Leaked patch notes for 1.8?

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The totem change could be connected to the nerf of Blessing of Salvation. An alliance raid can currently dish out more dps than a horde raid without losing aggro, but with this change to BoS the totems would be the "unfair" advantage in the other direction.

This is only really noticable on high end PvE targets with anti-tanking skills, like Onyxia and the BWL bosses.[right][snapback]88369[/snapback][/right]

I haven't been to any raid dungeons on a horde character but wouldn't the totem change make some PvE fights less flexible?

For example, against Onyxia you have two shaman in the same group as the main tank providing tremor totems to the east and west of the tank. This might be useful because subsequent fears can occur before berserker rage has cooled down. Onyxia's flame breath or cleave could now kill these totems? Wouldn't this happen frequently since tremor totem doesn't counter fear immediately?

Or perhaps shaman are meant to spam totems more often since some of the more useful ones have a low mana cost with low or no cooldown.