i was told we were getting searing totem back, where the heck is it? i looked through my spellbook, i looked through my talents, i can’t find it.
They brought it back in the Beta, but then remembered why they removed it in the first place and got rid of it again.
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so they lied to me/us in the class changes note then. goddammit. warriors got shattering throw, and warlocks got curses, but shamans did’nt get their totem back.
searing was useless for anyone but enhance but we didnt get the lavalash buff with it so it was worthless for us too
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I mean, they did tell you it was being removed again.
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who cares if it was useless? enhancement has like, 2…3 totems right now, and the specialization tab STILL lists us as a totemic warrior.
oh… dangit, i did’nt see that… wait, THAT’s their reason to remove it?? it did’nt do anything new?? are they dumb? we all want our OLD abilities back, not some new version of it!
Do you guys have wind fury?
Is it real.
windfury
earthbind
healing stream
(optional) grounding
capacitator
windrush
(optional) counterstrike
searing ISNT the totem we’re missing
earthbind (root) IS
having an aoe root would give shamans so much more utility in m+ and survivability in pvp
stop saying we all
i and every shaman i know that do more than RP are glad searing isn’t back
we only want it if it serves to buff our lava lash
cant imagine why resto or ele would want it at all when the entire duration of searing would do significantly less than the global you can spend on a single shock
if you had’nt noticed, none of those totems do any damage. i miss having totems that would actually help me dps. something i could plunk-down, and it would just do a little damage as i smacked the heck out of foes with stormstrike.
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They removed it because players gave feedback “its just another cooldown to press and its annoying”, it added no real fun. They didn’t lie, ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING can be removed during alpha/beta until release. They never promised it would be added 100%, this is part of game development - having to remove content.
Here’s a quote from someone who explains it in one straight line:
It felt like **** to upkeep and it was doing very little damage, it didn’t mesh with the rotation in a meaningful way either.
Does wind fury work? Hasnt on beta last I checked but last I checked was forever ago because no one plays enhance.
you never had a totem that would help you do dps
searing was never worth the gobal for ele
searing historically did less damage in it’s full duration than a single lava burst
so by dropping it after pre-pull you were actually losing dps
enhance gained dps via 5stack searing lava lash buff
you could maybe get away with missing magma totem or the liquid magma totem
but saying searing is a dps totem is pretty unaware and tells me you don’t actually play shaman
yeah afaik it works fine as of a few weeks ago
i think there’s an animation when it procs
it’s a 20% chance atm tooltip says 10 but should update
i just wish our class would go back to how we were in MoP/early WoD, where i’d hit a foe with flame-shock, lava-lash it into the foes behind them, plunk down a magma totem (for groups of mobs) or a searing totem when going against a boss, and mash stormstrike like no tomorrow, before popping my wolves or elemental.
also, just cause i’m elemental right now does’nt mean it’s the only spec i play. i’m talking enhancement, not elemental.
well that’s just rude. i love playing my shaman, i just miss how we were. searing was the single-target equivalent of magma totem. it was for when you were attacking a boss, and did’nt wanna accidentally aggro trash-mobs onto you.
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again searing totem itself could have done no damage at all and it would have been the same
for enhance every searing hit gave you a stacking % damage buff on your next lavalash
which was then consumed then you lavalashed
us missing this is kind of a big deal
atm our lava lash is NOT worth pressing almost ever for the 3rd xpac in a row
searing WITH buff would have been good for us
but imo the better route would be to just add the searing flames stacking buff to flame shock ticks
searing just felt bad to press and had 0 impact outside of that buff
i think we can all agree that we miss this
searing isnt the move though
we just need a lavalash buff
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well… i still liked plunking it down during a boss fight. helped me do a tiny-bit more damage, and did’nt spam aoe any trash the group did’nt kill.
Well its not coming back simply because your in the 0.1% that likes useless skill, we already have too many skills as is now with the unpruning and we can’t afford to add minimal damage cooldowns thats forgettable thats also on GCD.
Rather than have it be a button to press, I’d have liked it if you’d pop one down when you lava lashed a target with flame shock on it. We get our totem back and we don’t sacrifice a button press to get it.
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I lol’d.
I want searing totem back too buddy. I was making some post about it, Very ridiculous that its gone. One of the only reasons I wanted to play shaman as always a none shaman player. It looked so interesting. And they took it away.
I totally agree with you bro. I am on your side a million percent. These players feedback is horrible and they usually give the worst suggestions. They do not know what fun is. Blizz should only listen to them on a couple issues. But searing totem is very fun. And I hope they bring it back.
Blizzard has no idea what it wants to do with totems.