I’ve just starting working on my shaman and noticed Blizz brought back some unique buff totems for shamans.
Enhance has windfury totem for the melee.
Resto has mana tide totem for the healers.
Elemental has…? Seems like they should have a caster based group buff?
Just odd.
Sky fury totem
yes. I hate raid buffs but if we are going to keep PI, night fae, windfury, monk/DH debuff in the game we might as well add one for Ele since the other two shaman specs have spec specific totems.
bring back wrath of air totem. bring back spell power totem.
To be fair, I’d rather not have one, Windfury is annoying enough as it is… PvP always wasting a GCD on it, people rarely stand in the area…, it’s quite annoying. PvE replace it in most trash pulls in m+ or of it runs out in Raids.
You really want to use another GCD for a totem?, rather doing more dps?.
Personally I think this is why Enhance isn’t too high when it comes to m+ and Raiding on the charts, while not solely the problem but a contributor.
I wish Windfury was more a use and forget spell for x amount of time and just have a buff for the duration given, currently it’s 2 min, if Ele was similar to this then ok.
Example place Windfury Totem once every 2 min, refreshing the buff when needed. Not restricted to range. 30 yards isn’t a lot.
Like don’t get me wrong, I love the class fantasy of it, but the design to me is a little flawed.
I would want it to be a little different than just spell damage since that is basically arcane intellect.
Since elemental gets a critical damage bonus I would go there.
Either the big 20% like the PvP talent as a burst cooldown or just maybe 5% as a buff totem up all the time.
Spell damage critical strikes only.
im fine w/ a passive 5% spell crit buff.
im also fine w/ just a copy of AI cuz idk about anyone else, but it SUCKS being in a raid group w/o it. same with battle shout from warriors. my does not have a reliable warrior and i hear nothing but “can we pug a warrior this week” and before we got a reliable mage it was “can we pug a mage” ? just -_-
Not a buff totem but IMO Liquid Magma Totem should be baseline for Ele as the totem we drop during combat. Give it a bit of a buff maybe, move SK to where LMT is on the talent tree and give us something @ 50 that actually feels like a capstone talent and not something we should get while leveling.
Yeah man we should have something for casting totem right? Even mana totem wouldn’t be bad to take as ele.
Additionally I would like a totem sack or a belt that we stick our totems onto and it buffs the area around us and we can still look at the totems.
I still wish they would create an overload totem for elemental. If enhance can give other melee a 2nd attack, Elemental should be able to give other dps casters a 2nd spell.
Have it be on a 3 minute cooldown, and guarantee the next spell that deals dmg to overload for the entire party/raid.