn was with 3 rangers in the group and think I netted 30 or so AA in an hour.
Lot of folks I know use
http://forums.theconcerthall.net/viewtopic.php?t=3583 and
http://www.eqinterface.com/downloads/fi ... hp?id=4620 personally I mix and match bits and pieces from various people.