I’m not even a sham player nor do I q with shamans
Every time an enemy shaman drops a grounding a lot of the time they are nearly insta sniped. I see this a lot in shuffle and sometimes in 3s when I play with random partners from LFG
I would consider myself good at killing totems and now at times I can’t even target them before they’re dead
naw i just have a weakaura that says “KILL GROUNDING TOTEM” in giant letters in the middle of my screen and plays a siren sound
People kill groundings? I just sent my combust into it and hope someone else targets it
Pretty positive you can’t insta kill a grounding totem until about 3 seconds unless you directly target it.
I do know there was a bug with Balance Druids though where whenever they would Incarn, and only when in Incarn, their Starsurges would insta kill the totem without even targeting it at all, which shouldn’t happen.
Some spells with secondary damage components do this
Priest catharsis being one where grounding eats the original spell then the catharsis damage procs on the grounding totem directly and kills it
I believe shaman primordial wave also kills it but I could be wrong
I’m not sure if something about incarn incurs a secondary damage source
O this might be it now that I think about when ive seen it
better blizz plates totem indicator kinda makes it trivial to kill grounding if you fiddle with the settings a bit
Seconded, this changed my life
No longer will they ground my… lightning strike? Can the thane lightning even be grounded?
idk. more worried about my healer’s hoj tee bee h
pff that’s why god gave them judge
Yes, but not to grounding. Incarn activates a mushroom on your target that ignores grounding, but doesn’t kill it so you still cant surge after.
I saw an edited plate that made the grounding totem nameplate literally the entire screen with opacity to see through. You’d only have to stop moving to get your cursor and hit whatever ranged instant ability on a mouseover macro.
That’s literally worse than original tbc pet and targeting macros.
They just need to make it fade 2.0 and be done with it
piggybacking off this Stormkeeper’s overload bolts will insta kill it similar to catharsis.
but i’m pretty sure the biggest perp is Focusing Iris, the gem embellishment procs will gib grounding too
Oh, does this eat it? I know it consumes spell reflect.
oh yeah that makes sense
i assume it functions like catharsis where grounding eats spell so gem that procced off spell now procs on the grounding instead of the player that didnt get hit by the original spell
Did you play with the og macros? It wasn’t an awareness thing you just baked totem stomping into your rotation on a petattack or a cheap quick ability like hamstring and it would automatically kill totems. This at the bare minimum requires intent to react to your WA.
I think letting shamans move and pick where totems drop was one of the better QoL changes to how the whackamole works.
Kinda wish there was still a true vertical map like old BEM tho so shaman could drop totems on the other axis and just have an advantage. Truely tilting to fight.
Unless there is a new map that has better verticality I haven’t seen yet.
I remember original tbc death knight. You just macro’ed the giant copypasta of totem stomping into all of your abilities and your ghoul insta killed them no matter what else you were doing.
Prepatch was a thing of beauty