The Spirit Realm

Inktu'ta is a fun zone to raid takes maybe 2.5 hours from start to finish and nets about 10 loots a run every 5 days. I know when I returned to game, we farmed the hell out of it, and that's where I got most of my qvic armor molds from, the 2 named trusik guys, though I don't have any other loots from Inktu'ta because we made a big push to start farming Tacvi and just broke Anguish. A good focus effect to get is Qvic arms, or the neck or belt from Inktu'ta for Discordant Healing [45% to heals up to lvl 68], so far I have crit Yoppa's for 8.2k. Does your guild do Tacvi on a regular basis? It's like Potime 2.0, with 1 trash mob before every named for a total of 7 named minus Tunat

First I would suggest working on as much of the <100 hp gear you can your self, that right there would be a giant improvment. If its off hours M'sha farming, grouping in RS for the BP/Wrist/Ear/Charm and augs, DoD Monster missions with 100+ rewards (even naggy mission gives a 110hp earring). You can get decent stuff to sell while farm sigs for anguish (runes if you dont need them, droppable gear) and you can farm some PP to buy upgrades too. Here is how I would spend my non raid time if I was driving for gear upgrades:

Priority #1, SIGNETS! You can NOT zone into anguish even on the 85% rule without them. They block the zonewide AE from killing you. While doing these, some zones offer upgrades them selves (MPG, RSS, RCoD to name a few) some offer good PP/rune farming (the instanced ones). That right there can offer you some upgrades.

Priority#2, 'Goats' get in as often as you can killing these guys (if you're not farming sigs at the time) till you get both augs and as much Qvic gear as you can afford. Since most of the upgrades you have access to out side of Qvic are jewlary and other non 'visable' slots, Qvic gear + farming can boost you by over 1k hps and mana np and give you some needed focii.

Priority#3, Aug slots. Ears, Fingers, Neck, Shoulders, Back, Waist are all hp augs from RSS (or mana). Wrist, Range are Sv augs. Svs are IMPORTATNT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT for some of the stuff you're going to be killing. You have to be able to resist some things otherwise you're more of a liability than a help. 3 DoN Sv augs are good. Everything else is pretty much hps/mana or a focii you dont have on something else that you need. Augs can be worth as much as a peice of gear if its a good enough aug.

Don't rely on the guild you're apping to for gearing you up when with what you have you could easily (if you had it) spend a few 100k in the baz and upgrade most of it OR farm for a few days on things like sigs and upgrade a lot of it too. Once you get about 1-2k more hps/mana which shouldnt take long if you work hard I would then suggest working on single group MPG trials. Some you can do with what you have now, but others you need at least a bigger mana pool. MPG trials offer 200+hp/mana loot that even anguish geared people still use.

I have elected to save (until I reach resist cap without one or both) both wrist slots for the +60 resist augs. Every other slot has (or soon will have) a +HP aug. I found plenty of +HP augs for ears, fingers, neck, back, waist, shoulders, and visible shots, but not as many for wrists, which is why I chose there for the resist augs. Yes, there are some, but the other slots are easier to fill/upgrade imo.

100% hp augments, because hp always work. There are adds that do melee, there are DD AE's , and DoT AE's, and no one thing works on all of em, except hp. There's also those times, not rare at all, when you're below max hp and still wanna canni. +hp augs give a much bigger buffer to keep you out of low-hp agro.

For all the same reasons +hp is better than +other_things on gear, +hp is better than +other_things on augments.

I say the wrists/range for the 3 DoN resist augs cause +34 resists is nothing to be sneezed at...that 200extra hps from augs in those 3 slots wont save you if you can't resist something that a a chromatic or prismatic AE for 4.5k. idealy once you start farming Qvic regularly you're going to want to get most of your resists 300+ (and no...those resist augs of only +6 to 1 Sv do not count). Those 3 resist augs and the rest all mana/hps or even a needed effect are what you need to aim for IMO. Resists matter as much as hps in certain areas of the raiding game and if you dont have them you're more of a liablity than a help if you can't cure/heal from a silence you didnt resist or you die from that AE. HPs are great, get as many as you can...but don't neglect other important things too.

Right on - thanks for all the help.

I am currently doing one group MPG trials - they are loads of fun - just won destruction and fear ... both pretty easy for a shaman with low gear / mana...havent tried the others yet though. I had a blast doing them.

I will certainly be getting in on signet farming and goat killing to gear up / get anguish ready.

RSS seems like its gotta be next on my list - the earring that drops there would be a monster upgrade - and Ireally need the HP / Mana augs. I already have the sigs from there - but I can still justify it I think.

Thanks again for the answers and the friendy advice!

I have already upped everything over 100 HP I think just need to update the magelo to the new DoD patch...monster missions ftw!