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Grounding Totem

Spell

Grounding Totem

Nature

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Shaman

Instant cast25 sec cooldownSelf Only

Summons an Air Totem with 5% of the caster's health at the feet of the caster that will reflect one harmful spell cast on a nearby party member back at the caster, destroying the totem.

Grounding Totem

Tooltip

Summons an Air Totem with 5% of the caster's health at the feet of the caster that will reflect one harmful spell cast on a nearby party member back at the caster, destroying the totem. Will not redirect area of effect spells. Lasts 15 sec.

How it works

Casting it triggers a 1 sec global cooldown.

  1. Effect 1 is Summon (effect type 28). Its base value is 5.

What it does

Grounding Totem is a Nature spell with an instant cast, no range (it targets the caster), a 25 sec cooldown and effects that last 15 sec. When cast it summons a creature.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolNature
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Cooldown25 sec
Global cooldown1 sec
GCD categoryCategory id 133
Duration15 sec
Effect #1Summon (28)
Value: 5
Misc value: 5925, 3406

Raw client values from the MoP Classic client, build 5.5.4.70631. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 10 separate Spell records named "Grounding Totem". This page is record #8177. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#8178duration: until cancelled; effect types: Area Aura (Party)A different effect setup
#34079duration: 45 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#65989school: Physical; duration: 45 sec; different tooltip textA variant record
#204336used by: Restoration Shaman; effect types: noneA different owner
#242900effect types: noneA different effect setup
#254416effect types: noneA different effect setup
#372519effect types: noneA different effect setup
#397324effect types: noneA different effect setup
#397325effect types: noneA different effect setup
#397326effect types: noneA different effect setup

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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