B2B Live TBC 2.4.3

Von UnavoidableFate (1,513 – 6·19) am 2007.03.08 (Patch 2.0.10)

I dueled a shaman with this totem to test his hp and damage soak. In my experience the earth elemental seems to gain hit points as the fight goes on; I'm not sure if this is a function of time or healing. At the start, I whacked him a couple of times, and did about 1000hp damage, and he was down to like 60% health. After his owner healed him a couple times and a few more seconds went by, another 1000hp only dropped him to 80% health. After about a minute of the fight, 1000hp of damage only seemed to do like 5-10% of his total health in damage.

defektunge am 2007.01.28 (Patch 2.0.6)

The elemental is indeed much better than people give it credit for. I've used it to tank various elites and instance bosses (and I mean Outland ones!) with great success. He has fairly low hp - presumably to reduce his effectiveness as a pure meat shield - but good mitigation, and healing him and dpsing is usually much more effective than tanking things yourself, especially since it lets elemental shaman cast without interruption and lets enhancement shaman use DW/2h instead of a shield. As resto I just cast Earth Shield on the elemental and then start nuking.

Von corvato (1,585 – 22) am 2008.03.19 (Patch 2.3.3)

very good for shaman leveling when trying to solo group (2) or even (3). heal the pet, and DPS the mobs between taunts. Very efficient for shamans, any talent.

By rynrlz213 (361 – 3) on 2008/08/08 (Patch 2.4.3)

If your lucky he'll crit 1.1 fire novas

When activated, the Greater Earth Elemental (untalented) will run to and start attacking the nearest hostile target - with a red nameplate. If there are no nearby hostile targets (e.g. neutral targets are the only ones in range, or hostile targets are very distant), the elemental assumes a defensive mode - it will only engage a target once the shaman is attacked.

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