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Stone Bulwark Totem

Stone Bulwark Totem

8% of base mana

Instant	1 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 15

Summons an Earth Totem with 10% of the caster's health at the feet of the caster for 30 sec, granting the caster a shield absorbing (Spell power * 0.875 * 4) damage for 10 sec, and up to an additional (Spell power * 0.875) every 5 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

30 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

8% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Summon (Stone Bulwark Totem)
Value: 5

Effect #2

Unknown Effect (Effect #0)
Value: 10

Flags

Cannot be used while shapeshifted

Guides

A guide to the
Elemental Shaman
(PvE) [Outdated - 5.4.7]

Elemental Shaman Guide

Elementals in
Draenor: A Guide
to Elemental Shaman

Enhancement Shaman Guide

Restoration Shaman Guide

Comments

Comment by nikuito

29K absorb on initial charge with 12K SP on resto gear, almost 9K on recharges.

Comment by KeleturShask

Not very reliable.

SBT is exclusive of other essential earth totems, has low scaling, takes too long of a time to do its job with an even longer cooldown, and is very easy to negate (5 hp or 5% of player's hp, it's all the same with 0 armor, 0 avoidance, 0 resilience). The shield provided is apparently also "magic," meaning it can be disspelled too.

The only upside is that it provides an immediate 15 seconds-worth of absorption, but, even then, the shield buff itself only lasts for a meager 10 seconds, if one were to try to go into a fight with the shield up and use other earth totems. Seriously, how would someone ever use this in a PvP setting reliably? While it didn't scale, glyphed Stoneclaw at least had a short cooldown, applied all of its absorb instantly and also a shield to itself, and had a chance to stun its attackers. SBT is a downside on top of a downside on top of a downside.

This might be used often in PvE, but I think that would just be because the other two options are so poor.

Edit: This talent also has another problem. While it is the theme of the new talent trees to have horizontal tiers of exclusive talents, Stone Bulwark Totem seems to be exclusive vertically as well (with Earthgrab Totem). Making use of Earthgrab's root will be really difficult if you also want to build up SBT's short-lasting shield.

Edit 2: Comparing numbers, uptime, and plain "dexterity" of SBT to that of other classes' talents like Sacred Shield and Ice Barrier, Stone Bulwark is just plain bad. Seriously, just compare this to the new Sacred Shield. This talent doesn't come close to it; two applications of SS's shield (which has only a 6-sec cooldown with a 30-sec duration) outdoes the upfront amount from Stone Bulwark totem, there's no sacrifice to casting Sacred Shield, and Sacred Shield provides more than double the amount of Stone Bulwark's absorption during the length of Stone Bulwark's cooldown (1-minute).

Comment by Urgshnoff

*Compares to Sacred Shield* You cheeky b****!

Comment by perculia

Ghostcrawler on Patch 5.2 Changes: Stone Bulwark Totem - the totem now has 10% of the Shaman's health, much like Mana Tide and Healing Tide.

Comment by binkenstein

Tooltip clarification for 5.1

Initial Shield: ((Attack Power * 0.625) OR Spell Power ) * 0.7 * 3
Additional Shields: ((Attack Power * 0.625) OR Spell Power ) * 0.7

Current 5.2 build replaces the 0.7 multiplier with 0.875, a 25% improvement.

Selects Spellpower when spec is Elemental or Restoration, Attack Power for Enhancement.

Comment by guatafu

This totem has no use on PvP, the initial absorption is like 10% of your health and around 2% for the subsequent ones. Nature's Guardian not only it's passive but it also triggers when you need it the most. Astral Shift has the potential to shut down the initial burst from a rogue. The worst part is to come: it's the same slot that Earthbind/grab uses so most likely neither will be used to their full duration.

In PvE it has a marginal use... if you remember to use it, you can't macro it to your main rotation as it is part of the GCD.

Even with the 25% buff, this is still a bad talent, it requires an entire overhaul.

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