Noob question about totems while questing

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I’m leveling as Enhancement. Am I wasting GCDs and mana by dropping totems while I’m solo questing? I can see if I was in a group and 3 or 4 people could benefit from a totem but with just me I wonder if my mana would be better spent on shocks, imbue refreshes and healing up between pulls…

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I’m sure a pro will respond at some point, but while I’m on my own, the only totems I drop are the fire totems that also attack with me, or the totems that distract enemies in the event I pull too many. I haven’t earned any others but the earth/fire totems yet, but once I do get water, I will definitely be using the totem that helps with mana regen.

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I have been dropping Searing Totem too but it has pulled an extra mob a few times and gotten me killed. If I think it’s going to be a tough pull I’ll drop Stoneskin and Healing Stream too. Just wondering if totem dropping should be the exception or the rule when solo questing.

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Totems are your tools, man. Use 'em. Searing totem is kind of hit and miss, though. The main problem is that you can’t banish it immediately like you can in later patches, so there is always the risk that it will cause more trouble for you. Gotta be extra aware of your surroundings before setting it down.

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Play it smart.

You want to plan your pulls in correlation to totem placement.

Pull towards your totems instead of dropping them at an enemies feet.

Definitely use them but try to get the full duration out of them as well.

Strength of Earth for example stays for a minute or two so you shouldn’t be putting a new one down every 20 seconds.

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If I’m doing a gathering type quest like say Harpy rings in barrens, then I’ll drop a strength totem and lightning pull from the buff radius. Other than that I never* use totems except for dungeons.

*If a pull goes sideways might need to drop some totems, but generally don’t use them in the world.

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Two things that have really helped my mana management are:

  1. Having a Rank 1 Earth Shock on my bar for when I just need to interrupt and don’t need the dmg (or threat in a dungeon scenario)

  2. Having Rank 1 Flame Shock on my bar for when I just need to pull a mob back and don’t need the full damage of max rank

As far as totems go though, Searing Totem and sometimes the taunt one are all I need. Hope this helps!

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I do love Earth Shock for dealing with those casters that just refuse to get up close to my mace, lol.