Reiker's post is excellent but here's the one flaw in his argument (which is actually not relating to what he's talking about and was just an aside in that whole post):
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Basically, the JBB would be an amazing and potentially overpowering item in the hands of any other class besides a shaman.
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He assumes that JBB are not overpowered because it is less powerful than what a Shaman can already do with their own spell casting and mana regen. He doesn't take into consideration that Shaman themselves might be overpowered at the higher levels.
Which they are. No doubt about it. Their mana regen in combination with everything else than can do makes them so vastly superior to a Druid or INT caster (Enchanter aside) that is an embarrassment.
Which is why I said in the other thread that Shaman shouldn't have pets (and Druids should heal better and resists should be fixed so that Magicians/Necros and sometimes even Wizards aren't crap against most of the high level content). Shaman already have amazing power. Giving them the pet, even though it's not a strong pet, is like taxing the poor more heavily so that the rich can become richer. Plus it goes against flavor that a
Shaman can have a wolf following them around everywhere and a
Druid (or even
Ranger), who are specifically attuned to animals, can not.