The Spirit Realm

If your guild is working on DoN, I would hold out for the legs from Rikkukin rather than the GoD ones.

Bloodlink is a no-brainer. I think it's safe to say that the grand majority of high end shaman that aren't dropping OMM/AM in anguish regularly still wear it, even over the ones that drop from RS/Tacvi etc raids.

Definitely grab arms and the 90hp aug from Qvic. The mana aug might be good too (they tend to rot quickly since both are lore). The ring from Ikkinz1 is great, but was always pretty rare in my experience.

I was never all that impressed with the drops from Uqua, except for maybe the Tentric's ring and the polished ceremonial mask (which your guild can prolly kill Chailak and get a better mask there). Those aren't so "OMG I NEED TO GET THAT" though. There are also HP/Mana augs to be had there as well.

Good luck!

Crystal Mail from King in RSS is a nice chest piece. Might want to hold out for that one. Or the bp that is dropping off the guy at MM ent is nice for shammies too. If your guild is in GoD, they can do MM stuff. I will see if I can't find a link to it.

Here is the one from mistmoore (Hinian) http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=33712, and the one from RSS (King) is http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/item.html?item=31888.

The only reason I think most prefer Bloodlink over RS and DoN ones is because they have the cold focus that was all just *love* so much. I'd take mana pres over that kthx. Although that MM one is nice too, never seen that one before!

When my guild was raiding Qvic, armor molds were dkp-free, yet players rolls were based off of their dkp. The reason for this was simple. You didn't need a raid to kill the Msha's for a few groups could end up killing them which makes them ideal for farming, I was able to get most of the molds before I took my extended break. Making the armor killed my bank.

Actually after you get the hang of the M'sha's you can go in with 12 people and kill all three plus usually get enough meldstones to hand to each person that wins a piece. I ended up only having to buy 1 piece of Qvic armor and I have the helm, arms, gloves boots, and 1 bracer (other is quarm). They are up every 7-8 hours so if you time it just right you can pretty much farm them 3 times a day. We did this for like week wee and a half when we first got to qvic and upgraded lots of people in the process. After a while a core group of 6 of us would even one group them but it would take a slight bit longer.

As far as Ikk upgrades I bought the Shield and Chest. Coulda had a whorl off of quarm but the shield was actually a really good price so i bought it. We had Tunics drop in about 7 runs total so not bad.

Everyone has mentioned the Bloodlink chest. Aegis of Blackscales is pretty common that most of our knights have one. In all our Ikkinz raiding we've seen only 1 . Accoording to the det focus list from the drop downs at the top, that is the best shaman usable poison dot focus outside of inktuta. Our guild uses a loot council, and perhaps coincidentally, the only time I've made a public suggestion on all/all loot was on this one and it appears that my suggestion was listened to (no, I didn't get it, another shaman did).

FYI, Incantor mask isn't just a raid drop. I've seen it in single group trials as well. Unfortunately, I didn't realize how good the focus was and NBG'd it to a chanter.