My shaman totem is killing me... please help

Before starting my Shaman profile I decided on doing a half summoner-half acolyte build. This was a mistake because clearly no one in their right mind should choose an acolyte build for doing anything besides wars.

The instant I place a totem down, my health (which is currently around 3.1k as a lvl 52 shaman), gets absolutely shredded. This was made worse when I got "More Blood Pool I" but I digress. My 3000 health goes down to 500-1ooo in a matter of seconds, making any mob fight with large numbers of enemies or boss practically impossible without chugging 5 potions per second. I was able to deal with it for a while, until now where my totem literally killed me while draining my health for the blood pool.

I really want to keep using acolyte because of the buffs and abilities, but I seriously can't stand this health drop. I've died countless times because of it by now. If there is any way to cull the effect or fix this please tell me.

 

Casting Aura heals you

Be sure to read full ability descriptions. Sacrificial Shrine will siphon 2% of your HP per 0.4 seconds and fill up a Blood Pool of equal value. Casting Aura drains 15% of your Blood Pool and heals 15% of your Max HP. Getting the Rebound ability will cast Aura twice, meaning a 30% HP heal for 15% Blood Pool cost. You can get additional totems too to slightly increase your heal amount

 

somebody didn't read their abilities, aura will heal you and consume from your blood pool

 

yep... then it drains it right back up again. it heals me for like 200-500 anyways not enough to stop myself from dying when against lots of mobs. Also I don't have infinite mana either. I usually only have enough to cast aura once or twice while fighting when Im casting other spells.

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Even with aura and rebound im still losing about half my health whenever I throw a totem during a fight. I've read the ability descriptions, I know what they do, but it makes me lose health so fast I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong.

 

Heals less the less hp you have

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less % hp u have*

 

Double Totem usually makes it a bit easier as well as Fluid Healing (water damage% helps a lot). Generally if you're running Acolyte, you should be using Double Totem for survivability purposes (also it's a free Aura spell with no extra mana cost). 1 Totem w/ Rebound should be 15% Blood Pool = 30% HP heal whereas 2 Totems = 30% Blood Pool = 40% HP heal. Fluid Healing can work wonders here as I'm pretty sure it doesn't scale down depending on the number of totems active. Aura with Rebound also takes a little less than 2 seconds to fully cast, so make sure you're getting hit by both Aura Waves as casting Aura again during those 2 seconds will cancel the initial cast and also drain Blood Pool, resulting in a big loss of health since you essentially cancelled your heal spell.

If you're using anything with the Furious Effigy Major ID, that will double the speed at which your Totems drain health but it won't boost the speed of Aura, which makes it more difficult to work with

 

Just go summoner and get regeneration then just switch back to acolyte when you're max level

 

Tbh I might just do that. I will have to make another build plan until I'm max then.

 

Rebound is basically required for Acolyte, because it heals on rebound.