I wanted to test the waters and see what everyone else’s thoughts were.
I kinda… really don’t like the appearance of Surging Totem. I play a Tauren so I’m unaware if it looks different for other races, but for me it’s a bird about twice again as big as the regular totems. I’ve been Tauren since I’ve started playing the game, and I chose Shaman since I started playing because I love totems. Now to introduce a thing I really enjoy, a totem spec, but have it not utilize the racial totems that I CHOSE really grinds my gears. I’m really big into transmog, and having a bird with flaming eyes that doesn’t match the rest of my racial totems rubs me the wrong way. Previously totems were very agnostic on themes, besides the elemental lighting based on what type of totem it was. But now an animal totem… It feels off. Maybe I’m being way too nitpicky, but I either want all my totems to be an animal motif now, or none of them. Really impressive visuals by themselves, but I hate the mismatch with the rest of my kit. I’ll be rocking a phoenix mog until it changes or there’s glyphs I guess.
I dont see a problem. Tauren totems always had wings on them, which is a bird feature, so did you force yourself to wear wings? What did you do before they put wings in? Not to mention all the Totem weapons Tauren use have bird heads. It’s a pretty common racial motif for Tauren,especially in the totems and totem poles.
I think it’s a great totem, personally, and I wish we could change our outdated totems on Tauren and dwarves out for something like this.
Tauren is like one of the only races that the current surging totem fits with.
The totem looks completely out of place on most races like trolls, dark irons, kul tiran, and even orcs.
Yeah … it feels a bit out of place … I wish they’d update the old totems and then allow a glyph to style it like a bigger version of your racial totem.
But I mean first things first … let’s fix the ascendence model …
For draeni it looks the same, big wooden bird. Interestingly, the searing totem that can proc has the draeni totem appearance
Yes — fix the ascendence visual. It’s way outdated.