07-17-2006, 04:08 PM
Quote:What needs to be done to totems? Taking into consideration the Windfury totem nerf, the following would balance out most fights in one way or another. Make raid version of a few totems - 100 yard range, 5 minute duration, destroyable (and of course, non-stackable):
- Grace of Air
- Windfury totem
- Strength of Earth
- Stoneskin Totem
- Mana Spring
- Healing Spring
- Mana Tide (yes, Mana Tide - I will explain)
The best idea that I've heard so far is to make "Raid Totems" which work like Lightwell. Let the shaman cast Raid Totems that live for 5 minutes and apply their buff to any raid member that clicks on it. That way the totem buff gets applied across the raid just like pally buffs.
Each shaman would still be limited to dropping one Raid Totem for each element, so if you want to apply GoA, WF, and TAT to the raid you still need to bring three shaman. You could limit players to selecting one buff per element (i.e., they can't get both GoA and WF) but lemekim does an excellent job of demonstrating why that's not balanced, so I'd suggest it's balanced if they can pick up as many buffs as there are raid totems to click on.
Poof, problem solved.
Kv