Flametongue Totem

Flametongue Totem
Flametongue Totem (8 ranks) Shaman ability 11% of base mana Instant Tools: [Fire Totem] Summons a Flametongue Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster. Party and raid members within 30 yards of the totem have their spell damage and healing increased by up to X. Lasts 5 min.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Physical
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Improvements	[Enhancing Totems], [Totemic Focus], [Mental Quickness]
Related buff
Flametongue Totem Magical damage and healing from spells and effects increased by up to X.

[[Category:shaman abilities]][[Category:shaman abilities]]

Flametongue Totem is a totem that increases spell power of party and raid members within 30 yards. It affects both damage and healing.

Rank table

Rank	Level	Spell power Granted	Cost
1	28	25	54
2	38	37	99
3	48	49	1 98
4	58	62	2 88
5	67	73	5 76
6	71	106	18
7	75	122	18
8	80	144	18

Notes

Flametongue Totem is a Fire totem, and thus cannot be used at the same time as another fire totem. Like all shaman totems it only has 5 hit points and is easily targeted and destroyed. When used in a raid group it will affect everyone in the raid who is in range.

Its effect is inferior to [Totem of Wrath], and doesn't stack with it. Hence, if another Shaman in your group uses Totem of Wrath, there is no use dropping this totem.

Talent improvement

[Enhancing Totems] increases the spell power granted by 15%.

[Totemic Focus] reduces the casting cost of the totem by 25%. [Mental Quickness] reduces the casting cost by 6%.

Tips and tactics

Some abilities, like [Healing Stream Totem] and [Earth Shield], have long durations and use the caster's spell power at the time of casting. By placing a Flametongue Totem before using such an ability, it effectively gains the bonus from the Flametongue Totem for the whole duration, while allowing the caster to move out of range or to use a different fire totem. This can be especially effective when used to boost Earth Shield before a fight in PvP.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Totem functionality completely reworked. Now grants spell power instead of causing melee attacks to deal fire damage. Totem duration increased from 2 to 5 minutes. Totem made raid wide.
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Totem duration increased to 2 minutes.
  
• Patch 1.5.0 (2005-06-07):
  • Fixed a bug where Flametongue Totems had incorrect level caps when cast by higher level shaman. All totems should now be summoned at the level of the caster.
  • Tooltip updated to clarify that only the main-hand weapon is enchanted.
    

External links

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