One thing I’ve noticed since I’ve been back playing my Shaman. If you think about it, aside from the Fire Magma Totem Talent, it seems like the Fire Totem is completely missing in action in Shadowlands. You barely ever see it now compared to all the other totems. It seems such a shame as aside from that one talent it doesn’t seem to get any real use. Especially if you play a Goblin shaman as that totem is really cool looking.
Earth totem you see often with Earthbind. Wind you see with either Capacitor totem or Windfury Totem. Water you see with Healing Stream totem or any of the Resto totems.
Fire on the other hand?.. yeah…
Just seems odd that Blizzard decided to go that route with the Fire totem. I remember during Shadowlands annoucements they were bringing back the old Fire Totem that shoots out a fireball. Guess they removed it.
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Yea sad… I forgot all about it till you just mentioned it… Yea would think they would have at least left it in Elemental spec. Having something to keep doing dmg while you hide behind a pillar (shriekwing) would have been useful. Even if it only lasted 8 to 10 seconds and had a 1 min CD would have still been great…
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Yeah it seems so odd to me that they threw that totem out into the dumpster fire (phun intended). Only real time you ever see it now is if someone picks up Magma Totem talent. They could have at least given us a spell like you mentioned for Elemental Spec.
It only really occurred to me today so I figured I’d post it here. Wondering if anyone else noticed as well.
They were going to bring searing totem back for SL and thankfully they scrapped the idea.
A maintenance dmg totem is hard to make work in what the game has evolved into.
You get to a point where it falls into 1 of 2 extremes as seen with totem mastery in BfA:
1: It is such a significant portion of your dmg that it is mandatory. This creates issues in PVP/Arena where it is constantly stomped (Ask any enhance over 2k). Shutting down any dmg you do.
- It is so insignificant that most don’t even use it or have it on their bars (see magma totem or TM at the end of BfA).
The only place searing totem was useful was in pvp when guarding nodes/flags. And you can easily spec into ER(I often do) and it does an amazing job stopping flag cappers and it keeps rogues in combat.
Thankfully you can still play Classic and soon TBC where fire totems were actually useful because the gameplay was at such a slower pace.
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Still it’s a shame that the fire totem has virtually no use outside of that one talent. Wish they would use it for something usable at least as part of the kit. Kind of sucks that I barely ever see that totem.
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ER should be baked into the class baseline to take the place of searing totem
Or Searing Totem should return as a high dps high cooldown ability.
3 min cd - machine gun chunks for 10 seconds
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That doesn’t seem like a bad idea. Like I said it’s just odd that it’s a totem that feels left out. Heh on my goblin I miss seeing that one. Oh well, I suppose the only real way is with magma totem for the moment and only on elemental.
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