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Originally Posted by Trelaboon
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You might be right. I have just found that the duration of pox/bane ends up lasting about the amount of time it takes me to canni back the mana I used to cast them, then torpor and by then bane has usually worn off. Bane does more dps than a JBB if chain casted with no interrupts, so it never made sense to me to use JBB over Bane when the time it takes to build the mana back up after casting it, is similar to the duration of bane.
I admittedly don’t enjoy my shaman that much and therefore don’t play him that often. I’d rather use my enchanter to farm, if I’m gonna do it, so I’m not the best authority on the class. I would never use a JBB over Bane though. The only time I could see clicking a JBB is on a mob that wouldn’t live long enough for Bane to run its course (which is almost never) or if you have 8 seconds left before bane wears off and you canni/torpor back to full, then I’d click it. But that’s not worth 16-18k to me.
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Yeah it's mostly a mana saving tool. The problem with high level Shaman spells is they all cost a lot of mana. There are plenty of times where I resort to JBB because it can save a bit of time on cannibalizing. If a mob is at like 5% HP when all your DoTs run off, it sucks to have to recast Bane on it to finish it off.
Since you have a 60 Enchanter that is generally the better class to farm on. I don't have a 60 Enchanter, so most of my farming is done on my Shaman. For someone who has both a 60 Enchanter and a 60 Shaman I agree JBB is less necessary since you aren't farming on your Shaman anyway. It's best when you main your Shaman. Saving a spell slot is really nice on a Shaman since typically 5/8 slots are filled already .