Our BG (#3, also known as Cyclone) is at this moment flooded with hunter teams. We had two hunter teams in top ~10 since old, and now ~3 more good hunter teams has transferred here. At the same time a couple of top teams that does not use hunter stopped playing. Result: Over 50\% of our games are against hunter teams.
And what’s the problem with this? Well, first of all there is not a single team in the EU finals with a hunter in their lineup so we have no wish or need to practise against these kind of teams.
Second we lose over 90\% of our games vs hunter teams. The reason for this is that we use a melee Shaman. A melee shaman has no way of closing in on the enemy and with the snare trap down he's pretty much worthless. This makes it pretty frustrating to play arenas and it also lowers our rating a lot making flamers very happy in their pants. :)
Edit:
I lost the second half of this blog when trying to correct a spelling error. But it was pretty much about us thinking about trying Elemental Shaman out. Now there is a quite big change to the Blades Edge Arena; Blizzard has added two ropes leading from the bridge out to the pillars. This is a pretty big buff for melees on this map, especially for a non Gnome player like our Shaman. So I really don't know what we will do. I have also respecd from Blessed Resilience to Pain Suppression, and we will try to gear/enchant a tad different, making us somewhat better at longer games when we are not allowed to drink water due to pets. We hope.