If your opponents have add-ons, they know when you’ve dropped your grounding totem. Can’t they simply cancel and cast again in 2-3 seconds?
Most people will spend the time finding and killing it. Still buys you time to get away. Nothing more tilting than a shaman dropping grounding at the end of a mind games cast. It’s presence alone makes people fake cast it out on top of your shears.
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It’s an extra layer of protection, and if well used, in many cases it won’t give time to the enemy caster to stop the cast due to ping and spell queue, so it’ll just absorb a major spell like mindgames or a chaos bolt. Also good to ground instant cc such as paladin’s stun which can be predicted and grounded, etc. It’s one of the best abilities in the game and it has a playmaking aspect which makes it awesome 
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It’s this good (I’m holding my hands apart pretty wide).
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I forgot that also, when placed correctly (outside of enemies line of sight) it can work as a sort of short 3 second aura mastery vs magic kicks (all casters, dks and dhs have magical kicks) which isn’t used much since it’s hard to pull off (grounding dies from a single attack so gotta place it somewhere they cant attack it instantly to kick you mid cast) but it’s still a really nice mechanic when you’re kinda desperate and need to get 1 or 2 heals off quickly but the enemies have their kicks up.
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Yup it’s Rly good to cover a kick vs dk. Or against do you can track grip/stun and whenever grip and stun are available just press it the moment they step towards you.
Grounding is pretty huge
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if used correctly its incredibly powerful
you can ground a large part of combustion
hammer of justice
sheep
hunter trap
cyclone
asphyxiate/grip/strangulate
all shadow priest targeted cc
all magic kicks
and ton of other stuff not on this list
ITS PRETTY GOOD
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Grounding totem is insane and proper use sets good shamans apart
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It holds it’s ground.
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does a good job at stopping combust but mediocre at everything else cause people just stop casting
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Give holy paladin grounding totem
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Oh swole wait till you hear about holding grounding you’ll be r1
some peeps have a script that will auto-cancel any cast once your throw it down
some peeps have macro/scripts that will auto-target it and destroy it almost instantly if they are in range, kinda like when peeps use a script against your trinket and your trinket feels like a self stun trinket rather than an escape - because the scripts can see and respond to it before you can even see it on screen
but like most others said, I see it mostly used as a 2-3 second cover for something important (survival or burst) regardless of what they do to counter/avoid it
sadly some peeps use a script to cast grounding totem to immediately counter stuff that really could only be guessed in ordinary play (scripts are automation cheats on a smaller basis than the old full bot automation)
Mindgames/void torrent grounded is almost as irritating as DH existing in 2s.
this doesnt work anymore
i dont think ive ever seen this
also 90% sure you cant do this
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I wish that were true Kamron, I really do
also sure you spent about zero seconds even trying to look this stuff up on google
I bait the cast and kill ground/tremor/earthbind all the time. Totems kinda suck
You’re talking about using in-game scripts, where what you say is true. The other person is talking about using external programs (cheats), where it’s certainly still possible to write a program to insta-kill grounding.
Since Bfa I’ve only seen one person I suspected of cheating though. It’s one of the few aspects of arena that’s noticeably better now than pre-Legion.
Would you rather a grounding or a ranged rebuke on short cd
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I’ve played an absurd amount of arenas at all mmr ranges and have not seen anyone cheating like this since wod/early legion
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