World Shaman Ability: 'totem' Cancelling.

So I have been playing Shaman for the last week and I have got confused about 'where has my Totem gone' in the middle of the Boss fights... Today I clumsily realized it was because I moved through my hotbar. I have found it particularly difficult to boss fight, especially in dungeons, as shaman being a class with minimal defense, it makes it being not able to damage thoroughly because I need to drink potions to therefore 'sustain' in fights.

The 'Totem' is the shamans main damaging ability without it you cannot combo with your 'Haul' OR your 'Aura' in which both are seriously needed within big fights. Shaman therefore relies on a lot of abilities and drops mana quiet fast. This quickly links onto the Shaman tragically taking large chunks of damage from its low amount of defense. In a common reaction you would drink either a healing potion or a mana potion (if you don't have any mana). However by doing this you have just canceled your Totem. Your main source of crowd control,whilst already being caught between a powerful boss who is now laying hits on you. If you are a Shaman you would usually counter this by using the 'Haul' ability to escape the boss' wrath BUT you CAN'T as by drinking that healing potion in this teamfight you have canceled your 'Totem' your main ability and now you cannot Haul out of this dangerous chained situation. The only escape out of this is summoning ANOTHER TOTEM which costs you mana and time ,in which you probably are going to take damage unless you are some juking god as a rather slow Shaman, this will cause you to drink another health potion in reaction as you are on low health, mana potion because you can't afford the 'Haul' or dodge which is VERY LIKELY to be fatal, this chain repeats itself in every boss fight making you only able to defeat bosses successfully in teamfights if you can burst damage at the beginning.

However this does get better the further you progress as you can get more mana into your builds and therefore do more damage at the beginning. Besides that it makes potions a 'weakness' to the shaman and not a 'strength' as the 'Totem' heal has no-where near enough to survive.

 

How about haul away first, then use pots?

 

To play shaman you have to put every skill points in intelligence so you have a better mana regen. The Shaman is the class with the highest base damage so you deal a lot of damages. Shaman is a class based on mobility and crowd-control, what i do is throwing the totem near mobs and spam aura to keep them close to it and then i stay away from the totem so i can be quite safe. The shaman class is based on the totem, a skilled shaman throws his totem very often. It will just take a bit of time to be used but you will be.
Good luck ^^

 

This isn't true, but ok.

 

At low level it works for me lmao (~lv 40)

 

Yeah, at high level it does aswell? I never said you couldn't put everything in int.
You said, and I qoute "...You have to put every skill point into intellagince..."

 

How about the Totem cancels in a few seconds unless you switch back to the same weapon

 

What about getting uproot level 3 so it resets the time before the totem dissapears ? (Yeah ik it's for level 66 or something like it)

 

Shaman is not supposed to be easy to play.