Totem selections and why

So I pretty much just faceroll with totems. I have each character set-up to use their set totems, and that is expected to account for all situations, so I never change what totems each of my 4 Shaman use.

For my Pve spec (not that Im aiming for pve answers in this thread) I use [water]: (Healing x2, Cleansing, mana spring) [Fire]: (Totem of Wrath x4) [Earth]: (tremor, Stoneskin, earthbind, and strength of earth) [Air]: (Grounding x2, Wrath, Windfury)

PVP: water]: (Fire Resistance, Cleansing x2, mana spring) [Fire]: (Totem of Wrath x3, Water Resistance) [Earth]: (tremor x2, Stoneclaw, earthbind) [Air]: (Grounding x3, Wrath)

Really curious who uses what, if they change totems per circumstances, and what they change to.

For pvp, I also have on of my 'call to' bars set to re-drop my grounding totems, and tremor totems. ( I just drop all the tremors simultaneously, not going to bother staggering them for faster fear protection). Also have a button to redrop fire totems as I love to fire nova, especially when melee keep running behind me

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Originally Posted by BrothelMeister

So I pretty much just faceroll with totems. I have each character set-up to use their set totems, and that is expected to account for all situations, so I never change what totems each of my 4 Shaman use.

For my Pve spec (not that Im aiming for pve answers in this thread) I use [water]: (Healing x2, Cleansing, mana spring) [Fire]: (Totem of Wrath x4) [Earth]: (tremor, Stoneskin, earthbind, and strength of earth) [Air]: (Grounding x2, Wrath, Windfury)

PVP: water]: (Fire Resistance, Cleansing x2, mana spring) [Fire]: (Totem of Wrath x3, Water Resistance) [Earth]: (tremor x2, Stoneclaw, earthbind) [Air]: (Grounding x3, Wrath)

Really curious who uses what, if they change totems per circumstances, and what they change to.

For pvp, I also have on of my 'call to' bars set to re-drop my grounding totems, and tremor totems. ( I just drop all the tremors simultaneously, not going to bother staggering them for faster fear protection). Also have a button to redrop fire totems as I love to fire nova, especially when melee keep running behind me

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If you want to improve anything, then that's your point of improvement.

3 staggered tremor totem will clean off any fear within a second, where 1,2 or 1000 tremors dropped simultaniously only pulses every 3 seconds.

And vs melee 4 magma are pretty awesome.

I drop all tremors at once simply for the protection against totem stomping. Against anything, wouldn't at least one wrath totem up be better?

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Originally Posted by BrothelMeister

I drop all tremors at once simply for the protection against totem stomping. Against anything, wouldn't at least one wrath totem up be better?

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A tremor totem pulses every 3 seconds. If you drop 3, then there's no point, i really don't see why you wouldn't drop them staggered. unless you don't understand why.

1 tow and 3 magma is my pvp totemset, so yeah i agree. Can be mana intensive redropping them though.

The mana is the only reason I havn't been using them, that and that their duration is low.

I drop 2 tremors at once simply for totem stomping protection; realizing that they both pulse at the same time, the ONLY reason I drop both at once is so that if one gets stomped, there is still one up.

Why does anyone drop healing stream totems instead of cleansing, mana, and fire resistance totems?

I like to:

Shm A
/castsequence Call of the Ancestors,,,

Shm B
/castsequence ,Call of the Ancestors

Basically, stagger the 4x totems at once, rather then individually stagger the Tremors.

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Originally Posted by Ualaa

I like to:

Shm A
/castsequence Call of the Ancestors,,,

Shm B
/castsequence ,Call of the Ancestors

Basically, stagger the 4x totems at once, rather then individually stagger the Tremors.

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This method staggers tremors and cleansing at the same time :) It's pretty hawtsauce.

That's what I use too, with usually 4 tremors and 4 cleansing, using 5 shamans anyway, would use 3 for 4 shamans.
Staggering ftw.

staggering cleansing doesnt help tho does it?

Cleanse is a pulsed totem as well, if they all pulse at the same time it only works as one cleanse. If you stagger them you gain the effect from all of them in about the time of 1 round of pulses. It's basically the same concept as all your LvB getting eaten by 1 grounding totem, vs have a double keypress for LvB to stagger them slightly and make sure the majority get through.

wouldn't 2 cleansing pulsing at the same time remove 2 different effects at the same time, the same way that 4 purges at once removes 8 magic effects?

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Originally Posted by BrothelMeister

wouldn't 2 cleansing pulsing at the same time remove 2 different effects at the same time, the same way that 4 purges at once removes 8 magic effects?

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This

Tbh i have never staggered my cleansing totems, i was always under the impression that they worked like a purge or any cleansingspell in game. But then again i never tested it. Would be nice to know ;)
The staggering of tremmors are a must though.

If you drop all 4 at once you get 4 cleanses every 3 sec. If you stagger them you get 1 - 1.5 cleansing totem ticks per second. Which if you have wound poison will be dropping those off faster than just a mass cleanse every 3 sec.

1 ToW
15 groundings

15 groundings, that'd be awesome If it were doable.

You guys dropping 2,3 or 4 groundings with 4 shaman?

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Originally Posted by BrothelMeister

15 groundings, that'd be awesome If it were doable.

You guys dropping 2,3 or 4 groundings with 4 shaman?

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Well personally I drop 3 grounding totems and 1 to increase my casting speed, if I get nuked to hell by casters I will drop all 4.