How to Make S7 Actually Enjoyable, Is Wizard Cleave the True Melee Cleave Counter?

How to Make S7 Actually Enjoyable
I know I'm not alone when I say that s6 was incredibly annoying in more ways than one. Most notably, the following:

-Starting new teams at 0 team rating
-MMR inconsistencies resulting in 2 teams going up in rating when splitting games
-Innervate
-Prolydins
-FoKing rogues
-Destruction warlocks

Of these points listed, the only one really fixed was Innervate in the latest patch removing its dispel resistance from Improved Barkskin and reducing the amount restored and cooldown by 50%. The rest of the issues remain outstanding and I would really suggest the following changes if Blizzard wants to keep people playing actively in s7:

-Start teams at 1500 rating. Please. The grind from 0 to 1500 is brutal especially if you start right off the bat queuing at 2800+ MMR against the top teams in the battlegroup. And if said top teams arn't queuing, you get to enjoy 5-8 minute long queues (pre-patch) which are significantly longer after patch 3.2 with the new queueing system.

-Change it so at least the MMR's are sum-zero based if not the team ratings themselves. I honestly much prefer the original TBC rating system where any points gained were identical to the points lost by the other team. Ever since this changed mid-season 5, arena has honestly just felt so much less gratifying to participate in knowing that teams can generally just spam games to high ratings.

-Address the ridiculous arena specs such as prot/holy for paladins and the "FoK" spec for rogues which should never be even close to viable. I've said it before and I'll say it again: PvE tanking paladins don't even get improved hammer of justice and the only reason they get Judgements of the Just is the attack speed decrease. They don't need 20sec cooldown ranged, magical kidney shots, period.

-Most of the big burst classes were addressed so they couldn't "global" people anymore including death knights of all specs, rogues of all specs, retribution paladins, and even hunters a while ago. However, there still remains the problem of destruction warlocks and to a lesser extent elemental shamans. The combination of chaos bolt, conflagrate, shadowfury, shadowburn, and backlash procs all being instantly chained back to back after casting the chaos bolt (and immolate) is quite frankly a little out of hand and most warlocks even realize this. This simply isn't fun to play against or even play with.

TBC Arena was fun to me because when you saw people at the top of a ladder, you know they worked their ass off for it typically (with some exceptions obviously), not because they abused the rating system or spammed games. Hopefully Blizzard can learn from their mistakes of WotLK arena and improve things all around next season.





Wizard Cleave the True Melee Cleave Counter?
There's been a lot of talk ever since the patch and even some before then about the viability of "wizard cleave" (the combination of 1 healer and 2 dps casters on a 3v3 team). This particular combo was pretty strong in the right hands even before the patch with setups such as resto druid, destruction warlock, frost mage (or elemental shaman), but after the patch now, it's much stronger for several reasons: frost mage healing reduction, resto shaman buffs, and various nerfs to other classes that previously countered wizard cleave.

Melee cleave (1 healer, 2 physical classes) has been pretty dominant ever since season 3 with the biggest selling point of the ease of getting high ratings with. A lot of comps out there have been "soft" counters to melee cleave in the past, but with the current incarnation of wizard cleave, has there ever been a stronger counter? Take your typical "TSG comp" for example (holy paladin, death knight, warrior) and put it against a restoration shaman, frost mage, destruction warlock (or similar variations) after patch now and I'd honestly be extremely surprised to see the melee cleave win more than 10% of the games vs. a wizard cleave like this. Quite simply, the casters can put out ridiculous burst at 36-41 yard range, have far more CC than melee cleave, much more kiting options typically, and most importantly put a melee cleave like the one mentioned on a clock to win the match. If the melee team doesn't score a kill within the first minute or so of the match, it's basically over following the divine shield wearing off and there isn't much that can be done about it.

Maybe I just haven't seen enough matches to draw a good conclusion here but can anyone really name any variation of melee cleave that would counter these types of wizard cleave? Maybe it's past due for the melee teams to have a hard counter but if it is that time, I honestly feel bad for all those teams out there that open matches with a death grip bladestorm in the first two seconds. If they haven't faced any wizard cleaves yet post-patch, they'll really be in for it come season seven.