Hey, can we have Totem Mastery back please?
Or at the very least, a cosmetic version?
Totems are the iconic feature of shamans! I know there are people who don’t like the old style of the buff totems, where you have to keep refreshing them and stay in range.
This could be solved with a cosmetic version or a “choose one” talent in the new Dragonflight talent trees, so people who like maintaining totems can choose to.
This could easily be a glyph for whenever you enter combat 4 cosmetic totems pulse elemental energy. I really wish blizz would just dedicate an entire patch to just a TON of glyphs for each class rather than a throwaway system like shards of domination. I wanna see all my lava abilties replaced by water to play a tidesage shaman, or dark shaman abilties.
I hope they remove most of the totems that exist. Totems are terrible gameplay design.
that is apart of the class fantasy.
If you don’t like totems then play another class, let those of us that like totems play the class how they were first introduced into the game, in Legion you weren’t forced to take Totem Mastery, those of us who like the talent took it and had no problems using it or refreshing it everytime we would start a fight.
People who complained about it killed the core fantasy of the shaman, to use totems as a support class.
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ﾟ . . , . .Totems IMO need to be more unique than just “provide a buff for all in a 40 yd radius”. I like totems like stormlash totem, static field totem, and capacitor totem. If totems remain as a staple of shaman class design they need to be impactful cooldowns that require strategic placement rather than refresh buff after 1 min.
The current implementation of totems is awful. Regardless of how you feel about “class fantasy”. It is bad.
If totems followed you or were put on your back (for the buff ones), that would be fine. Totems that get put down and actively help in the AoE like a Cap Totem or an Earthbind Totem, those are fine. But a lot of the totems in the game that they add or have had in the past are terrible. Thank Jebus they removed Searing Totem.
Also, “support class”? There’s no such thing in WoW. Literally, there is no such thing as a support class. We occasionally provide buffs that will help, but the “support class” that may have existed in Vanilla or exists in other MMORPGs does not exist in WoW. I also do not want to see us go to that simply because the way the game is built does not really give support any reason to exist.
I miss searing totem so much. just an off the gcd DoT that would work on its own. I liked the interaction w/ enh buffing your lava lash at 5stacks. felt so good.
The fantasy is that totems were a good mechanic.
Yo. Ur mog rocks. Making me wanna play a pandaren shaman. ! 
Thanks Boss! Ive always loved the shaman fantasy and transmog options that come with it.