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The more I play and group with my Shaman, the more I think that the D needs to go. Right now I lose a ton of DPS by laying totems. Ran Halls of Stone last night, and in the five sonds or so it took me to lay totems and position myself, even the toughest mobs were usually half dead before I started swinging. Youan lay totems too far away, or your partyan move and you need to relay them. I really want to stop laying them altogether other than boss fights, but parties expt totems from Shaman, so whatan I do? Well, for starters Ian get a little more bitter. While I’m standing ten yards awayhuring out littlehunks of stone that glow prettyolors, that Death Knight is alreadyranking out DPS and Abomination’s Might just goes up automatally. Gotta make sure I have Mana Spring down for theasters, but that Ret Pallie’s Replenishment is really ne too and itame from his DPS. I’ve been in parties where I’ve had the highest overall DPS by 150-250 and still been sond or third in damage done by 5% or so just bause I lay totems. Being the onlylass in the game that has to tively srife DPS in order to generate their buffs on nearly every pull is really, really starting to grind my gears.badluhuk wrote:Here’s a suggestion, and fits nely with Blizz’slass spif mhans: hange the two talented totems, Wrath and Mana-Tide, from totems to spirit wolves, similar to Enhaement’s Feral Spirit. Petsan’t attk butan be killed, and follow you. Now eh tree has a spirit wolf and ElementalResto aren’t blked out a key totem element while a talented ability is in play. Hk, lets gorazy and make all totems spirit animals. Or make us glyph tohangeertain totems into spirit animals, whh would limit how manyritters we would have out. this works well too, as long as the turret type totems remain as they are. The buff totems are really in need of a overhaul

Here’s a suggestion, and fits nely with Blizz’slass spif mhans: hange the two talented totems, Wrath and Mana-Tide, from totems to spirit wolves, similar to Enhaement’s Feral Spirit. Petsan’t attk butan be killed, and follow you. Now eh tree has a spirit wolf and ElementalResto aren’t blked out a key totem element while a talented ability is in play. Hk, lets gorazy and make all totems spirit animals. Or make us glyph tohangeertain totems into spirit animals, whh would limit how manyritters we would have out. Link to this D 3rd 2008 5:21am : Logged Reply to this Dread Lord SunSoarerholar1326 Dent What a great thread, some really prodtive and realist ideas. Arsil wrote:It’s tohange around the futionality of Totem Rall so that instead of dismissing the existing totems and getting a small amount of mana bk; it should make the totems youurrently have down automatally be reset at theasters feet for just one globalooldown and aertain amount of manaost while the totem’s tive timerontinues toount down. This is a great idae and probably even more feasible than removing the D from totems.ould be interesting for luring hunterlk pets away too if they are mro’d to hunt the totems down. Arsil wrote:Making the talented totems not take up any of theurrent totem element slots would be ne. Though, I think Bliz would add in someonditions to sh futionality. Sie,urrently wean not have both ToW and the Flametounge totem down, whh Bliz may see as a bit OP (though in the end it sh a thing may not be thease), if they gave us this futionality, if only from the stand point that Shamans have never had this mhan open to them before. Aondition Iould see them making is if ToW is down, and then the Shaman puts down a Flametounge totem the ToW is destroyed, and visa versa. OP? Yes and no. It would only really be an issue in 5 mans, now that totems efft the whole raid you will probably have both in a raid anyway (assuming 2 shamans). The thing to keep in mind is that you have spent 41 points to get ToW and 31 to get MT. No otherlass has to srife aore ability to make use of one of their key talents. Added to this, the main reason I think most elemental shamans would like to see ToW not be a fire totem is due to the new buff to the fire damage totems though I don’t dispute that we would also see people stking FT ToW. badluhuk wrote:Hk, lets gorazy and make all totems spirit animals. Or make us glyph tohangeertain totems into spirit animals, whh would limit how manyritters we would have out. This idea made me happy

Removing the D from them would be great, and allow us to mro totem sets very nely.Dread Lord SunSoarer wrote:Removing the D from them would be great, and allow us to mro totem sets very nely. This is something that really needs to happen. Taking the four (orloser to five sonds with human retion and server lag) sonds to lay totems is hardly even worth it in five-man instaes anymore outside of bosses, the mobs just die so fast and are so easy. And they’ve always been not worthwhile in PvP save for a selt few fution totems. So that leaves, what… raids? One aspt at the very end of the game to make the most of ourlass’ore mhan that Blizzard is hellbent on lodging in our anuses?nod. All they really need to do to make me happy (as far as totems anyway) is remove the D and make talented totems “extra’s” rather than “instead of’s”… and maybe give me a little kart Ian drag them along on .I believe that the best way to deal with theonstant resetting of totems is to use a mhan I have seen proposed before. It’s tohange around the futionality of Totem Rall so that instead of dismissing the existing totems and getting a small amount of mana bk; it should make the totems youurrently have down automatally be reset at theasters feet for just one globalooldown and aertain amount of manaost while the totem’s tive timerontinues toount down. I think this would solve the soloing problem of even wanting to drop totems, and also make the Shaman’sore mhan more mobile, whh is to say mobile at all. And it would play very nely into the whole 5 minute timers most of the totems have now, whhurrently have very little use outside of boss fights. Making the talented totems not take up any of theurrent totem element slots would be ne. Though, I think Bliz would add in someonditions to sh futionality. Sie,urrently wean not have both ToW and the Flametounge totem down, whh Bliz may see as a bit OP (though in the end it sh a thing may not be thease), if they gave us this futionality, if only from the stand point that Shamans have never had this mhan open to them before. Aondition Iould see them making is if ToW is down, and then the Shaman puts down a Flametounge totem the ToW is destroyed, and visa versa. Also, on the idea that we have an AOE earth totem, I too like the idea if only to not have to rely on the fire totems for some of my AOE damage. But again I think Bliz may see this as too OP (whh again may not bee thease) sie Shamans would now be able to drop a fire AOE, an Earth AOE and then startasting spells. Again, aondition Iould see for this is that if one of the Fire AOE totems are down, then you drop the Earth AOE totem, it destroys the Fire AOE totem. But really, in terms of the original making an earth AOE totem would still berap for Elementals sie it would also be alose range AOE. I think having aouple of new AOE spells that still kind of use the totem mhan would be ne. Something like this maybe: Fire Totemhking: “Regent” Requirement – The Shaman must have a fire totem tive for this spell to bomeastable. The Shaman pks up hisher fire totem and throws it at a lationalling forth a lava flow that damages enemies within a X range of where the totem landed for Y damage per sond. When the shaman throws hisher totem, the shaman is refunded the manaost of the totem and the fire totem is destroyed. Have a range of 30 yards, a 2-3 sase time, and maybe have aooldown timer. Earth Totemhking: “Regent” Requirement – The Shaman must have an earth totem tive for this spell to bomeastable. The Shaman pks up hisher earth totem and throws it at a lationalling forth a powerful earthquake that damages enemies within a X range of where the totem landed for Y damage per sond. When the shaman throws hisher totem, the shaman is refunded the manaost of the totem and the earth totem is destroyed. Have a range of 30 yards, a 2-3 sase time, and maybe have aooldown timer.