If anyone is still sskeptical or wants "confirmation", I'll make a video of me dropping 3x tremor totems, staggered or not, and then fear bombed. It's pretty apparent.

BGs have been miserable lately, I noticed once I get one fear bomb, every class that can fear follows me around for the rest of the BG and just mops the floor with my group. I don't think they are aware of the change, I think they just announce "it's so easy to kill the box group, just fear bomb. Then of course having 4 ppl out of the team pretty much useless, we end up getting 5 capped or 2000-0'd real quick

I haven't arena'd since the change but I'm kinda afraid too.. I usually get fear bombed at least 2-3 times a game depending on the classes, sometimes more, but the old totems broke it instantly.