5 Shaman

[SoulSeekerUSA]

Ok, I have recently gone from a dual, druid and a pally to 3, shaman and now I made the final plunge and I am doing 5 shaman. I have my first 3 at level 28 and my other 2 at 10. Hopefully all will be even soon. My question is what’s the best 20 totem drop combo or is it depended on the situation?

Thanks:-)

[Lorune]

Caster totems
/castsequence reset=6 Grounding Totem, Tremor Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Totem of Wrath
/castsequence reset=6 Grounding Totem, Healing Stream Totem, Totem of Wrath, Stoneskin totem
/castsequence reset=6 Grounding Totem, Strength of Earth Totem, Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem
/castsequence reset=6 Wrath of Air Totem, Tremor Totem, Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem

Disease Poison
/castsequence reset=6 Nature Resistance Totem, Tremor Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Searing Totem
/castsequence reset=6 Totem of Wrath,Poison Cleansing Totem, Strength of Earth Totem, Grace of Air Totem
/castsequence reset=6 Disease Cleansing Totem, Totem of Wrath, Tremor Totem, Windfury Totem
/castsequence reset=6 Poison Cleansing Totem, Wrath of Air Totem, Stoneskin Totem, Totem of Wrath

Normal PVE
/castsequence reset=6 Tremor Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Totem of wrath, Grounding Totem
/castsequence reset=6 Totem of Wrath, Tremor Totem, Grace of Air Totem, Healing Stream Totem
/castsequence reset=6 Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem, Tremor Totem, Windfury Totem
/castsequence reset=6 Wrath of Air Totem, Stoneskin Totem, Totem of Wrath, Healing Stream Totem

this is what i use currently :)

I dont pvp alot so i just use my caster version for it

[SoulSeekerUSA]

Cool,

Thank you very much for the response;-)

Also I am debating on using a Tank or just 5 shaman. I don't have to level my tank I already have a 70 feral duid. Would this be my best option for high level instances or is the 5 shaman ok?

Thanks

[Memn]

I would suggest keeping 5 Shamans, as they are very effective in instances. a Tank + 4 shaman setup loses some dps and has no CC, thats probably not a huge issue, because stoneclaws and groundings are still pretty effective on trash. Either group seems viable, if you go 5 Shaman you can always swap in you Druid at your whim.

[Memn]

Also, make sure you have buttons to redrop situational totems like Tremor, Grounding, Stoneclaw & Fire Nova. In caster heavy fights, it is nice to be able to redrop all your groundings in one click (Ramps Boss 2).

[Hachoo]

I don't do the castsequence for my totems because it can be bad for pvp and gives less control, so heres how I have my totems setup:

I have a Stoneclaw, Grounding, Tremor macro, hitting alt+r drops 5 stoneclaw totems, shift+r drops 5 grounding totems, and ctrl+r goes through a castsequence of tremor totems (so I can hit it 5 times in 2 seconds and drop them staggered, great for pvp).

I have another key bound to drop a mana spring totem on my main and 4 healing stream totems on my alts

I have another key for "earth totems" which drops 3 stoneclaws on 3 clones, a stoneskin on one clone, and an earthbind on my main

I have an "air totem" key which just drops a windwall totem and a grace of air totem on 2 shamans only, eventually when I get wrath of air a third shaman will drop that. If I need some grounding totems too I'll just hit shift+r for 5 groundings which are super cheap, then hit my macro for air totems which will replace 2 groundings with the windwall and grace of air totems

I have a fire macro, shift+f drops 5x magma, ctrl+f drops 5x fire nova, alt+f drops 5x searing, and ctrl+alt+f drops 5x totem of wrath. F by itself doesn't do anything right now (ill probably set it to just follow focus to absorb another macro I have into just this one)

I also have a macro that will drop either poison cleansing, disease cleansing, fire, or nature resist totems depending on which combo key I use

And thats pretty much all I need. Gives good control for pvp and its still easy to use for pve...in instances for semi-tough pulls i just hit:

ctrl+4 (drops 4x healing stream 1x mana spring)
ctrl+alt+f (drops 5x totem of wrath)
ctrl+1 (drops 1 stoneskin, 3 stoneclaw, 1 earthbind) if no fears, if fears I do ctrl+r 5x times spaced out by .5s each
shift+f if there are casters (5 grounding), otherwise ctrl+5 drops the 2 air totems. Or if theres only 1 caster and a bunch of ranged/melee mobs, I will hit shift+f THEN ctrl+5

Now I have 20 totems down and am ready to rock. I also have just the "5" key bound to totemic call or whatever its called, so I can absorb all the totems each time I'm ready to move. Also helps for say, hellfire ramps, when you have to wait for the boss to patrol away, then you drop totems and take down a group, then I use totemic call to bring all my totems back so the boss doesn't aggro them when he comes back around.

Much more viable when you get water shield and have 5x talents in the totem mana cost saving talent - I don't really ever have to worry about running out of mana these days.