What about the rest of you? Totemic just seems like the better healing heroic.
Depends on content
First glance, totemic for raid. Farseer for m+, mostly for it’s dps bonus
I’m going Totemic for m+. Unleash life is ick for m+, and keeping the ancestors up seems like a GCD tax. Totemic seems like it will save you two hard-cast GCDs every 20 seconds versus builds currently in retail. Plus, there’s some utility in having a wider radius or shorter cd on certain totems.
Plus lots and lots of chain heals…
Im not a fan of using Everliving weapon, but at least it isn’t an additional keybind/GCD.
Just my 2c.
We tend to over-stack our healers for raid, so I’ll probably just be full Farseer. Honestly, I’m really hoping we see a full redesign. But I’m not holding my breath… maybe in a 0.5 patch.
I’m passing on Totemic. I don’t like losing control of where Healing Rain goes and the rest of the tree is just… meh… to me. Unless there’s significant changes before launch, Farseer is more my style.
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Totemic at first glance looks like what I would want to play more. I like the healing rain mechanic of the totem but we will have to see how reliable it is. I also like the bonuses to chain heal, totem radius, and earth living weapon.
Farseer I do like the bonuses to riptide but it requires an additional keybind in unleash life and even though I like that spell I’m always hurting for keybinds. Other than that it’s just kind of bland. The water bubbles are kind of cool too.
Yeah that’s my biggest concern with totemic. I kinda don’t like the idea of the totem trying to smart-cast where Rain is. We’ll have to see how smart it is with placement, and if it can consider things like Acid Rain when dropping the zone. I think it will also depend on how much movement is required in the new raid. Pre-placing rain into an optimal location for upcoming movement is kinda a minigame of its own right now. Think of fights like Volcaros, Smolderon, Tindrel and Fyrakk.
Or even if it does target your melee or tank, they are also not going to be centered on all the other mobs / allies so the rain circle will probably be half out of the pack where you would want it.
Hopefully it works smoothly but I can imagine it being frustrating.
Totemic definitely looked more interesting than I thought it would, so at this point I’m leaning heavily towards that over summoning ancestors.
Farseer seems pretty strong. And Hydrobubble looks legit.
I like the idea of Totemic more then Farseer. Farseer just seems like spamming riptides and using unleash life when it’s up. Totemic is more in line with how I want to play Shaman.
But I mostly PvP…and the way Surging Totem is right now, I don’t think it will be good for pvp. I hope they change it so the Surging totem has more hp and you also can control where the Rain goes. Having the Rain go to the wrong player is a major issue in PvP. I can also see this as a problem in PvE. Like in a Raid if you want to position it over meelee and it just goes over the Casters in the other direction. It hurts though because I love healing Rain.
So…I think Farseer is more geared for PvP and Totemic for PvE. What do you guys think?
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