i honestly really miss melee totems

just to start, while i totally understand and completely agree that they needed a change because dealing with the melee buffs from them where too unsustainable game health wise. i really wish they didn't take the nuclear option. i'm someone who used to play pretty much only ancestral warchief for the better part of 6 years. so it was really gutteral to see the one ascendancy that supported said playstyle be gutted in a "rework" and the archtype left to rot, only then for it to be taken out the back and shot in the head.

i completely understand why it was done, and on one hand i kinda agree. but when the alternative solution was quite litterally changing a single line in the skill text from

"(8-18)% more Melee Damage while Totem is Active"
to
"(8-18)% more Melee Totem Damage while Totem is Active"
and likewise to the protector. it just makes me feel very bitter overall at the change. especially when the compensation is a shitty pair of unique boots that only allows up to a 5link??? just feels like salt in the wound.

its been long enough that im no longer upset or mad. im just sad, i miss my go to league starter existing. even if it was nerfed and wasnt as good as it used to be (it was quite good, before making actually good optimizations, i was still running a astramentis and hitting 30million shaperdps with like 7.5k life). atleast i would still have it around as a extremely cheap starter. but i suppose things come and go in a game like this, either via viability or in this case being outright possible.

i suppose this is just a longwinded post of me missing the golden days.
"hopefully one day melee totems will be back" i say while huffing my copium

wonder if anyone else feels the same, though i know alot of fellow totem players outright quit once the chieftan changes went live. so im guessing not alot, as the general sentiment was hoping that totems got outright removed.

i dont know how to close shit, so thanks for reading what is basically a longwinded rant

You can still have all the ballista killer totems you want though, so yeah typical crap, however, with balance pass in 3.25 and the large amount of damage scaling added to most melee gems, the totems aren't really necessary.

They were fun though