Grounding totem, more than it say

[Lextazzz]

Hello to everyone on mmowned. i have been member here for a while but havnt managed to get out of leecher status.

I dont rly have many exploits that i have found myself or havnt been posted, tho here's one:

Grounding totem says to absorb one harmfull spell, and no more. I've found that it soaks up every spell that is cast at the same time. Say for e.x that u meet a multiboxer with 5x ele shamans and u see they starting to cast their spells and voila grounding totem steals them all. This works for all spells as long as they are cast inte the same time.

Hope this helped someone

[[Blaze]]

I see no real good scenario, 1 totem sucks up 5 spells. Kind of useless.

I mean good job?

I dunno.

[Sir Valden]

working as intended if they are cast at the same time they are both grounded

[Ultimateshadow]

It is working is intended since it has always been like that, but you are right that the tooltip is misleading.

[Lextazzz]

but it's not working as intended if it says absorbs ONE harmfull spell, thats the point. It soaks up all spells cast against u that come off at the same time. It could be 5 lightning balls and 1 pyroblast and yeah i name it as long as they coem off against u at the same time.

[Ferag]

You are correct in your observation. Spell Reflect can reflect as many spells as are cast at the same time, so can many other similar abilities.

[Cern]

Thats true!

[ero-sennin]

I wouldn't call it an exploit... Maybe old common sense. But still, tooltip is wrong.

[Herleybob]

Thanks. Didnt know this.

[Enfeebleness]

This is nothing but latency.

The server sees you have the buff for grounding totem, thus the next spell goes to grounding totem. Because 5 spells were all on the exact same queue to 'go to the totem', that's exactly what they do.

The same exact same thing happens with vanish. You vanish, but the server is saying you got hit from a spell. All damage takes you out of vanish/stealth, thus, you are removed from vanish.

Blizzard can't fix latency bugs though, so this will stay.

Edit: This is also why shatter combos work. The server hasn't yet recieved the frostbolt hit, and before it does you used ice lance. Well you ice lanced while there was a frost nova, so it's a critical. The frostbolt you also cast was also under frost nova, so it should also have the increased crit rate. Thus, a shatter combo.

[moonrabbit]

For those that do the hyjal raid this comes in handy.

For the waves with necromancers in them, if a shammy puts down a grounding totem, all of the shadow bolts that the necromancers cast at the same time will be grounded.

Of course not all are cast at the same time, but usually u can ground around 3 shadow bolts, eases the pressure for the healers.

[-Scooby-]

i had 5 shamans multi boxing in venge/brutal :S

was not happy! u got killed in like 2 secs (csat time of chain lighting) but tbh wat kind of a sad f*ck has that time on there hands :S they all had the same name so not sum1 using m8s accs...

[ubrpwnt]

Hmmmm sucks to be you scooby.

[grim412]

working as intended

[presi351]

hehe every1 that play shaman know that and this is not lag lol .. it redirects until it is destroyed :]