It is a fun toy. I'd use it when I wanted to roll battle cleric style in a group. I also had Cloak of Piety for haste and full Ragefire armor to up that dex to 200+ with shaman buffs. If fighting undead, then I'd use Dawnfire for DPS mode (fighting in the undead tower in the hole = full on DPS mode with manastone). Note: I also had pre-nerf Donal's BP and Gheal staff from VP, so mana was never really a problem anyway.
I would use Star and Dawnfire with a hotkey like some shaman's canni-dancing. Requires sitting in melee range of the mob and keeping a tight watch not only on server ticks, but people's health. Hitting a pause based hotkey at the wrong time can kill a party member.
/sit off
/pause 30, /attack on (whatever was enough /pause to get 2 attack rounds)
/sit on
Also a great resist item for Poison/DR fights.
Those of us that had them on Blue used them in the BotB and swapped them out for cudgel depending on the situation (not like that farce red cleric BotB).
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