New tremor totems are awful...

[heyaz]

There was a hotfix about a week ago that included several changes, one being changing the tick on tremor totems to 3 seconds. I don't know what it was before, but I notice a huge difference.

I'm getting feared all over the place... It seems to almost always take the full 3 seconds to break it, and by then all of my shaman are 20 yards from each other in opposite direction. It also seems like either the range has been reduced or they don't always work, beacuse sometimes I just get feared for the full duration.

I also thought the DR on fears was pretty significant - but it's reallly not. By the third or fourth fear I'm still running around for 3 seconds.

is the tick random, or is it possible to drop 3 of them one second apart and get the same result? As it is, even with 3 tremor totems I have to trinket out of the fear beacuse it's long enough to put them out of range of follow.

[Hachoo]

Eh? Are you sure this changed? I have noticed absolutely no difference and I use my tremors every day. Fought King Dred and a bunch of fearing berserkers last night and My 4 tremors always stopped the fear before my guys even moved.

[Zal]

stagger the drop times of your totems, i'm never affected much by a fear.

[Chranny]

Ya, it pulses every third second after drop. DR's remain the same though, so don't want to comment on that part of your post.

[heyaz]

Positive they changed, there was a blue post about it. I didn't think it would make a difference till I did some BGs... Just got out of one with 4 warlocks and 2 priests and it was a nightmare. It's ticking so slow that my whole group is either dead or out of follow by the time it breaks.

Before this change, the longest I would get feared is about 1 second, usually more like half a second. I haven't tested it in PVE yet but something definitely isn't working right in PVP.

[Velassra]

... but something definitely isn't working right in PVP.

Idk, it might be something to give both priests and warlocks a little extra survivability in PvP, so it might be working exactly as intended.

[Zal]

once again, just stagger the drop times of the totems, you should never be in a fear for more then 1 sec if your doing it right.

[grettir]

Would love to get this clarified, do they all pulse at the same time or does it work placing them seperetly?

[Stealthy]

I noticed the same thing in WG yesterday - had dropped my totems in the usual staggered timing but was feared out of range of the totem.

I just assumed that it was Winterslag being its usual self...might have to find some mobs that fear and test it out....

Cheers,

S.

[keghia]

The totems now pulse, and all pulse at the same time. Tested it tonight against some random mobs that fear. Numerous times I would get feared very close to out of range of the totems even when the totems are dropped in staggered format. It sucks.