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Windwalk Totem

Windwalk Totem

6% of base mana

Instant	1 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 30

Summons an Air Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster for 6 sec, granting raid members within 40 yards immunity to movement-impairing effects.

Spell Details

Duration

6 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

6% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Summon (Windwalk Totem)
Value: 5

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(PvE) [Outdated - 5.4.7]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

Raid and Class
cooldown list.

Restoration Shaman Guide

Comments

Comment by jjanchan

This ability is a Tier 2 talent for shamans. This tier is the movement utility tier - abilities either enhance the shaman's movement or impair the movement of enemies.

Other talents in this tier include Earthgrab Totem and Frozen Power.

The most obvious benefits of this tier are those in PvP, allowing for escape or hindering enemies from chasing or fleeing.

This totem can have some raid utility, depending on the mechanics of the encounter. Notable examples as of this post include Hagara in Dragon Soul, Heroic Rotface in Icecrown Citadel and Acidmaw of the Beasts of Northrend encounter in Trial of the Crusader. There are many instances where it is useful on trash as well.

UPDATE: In MoP the most notable encounter for which this totem has been useful is The Stone Guard, on Normal or Heroic difficulty (first boss of Mogushan Vaults). The extra mobility can come in very handy, as the entire raid is often slowed, and the encounter calls for quick movement for the boss mechanics.

Comment by Dilbo

Take paladins' Hand of Freedom, extend the CD from 25 sec to 1 min and make it a "raid wide" buff. That's what you get with windwalk totem.

For pvp this is NOT worth taking over Frozen Power if you play as enhancement. If you play as elemental or resto then you'd be better served with Earthgrab Totem in most scenarios. There are very few instances in pve where a raid-wide snare/root immunity would be beneficial but this is clearly a pve-intended talent as a 1 min CD is too long for this to be practical in pvp.

In my opinion windwalk should have been baseline for the shaman class with the same 25 sec CD as hand of freedom. The talent would buff the baseline talent, extending the CD to 1 min and making it raid-wide.

Prior to this patch, enhancement had a talent that allowed earthbind totem to remove slowing effects (not roots) with each pulse. This was infinitely more useful and had better synergy with the shaman class than this does and along with frozen power should have been made baseline for enhancement.

Comment by gunner007

Great for Stone Guard during Cobalt Overloads. Making it incredibly easy to clear multiple mines without being snared after hitting each one.

Comment by charlievo22

It is also noteworthy that this totem is removing the petrification debuffs the ads apply on the trash mobs on the way to Elegon and Will of the Emperor

Comment by guatafu

It's not part of, nor does it trigger the global cooldown.

Comment by illiterate

With Totemic Persistence talent, you can use this macro to break roots and reduce the cd of this totem to 35 sec without wasting a gcd:

#showtooltip windwalk totem
/cast windwalk totem
/click TotemFrameTotem4 RightButton

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