fat tire isn't trying to be mean he's just being realistic. we can't stress enough - you won't understand how correct he is about 5's until you're in the last month stretch of the season dealing with the highly social nature of the tiny, tiny (even smaller now thanks to rated BGs) pool of top end teams in the 5's division. the 2400 club. it's a queue dodging, wintrading, friend farming extravaganza based far more on scouting and availability to play when appropriate than your team strength.

i'm impressed though that you haven't even had the chance to use your priest yet - it will be very interesting to see how that helps you (or hurts you due to the fact that he's behind in gear and catching up is going to be hell). you might even end up wanting to play him shadow, it's super powerful in 5's right now.