Shaman Equipment Check

[Venrable]

Ok i have just rejoined the game and ive managed to get up to level 51 as a shaman having a blast but it seems im burning through mana like anything can anyone offer any advice on gear upgrades or am i doing good as it is?

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[Brohg]

You will burn through less mana if you invest in a Mana Preservation focus item, but mostly you just keep canni running to replenish yourself as you use what you have. Later in a shaman's career, Canni takes bigger bites but has a metered rate, but at your stage you can canni as much as you need. To kill a monster, you may pull with Turgs, cast Envenomed Bolt, Stoicism on yourself, and melee with your dog while you spend the whole rest of the fight chain casting Cannibalize. If you get back more mana than you're using, you cast another damage spell.

[Veril]

Mana Preservation 3. Obulus Death Shroud (shoulders) is good and works for any levelled character.

At level 55 you can buy Energaic armour in the bazaar that is simply awesome for buyable stuff, that has mana preservation 4 on it. Pieces are something like 1000pp each.

There is a line of Alternate Abilities that gives you mana preservation available when you make level 55. It's called spell casting mastery the description for it is wrong, what it does is increase your specialisation skill which is pure mana preservation.

Cannibilise a lot and Keep regen up - it really really really helps.

Buy a horse (10Kpp) and sit on it in outdoor zones. When you need to move click the horse off. If you are stationaly and not meleeing you get sitting mana regen rather than standing mana regen.

[kuzko]

You can gain a lot of hps, mana and mana regen from gear by using the new player made jewelry for ear x 2, finger x 2, wrist x 2, face and neck. For your level you'd want Velium Trio. For a total summary of how it works and what all is available, kyroskane has this spreadsheet http://www.editgrid.com/user/kyroskrane/Jewelcrafting and this calculator http://www.kyros.info/Tradeskills/JC-Calc/. I prefer the spreadsheet, my roommate prefers the calculator /shrug. (Thanks to kyroskane for making these up, invaluable for explaining the new system)

I would suggest using 2 of the slots for Mana regen from square cut rubies (each giving mana regen 6). All slots have square cut opal (90 hps +/-) and square cut emerald (90 mana +/-). For the slot 11 aug use the best of what you can afford of the following 3 possibilities Prestidigitase (90 hps/mana/end), Harmonagate (120 hps/mana/end), or the big one (also the most expensive) Taafeite (150 hps/mana/end). These also give stats, saves and AC depending on which cut you use. The numbers listed here are the max for velium, they differ depending on level and setting in which they're inserted.

If you know a jeweler, great. However, if not, the setting and the gems are not that expensive (until you get to harms or taafs). Another nice thing about new jewelry is that when you outgrow the recommended level you can take off the gem augs and upgrade to the next setting (in your case palladium, then dwerium), making the gem augs a one time investment. Due to the scarcity of scale ore, palladium is more expensive on average than the higher dwerium.

Hope this helps, I've made a ton of these for my alts, my roommate's alts, and several friends returning to the game after long breaks. There's a lot of excitement when they see their hps/mana skyrocket in an hour by waiting for me to make them (and full sets of the Energeiac appropriate for level).

[Kanamori Hitatomi]

might give you some ideas on groupable stuff available.