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Earth Elemental Totem

Earth Elemental Totem	Level 100

28.1% of base mana

Instant	5 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 58

Summons an Earth Totem with 26352 health at the feet of the caster, calling forth a Greater Earth Elemental to protect the caster and his allies. Lasts 1 min.

Spell Details

Duration

1 minute

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

28.1% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

5 minutes

GCD

1 second

Effect

Summon (Earth Elemental Totem)
Value: 1
Radius: 5 yards

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Warlords of Draenor
Shaman Changes

Comments

Comment by archz0r

Do Earth and Fire Elemental Totems share their cooldown?

Comment by RayMkII

This Totem is extremely good, contradictory to popular belief. I just used it to tank Durn the Hungerer in Nagrand. He's a level 67 elite Gronn. Our group consisted of a holy priest, elemental shaman (myself), restoration shaman, enhancement shaman and affliction warlock. Took him down with no deaths and the Elemental holding aggro nearly the entire time. One of the more fun things I've done in Outland. =)

Comment by satintern

Question:
With a 20m cooldown, does the elemental follow you for the 2minutes or is it bound to the totem?

Comment by Ritz

He uses a 'proper' taunt, unlike a voidwalker. This means you can use it to pull agro off yourself no-matter how long a mob as been stuck on you.

Comment by UnavoidableFate

I dueled a shaman with this totem to test his hp and damage soak. In my experience the earth elemental seems to gain hit points as the fight goes on; I'm not sure if this is a function of time or healing. At the start, I whacked him a couple of times, and did about 1000hp damage, and he was down to like 60% health. After his owner healed him a couple times and a few more seconds went by, another 1000hp only dropped him to 80% health. After about a minute of the fight, 1000hp of damage only seemed to do like 5-10% of his total health in damage.

More testing is needed. Can anyone confirm?

Comment by Shanir

How well does the elemental totems scale. And whit what stats?

Comment by mezziah

This earth totem, make alot of mobs easier to get down, because high dps and taunt. you can easily kill mobs that are three lvls and elite upon you.

be very happy when you get this one.

Comment by rayford

I'm pretty sure that, as of 2.1 (perhaps a hotfix), elemental totems gain a percentage of the Shaman's HP. The fire elemental also gets a percentage of the Shaman's mana. This was designed to help the totems live a bit longer, and in the case of the fire elemental, do a bit more damage.

Comment by hiikari

just curious as a low level shammy but does this elemental act like a pet with the attack command and such or is it just attack randomly?

Comment by DELPylon

Deploy against a raid in AV and watch your screen fill with "immune" messages from the elemental trying to AoE taunt them all. Likely to draw a few seconds of heavy fire as well, so in a way the taunt works.

Comment by footmaster

Is this guy immune to bleed effects? If so is it possible for it to tank Nalorakk in bear form, or at least be the target of the bleeds so one of the main tanks don't get them?

Just a thought

Comment by Ogniac

How much does the Elemental hit for? And how good is it in comparison from the Fire Elemental?

Comment by Tobbznen

Is this immune to nature in the same way all other earth elementals are?

If he is, he could be used against the Shaman in Gruul's Lair, as mere immunity to Nature won't prevent holding aggro.

Comment by Shinespark

The survivability of this thing increases quite a bit if you throw an earthshield up on him. Keeping it alive can mean slowly but surely soloing elites.

FYI: It's extremely irritating for a tank when you use this on a boss, since it taunts the mob off of him/her. And in a raid, more often than not it gets one or two-shotted anyway.

Comment by corvato

very good for shaman leveling when trying to solo group (2) or even (3). heal the pet, and DPS the mobs between taunts. Very efficient for shamans, any talent.

Comment by Kayleex

The damage mitigation that this guy is incredible. Here's an example: With guild in TK, fighting Solarion. Only had a few people dead when she went into voidy phase, but all the shammys had dropped fire elemental totems. But one, rather than just say oh well, decided to drop their earth ele....which successfully tanked 5% of Solarions health. Granted, all the healers were focusing on overhealing it, but DO NOT overlook the usefullness of this lil' guy :)

Comment by hoosemenzatta

This thing has a fairly proper taunt, takes a bit to get agro off sometimes but usually will. Can tank most elite mobs and makes group quests solo able every 20 mins. One thing, does it receive the buff from wind fury or flame tongue totem?

Comment by TheMuffinMan

He is immune to nature damage, so any nature-damage dealing bosses are completely unable to harm it.

Comment by Eudeyrn

The new 51 point enhancement talent Feral Spirit looks very interesting. They are player controlled, and have a taunt: Twin Howl. Looks like a good supplement to earth elemental totems for multiple adds.

Comment by swaggle

lay this totem down as a resto shaman while refreshing magma totem and throwing in a couple of shocks every now and then, while healing this guy, and you can solo anything.

Comment by Aaro

It's fun to use this guy in AV. Throw him down near a marker with guards, and he'll aggro every one from you while you and your team have time to capture the flag and DPS 'em to death. The same goes for any situation where there are dozens of wild mobs around you or your team. He aggros *very* well, and sometimes can even grab some aggro off of a tank. With that comes a price -- he's soft against elites, and without heals, he's a goner.

Comment by Tripster

If you prematurely dismiss an elemental, does the 2 min CD reset?

Comment by brucek2

The earth elemental is not a pet, so won't show up in your pet frame. I use this macro so I can monitor/heal it via a focus frame:

/cast Earth Elemental Totem
/target Greater Earth Elemental
/focus
/targetlasttarget

Edit: You may have to tap the key you bind this to a couple times, because there's a small delay before the Earth Elemental has spawned and can be targeted.

Comment by Azrona

Don't be like me and use it at a raidboss, especially Festergut. He taunts the boss, messes taunt rotation up and wipes the raid.

Comment by Taljin

Was just doing a quest where I had my Earth Elemental tank for me, and I came across this little gem.

"Grand Magus Telestra says: Deal with this interruption, Keldonus. After you are through, bring me the head of the one they call Greater Earth Elemental. I will decorate my chambers with her skull."

So apparently the game has this npc tagged as a female, which is an interesting touch. It would be cool to see if its Fiery counterpart was tagged as male. Has anyone else come across anything like this?

The quest in question was Dragonblight's Wanted: Magister Keldonus. If your earth elemental engages the NPC first, the above message will display. Try it for yourself.

Comment by Kurado

Just to give you an idea of the strength of this "pet", he tanked the second stage of the fight against Ingvar the Plunderer with the tank and one dps dead, and the healer still had over half of his mana left after the fight and did not have to struggle to keep him alive. It's an extremely handy tool to have in the unfortunate situation of tank deaths as it can easily take their place for a short time.

Comment by Elerie

As of the infamous 4.0.1, it's currently bugged and only helps during the first battle after activation. Henceforth it simply stands while I move to the next mobs.

Comment by skrom

I've noticed some different behavior on this guy since the patch and wondered if anyone else is seeing what I'm seeing.

As before this little lady (as per the previous comments) will taunt a mob however after watching omen for a bit I've concluded that as soon as it detects an action done by someone in a tanking spec (watched on Druid in bear form, DK in blood presence and warrior in defensive stance) it will stop taunting and won't taunt off that character for the duration of the fight.

This seems to be on any level of mob. A good tank was able to keep aggro no problem during the brann event in HoS while this was up and the elemental hasn't pulled aggro on Cyangosa in numerous runs of VH.

If you watch omen you'll see a quick spike and a sudden target change to the elemental, however as soon as the tank does their next action all threat the EE has drops away and it never seems to taunt again.

Makes this a decent pet to use in any real situation where the other totems are of little value. Which of course happens far more often then before as Devo aura and stoneskin no longer stack and a myriad of classes (and a hunter pet) can all give strength of earth.

Assuming you're not glyphed for stoneclaw (which I couldn't see too much of an argument for that in resto, though it would have its uses) you can use this with little fear in most any situation.

As an added bonus, it's possible to have this pet up and the fire one simultaneously due to resto's increased totem duration. The 2 minute cooldown remains but the increased duration allows you to cast fire elemental with around 40 seconds left on the earth elemental.

Comment by Theron

With the new talent from Restoration Totemic Focus, both elementals lasts 20% longer (2:48s), allowing you to pop the second one after the 2min cooldown and having both of them active at the same time.

Comment by daesim

I think it should be noted that Tanks deeply resent it when a Shaman pops one of these suckers during a boss fight. Nice healers let the player controlled meat-shield do his job.

Comment by Malfious

Had this guy die from a single hit on mini-bosses like Problim & the shark Tank, he seems to spawn with roughly 8k hp or so for about half a second

Comment by jjanchan

Here is a summary of information for the Earth Elemental Totem.

This ability is learned at level 58.
Earth Elemental Totem summons Greater Earth Elemental. This summoned creature is tethered to the totem, and targets that move too far away from the totem will cause the Earth Elemental to stop attacking and return to it. The MoP level 45 talent Totemic Projection will allow you to relocate your totems, thus moving the location that the Earth Elemental will tether to.
The health of the Greater Earth Elemental varies with the level and the health of the shaman, and is dictated by the HP of the shaman at the exact moment when the totem is dropped. After it is dropped, the health of the elemental will not change, even if that of the shaman does (e.g. health buffs, etc.).
As of MoP, guardians including the Earth Elemental update their stats dynamically, including haste, crit and attack power. As such, it is not essential to time the dropping of these totems with maximum procs/buffs, as they will still benefit from them even once active.
Buffs cannot be cast on the Greater Earth Elemental. It is not healed by passive heals like Healing Stream Totem or Vampiric Embrace. Due to dynamically updating stats, however, it does benefit from Bloodlust/Heroism/Time Warp and by passive buffs/auras (indirectly, through the shaman).
The attack speed of the Earth Elemental is determined by the caster's melee haste, not spell haste.
The elemental can be targeted by friendly players, and can be healed directly.
All damage dealt by the Greater Earth Elemental is physical damage. However, the amount of physical damage dealt by the elemental is determined by the spellpower of the casting shaman.
The melee attacks of the Earth Elemental can crit and can also be glancing blows. The elemental can block and dodge enemy attacks.
The Earth Elemental inherits the hit chance of the shaman that summons it - if the shaman is not hit capped, the elemental will miss at the same rate as the shaman.
This totem is an Earth totem, and as such will replace any other Earth totem you currently have active (including Stone Bulwark Totem, Earthgrab Totem and Tremor Totem).
The Greater Earth Elemental uses an AoE taunt called Angered Earth. It uses this ability at random, and it is sometimes used on cooldown by the Earth Elemental. Bosses are immune to this ability, so have no fear of taunting off the tank. That being said, it will taunt adds, so it is inadvisable to use it when add control mechanics are required.
When activated, the Greater Earth Elemental (untalented) will run to and start attacking the nearest hostile target - with a red nameplate. If there are no nearby hostile targets (e.g. neutral targets are the only ones in range, or hostile targets are very distant), the elemental assumes a defensive mode - it will only engage a target once the shaman is attacked.
As of Mists of Pandaria, the cooldown of this totem is 5 minutes and the duration is 1 minute (down from 10 minutes and 2 minutes respectively).
When activated, Earth Elemental Totem triggers a 1 minute shared cooldown on Fire Elemental Totem, and vice versa. As such, both of these elemental totems cannot be active at once.
The level 90 MoP talent Primal Elementalist supercharges the Greater Earth Elemental; this increases it's damage by 50%, and adds a pet bar to the shaman's interface, allowing you to control the elemental. As well, this talent grants the Earth Elemental 3 new abilities in addition to Angered Earth:
Harden Skin - Reduces damage taken by the Earth Elemental by 40% for the next 10 seconds.
Pulverize - A 4-second stun that can be used on the Earth Elemental's target.
Reinforce - A channeled ability that the Earth Elemental can use, reducing the damage that the shaman takes by 20% and increasing healing done by the shaman by 10% (as long as the Elemental's channel is uninterrupted).
Shortly after the Greater Earth Elemental is activated and starts attacking, it will move behind the target, and prefers to attack from there, assuming it is not tanking the target itself.

Comment by sylancer

Hearthstone: Earth Elemental

Comment by Psycic101

It seems the CD on this totem is bugged or doesn't trigger in 5.4.0

Correction.. Only seems that the CD was resetting early while solo'ing bosses in Ruby Sanctum... Haven't been back to see if it still occurs though.

Comment by Celellach

I was trying to find a list of all the minions and guardians available to players through spells, talents and glpyhs (not from items) and ended up creating one.
Hope this is useful for others as well.

Death Knight:
Ghoul - Available at level 55.
Geist - Minor glyph that changes the appearance of the Ghoul to that of a Geist.
Skeleton - Minor glyph that changes the appearance of the Ghoul to that of a Skeleton.
Undead Monstrosity - Available at level 70. Transforms the Ghoul into an Undead Monstrosity.
Gargoyle - Available at level 74.
Legion of Ghouls - Available at level 80.
Various undead - Minor glyph that changes the appearances of the Ghouls of the Army of the Dead into various undead minions.

Druid:
Treants - Available at level 60. Four different versions: Balance, Feral, Gaurdian and Restoration.

Mage:
Water Elemental - Available at level 10.
Unbound Elemental - Minor glyph that changes the appearance of the Water Elemental to that of an Unbound Elemental.

Monk:
Xuen, the White Tiger - Available at level 90.

Paladin:
Guardian of Ancient Kings - Available at level 75. Three different versions: Holy, Protection and Retribution.

Priest:
Shadowfiend - Available at level 42.
Mindbender - Available at level 45.
Sha Beast - Minor glyph that changes the appearance of the Mindbender to that of a Sha Beast.

Shaman:
Earth Elemental - Available at level 58.
Fire Elemental - Available at level 66.
Spirit Wolves - Available at level 60.
Spirit Raptors - Minor glyph that changes the appearances of the Spirit Wolves to that of Spirit Raptors.

Warlock:
Imp - Available at level 1.
Fel Imp - Available at level 75 upon learning Grimoire of Supremacy. Changes the appearance of the Imp to that of a Fel Imp.
Voidwalker - Available at level 8.
Voidlord - Available at level 75 upon learning Grimoire of Supremacy. Changes the appearance of the Voidwalker to that of a Voidlord.
Succubus - Available at level 20.
Shivarra - Available at level 75 upon learning Grimoire of Supremacy. Changes the appearance of the Succubus to that of a Shivarra.
Felhunter - Available at level 29.
Observer - Available at level 75 upon learning Grimoire of Supremacy. Changes the appearance of the Felhunter to that of an Observer.
Felguard - Available at level 42.
Wrathguard - Available at level 75 upon learning Grimoire of Supremacy. Changes the appearance of the Felguard to that of a Wrathguard.
Infernal - Available at level 49.
Abyssal - Available at level 75 upon learning Grimoire of Supremacy. Changes the appearance of the Infernal to that of an Abyssal.
Doomguard - Available at level 58.
Terrorguard - Available at level 75 upon learning Grimoire of Supremacy. Changes the appearance of the Doomguard to that of a Terrorguard.
Eye of Kilrogg - Available at level 22.

Comment by TheOldBear

Earth Elementals are powered by love.

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