Mana Spring Totem and Healing Stream Totem possibly not merging!

[Multibocks]

Someone needs to test it on the PTR, but currently on live healing stream and mana totems stack. Just an FYI, my paladin, 4 shaman team was fine with one mana stream down, but that was WITH blessing of wisdom. Without BoW I would need to get 90+mp5 from somewhere else to prevent me from having to drink while running dungeons.

[Lance]

Someone needs to test it on the PTR, but currently on live healing stream and mana totems stack. Just an FYI, my paladin, 4 shaman team was fine with one mana stream down, but that was WITH blessing of wisdom. Without BoW I would need to get 90+mp5 from somewhere else to prevent me from having to drink while running dungeons.

If you have a pally tank the changes to bok will help a bit. I thot you quit anyways so I can't see it affecting you that much

[Gares]

This pretty much nerfs any 4X+ Shaman PVE teams into the ground

Slight overstatement

I don't think so. My ability to say do timed COS runs for drakes (Thank god I'm done) was pretty much on the fact that I could stack mana totems with a DK Tank with Unholy Aura. Now with the changes I MIGHT be able to do it with my pally tank with the changes but I doubt it.

As for the AOE (Shaman's are still the worst AOE class out there).

The healing stream/tremors/groundings are still nice but almost always depend on the situation. Maybe I'm spoiled by having a resto shammy I don't know, but I almost always used mana spring stacking over healing stream stacking.

The only thing I can see this really doing is forcing people to spec one resto and go for the mana tide totem every cooldown. Actually having to stop and drink every few pulls (which sucks), or blowing their TS cooldown every 45 seconds regardless of if they need to just for the mana back.

In any event its not a nice change to see.

EDIT: This is all from a boxing perspective of course. For solo these changes don't affect anything really.