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Fire Elemental Totem

Fire Elemental Totem	Level 100

26.9% of base mana

Instant	5 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 66

Summons a Fire Totem with 26352 health at the feet of the caster, calling forth a Greater Fire Elemental to rain destruction on the caster's enemies. Lasts 1 min.

Spell Details

Duration

1 minute

School

Fire

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

26.9% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

5 minutes

GCD

1 second

Effect

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

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Comments

Comment by Archangel

I would assume that this totem, despite the 20 min cooldown, would be half the power of, say, a mages Water Elemental or a Druids treants. The fact that shaman not only get two summon spells, but they are baseline rather than talents, makes it quite inapropriate to make them too powerful.

My money is on roughly 200 damage per hit, about 2 second speed, and roughly 1000 hitpoints. Not amazing, but a nice boost =) Plus at level 70 I think the only thing these could be used for it a little DPS boost in PvE. They would likely be too weak to use in PvP.

Also, unfortunately, the cooldown is 20 min. which means that they cannot be use in the arena. I think the real reason they were put here is more for novelty than real effectiveness. Many other classes get a summon (Mages, Priests, Druids, Locks) so why can't shaman?

But I have a question as well;
Does destoying the totem destroy the elemental? Hope not lol

~Archangel

Comment by Boshnak

The totem's health is based off of a percentage of it's caster's health.
"Fire Elemental Totem: This pet will now come into the game with full health and mana, including that gained from a percentage of its master's stamina and intellect. It will also now properly get increased stamina from a percentage of its master's stamina. "

I will comment on whether or not the +spell damage or Call of Flame has a bearing on it's attacks after I hit a high enough level to use it.

Comment by g3ust

I don't actually have this yet, and i was wondering, can u have a fire elemental AND an earth elemental out at the same time? I ask because you can have one of each different element totem out at the same time.

Comment by sidewinder3121

I just hope in this up comming expansion they'll add ranks to them and add water and air elemental totems that would be sweet. I betcha there already trying to use this idea any one have any idea's on the water and air elementals would do that'd be sweet also. Woot Go Shamans!!!!

Comment by rynrlz213

If your lucky he'll crit 1.1 fire novas

Comment by rynrlz213

Also just like any other fire totem it is affected by your spell dmg.

Comment by Flygplats

Since it only has 20 minutes CD, it should be usable in arenas? If im not mistaken, 30mi CD's can't be used, but 20 minute CD's can.

Wondering since i've never ever seen a shaman use this vs. me in the arena.

edit: thanks for the replies, downrate me plox! :)

Comment by errosync

Are they planning on implementing a small pet bar to the summoned elementals? I know we're not a class defined by having pets, but I see no reasy we shouldn't be able to have some control over our summons if priests's shadowfiends have been given the same petbar.

Comment by darkakuma

This has a 20min cooldown, so you cant use it in arena... Arena Requires Less than 15min...

But in patch 3.0.8 they are changing the "Glyph of Fire Elemental totem" -reduces the cooldown of your Fire Elemental by 10 min... meaning you can use it in arena...

This info is from mmo-champion.com

Comment by UndeadWarlock

It would be interesting to see if Blizzard could somehow work in elemental totems of other types, such as water or wind. Water would likely be either a heal elemental or ranged DPS with a Replenishment type effect. I don't know what a Air Elemental could possibly be, maybe melee DPS?

Comment by TokiLoki

This spell would be nice if worked like pets. Every other class in the game controls their summons except shaman.

Its effects seem to be a mix of Magma Totem, and Fire Nova, plus strong single target hits. A very nice totem in itself.

Its flaw is that it has no pet bar to attack the target you want, it wont even target your target like shadowfeind or treants. You drop it and it will attack some mob 100 yards away rather than the one in front of you. It also has a short leash and is stuck in one spot. It also has a long ass CD. 20 minutes its uncalled for.

(offnote-earth elemental sucks too, Blizz, plz come to your senses and balance. I can see a potential problem with Feral Spirit, but just make it so the two can't be used together).

Also, btw. Shaman are not the only class to control multiple pets, druids and mages will be at it as well.

Comment by Torri

its just like an army of death for shaman

Comment by enjoyspite

I have a friend that lives inside my totem. You want to see him? He's shy, he only comes out once every 5 minutes.

He's the only thing that keeps the wolpertingers at bay.

Comment by Sas148

Improved the scaling (hp, damage, mana) of the Fire Elemental in 3.1, most importantly though, they are decreasing the mana costs of his spells while increasing his mana pool. That means he won't use two spells and then go OOM anymore.

Comment by Arlond345

Wait the cool down on this is getting lowered to 10min in 3.3, but the glyph lowers the cool down 10min and it hasn't been changed yet, so is this going to be instant CD with glyph?

Comment by Veum

No way m8, the reincarnation CD is also beeing reduced down to 30 minand the totem from dire maul and the talent is also getting "nerfed", tho it will "only" have a 10min CD making the 7 pointer very nais for BGs (We'll be like the DKs was at the start oof wotlk XD). with the talent i belive one will get a total of 20min cd aldo you are sacrefising 7 points just to be able to ress after u die so i belive that the only shaman that might do this would be some pvp restos and prob some eles that wanna reborn and blow ppl out from the LM flag in AB, =)

Enyhows this spell is kinda useless in the current endgame raid TOC since it has a 20min cd it can only used 1/2 times trough out the instance pending on the time you use to deliver loot, wipe, etc. with no failing i used this on jaraxxsas and had it ready just b4 anub died so id rather use magmatotem, and with the new patch firenova will just apply to your current totem instead of creating a 2nd.

Comment by swineflu

anyone know if using this guy for Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy!; will you still get achievement since when used, you cant loot corpses ?

Comment by elderhook

Here's a question: the tooltip for resilience states, "Provides x% damage reduction against all damage done by players and their pets or minions."

Since the fire elemental is a "guardian" and not a pet/minion AND it is a guardian of the totem, is resilience applied to the damage it does?

Comment by Arkhirion

It probably doesn't concern anyone at all what its exact skills are but I'll just drop this here:

Comes with:
Melee attack (Deals Fire damage.)
Fire Nova (Deals AoE Fire-damage close to his melee damage)
Fire Blast (Deals mediocre Fire damage.)
Fire Shield(Deals low Fire damage on hit.)

Yes these are the proper spell ID's to its skillset.

Most damage done, around 70%, will still come from its Melee-attacks except in AoE situations where it truly shines.

Single Target it is a reliable skill to use for Elemental(and/or Restoration) shamans.
However I believe Enhancement Shamans will rarely see use of this spell in single target PvE situations.
Searing Totem is very valuable in increasing Lava Lash damage.

Just my 2 cents.

Comment by arkensis

The Item - Shaman T12 Elemental 2P Bonus on Volcanic Regalia originally came with a chance that Lightning Bolt would reset the cooldown on this totem completely. This allowed the Fire Elemental to be up almost 100% of the time during raid encounters.

With Patch 4.3, however, the set bonus was modified to give Lightning Bolt a 30% chance to reduce the cooldown by 4 seconds, likely in order to prevent Elemental Shaman from retaining their Tier 12 through the new content.

Comment by Femasham

Why does everyone assume that the elemental living inside of this totem is a male?
For all we know, male and female fire elementals might look alike, and we are just summoning an ambiguous race of beings made of fire. I like to think mine is a female, strictly because she's my best friend.

Comment by PriestessAur

For Mists of Pandaria the cooldown on Fire Ele is being reduced to 5 min.

Comment by rodalpho

The devs told us exactly how Fire Elemental Totem scales with Spell Power at the link below.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/5889309137?page=182#3635

I'm pasting it here in case they retire the beta forums after release.

The Fire Elementals were stronger than we wanted, so we reduced the amount of spell power that the standard version gets to 40%, down from 55% (Primal: 60%, down from 82.5%).

Comment by Hydrae

Notice that, as of 5.3 release, your Fire Elemental, as you Searing Totem, scale directly from your spell power. I mean, directly, in live.

You do NOT have to cast it when you have intel proc to maximize its damage, so you can spare yourself one GCD by pre-cast it. If your cast it when you have intel / spell power proc, your beloved elemental will loose the buff when you will.
Also, as mentioned before, it do NOT scale with your secondary stats (crit, haste, and obviously, mastery).

Comment by sylancer

Hearthstone: Fire Elemental

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 soapface

When timed and used correctly, this can be the totem that can boost your DPS by @#$%loads.
Enhancement shamans can pull easily over 1M DPS with this totem and other cooldowns used correctly.

My newly leveled enhancement shaman (500ilvl) can burst to 250k mostly because of this totem.

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