I look at the totemic tree and i feel like it would have served elemental better and work with its ranged synergy better due to one of the talents having searing totem that spawns with lava lash which could have better served lava burst.
I mean I shouldn’t be surprised with how fast they had to slap our talents together late in the beta towards pre-patch. Surging totem could have dropped earthquakes like they drop healing rain.