When Avada Kedavra won the 5v5 Cyclone tournament with their Rogue/Druid/Mage/Warlock/Priest aka the "Euro Comp", the comp became as popular as writing about Britney Spears in magazines. This comp was an answer to the 2345/2346 comps that dominated season 2 and gave rogues/druids a place in the 5v5 bracket.

When I transferred to Kil'Jaeden, I found myself teaming up with Serennia. The warrior all-star that placed #1 in all 3 brackets in BG9 at one point definitely has a desire and drive to separate himself from all other players. He made popular the double-melee team of Warrior/Rogue/Druid with Zecks of MoB Gaming and Secretive, becoming one of the first "true counter" to the now common RMP(Rogue/Mage/Priest) that his own ex-teammate Zecks made popular. He again broke new barriers by making the Balance/Resto Druid spec effective in 2v2 and also in 5v5. One may question his social genius, but he does have a knack for being a trend setter in arena.

Before we started playing the tri-melee team, he thought of a variant of Pandemic's Double Felguard Warlock team with replacing a Paladin with a Resto Shaman. This team failed to live up to expectations, seemingly would have worked but we could not find a suitable Resto Shaman capable of making the combo effective(Being the Resto shaman needed Illidan gear and Shaman skills similar to the infamous "Gc"). Serennia started brewing ideas for his next combo and when he came to me with it, almost no one thought it would work as effectively as it has.

His next incarnation was utilizing a very unique rogue on our server named "Vaux". Vaux is a Gladiator Human Rogue that also wields both of Illidan's Warglaives. There probably isn't a rogue in the entire battlegroup that is both geared and talented as Vaux, which makes him very viable to this team. I believe a slightly-less geared rogue might be just as effective, but seems doubtful that it will be as effective. Next, was finding a 3rd melee that could complement his Warrior and Vaux. We found an enhancement shaman that was geared with full PvP gear with crit gems/items but had never even broke the 1700 rating mark. Now the team's core was set, and asking two healers to complement the core of the team was easy. Another luxury this team got was getting services from Zilea, a paladin with the best gear available and experience in all levels of arena(He's also a popular blogger on gameriot, in which he focuses on the demise of Paladins in arena and the rise of Druids. Check it out here).

The Team started out using a Paladin/Priest healers and also tried Paladin/Druid, but Serennia insisted that the Paladin/Priest variant was better being that the double-dispel and Pain Suppression seemed more effective in the situations the comp has to deal with. Being there's no reliable form of CC on this team but instead having insane amounts of sustained damage. Against most comps, the opponent only has one attempt to burst only before one of their members drops. This is why Pain Suppression is extremely viable and can be teamed with the enhancement shaman's Shamanistic Rage(Another 30% reduction in incoming damage) plus double offensive and defensive dispel. The druid variant can be successful as well if the cyclone is used offensively to stop opposing heals and end the match right away, but this hasn't been completely field tested yet.

Serennia's warrior is spec'd specifically for burst damage as well, being he is sword/flurry. We learned that splitting dps opposed to "zerging" one target is a better strategy, putting the Shaman/Warrior on one target and the rogue on his own. This shuts down two casters, making teams like "Euro Comp" pretty ineffective when two of their casters are locked down. A hunter variant might be a counter to this comp, but I don't think any team has developed an effective strategy versus us.

Here's a screenshot to show how fast these games go versus most teams, even with what seems to be a strong composition versus us in Warrior/Shaman/Hunter/Paladin/Priest(Not to take anything away from CLC, whom I give the utmost respect to because I think each one of their players is a hero to their class, "there's no counter-comping in 5s" right?): here.

We also managed to take down the previously ranked #4 "Emo Hallucinations" from Sen'jin and Glickz/Hafu's version of the TSG comp named "Orz Orz Orz Orz Orz" for around 140 points. Also went undefeated against every "Euro Comp" we faced so far, and it felt Euro Comp was slightly easier to deal with than the "TSG Comp" as well.

While Jasi from gameriot recently posted his rant about this team here, it certainly is not the only counter to 2345/2346 and Euro Comps running right now.

I was running 2345/2346 with Eminence on Blackrock when we ran into a triple-healer drain team, a composition made popular by "Team Asia" featuring Unstoppable from the CGS 2v2 tournament. Trying to fight this team was one of the most frustrating times in arena I've ever experienced. The combo consisted of Hunter/SLSL Warlock/Resto Druid/Disc Priest/Resto Shaman(with Illidan gear) and focused on draining all the casters and pushing back dps. With three classes that can drain and three classes spec'd to heal, the only chance of winning was getting lucky in burst and hoped a healer would forget to do his job. This team is appropriately named: DRAIN TRAIN CHOO CHOO and ran a warrior variant as well, but I don't believe was effective as the Warlock/Hunter version.

Serennia will have his own write-up and fraps on the "melee zerg" composition/team soon, stay tuned for that.