Today’s feedback covering concerns for Shamans and its individual specs was put together by the Mod & MVP crew from the Shaman class discord server Earthshrine with Restoration contributions also from the Ancestral Guidance discord team.

Earthshrine - https://discordapp.com/invite/earthshrine

Ancestral Guidance - https://discord.gg/AcTek6e

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Class Issues

* Lack of a unique hook that makes having a Shaman in your group enticing.
 * Shaman representation in Uldir extremely low.
 * As of 10/16/18, 7 DPS Shamans at 0.3% total representation for G’huun.
 * In addition to average performance being behind, they just don’t bring anything that another class doesn’t already and more.
* Bring a lot of things, but none of it uniquely desirable in Raids
 * Resto exception, bring unique healing tools when fight design calls for it.
 * Encounters in Uldir have too few opportunities for Resto Shamans to do things no other healer can.
 * Tremor Totem has uses, but always as a backup tool. Fear/Charm mechanics in fights are nearly always a consequence of failing to execute mechanics.
* Shamans fare a lot better in Mythic+ in regards to available utility, except in high leveled keys.
 * Despite that, defensive tools are still the limiting factor to pushing extremely high keys, not DPS and utility.
 * Only DPS shamans in both Legion MDI’s were 3 elemental shamans and Resto qualification low as well. Shamans the only spec with so poor of MDI representation.
* Personal Loot sharing is a noticeable problem with less weapon / armor overlap in the raid for all 3 specs.
 * With Master Loot, there was a more even chance for each armor type to drop.
 * Personal Loot makes us dependant on Hunters in raid for armor sharing. Statistically fewer players and classes to share armor pieces with than other armor types.

To summarize, many members of the community feel like there's no longer any compelling reasons to play a Shaman over any other class or specialization in the game beyond personal preference.

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More specific specialization feedback and discussions are provided within the following comment threads:

[Shamans](https://www.google.com)

[Elemental](https://www.google.com)

[Enhancement](https://www.google.com)

[Restoration](https://www.google.com)