I really want to make a shaman, But the bonus “+50% elemental resistance while you control a totem” is not appealing, I think it would be much better if you got half of that permanently.
Also: The bonus that reduces mana cost of totems would be really nice if it just did it for all spells and attacks, Just a -5 to mana cost.
I understand that you most likely will have a totem up at all times, but maybe someone doesn’t want to use them at all.
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the problem with shaman is that the only viable totem build is the storm one, but you need very specific gear to make it great. There is other totems that look interesting (upheaval totem, tempest totems) but it’s hard to make them shine because of the lack of proper damage scalling. I’m trying to make something of the class using a more direct melee version, full attunement and attack speed and playing around the auto triggered tempest sub skills and the good mana on hit from tempest strike to afford very hard hitting huge skills like avalanche and earthquake (basically take everything that makes more damage 
).
works nice at the time, 200 corrup, i m increasing corruption little by little when the uppgrades on gear come up. Not sure it will be great and probably not uber aberoth friendly but at least it’s very fun to play.
Yeah it would be sick if it was +25 to ALL or something but base elemental, meh. Or something completely different.
It’s also lame because totem builds used to be super fun and strong and now they’re just moderate at best and mostly only decent with on-hit relics as a support tool for other builds. They had to nerf upheaval I get it but they did that thing in games where they nerfed hard and didn’t really balance to keep the builds strong and fun.
Used to be able to kill normally abby in 10 seconds or less etc like the strong sent classes, strong rogue classes, strong nec classes all STILL CANNNNNNNNNNNN but they didn’t feel the nerf stick, they just got stronger lol. Not to mention I feel if you did the same build on uber (he wasnt there when they nerfed it) he would kill the totems before they did enough dmg to him, unlike all the other OP builds/classes can wreck him. Rude, loved totems.