Discordway post 6th jan patch

Completely untrue. Discord was never a great build even back in the 3H days. It was passable, but you could never handle elite areas well with it. If by elite area you mean DoA HM, then no.

If you mean slavers, then yes, it could (as I stated in the last post). In fact, other than spirits (which came later) name me one H/H build for casters that was capable of slavers HM?

Some more history:

I used to play ALOT of H/H, and I tried out almost every possible combination. A few years back, when I asked for discordway alternatives, I think it was either Xeno or Jeydra that recommended 2 paras + minion bomber for my AP-MoP necro - this failed hard and was nowhere near as powerful as discordway. It was at this point that I realized people dissing discordway either 1) played a physical and not a caster (in which case, admittedly discordway was limited) or 2) duo-ed and had access to 6 heroes. Being forced to take 4 henchies was a huge limitation, and so you needed to basically cover every base on your heroes.

That's how guild wars was back then. Whether you mainly duo'ed/grouped or H/H'ed being a main factor and whether you played a melee or caster class being a secondary, represented a huge difference in the outcome of your game experience. And that's why people developed such differing opinions on discordway, and not one opinion was necessarily wrong.

The Rit update changed the game for the solo player dramatically. Before then, physicals had a massive advantage in both damage and stability when H/Hing thanks to Save Yourselves and the natural damage properties a physical has. After the Rit update, caster balls gained a lot in damage and stability, effectively robbing physicals of their advantage. I'm not even sure the 7 hero update really compared to that; since that just boosted everything and didn't really change much fundamental, other than make everything easier. This is true. Physicals have been able to roflstomp PvE ever since Nightfall (SY + Splinter Weapon)

That said, Discord was still never a "good" build, the good part came from AP which was the only worthwhile build for casters for a long time (and in many cases arguably still is). Without an AP player back then Discord fell flat on its face and failed horribly.

Discord builds should really have been called AP Spike builds, GW players are horrible about naming things correctly.

I have no memory of anyone completing the Slaver's dungeons H/H with Discord.
I know a few managed it with other setups before spirit way came about, but not with Discord. If you managed it, you never shared it. I did duncan several times with discord/resto, discord/MM and 1 random (usually SS or VoR) with myself as SS usually. I never did manage to get a "perfect" run, but it was very much possible.

Forgewight on the other hand I just could not finish without DP removers. There was no necro version of ER that jeydra used to finish it :P

@Kunder: repeating what you've said again and again doesn't make it true.