Make shaman resistance bonuses relevant in endgame

Shaman has elemental resistance bonuses that are not relevant in endgame.

  • mastery - 50% elemental res while you control a totem
  • “protective circle” - physical and ele res per active totem (15% each)

I’m not going to run around with zero elemental resistance, hoping not to get hit before I get totems down, or praying my totems dont get killed. This makes these bonuses completely useless. I actually ignore them, and it burns me to have to spend points on Protective Circle to get to Storm Blade.

Here ideas for alternative bonuses we could get instead:

  • 10% damage reduction while totems down
  • 100% increased cast speed for placing totems
  • totems teleported around you on traversal skill, with duration refreshed
  • totems inherit half your resistances
  • totems inherit 20% of your spell and melee damage
  • totems explode when killed
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I actually do that often. I don’t need to cap elemental res if I know I’ll always have a totem down.
Not to mention some items can give you damage based on uncapped resists, so you can make use of those.

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