Spellblade Character Effect doesn't work with totems

The title says it all. The spellblade character effect doesn't respond to kills made using totems. I'm running an Ancestral Warchief build with Ancestral Bond, so the character itself isn't making any kills.

If that's how the character effect is intended to work, no big deal. Just thought I'd mention it in case it was a bug.

Edited to add: Never mind; I sit corrected. I was expecting the effect to generate more orbiters, rather than becoming more energetic. So yes, the effect is working as intended.