Quote Originally Posted by 'Dominian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=177834#pos t177834
Stop making a fool out of yourself, have you even read the patch notes for 3.1?

Elemental and ench shamans arent given any instant hots like both boomkin and ferals get, i would suggest you to try and get a casted heal off when a rogue/warrior/dk is hammering you with 3 interrupts. (I know how dk's eats hot thought and its destroying resto druids atm)

Neither tremor totem or grounding totem is passive, they take 2 global cooldowns and got 5 hp. Passive means you would be immune to a fear wich you not, it certainly breaks but it does interrupt whatever your casting.

From my pov you dont know anything about the shaman class at all.

All pvp changes today is done towards arena and bgs is pretty much ignored.
Um, wow, ok.

1.) If a boomkin/feral tries to heal with a rogue/warrior/DK beating on him, then they lose their armor. I'm not sure about your experiences, but I won't even survive long enough for two HoT ticks without some armor mitigation. Those intant heals sure do work wonders! If they can interrupt your spell with less than a 2 second casting time, you don't think they can stun a druid while in caster form without any armor?

2.) Tremor and grounding totems are considered passive because you don't need to react to something in order to get their benefit. Fear ward is considered passive even though you need to cast it beforehand (just like a totem). Fear ward can be dispelled just like a totem can be killed. The fact the the totems aren't all powerful doesn't mean they're not passive. You're correct that the tremor totem doesn't break fear immediately and it still interrupts casting... wow, big deal for party wide protection.

I'll admit that I don't know a ton about shamans, but I do know that ele's are fine and certainly don't need more tools to survive in arena.