Raid: Get Windfury when not in Windfury Group

[greengoo]

Obviously every melee wants to be in the "melee group". Mostly this means access to a windfury totem. Of course, there aren't enough shaman for every melee to have a windfury totem all the time..... Or are there?

You may be familiar with a concept called "Totem" twisting, by which a shaman trades same-element totems and through proper drop and recall timing, the melee get the effects of BOTH totems simultaneously.


This is similar, but a bit different from Totem Twisting. The way this works its that every 8 seconds you swap two people back and forth between the melee group and the "off" group. If done with the proper rythem, both players will have windfury the WHOLE time.

It takes some micromanagement, but can give you an extra boost of DPS if you don't have enough shaman to run 2 windfury groups. Enjoy!


--Tested and working on Live servers today, February 24 2008.

edit for "screenshot or it didn't happen"


Note me: the half AFK paladin in group 2. I am constantly swapping myself with Enst, a warrior in Group 5. We both carry the windfury buff about 90% of the time, the other 10% at least one of us has it. Note the groups on the left, and my WF buff in the upper right.

[Murlock.]

Well as many have stated "SS or it didn't happen". But it sounds legit!

[greengoo]

Update for the doubter <3

[13lackheart]

any shammy that doesnt know about totem twisting, might as well quit that game

[Aradroth]

You might as well have someone on deck swap the shaman.

[akamaz]

Isn't this common knowledge? Given that you're only up to Void Reaver I guess it would be new to you but... yeah.

Nice contribution anyway

[Krajin]

Isn't this common knowledge? Given that you're only up to Void Reaver I guess it would be new to you but... yeah.

Nice contribution anyway

that sounded cocky as hell xD Was a nice contribute tho i agree ^^

[Martognigno]

Ok, so u want to tell me that the raid leader have to lose every 8 seconds 2 seconds for swaping ppl around? If yes it's not that cool as it sounds. Tho it's not much of a difference - last night was out of melee grp and was only on 0.2% after the other 2 rogues.

[ryoka]

Isn't this common knowledge? Given that you're only up to Void Reaver I guess it would be new to you but... yeah.

Nice contribution anyway

VR on 1% with a little less then 5 mins on enrage, I don't think they're "only up to" Void Reaver.

On Topic: Nice find even though it takes some focussing.

[bluesius]

lawl sounds like a bit of work, so i duno if its worth it^^

[Dorrien]

VR on 1% with a little less then 5 mins on enrage, I don't think they're "only up to" Void Reaver.

On VR with T6 seems abit odd aswell

[suttin]

i thought you couldnt swtich groups in combat...

[holmedog]

Sounds like it would be great if you had an addon that would do it for you.

[Katsivelos]

sounds good!

[TforTyranth]

On VR with T6 seems abit odd aswell

can i get an amen?