Originally Posted by
Chazzwozzer
Anyone claiming that tremor totem is useless is either being dishonest or ignorant. It is still useful to break fears. The old implementation was overpowered (especially when coupled with CotE), and was a large part of the reason that resto shamans were top tier pvp healers throughout all of MoP. It was also part of the reason that almost all top tier comps involved either a dps shaman or resto shaman. The only exceptions were mage/resto druid comps (RMD and godcomp) due to the extra cc break provided by symbiosis ice block (which is removed in WoD).
If enemies aren't cc'ing you before they fear, then you should try to anticipate the fear and react accordingly. If enemies are using strategies that involve cc'ing into the fear, then they are playing correctly and should be rewarded with the fear for lack of your teammates stopping the fear. This is the same scenario as it has always been at a high level. If a warlock uses shadowfury on you, your teammates should stop the subsequent fear. Similarly if a priest disarms, your teammates should stop the fear. It is the same scenario with other classes: disorient into cyclone, deep freeze into poly, etc.
Having poor latency isn't an argument against tremor totem. Just because your latency prevents you from properly reacting to fears, doesn't mean tremor is a useless spell. By that logic, interrupts/grounding totem are useless because you can't use them correctly due to poor latency.
Also note that no high level shaman runs without totemic vigor, so complaints about the totem having 5hp are a non-issue. In addition, the class with the highest potential to fear has lost the ability to quickly totem stomp (warlock fel flame was removed).
That said, a cooldown reduction might be justified to make the spell more useful. Also, there are areas in which shamans could use buffs that are unrelated to tremor. Something to help resto shamans when they are trained is an obvious example. These weaknesses are not justifications for an overpowered tremor totem though.