Enhancement Shaman Review of Totemic Hero Talents - Totems in Search of a Cause
Blizzard revealed nearly all the Hero Talent Trees with the launch of the War Within Alpha and subsequent builds.
Our Enhancement Shaman guide writer, Wordup, offers an early review of the Totemic Hero Talents that introduce the new Surging Totem, but struggleto enhance the remaining totems or the core of Enhancement gameplay.
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Totemic Enhancement Shaman Review
Hero talents are the new primary combat system for The War Within, with each specialization having access to two heavily themed bonus talent trees to choose from. As a reminder, unlike on our current class and spec talent trees, every single node on your selected Hero Talent tree is granted — you may choose between Stormbringer or Totemic and then have some additional smaller choice nodes on the tree selected. Following up from our initial reveal of Stormbringer, we quickly got the follow-up with a broader link to classic Shaman theming in Totemic. I'm going to rip the band-aid off at the start before getting deeper and say the tree is a big miss for me, and while it tries to be on theme, the execution and gameplay impacts it has are a complete flop — and it has nothing to do with the totem theme itself surprisingly enough. This entire tree lacks a cohesive direction, and due to that, it feels like it's trying to include everything while doing nothing well, all while breaking down foundational gameplay aspects of «Enhancement» without replacing them with something interesting.
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