Equip her with a belt of hill giant strength and a decent club, preferrably blackblood +3. Now she's doing around fifteen to twenty damange per swing and has a fighter's THAC0, and unlike Cernd, she doesn't have to shapeshift back into a normal form every three seconds when she wants to cast a spell.
Cernd can't claim the druid grove, he's an NPC.
Cernd's armour class doesn't even come within a stone's throw of Jaheira's, and his HP is terrible.
Finally, Jaheira is about a hundred times as interesting as Cernd. She has innumerable side quests and a romance string, and you can actually understand what she's saying. I'll sacrifice those first level spells for someone who can fight and tank for me as well. A pureclass druid is very much a waste since they can only get to level fourteen, at which point they still have very few spells. If you can't see why Jaheira is one of the best NPCs available, you're simply not using her properly.
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