World-of-warcraft – Soloing Sunwell with a Rogue

As a Holy Paladin, look for gear that has Intellect (increases Mana pool), spellpower (bigger heals), crit and haste. don't specificially gear for MP5/spirit. Unforunately for levels 60-70, gear will be a hodge-podge. Look at cloth, leather and mail gear as well, as some of the pieces are better itemized for healing, then the plate items available from outland. Keep you divine plea up, and use judgement of light up to help your healing and keep your haste buff up. Switch to judgement of wisdom if you're mana is getting real low. Also decide if you want to spam Holy Light (more crit) or Flash of Light (more SP). Check out EltistJerks.com, their fourms have a lot of useful info on gearing, though it is aimed more at end-game raiders.

Enhancement Shamans are designed to dual-wield for maximum damage. If you aren't using an offhand weapon, you won't be getting your full damage output.

The fundamental truth is that if you're looking to take the least damage, don't go with the shield -- you'll take less damage overall if you kill things faster. Less damage done means more hits taken, which means the armor bonus of the shield is moot, as you take approximately the same damage either way.

And I hope she's not trying to level on mobs 3 levels higher than her. Stick with yellow or green mobs -- they're easier, you miss them less, and, again, you'll net higher xp/hour because you'll kill them faster than you would the orange mobs.