Tali,

I certainly hope you understand that I appreciate any and all help passed my way. You're right, I should have posted group composition, I just assumed that because my original question had the plural totems that you would all assume that I was running DK+4 shamans...lol...my bad.

Hachoo,

I do throw down healing....again, I wasn't clear. I meant in swapping out some of my other totems to include magma and/or grounding. I'm at work usually when I have questions and generally only have a couple of minutes to throw down thoughts. I'll be more diligent when asking questions in the future. Thank you specifically for the tip about being able to buy unwanted valor badge gear from people. Someone in my guild sold me the wrists last night.

UPDATE:

I started out the day needing 8 badges for my 1st heroic reward, so I headed out to Gundrak. With the healing advice I was finally able to beat the Rhino boss. Woot! Of course, the guild channel got spammed with like 15 achievements all at the same time. I think I can take him down every time now...but that remains to be seen.

5 badges down 2 to go....forgot that Gundrak was the daily from a couple of days back so I turned that in and had 1 to go. Ended up downing Meathook in CoS and ported back to Dalarn to get my X4 protective barricades of light. I'm going to go back and try the 2nd boss tonight in CoS and then head to Drak to try out Novos.

Thank you again for any time and consideration you put into helping me on these forums.