JBB, is it really that good?

[greatdane]

Originally Posted by DeathsSilkyMist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I don't have a problem using Pox without Insidious Decay in most cases. It really doesn't get resisted that often from my experience.

If you're 60 and casting on low blues, sure. In the kinds of situations that OP is likely to end up in - and OP said he's "high enough level to use JBB," so take from that what you will - tossing out disease dots without the DR debuff is a very poor choice. While you could book-swap it between melee swings of a slowed mob, that's a bit much to include as a matter of course. In anything but fringe cases (like a 60 shaman easyfarming with epic and all spells), devoting two spell slots/swaps to the disease dot is not really going to be worth the hassle it takes unless one specifically derives enjoyment from maximizing one's DPM. Hell, even then, it's only good DPM on mobs unusually high HP.

In very nearly all cases that are relevant to OP's question, you're better off just sticking with poison dots and JBB spam (though there won't be time for many casts of it even pre-60) because a single cast of Malowhatever will cover that, and the mobs that someone is likely to kill if they say that they're "high enough level to use JBB" will not live long enough to where it makes any sort of sense to work a DR debuff and disease dot into the rotation. That is, as you cherrypicked for your example, only worth doing if you're a level 60 shaman soloing dragons and things like that.

You do have a tendency to campaign for the fringe cases, and while I'm also a great lover of the extreme ends of this old game's mechanical spectrum, it's not always the right answer to give. OP is (or was, when he posted in fucking July) probably in his late 40s wondering if JBB is worth getting. Telling him what you can do at level 60 doesn't give him a very good answer, and that's a thing that happens too much around here.

This thread has a hell of a lot of "you can do this at level 60" theorycrafting for a guy who said he's just high enough level to use JBB. If he's like level 50, the best way to kill shit is malosimsalabim, slow, poison dot, and JBB spam, while dogdog gnaws away from behind.