For argument's sake, let's take my party - me, Korgan, Jaheira, Viconia, Edwin and Jan. We can ignore Jan and Edwin, since they don't require any stat-boost items to be good at what they do. Now I'll give Jaheira the girdle of hill giant strength and myself the girdle of frost giant strength later on in the game. Korgan can have the gauntlets of ogre power. Jaheira is now sitting in the front line with her fantastic armour class and iron skins doing 15-20 damage per swing and missing once in a blue moon. Korgan's either clobbering people from long range or beating them into pulp at close range; he's excellent at both, and does great damage either way. I'm doing my fighter/mage thing.
I don't make the Crom Faeyr. It's the best weapon in the game, but nobody in my party has a use for it when we'd be just as well off with two extra strength boosting items.
Even as a greater werewolf, Cernd barely ever hits. I know, I've been there.
You're still only seeing Jaheira as a druid, while I look at her as one of my fighters. Like I said, you're not using her properly.
As for her personality - everyone complains about this. I still don't see why. She doesn't whine, she didn't annoy me, and she's the only character in the game who actually laughs at the protagonist's jokes.
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