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Tremor Totem

Tremor Totem

2.3% of base mana

Instant	1 min cooldown

Requires Shaman
Requires level 54

Summons an Earth Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that shakes the ground around it for 10 sec, removing Fear, Charm and Sleep effects from party and raid members within 30 yards.

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Nature

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

2.3% of base mana

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

1 minute

GCD

1 second

Effect

Summon (Tremor Totem)
Value: 5

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Comments

Comment by Archangel

How often does this tremor? Does it do it constantly, making all party members virtually immune to fear, charm, and sleep for the duration? It seems like a very powerful totem, but I asked a shaman friend of mine the other day how good it was and he replied, "Whats a tremor totem?"...I got my answer there =P

~Archangel

Comment by ajmontroy

Pretty good in PvP or WC.
The druids sleep in WC is really annoying but this clears it right up.

Comment by PrimEviL

Is this applicable in fear fights in PvE?

Comment by boo9ni

this totem looks extremly powerfull for fighting priests and walocks, but it will be working your way about 1 of 3 or 4 times, because unless you are slowed you will run away from the totems radius by the time it pulses. i supose this is to make a counter to the ally priests "fear ward" but that is ,even if it is one target only, way superior! i think blizzard cant be avare of this problem or they would buff/fix it.

Comment by soultwister

Does it remove sleep done by boss in SM:Cathedral?

Comment by FeyakGorale

Looking through the notes here, the tremor totem only removes the Charm effects of seduction and "mind control totem" Why would it not remove other "charmed" effects like the Priest's MC? or certain PVE mobs in the Coilfang Reservoir, I think the instance was Slave pens.

sorry if this has been stated before in the past, it's just honestly kinda out there to think that it doesn't remove those effects

Comment by vmega

In the WotLK shadow priest's fear makes us run in HORROR for 4 sec..This totem still works?

Comment by Senka

Does anyone know if this becomes raid-wide in expansion like so many other totems?

Comment by delrodo

Is anyone noticing that tremor totem knocking stuff off right away?

Comment by Andrelise

3.0.8 patch notes say the duration on tremor totem will increase from 2 minutes to 5 minutes.

Comment by Mikerocks

Someone was telling me that Tremor Totem breaks Polymorph. Is this correct? I was under the impression that it didn't, but I'll have to test it I guess. =P

Comment by fops

"Now properly pulses every 3 seconds."

Dang ;p

Comment by Benegesserit

The totem was crap at 3 seconds. Very unreliable otherwise.

Comment by Flurrius

ive been thinking. if tremor totem now pulses every 5 secs, then, if u got feared at the right time, then couldnt u range the totem before it ticked?

Comment by ugmuck

When I first saw this totem, I wondered what in the world was it good for.

Then I spent time in Wailing Caverns fighting the Druids of the Fang and their snakes that can put you to sleep.

There is nothing more worthless than a Shaman sleeping while the rest of the party is taking it on the chin!

So I changed my approach by using the Tremor Totem in order to stay awake with a Water Shield to pull mana from being hit and doing Lesser Wave Heals on the tanks using Set Focus while fighting hand to hand with anything that actually reached me by targeting the attacker and sometimes throwing down a Searing Totem in order to help nibble down the various attackers.

And if ranged weapon attackers can stay in the radius, that is even better.

Comment by versachy

Can somebody help me! I can use Tremor Totem if i am enhancement shaman?
I put Tremor Totem but it didn't works.
When i put Tremor Totem i can see it in the game but it doesn't see it like other buffs in the top right corner of the screen.

Comment by decrepitbeef

Excellent totem for the Paletress encounter in Trial of the Champion. It breaks the Waking Nightmare, preventing a lot of damage from going out to the entire party. This can save you from a wipe.

Comment by Aaro

For 4.0.6, this totem is being redesigned. As it stands right now:

Summons a Tremor Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that shakes the ground around it, removing Fear, Charm and Sleep effects from party members within 30 yards. Lasts 5 min.

According to the new patch notes, the following will change:

The totem is now usable under Fear, Charm, or Sleep effects, and pulses much more rapidly, but lasts 6 seconds and has a 1-minute cooldown.

People are so quick to assume it's a nerf, when it's clearly a buff for both PvE and PvP. The issue with the old Tremor Totem was that you had to pre-empt a fear -- even when you had Tremor Totem out, it's not always going to be on the appropriate tick when the fear hits, so you may have to wait out most of the fear for that pulse to work. In Dungeons and BGs, you were giving up an Earth totem slot whenever it was out, and in general PvP, it's difficult to predict when a fear/charm is going to hit. (There are two awesome totems you're already trying to manage in PvP: Grounding Totem and Earthbind Totem.)

Because of the new redesign, it's now, officially, an instant party-wide dispel AoE. It's on a one-minute cooldown, but it's so powerful that it doesn't matter; I'm pretty sure the cooldown is only there to raise Warlock self-esteem. In PvE, you aren't likely to face a fear every minute, but when you *are* feared (or a party member is feared and finds they're running toward a large batch of mobs), you can drop this and remove it. In PvP, one minute makes this one of the shortest guaranteed anti-fear cooldowns available, allowing you time to rotate between Grounding and Earthbind.

Comment by T0yK4T

I'm not sure if this is a bug, or actually intended,
apparently you cannot drop this totem on the ground when you are "Horrified" by a shadow priest.
Since this mechanic in my eyes works just like a fear I'm surprised that I can't drop my totem while under that specific effect.

Also, I'm almost sure that the totem removes the "Horrified" effect if the totem is placed on the ground BEFORE the spell is cast.
- This is unconfirmed, anyone able to confirm this?

Comment by homegrove

Now you can place this totem, while you are UNDER the effects of Fear, Sleep or Charm. Very useful, but I am curious as to whether the effect will be cleansed immediately, or if you have to wait for a pulse? Considering it now lasts for 6 secs, either way it would have to activate rather quickly I assume.

Comment by Jezzibella

This seems particularly OP in PvP.

Consider the QQing over Will of the Forsaken - for those not aware of the history it never used to share CD with the PvP trinket - and because 1 race in 10 could remove 3 different (spammable) CC effects it was deemed so broken it warranted a change. e.g. forsaken could break mind control, or the succubus charm, or Hunter sleep, or priest/lock fear. Once, every two minutes. Now it triggers a 30 second cooldown on the PvP trinket.

Consider then, this totem. It is to all intents and purposes WOTF for your entire party but without sharing a CD, or triggering the PvP trinket. No longer do you need to perhaps *think* about the correct usage of this totem, you can simply drop it when you are feared, or cleanse your team mates. Not only does it instantly remove this effect, it prevents the effects being reapplied for the duration of the totem.

So a WOTF effect which can effect anywhere from 1 to 40 people.

Earlier replies claimed that it's needed because you'll be subjected to 54 seconds of "spammable fear" is absolute garbage. Shadowpriests can't spam fear. Locks can - so you totem out of the first one, then DR means the second one lasts barely any time at all. I fail to see your logic there, CC can only be spammed for so long and when you have an arbitrary get-out-of-jail-free card for your ENTIRE PARTY for the first longest one, that strikes me as being, frankly, churlish to suggest you are somehow at any form of disadvantage.

As has been mentioned you have wind shear to interrupt enemy casts/CC, grounding totem to negate casters if they DO manage to cast past wind shear, hex as a further interrupt and purge to remove any CC that hits your teammates. And this. Oh, and ghost wolf to give outstanding mobility. And the ability to cast while walking. Oh and earthbind totem so any melee that gets in your face won't be there for long!

You have *no concept* how lucky you are right now, there's a reason shaman are elbowing all other healers out of competitive PvP and this is one of them. I genuinely struggle to understand how any shaman can look at their class and honestly spot a flaw.

Shaman fanboys downrating doesn't make this any less true.

Comment by illiterate

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

#showtooltip tremor totem
/cast tremor totem
/click TotemFrameTotem1 RightButton

Comment by Skinnywigger

In WoD tremor totem is going to be nerfed: You won't be able to use tremor totem while CC'd, so pretty much like the pre-cata version of tremor totem.

Source: https://twitter.com/holinka/status/493652567532908544

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