Anytime i mention Shaman healing outside of the forums, people tell me that shaman healing feels outmoded. A few have said totems just dont work in 2025 like they did in 2005.
Im wondering how current shamans come down on this. Do totems feel outdated/old tech to you?
If so, how would you chnage things?
The totems are my favorite part, don’t you dare remove them.
With that said, I do wish for SOME changes. In particular, make Totemic Projection instant cast with no CD but give it a mana cost akin to Purge.
I dont dislike them, i think their utility is my favorite part of being an rShaman. But i keep hearing the same things about them being too limited.
I will say, whenever some dumb environmental factor trips the placement, and my totem ends up in the rafters, then im pissed.
How about an option like a talent to make totems follow you? They could have fun unique animations per race like goblins with little wheels and engines or whatever.
R shaman is regarded as one of the easiest healers so I don’t think it’s a problem.
The totems are one of my favorite parts.
When things get hairy I drop healing stream. If they get worse I drop two. If they go to hell I drop healing tide. And if THAT is not cutting it I pop ascendence.
I understand the shaman kit and I love it. I love that the totems work for me like a little stationary pet while I can do other things.
Maybe in pve but not PvP. So many different keybinds are necessary.
True haha. I don’t really do r sham in PvP.
I don’t like pvp healing much … I like having control of my character 
Ok, I was like “yeah? Feels like a lot to manage.”
For the record, I’d see this a lot in DF. You’d see Shaman as the #1 healer above 2100 - maybe it was 2400, I don’t remember - and then in the low brackets you’d get your head kicked in.
And I’m fairly certain it’s Comms. Because if you can say “get in my mfing totem” people survive and win. While my pug DPS in Shuffle think SLT is fire and run STRAIGHT out!
No. If anything they need to bring back more totems. There’s nothing OuTdAtEd about class uniqueness in things like totems. There’s already too much homogeneity in the game. Bring more diversity been classes.
There are only three totems that are part of healing “rotation”
Surging totem (totemic ability)
Healing stream. And cloudburst. Which takes the place of healing stream.
Surging totem is the only one with a “get in my totem circle” aspect.
Healing stream is just a hot. Cloud burst effects your rotation and planning, (to me) in a positive way.
When someone says “totems are outdated for resto shaman for healing” I would have to genuinely ask what they are talking about.
The other healing based totems are cool downs with obvious reasoning for their range.
Is it possible to macro a ping on your totem
When you drop it? That’d be useful.
Edit: apparently you can
Particularly …
#showtooltip Earthen Wall Totem
/use Earthen Wall Totem
/cleartarget
/target Earthen Wall Totem
/ping [@target] Ping
/targetlasttarget
I use SLT and Earthen Wall (or whatever its called) for pvp a lot
Sure. but thats not a part of the regular rotation. a cooldown.
and the ways those work, the totem range definitely makes sense. Earthen Wall could 100% use better visuals
I just dont see those methods as being “out dated”. And even if they were, they are such a small aspect of your total buttons being pressed it wouldnt make the entire spec “out dated”.
Yeah for sure … maybe make it a “sharper” looking ring, and a brighter brown.
Right to be clear, im not making that argument. People say it to me with almost pity. So i thought id ask here.
Weirdos if you ask me.
I havent come across that opinion in my neck of the woods.
Would be nice for HST to feel good to use on fs instead of feeling compelled to change up rotation in order to use CBT.
I’m just glad it’s not like in classic where you could only ever have one totem of each element; in PvP as a resto using totemic recall I can get like 4-5 healing stream totems out at the same time. Wouldn’t be possible the old way.
It does suck when people move out of them, but I only PvP so I just use totems like earthen wall and spirit link as personal defensives vs trying to herd cats to stay in them.
I will freak tf out if they remove totems.
I think most people would. They won’t.