Fire Nova Totem

Fire Nova Totem
Fire Nova Totem 15 seconds cooldown 33% of base mana Instant cast Tools: [Fire Totem] Summons a Fire Nova Totem that has 5 health and lasts 5 sec. Unless it is destroyed within 4 sec., the totem inflicts X fire damage to enemies within 10 yd.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Fire
Casting time	Instant cast
Cooldown	15 seconds
Radius	10 yd
Talents
Improvement talents	See below
Other information
Ranks	9

• Fire Nova Totem
• 33% of base mana
• Instant cast
• Tools: [Fire Totem]
• Summons a Fire Nova Totem that has 5 health and lasts 5 sec. Unless it is destroyed within 4 sec., the totem inflicts X fire damage to enemies within 10 yd.

Fire Nova Totem was a shaman offensive totem for the sole purpose to give out damage to the caster's enemies (mobs and players alike). With patch 3.3 it was replaced by the Shaman spell Fire Nova.

Rank table

Rank	Damage	Level	Cost
1	48 - 56	12	8
2	102 - 116	22	30
3	184 - 208	32	80
4	281 - 217	42	1 60
5	396 - 442	52	2 70
6	518 - 578	61	3 40
7	654 - 730	70	8 80
8	755 - 843	75	18
9	893 - 997	80	18

Talents

Talents that could improve the totem:

	Talent Points Needed	Type	Description	Talent Points Available
	5	Restoration	Totemic Focus	5
	5	Elemental	Call of Flame	5
	15	Elemental	Improved Fire Nova Totem	2

Notes

• The totem immediately drew aggro from mobs once it is put on the ground, causing them to attack and destroy often before it does any damage. Patch 3.0.8 removed this threat generation.
• In addition to increased damage, the Improved Fire Nova Totem talent would give it a 50 or 100% chance to stun mobs damaged by its blast for 2 seconds.
• Useless against high Fire resistant players/mobs.
• Second longest cooldown for a totem (if we exclude the Mana Tide Totem talent spell).

Tips

This totem could be situationally useful in PvP. It could even be used in 1v1 PvP as a way to burst DPS.

There was however a strategy you could follow without said talent against crowds of low (or not so low) level mobs, dropping a Stoneclaw Totem and drawing aggro from you/your mates it was possible to release a Fire Nova Totem without it claiming the attention, you could even use a Magma Totem thereafter in order to finish off remaining mobs.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.3.0 (08-Dec-2009): This totem has been replaced with a new spell, Fire Nova, which is available at the same ranks as the old Fire Nova Totem. Existing characters will automatically learn this new spell in place of the totem. With a Fire Totem active, shamans will be able to use Fire Nova (fire magic) to emit the same area-of-effect damage as the old Fire Nova Totem from the active Fire Totem, not consuming the totem in the process. Fire Nova will activate a 1.5-second global cooldown when used and has a 10-second spell cooldown. The caster must be within 30 yards of the totem to use this ability, but does not need to be within line of sight of the totem.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): Now no longer generates threat.
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (25-Mar-2008): Will no longer sometimes detonate without doing any damage.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): The tooltip for Fire Nova Totem now correctly reflects the damage the totems deal.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07): Fixed a bug where Fire Nova Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman. All totems should now be summoned at the level of the caster.