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>/v/ hates HotS >therefore try HotS >it's better

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>/v/ hates HotS
>therefore try HotS
>it's better than Dota 2 or LoL

Really activates my almonds.
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>/v/ is one person
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>Not only likes a moba
>But likes the shittiest moba

Hilariously pathetic.
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>>375694393
what makes it shit
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>dev video about 2.0
>so uh oh our game is garbage we know that!
>so we uh ADD NEW PROGRESSION SYSTEM AND LOOT CRATES AND GENJI
>also few tweaks to gameplay, who cares
nu-blizzard holy shit
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>you can buy 20 heroes when you log in for the first time
>almost everyone picks assassin
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>>375694425

Burden of proof isn't on me, you made the thread. What makes it good?
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>all these HotS players REEEEing 'cause us shitters are only in it for the cute D.va skin
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>>375694282
/v/ just hates blizzard and it makes them very upset with how successful the company is
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>>375694495
>also d.va
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>>375694546
But there is barely any meta at all. It's braindead simple.

>Lane for 30 seconds
>team battle wherever the map spawns objective points
>repeat until win/loss
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>>375694282
>Its better than shit
Isn't saying much
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>>375694509
because ASSASSin has the ASS
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>>375694689
and also is ASS, i regret buying it because they're all boring as shit

i wish i bought the warrior pack
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Is it that time again, /v/? A HotS thread? Stop shilling this shit.

just went 4-1 in team league tonight and hit plat 4, i feel like i'm somebody. took me like 50 games. feels so goooood
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>>375694393
He said HOTS, not league or that really shitty dota in SC2
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>>375694282
>Not playing the superior ASSFAGGOTS
Get with the times grandpa
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>>375694519

How the fuck is burden of proof on him? You're the one that said it was the shittiest MOBA. He likes everything about it, boom, his claim that he likes it better is proved by him liking it. It's up to YOU to tell us why it's the shittiest, use empirical evidence please.
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>>375694803
brap
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I don't have any friends. How do I do these quests and get my skins so I can uninstall this crap game and go back to playing the other crap game I prefer?
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>>375694654
That's exactly why veteran HotS players are reeeing at them, because the game is so fucking braindead but these people still suck at it
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>>375694850
Socialize.
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>>375694902
I don't want to socialize. That's why I play videogames
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>>375694850
Easy, just type in chat in the main menu you are looking for party for skins. Get accepted. Add one of them to your friends list then grind out the games.
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>>375694850
>new player chat
>lfg for genji
>wait
>add group to friends
>throw 5 games completely by giving your body to opponents
>done
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>>375694803
The card sistem is to weird. Boring.
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>>375694850
what's your btag?
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If you like HoTS, there is no reason not to play MasterXMaster instead

HoTS was dead on arrival but MXM will be big
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>>375694929
>>375694850

People are spamming the general constantly "looking for group for genju skin" or just join one of the 50 looking for more groups in the party system.
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>>375694850
Literally just look at the chat.
7/10 players arespamming "pls group for Overwatch gibs"
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>>375694850
What I did.

>Play against AI with random people
>play well by not dying, participating in team battles and helping complete objectives
>send an invite to all 5 people, if one accepts thank them and explain you're doing the Nexus challenge
>hopefully they'll play quick match with you 5 times
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>>375694956
wait, the quest isn't to win, it's just to do 5 games?

holy shit, it must be awful getting grouped up with people going for the skins. The optimal strategy is to lose as fast as possible

bravo, blizzard
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>>375695052
>quick match
>for genji
Why not just play against AI with 5 friends
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>>375694654
>lane for 30 seconds
No you don't. All lanes are contested, the fighting happens immediately.
>team battle wherever the map spawns objective points
Also not universally true. Take Towers of Doom, half the time you just have one mobile poker keeping the entire enemy team locked out of securing the tower while you either deathball or snipe other towers. Each objective presents different intelligent metas for completion. Only Bronze shitters just rush in and teamfight to cap.
>repeat until win/loss
Again, you've clearly never played. You can lose the objective every time on a bunch of maps and still BTFO the other team.
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>>375695117
the reason HoTS isn't actually a moba is that you can have fun even if you lost

for a game to qualify as a true moba, you must be really fucking mad after you lost, and also really mad 75% of the time when you won
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>>375695087
>winning qm
>ever
Not even Li-Ming can save you.
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>>375695087
That does seem to be the concensus.
Even worse that week 2,3 and 4 require vs people and not vs ai.
So throwing OWers will be worse for the people who play HotS
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>>375695117
I played AI for Genji, but I think the D.va skin will need you to play quick matches against human opponents.
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>>375694519
Man, you are dumb. Did you just learn about "burden of proof" the other day?
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>>375695217
The best MOBA ever made was that official Adventure Time MOBA that some guy from 4chan got hired to make. It was fun as fuck even when you lost.
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>>375695202
>You can lose the objective every time on a bunch of maps and still BTFO the other team.
The other team has to be fucking bad for this to even be possible.
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>>375695117
Gotta harvest that mineral
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/v/ hates MOBAs, but honestly if you think any MOBA is better than Dota 2 you're literally just wrong. By definition you are absolutely incorrect.
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>it's better than Dota 2 or LoL
Yeah, nice try shill
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>>375694850
/join mfpt and say you're new and want a few games
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>>375695312
Not really. If you ended with a strong laning team, you can let the enemy team get Dragon Knight while your Sylv+Greymane combo plow through their forts ten times faster. The easiest wins are the ones where the enemy team tunnel visions objectives.
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>actively encouraging streams of people to join PvP games and throw/feed

what the fuck was blizzard thinking? seriously.
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>>375695362
>>375695340
it is though.

MOBAS are a garbage genre, and HOTS is like barely a MOBA, therefore it's better
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>>375695413
>The easiest wins are the ones where the enemy team tunnel visions objectives.
Like I said, fucking bad.
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>>375695410
Why is Pallytime so popular? He's awful at the game and just sits there spazzing out the entire video. The only positive thing about him is that whenever he uploads a new video, for the next week everyone plays the build he uses and becomes predictably easy to counter.
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The fact that games last around 10-20 minutes is a big plus for me. When I lose I don't feel like I invested a lot of my effort to be mad about it
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>>375695340
>shittons of RNG abilities and items

Nah.
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>>375694519
legit dumbest post I've seen today
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>Never play mobas
>Deduce they're shit
>Have to play HOTS for Overwatch hats
>Yep, its shit
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It's not bad. Mind you, my only points of comparison is Dota 2, which was ok as well. I don't get the hate.
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>>375694519
>reddit spacing
big surprise!
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>>375695494
Even if they don't, it's still true. Specialist heavy teams make objective maps shitty because you either support the DK/Terror/Golem/whatever and get raped by the specialists even worse, or you split and make the value of the objective negligible. The point is that objectives don't win matches, smart gameplay does.
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>>375695512
That's true, I quit Dota because I hated the feeling of wasting an hour only to lose
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>>375694964
>card sistem
>to weird
I think the problem might be with you and not the game anon
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>>375695420
It's a month of shitfest, but after that they have a lot of fresh players.
Any promo works like that, but typically on a smaller scale.
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>>375694964
This, could not get in because did want to learn card or buy them.
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>>375694519
hahahahahahahaa
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I only play vs bots with friends.
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>>375695605
they could have set up the quest rules so that throwing wasn't encouraged

like having "win 3 games" instead of "play 5 games"
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>>375695552
because of the shit blizzard cried about when valve used the Dota name. but they really made hots their own game, and it's fun. i'm surprised.
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>>375694282
HotS is more fun to play but Dota 2 more fun to watch, at least for me.
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>>375694519
pathetic.
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I am, like, the hardest-core DOTA 2 player. I've hated every single other MOBA, but I've been with DOTA 2 since the beta, and I've got almost 3000 hours on record.

This game...actually isn't terrible.

I feel like it's a Mario Kart-ening of the genre, keeping the basic tenants, but sanding off some of the sharper edges, which is perfectly alright by me.

You can have Street Fighter or Guilty Gear or whatever, and still enjoy Smash Bros or Power Stone. There's room for both
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>>375695631
You're not going to get police d.va like that senpai
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>>375695654
And League of Legends is more fun to laugh at and fap to
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>>375695631
But why?
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Are there bullies in this game?
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>>375694393
This, he's probably a blizzdrone too
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>>375695724
This is accurate, I do fap to LoL characters more than Dota or HotS even though I've never played a game of LoL
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>>375695724
>everyone wants to fuck Ahri
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>>375695542
it isn't a moba

it lacks any complexity which is why it was doa. there's no reason to play it. mobas are about outplay, not running together mashing skills

i installed this game one day and as an experienced dota player i dominated like 6 games in a row with diablo. i checked peoples profiles after eradicating them, hundreds of games. bizarre.

people who play this game are the ones who would get stomped out by peruvians in dota.
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>>375695649
you know under the deal they did with Blizzard, Valve can't actually use "Defence of the Ancients" themselves, only "Dota." It's also why several names gradually changed, like Windrunner, although everyone still calls her Windrunner because "Wind Ranger" sounds stupid as fuck
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FD5ug5jD-q4

If you have a friend to queue with and 10k gold to spend, try Cho Gall

It is such a unique experience, two players on the same hero. Shame that you can only play it if you queue with a friend.
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>>375695848
there wasn't any deal with blizzard. valve never attempted to call dota 2 defense of the ancients because valve employs very smart good lawyers. It was only ever Dota 2.

not quite sure why they didn't change windrunner to wind runner. lol.
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>>375695823
>complexity
Wow Dotafag everyone!
>there's no reason to play it
Then don't! Easy as that, some people like it and play it, there nothing you can do about it.
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>>375695823
>I played against scrubs and owned them

Impressive.
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>>375695942
you're missing the point, the game is dead because there is no complexity. it has nothing to do with my opinion of it

people play these games for some level of complexity and even league has tiers of it above hots

>>375695947
point was i played against experienced hots players with no experience and owned them, shows the game is basically just an arena brawler with no strategy or anything. it's lacking the moba spark and that's why nobody was interested in it.
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about to go play some hots, just got gold 5 and i'm climbing by playing lots of dps lili

but what makes hots good? It's hard for one skilled player to carry a game because experience is shared between all players. So your team all levels up at once, and your hero gets talents at levels 1,4,7,10(ult),13,16, and 20. So your team will have power spikes at these levels and they can help you come back, say the other team is level 15 and you're 12, getting level 13 will put you on the same talent tier.
i would say the hardest thing for new players is learning how to draft, as one bad pick can really screw your team over, so you really have to know about which abilities can interrupt others, who has spell armor or blinds etc.
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>>375696070
>i played against experienced hots players
You played against bronzies and people who have never played mobas.
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>>375695779
People will point out your retardation if you're fucking up.

We had a Morales (Healer) soloing everywhere and ignoring team battles and he got full chat rage.
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>>375696070

Did you actually look at their rank when you looked at their profile? Having a lot of games played doesn't mean being good.

You obviously didn't play against anybody that was good if you only played 6 games.
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>>375694803
Sorry anon, I tried it and I got bored to death.
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>>375696331
>>375696206
>HoTSbabbies are offended because their game surely requires big skill

ahahah you guys, come on now, stahp
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>>375696070
>game is dead
False
>people play these games for some level of complexity
Also false, i played LoL for two years and got bored, tried Dota but it was so retarded in its mechanics i couldn't stand it.
Hots is faster and fun, have some diversity in maps and objectives.

Anyway, anyone know what happened with Gigantic moda? Was interested in it for some time but they they go full windows 10 retardness.
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>>375696398
I don't even play the game anymore but being able to own noobies when you have old moba skills is not something special.
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>/v/ hates hots
>general up 24/7 on /vg/

>>375694509
cause assassin bundle is by far the best value at like 160k gold, and others are like 110.
Also loldamage
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>>375694282
>>it's better than Dota 2
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>>375694980
>but MXM will be big
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>>375695529
>items are bad
blizzdrones everyone
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>>375697060
anything is better than dota
>>375695340
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>>375697181
It is, no one want to learn all those items and build for mounts only to start playing.
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>>375697181

Well I was focusing on the RNG more there actually, but items are also shit as a whole too.

I guess that makes items with RNG effects mega shit.
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>>375697181
They do not change your abilities to counter enemy team and synergies with yours, only a small stat bonus or an effect like healing. Yes items are shit. Also, why didn't you said anything about the RNG bullshit? You know your game is luck and a handful of retardation? ;P
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>>375697343
>more options and variety is bad
then why are lel and dota more popular that heroes of the stillborn?
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>throwing games for the skin

Steamrolling the easy AI is way faster. Dumbfucks.
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>>375697403
they've been around longer
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>>375697181
I like playing the game, not teleporting back and shopping every 3 minutes. Just because it was in the original game doesn't mean it's flawless.
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>>375697371
>They do not change your abilities to counter enemy team and synergies with yours, only a small stat bonus or an effect like healing.
wrong and still better than nothing
>why didn't you said anything about the RNG bullshit?
because anyone who actually plays dota knows rng isn't an issue and the only rng pros complain about is roshan spawn
>;P
back to redit
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post tiddies
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>>375697420
Only works for the first week, the rest require pvp
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>>375697472
>>375697491
>not teleporting back and shopping every 3 minutes
lol
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>>375697403
Because they already had base of players way before Hots?
Its like with all those WoW killers, they cant do shit because people already play WoW and they not willing to switch.
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>>375697518
Siege Tank a waifu
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>tfw pretend to be an annoying peruvian when i play hots
i will bring the dota to them
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Game should have been Bloodlines Champion/Battlerite instead of lane-based MOBA.
>want to speed it up
>want pure team fights constantly
>want unique map objectives
>the whole aspect of taking down walls/towers and then the base
Then what the fuck is the point of creeps, and leveling? Seems like it has a few things clashing in design when it should have just been Blizzard characters clashing, and they could still keep the battlegrounds the same. Just remove the bases and have each battlegrounds have a unique ending objective.
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>>375694519
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>>375697663
>Game should have been Bloodlines Champion/Battlerite instead of lane-based MOBA.
angel arena*
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>>375697716
Angel Arena wouldn't have allowed for the battlegrounds. It would just be one fucking amazing map but that isn't what Blizzard wanted.
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>>375694519
Jesus Christ, apply yourself anon.
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>pick Butcher in unranked
>teammates call me a cunt
>complain all game
>get reported
>get whispers after game telling me to stop playing
>get ignored after every whisper despite not saying anything all game

What's with these people? It only makes me want to play him more.
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>>375697851
ignore haters. collect meat
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I played a lot of league of legends, and I am playing HoTS because LoL gets boring as fuck after 1k hours of the same shit. (Lane Phase > wandering around as a team phase > whoever fucks up in the team fight loses game phase > etc) Hots isn't a good game, but I do find it fun to play a new game once in a while.

I don't get why you faggots can't just play both League of Losers and HotShit. Like your autistic mouse brains can only handle one game to devote all your pent up frustrations at for no reason.

You all act like MOBAS are the greatest games genre of all time when all they are is frustrating time wasters that doesn't matter what you play, you'll never have people say "oh wow that's cool, I play that game too" no matter which MOBA game you play (unless it was something like Dawngate, then I would simply shake your hand and walk away with the utmost respect for you)
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>>375698001
>1k hours in league
>likes dawngate
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>>375698001
Nobody here cares about League of Normies. Dota 2 and HotS is the real combo.
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>>375697851
Damn even Teemo doesn't provoke such reaction and he is the most hated champ in League.
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all ASSFAGGOTS are trash
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I've never played any moba game before, decided to try if with a friend for Genji skin, and somehow we won these 5 games 4-1.
I still don't really get the genre desu. It's like a watered down RTS without things that make RTS games interesting, and action element is boring as well, it's like "yeah, I'm hitting, I'm doing damage, wow they got us/we won the teamfight", not really engaging or adrenaline-filled.
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>>375697851
why would anyone complain about butcher? he's fucking pubstomp supreme
like sure if i see a pub chen or sgt hammer i'm gonna groan to myself but damn let people play what they want in quick match
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>>375698050
It's like hardcore and softcore porn. Then you have whatever would be in between. Firmcore?
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>>375694980
>MxM
>Getting big
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>>375698052
He absolutely shits on everyone in quick match. I doubt unranked is much different. If he is on the enemy team it's pretty much a guaranteed loss.
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>>375698083
>It's like a watered down RTS
how
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>>375698096
You can get mad at this game besides the usual "Oh god why am I sucking what can I do to recover" or "Why does everyone on this team suck"?
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>>375694282
10 cents have been deposited into your account

all mobas are shit
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>>375695854
>it's just Ogre Magi

huh
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>abbathur
>always afk at spawn in every game I play
>always report them for afk/inactivity
>decide to check how he is meant to be played
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>>375697851
It's LoL metafaggotry leaking into other games
It's fine and everything to look at winrates and what the pros do (lol) but you're complaining to the wrong people, go bitch on the forums
"every time I get a butcher in my team I have a shit time" is sure to get replies
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>>375695823
reminder that dota was seen as the absolute dogshit of game modes in wc3 and real rts players made the same comments you did
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>>375698149
yeah ncsoft games never get big
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>>375698306
Not in spawn, that's for sure
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>Main Diablo
>Wrastle 24/7
I see no issues with this game
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I just want to cuddle Fel Queenie Chromie.

The only other character in the MOBA genre is Poppy.
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>>375698337
Lineage II and Wildstar were big?
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>>375698321
>was seen as the absolute dogshit of game modes
no, it just annoyed people because the lobby list would be filled with dota
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>>375698380
>Wildstar
>big

Yeah big disasters. It had some interesting potential but it was competing with another huge NCsoft game, GW2.
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>>375698096
What do you have against Chen?
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>>375698382
Anyone who ever liked RTS hates moba. And dota is the worst one
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>>375698054
it's true, Blizzard is just in full force trying to trick people into thinking HoTS is still going to have a playerbase once everyone gets their Overwatch skins
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>>375694519
so.....this....is the power of american education
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>>375698375
i want to RAPE fel queen chromie
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>>375698513
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>>375694282
>/v/ hates ASSFAGGOTS
>therefore try the most popular 4 of them
>they're all normie shit
Wew.
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>>375698489
nothing wrong with a good chen
but pub chen 99% of the time isn't that
it's the same kind of concept when you see that zeratul/illidan on your team in your quick match and you know you're in for a bad time
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>>375698630
what does that even mean you retard
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>>375698489
He's low tier therefore you should never ever like him unless a popular streamer finds a way to make him strong.

What kind of team should you take barrel anyway? His other ult feels a bit awkward under tons of CC.
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>>375698519
I was turned off to HotS because I already spent so much in LoL that I didn't want to bother with another game. The 20 character boost made me actually join the game.
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>>375698513
>Anyone who ever liked RTS hates moba.
Not really. I played RTS for a couple of decades and i like HoTS and Dota. I don't really understand why you think this, RTS and Dota clones have nothing but the engine in common, ASSFAGGOTs are action-RPGs focused on PVP, nothing more.
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>>375698519
Ha jokes on you! It had stable playerbase before all those Overwatch events.
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>>375698665
>Aeon of Strife Styled Fortress Assault Game Going On Two Sides
If you're new, at least google before you posting.
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>pick Morales
>go full DPS grenade build
>game ends with 0 heals
>concentrated rage from the rest of the team fuels you for another hundred games
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>>375698817
I meant the normie shit buzzword
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>>375698821
>play morales
>throwing out heals
>blasting people into and out of fight with grenades
>save everyone with clutches
>stim best attacker
>team abandons you on a whim and throw the game
>blames you
never a good game with randoms when you just wanna heal ;_;
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>>375698748
I just don't think theres any room for HoTS in the MOBA genre. People who want to relax and play a MOBA while talking to friends are already invested in League. People who want a more complex game have DOTA.

And here comes HOTS offering itself as 'the casual MOBA', but you still need to pay for the characters. Isn't it a day late and a dollar short?

>>375698764
no it didnt you decuple nigger
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>>375698083

Personally I like it because it removes pretty much everything that I hate about other ASSFAGs, which makes it actually fun.

As far as "watered down RTS" that honestly works for me because I was never good at RTS games, even though I did try somewhat to be decent at them years ago but I never got the hang of it.
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>>375695576
>Specialist heavy teams
Suck hard in teamfight.
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Which bundle should I get if I've never played MOBAs before?
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>>375698959
>paying for characters
The game gives you 20 free and enough quests to buy 1-3 heroes a month with in-game currency. Then there's like a dozen that're free on a rotating schedule every week. Who the fuck pays for heroes?
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It's not a moba is isometric blizzard ssb
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>>375698821
>pick Morales
>"click [HERE] to turn off Allied chat."
>*click*
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>>375695779
Play murky, he's almost bully free hero.
>they will not shit on you for dying because you're murky
>they will not shit on you for split pushing while there's an active objective cause you're murky
>they will not flame you for lots of deaths since they will probably have more deaths in the score screen.
The only thing you're getting talked shit on if you fucking grabbed a tank

Or, you can just play any heroes and do whatever you want, just remember to mute your allies at the start.
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>>375698821
I almost play solely for the vidya references because I am scum. Even the Eva-01 skins are top tier. Running around as fake Samus is the best tho. What's your skin of choice?
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>>375697659
how

teach me your ways

i act like a tsundere anime girl and bakas keep adding me to their friends
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>>375699017
>1-3 heroes a month
>20 heroes for free
>Free rotation

Why aren't they all just free then? It would make it a decent argument against LoL, considering they're competing for the 'casual MOBA' spot.
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>>375699001
You could always get the Flex bundle.

But there is a quiz on the HotS website that lets you know which bundle you would probably like most.
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>>375698959
>no it didnt you decuple nigger
It did and its has, its Blizzard game after all. but how should you know.
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>>375698982
>specialists suck at teamfights
Stupidest thing said all thread. Half the specialists have ults meant purely for setting up teamfights. Grav-o-bomb, Devouring Maw, Polybomb / Seal, etc. And the rest are just high-damaging great teamfight abilities like Wailing Arrow, Blunt Force Gun, Ravenous Spirit, Ultimate Evolution, etc.
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>>375698306

To be fair they're still playing like shit if they're in spawn the whole game, because Abathur is meant to soak XP too and even push lanes a little bit with the locusts he spawns from himself.
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>>375694393
>Makes a claim
>>375694425
>"Please explain your reasoning"
>>375694519
>"Acktually I don't have one and just parrot the rest of /v/ despite not playing a game, so uh, time to improperly use the burden of proof meme"

This fucking place. Just when you think the average IQ can't be lowered any further.
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>>375699130
I think Riot's reasoning was that it was to encourage people to play the game more. It also gives players a goal to achieve that seems more obtainable than simply "get to diamond 3 or higher" right off the bat.
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>>375699130
>why does the game create an incentive for you to play and accumulate in-game currency instead of handing you everything for free and removing the fun sense of progression

Is this really a question? For the same reason RPGs don't start you out at max level with the best equipment.
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HotS is one of the better MOBAs I've played, the map variety keeps it somewhat interesting, and heroes seem like they can actually do things. I used to play League with friends and that was utter shit. The only MOBA I've played that's better is Paragon, and that's only because it's more of a shooter.
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>>375699001
I didn't look at the other bundles but honestly the tank bundle is alright
It gives a bit of everything, straight up tanks, bruisers, assassins, specialists...
I usually dislike most HOTS assassin because they're so fucking squishy and I myself have more of a in-your-face playstyle leading me to getting fucked over all the time, but it depends on your own playstyle
If you're new I would really avoid the support pack desu, pick assassin or tank
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>>375699130
Where is the sense of progression in everything being given to you?
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>>375698953
>it's a varian charges into the entire enemy team leaving you to die to their frontline and says "bad morales" after he dies episode
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>>375698959
I play dota and hots. 5k hours in dota. I wish hots was more complex but it's not like you can't play both
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>>375699258
>>375699252
>game is so shit that you get your enjoyment from running for that carrot on a stick instead of the game itself.
If playing the game isn't fun enough then you should try something you actually enjoy.
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>>375699369
Why not both?
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>>375699130

I don't understand why the game needs to go out of its way to avoid replicating a successful business model.
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>>375699017
>enough quests to buy 1-3 heroes a month with in-game currency
wow, 1-3 heroes?
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>>375699369
>this game is so shitty that it has mini-objectives to occupy you with in addition to the gameplay!
Yeah, how terrible. If there's one thing I hate having in my games, it's depth.

literally kys
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>>375699189
>its Blizzard game after all

Do you think WoW is still alive too?
if you're baiting then take the win, i'm really tired anon

>>375699258
>For the same reason RPGs don't start you out at max level with the best equipment.

Don't you level your character in-game? And there isn't a 'best equipment' in a MOBA; there's picks and counterpicks, but there's not like a definitive win from a character from the get-go.

>>375699332
It's not progression, the characters are there. I think it's a lot more entertaining when the sole variety comes from the game-to-game experiences from any character rather then just unlocking them.
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>>375694509
I picked support, my two friends picked assassin. Now I have to keep their dumb asses alive in most games while they bitch about being squishy
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>>375699106
:v
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>>375699442
Given they release a hero a month, up to three times that number is pretty good.
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>>375699442
You get tons free in boxes also.
Since new boys would get the free 20 at level 0 they could have a ton more after a few games.
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>>375699258
>>375699332
This argument is fucking retarded. How the fuck did people played multiplayer vidya more than a decade ago when nothing was hidden behind a paywall or grinding to unlock it, meaning no sense of accomplishment? Why the fuck people played Quake 3 when there was no lootboxs and achievments to keep the skinner box going?
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>>375699258
lmao
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>>375699447
>p2w shit
>it adds depth
i guess you do need a deep wallet to pay for an entire roster of characters and completely necessary "conveniences", but i prefer my depth in the form of actual gameplay
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>>375694393

> makes fun of someone for liking a moba
> says the moba that is the least like a traditional moba is the shittiest of all mobas

What did he mean by this?
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>>375699310
Paragon is just so goddamn slow, and if you're pubstomping its just waiting for minions so you can kill towers
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>>375699130
>Why aren't they all just free then?
So they can charge ~$10 per new hero released and whales eat that shit up over and over and over again. Literally the only reason.
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>>375699332

Getting better at the game maybe? I'm fine with the game's business model because 1) they give out free shit in events all the time and 2) even without the free shit the grind is not that bad.

I would love it if every hero was free though.
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>>375699541
The games weren't free.
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>>375699572
Yeah I'd have to agree, that's why I stopped playing it. It also bugged me that there's no sort of backstory for any characters. I don't necessarily want a coherent story but I'd like to have characters with, y'know, character.
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>>375699593
>Literally the only reason.

LITERALLY THE ONLY REASON FOLKS

Not the other reasons that are just as plausible, but clearly the reason stated by this farkwad.
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>>375699447
>instead of trying out new compositions and builds with the game's entire roster, I'd rather have "mini-objectives" where I grind for everything
Nah. Eat shit dumb faggot.
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>>375699571
Not him but it's possible to be significantly different from most other ASSFAGGOTS in all the wrong ways.
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>>375699651
So why do they charge $10 for every new hero then, anon
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>>375699551

Buying characters with money rather than game currency is not pay2win you fucking retard.
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>>375699651
>delusional blizzdrones actually browse this site
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>>375694519
Think about what you just said Anon.
Really think
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>>375699593
this is incorrect, while what you stated is the primary reason of course they do believe in the "you'll overwhelm new players" meme
see: full free hero rotation not unlocking till like level 12, the current limited map rotation due to 2.0/hanamura launching
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>>375699551
>p2w
>is literally free
Wore a helmet to school, didja?
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>>375699703
To make the carrot and stick progression model work while having a way to scam people who want a way out without just quitting the game
doesn't stop me from playing
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>>375699678
You have no investment in the game other than time. Just playing for shits and giggles will eventually get boring and you will move on.
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>>375699703
For retarded impatient faggots like yourself who are so inbred that they genuinely cannot figure out another way to own the character than spending $10.

Like say, spending 10-15k gold that you can accumulate in a couple of weeks worth of playing.

There will always be idiots with more money than sense.
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>>375699793
Hey come on now, you're better then that, buddy
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>>375699813
your game must be pretty boring if that's the case
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>playing Activision Blizzard games
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>>375699858
And yet it's the model the most popular moba uses.
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>>375699847
>if you want access to all heroes without grinding hundreds of games you are an impatient inbred faggot
blizzdrones everyone
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>welcome to HotS
>would you like to burn $10 on recycled art assets?

Really, fuck Blizzard.
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>>375699889
no correlation
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>>375699857
The game is fun and I already own every hero I like
So it doesn't effect me negatively
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>>375699847
>smelly Blizzcuck calling other people idiots with their money

yeah okay, tiger
why dont you go buy more Overwatch loot crates, ugly
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>>375699989
Both models are being used and one is clearly more popular.
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>>375699813
>You have no investment in the game other than time. Just playing for shits and giggles will eventually get boring and you will move on.
And? It's a game you faggot, not a job. Are you seriously playing a game that you would find boring if it didn't have unlocks?
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>>375700062
because it makes devs more money

league I can somewhat understand as it was a new market, but blizzard could have easily made all heroes free.
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>>375699210
>Stupidest thing said all thread.
Specialists don't.

Specialist-heavy teams do.
You just won't be able to compete in damage and sustain.
Sylv is extra-squishy.
Zagara is countered hard by lots of melee asassins and bruisers.
Xul is underperfoming outside of lane and useless vs ranged.
Hammer is countered hard by divers and mages. Chromie just shut her down.
Nazeebo's Spirit is interruptable. And his skills are avoidable by good positioning and movement.
Aba requires strong melee carry. And team being capable to hold 4.5 vs 5.
And Medivh is almost always disaster outside pro scene.
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>65 heroes in the game
>26 of them are assassins
>40% of all heroes in game are assassins
>every new one assassin is more cancerous than the previous one
>the assassin bundle is the most popular one because everyone playing hots plays mostly assassins
>quickmeme is 10 man assassin games
Why is this allowed
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>>375699913
>hundreds of games
Not too good at math, are you?
>quests give between 200-800gp daily + weekly brawl = 1000gp
>heroes cost between 2000-10000gp
Assuming you only ever get the 200gp quests somehow and only go after the highest costing heroes, you only need to do something like 5 games a day each week.
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>>375700132
They should have made the other bundles better
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>>375694519

good job /V/ for the bar not being low enough to let this stand.
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>>375700234
People would have always picked the ass bundle for muh dps. Nothing could be done to make other packs more appealing. I picked tank just because.
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>>375698879
I see. That means the only people who recommended me the game are my normie friends, i.e. people who don't play vidya aside from the currently most popular multiplayer games.
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>>375700285
I picked tank because I like to play bruisers in games like these, but fuck me non of them do any damage.
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>>375700140
Are the weekly brawls going to switch to the loot box thing, or is this just for the Overwatch event? Because the 1000gold was worth doing the Brawl, the lootbox wasn't.
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>>375699940

epic burn
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>>375700093
Are you fucking retarded or just autistic? If you have nothing invested in the game there is little to keep you interested when the game inevitable gets boring. It doesn't matter how fun the game is you will eventually get tired of it. Without a investment that happens sooner.
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>>375694282
Hots is by far the most fun moba. I play it a lot these days. Different maps and more interesting abilities make it better than dota and the item buying is just way more tedious than talents
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>tfw discovered how much fun Muradin is
FOR THE BRONZEBEARDS
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>>375695087
Yes. Blizzard has been heavily crititied for it. QM apparently went from bad to unplayable
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>>375700362

Pretty sure the loot boxes are a permanent reward for brawls now and anon was (at least partially) incorrect.

So not much as gold now for buying heroes because of that, but you can also get heroes from loot boxes if you're reasonably lucky, and there's still plenty of gold to earn by just playing every few days and doing dailies and also from leveling your heroes enough.
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>>375700093
Whether he does or not doesn't matter.
People do, it works. It's the same concept as people not rerolling to another MMO from WoW.
They already have a geared max level character on WoW. Why start all over again?
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>>375700348
You can get tons of damage out of Skeltal King and Chen. I'm not shit hot with anyone else but I often finish top damage as Leoric.
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Posting best slut
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>>375700528
It went into trash way before.
Mostly because they introduced new class system, where Varian (even in tank build) counts as an assassin.
And then they released Valeera, the pubstomper extraordinaire.
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>>375700587
Real question is: Striker or Star Queen?
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>>375700348

If we're only talking about tanks and not bruisers then Anub'Arak, Arthas, and Muradin can all do pretty respectable damage when played right with the right build; Anub'Arak probably has the highest damage potential because he can dive into a team and go apeshit with locust swarm.
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>>375700673
Both!
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>>375694282
For 5 days in a row, my daily quest has been against fucking AI. Wtf's up with that
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>>375695823
You bashed some noobs which is even easier in dota since you can farm for 20 minutes then 1v5. I played dota for years but it's beyond broken at this point and just tedious
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>>375700403
>Without a investment that happens sooner.

Autism alert.
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>>375700587

More like worst slut. Best slut is Deputy Valla & Succubus Kerrigan.
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>>375694282
/v/ hates everything dude
Just play whatever you want and formulate your own opinion, think for yourself
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>>375694519
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>>375700719

That's for new players, get some more games in and you won't see those quests ever again.
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>>375700673
Star Princess, because her skirt is see through. Unlike Star Queen
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>>375700132
just like dota

probably lol as well
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>>375700348
Artanis, Sonya, Diablo do heavy burst and sustained damage.
Arthas, Anub, Tyrael, Mura, Dehaka, Leoric and Chen do good sustained damage if built right.
Stitch, ETC, Rexx, Joh and Zarya do low damage.
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>>375700763
The irony of this coming from an apparently literal autist. You'll play a $60 game more than a free game if you find them equally fun.
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>>375694282
>Try hots on release
>It's fucking boring as shit
>Try hots for 2.0 release
>Still fucking boring as shit
Wew lad
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>>375694282
>/v/ hates HotS
How did you miss all the HotS threads a week ago?
/v/ loves HotS.
mobafags hate it.

>it's not as complex as my favorite MOBA
>it's easy
>it's the shittiest moba
Are all valid criticisms.
But it's still fun.
And if you are playing vidia for fun then none of that matters.

In fact it keeps all the assfaggots away and lets HotS be that "what if Illidan fought Kerrigan" kind of game instead of the next MLG E-SPORT blizzard is trying to turn it into.
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>>375700894
>Zarya do low damage
Depends on how much energy she has

And let me tell you people just can't stop attacking her when the shield is up.
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>>375700875
I see well balanced team compositions on both sides. What were you trying to say with this screenshot?
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>>375700719
game think you too dumb to play against people and it might spooks you, blizzard treat their players with such care
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>>375700894
>Zarya do low damage.
You realize she does the highest damage out of any hero in the early levels if you take the talent that gives her 50% more damage in melee range.

It's why shes always used for A.I. rushing.
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>>375701080
it's unrelated
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>>375694980
>we want the battlerite audience.

Nothing could go wrong with this plan.
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>>375694282
Should I try this?

I've played Dota 2 and LoL and I love supporting.

But i have no idea how this game works

Can someone give me a quick rundown?
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>>375701204
use spells
get objective
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>>375701164
>average hots player.webm
Nah dude, PSG is a professional Dota player with a decade of experience, it's just forced 50% and the hidden pool holding the man down, see?
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>>375701164
i will never not enjoy this clip
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>>375694282
>Taking /v/'s opinion on anything
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>>375701204
Click with mouse, win the game.
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>>375700692
Most warriors have decent damage potential these days: Leoric can do a lot with good drain hope uptime, rexxar is a little hard to play but does decent dps, stitches slam build is sick, diabolo puts out good aoe damage and even taunt varian does some good damage with heroic strike resets. I used to play lots of assassins but now I tend to carry more with warriors (especially arthas and varian)
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>>375701204
I'm willing to teach you if you want to be my heal slut. Start downloading
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>>375700937

No, that's just you projecting your autism actually.
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>>375701479
>no u
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>>375701204
Differences from "traditional mobas"

-Shared exp
-No last hitting required, just stand near minions when they die
-Instead of gold and buying items, every few levels you get "talents" which either augment your abilities, give you activatible effects, or tweek some of your hero's stats
-Instead of one map that every game is played on, there are several different maps with objectives that can help your lane push better. Some maps won't let you push lanes to win, instead requiring capturing objectives to win.
-You have two choices of ultimates at level 10
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>>375694803
i really hope that thing shoot somewhere in future, but right now its barely playable because devs test and adjust stuff and gameflow constantly changing it doesnt feel like proper moba. There also "It's Beta" thing
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>>375694519
>all these (you)'s

HotS fags on suicide watch
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>>375701549
>all these people calling the anti-hots guy a retard
>he clearly won
>>
Dota is legitimately for unemployed people. Playing it feels more like a job than anything else. Who wants to invest hundreds of hours of studying items and matches so that you can maybe play for an hour and not get stomped? It's complexity just for the sake of complexity and to hide how tedious and monotonous the gameplay really is. At least blizzard makes games that can still be fun when you lose. Everybody I've met who plays Dota is a grade A autist.
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So D.Va is today right? I really want to play as her
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>>375701694
>So D.Va is today right
No, she isn't out yet. She doesn't even have a profile on the page yet
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>>375701679
sup mike
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>>375701679
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>>375701058
>And let me tell you people just can't stop attacking her when the shield is up.
At least in my platinum colored bronze league, people actually learned to not do that.

>You realize she does the highest damage out of any hero in the early levels if you take the talent that gives her 50% more damage in melee range
Even higher than full 3 seconds of minigun?
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>>375701750
>>375701764
>literally no comeback
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>>375701679
You're not wrong. There are two types of DotA players. The people who have thousands of hours in their time played section and people who don't play DotA.
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>>375701694
Next week most likely, because there no video of her yet and no test real for her.
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>tanks are useless

why bother
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>>375701834
some people like complexity

easy
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>>375701834
>I'm too dumb to learn dota and too pleb to enjoy deep game mechanics
>Therefore overly simplified games are superior and everyone who thinks otherwise is literally autistic
This is what you sound like.
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>>375701906
So all you need to make a good game is complexity? Wow! Time to become a game designer now that I know the secret!
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>>375701901
https://youtu.be/s34ji9vMS2A?t=1m20s

Start at the 1:20 mark. Watch Arthas, a tank, prove their value.
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>>375702029
your baits are bad and you should feel bad
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>>375701906
Most don't. They like to look up the most popular build and then brag about how complex their favorite game is.
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>>375702029
good thing no one said that
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>>375701975
I said I don't have the time to invest to learn everything. Some of us actually have jobs, anon. Learn to comprehend what you read.
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You finna that if I make a battlenet account I can get hero storm and starcraft remake for free?
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I kinda want to try and play HotS to see if it's fun
>it's free
>has some waifus in it
>casual (which is good because the complexity Dota meme is the worst fucking thing)
HOWEVER
>done by Blizzard
>MOBA (I already played 3 MOBAs before and they are usually cancer)

What do
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>>375702117
Everybody defends Dota with "it's so complex and deep!" Sure sounds like that's their mark of a good game
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>>375702171
>no all chat
>matches are only 20-30 minutes
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>>375702171
It's free, you got nothing to lose.
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>>375702108
that's like 3k and below, 4k and up is copying pro builds and thinking you're rtz
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>>375702147
Even if someone had time im not sure new to genre people would like to invest so much time just to start having fun.
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>>375702171
Play a couple games see if you like it. Duh. At most you waste an hour
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>>375702171
Its free, at worst you lose a hour or two that you would have wasted on /v/ anyway. So its either a waste or a waste and you get a game to not play.
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>>375702231
and everyone defends hots with the fact that it's casual. what's your point, retard?
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>>375702058
>That moshpit win
Truly there is no better feeling in the game that getting that team wipe moshpit
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>>375701901
That's extremely wrong
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>>375702231
yes? complexity and depth are pretty essential to good games i imagine

hots feels like i'm playing something popcap made like bejeweled or peggle. i don't care enough about the matches to get invested in them.
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>>375702058
While that is one of my favorite hots moments, it doesn't really highlight Arthas as a tank so much as a Bruiser.

https://youtu.be/N3sQgqbKYJA?t=3m7s

Right there at the 3m7s mark is Chen tanking an enemy keep and fighting off half the enemy team simultaneously. This is the perfect answer to people who bitch about how the game can't be carried by a single person or how useless non-assassins are.
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>>375702338
That complexity isn't enough to justify a game having good gameplay.
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>>375702293
>im not sure new to genre people would like to invest so much time just to start having fun.
the people who try dota and keep playing it dont not have fun when they start otherwise they would quit.
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>>375702404
Complexity =/= Depth
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>>375702421
k
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>>375702487
that's why i said complexity and depth, notice the and
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>>375702417
holy fuck. tanked the keep + the tower + ravenous spirit simultaneously and then jaina and valla show up when he's at like 5%hp and he tanks them too

I need to buy chen
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>>375695312
On maps where you can physically attack the core you can just hold out for level 20 and win a team fight. Their res timers will be a minute, which is enough time to plow threw a fort and kill a core.
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>>375702453
I tried it and i did had fun at all. Moreover i found game mechanics completely retarded and illogical.
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>>375702537
The follow-up where he fights Thrall, Abathur and Sylvanas under the tower was better, I think.
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>>375702453
If they are lucky enough to have friends train them and aren't turned away by the incredibly toxic community, sure. If the game wasn't free it would be dead.
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Where were you when /v/ shunned meaningful time investment, skill progression, and interesting mechanics in favour of instant gratification and mobile game design?
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>>375702171
>has some waifus in it
Speaking of, is there any particularly good art of Li Ming? She appeals to so many of my preferences in both design and gameplay.
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>>375702612
>Moreover i found game mechanics completely retarded and illogical.
lol
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>>375702643
>m-muh complexity
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>>375702639
>If the game wasn't free it would be dead.
considering the amount of overwatch cross promotions blizzard keep running to get people to play hots i think that is double true for hots.
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>>375702612
Same. I'm glad it exists though. That means less autists in my other online games.
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I don't see the reason why HOTS faggots and dota faggots gotta shit fling at each other. HOTS is a completely different market, namely the blizzshill and casual market, so that there's really very little overlap in the player bases. It's like people who like Mario party complaining about scrabble players.

Though people defending having to pay for heroes are retarded no matter what.
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>>375702639
unlike hots which is both free and dead
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>>375702058
What does that clip have to do with being a Tank
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>>375702537
That build of the game seems to be very old because the icons seen in that video are not the same as in the game, so don't be so sure that you can pull off what the video did.
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>>375702693
Most likely.
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>>375702725
Arthas is a tank and he 1v5s the enemy team and captures the objective, winning the game.
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>>375702719
The thing is you can play both Mario Party and Scrabble and still see the flaws in each game.
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>>375702780
nice game hotsfags
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>play few matches of dota
>play few mindless matches of hots to relax
feels good
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>>375702805
It is, thanks.

>waahhh in dota i can 1v5 ppl but hots is too team dependent!
>>here's a guy who 1v5s in hots
>lmfao wat a shit game
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If all you want from a moba is PvP you play hots. Its FAYT! The gaem from the get go.
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>>375702887
>waahhh in dota i can 1v5 ppl
not really
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>>375702887
>implying I wasn't going to shit all over a hots video regardless of content or point being made
Is this your first interaction with a shill?
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>>375702794
And, to keep the analogy, the Scrabble players are really up their own ass.
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>>375702993
dotafags at least keep their shit to d2g for the most part.

meanwhile this past week i have seen so many hots shill threads it's ridiculous. you realise there's a hots general on vg right?
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That feel when Hammer MVP

Hammer + Medivac is so fucking amazing
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>>375694850
make second account, use sandboxie and play with urself
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>>375703073
>stealth siege + hovermode
>sneak to enemy core
>abathur clones
>nuke core before enemy team can hearth back and stop it
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>>375703069
>dotafags at least keep their shit to d2g for the most part.
The irony is the lol and dota shitposting is the reason /vg/ was created.
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draenei hero WHEN
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>>375703193
>>375703193
dota wasn't around when /vg/ was made you fucking idiot. the actual reason /vg/ was made was because blizzshills were shitting up the board with their eternal sc2 k-pop threads.
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>>375703069
there's been a massive overhaul of the game
if the same was to happen to lol and dota you'd also see about it on /v/
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>>375703193
>and dota
no
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>>375703329
>a massive overhaul of the game
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>>375702453
The people who play dota don't have fun at all. They play for years and hate themselves. It's something for jobless autists
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>>375703157
>Losing to a team that has both hammer and abathur
What kind of shit team where you facing?
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>>375703329
>MASSIVE OVERHAUL OF THE GAME
>added lootboxes
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>>375703406
sure thing
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>>375703425
A team that thought going after objectives instead of handling the dual split pushers would win.
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>>375703329
don't lie anon. a new progression system and locking maps out of "rotation" for no existing reason isn't overhauling, it's retarded at best and i'm currently playing
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>>375701164
Pretty much though.
DOTA
>Do everything you can to stop the lane from being pushed
>stop you're hero from auto attacking and just wait for creeps to get low
>only right click when they are low so you get xp and dont push the lane
>Support can't even be close to you so only you get the XP

HotS
>Just being around creeps gives you XP when they die.
>No last hit so you can focus on pushing/fighting.
>Pushing the lane is GOOD because towers have a limited number of shots and you want to waste the other teams ammo
>Creeps do a shitload of damage so you can't pull them forever to keep them away from the tower
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>>375703443
>>375703402
>lolqueers and dotards mad their game is dead and stagnating
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>>375703306
>i've been here all summer

>>375703332
Half of /v/ was lol vs dota shitposting.
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>>375703527
>says the heroes of the stillborn player
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>>375703495
>locking maps out of "rotation" for no existing reason isn't overhauling
The rotation is only temporary, they usually do this when new maps show up.
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>>375703510
why did you reply to me
>Do everything you can to stop the lane from being pushed
not necessarily
>only right click when they are low
not exactly
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>>375694282
I played hots very lightly a couple years ago. What's this 2.0,is it any good? Is there any reason for me to download it again?
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>>375703561
>dota 2 wasn't even in closed beta when the /vg/ split happened
>being such a blizzshill that you deny the fact that sc2 general was one of the main reasons for the split
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>>375698489
Abathur carry.
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>>375703752
>dota 2 wasn't even in closed beta when the /vg/ split happened
Just stop anon. It's ok to be wrong sometimes.
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>>375695087

I remember another MOBA called SMNC that did the same thing for TF2 hats, except it was even worse.
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>>375703510
>>Do everything you can to stop the lane from being pushed
this only applies to usually 1 or 2 people on your team. and of course pushing towers is important in dota. the thing is it's harder to push a tower, towers are formidable especially in early game. it's about biding your time and waiting for the right moment to push whereas in hots there's so little else you can be doing that pushing is basically your only strategy.
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>>375703749
same thing with loot boxes and 20 free heroes
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>>375700770
Nice choice. I would add love goddess Tyrande as well.
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>>375703884
>there's so little else you can be doing that pushing is basically your only strategy.

That's only because teamwork is extremely rare in pugs. You could be 2-3 man ganking, getting camps, or doing the objective when it its up.
That last one a lot of people skip in favor of mindlessly farming.
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I miss Dawngate
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>>375702537

The problem is that if you have any reliable interrupts for Chen's drinking, like stuns or silences or displacements, and he tries shit like that he will get assfucked hard.

He is a cool hero, but fair warning.
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>>375695117
For D.Va
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>>375703510
>Do everything you can to stop the lane from being pushed
>stop you're hero from auto attacking and just wait for creeps to get low
>only right click when they are low so you get xp and dont push the lane
Pushing the lane towards their tower leaves you exposed for potential ganks. You should be trading hits with the enemy if it's favorable. HotS' lanes are a fraction of the size so it doesn't matter.
>Support can't even be close to you so only you get the XP
That's because supports can function well without exp and gold, unlike the carries. If they really need to farm they can stack and pull camps or gank another lane.
>No last hit so you can focus on pushing/fighting.
You should be able to last hit and fight at the same time if you're not a fucking shitter.
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>>375704081
I do as well. You could tell the dev team really loved it.
But they were playing with fire getting published by EA. And when they decided to unceremoniously pull the plug on it, they got burned hard.
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>>375694509
I picked bruiser, because I wasn't going to pass up on a chance to play Ragnaros
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>>375694282
There was a thread the other day praising the game. Pretty sure most threads since 2.0 have been pretty positive.
Also this
>>375694329
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>>375694393
friendly reminder that only riot shills call them MOBAs instead of FAGGOTS.
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>>375703837
>tfw remember the crackdown on the shitposting when the split happened
This conversation has made me surprisingly nostalgic.
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>>375702147
I'm glad you're paying your rent flipping burgers and enjoying your free time with games like HotS that are up to your speed. Good for you buddy. Meanwhile countless doctors, lawyers, coders, scientists and other intellectual gamers allocate their resources to their choice of game: the competetive game supreme. Capable of the highest highs and lowest depths, experience which only a truly deep and complex game can offer you. Dota 2 is without doubt the best competetive game created, and it will outlive all of it's competitors. It is endorsed by several top chess grandmasters. Further proof of Dota being the true patricians choice is the fact that the yearly crowdfunded tournament, the International, far surpasses prize pools of any other game and even many traditional sports. Do you really think a game that pulls that many whales is supported exclusively NEETs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wk-R_9cK60
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>Buy flex pack
>Have a bit of everything and not really any regrets

I'm having fun.
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>>375703406
This
I honestly feel bad for anyone playing that game and MOBAs in general and still didn't realize how fucking bad things are in the genre
Just go to /vg/ or whatever, there are so many anons so invested in dota that they cannot quit the game, yet every time they play they feel miserable. The entire genre and Dota in particular are made so to keep you addicted no matter what, always trying to get that sweet +25mmr. Winning a game is the best feeling, but losing badly is the worst feeling.
Because winning requires teamwork it means every game is a coin toss. You got retards on your team? Too bad fucker, you lost the game and even the carry skills of a pro won't matter for shit if you have 4 braindead retards on your side
You don't have fun 50% of the time because of this retardation and you ALSO have to work your ass off if you want to get good and climb
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>>375704237
>Pushing the lane towards their tower leaves you exposed for potential ganks
pushing the lane ensures the offlaner stays in his lane and doesn't rotate. it also lets you pull the hard camp
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>>375704367
What people don't seem to realize about these dumbed down casual as fuck babby's first videogames is you NEED to have the agonizing lows to have the insane highs. A game which by simplifying mechanics forces all matches into an average amount of sensible fun can never give you the kind of experience that a mechanically rich, deep game like dota can give you. If you enjoy boring babby games then that's fine, it's not like you're taking anything away from me. But saying your shit game is better beucase you're too much of a baby for real games, or using limited time as a crutch when there's a lot of people who got good on limited free time, then you're simply wrong. Yes I'm fuycking triggered hope you enjoyed your (You)'s
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>>375704613
>letting the offlane get exp
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>>375704367
Please tell me this is a pasta
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>>375704480
>le forced 50
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>>375704684
sometimes it cant be helped
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>>375702639
Yeah I can see how dota can be really daunting. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the people who try dota alone end up not sticking with it. I'm sure fairly huge share of dota playerbase that stuck with it got into it because of their friends
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>>375704704
It is now
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>>375704752
I never mentioned forced 50
Wether or not that exists, which is debatable, the fact remains that if your teammates refuse to turn their brains on then no amount of carrying will save you because nobody wins a game alone. Unless maybe you can get away with farming all game, assuming of course the 4v5 doesn't lose you the game first
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>>375695823
>mobas are about outplay
Lol
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Honestly don't know any fans of hots that arent trash at the other mobas no matter how long theyve played
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>>375704081
This. Played DotA since 2005, tried almost every other shitty clone and Dawngate was the only commercial moba which was different enough and really tried to bring something new in the genre, didn't feel just an inferior version of a game I played thousand times already.
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>>375705002
>coin toss
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>>375694689
Flex has Varian. Literally the only hero you need

though I guess Lucio is best support pick if thats your thing
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>Get 2 legendaries in boxes since I started
>They're both mounts
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>>375705131
Could be worse. I got tracer.
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>>375705036
Then they must be blessed
Imagine being so bad at MOBAs you uninstall the game after a few matches, instead of spending thousands of hours invested into this cancer genre only to realize you'd rather actually have fun while playing games
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>>375705219
Imagine spending thousands of hours on MOBAs to still be a complete retard by RTS standards.
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>>375694282
Its MOBA but for ADHD kiddies. Matches go by so quickly, it feels like you're playing PVP Diablo, but with a limited skillset.
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>>375705294
>le rts moba meymey
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>>375705093
Well matchmaking puts random people (that are around you level) in your team and against you, right? So how is that not a coin toss, when the outcome of the game is mostly decided by what team has the most idiots/russians/BR/feeders in it
Forced 50 is a completely different thing
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>>375694282
>game gets shilled 24/7 because Legion flopped and Overwatch is dying

>>>/vg/ with this shit game.
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>>375705131

>got judgement uther skin
>it's the shitty purple one

FUCK
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>>375705342
because you are the only constant and as such the enemy team is more likely to have those retards assuming you are not one as well. before I stopped playing ranked due to shitty internet I went from 3300 to 4062 with an 85% winrate
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>>375705429
>purple recolor for judgement
>bad
pls. ur bad
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>>375705339
>le no other reply maymay
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>>375705294
I don't need to imagine
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>>375705429
at least it's judgement
best uther skin no matter the color
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>>375705179
If you want to hate your life, play the new all tracer brawl.
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>>375694282
is beyond me how I have lag even on the lowest settings
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>another HOTS shilling post

I guess nobody plays the game since blizzard is this desperate. Every single day there is hots shilling post, embarasing
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>>375705219
theyre all people who invested a lot of time into LoL, dota, or HoN but prefer a game that makes them feel like theyre good
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I main Valeera and Dehaka. I just started playing Friday. This game is really fun.
I like Arthas too. How good is Anubarak?
It seems like fun.
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>>375705635

no bully
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>>375699526
I've gotten to 18 starting at the weekend and I only got one new hero.
Loadsaskines tho
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>>375705698
why would a good moba player be good by rts standards when they don't play an rts?
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>it's bad because it's not like dota/lol!!

Got it all wrong, dumbos. It's good because it's its own thing.
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>>375694654
>lane for 10 minutes
>teamfight for towers/turrets and rosh/baron
>repeat until win/loss

It's almost as if you can "argue" for or against anything like this.
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>tfw literally no one on /v/ plays your favorite ASSFAGGOTS

Awesomenauts is a good game, you should try it
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>>375706072
No watch out he might hit you with all the "thought" and "skill" that goes into buying some of all 10 viable endgame items.
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>Playing Mario Party in MOBA form
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>>375705429
>Not roleplaying as the pimp Paladin who slaps people with his hammer
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>>375705841
>/v/ is a single person.
There's posts every day because people on /v/ started playing it because of the event. Once the event dies down the posting about this game won't be as much.
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>>375705309
So in other words no fucking laning grind?
I fail to see how a purely pvp diablo is bad
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>>375705484
Then good for you that you have skills, but there is a reason most people don't ever get to see 4k mmr and above (which last time I checked was like the top 12% or so of players), usually if you don't spam carry or OP heroes you don't climb for any significant amount
Out of curiosity what role and hero did you play?
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>>375702171
It isn't only free, but Blizz is giving away shit for once. Take advantage of that before Mr.Goldburgshecklesteinowitz finds out.
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>>375694519
This is becoming a problem
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>>375706143
>itemizing correctly doesnt require skill
why do people who don't know what they're talking about voice their opinions?
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>>375694425
Terrible balancing, you can't balance a moba for different maps with an everexpanding roster of heroes that is indicative of free2play games. Dota does it pretty alright cause you get access to all heroes but in league they had the same problem with the dominion map mode when that was released. Certain heroes become OP to the point of being blatantly broken and riot gave up any and all hope of properly balancing their extra map, afaik they've given up on the multiple maps idea because of balancing issues.

Now in heroes of the storm that problem is HUGE, because of how every map works differently mechanically some heroes become borderline broken on certain maps while on others they become completely useless to the point where if you have that hero and you get queued for that map you might as well just DC and go into low prio for a couple of matches since it's probably more enjoyable than playing a game that's lost based on pure RNG.

Now there are game modes where this is less of an issue like ranked or unranked draft modes where both teams know the map that's being picked and have to ban/pick based on that map. And here's where you get into problem #2

People leave during the ban/pick phase on higher ranked games ALL THE FUCKING TIME and 99% of the time it's because someone picked a hero that someone considers useless on that map or if the enemy team got to pick the hero that's completely broken OP on that map.

Skill ceiling is another big issue in the game, because most heroes abilities are such watered down versions of dota/league skills, the capability for a single player to impact anything is severely diminished. Now this has pros and cons in that it mean that teamplay is much more emphasized but individual skill means very little because there is only so much 1 hero can do in Heroes, in league and in dota there are heroes that can easily hardcarry on their own if they get big enough or the players are good enough.

There you go
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Only blizzard could turn a PVP genre into PVE snorefest
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It lacks severely in any mechanical depth, i.e. careful micro of DotA or the fast pace of LoL as well as build depth. The game isn't bad, it just isn't as fun as the alternative no matter how hard I try to get into it. The objective oriented game modes offer variety, but the rest of the gameplay drags it down
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>>375703262
You know it is going to be Velen, or an Eredar.
Blizzard wouldn't dare put in that waifu from WoD.
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>>375706332
its literally always the exact same post you retard.
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>>375694519

this is so retarded I actually laughed for a minute straight
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>>375706482
>but there is a reason most people don't ever get to see 4k mmr and above
most people don't even really try to improve I think. you'll probably hit a ceiling if you just play over and over and not watch pro streams/look for educational content. I mostly played everything but I spammed a little tb and some invoker since I seemed to not lose on that hero.

unfortunately you can't sort out party matches but most very high skill is solo.

https://www.dotabuff.com/players/55614052/matches?date=all&lobby_type=ranked_matchmaking
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>>375695714
except he is fampai. It works :3 .
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>>375706904

Velen could be a nice support. I don't think Kil'Jaeden would count as "draenei" even though he technically is.
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>>375694509
i picked support. it has cancermeidvh
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>>375704371
mah nigga
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IGNzLvCkqk

Apparently Leoric was broken on release, no idea how.
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>>375703069
>dotafags at least keep their shit to d2g for the most part.
Until they come to HotS thread crying out 'Shill' 'Ded game' and 'Casual game play a real moba'
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>>375704371
noice. Same here. Though iI'm probably not going to play healer ever
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>>375699219
>>375694425
ignore that dumbo and read this mumbojumbo
>>375706647
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I buy new heroes that look cool for $10. It's a good game that deserves support and I have a job. Stay mad poorfags
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>>375706647
That is what makes drafting and ranked a lot more fun than in dota where every patch you have 15 good heroes and that's that.

And in qm it is literally a non issue since people playing that are so bad you can win or lose with any comp on any map.

The map variety is the main reason I switched from dota to hots
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>>375706121
Played it for some time, its fun but 2d got me bored. Now if this was anime 2d with lolis i would reconsider.
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>>375694282
>he prefers the most casual out of all mobas

Of course, this is /v/. The same place that unironically plays Diablo 3 over PoE. What would you expect.
It's hilarious how fucking bad and casual /v/ is at games when one might initially think this is where "hardcore" gamers congregate.
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>>375706647
>you can't balance a moba for different maps
Opinion
>because of how every map works differently mechanically some heroes become borderline broken on certain maps
win rates please for mechanically broken heroes on maps.
>People leave during the ban/pick phase on higher ranked games ALL THE FUCKING TIME
I doubt this because they get a loss. Even if the match is unfavorable there's still likely a 30% chance of winning. The only reason to dodge a game is to prevent a loss to the people who picked/banned like shit from the start.

Generally, just an opinion with no supporting facts.
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>>375694282
It's still a moba and mobas are shit by definition.
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>>375708083
>"hardcore" gamers
I was hardcore, then i grow up and have to find job and go there 5/7 a week.
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>>375707984
>than in dota where every patch you have 15 good heroes and that's that.
you couldn't be further from the truth
over 100 heroes were picked in the major last week
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>>375708083
>"hardcore"
You came for secret meme club, but got opinions of people instead. The fact that you take your elitist standards and project them at all shows how uncommitted you are to gaming since you shouldn't really be spending six hours a day to shitpost when you could be playing videogames.
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>>375706960
There was very little posting about HOTS before 2.0. Retard.
My argument stands, it will die down after a month when the event ends.
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retard of the year goes to...>>375694519
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>>375708247
>bad teams pick shit and lose
>Look how many different heroes were picked so balanced

I played Dota for years. If you like it fine but pretending it's balanced is retarded and a lie
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>>375708517
>bad teams pick shit and lose
lol
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>>375708451
>all these assumptions you pulled out of your ass
Is this how you always argue?
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>>375708083
>he think that mobas aren't peak casual
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>>375694519
>children of /v/ don't understand Burden of Proof
Not a surprise. OP claimed that HotS was better than two other games in the same genre (it can be reasoned that OP thinks HotS is the best game of its genre) and therefore, it is on OP to explain his belief.
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Well from what I hear most complains about the game are:
>They removed all the boring shit! Those bastards making it shallow!
I downloaded it once but have such an aversion to mobas after playing lol and dota I uninstalled it after doing the tutorial.
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HotS kind of made me want to play a more serious MOBA, but i never touched one before.

Which one do you guys play? LoL or Dota?
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>>375708804
they're both free, try both
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>>375694562
>/v/ just hates blizzard and it makes them very upset with how successful the company is
>HOTS
>successful

My sides.
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>>375708592
>no u
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how do I git gud at hots
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>>375708517
there are no bad teams at a major m80
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>>375708708
>OP claimed that HotS was worse than two other games

ftfy
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>>375708542
Great argument. Look at the pick and ban variety in the semis and finals.

Just like with the items the complexity and variety is a meme. It's the same all the time until a patch introduces changes
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>>375708804
Don't bother, kid.
You will need an extreme amount of time to get good in Dota.
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>>375694836
By that logic can't he defend himself by just saying he hates everything about it?
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>>375708929
>read the hero description
>play against ai bots
>always avoid damage, unless you know you can damage race 1v1
That's as far as I gotten
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>>375708804
>LoL
>"oh that champion looks pretty cool, i want to play him"
>grind IP for one week to buy said champion
>repeat for over 1000 hours until you realize the game has become a second job instead of a fun hobby
>go back to single player games and start having fun again
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>>375694282
I played a bit a long time ago and bumbled through 10 ranked games now and got diamond 2. I have no idea what the meta is and people are full blown cancer about my picks but we still win. You can be pretty ass st the game and still gwt good rank
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>>375708671
>he still thinks there's anything casual about dota 2
If ANY of the countless RTS pros that tried to git gud at dota had any semblance of success I would understand y'all still spouting this, but I mean come on
>>
This thread is a pretty good example of why mobas have such a bad reputation.
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>>375708929
by playing
by watching grubby replay analysis
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>>375708083
the only thing most of /v/ is hardcore at is shitposting desu
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>>375697371
>They do not change your abilities to counter enemy team and synergies with yours, only a small stat bonus or an effect like healing. Yes items are shit. Also, why didn't you said anything about the RNG bullshit? You know your game is luck and a handful of retardation? ;P

Except they do you fucking retard.
Items like BKB, Hex, Aghanim's Scepter, Manta Style, Blade Mail, Shadow Blade and shit ton of others are vital.

>RNG
Try playing the game you shitlord.
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>>375708083
>Of course, this is /v/. The same place that unironically plays Diablo 3 over PoE. What would you expect.
>It's hilarious how fucking bad and casual /v/ is at games when one might initially think this is where "hardcore" gamers congregate.

Nu-/v/ can't even handle Darkest Dungeon and Hotline Miami 2 calling them too hard and "RNG".
This place is legit casual-friendly subreddit now that is only capable of playing JRPGs with no gameplay on consoles and some blizzshit games that are obviously not SCBW or D2.
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The biggest thing hots has over lol and dota is you don't have to deal with the autistic screeching of lolfags and dotafags.
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>>375708240
>>375708451
>>375708671

You don't belong here.
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>>375709069
>If ANY of the countless RTS pros that tried to git gud at dota had any semblance of success

if you think that being a pro at a game transfer directly to another you are wrong, every game will have it's group of people that played it non stop from the start giving them quite an advantage, doesn't make the game hardcore, do you think football is an hardcore game?

>y'all
stop talking like a nigger
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>>375695645
>>375695420
If you folks would understnad that these retards can just pick Sylvanas, Gazlowe and any other specialist, go versus AI, the shittiest of AI and get the fucking quest too. Then there be no problem. Quest completed.
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>>375709360
The only people who play HotS are absolute shitters who couldn't handle Dota and LoL though.
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>>375708804
Dota is the one that isn't P2W

That said, it's kind of a shit genre
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>>375709374
>stop liking what I don't like
Hey, buddy, I think you got the wrong door. >>>/r/eddit is two blocks down.
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>>375696453
Erhum! Mind you Hots is not fast at all, Dota 2 is a fast game in comparison.
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>>375698001
>Dawngate
I still hope to one day use all the 3d assets i ripped before the system shut down in something.
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>>375709449
Does this somehow impact my fun?
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>>375695574
>trumpkin exclamation marks
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>>375709480
pub games are fast as fuck boi when you manage to convince your team to a 5 man push
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>>375708929
>hit spells
>don't get hit by spells

Also at shit tier rank (diamond and below) just pick sylvanas or some pushing fuck and just ass rape lane. Retards will spend so much time on objective while you get free forts
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>>375709480
The fuck are you talking about, dota is probably the slowest between lol, hots, hon
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>>375694282
>/v/ hates Fallout 4
>therefore try Fallout 4
>it's better than [insert weeb shit that gets love on /v here]

activates my paypal to buy more stuff /v hates
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>>375709328
>Darkest Dungeon
Haven't played it, but isn't it the game that can screw you over no matter how good you are just because stars misaligned?
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>/v/ was wrong again

in other news the sky is blue
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does league still often have 12 kills by 30 minutes games?
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>>375709657
but the sky isn't blue
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>>375709715
"sky isn't blue"
- /v
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>>375709715
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>>375709586
No, it's just played by a bunch of retards that gamble and then complain when the house wins. The don't think risk assesment and management is a "real" skill.
You can easily minimize risk to ridiculous levels and escape if things go wrong, the game even has a friendly options menu where you can turn off mechanics you deem unfair mid gameplay instead of complaining about them like a faggot.
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I'm in it for the skins, but I legit try my best in matches, I just really don't like MOBAs.
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>>375709751
>/v
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>>375709586
No.
In fact that game allows you too much of control and stuns make it pretty trivial but /v/ermins are so fucking retarded they can't even understand how the game works.
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>>375709882
HotS is luckily the easiest moba in the popular market. You just gotta pick Talents that compliment each other and not commit yourself into enemy zone.
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>>375709559
>Fallout 4
>good

You don't belong here.
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>>375708083
And /v/ use to be against esports faggotry. Times change.
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I still dont get dotafags need to make everyone understand their game is deep and complex
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>>375709535
Fast gameplay and short play time is way different shit.

>>375709551
Are we talking gametime or gameplay? HoN and Dota got the combo wombos from hell the other games can just dream of.
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>>375710136
LoL being more popular really pisses them off so they need something to one up it.
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>>375710165
>HoN and Dota got the combo wombos from hell the other games can just dream of.

That's just not true and you sound like a fan boi.
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>>375699106
damn teach me YOUR ways
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>>375710227
This, I don't get it.
People these days keep posthing things like Twitch viewers, or amount on tournaments and other things that are completely irrelevant to a user.
They have become like football fans, where they personally identify with the game, instead of just being an activity they enjoy. I even suspect they don't enjoy playing the game that much, since it's a team game that is only really fun if you got good teamplay going on, with the average game having some guy insulting another instead.
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>>375710356
>football fans
actually this kind of does make sense
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>>375710249
Fan boi?

Thats strange, since I been mostly playing Hots of late, second to that is Battlerite and then a stray Dota match here and there. Hots is slow and the most casual players can get into it while Dota 2, HoN or Battlerite would crush them and spook them off forever. Hots is still fun but calling it "fast phase" is wrong.
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>>375708804
You will regret this
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>>375708980
True, it took me more than 400 hours to play all characters and see what they can do and only about 10% I could use effectively in the end without learning their in and outs.
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>>375708980
Is this supposed to look cool or what
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>>375708929
You can learn a lot from watching the positioning of pros. Generally avoid dying and make sure not to fall behind in xp
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>>375709328
Darkest dungeon is legit awful
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>>375708804
i can help you with dota
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>>375710850
Your shit taste is legit awful
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>>375710850
No but your taste is.
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>5k hours in dota
>play hots as well
I like dota more but I wish it had better/more waifus. valve doesn't understand the power of waifu
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>>375710745

which pros should I watch? I never liked mobas but I had fun with HOTS in promotional thing.
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>>375711015
Dota has superior banter tho. Plus many of female characters have god-tier VAs. That is the only thing I miss from doto after jumping to HotS.
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>>375709996
why? /v dont like exploring gathering recources, building and blowing up shit in post nuclear wastelands?
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>>375711454
Does Dota have Grey DeLisle? If not then HotS automatically wins.
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>>375706590
>itemizing requires skill
Why do retards who think something brainless takes skill voice their opinions?
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>>375710960
>>375711002
I dont like that game either.
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>>375711605
>itemizing is brainless
wrong
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