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New Official Totem UI!
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Gnub
There comes a time in all shaman’s lives when they must learn to harness the power of nature and wield powerful totems. As they grow in power, so do the opportunities to use these instruments of healing, protection, and destruction. In the upcoming content patch, Call of the Crusade, the shaman will be able to quickly place totems of each element, aiding them in managing these powerful focuses of nature.
We wanted to provide some insight regarding the upcoming shaman-specific interface addition, the Totem Bar. Shaman will be able to utilize this new bar to manage their fire, earth, water, and air totems in a more accessible and convenient way. This bar will appear on the left-hand side above the standard toolbar, similar to warrior stances or druid forms. The bar contains space for four totems of the player’s choice, one of each element. Clicking the respective button will drop that totem. To the right of the four totems is a button for Totemic Call, which we have renamed Call of Earth. To the left of the four totems is a new ability named Call of Fire which will drop all four totems on the bar at once. The mana cost is the same as if the shaman dropped all four of the totems one at a time. However, it takes but a single global cooldown.
Questing shaman will be able to quickly move their totems of choice forward, while a shaman in an instance, Arena, or Battleground will be able to replace their totems if they have to move or if the totems are destroyed.
Shamans will also be able to customize their bar to set Call of Fire to drop less than four totems if they choose. Access to this functionality is made available at the same level as Call of Earth (currently level 30.) At higher levels, Shaman will gain two additional spells, Call of Air and Call of Water. These function exactly the same as Call of Fire, essentially giving the shaman three different sets of totems that can be placed at once. New key bindings will also be made available for all of these slots.
As with all new content under testing, we want to caution players that, as a new part of the interface, there may be additional changes during the period of the PTR until the release of the Call of the Crusade content patch. We look forward to constructive feedback once it is available for testing.
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YEAH! Looking forward to this - no more stupid totem addons! :D
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Hyperspacerebel
WIN
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Post by
GreatePier
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This. Kudos to Bliz on this one.
Post by
alpha5099
Hell yeah!
Post by
Toldry
They shouldn't have renamed Totemic Call. They should have made an option for 4 different totem sets.
Post by
eXceSSum
This. Is very good news :) Gj Blizzard!
Post by
Fulgurah
They should have made an option for 4 different totem sets.
...This seems like really, truly kicking a gift-horse in the mouth. They should have given us a Tri-Spec feature too, but you know what, it's an improvement over what we had. A huge one. And three sets of Totems pretty much allows you to cover most of your bases.
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Mesoforte
Overall this looks like a nice change for the shaman class, though the only part that will benefit me personally is the "drop all 4 totems at once" feature. As far as the other stuff goes, I have 3 macros to cast 3 different sets of totems, and I have most of my individual totems macroed like this:
/cast Stoneclaw Totem; Stoneskin Totem
So that I have two totems on one button. Think macros like that will still work with this totem UI? Otherwise I'll just end up keeping my totem macros on my regular action bars in addition to the new UI =P
I imagine so. With the single totem button, you just click the spell like you normally do. The new spells let you drop entire sets on 1 GCD
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Post by
Gnub
And when can we expect this awesomeness to happen?
The post actually says so: Call of the Crusade content-patch, which is 3.2. The PTRs should be up soonish.
Post by
Arcage
They should have made an option for 4 different totem sets.
...This seems like really, truly kicking a gift-horse in the mouth.
The expression is "looking a gift horse in the mouth" just fyi.
To the left of the four totems is a new ability named Call of Fire which will drop all four totems on the bar at once.
1GCD..niceeeee :)
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Post by
chaosshammy
thank you blizzard thank you
at last some good news
Post by
Tikaa
Finnaly some shaman love
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