Shaman changes confirmed

[Ughmahedhurtz]

The fastest fix to totem stomping would be to change the names of totems from "Totem Name" to "Bob's Totem Name"

they specifically mentioned this, but they want to implement something more concrete... so this got a thumbs down atm.

To elaborate a bit, here's the Q&A piece about that I found earlier this week.

http://www.worldofraids.com/news/664...es-shaman.html

In PvP, we want to make sure we end the use of “totem stomping macros” where a pet class essentially programs their pet to automatically kill any totem they see. It’s perfectly acceptable for pets to kill totems, but the player should at least have to make a decision and spend some of their attention to do so.

I could swear I saw something that insinuated they were desirous of broadening that to cover other things besides shaman totems but I'll be damned if I can find it now. :/

[Multibocks]

Actually the reason for not changing the names was listed as "too technically difficult." I really dont see how, but then Im not programming for Blizzard. From what I read on the new patch notes, they simply "disabled" the ability to target totems through macros. That sounds more difficult to do that just calling it, "Bob's healing stream totem", but whatever.