I want my totems back

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I love playing my shaman, but quit, when best totems were removed. You see, I rerolled a dark iron shaman just for their amazing totems because my other shaman’s totems were meh. Why don’t I have 4 totems all the time? there are so many less useful talents I would trade for my cosmetic totems. The excuses I see around the chats for the lack of totems is angering. I wasted life rerolling a shaman, when I already had a max shaman, just for the TOTEMS. BRING THEM BACK. Lava totems for all specs?.. Possible ways:

-For instance, Totems that buff and are ephemeral and have range... and you can just 1 button click recast them if you are out of range and they dispawn with timer or range.

- Or My 4 elem (colors) totems set as soon as I enter combat.  And they activate when I hit the corresponding skill like fire nova, lava, heal, maybe chain lightening.  Making the Totems the spiritual power conduits they are supposed to be.. They are there but I activate them with skills.  These totems don't aggro and are not target-able, they are just set as I enter combat and act as cosmetic channels for my spiritual powers.  They reset/recast if I am in combat and leave range.  Not anymore complicated then what a mage does with their power arcane circle or a hunter/locks pets.

I see lots of ways totems can work, and you can let ppl opt in or out with talents or glyph, or whatever crazy BS will happen in Dragonflight. TOTEMS are shaman flavor and are integral to a shaman’s class lore. please, BRING THEM BACK.

-If you are a hardcore player or shill, your money/time isn’t more valuable than mine, so find a new thread. But If you want totems back upvote. Constant Totems are a Wow Shaman’s soul. Without them, we are like a mage without fire ball/frost bolt, warriora without whirlwind, Priest without bubbles, Hunter without a pet, and a lock without a demon.

  • I don’t care if this has been said before. It needs repeating. My creds for you lurkers:
    -played beta through all xpacs
    -raided BC/WotLK/Cata as shaman/druid/DK most specs. (raiding affected kids so stopped)
    -I love all classes and all races but will only play undead when they are full skeletons and not before.
    -give me a bard
    -give me an engineer/tinker class, grenades bombs turrets etc…
    -I have like 30 ish characters over 4 servers, I plan to delete about 4 and start some fresh allies once blizz fixes their stuff (you know what I mean, we all know what I mean).
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Have fun dropping totems every trash pull.

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Was kind of hard to balance in PvP but I do remember those good ole days

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I did have fun dropping them and recalling them for what like 18 years… Imma be ok. Read my suggestions. Can’t the totems drop on [entering combat] like a buff. Not sure why it has to be complicated. Also, the totems can setup as you click your first skill which is usually one of the shocks.

TOTEMS ARE FUN. Why don’t you like fun?

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Was kind of hard to balance in PvP but I do remember those good ole days

Yup, and remember I advocate for allowing ppl to opt out or in. Glyphs and Talents trees work ppl. I know I have seen both.

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If it’s done for you automatically then where is the engagement? You aren’t making an active choice to do that, which goes against why you ever put totems down in the first place.

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Played Elemental in Legion/BFA, and totem mastery was just an annoying maintenance buff that you could out-range.

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I actually would LOVE it if we could customize how our totems work.

I hate the totems which Goblins use, and instead want to use the ones the Quilboar use.

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Do I do that in classic? Nope. Honestly totems in vanilla are just as situational as totems in SL.

Windfury for melee, wrath of air for casters, or grace for hunters.

Str of earth for melee, stoneskin for anyone else.

Thats it bros

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Totems are great. You never needed to plop 4 totems at once every pull. Thats extreme hyperbole.

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There was an expansion where you did, and after that expansion there was a glyph that let you cast all 4 totems at once even if you were just using one.

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That was wrath. Even then u didnt have to. The totem bar was added for raid groups that had shamans in them. It wasnt a glyph. It was an extra actionbar.

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No, there was a glyph that let you do that.

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Bro it wasnt a glyph. You had 3 spells called Call of the Elements, call of the ancestors, and call of wisdom. Using those spells would instantly summon 4 at once. You could change what Call button would summon from the arrow selector.

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I don’t miss Searing Totem at all.

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Yeah, fire nova totem was better.

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While I miss dropping totems, micromanaging them got to be a bit much.

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Vanilla totems best totems

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I distinctly remember having to waste 4 GCDs every pull to plop down new totems while leveling my shaman during Wrath.

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liquid magma totem bring it back blizz make my shaman great again.

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