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Are these still totems that anyone can one shot thus making it pretty useless in pvp or with the talent do they become Totemless pets? Also with the talent are the perma pets or still summoned?

still on totems.

because blizz seems to think that having al our cooldowns tied to easily killable stationary sticks as 'an interesting and unique mechanic' or some nonsense

The totem is still there, but they are YOUR guardian and follow YOU. They no longer leash back to the totem if kited away.
They are still summoned, 5 minute CD with a 1minute duration I believe.

The totems are also not one-shottable. They have the same health as the elemental.

I just hope Call of the Elements makes it thru the chopping block to actually make perma ele worth getting in the arena environment.

I read somewhere in the spam that is the MoP beta threads Blizz doesnt like that it resets all of our totems supposedly making it too good.

07/11/2012 04:11 AMPosted by Rude

The totems are also not one-shottable. They have the same health as the elemental.

THANK YOU!!!

Thanks all for all the responses. The new about the totem having same HP as elemental makes me happy again. Fire elemental has saved my carcass a couple times in PVP but fo rthe most part someone just targets the totem and one shots it.

THanks again

I just hope Call of the Elements makes it thru the chopping block to actually make perma ele worth getting in the arena environment.

I read somewhere in the spam that is the MoP beta threads Blizz doesnt like that it resets all of our totems supposedly making it too good.

IIRC, they said they are changing it to make it a 3 minute cd which resets all totems that have a base cooldown of < 3 minutes (earth ele is on a 5 min cd, no?)

I just hope Call of the Elements makes it thru the chopping block to actually make perma ele worth getting in the arena environment.

I read somewhere in the spam that is the MoP beta threads Blizz doesnt like that it resets all of our totems supposedly making it too good.

IIRC, they said they are changing it to make it a 3 minute cd which resets all totems that have a base cooldown of < 3 minutes (earth ele is on a 5 min cd, no?)

It already just resets totems with a CD < 5 minutes, but is now being changed to < 3 minutes because CotE was simply a no-brainer for Resto due to double MTT/HTT/SLT. The change will likely turn it into the no-brainer talent for PvP because resetting Grounding, Tremor, Stonebulwark, Earthbind/grab, etc on a 3 min CD is just too good to pass.

We will likely still take it for PvE because Totemic Projection and Restoration are both simply very poor.

Call has never effected Elementals

oops

It already just resets totems with a CD < 5 minutes, but is now being changed to < 3 minutes because CotE was simply a no-brainer for Resto due to double MTT/HTT/SLT. The change will likely turn it into the no-brainer talent for PvP because resetting Grounding, Tremor, Stonebulwark, Earthbind/grab, etc on a 3 min CD is just too good to pass.

So it wont effect any of the long cd totems if they change it to <3 minutes? I dont have beta and assumed initally it was 5 min and less; not less than five minutes.

Just reading the abilities it seems that CotE is where it needs to be and the other 2 talenets are crazy underpowered, but I default to not having access to Beta :( .