So this is a very quick and unthought out response to the new Hunter ability, Disarm Shot. My instinctive reaction is to say that this is okay in 2s, very good in 3s, and possibly very good in 5s.

2v2...what comps does Hunter/Priest have trouble against? Well, warrior/druid comes to mind as one that the change will help quite a bit. Druid/Rogue too will be much easier. Anything else...not really.

3v3 I think this will be a very nice change for, because almost every team out there has a rog…  More

Why is 2345 so dominating? Some people say it's because everyone synergizes so well. Some people say it's because heroism is OP. Some people say it's because you have a good balance of offense and defense. I say it's because blizzard did what they promised they were trying to avoid: they made damage scale faster than healing. What happened to "oh, with the implementation of resilience and greater stam scaling, you'll no longer see people getting 2-shot"? Yes, while mages can't PoM Pyro anything to pieces anymore, the damage scaling between just season 1 and season 2 is scary. Go back and watch old videos and its easy to see. Someone from a top team (I think from Rag Dolled or Pandemic, not sure) even said in a blog here a while back that 2345s are taking down Warriors - a traditionally poor burst target - down in globals without even locking out heals, damage is scaling so fast. Watching sck's old video and kollektiv's new one shows a world of difference in how much burst people see in a typical arena match. My personal theory is that 2345 became popular because a team that could perform fast target switches and pull incredible burst was more desirable than a team that put constant pressure on a target and either outlasted or tried to take them down in a window. My team runs Pally/Warlock/Mage/Priest/Warrior, and while we can usually split games with 2345s around our rating, good ones just burst us apart. Even if our CC is nearly perfect, they have so much burst that they can simply kill one of our players whenever a CC gets resisted, or put on DR, or gets a lucky break, or anything. I'm not complaining - we're working on strategies that better counter their burst potential and we're not really tanking our rating because of them - I'm just trying to explain why I think 2345 is such a dominant composition.…  More