Cleansing Totem (shaman ability)

Cleansing Totem
Cleansing Totem Level 38 shaman ability 8% of base mana Instant Tools:  [Water Totem] Summons a Cleansing Totem with 5 health at the feet of the caster that attempts to remove 1 disease and 1 poison effect from party members within 30 yards every 3 seconds. Lasts 5 min.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Nature
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Radius	30 yd
Other information
Level learned	38
Requirements	[Water Totem]
Improvements	[Totemic Focus]

Cleansing Totem is a shaman ability available at level 38. It places a totem at the feet of the shaman that attempts to remove 1 poison and 1 disease effect from nearby party members every 3 seconds. It is the result of the combination of [Poison Cleansing Totem] and [Disease Cleansing Totem].

Talent improvement

Talents that can improve the totem:

• [Totemic Focus]

Tips

Useful for dealing with mobs that constantly deals out disease debuffs when soloing.

Most useful when dealing with mobs or bosses that can afflict diseases on several party members.

The totem will cleanse all members within the effective radius, thus keeping the party in peak performance. Not to mention this will save the shaman some mana as opposed to cleansing one by one.

Notes

Earthmender Duarn references Cleansing Totem's removal in one of his random comments.

• Earthmender Duarn says: I fail to understand why they banned totemic cleansing. No one was ever in range, anyways.

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Removed.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Poison Cleansing Totem and Disease Cleansing Totem have been merged into Cleansing Totem. Cleansing Totem pulses every 3 seconds, down from 5.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB