OK, don't get me wrong - I run a DK + 4 elemental shammies and I love it - but you have a full group at 80 working on heroics and you want to more or less start all over again?

Tank + 4 shammies is a solid combo but not a magic ticket to easy badges, it's going to take some time gearing them up, tweaking macros/movements, and learning strategies before heroics become EZ mode. Even then, not all heroics will be EZ mode with this combo.

I think heroics are eminently farmable with a mixed group as evidence by the reports of boxers in these forums. They just get a lot easier at a certain level of gear + experience regardless of your class combos.

If you want to have a group of shammies, that's great. They're very solid for PvE/PvP combined play, for instance. But I would think twice about doing it just to facilitate running heroics.

On to your questions about totem stacking. The twenty totems site is retired and quite a bit out of date. Totem of wrath no longer stacks, but mana spring totem currently DOES for instance.

Patch 3.1 will be bringing significant changes which aren't fully finalized, so it's probably premature to get too far into this. But, we know that mana spring totem will go back to no longer stacking.

Most of us multishaman groups have -

1. A general use /castsequence macro to drop a totem farm on all toons. Some of us have PvE versus PvP macros.

Mine look something like (off the top of my head)
Shaman 1. /castsequence Totem of Wrath, Mana Spring Totem, Wrath of Air Totem, Strength of Earth Totem
Shaman 2. /castsequence Tremor Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Grounding Totem, Magma Totem
Shaman 3. /castsequence Mana Spring Totem, Tremor Totem, Grounding Totem, Magma Totem
Shaman 4. /castsequence Magma Totem, Mana Spring Totem, Stoneskin Totem, Grounding Totem

2. Keybinds to drop a collection of particular totems, e.g. 4 fire nova, 4 healing stream, 4 groundings, etc


The totems that do NOT currently stack (only should drop 1 of these) in
Totem of wrath
Resistance totems (fire, frost, nature)
Stoneskin
Strength of Earth
Windfury/Flametongue totems (irrelevant totems for a caster DPS shammy group regardless)

Most other (relevant) totems stack. Mana spring will go to the list of non-stacking totems with 3.1, so the default totem farm that most of us use will transition to 1 mana spring/3 healing stream for the water totems.