I really hope it let use choose 1 totem and gain a passive buff related to our choice.
Let say I pic Healing stream totem. Let say my single target heal are stronger.
Healing tide would be a small healing aura similar to Hpal.
Spirit link could be similar to Ancestral guidance. Split your heal into 3 targets.
Earthen would add or turn 1 spell into a full shield.
I think it could add a nice thing to the class. Also not all buff would be good for all situation so it give people choice when to buff and which buff they want.
Cause I know they kinda said they added 1 imbue on weapon for Enhance. But they said 1 on shield for Resto. Not a huge fan of it cause I hate shield but thats me. I hope they let us have 2 imbue if we wear a 2hand weapon
I’m the opposite boat, from what’s datamined it seems Totemic plays insanely into the Enhance Elementalist Build, with Lava Lash and Fire Nova. So Enhance will be getting extra benefits going through it’s rotation, lava lash spamming through Hot hands and ashen catalyst spawning searing totems, reduced cooldown of Fire nova, looks solid for Elementalist Enhance.
Just like how Farseer plays into the Elemental Lava Burst build, the current gameplay now.
I completely understand but nothing in our class and spec tree has been adjusted yet, nor has Farseer been changed yet unlike other Hero Specs.
A lot is still up in the air, and honestly hard to judge as we not sure how things would be in TWW but basing it off now.
That’s what I’m saying we don’t know… we don’t know anything just what’s been datamined and not even in the alpha as of yet, so it’s hard to gauge anything, I’m more praying it doesn’t just add extra buttons but we will come to that bridge when it’s in Alpha.
Trust me the feeling is mutual, seeing what was datamined didn’t go down to well for me, but I know some people might love it.
But honestly what should happen is bloody release both trees already so we can start actually testing and putting forward solid feedback!, every day that goes by is another day we lose to giving feedback to help better shape Shamans in TWW.
The thing is, this is actually bad for Elementalist, because it forces us to run Fire Nova over Hailstorm for a significant loss of ST damage. Combine that with the need to free up a point from somewhere for Windfury Totem even in M+, and there’s a good chance we’re dropping Ice Strike, too, since we’re losing Hailstorm anyway.
This means Frost is all but entirely leaving our damage profile save for a buffless Frost Shock, which means our damage becomes much swingier as every Frost elemental spirit we summon becomes useless aside from Elemental Blast, and far more of our power is concentrated in Fire wolves.
And with the loss of ~25 second Primordial Waves from S3/4 tier, the early expac hiccups in MSW generation from low gear levels and consequently low Haste levels, and losing the guaranteed MSW generation from not running Ice Strike, we’re looking at Feral Spirit casts being much farther between than currently, which makes those swings based on which elements we pull even more impactful.
Totemic from what little there is to the datamined talents is shaping up to make Elementalist worse while supposedly being the hero path dedicated to supporting it.
Like I mentioned we are setting our current expectations on how Shaman is now, we have zero idea what’s happening to class/spec trees moving forward into the TWW.
It’s clear they will be getting adjustments, literally classes are getting changed throughout Alpha, Paladin, Druid, Mage, Monk, Warlock and they’ve already announced DKs aswell.
It’s not unrealistic/unreasonable to think Shamans or every class would be seeing the same treatment. I think it’s too soon to make assumptions on how things will work or change when simply we literally have zero idea.
Heck the only blue post we have received was them basically saying “Stormbringer and Totemic will be coming in the next few weeks”.
I think once everything hits Alpha we will have a better understanding of how things will work and play out, it’s just to hard to make decisions and assumptions thinking everything will be the same as of now.
All I mentioned is from the Datamined data it looks to have synergy with the current Elementalist Build, but it’s not even in Alpha so literally everything could change in a moments notice. So that’s why I been saying it’s best to wait and see then when it’s on alpha we can give solid feedback in hoping for changes. Hopefully it comes in the next week that way we all can get a better understanding of the direction these Hero Trees are pushing for.