Totem stacking

[ragawaga]

I've been trying to figure out the best grouping of totems to drop and was wondering if anyone knows of somewhere to see an up to date list of totems who's benefits stack. I've been searching, but all the stuff I find is from 2008 and before.

[Naysayer]

the only totems that group stack are healing stream, stoneclaw taunt effect, tremor when staggered in intervals, fire/earth elemental, manatide(not to be confused with mana spring), and grounding. It's possible that cleansing totem will stagger in intervals like tremor totem, or even stack outright, but I'm not sure.

[zenga]

This article (http://www.twentytotems.com/2007/11/stackable-totems-guide.html)is what I've found useful, though some info is outdated.

[Whowantstoknow]

Took a brief look and as far as I can see the only one that has changed is Totem of Wrath which sadly does not stack anymore.

[ragawaga]

Thanks. I'd seen that site, but as there had been some totem changes since then, I wasn't sure how accurate it was.

[yaki]

Took a brief look and as far as I can see the only one that has changed is Totem of Wrath which sadly does not stack anymore.

Mana stream used to stack, it was nice, if not nearly as funny as stacked ToWs with round robin Heroism.

[ragawaga]

Stacking ToW would've been great...although to be fair...does sound a bit imba.

With water shield and one mana stream totem...I don't imagine mana will be too much of an issue....not when levelling anyway. In instances...if mana regen was an issue, I could always use the pally's BoW...but in saying that, I'd prob have one of the shaman resto...so would have mana tide.

[yaki]

Stacking ToW would've been great...although to be fair...does sound a bit imba.

It was, it so was. And we loved it. But the hardcore raiders were whining because they "had" to take so many shamans, and we all know that 2% of the population is the most important. O_o

(There have been a lot of "because raids" nerfs that could have been solved with far less work by making something only apply to the immediate party...but then the raiders would have to plan their organization better, and we can't have that either...)

[ragawaga]

In all fairness.....having them not stack does seem fairer. Particularly when you consider the +hit advantage that alliance players would get. With raid wide buffs of ToW + whatever that draeni buff is called...you'd hardly need hit at all.

Don't get me wrong though...for purely selfish reasons, I would've liked for it to stack to make my team be EZ(ier)mode.

[yaki]

Shamans aren't supposed to be fair, shamans are supposed to be seriously IMBA. Making shamans not IMBA is like making mages not die in a light breeze.

The higher levels of ToW available make it stacking much, much more broken...1400 spell power and 15% crit in a five-shaman team does start sounding a little over the top.

[ragawaga]

Shamans aren't supposed to be fair, shamans are supposed to be seriously IMBA. Making shamans not IMBA is like making mages not die in a light breeze..

hehe, my mage friend has frost block on a hair trigger!

[Whowantstoknow]

Mana stream used to stack, it was nice, if not nearly as funny as stacked ToWs with round robin Heroism.

Well aware of this but if you looked at the link it already had mana spring as not stacking.

[Ualaa]

Cleansing Totem stacks.
There was a thread that tested it.

Dropping two at once, cleanses twice as much.
And staggering them cleanses more quickly.

I have three sets of four totems each.
Pretty sure these are the totems I'm using:

PvE
Healing Stream x3, Mana Spring x1
Tremor, Strength of Earth, Stoneskin, Earthbind
Totem of Wrath, Frost Resistance, Searing x2
Wrath of Air, Grounding x3

PvP
Healing Stream, Mana Spring, Cleansing, Fire Resistance
Tremor, Earthbind, Stoneskin, Strength of Earth
Totem of Wrath, Frost Resistance, Searing x2
Grounding x3, Nature Resistance


AOE:
Healing Stream x4
Stoneclaw x3, Tremor x1
Magma x4
Wrath of Air x1, Grounding x3

[yaki]

hehe, my mage friend has frost block on a hair trigger!

That's when you stand your slaves in a circle around the mage and /dance while TS comes off cooldown. :D