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Originally Posted by Orruar
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What high PR/DR mobs are you talking about? I solo'ed extensively in Kunark and old world and never met one that I wanted to use JBB on. About the only use I found was killing low green cons, but that's not a terribly common situation and Iksar aren't really missing out at 60.
One problem with JBB compared to dots + canni is interrupts. You waste vastly more time on push interrupts spamming JBB than you do with canni + dots. JBB cast time (8s) is equal to the delay of a slowed mob, so a mob is guaranteed to get 1 round of attacks in per JBB click. Dots are 6s, meaning you can cast them in between mob melee rounds. Even a 30% interrupt rate (pretty reasonable in my experience) leads to JBB spam being 1/2 the dps of dots + canni.
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Warlord Skarlon is one example I can think of. He likes to resist Pox / Bane ALOT even when Malosini'ed and he hits hard so it's good to get him dead quick. Over dozens of kills I experimented with different strategies and found that Epic + JBB spam lead to quicker kills overall and left me with alot more mana at the end of the fight and ensured I had more mana for torpors and re-slows.
I'm not telling anyone not to dot or just sit there spamming JBB and nothing else on every mob. It's all situational. There are often times that you can get extra JBBs in while dots are ticking when you don't need to canni. There are also times that you get unexpected adds and don't have the mana to dot... slow + epic + JBB is a nice option to have in those situations.
At the end of the day will JBB make or break a Shaman? Hell no. In fact once you get 60 and torpor it's not really that big of a deal. Shaman is one of the most powerful classes in the game with or without JBB. But with that said it's also a great tool that's very handy to have and one worth considering when making your character.