Quote Originally Posted by 'BobGnarly',index.php?page=Thread&postID=186030#po st186030
It hurts, yes, but it's not even close to "one of the key factors of a shaman team" imo.

It would vary for every person (talents/gear/how much you hate drinking ), I'm sure, but I typically drop 1xmana,3xhealing. If I need any resist totem (which is quite frequently), it replaces one of the healing streams. I even sometimes run 2 resist totems, which brings me down to 1x healing stream. My group makes it just fine, and yes, some of these fights are heavy aoe dmg fights too.

I'm not happy about it either, but it isn't groundbreaking. I would recommend staying on target and getting those shaman to 80.
well, its a big enough difference from how the totems work now. but i reopened my accounts with the impression that the combination of healing/mana totems was a done deal. so, you can see why going from that to this is more than a little bit disappointing. i probably will stick with my shamans purely because ive already spent this much time with them and i want to get my paladin to 80.. if for no other reason than ill have a toon ready to boost my new group if/when i decide to drop the shamans =/