Game Mechanics Make shaman totem fall faster

It would make totamic shatter actually viable sometimes, and I know it’s just laggy sometimes but a faster totem fall would make it so you don’t have to wait 3 seconds just for one totamic shatter to fall and deal some damage. If you don’t like faster totem fall than at least make it a mask of the fanatic perk.

 

agreed

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While you can counter it with having multiple totems, I agree
+1

 

definitely.

 

Make +ENTROPY major ID affect totem fall speed!!!!

 

I think it'd be better to have it fall at the same rate but not get thrown up as high initially, so the time decrease would be the same. This animation would be a lot cooler than one where the totem moves faster than everything else since that would be kind of jarring.

 

What if there was a shift-cast Totem function that would make it drop vertically at high velocity a short delay after casting, like after 0.8s maybe?

I'm thinking about how would making Totem naturally fall faster affect shaman's mobility, both for traveling and in combat. Making it fall faster would reduce that grace period when you can cast multiple Hauls or even Haul and an Aura, especially with Totemic Shatter since it doesn't set up a Totem. That would reduce shaman's options in combat with regards to mobility when using Totemic Shatter, which is already limited.

Giving Totem an alt-cast instead for faster shatters or even just for faster Totem setups would give players that freedom to use Totem both for mobility and for dps.

Totem's max cast height definitely shouldn't be reduced imo. There's a lot of reasons why you would want to cast it higher than usual, especially for both vertical and horizontal mobility. Taking that away just for faster shatters doesn't feel worth it imo.

 

Yes you make a good point. I think that making it into a mask of the fanatic perk would be the best option in my mind, you wouldn’t be able to spam aura as much for totamic shatter, but also totamic shatter would be much more used because it is a better damage for fanatic mask

 

Yeah that can also work! I personally wouldn't mind a change like that.