Ya know the ones we used to have up all the time.
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I do too, I miss how we could place all 4 down with one button…or atleast I remember that being a thing
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I do not. I sort of hate windfury totem right now. Basically the same thing.
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I don’t. I will never miss trying to figure out which totems to have up, depending on what other buffs we had in group.
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Those days are gone from the DPS specs (as far as that many at a time) but resto PvP will have you smashing totems down a lot, you might like the playstyle
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I love Shaman identity but that was a bad time for Shaman.
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I miss disarming traps, unlocking doors and looted locked boxes…
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You want them to come back as cosmetic or functional?
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I’ve never managed to master the art of placing items on the ground, whether totems or traps.
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If I could spam this with likes so some power-that-be might see it, I would. I miss everything about what made playing Shaman, especially in pvp, so much fun; being able to drop whatever totem you needed in the moment. But heck I’d even take just having the 4 back at this point. Shaman just feels like “mage lite” or “warrior lite” now days. There doesn’t feel like it has any real identity the way it used to.
( the opinion in this post is solely that of the writer and doesn’t reflect anyone else’s so nyeh! )
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its not even about the utility of it, at least we used to have a glyph where it make a totem circle for the CLASS FLAVOR. i want that back.
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Dropping 4 at once made each totem feel cheap
You use Windfury? I make it a vendetta to not use that totem. The melee group that is never nearby it anyways can do without.
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Um. Earth, Wind and Fire is all you need. 
I would actually prefer going back further when we had a much wider selection, not the four that dropped together. True, some were used very rarely due to timing things and actual need in various situations. There was an addon (totemaster?) that let customize multiple combinations of 4 totems to drop at once that came in handy. I used to love enhancement until the end of MoP when we lost nearly every totem. She’s been collecting dust since.
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They did minimally nothing of use.
It’s like a raid st talent. Used in St builds. It’s easy value but its not really fun imo. Just press one button every time you move away from it. Make a raid group just for melee users etc. Just not a fun way to implement totems, a weak buff that only affects 5 people out of 25. A buff you have to waste a talent for a gcd… its just overall not appealing.
Wonder how mages would feel having to waste a talent point on arcane brilliance and have to use it every 2 minutes.
Why are you even interested in shaman if you hate its formerly defining thematic and mechanic? I’m genuinely curious. I have no idea why anyone would be attracted to the modern shaman after it was gutted of everything that made it unique.
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Totems did not make shaman unique. The elemental magic and summoning elemantals and using elemental based magic was the draw.
The managing of buffs of totems was very not fun in gameplay. It looks nice yea but it gets tiring. Especially on movement heavy fights… the amount of just pressing a button to buff up and then continue your rotation… was just annoying.
Its like playing a warrior and having to constantly shout at your allies for them to do more damage, or imagine having to press fortitude every 2 minutes instead of pew pewing.
The totems are nice when they are big cooldowns like that nature raid cooldown was nice. Or the healing totems. Buff totems just suck because they are the worst kinds of buff, low impact, they die to anything, mob damage, have to constantly be recasted every time you move 10 feet and they don’t work in underwater fights.
I say this because I love shaman. Totems suck, and have played it since when I started in wotlk.
Enhancement feels so much better now for example without being dependent on magma totem. Fire nova feels so much better now then it did before. Or when totems got aggro. Shaman feels better to play now. Totems are like weak pets that are dispellable by anyone that can damage (that’s anyone).
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