Best budget shaman melee weapon while JBB'ing?

[loramin]

Here's my advice: crunch the numbers. Calculate how much your poison DoT does per tick, how much your disease DoT does per tick, and how much your JBB does per tick. Now calculate how much damage you would do per tick if equipped with a Primal Velium Spear (or some other super good weapon).

What I suspect you'll find when you crunch those numbers is that even with the spear your melee damage is virtually a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of your damage, and as such it's likely not worth spending mental energy, let alone plat, to increase. And certainly whatever marginal increase you'd get between your current weapon and a weapon you can actually afford is going to be even less worth it.