Quote:The one hitch I see to raid-wide totems is how can you make the Tranquil Air affect melee dps players but not the tanks in the area? Somehow, a tank needs to be able to select that he or she does not want the Tranquil Air effect.
The solution isn't to make all existing totems raid-wide but to give the shaman raids options like Greater Blessings. Just add a number of "Raid Totem" spells, we'll call them "Storm Totems". Trainable at level 60, no reagent, and you can't overlap Storm Totems. Shooting from the hip with some numbers to show the concept:
Earth Storm Totem: 1/2 Strength of Earth to all raid/party members within 20 yards
Mana Storm Totem: 1/2 Mana Spring to all raid/party members within 20 yards
Air Storm Totem: 1/2 Gift of Air to all raid/party members within 20 yards
The reason for the 1/2 modifier is that I think regular totems should still work inside the party. Also, this makes these totems, just like Greater Blessings, a complete PvE spell--you'd never choose to drop a 1/2 GoA in PvP when you can drop the full thing, or drop Windfury. Whether that should be 1/2 or 1/3 or whatever is something that Blizzard's multi-million-dollar dev team can work out for themselves.
Edit: The nicest part about this idea is that it's easy to slowly scale it up. Blizzard can always add additional Storm Totems. If they made all existing totems raid-wide, they'd probably have to nerf it back.