Monday, July 20, 2009

243+ Totems to drop (Part 1)

After some digging I found an old post of mine that i had a look at and it's so wrong actually, well not wrong as its a good hint and tip but still not really what I use now, so a post will follow this with which I actually use

SOLO:
Stoneskin Totem (i already have around 40% damage reduction while soloing but still is very nice to have) otherwhise I’ll drop strength of the earth, which is a huge, really huge boost to dps (even at lvl10 its still awesome!)
Magma Totem which damages every mob in the area every 2secs. (very handy)
mana spring totem (need to keep my mp5 flowing!) or healing stream if im getting to much damage, and want to reduce some.
Now as for wind totems its a bit trickier,since there are 2 good ones: Windfury totem (meelee haste, but i always have the enchant up so its no good) or wrath of air totem (faster casting) mostly i use this one, since i already have the other one.

GROUP:
in a group it’s a looknfeel. i mainly (as a healer) use: strength of earth, totem of wrath (spellpower) totem, healingstream, windfury/Wrath of air (depending if we have more casters or meelee’s)
though beware! if someone gets poisoned or diseased, you’ll need to swap healingstream for the cleansing totem, or drop tremor totem for magical debuffs.

and what with the rest of the totems?
Granted the rest of the totems you’ll not use often, but they are a life saver when you need them.
Resistance totems, pretty obvious, when you’re going against casters or guys who do fire damage, drop the fire resisting totem.
Stoneclaw and earthbind totem, these are so nice if you want to run through an area of mobs but don’t want to kill them (shortage of time or just don’t feel like it), granted this you’ll use a lot below lvl30 but even in caves at later lvls this is very nice. drop earthbind first, then if another mob comes, drop stoneclaw, rinse and repeat
element totems are very nice, for tougher fights.
Manatide when you need mana quickly.
and thats about it that i know of, at the top of my head.

God my actionbars are full with those things!
yes sir/ma’m, they are! i got 2 addon’s for you, and both i use:
Totemcaddy (only use this when you have all the four elements or it won’t work!) which displays a nice box, with 1 totem of each element, your shield, your weapon enchant and a WF timer.
totemtrapbar which adds 4 small bars, just above your action bars, with all your totems in it. (each element has a bar) which is just so handy to clean up your normal action bars!
though i would recommend, to put your most used totems in a quickbar, these addons make your life soooo much easier… but hey i’m an addon junkie so maybe that ain’t the complete truth…

if anything is unclear don’t be afraid to ask.

Grtz, Ari

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