If you or anyone else want to join up I'm going to be playing when the patch drops with my RL bros.
I don't think I'll play enough to consistently group but I'll probably level another duel fire totem toon. You guys play HC I assume?
Ill be playing SC this time around until I learn the hardest difficulty of the raid. It comes out Friday the 11th but the manifesto about nerfs / buffs is going to be out by the end of this week Bex posted.
Not necessarily. Consider it like this, a normal build will cast the same skill 2-4times to kill everything. Now castspeed and shit makes it fast, but almost no build kills everything in only one usage of the skill, you generally stop, cast twice or so if using a strong build, kill everything, move on. Now the difference is instead of casting 2-4times the same skill, you instead cast 2 different skills once or twice. Because of the way the dot spread and probably doesn't stack, a single application is all you want to do, then you move on and stuff dies as you're moving(you'll need a good item filter for it though). I'm really not sold on the slow/dmg increase one either, I think single dot > spread is all you're gonna do, the other shit seems meh unless you put it on a totem or use it in some sort of weird support build.
Just ask if there is anything you need help with, this game has a steep learning curve in every aspect. I think it took me over a year of playing to be able to make my own builds that worked at the high end and really understand the meta shifts.
Your totems use your stats when they cast to determine stuff, so yeah your spell damage affects totems. Your totem damage also affect totems. The downside with totems is positionning(in some cases), targetting, the possibility they die and spelltotem itself has a cast speed penalty. Oh and since you need to spend points on totem related nodes in the tree, you'll have less points in casting spell or survivability stuff. But generally speaking, almost everything that affects you also affects totems. You can't give charges to totems though(power/frenzy charge), however if you have the charges yourself they'll use the speed/crit from the charges to cast so that also works.