What i found out about grounding totems

[Drizzit]

Well i was pvping in av yesterday and i went up against another (solo) sham. He drops a grounding totem and i cast my lightning bolts, well everyone knows that grounding totems only redirects 1 spell to the totem. Well that works if only 1 spell is shot at him. All 4 of my bolts went to the grounding totem. Another thing, a pig in blades edge has an ability to redirect 1 harmful spell back to that caster, well same thing like the grounding totem it redirects all 4 back. So i wonder if this happens to warrior too.

Has this happen to anyone else?

[McBooty]

Yeah this is common. It's kind of a pain with us, because we have such perfect synchronicity with our spellcasting. As long as the spell is CAST while the grounding totem is still alive, it'll be redirected.
Sometimes they get lucky and eat your 4x EM-CL. One shaman surviving your I WIN button... hmph.
We use it to our benefit anyway. If you're doing a pull like in the last boss of Blood Furnace, you can get like 5 of those guys' Shadowbolts to all hit one totem at a time depending on how you pull and gather them up.
So turn your weakness into your strength!

[Ellay]

The most powerful advantage we have is with Frost Mages, you can pull off a Shatter combo with 1 frost nova on every single Mage, and it's a fully repeatable process.

[Schwarz]

This type of thing will happen with warriors spell reflect also. Shoot 5 chainlighting at a warrior if he spell reflects they come back at you.

[Sarduci]

The Terrok Initiates in Sek Halls have a spell reflect ability also. Found that out the hard way. But your grounding totems will eat what is reflected back at you.

[Kaynin]

4x Lb + Straight up 4x EM+NS+CL and a SWD down one lousy grounding totem.

Beat that. :P

[Drizzit]

4x Lb + Straight up 4x EM+NS+CL and a SWD down one lousy grounding totem.

Beat that. :P

lol... now i know how i can take on a box solo with my sham... well sort of

[Sanctume]

Just open with Purge first

[Kaynin]

Just open with Purge first

Did that, he dropped grounding the instant after I purged. I always purge first tho. And that does often help, but you can still be unlucky

[Jaly]

can you add in another macro for that instance that will send one bolt first and the others .6 seconds later? Like a /castsequence reset combonation