Sooo, I've been doing a little woodworking and have generated quite a pile of maple scraps. I decided to craft a spirit totem or two because the primary component uses the maple scraps.
I was pleased to find out that one maple scrap can yield up to three products. Combining these with the other necessary ingredients for the totem yields up to 3 totems. So there is some potential for saving steps there.
Now the totems themselves: Bee totem gave 15 minutes of ultravision. Its not for me, but maybe some people will enjoy that.
Spirit totem of the Beaver was very cool. It gave me a 15 minute buff of some kind, but had no description. The animation was neat, it turned my toon the color of mud, and surounded him by a bunch of swimming fish, and bubbles began coming out of his mouth. In a few seconds that animation went away and left me with a buff icon, but examining it told me nothing. I showed a friend, and he suggested it may allow you to breathe under water. Bingo! I jumped in the water and could swim for 15 minutes with no breath restriction. I thought it was a pretty cool effect, and is easy to make.
Spirit totem of the rat: gives a casting animation and no buff icon. I did not see a change to my stats.
Spirit totem of the brown bear: Same as above, no icon or stat change that I could see.
I assume the last two are broken, but hopefully will be fixed. I'm excited about these totems, and look foreward to when they function properly.
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