I am using the following macro for Surging Totem:
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Surging Totem
Sometimes I can’t use the macro, even though it’s not on cooldown. It changes to the move totem icon, but that should only happen once the totem has actually been placed.
I have to logout and login again to make it work again. /reload doesnt work.
Can anybody help me?
And when it does, do you get a LUA error text like this : spell not learned ?
I use the same macro, and I noticed it happens when switching from Stormbringer to Totemic talent builds via the talent build manager.
And it seem to happen almost every time when in Instance (Solo Shuffle especially), not in Open World.
I also have to log out/in…no fix I’m afraid. Since you cannot use Spell ID in macro, you can only hope for Blizzard to fix this.
i dont get LUA error, but i just cant use the macro. unfortunately i cant switch from stormbringer to totemic in the middle of a arena game…
Ofc not during, I’m saying before the gates open (like you joined an instance with Totemic-Lash build, swap to Stormbringer-Storm build, change your mind, swap back to Totemic-Lash and now Macro isn’t working anymore).
In Shuffle, since you got 6 rounds, it happens everytime. I do round 1 with a Stormbringer build, and if I switched to a Totemic build in round 2, my macro wouldn’t function.
Okay I understand now. Exactly the same happened to me.
It sucks…Only thing we can do is report it as a bug.
Theres no other fix than to relog sadly 
Use this instead :
Placing the totem on you
#showtooltip
/cast [@player] Surging Totem
To move it with you:
#showtooltip
/cast Stormstrike
/cast [known: 1221348] [@player] Surging Totem
replace stormstrike with whatever you like.
These work 100% of the time all the time.
Wait, since when can we use ID in macros ?
[known : 1221348] isn’t ID maybe ?
thank you. i am using the second macro, but the first one isnt useful for arena, because most of the time i am placing the totem next to the enemy to spread flameshock.
This also works :
#showtooltip
/cast [known : 1221348] [@cursor] Surging Totem