JBB, is it really that good?

[whydothis]

Echoing what they said, it's definitely worth having. If you don't have epic, it's a good item to help you level. Once you have epic, then sell it to fund torpor or a fungi. Then at 60 you can camp it as it'll still have it's uses. I wouldn't buy it if you have epic though.

[greenspectre]

I had epic and JBB with me in Bear Pits at 59, and can definitely say I got lots of use out of the JBB there. Yes it tends to break root, but there would be situations where I'd have gotten 3 bears on accident, and have 3 rooted with epic DoT's going. While that does lend more to the power of the epic, having a JBB allowed me to burn one bear down at a time while saving all of my mana for roots and emergency heals. Without JBB a situation like that would have been much harder to pull out of.

So even if you're not slow-tanking with JBB as your DPS, that thing still slaps.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

I had epic and JBB with me in Bear Pits at 59, and can definitely say I got lots of use out of the JBB there. Yes it tends to break root, but there would be situations where I'd have gotten 3 bears on accident, and have 3 rooted with epic DoT's going. While that does lend more to the power of the epic, having a JBB allowed me to burn one bear down at a time while saving all of my mana for roots and emergency heals. Without JBB a situation like that would have been much harder to pull out of.

So even if you're not slow-tanking with JBB as your DPS, that thing still slaps.

Oh yeah, if you have both JBB and Epic while leveling you can mix and match tactics better. When I was leveling I didn't have Epic, so my strategy was completely focused on saving mana via JBB.

[oldschoolguy]

I wouldn't go out of the way for it, but I don't play shaman. I can only share a similar druid experience since they have pretty much same clickies, just different name.

I played a druid to 60. I had 2 dps clickies, epic clicky eventually, and the bracer (druid version of JBB). I literally stopped using the bracer early on because the damage is too low for farming or leveling, and cast time is too long. It was cool mana free damage for a few levels for rare situations, but it just became easier to use normal spells and not waste time on this slow casting bracer.

Not sure if it's same for shaman, but seems similar.

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

I wouldn't go out of the way for it, but I don't play shaman. I can only share a similar druid experience since they have pretty much same clickies, just different name.

I played a druid to 60. I had 2 dps clickies, epic clicky eventually, and the bracer (druid version of JBB). I literally stopped using the bracer early on because the damage is too low for farming or leveling, and cast time is too long. It was cool mana free damage for a few levels for rare situations, but it just became easier to use normal spells and not waste time on this slow casting bracer.

Not sure if it's same for shaman, but seems similar.

It's better on a Shaman. Shaman's can't kite like Druids do. The free damage clickie is very nice, and saves a ton of mana. Before Torpor this is key to leveling quickly.

For Druids it's better to kite and use https://wiki.project1999.com/Luminescent_Staff . Sadly Shaman's don't have good snares or good AoE.

[Danth]

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

It's better on a Shaman. Shaman's can't kite like Druids do. The free damage clickie is very nice, and saves a ton of mana. Before Torpor this is key to leveling quickly.

Pre-Torpor the bracer's a nobrainer if available. Post-Torpor the bracer's more of a wash: the slow cast time means a shaman can sustain similar damage (little more, little less, depending on the whims of resists and fizzles) by casting and canni'ing as he can by using the bracer click. Bracer click is less work though to do the same job.

Danth

[DeathsSilkyMist]

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

Pre-Torpor the bracer's a nobrainer if available. Post-Torpor the bracer's more of a wash: the slow cast time means a shaman can sustain similar damage (little more, little less, depending on the whims of resists and fizzles) by casting and canni'ing as he can by using the bracer click. Bracer click is less work though to do the same job.

Danth

It's still useful at 60 in some fights.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umuVBewCNgY

It's great for dealing damage when you want your pet to tank. In this case it's harder to use your Poison/Disease DoTs due to how much hate they generate. In this video I did 5000 damage to the Cliff Golem with just bracer, which is 1/6 of it's total life.

[greenspectre]

Just wanting to jump on here and point out that if green 2.0 lets you still cast spells while sitting like 1.0 did (before instant interrupt ducking), JBB is basically cheating during that time period.

[zelld52]

Yes. At level 45 its ridiculous. Root mob, cast 5 JBB clicks and mob is dead. This worked in Cazic Thule. I did 46-49 in about 3 hours on Bloodgills doing this. Went to CoM, and did 49-51 in about 3 more hours with JBB. WHen I got turgurs, I slowed mobs, tanked, and clicked JBB while pet was behind mob. Worked like a charm.

By level 53/54, I didn't use it as much, and switched to slow tanking, epic click and pet DPS. By 55, I was root rotting bears in perma, and didn't use it.

When I hit 60 I started using it alot more often. It's great for finishing off mobs, when the epic click wears off.

[JeremyDS]

Thanks everyone, I have one now =) The rest of my gear isn't nearly as good anymore but Spamming JBB while slow tanking is working great.