Jaundiced Bone Bracer - to buy or not to buy?

[Lhancelot]

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

Yeah you can't argue with somebodies experience, it is what it is. I guess people just like the idea of a mana free nuke, and that's legit. But if you really look at it from a rigorous perspective, the JBB is meh in terms of opportunity cost and actual killing rate increase, whereas regen is a powerful increase, no matter how somebody feels about it.

I didn't mean to make it sound like the single most powerful instant clicky to ever be introduced to EQ1, but I personally found it fit my style of play.

My shaman is 55 lvl, and I feel that the bracer was still useful when I would solo. I still used canni, I still used my spells, etc.

I just found that I had very little down time when I used the JBB along with my pet, along with my dots, spells and canni.

I went from 49 iirc, to 55 by soloing off and on via guards. Anyway. Not to beat this horse to a pulp, but the JBB proved useful for me and how I liked to play.

[Lojik]

If you worship cazic thule, you can combine JBB with spook the dead clickie to fear kite. Works pretty well from 45-49 on specs and 49-52ish on spectral curates in TT. With manafree fear, pet, and manafree nuke killin is EZsauce.

[Lojik]

JBB is also useful soloing tough stuff at 60. Sometimes you get in situations where both mana and hp are fairly low while waiting for torpor to bring you back, so having an extra tool in ur belt is nice. Don't really think spamming it at 60 is very efficient though, at least if you have epic and bane.