Will the inc. Totemic buff make it worth? (Enh)

Classes Shaman
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Loving stormbringer but definitely intrigued by totemic, rekon these buffs will make it worth trying out?

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No idea but certainly gonna try.

This build has been working for me and theoretically should only get better with the buffs DAREBVRFEFRVFQUVBUUEDABAMVVVEVZVIFQlBBUEFVVUCAQ

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I played Totemic thru the Beta and I am Totemic now. It plays well, you just cannot waffle the opening. If you play it right, it does great damage. Also being melee, the shield the totem gives lets us take a little more damage. Our build asks for Vers, so I been using it and I feel more tanky for sure.

I have been using a Storm build modified slightly and it works well. With the buffs, I am not sure how it will go, is it searing in a whole, or just the volley part of it? Because if its the volley part, it may not be worth it. The totem rebound you get by using Stormstrike seems to work much better with a Storm build, so that is where I will lay my head.

If the entire seering is being buffed, that may work well with an Elementalist build and going full into fire. The way Totemic is designed, either rebound will be good, or reactivity will be good. both being good cannot happen with Totemic.

With the other buff’s and Totemic gaining back the 10% damage that was nerfed in Beta btw, I think it will be fine. Still wish they would make surging totem placement a choice node of target or smart target like Elemental’s earthquake.

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My testing over the last couple days has yielded rather definitive results. Stormbringer is the pick for when I know I need to deliver and perform. Buffs would be welcome to Totemic.

I’ve had some spicy plays with Totemic where I said to myself, “Hey wait, maybe I can tweak this build a bit and pull out some more numbers”. The results were not enough to convince me though.

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I feel like, without tiersets influencing it, rebound is the main focus, especially with the talent in there that makes using sundering trigger an empowered tremor.

Plus taking talents for stormstrike resets has been super fun lol, and yea stormbringer is ‘better’ (pre-Tuesday reset buffs/nerfs ocurring) but at least compared to simc sims its only like, a 13% difference. Thats within the tolerance tange for me to prio fun over function

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Sidebar: I just love when people paste a build code in chat and I skimmed the part of the post where they said they were going to.

so I here I am puzzled why they are suddenly speaking in gobbeldegook :joy:

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