Something the downtime swallowed is coming back: the shaman totems that vanished during the emergency restart in the early hours of November 10 - day 6 after WoW: Forever's launch - have been fixed by Blizzard. Wowhead relayed the official fix note at 09:13 Beijing time on November 11 (19:13 November 10, US Central): the fix is live in all regions, and shamans who lost a totem should find it back in their bags.
Not a Trinket - Half Your Spellbook
A totem is not ordinary bag filler for a shaman. Each of the four totems - Earth, Fire, Water, Air - gates its own set of totem spells: no Fire Totem in the bag, and the fire spells sit grayed out. Fire Totem is exactly what players reported missing. Seven days into launch, most leveling shamans are somewhere between the level-10 fire chain, which starts at Kranal Fiss in the Barrens, and the level-20 water chain that sets out from the capital cities - the air chain waits at Thousand Needles at 30. A missing totem at this point breaks the leveling route outright. Shamans are Horde-only - orcs, tauren and trolls are the ones affected. The full walkthrough of all four chains lives in the site's Shaman totem quest guide.
The Second Bill From the Same Outage
The timing lines up: Wowhead places the emergency maintenance at around 1 PM Pacific on November 9 - roughly 5 AM Beijing time on November 10, the same restart the in-game murloc joke announced. By the time the servers came back, the forums already carried reports of 5-minute rollbacks, swallowed skills and gold, and profession points wiped back to baseline (covered in the site's November 10 rollback report). The missing totems are the newest line on that same bill.
Three Things Blizzard Said, More It Didn't
The fix note is short. Three things matter in it: the fix is deployed to all regions; a shaman who lost a totem should find it back in the bag; anyone who was in-game during the disappearance needs to free up a bag slot, then log out and log back in. As Blizzard put it: "We have just deployed a fix for this to all regions."
What it doesn't say is longer. The skill, gold and profession-point losses players reported from the same outage go unmentioned - not announced as covered by this fix. There is no guidance yet for totems that fail to reappear after a relog. Blizzard posted no separate blue post, and MMO-Champion, Massively Overpowered and the official forums carried no entry on it that day - Wowhead is the only source on this as of writing.
Three Steps, One Minute
Free up at least one bag slot, log out, log back in. Then open your bags and your spellbook and check that all four totems - Earth, Fire, Water, Air - are there. If you are mid-fire-chain, glance at whether the Kranal Fiss quest in the Barrens is still intact. If the totem is still missing after the relog, open a ticket and include the approximate time it vanished (early November 10, Beijing time) - for scale, the leatherworker who filed a ticket on November 10 got a 7-day auto-reply, so chase it before day 7 turns into week 2.