Horde air totem = walk into a cave, "HAY SUP HERES UR TOTEM AND A BUFF NOW GO WINDFURY SHIT CYA LOLZ"
Alliance air totem = Climb a fucking mountain back in the newbie area that takes about 5mins to get up then talk to 2 npcs a few times, "Hay u suffered enough on the other trials, heres ur totem lololol and hay here's a free buff too, now stfu while I waste your time spinning you around this mountain levitating you back to the base, taking just as long or longer than it would to walk out, and btw, ur mom's a totem LOL BYE *levitate*"

Horde Water totem = run around the barrens, talk to a couple npcs, hit up TM for the sack of water from the well(nice and safe well in town) I think fight some monster near the npc
Alliance water totem = oh my fucking god /wrists...swim out to water ele deep under water SURROUNDED BY FUCKING MURLOCS AT/ABOVE YOUR LVL, I think you even had to leave the draenei areas, go to ashenvale and fight through mobs above your lvl to fill a sack of water(NOT at a nice and safe town well, an abandoned fucking BIRD BATH surrounded by dredge elementals above your lvl) for one of the MANY parts of the quest, and HAD TO FUCKING WALK BACK to the murloc-surrounded elemental in the FARTHEST FUCKING CORNER OF THE DRAENEI MAP, and this is before you get waterbreathing too. There's a bubble thing by the ele but you have to get there through the fucking swarm of murlocs.