How to Get All Four Totems as a Horde Shaman in WoW: Forever (Earth, Fire, Water, Air Quests)

Shamans in World of Warcraft: Forever still earn their elements the old way: four class quests that hand you the Earth, Fire, Water and Air Totems. Without the right totem item in your bags, you can't cast any totem of that element – so these quests aren't optional. Here's every Horde version in order, for Orcs, Trolls, Tauren and Windshaper Skyborne, with the Forever changes you need to know.

This guide is checked against World of Warcraft: Forever as live on November 10, 2026. Playing a Dwarf? See our Dwarf Shaman totem guide.

Quick answer

Totem	Level	Where	Key steps
Earth Totem	4	Valley of Trials / Camp Narache / Zephras Isle	Collect two items, defeat a Minor Manifestation of Earth
Fire Totem	10	The Barrens → Durotar	Fire Tar + Reagent Pouch, beat the fire spirit, light the torch
Water Totem	20	Barrens, Hillsbrad, Ashenvale, Silverpine	Fill three waterskins, cleanse a corrupt water spirit
Air Totem	30	Thousand Needles	Visit Prate Cloudseer

What's different in Forever

• Who can be a Shaman: on the Horde side, Orc, Tauren, Troll and the new Windshaper Skyborne. Undead still can't. On the Alliance side, only Dwarves.
• Totems are still items. Each element needs its totem in your bags.
• Totems are friendlier: every totem has a 1-second global cooldown, and buff totems last 5 minutes instead of 2.
• New totem spells at 20+: Call of the Elements drops a preset set of totems at once, Totemic Recall picks them up for a partial mana refund, and Totemic Projection (level 22) moves them.

Call of Earth (level 4)

A three-part chain in your starting area:

• Orc and Troll: Canaga Earthcaller in the Valley of Trials, Durotar. Kill the Felstalkers north of the camp for 2 Felstalker Hooves, then she gives you Earth Sapta.
• Tauren: Seer Ravenfeather at Camp Narache, Red Cloud Mesa (Mulgore). Collect 2 Ritual Salves from the Bristleback Shamans east of camp.
• Windshaper Skyborne: Windshaper Boro in Thendal on Zephras Isle. Here you take a Signet from the nearby cultists instead, and each step gives Windshaper reputation.

Then, in every version: drink the Earth Sapta at the spirit's spot nearby, defeat the Minor Manifestation of Earth, take the Rough Quartz back to your trainer and learn Stoneskin Totem along with the Earth Totem.

Call of Fire (level 10)

The longest of the early quests, and it starts with a trip to the Barrens:

1. Get the lead-in from a Shaman trainer – Searn Firewarder in Orgrimmar, Swart in Razor Hill, Xanis Flameweaver in Thunder Bluff or Narm Skychaser in Bloodhoof Village.
2. Find Kranal Fiss at the base of a tower near Grol'Dam Farm, north of the Crossroads: /way 55.8 20.0 Kranal FissCopy (The Barrens). He gives you the Torch of the Dormant Flame.
3. Climb to Telf Joolam on a mountain in southern Durotar. His shrine is around /way 38.5 58.8 Telf JoolamCopy; the way up starts on the western side of the mountain.
4. Bring Telf two items: 1 Fire Tar from Razormane quilboars in the Barrens, and 1 Reagent Pouch from the Burning Blade Cultists in the cave above the ravines north-east of Razor Hill. He gives you Fire Sapta.
5. Drink the sapta and kill the Minor Manifestation of Fire next to the shrine. Use its Glowing Ember on the Brazier of the Dormant Flame to get the Torch of the Eternal Flame.
6. Take the torch back to Kranal Fiss. You get the Fire Totem, Searing Totem and 1,150 XP. In Forever, Searing Totem comes with a relic, the Totem of Charged Flames, that cuts the mana cost of Lightning Bolt and Flame Shock.

Call of Water (level 20)

A long, travel-heavy chain – set aside an hour or two:

1. Get the lead-in from your trainer in Orgrimmar or Thunder Bluff and go to Islen Waterseer in the eastern Barrens.
2. Visit Brine in the southern Barrens at /way 43.4 77.4 BrineCopy. She gives you three empty waterskins.
3. Fill them in three places:
   • Brown – the water below Brine's hut.
   • Red – the well in Tarren Mill, Hillsbrad Foothills.
   • Blue – the moonwell at the Ruins of Stardust, Ashenvale.
4. Return to Islen for the Water Sapta.
5. Go to Silverpine Forest. At the Brazier of Everfount around /way 38.5 44.6Copy (Silverpine), defeat the Corrupt Minor Manifestation of Water and place its bracers and the remaining pure water on the brazier.
6. Talk to the purified spirit, take the Shard of Water to Islen and learn Healing Stream Totem along with the Water Totem.

Call of Air (level 30)

The easiest of the four: your trainer in Orgrimmar or Thunder Bluff sends you to Prate Cloudseer in a cave in Thousand Needles at /way 53.6 42.6 Prate CloudseerCopy. Talk to him for the Air Totem and 2,450 XP.

In Forever, turning in Call of Air also opens a brand-new level 30–40 Shaman weapon chain that ends with Bath'rah the Windwatcher in Alterac Mountains – the Shaman answer to the Warrior's Whirlwind Axe.

Tips

• Do Call of Fire as soon as you reach the Barrens. Combine Fire Tar with your Razormane quests.
• Fly, don't walk, for Call of Water. The Tarren Mill and Ashenvale stops are far apart – plan them around other quests in those zones.
• Keep the totems. Don't bank or sell them; you need them to cast.

Common mistakes

• Waiting for a trainer to teach Searing Totem. It comes from the quest.
• Drinking the sapta in the wrong spot. The spirit only appears at the quest location.
• Skipping Call of Water. No Water Totem means no Healing Stream or Mana Spring later.

More class quests: the Troll Warlock Voidwalker. Every guide is on our WoW: Forever quests page.