PTR Shaman Elemental Changes

[Slats]

Shaman


Earth Elemental Totem: The cooldown for this totem has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.
Fire Elemental Totem: The cooldown for this totem has been reduced from 20 minutes to 10 minutes. Cannot be used in Arenas.

So what happens if you use Glyph of Fire Elemental Totem?

4x Fire Ele's up all the time + Fire Nova? BOOM BOOM POW?

[Ualaa]

I'd guess the Glyph will halve the reuse, down to 5 mins.
But still not usable in arena.

Either that or remove the glyph entirely.
If we assume glyphs are blizzards method to test spell changes on the live servers.

[Slats]

Highly unlikely they will remove the Glyph just change it. They dont like removing items that people have in Guild Banks/Inventory/AH because it can cause alot of problems.

[Ogloo]

shhhh maybe there will be one day after 3.3 goes live, where we will be able to always have them droppped lol,
or use them in arenas.. get everyone to 2k, then we tell blizzaard

[Mokoi]

Nice observation!

I for one will support our new fiery overlords (on a shorter cooldown)!

and I support my guild leader for supporting our new fiery warlords.

[Ridere]

It would be neat to have Fire elementals on a five minute cool down, if the glyph is changed to reduce it by five.

[Ualaa]

Yeah... they balance from the point of view of a single shaman.
And have already precluded having elementals in arena.

So a Fire Elemental every 5 mins, is decent AoE damage in raids.
At the cost of the Totem of Wrath or Flametongue totem, depending on spec.

For us boxers, you could use one every minute.
Or more likely, our x4/5 AoE button would see a lot more use.

I tend to save them, because of the long cooldown.
And really, how many of us have them glyphed?
I'm using Flame Shock, Lava Burst and Lightning Bolt for the dps.
Or the pvpers likely use the shock GCD reduction glyph in there.

[daviddoran]

if the glyph cuts it to 5 mins, im definately dropping my CL glyph for PvP. Drop one every time I def/cap a tower = win. I was already thinking of getting the glyph now, so im very eager to see what they do the glyph....

Man, Fire novas, from my elementals totems = massive winnage in BGs, especially for issues like facing target, etc. Often when im in a tower, due to the small size, the clipping on the flag itself, and boxing, I can lose track of what's happening. These changes should help me immensely.