how many totems?

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I haven't seen a need to drop a totem that just blows up yet, anyone use Fire Nova ?

Fire nova and magma totems aren't very impressive compared to arcane explosion and the like, but it's the only AoE you have (well, and chain lightning maybe). Sometimes in instances, you will be attacked by a very large group of weak mobs. Drop a stoneclaw totem to distract them (or they will destroy the fire nova). Then as many fire novas as you can... Boom!

It's just a shame you don't get loot/xp from totem kills (unless you tag them all, one by one).

Excellent, thanks for that, It didn't even occur to me that this Fire Nova was in effect an aoe. *smacks head*

I have run into this issue before, when I was leveling a hunter I found out that if I just let the pet kill the mob, and I didn't shoot it, I didn't get to loot it! wtf, its my pet, come on... anyway, as a shaman how do you tag stuff that your going to aoe in the case your going to use a Fire Nova totem to blow them up? I know in many cases waves of many mobs come fast, and in many cases they can drop some good loot, i'd hate to miss out on it, how do you tag them all?