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>What's new?
Two new heroes, Varian and Ragnaros announced at Blizzcon, along with a new brawl map and a couple of new skins.
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20327398/new-things-announced-at-blizzcon-2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4900jOY8cCM [Embed]

>Which heroes should I buy?
Play all the heroes on free rotation and see who you like. Don't buy heroes just to get into ranked. It's not worth it.

>Where do I find you Vikings-as-first-pick-drafting faggots?
/join /vg/

>Current weekly brawl:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20374411/blackhearts-revenge

>Latest patch notes:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20352063/balance-patch-november-10-2016

>Official site, general news:
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en
http://www.heroesnexus.com

>Hero rankings, various statistics, talent calculator:
http://www.hotslogs.com/Default
http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator

>For new players:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPk004vsjuE [Embed]

>Tips and other useful resources:
http://heroesofthestorm.github.io/tips

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This ability will originally be considered OP, Blizzard will overnerf, and Q build will be the go to.

Mark my words.
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>>161694719
>/hots/ instead of /hotsg/
>weekly brawl wrong
>(embed)[Embed]
nigga
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>>161695032

autism
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>>161695093
it sure is. can someone make a new one
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>>161695518

better new, report this thread
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guldan is fun as fuck guys

do I go Q build or corruption build
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>>161695914
you go to the new thread retard
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>>161696005
>>161695594
This one came first.
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KINKI
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>>161696695
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Varian is so fucking shit, every time I have him on my team I lose.
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FUCKING WHEN?
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>>161695594
>[Embed] [Embed] [Embed]
goodbye you threadsplitting fuck
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Would you?
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WHEN
FUCKING
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>>161699086
It better be this fucking tuesday and not PTR. Fucking day one buy, Blizz. Gimme it.
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>>161694925
doesn't look that bad desu
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Dead gaem
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>>161694925
More like they're too afraid of what happened to the last three releases, it will be released as a mediocre ability and it might be buffed in the future.
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>There's no fun heroes like Arc Warden in this game
I want to like to play this game, i've been playing it on and off since beta but goddamn does it lack high skill fun heroes
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>tfw you drop the hammer just right
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>Rag is an assassin and not a specialist
retard devs tbqh
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dead as all fuck
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>>161715641
>>161695518
stop bumping this thread
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ded
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d e d
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d
e
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dd
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alive
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dead
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are mods fucking dead
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>>161723975
ye
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dead
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alive
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dead
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defeated
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>>161729024
first one was better
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ded
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>>161730795
Agreed
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dead
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deed
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scraped
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demn
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ded
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deceased
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corpse
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autism general
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>>161751257

more like dead game general

hehe
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i wonder if li li's water dragon when he gets older wants to stick something insde her female panda ass
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>>161751557

is this where we post pandas
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thoughts?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EaJiQ_GRnic

Watch that vid I made. It was a good meme
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We fucking won boys
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>>161755182
oh shit my nigga
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>>161754629

o my

is there a sauce
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>>161755938
dunno m8 sorry
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>>161755938
i dont own a blog
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>>161756453
requesting tyrande getting buttfucked by etc
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WHEN?
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>>161756453

oh unfortunate

regardless thanks for sharing

>>161757332
>another hero that spawns shit and turns invisible
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>>161757332
>hurr muh invisibile assassin
Ffffffuck that. Invisible support when?
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>>161758345
>>161758127
>Cordana
>stealth
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>>161758598

>Vault of the Wardens
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>>161757332
>Fel Maiev
WHAT
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>>161759238
>fel
it's just a fart coming out of her armor
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>>161759238
That is just some random warden that was corrupted in the worst wow expansion
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>better thread gets deleted
>shit thread is all we have
>i cant even access it using my bookmark because it lacks the g from /hotsg/
what the shit hotstards
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>>161759465
stay mad
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>>161694925
Whatever it's dmg is gonna be, I will call it "the rolling meatball"
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>>161759548
i was born mad

get fucked
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>>161759876
lol
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>>161758345
What the fuck would be the point of invisible support?
"Ha-ha, you thought he was dead, but I healed him out of fucking nowhere!"

>>161699086
Too soon
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>>161760014
Who said healing will break his stealth?
Get cucked AA fucker.
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When is ETC getting removed from the game?
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shitter here

how do I stop heroes like Li-ming or hammer from taking a tower for free in the first 30 seconds of a match
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>>161761380
Hopefully soon
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>>161761380

>muradin, johanna and/or ETC in literally every game

zzzzz
zzzz
zzz
zz
z

>>161761653

Sometimes you just don't. If all five players including Sylvanas go top/bottom in Cursed Hollow or Warhead you just lose a structure or two.

>structures don't take reduced damage until minions have met in lane

Annoying as shit cheese to have to put up with, desu
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Why even bother using zombie wall anymore? Nearly everyone can escape it
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>>161761989

Yeah, it's bullshit.

>somehow manage to wall fucking 120% speed valler
>vaults in random retard direction and gets away

I miss walling people in and shotgunning them when the frog talent was bugged.
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>Play Rehgar in Unranked
>Pick Bloodlust
>When we have Illidan and Valla
>Everyone bitches at me
>"Looool wtf idiot AC is just so much better"
>Against a Varian using Colossus Smash to blow up anyone he gets his hands on
>Actually win fights with it
>End the game core rushing them with it to destroy it before they can all rez
On a side note, why is Colossus Smash on a 10 second cd? They do know thats damage, a charge, and 30% uptime on vulnerability in 1 ability right? I get its an ult and comes with a downside, but... seems a bit silly hearing Varian yell every 10 seconds as he bludgeons someone to death.
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this bread needs murkys revival
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>>161764840
This thread needs more cute!
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>>161764840

Nobody cares about this trash.

>>161764959

LUNARA
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IS
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>>161761989

Wall is still the best way to nuke structures
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CUTE
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What are the outright obvious bans in draft? Sometimes I get people banning weird things like LiLi and Diablo. Are they OP or am I missing something here?
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>>161766568
ban fotm easy picks like varian samuro li ming and etc
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>>161766568

It all depends.

>teammate in gold hovering Zeratul
Nope.
>teammate hovers Varian and says he wants to try tank build
Nope.
>People want to play Illidan, Raynor and Tychus
Ban Li-Li.
>ptsd of getting flip-fucked by dibbles
Ban Diablo.
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>>161766568
Like first bans are generally samuro and malf, then etc and bw are good second bans. It usually depends on the map though, but those are general maps, like on garden you probably want to ban out vikings and boe probably ban sylvanas
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>>161766871
>>161766889
>>161766979

Just so you're aware I have never banned Samuro in my matches because I main Gul'Dan and Samuro is awesome for completing my quest sooner. I usually prioritize Sylvannas and Tracer.
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>>161767298

Yeah, that's cool. I'll usually just ban whatever seems the most likely to fuck the team comp over. Alternatively me specifically if I know it'll be a carry, or whatever.

>>161765626

>no red nose

also; wowtoken giving battle.net currency soon, i hope. Have a ton of gold to dump
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>>161768182
>no red nose
The only red nose she'd get is from drinking too much egg-nog
IM SO WASTED, IM SO WASTED!
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>>161768182
>>161768921

Sleigh bells.
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>>161694719
the fuck is this
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memes aside, is Lunara any good right now?
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>>161772745
Yeah lunara is pretty good, what makes her bad though is how good malf is because his healing is what counters her
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>>161694925
According to blizzcon players Q is already hands down the way to go. This looks like the neat ability that'll just kind of be there but never be worth building for.
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>play with /vg/
>bronze tiered players
>buthcers who never join team fights because they need to farm
>ETCs who die within seconds
>Zagara's who take maw over nydus worm

So can we just admit that /vg/ is bronze already?
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>>161694719

FRIENDLY REMINDER: Ragnaros is actually a trash tier hero outside his gimmick.

Why and who said this? Grubby admited (after constantly say he was OP) that his kit was awful, barely damaged or made any difference on the battlefield, had to use his 3 skills to barely kill a wave (have to AA to finish) giving him awful waveclear, and is really squishy with no real sustain.

He is going to be a trash pick, only useful for his lvl 10 on Brexxis. Another spot fucking wasted.
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>>161772745

Yeah, she's fantastic. Issue is that a lot of her pressure is mitigated by sustain supports like Malfurion and Brightwing, both of which are found in almost every ranked match.

>>161774265

Mm, I was wondering. Neat gimmick, though.
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>>161774265
Im gonna buy him anyways and shit up my team in qm, he seems so fun to play
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>>161774558

>vulture smurf
>int all ten placements
>play whatever you want in bronze V
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>quit this game a week ago
>realize i have a lot of free time without this game
>nothing to do til ps4 games come out


....please p-play tychus for me
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>>161773528
But I'm gm
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What's the appeal over other mobas?

I don't play any so please avoid injokes and jargon
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>>161775932

Shorter matches, less focus on slow starts and laning phase, more teamfights.

Don't play this game if you want to feel like you can carry a team or work hard to make up for shitters, because you can't.
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>>161775932
Pretty much no last hitting, talents over buying items and much shorter games
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I can report people who pick Zeratul right
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>>161775932

>no last hitting
>no itemization
>no lane matchups
>no runes to purchase
>more than one map
>shorter matches, at least on average
>new hero every 3-4 weeks
>can't get individually fed as shit
>muh team based game, everybody contributes, no individual glory or whatever
>blizzard game, so tons of promotional stuff

Ups and downs. Wish it didn't have the "babbys first moba" reputation, but it doesn't look like it'll be losing it anytime soon.

>still somehow managing to have fun
>queue into plat 5 duo with diamond 1 during placements
>then into diamond 5 and masters

fug

>>161776247
ya do it
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>>161776551
>>161776105
>>161776096
Are there objective best picks for talents?
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>>161776891
Yeah most of the time you stick to a standard build, there are some heroes with more flexible talent builds like tyrande, but for the most part you pick one build sometimes changing up a talent or two based on map and team comps.
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>>161776891

Sometimes, definitely. Depends on the Hero.

Some tiers are flexible, others are nearly mandatory.

>map, comp and hero all factors, ofc
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>>161776891
In addition to what others have said, some talents can be useful to counter certain enemy heroes. eg. picking attack speed reduction to counter basic attack-focused heroes.

Also, I don't think anyone has mentioned specifically that this game is objective-focused, which forces periodic teamfights.
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Where do you guys store your snowflakes? I have no idea what to do with them.
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>>161694719
>/hots/
>not /hotsg/
newfags in charge of creating generals

>we tell that shitter varian to pick a tank in draft
>he refuses
>we tell him to play tank varian anyway
>no it sux
>we have to give up our illidan rehgar comp because the illidan player caves and picks a tank
>i end up doing 3k dmg less than that fuckhead fury varian at the end of the game
>he actually says gg noobs at the end
plat 1 is a great rank to play in
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>be chen
>do more damage than our jaina

help
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>>161782405

>enemy team stacks up
>jaina hits all the buttons

>>161780707

o yikes, was nobody ever able to follow up on the poly on tracer
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Is thrall still good or should I just pick alarak for best melee assassin?
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>sonya
>not fun
just gotta do the space jam build
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>>161784069
qu'est-ce la builde du jam space?
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>>161784069
>QM

shitter
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give me even one single reason to not ban Li Ming every game, every map
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>>161784436
You just take wrath and the two slam talents. Reduced cost + extra damage. Also 100% spear damage through poison
Shot of fury usually but sometimes block
I don't like the always pull talent on sonya since I'm not that gud anymore. The CD is great but if you miss a Q into their team you're cucked since you didn't do any damage or stun a squishie but are still in the middle of them or another potentially unfavorable position

>>161784802
>ranked mattering
I was 3600-3700 on hotslogs when I bothered playing this game regularly.
Rank 1 in the old ranked system not like that means anything since it was just a grind

>>161784990
>implying I have friends or play ai games
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Reminder of reddit karma-whoring sell-out rats: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/4mh256/theres_a_guy_on_4chan_who_has_accurately_leaked/

https://www.reddit.com/user/SSJ5Gogetenks
>ponyfucker

They are in this thread RIGHT NOW!
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>>161785785
>getting away with that build

It's really the best feel, desu. I miss old Sonya.

>>161785756
There are usually better bans.

What do you think is wrong with Ming, anyways?

>besides trait not requiring her to participate in the kill
>and people in low mmr always picking her and being 99% useless
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>>161785785
but you were never GM in ranked and are behind the meta.

hotslog mmr is dead and can be gamed.
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>>161786179

>have bumped into like five gms in mid-high plat on shitter smurf i can't get out of p1

and I thought I was washed desu
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>>161785785
So like this? http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/sonya#oPeq
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>>161786179
>>161786378

whoops season 1 gm. didn't specify
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>>161786179
>but you were never GM in ranked and are behind the meta.
This is true but hots is a simple game I could easily adapt and get GM. The people in GM now I played with in old ranked/qm regularly and I had a fairly high win rate against them. Again you could argue I used old KT and old Rehgar (who nobody really played the way I did, least I never saw.) Obviously this is all talk and I sure as hell am not going to grind the games out to prove it but whatever.
Hotslog mmr was always gameable to an extent so I suppose that's not very credible either.

>>161786563
Nah for level 20 you 100% want ignore pain it's too good. Fury gen doesn't do much imo. Level 4 you want focused attacks, build is about burst damage. You can also take spell shield at 13 if you feel you'll need it.
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Classic Xul when?
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Hm. Anybody around who has recently done the grind through Diamond into Masters, preferably solo?

>slowly losing mind because games feel like the biggest coinflip as to who gets the guy who just finished placements
>maybe just too shit
>maybe not picking right
>queue into d5/master duos
>I don't even know any more
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>>161786753
>easily adapt and get GM
I've played with you. you can't get GM

>all talk not gonna prove it
uninstall the game.
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>>161787467
>I've played with you. you can't get GM
gee I wonder who you are
>waste time grinding through ranked matches just to prove an anon wrong and get nothing out of it
Pass, I'll play fun games instead
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When is Gul'dan a bad pick?
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The Nova said she was reporting me.

I literally don't know why. I tried so hard.
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>>161791038
and got so far
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>>161791038
Was it a draft?
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>>161791178
Does it look like a draft? Of course not. QM.
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>>161791038

>xul and waternoose on tomb

idk what she expected

might as well try to kill ming a dozen times before drowning in catapults

>>161791038
>those picks
looks like qm desu
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>>161791038

Don't worry about it.

>play leoric and afk on keep/core for 20 minutes
>abathur tunnel into towers, alternatively hat something and fix a snack
>0% kill participation on multiple heroes
>several people threaten to report every game
>not so much as a silence

pls no judge, it was in name of science
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>>161790378
he can kinda get by against against most anything with even frontlines if you can handle his immobility well. needs to be something nasty like ect+thrall+chromie to be in trouble.

>>161791038
can't worry too much about retards that don't know they are fucked at the loading screen.
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So I played this just to get the Genji skin OW and I gotta say it's kinda fun. I played an extra match in quick play and it wasn't bad, 24 min game that was pretty close. I can see the appeal. Don't know if I will stick with it but shit it wasn't bad.
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>>161794863
that's the general consensus between the people who don't take it too seriously
it's an okay game to play occasionally
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>Placement League
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>>161798182

>tenth placement game
>infernal
>suggest banning kerri
>nah
>kerri gets instalocked
>see pic related loading in
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Which hero is the most "FUCK YOU" to have on your team?
I want everyone I queue into to suffer. I want them to fucking pay for being pieces of shit. How do I do this?
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>>161798701

What, your teammates?

>abathur
>vikings
>any split-pusher (bonus points every time you die while overextended)
>raynor afk laning until seasoned marksman
>illidan
>nova
>zeratul
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>>161798701
Murky.
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>>161798701
Murky every game, do your own shit all game.
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THIQUE
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>tfw you don't understand why people call azmodan waternoose
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>no leaks or news for weeks
ded
gaem
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>>161800270

>muh ragnaros
>git hype

There probably won't be anything until a week after he comes out.
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>>161794863

Yeah it really is. Wish it had more characters to choose from that I knew. Not really big on Warcraft/WoW/SC lore. Having the couple Overwatch characters really got me in. Hope they add some more because then they'll really have me hooked.
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>>161799002
This actually works really well on some maps at lower MMR.
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>>161798701
abathar. i feel under pressure when im hatted and have to over extend to get in range for his W
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>>161800270
Holiday season. For the fucking murricans, Christmas isn't enough of a media stall, they need an excuse to do nothing for a month more with this thanksgiving shit.
And Blizzcon was also pretty shitty this year. Only 2 heroes, both with not really innovative skillsets. For the last two years Blizzcon was 4 new heroes, one of them a mega-gimmick. This year we got 2 melee assassins...

Though, I am pretty surprised they will actually make a Christmas brawl on a somewhat custom map. I hope they plan to reuse the snowy tileset for a future regular map.
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>>161800982
But if you want to troll people, just play Murky and run into the enemy base doing minimal damage and respawning a few seconds later.
Lots of low-mmr players get really annoyed at the constant notifications that Murky has died and will start to bitch about you feeding, not realizing that as long as the egg is intact, you're not giving any experience.
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>>161801232
>as long as the egg is intact, you're not giving any experience
They changed it years ago exactly because of idiots like you. You give 1/4 of hero kill exp. Just like Vikings and Misha
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>>161800719
>>161794906

That was meant for
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>morning EU games
fucking fantastic, is there any better time to play this game?
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>>161798843
>>abathur
>>161801105

It's not working. I keep winning on him.
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>>161802115
I find aba pretty good in qm especially when there is no supports, just go mine build and you generally always win
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>>161802413
Why mines in particular?

I play Mines, offensive Hat, and Locust builds and all generally do well. His only bad build seems to be support. Every shield talent I take seems to decrease my chances of winning.
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>>161802743
When there is no support in qm that is just free damage that slows them down and lowers their health especially when they are getting to objectives. It destroys them on like bhb, dragonshrine, cursed hollow
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Congratulations, /hots/, you've been selected to design the next hero! Now, who are they? What abilities do they have? Talent suggestions? Skin ideas?
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>>161803304
No name ad hoc female gnome warrior in T6 with BT weapons, give her Varian's kit as is and redesign Varian as a stance dancing warrior.
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>>161802743

>level 1 tracer has 1254 health
>level 1 nova has 1404 health
>a single (envenomed nest) mine does ≈235 damage, dismounts and reveals
>can be talented for increased charges and to slow targets by 40% for several seconds
>there often aren't supports in QM

Also, yeah. I don't know what's up with the shield talents, although I have seen this weird "aoe shield minion wave" build. Doesn't seem like it measures up to the push/hat builds, though.

>or maybe just too bronze to comprehend potential idk i don't play him
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>>161803304
Vol'jin, Specialist but supports a little like Medivh. First ability sacrifices some health in an area from minions (both ally and enemy) which will heal your allies 20% more to you for self sustain. Used if your minion wave is losing and you wanna do a mini wave clear or you need to top yourself off. Second is a totem, shoots poison that grants sight. Third is redirects damage and healing to a target for example if alarak does his counter you can put all damage on your warrior so he can't pull it off.

Design meant to be slow down on burst so the enemy should be a little more cautious.
All I can think of right now, tell me how shit it is
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>>161802954
Just tried that. Holy shit was it rape. Every time they went to turn in they stepped on 2-4 mines, ate a ton of damage, got slowed, and my team usually collapsed on them.

>>161803304
Phase Smith Karax:
http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Karax

Trait: Passively projects a psi field around himself. Can activate to warp in a pylon for a while that projects its own field. Lasts 2-3 times as long as Gazlowe's turrets base. Field provides a periodic shield to him and his allies as well as allowing him to warp in units and structures.

E: Warps in a Phase Cannon within his power field. Lasts a middle length of time, like the summoned Pylon. Powers down if it loses access to a power field but comes back online if the field is returned before it expires.

W: Warp in a Zealot and Dragoon, with the option to spec into perma-cloaked Dark Templar and teleporting Sentinels later, and a talent to spawn 2 melee and 2 ranged units. Must warp in inside a power field of his.

Q: Give him a generic attack, like a laser cannon or a lash attack with his robotic arms or something.

His ults: Warp in one of those bigass Dark Templar cannons from the LotV campaign for one, and for another maybe let him take over enemy towers/keeps briefly? idk
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>>161803904
>>161803681
>>161802954
Overwrote my screenshot with that Karax pic
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>>161803681
>there often aren't supports in QM

This is the exact reason the shield build is viable in QM, it heals minion waves as well as your teammates in fights.

Hat your friendo sometimes, press E to heal, go hat something else. Your teammate will have to back less for hp/take well, considering globes are p gud now as well.
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>>161803971
>>161803904
Yep, literally nothing they can do and they just have to keep going back, losing objectives and just dying all the time when there is no support
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>>161803971
Well done. I trust the Nova had a pretty miserable time.

>>161803972
Mm, tempting.

>all those juicy talents you have to give up for the E build tho
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>>161803971
>Cloning Varian
>You don't get any of his ult upgrades so he stuns and that's it
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So what's your fastest PvP win?
Just did 9:39 on Cursed Hollows.
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>>161804191

>stun

Isn't that a level 4 talent?

varian clone seems awful desu
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>>161804191
You'd clone gmayne in that game, though. Go in as a one man army and go to town, and then your team mops up the rest.
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>>161803304
Moira Thaurissan, support obviously

Trait: Power Word Shield, a barrier that knocks back first enemy that comes in melee range
Q: Healing rune. Can be put on the ground as a health pack for later use or just thrown at an ally to heal immediately. But if stored in place for a few seconds, it will heal more. Basically Bard's from LoL heal, but I had some fun talents for it.
W: Shadow Word Pain, put on enemy, every time that enemy attacks, he deals himself some dmg. Talents that make it also work if he casts an ability
E: Some kind of shadow barrier, dunno priest spells from WoW. Target on ally, whenever enemy attacks this ally the enemy gets attack speed/movement slow
R1: Mind blast, makes enemies cooldowns go much slower for a few seconds
R2: Power of Emperor; set any hero's heroic ability cooldown to 5 seconds. So you can either reset the cooldown of an ally for a second use of ulti, or cast it on that charging ETC that you know is gonna Mosh and effectively silence him out of his ulti for 5 seconds.

Generally, she's supposed to counter divers and chasers, mess up enemies' initiations. And I just loved the concept of Bard's heal being a standing medpack, so I thought who could use that and came up with like a rune in the ground, so dwarven priest.
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>>161804290

Like, four and a half, or something. Five-stacked a Quick Match, so that wasn't really fair.

<10 minute Cursed Hollow without a Support was the quickest ranked match, though.

>anybody wanna support
>silence, no hovers
>last pick fill pls
>fuck you
>oh
>get into game
>ace the enemy team in the first 30 seconds of the game
>kill them a few times in lanes
>ace them at first tribute
>get keep on first curse
>boss, which they invade
>ace them and end

idk why i typed that all out. Somewhere in Diamond last season. Sometimes you've just got to embrace it.
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And so my win streak ends. Because matchmaking put two supports and two uber pushers on their side. They just out-sustained to draw out every objective while Murky or Sylvanas pushed a keep.

They put:
Tassadar, Lili, Illidan, Sylvanas, Murky
vs
Tracer, Raynor, Abathur, Alarak, Lili

>>161804172
She did, but she'd have had a bad time regardless. She was below bronze tier. She'd run behind 3 of us and snipe Chen in the ass then get gangraped. Full hp Chen. Allies nearby. She'd try to ambush him by getting behind him.

>>161804191
iirc he was the only one present at the moment, and he was chasing down the only enemy on the team who was worth a damn, which was Johanna. She tried to play the objectives. Tried to start teamfights. Tried to bodyblock. Got fucked for it every time.
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>>161803304
Darion Mograine
Melee Warrior or Assassin

Trait:Razorice, basic attacks deal bonus damage and apply Razorice, stacks up to 5 times, and basic abilities consume Razorice stacks to empower the ability.

Q: Icy Touch, single target, deals damage and slows movement speed, consuming Razorice makes it root instead, duration based on stacks consumed.

W: Frostscythe, AoE cleave, something like a smaller Leoric Q, consuming Razorice lowers the cooldown.

E: Obliterate, single target, deals increased damage per stack of Razorice

R: Pillar of Frost, gain increased damage and unstoppable for 10 seconds.

Other R: Hungering Cold, AoE that stuns/freezes all nearby enemies, and applies 5 stacks of Razorice.

Classic skin would be the Darkruned set from Ulduar, that he wears in the DK starter area
Master skin would be Scourgelord set from ICC.
The Ebon Watcher skin, that he wears in the Argent Vanguard, in Icecrown.
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The enemy team walked into this ONCE then didn't attempt another turn in again. I felt bad for them.
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>>161803304
Raid Party!

There's plenty of representation for the NPCs of Warcraft, but what about the players of WoW? There's literally millions of them, and without them Blizzard would never be what they are now. To this end, why not have a party of adventurers, 5 to be exact, and have them struggle against the various raid bosses of WoW and Diablo for that next tier set they need?

Q - Draw Aggro - Tank charges at a target, dealing damage and causing the hero to be unable to attack any target but Raid Party. Though it could be talented to include spells, initially only basic attacks would be redirected to Raid Party.

W - Heal - Healer either A. Heals a hero for a large amount if RP is at high health B. Resurrects a RP member and restores low health in an area, or C. Resurrects multiple members of RP, and heals nothing.

E - FOCUS THAT MOB! - DPS focuses on a target, dealing heavy damage over time. This is a semi channeled ability; Basic attacks are inactive during this time, but RP can still move, and cast Q, W and D if it is not related to DPS.

D - Extra Member - At level 1, you select to either have an extra healer, tank or DPS. Whatever you pick, your trait cast is now a weaker version of that ability. If you selected DPS, this trait is entirely passive.

R1 - LEEEEEROOOOY - Changes the healer to Leeroy Jenkins. Leeroy Jenkins heals slightly less than the default healer, but in exchange, your ultimate causes him to run a great distance at a target, with the rest of RP following behind. This is much like Butcher's Ruthless Onslaught or Tyrael's Judgement, but instead of stunning the ability does heavy damage and disables W for 5 seconds.

R2 - Raid Leader - Adds a leading member to the group, increasing the power of all abilities by 20%. When activated, the leader inspires RP to hit a target very hard, and very fast; the bonus is increased to 50%, and all nonheroics refresh 3 times faster for 5 seconds.
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>>161807614
Text limits prevented me from telling an important detail; at various levels of HP, certain nonheroics are disabled due to the party member dying. First D, then either Q, W, or E are randomly selected. If Raid Leader is the chosen ultimate, raid leader will take the bullet first, followed by the rest of the group.
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>>161807614
reddit: the post
I hope you simply copied it from there.
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>>161807614
i know you tried and all but that doesn't excuse this from being cringe as fuck
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>>161807614
>tank and healer die
>only be able to use 1 ability
>can't mount
>worth as much as five murky kills when all die
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>all teh pirate warriors finally climbed out of my shit rank
>9/10 of my wins are because opponent concedes when I clear board/drop reno/get 0 mana heal 4 power
Do people hate playing against me as much as I hate playing against aggro?
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I can't for the life of me win a game with stitches.

I get confused on what objectives to push versus outright team fighting and either make it to an objective without a damage dealer and everybody else, or the damage dealer gets picked off before I can make it to them to help.

Sometimes I eat the wrong player, but I'm not even sure I'm supposed to take gorge.

What's going on here?

Similar problem with Gazlowe, but I'm pretty sure Gaz will work better once people understand what he does better.

I'm only account level 19.
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>>161809898
>level 19 talking about Gaz
lel

Also don't play Epic Hook Man if you can't hook 24/7.
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Why the hell does quickplay keep putting me against the same Hero I am playing?
It keeps happening, no matter what hero I decide to play, even when I tried The lost Vikings for 2 games Both games there was a Lost vikings on the other team both times.
Does quickplay just hate me or am I unlucky as all fuck?
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>>161809898
Stitches is difficult, you either land your hook all the time or you're kinda useless, I suggest trying another tank
Gazlowe is also difficult to play well, can be strong at lower levels of play but still requires a lot of awareness and timing for the combo.
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>>161809941
it's the matchmaking rules, if you are playing a "special" hero like tlv, abathur or cho'gall there's a really high chance you'll get a mirror match
I started playing unraked draft for this because mirror matches are the thing I hate most in nay game
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>stitches is the only tank on the team
>the piece of shit leaves the frontline to go fishing for hooks
>enemy team has sonya and illidan so they just jump in on our backline even when we back off
>we tell him to fucking stop
>"this is what stitches does"
i sure love losing games
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>>161810018
>>161809924

I can hit the hooks themselves just fine, we're usually up by a couple level by around 11-15.

It's after that were I start to get confused. I suppose it could just be bad luck with teammates too, but I don't seem to have issues with ETC or Anub.

Is stitches supposed to be supported by a secondary bruiser? All of my matches I've played with him have been solo tank matches.
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>>161810306
Yeah Stitches is rarely good solo warrior. Personally, anyway. Also do NOT go slam build.
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>>161810306
not necessarily, just dont be like that faggot >>161810306 and protect your team
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FZ-aYSeNz0
FUCKING CHINKS RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>161810306
Try out the other tanks, see if you experience the same problems, if not than it's just that stitches' gameplay is not suited for you. Also right now only etc, muradin and Johanna can solo tank. Chen, dehaka and diablo are also tanks but less viable, all other warriors are bruisers.
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>>161811982

Yeah, I really like ETC and Joh, play 'em the most probably.

I want to like stitches, but it seems like nobody capitalizes on hooks when I hit them.
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>>161812619
Did you try to hook mostly the squishy backline? And more importantly, does your team have some followup CC? Happened waaay to often that a teammate stitches only hooked after Malf had already rooted, for example, allowing the Ming to piss off in peace.
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>>161766979
>Like first bans are generally samuro and malf
When you're in a time machine, yes.
First bans right now are Zeratul and Zeratul.
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Airbender tint base Kharazim or blue and orange tint Jade Dragon Kharazim?
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>>161815552
yes
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>>161807614
so how about instead of this faggot shit blizzard just holds a contest or something and five winners for each role get converted into HotS heroes
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>>161816481

>this much spergrage over a 4-hour-old post

go outside
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>>161816606
>"faggot shit"
>spergrage

Loving every laugh
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I wish there was a function to let us prepick talents, picking a talent mids team fight can be really distracting
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>>161816882
Yeah, a build preset type thing would be helpful.
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>>161816882
>>161817052

Yeah we should totally remove any semblance of counter play mid game based on talent choices.
This game needs to be more casual.
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>>161817191
>implying it would be a forced mechanic
>implying you couldn't just use it only if you wanted to
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>>161817403
>implying the mongo player base in hots wouldn't find a way to fuck up more games with it while they're on your team

Lad, no.
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>>161817191

bet you're the same kind of retard who still bitches about gambits in FF12
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>>161817191
look main sometimes I panic pick the wrong talent and then we lose the game
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>>161817759
FF12 is garbage.

>>161817820
Sounds like you should practice the hot keys in training mode lad to build muscle memory rather than impose a fucking safety net on the game because of your ineptitude.
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>sun wukong is now in every moba
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>>161818294
>FF12 is garbage.
better than 13 and 15 at least
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can anyone link me a not garbage solo q tier list that isnt designed for perfect rotations and/or GM games?
got 20k in the bank and need to know what heroes to buy.
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>>161818294

>anime avatar shitposter with bad opinions and an inflated sense of superiority

color me fucking surprised

how's silver champ
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>>161819423
>another banned hots redditor who's suprised there's anime on an anime image board and tries to point it out for upvotes
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>>161819423
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>>161819361
healers: malfurion or bw, li li if you need to counter heavy aa comps, medic is good sometimes
(solo) tanks: johanna, etc or muradin. Anything goes if it's double tank but make sure to have those 3
AA: anything you're good at
mage: not chromie
Siege: sylvanas, maybe zagara or hammer if no counters
Avoid butcher, illidan and their friends
below diamond it's pretty much this
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>>161819906
>zagara
used to be my favorite hero but she is trash now.
her damage got gimped, tons of heroes having tons of AoE killing your creep easily and many new heroes make your pushes seem completely pathetic.
Xul is just as good as zagara but his roots and slow bring more to the table.
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Why don't you guys play DotA? Serious question. I'm not even a DotA player I just wanna know.
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>>161818861

Yeah, FFXII was good, why is that guy being a jerk.
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>>161818740
why does this keep happening
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>>161820304
Fair enough, but I'd still pick her over nazeebo, azmodan or gazlowe everyday, plus she's easier to play than xul and a safer option against the majority of comps you see these days
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>enemy team can see where Nazeebo places zombie wall

Why? Why?
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>>161820878

what MOBA devs will tell you
>he's well-beloved and has been in every moba in recent memory, its a tradition! :D

the truth
>to appease our looming chinese overlords and make chinese players want to spend their exorbitant amounts of money on our game
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who can I pick to absolutely shit all over an enemy johanna
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>>161822230

jaja

Probably Li-Meme or some other ability-driven hero. Silence helps with her bullshit shield but no basic CC spells/abilities in this game last longer than 2 seconds
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>>161822230
Lunara
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Is Tracer a bad hero?
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>>161822709
in every way

she and zarya are trash and don't belong in this game
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>>161822809

I want you to come back here when they announce a third overwatch hero in HOTS so I can see how mad you'll get
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>>161822885
if it was reinhardt i would not even be mad

but it'll be some garbage like genji/hanzo

why would you want to play zarya or tracer in this game? just go fucking play overwatch jesus
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>>161811647
Neat. Not that I am getting more Three Kingdoms stuff.
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>>161818740

sauce?
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>>161826092
>>161811647
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>>161694719
>/hots/
>not /hotsg/
fucking triggered
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>>161822709

Her entire kit seems toxic as shit, desu.

>mobility creep: the "hero"

>>161817191

>the good mobas allow you to undo mistake purchases made in the shop
>hots fucks your talents up if you even disconnect
>we also cant have allied party frames/keybinds because it'd reduce the skillcap
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>>161822809

But I like Zarya.. if I were to play this game I'd probably main her. I wish there were more OW characters.

Why is Zarya bad? I did pretty well with her.
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>>161822709
Man I stopped playing when she first came out I was so upset, stay in your own fucking game stinky ass bitch
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>>161828379
hurr durr tumblrite dykes SJWs in my games
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>>161828379
He's a retard. Zarya and Tracers are perfectly fine heroes.
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>>161821173
honestly, azmodan is now better than her
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>>161829374
>tfw its too late to refund your zagara master skin
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>>161828536
>>161829056
>perfectly boring and uninspired heroes

fixed that for ya

they're awful. they are L I T E R A L carbon copies of their overwatch selves. what's the fucking point? why would you want to play them in this game? just go play overwatch
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>>161829823
Not everyone is literally autistic like you.
Both are good at what they do and sperging that their MOBA versions are like their FPS versions is the height of idiocy. Of fucking course they're going to be like their FPS versions. That's the point, you blithering idiot.
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>>161829931
and my point is that they are unoriginal and add nothing new to the roster

also
>MOBA

fuck off league shitter
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>>161830289

epic trolling good sir

you had us fooled for a while there
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>>161830289
>first ranged Warrior with heavy support like features with shield and cleanses, while having bruiser like damage
>mobility taken to extremes and a character that has a completely different way his ultimate works
>nothing new to the roster
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When are we getting this skin
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>>161818740
That's a really neat idea, but I hate how his head looks. It's something off, like it is too small yet too detailed and in a completely different style than the rest of the game.
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>>161830507
delet this
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>>161830289

>everything you've posted
>fuck off league shitter

pls be a meme

>>161830538

Tail seems too small, desu.
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>>161755110
I enjoyed this video gucci
get a haircut though real talk
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>cloning Samuro as Aba and ambushing enemies with 6 blademasters
>enemies always ignore you because you're a clone while you go HAM on their asses
Holy shit is this fun.
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why does it feel like Gul'dan's existence is made completely irrelevant by any enemy healer

even if they eat three stacks of corruption it just gets poofed away by fucking Aurel or some shit
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>>161820304
>zagara trash

Good for the game. No one wants to waste their abilities on fucking creep and deal with splitpushing zag.
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>>161833076
They should really rework Zagara's Maw ultimate. It doesn't really suit her kit that well like her other ult does. I get they want something that impacts team fights, but why not something like "Creep reduces opponents movement speed by 20%, activate to snare all opponents on creep for 1 second; 12 second cooldown."
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>>161832884

Harass them with Fel Flame to keep their healing focused on your pokes vs. healing against your Corruption. Also finish your Corruption quest as soon as you can. Once you get Echoing Corruption enemy heals become irrelevant.
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>varian was picked 3 times during hte last tournament
>he lost the 3 games

B-BUT HE IS OP!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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>>161834617
He isn't in a draft.
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>>161694719
>not /hotsg/
>can't find it in the catalogue
nice job you fucker
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>>161834907
He is not good.
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>>161835712
Not in draft, yes. Don't be silly.
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>>161834617

He is, similar to how The Butcher can be.

>low mmr
>people don't know you can't slap fight butch/varian
>they get 1v2'd
>can easily clear merc camps
>able to solo boss

Also; what's good in pro play =/= what's good at low mmr solo queue, or solo queue in general
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Dyke is pretty good.
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>>161839434
OP
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>>161839434
>talking shit about superior musclefu
zarya and sonya fags need not apply
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>blizzard makes event to bring people to game
>hotsg dies
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>guy doesn't say anything in draft
>disconnects two minutes into game
>we have a bot the whole game
>somehow last 25 minutes
>lose after bot decides to auto-attack somebody and follow them into fog of war even when pinged
>-204

i feel deader than this thread
>>
I've done 3 franchise quests since I got this win three games quest.

Man, this blows. The one game I won so far was a Chromie full assassin game where people wanted into sand blasts.
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>>161844998

If you have trouble with win 3 games, do AI games. They count.
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Man, I thought I'd swear off QM after we kept getting 5v5 Assassin games, but look at Unranked.

I asked if it is okay if I don't pick Malf as a support since last time I got yelled at. So, they said pick whatever you like.

The last two picks were a party and picked Stitches and Nova. We couldn't kill anyone. And the triple tap? Yeah, no.

I don't know if they didn't know or were deliberately trying to send a message or what.
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>>161847183
>>161844895
>>161832190
Why is this beginning to turn into /blog/ general?
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>>161848129

nothing happening until ragnaros, or his ptr

seems like dead general until then
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>>161803304
Rokhan the Shaman

Trait: Place a totem with an effect that varies depending on the element you are currently attuned to. The 1-4 keys allow you to change which element you are currently communing with.

1) Flametongue Totem - Throws fireballs at nearby enemies, damaging them.
2) Healing Stream - Water totem that restores a VERY small amount of health and mana to allies in an area around it.
3) Strength of Earth - Increases nearby ally damage by 2.5%
4) Windfury - Increases nearby ally movement and attack speed by 5%

Q: Unleash Elements - Hurl a burst of fire, ice, earth and lightning at the target. Dealing damage with an additional effect depending on the Shock currently on the target.

W: Elemental Shock/Wind Shear
Fire - Place a burning DoT on enemy. Explodes in a burst of area damage around target when hit by Unleash Elements.
Ice - Damage enemy, slowing them. Roots in place when hit by Unleash Elements
Earth - Damage enemy, reducing auto-attack speed, knocked back when hit by Unleash Elements.
Wind Shear - Harsh winds slow the enemy for a time, returns a gust of fresh air to Rokhan when hit by Unleash Elements, increasing his movement and attack speed.

E: Hex - Transform target into a toad, slowing movement speed (By giving them staggered walking steps like Lunara's, but fitted for a toad), silencing them, and reducing their auto attack damage by 80% for 1 second.

R!: Trait now places all totems at once, with doubled effect and range. Activate to summon an elemental from the element which you are currently communing with.
Fire - Melee attacker that releases AoE novas, damaging enemies.
Water - Non-combat elemental that follows Rokhan, granting nearby allies a small spell shield periodically.
Earth - Melee attacker that grants non-stacking, small block charges periodically.
Air - Ranged attacker that reduces nearby ally's cooldowns by 1 second every 2.5 seconds.
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>>161848657
R2: Imbue Weapon - Enchant an ally's weapon or your own with the element you are currently communing with for a short time. Has the cooldown of a basic ability, and is treated as such.

Fire - Auto-attacks apply a stacking fire DoT. Has a cap.

Water - Casting spells refunds the caster 50% of their mana and 1 second of cooldown time for that spell.

Earth - Auto attacks and spells slow. (Does not affect ultimates)

Air - Increased movement and attack speed.

Talents I imagine would have to revolve around giving his abilities added usage when NOT combined with each other (Like using Unleash Elements on a target not affected by a Shock, so you aren't forced into only using Q when there is a Shock present) for both his Q and W. A talent tier devoted to tweaking Hex of course, or specializing in a certain element, buffing that totem and the debuffing affects that his W and Q combo would have on an enemy (Or ally for the buffing effects).

The point of Rokhan is to be a medium to somewhat high damage Ranged Specialist with a great amount of non-CC or damage ignoring (IE. Medivh's Barrier) oriented utility. A team player, really.
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>>161849338
Non HARD CC, I mean. Slows, a single root and only one actual sort of hard CC (Hex) only, as Shamans don't have a lot of stuns and shit.
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>>161848129
Why the fuck are you bitching you subhuman filth? This is one of the deddest fucking generals on the board and you're complaining people are talking about the fucking game?

EXPLAIN YOURSELF YOU ZERO-IQ TRUMP-VOTING PIECE OF INBRED WINDOWLICKING FECAL MATTER.
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>>161848129
There are so many ways to talk about the game. Fine. I'll do it the traditional way.

LUNARA
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>>161805908
I would fucking love to have Darion Mograine in HotS. Fuck yeah.
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>>161820617

I do play dota, this is fun too when you don't want to invest 50 mins into a match.

I have an easier time relaxing playing this than I do dota, but like to get my try hard on too sometimes.


Both are different enough for me to enjoy.
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>>161820617

I honestly don't know. Might go try it out in a bit, actually.

Anybody know if Broodmother and Enchantress are any good? Probably won't matter for me for a long time, but just curious.
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holy SHIT what the FUCK is wrong with LoL, it has NOTHING

>no reliable way to target ANYTHING
>no way to move the edges of the camera outward in locked mode
>no hearthstone animations
>no mounts
>no ability feels like it does anything
>no QWER at match start

what the FUCK is this game and why are people trying to tell me its better than hotos
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reminder that azmodan is bad and claiming otherwise is just you trying to justify your purchase of the meme skin
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>>161853667

>what
>using locked camera
>usually only old champs/skins
>tru
>i can't even
>pardon

this entire post desu

>>161853856

He actually seems pretty solid for people in Bronze-Platinum, just because of that thing he does to lanes if left unattended.

The semi-global waveclear can be pretty oppressive, too.
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>>161820617
I can't queue up as a hero in dota and don't want to support or share a lane with someone who can't play carry
So easy to win if I get carry cause I'll just pick sven and build blink for easy games at least in shitter 3k elo
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I have 10k again and am not sure what I should get. Should I get anub'arak's masterskin, dehaka's masterskin, or zagara's masterskin? Or a new hero (don't really have any I want that I don't alrleady have; maybe lunara?.)
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>>161854806

>can't decide between cosmetic and new hero

I'd probably just go with the new Hero, unless you know you'll never play them.

>alternatively hold the gold until Ragnaros comes out to see if you like him
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For symbiot build for abathur whats better ultimate evolutiuon or monstrosity?
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>>161849863
>TRUMP-VOTING
b8
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>>161855297
Evolution is best for just about every Abathur.
Any team worth a fuck, or even just one player with map awareness, immediately kills the monstrosity, which for some damn reason has a longer CD than Evolution even though Evolution wins fights all the time and you can just Evolution a dps/specialist and push down a tower just as well as if you'd spawned a monstrosity.
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>my team picks zeratul
>we lose

realy makes u think.....
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>>161854806

>bug fetishist

disgusting
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>>161855902
but he was just rworked!!! he is better now!!
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>>161855902
makes me think you're in bronze league because zeratul is quite excellent right now and seeing a bad zeratul means you're mmr is fucked
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>game lobby not launching
>again

another well crafted, well polished game client from activision-blizzard
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>>161854806
Zagara's master skin is the best looking of those three. Also has a color that matches one of the carpet's colors.
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>>161855902

>enemy team stacks up
>everybody hits their wombo button
>zera vps them
>doesn't cancel it
>has flash with triple the range as basic ability
>still manage to die 9 times a game

>>161856156

i don't think i've bumped into an even "okay" zera until high diamond or masters desu

>the pros first pick him, as our first pick instalocks the useful melee nova
>smurf placements yo
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aight that's it, no more Ranked for me this Season. too many dumbasses playing for the mount right now.
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>call team shit for losing to gazlowe
>UHHHHHH UR JUST BAD GAZ IS RLY OP RIGHT NOW :P
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>>161858657

He is, though.

At low MMR, anyways.
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>>161839665
Sonya is kawaii.
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>>161858657

>gaz has a 0% win rate

But he doesn't. You're just as bad as your team if this is the dumbfuckery your brain operates on.
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Who else /havingfunwithnewheroes/ here?

Li Li w/ Malf or BW as 2nd support:
>Wind Build
>Consistent dedicated assassin level hero damage
>On top of loads of healing and blinds
>Blinds everywhere
>Water dragons raining from the sky
>Attacking me only makes me stronger


Lunara:
>Top hero damage every game
>They come in grouped for an objective or teamfight
>Drop my vines, so much poison
>They try to run
>Activate starwood spear + wild vigor
>Now they are slow
>Now I do damage
>They die every time

Johanna:
>They literally can't get to us between peel and blinds
>I literally can't die
>Oh shit they got me
>Indestructible
>I literally can't die

One hero I'm having trouble with is Valla. Do lots of damage and get takedowns, but die a lot. Don't feel like I have the optimal build really. Can't decide between multishot, hungering arrow, or hatred / AA.

What are people's favorite Valla builds?
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>>161860174

Holy fuck this is a ded general
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anyone else getting massive lag?
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>>161862390
Servers acting like shit again
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>>161860174
>autism: the post
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>>161863836

>Please don't talk attempt to discuss the video game on the video game discussion board
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>>161863836

>shitting on the one person who seems to be having fun

can you not

>>161862305
tru

ptr soon pls
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>>161862390

is blizzard getting dossed again
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Any advice to someone who is new at playing a tank? This is my first moba. I always get shook and try to bail too soon, especially if there isn't a support around.
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>enemy team's first two picks: master varian and master li ming
>they're a premade
>concern.jpg
>they're absolute garbage
>we win in 12 minutes
everything went better than expected
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>>161854974
The thing is, the amount of time I play new heroes is usually very low compared to how often I use one of my "mains."

>>161856336
Its a possibility, its the hero I have the most fun with of the three, but I don't have a masterskin for a tank yet.
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Why is ragnaros a melee assassin and not a specialist?
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>that feeling when the buddy you played Heros with you played with alot back in the day qualifies for HGC NA.
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>>161860174

>Can't decide between multishot, hungering arrow, or hatred / AA.

dude i have no fucking idea either, i've seen multiple youtube videos each arguing that AA / Multishot / Hungering is the objectively best build. all I know is that i die with her over and over with AA build because she is so fragile.
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>>161865407
Don't play tank as you would do in a mmorpg, i.e. a damage sponge
Your role is to disrupt the enemy team and protect yours, keep this in mind. Don't try to soak damage by exposing yourself if there isn't a good reason to do it, and don't use your ccs just to protect yourself. There's much more of course but this is the most important rule
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>>161865407
If you're getting focused, that's good. Ideally you're the one being focused over a legit damage dealer, increases the odds of them cleaning up the fight.

But it really depends on the character you're playing. There's two kinds of Warriors: Guardians and Bruisers.
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ye old 2 tank 2 support meta
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>>161799528
children
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>>161865407

my personal advice is to play as johanna first to get used to being not a damage-dealer, but someone whose role is to absorb damage and disrupt the enemy team with stuns, blinds, and CC and keep your DPS alive

since Jo is the most defensive tank (most "tanky", least damage, all basic abilities have some CC or peel effect) it will build in good habits
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>>161830507
fucking this, the skin kael needs
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>>161848657
>>161849338
But, Rohkan isnt a shaman
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Someone tell me which talents to pick on BW please.

Need advice for the lvl 1 and 7 talents, I usually pick 4 or 3 at lvl 1 and cleanse / shield at 7 (shield when we've got a diver and cleanse isn't a must)
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>>161694925
>Be Diamond Brightwing Main
>Hero League, Braxis Holdout
>Duo Queue with a random on my friends list
>Mentions how it's his sixth account because he keeps getting silenced
>He locks in Tracer, I lock in Brightwing
>"Take shield build dude"
>Doesn't realize that shield build got obliterated months ago and is trash
>I say I'm building passive heals with Pixie Charm, which is pretty OP these days
>Tracer blitzes into enemy team over and over, gets rekt by stuns and roots
>Friendly Zarya shield got melted instantly every time he engages
>"Dude I needed shield build wtf"
>We get wiped taking mercs and lose to a boss push
>Guy tells me I don't know how to play Brightwing
>Blames the loss on me and then unfriends and blocks me

Blizzard needs to get their shit together. If they can perma-ban cheating Overwatch players across multiple IPs and copies of the game they should apply silences to people's smurf accounts. I'm getting really tired of these toxic salty players popping up in my games.
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>>161868017
>blizzard should silence people's smurf accounts!
be reasonable lmao
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>>161868017
>Be diamond
>No mention of tass being banned
>Not picking tassadar with tracer
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>>161868017

Platinum I through Diamond III seems like the true elo hell, desu.
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>>161868017
nice blog
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>>161868430
Hey, if you get silenced that silence should apply to you and all your accounts for that game. It's the player that's getting reprimanded, not their account. Switching to a smurf shouldn't change that any more than buying a new copy of Overwatch should revoke a ban.

>>161868440
The other players recommended it but he wanted Zarya instead.

>>161868531
It certainly feels like it.

>>161868837
Context matters. I could have just said "Fuck salty Tracers, I want silences across all accounts" but that wouldn't have held the same weight.
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>>161869598
you gonna give some BW tips or what? :P
Is manic pixie worth picking? the healing over time seems very little
>>161867471 related
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>>161869873
>>161867471
My go-to build for QM and Unranked Draft is Pixie Charm, Arcane Barrage, Mistified, Emerald Wind, Shield Dust, Hardened Focus, and Continuous Winds. It focuses on passive healing and having that sweet peel and sudden damage out of nowhere. Revitalizing Mist is also really good if your team is aware and stays near you so the stacks don't fade.

Something a lot of people forget is that Hardened Focus also makes Brightwing's passive cooldown faster, so you get that healing every 2.33 seconds instead of every 4 seconds.

Pixie Charm is pretty broken right now, you can get Bruisers as they spawn if your team is fighting at the start and it's amazing what value you get when you steal enemy mercs during a push with an objective, such as on Braxis Holdout.
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>>161865468
I just don't deserve a good game. The Auriel was a bot. And not like a, oh he went AFK and got replaced with a bot. No, it was someone's bot hooked up to a battle.net account. It AFK'd for the entire first part of the game, walking only to the gates and stopping there.

That's 15k healing. 15k. All of which came after he got replaced with BlizzAI.
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>BW
how do you people play that absolute snoozefest?
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>anub 100% winrate in pro play
>varian 0% winrate
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>>161867345
He's been considered both a Shadow Hunter and a Shaman. It's really wishy-washy, but he counts. I was purely thinking of someone who would be good to have that isn't another Orc Shaman, to cover the last archetype.

There are no other notable Shaman who would fit the Elemental role aside from maybe Morgl if you want to go into "meme" territory, and don't want another Orc Shaman.

However, if everyone's all good and fine with another Orc Shaman, then it would obviously have to be Drek'Thar, even though I think he'd be more suited as a Resto or Enhance Shaman, but we already have those.
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>>161868017
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Speaking of Shaman, when the fuck is Thrall going to get a rework? His talents are the most boring fucking talents to look through. He and Tass need it the most, I feel, followed by Nova.
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>>161872931
Brightwing is everything I've ever wanted in a support. Her mount lets her be anywhere her team is and lets you save friends from the bring of death and swing fights in your favour. She has passive healing so you're helping your whole team in team-fights. She has ranged poke with surprisingly high damage, the centre of her Q does more than Kerrigan's W. She has a point-and-click disable that shuts down tons of ults and combos. She has a shield that is useful for escapes and engages early game, and gets really good when talented. Finally her ult choices either give her phenomenal mobility or a godlike peel, and those functions are doubled when she hits level 20.

Brightwing is one of those heroes that's really easy to pick up but has a very high skill ceiling. You need really good map awareness, the capacity to split-push and frustrate your enemies in the laning phase, great positioning in team fights, and even better timing with your abilities. She's incredibly fun to play once you start developing those skills, and honestly she's the reason I got out of Silver. Learning to play her well made me up my game.
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>>161873543
Thrall is fine and Nova has been reworked already.
They are already looking into the Tass, with hints of Murky after that.
Who really needs a rework is Tyrande, poor girl has truckloads of neutral talents and no clear identity.
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>ragnaros announced
>takes a million years for him to be released
>no hots news at all
feels bad man
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>>161874751
ded games don't get news
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>>161874072
Nova and Nazeebo are heroes who have been reworked, and it has been pretty much universally agreed that their reworks were a failure.
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>>161874821
there was no reason to rework nazeebo, he's straight shit now
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>>161875882
>he was only good because of a bug
>hurrr no reason to rework him
bronze general
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>garg will never last forever and melee the core for over 1.5k ever again
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>>161877514
desu you shouldnt be able to see where he places zombie wall before it forms if you are not on his team
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>>161878369
this, what kind of baby shit even is that
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I'm happy another retarded Cho'gall esque hero wasn't announced at Blizzcon. Cho'gall was such a shit addition to this game. Abathur would be if his design weren't really interesting and unique.
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>>161880087
Upboating this 2bh, the resources that went into shitgall could've gone into making KT not be Jaina v2 for example.
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How was Kharazim's rework, speaking of reworks?

Is he ever played at all? Does he heal, or does he seem to just be cornered into being a DPS off-support now?
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>>161880612
He can solo support while doing damage if you're gud and have the right comp
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>>161880698
>Comp dependant

Okay, so he's never played because he isn't one of those braindead boring as shit picks that fits every comp.
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>>161881312
Basically.
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>>161881556
Fucking this game in a nutshell. Kill me.
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>>161881959

>really enjoy chromie, zeratul, butcher, gazlowe and murky
>can't pick them early
>can't even pick them every game


welp. Might just make a smurf and see how far it goes playing any/all of the above every game
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>you face when you win but the mvp screen only shows the enemy team
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>>161883040
you don't belong here
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>>161880698
>>161881312
>>161881556
>>161881959
"Comp dependant" meaning "if your team has a tank and any kind of melee that isn't Zeratul" which honestly should already be happening
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>mfw when I fall from Plat 3 to Silver 1
>mfw the more I fall the more the only constant meme is bullshit
>mfw a random disconnect caused me to lose 1500 rank points (7 losses worth)
>mfw on phone so no face
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On the subject of Kharazim, goddamn I still feel like SSS is better than Divine Palm in every situation. I just feel like Divine Palm is too easy to work around, for multiple reasons.
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>>161885807
how is that possible wtf nigger just stop playing
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>>161873228
When is he considered a Shaman? I understand the shadow hunter abilities went to the shamans in WoW but couldnt you just as easily make the case that Vol'jin should be a shaman? I agree that the idea of another non-orc shaman is a good idea but I think the character choice just doesnt fit. Why not someone like Nobundo?
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>>161886001
When blizzard generalized most classes to fit them within the boundaries of WoW.
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>>161886001
In every discussion I've read on the Shadow Hunters in general, people seem to like to categorize them as Shamans with just a bit of Hunter, moreso because they practice Shamanistic magic moreso than they act as Hunters. So if we're going to be entirely technical, I guess we couldn't label Rokhan a Shaman, and hope they give more acknowledgement towards Shadow Hunters enough to actually establish some sort of solid definition as to what they are.

As for why not Nobundo, I think that's a good choice, but what is the likelihood of them giving a shit about a side character that's sort of obscure in that nobody ever really talks about him. They for SOME reason opt for OC characters over the more lesser appreciated or recognized ones.

Yeah, you could give an Ele-based kit to Vol'jin, but I feel like they're most likely going to do something else with him. Quite possibly a Berserker sort of kit alongside his viper totem. Assuming Zul'jin is more Axe Thrower and not much on the side of Berserker.
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>>161885807
>Platinum III to Silver I

Good grief, comrade.

What have you been playing?
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Got 16k what should i buy?
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>>161887070
The usual stuff I always play: Zagara, Valla, Muradin, Sylv on BoE/Shrines, ETC or Jojo if tank needed and Mura is not available, every support as needed, sometimes Xul
I didn't bother learning Samuro due to near 100% ban rate at shitter league, thinking of picking Zarya up and getting better at Thrall
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>>161887606
BLOW IT ALL ON RAG FUCKING DO IT.... FAG.
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>>161887606
Buy lunara
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>>161888885
No.
>>161887747
Maybe.
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thrall's design is so fucking good in this game holy shit
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>>161761806
I wish there were more than three tanks who could meaningfully peel and contribute, too
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>>161889140
>Chen can talent into a 90% slow
>Anub and Rexxar are CC bots
>Diablo has two repositioning abilities and the best bodyblock among warriors

Don't fall for the every warrior is a bruiser meme
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and Dehaka enters the gold club after a 30 minute match on Ravencuck's Front Lawn. who should I level to 10 next?
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>tfw played to get Genji skin
>kinda had fun so decided to play a real game against people
>close match but still win
>delete game
>next day reinstalling

I'm s-scared guys, did Blizzard get me?
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>>161887606
47,065 Gold what do?
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>>161887606
>>161889856
poorfags
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>>161889583
They got you the second you spent time okaying a ftp game for a skin in a game that you've already paid for.
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>>161874751
>he's yet another assassin despite us having a billion of them
>not a specialist as his skill-set heavily implies
ebin :DD
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>>161892928
What part of it implies specialist?
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>>161892986
The fact that becoming an immobile siege machine and having a slow whole-lane-clearing heroic makes his playstyle unconventional?

Are you one of those bronzies who think specialist means just "LOL afk laning and mercing"?

Now Nazeebo, there's a guy who should be relabeled as assassin
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>>161893085
This. Plus, he should have been built more around his trait. Lower CD and more artillery-like. So Ragnaros needs to be more around fort/keeps to pummel noobs.
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A specialist, so far, judging by all the heroes labeled as such is trash lingering between assassin or support, being good at neither.
Alternatively it's a hero efficient at dealing siege damage and pushing. Take a look at Ragnaros now, he has a good wave clear, but so do other assassins I've also heard that his abilities are undertuned for siege and he does abysmal damage to minions.
As for his useless trait, you can't use it to do any of the above, you can simply defend an allied fort, because you sure as fuck wouldn't be able to siege shit with it as it currently works.
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>>161893578
A specialist, so far, judging by all the heroes labeled as such is trash lingering between assassin or support, being good at neither.

What did he mean by this?
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>>161893578
>specialist
>anything like a support
What in the flying fuck?
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>>161893797
Maybe he means support in the LoL/DotA style, meaning a guy who instead of going balls deep all the time hangs on the back, spams abilities and does generally useful shit in the downtime
Of course thst makes no sense in this game where support=healbot
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Is it true that in LoL/DotA the characters are mostly tied to a lane?

Like if I were to pick sylv I would have to go bottom lane most of the game
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>>161895312
The game doesn't bind you to lanes, the meta does. But yes, basically. Deviate from that and people will go apeshit on you.
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Female orc hero when?
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>>161895805
DRAGONMAW, ADVANCE!
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>>161895805
Garona will be a skin for Valeera when she gets released.

Also, you have that hammer skin already and Sonya might not exactly look the part, but she's pretty orksy.
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>>161895805
you just know it'd be aggra
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>tfw I made another thread because I searched for /hotsg/ and didn't found anything
Shameful display
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>>161893797
What is Medivh?
What is Abathur?
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>>161897330
Two out of many specialists. Medivh can be a support and Abathur is not a support.

What is your post?
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>>161897358
My post is that they both have support elements, and Medivh has straight up identity crisis.
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>>161874751

On ptr tomorrow
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>>161897421
Support "elements" =/= qualify to be support.

>>161897456
>another two weeks at best for Rag
Not that hyped since he's assassin.
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>>161897485
Clearly you have severe difficulties with reading comprehension, arguing with you isn't going to bear any fruit.
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>>161897485
>"elements"
>medivh has portals that can be used by the whole team
>is a living vision field when goes crow mode
>has polymorph
>only has one ability that does damage
>abathur
>never goes in lane
>has shields on heroes/structures
>can move around freely
>mines that slowdown

Yes, they are specialist, but they are really tipped toward the defensive and supportive style of hero.
Meanwhile you have the vikings and zagara which sole purpose is to make your day a fucking nightmare, specialist are meant to fit to certain playstyles, thats why you have agressive and defensive specialists.
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>>161897485

He releases on the 13th, they said this at Blizzcon.
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>Artanis is not a real tank
You're god damn right. He's also an assassin. And a specialist. Praise be his.
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>>161898217
How to artanis anon? I'm trying to do the meme shield build but I can't seem to do enough impact until I get the vulnerable talent.
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>>161898319
>Reactive Parry
>Templar's Zeal
>Psionic Energy
Your choice of ulti. I tend to go with suppression pulse due to blind utility, but purifier beam can be good if they have a squish ultra burst hero. It also tends to make them run around to avoid it instead of attacking.
>Phase Bulwark
>Shield Surge
>Force of Will

You are focusing on keeping up that shield as much as possible. blade dash reduced CD at low hp, and reducing the shield cd per hit makes it amazing. You're pretty useless until 7 when you get those two talents, and even then I would remain fairly cautious until 16. Shield Surge is what really makes you unkillable. it's a 1600hp or so shield that you can pop every couple of seconds. Blade dash into as many heroes as possible for the shield cd reset, and twin blade. Try to stick onto their squishies, as you do a surprising amount of damage. But, if you can't get ahold of them, just hit anything. If you can hit something, you're literally unkillable. I've gone 1v4 and lived long enough for the rest of my team to cross the map and get to the fight and turn it around. Staying at 1% hp for an entire team fight and surviving is not uncommon.
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>>161898580
Thanks senpai, will put this to test.
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>>161897548
>>161898023
>medivh is the entire specialist pool
ebik
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>>161898745
My apprentice returns, it is good to see you again, Khadgar.
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>>161898745
>write explaining how there are many specialist work to fit certain playstyles for certain people
>anons retort is being retarded
YOU
ARE
NOT
PREPARED
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>>161898885
Oh, abathur was also mentioned. No.

Medivh is the only specialist that should be a support.
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>>161898885
But le prepared man is a assassin, not support. Aren't you the stupid one here lol.
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Vol'jin WHEN?!
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>>161899345
Hopefully never.
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>>161898319
>>161898580
>>161898652
Here you go. Would've turned this into a webm, but I would have to compress so many times it'd be unwatchable to upload it here.

https://youtu.be/EYUhHEVA-h8
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>>161900540
>tfw got mvp on unranked
This is what people feels when playing like a normal human bean
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>They In-varian-ably get stun level 4, second wind level 7.

Jesus fuck, if you're going to make talents this busted, make them level 16 and 20 respectively so he has to use half a fucking brain cell.
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>>161898217
What does Artanis contribute to the teamfight other than hitting shit?
What's the tank's job in this game?
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>>161902657
Distract, disable and displace enemies.
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>>161902754
>disable
How? Blind?
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>>161903031
Blind, stun, slow attack speed.
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>>161902657

>pretty okay damage
>shields he gets at low health
>prism displacement thing
>baits bronzies into putting all their damage into him cos 30% health

can legit 1v3 against teams without cc
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>>161902657
Being a complete cunt and stop powers with your body, bodyblocking choke points, dragging squisshies or straggerls into the frontline.
And he can does a shitton of damage if you go zealot build, but you will die twice as quck, meanwhile with your shield build it doesn't matter if you don't much damage because you won't die either, so that means that you can keep hitting people.
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>Nazeebo Toad build
>Stars align and I hit all five at max distance in the Blackheart turn-in small hallway on a hiding Falstad, who melts.
>Second volley, a second after the first, collides near max distance with the Khara who jumped in to heal.
>They both die.
>75% of her health bar melts.
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>>161903551
Whoops disregard the "75% of her health bar" melts, was going to post about how I crapped on a Li-Ming before THAT happened.
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>>161902657
mainly just being an annoying meat shield and/or target dummy.

>He has 5% hp!
>both of their assassins are focusing on getting dat sweet sweet killing blow for the entirety of the team fight

See: >>161900540
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>>161902657
he hits things until they die without interruption from the second the gates open until the enemies core is dead
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>>161902292
Sure, fuck his early game EVEN MORE.
Think before you post you absolutely braindead cumguzzling dicksucking effeminate faggot.
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>>161903551
>toad build
literally why? They are so easy to dodge
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>>161903905

question; why isn't he like Khara, where he picks his "spec" or role at 1

>>161903940

So are a lot of things, yet people find a way to get hit by them.

>hit zombie wall on 120% movement speed valla
>ooga booga
>she just vaults out
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>>161903940
Low cooldown, two charges. They respect your area denial or they eat shit.
Now if only those spiders weren't worthless.
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>>161904038
That's the main problem with Nazeebo's new kit, really.

>Spider build
>Toads tickle/are useless for anything but point-blank when a Varian's in your face, and he full heals it anyway in a hit.

>Toad build
>Spiders are pretty much good for buildings and creeps, nothing else.

>Zombie Wall build
>Can't let you do that, Star Fucks. *Nerf nerf nerf.*
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>malfurion and/or brightwing in every game

poor zeebs
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>>161903905
>A bloo bloo bloo my rigged piece of shit has a period of weakness that in 9/10 games goes away in less than five minutes.
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>>161905193
>implying I play Varian
If a game only lasts 15-20 minutes, spending one half of it useless is unacceptable.
>>
LUNARA
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>>161905965
http://i.imgur.com/kTLg6rZ.jpg
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>>161905965
Literally worst meme this general has to offer.
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ptr when
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>>161905965
>http://i.imgur.com/kTLg6rZ.jpg
The forest doesn't need protection
Neither do I
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>>161905965

SHINY
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>>161905579
>Five minutes is now a half of a 15 minute game.

Did you call out of school or something? You need to be 18 to be on this site.
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>>161880612
he's top tier, and soon as Malfurion is getting his nerf he'll be the next go-to hero
Earth Ally is FUCKING AMAZING
I had a team that was too retarded to handle the enemy Sgt Hammer so she was ignored during teamfights by anyone other than me slapping her a bit to take away her damage bonus, Earth Ally has been keeping the shitters alive really well. It's just amazing vs things like Thrall, Butcher, Samuro (reveal relies on your allies not being retarded and taking him out of stealth, you're better off just ruining his burst when you see the shimmer)
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>>161907153
>Malfurion is getting his nerf he'll be the next go-to hero
Not really, he's not good enough to be solo healer.
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>>161906639
>at best
Reading comprehension bro. Not everyone is a platin shitter that gets his games done in 10 minutes because the enemy team is retarded :)
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>>161694719

DOG HERO FUCKING WHEN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9fLfptk1ok

WHEN
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>>161908218
what is this garbage
>>
>>161908218
Greymane. Rexxar. Jaina.
>>
>level cap at fucking 40
>no more free gold from playing

fuck you blizz
>>
I swear to fucking christ if we don't get the patch notes in 5 minutes I'm gonna shoot up blizzard's HQ
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>>161909951
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20379591/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-december-5-12-5-2016
you live another day blizzard.
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>>161909951
we wont get patch notes in 5 minutes because we got them 20 minutes ago
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>no varian nerfs

???
>>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEGmJXmavB0
habbening
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>>161910662
guess what
varian sucks outside the bronze
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>>161910229
>Rehgar
>Increased Basic Attack damage from 99 to 120
Hefty. Bloodlust might now actually be viable if you have all in divers due to retarded sustain.

>Artanis gets his shields sooner, but they only get powerful if he's low health
Still in line with how he plays, except it helps his early game a bit. 4 second increase to the shield cooldown hurts though, even if the blade dash change helps his laning. Maybe they're trying to incentivize the CD reduction talent on level 20?

Still,
>Templar's Zeal on the same Tier as Triple Strike
>Shield Surge gutted, Shield Battery slightly less useless
I'm wary of this. I don't think undying Artanis is achievable anymore, shit.
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>>161910229
>rehgar buff
Y tho, hes already retarded with his heal
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>>161907368
>>161907153
>bronze arguing with silver
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>>161910229
Dehaka looks nuts now, christ.
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>>161911496
yeah it was retarded shit, i for one welcome these buffs, AA teams + rehgar and tass wil be brutal
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>>161911831
>>161911496
t. bronze
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>>161912079
>try to kill reghar
>lol totem
>lol lighting balls of blueballing
>someones low? let me heal for 3 times worth their hp bar
Just because I'm a shitter doesn't means his heal is an annoying piece of shit.
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How do you really get good with Tyrande?

Also should I buy chromie?
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>another map added (back) to the rotation

am i reading this right
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>>161912732

>tryande
wait until somebody lands a stun then press E and D

Q things that aren't full health, W for map vision thing

>chromer

yes
>>
thank god I just bought dehaka with gold and picked up his skin while the sale was going on
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>>161912798
Yes.
It's been out of rotation because it was fucking broken how hard it snowballed.
Imagine a boss that would always spawn at the location it was last killed at.
You were simply fucked if you lost the first objective, period. And characters like Zaggers collected half the objective before other heroes could even enter the mine.
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>>161910662
>varian
>good

uhm... hotards?
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>>161912970

Yeah, I know.

Just not sure how I feel about having, like, a dozen maps active.

>>161913038

Eh, probably just low mmr and/or unranked. His Twin Blades can be pretty oppressive to people who don't know not to slap fight Varian.
>>
>Those Diablo PTR changes

holy fuck
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>>161910229
>those dehaka and diablo changes
we solo tank now
>>
straight from leddit:
Gul'dan
Rain of Destruction cast range increased from 13 to 15

Samuro
Mirage Spell Block damage reduction reduced from 50% to 40%
Bladestorm damage reduced from 50 per tick to 47 per tick
Mirror Image damage reduced from 25% to 20%

Varian
Parry Cooldown reduced from 10 to 8 seconds
Lion's Fang mana cost reduced from 60 to 50
Taunt mana cost reduced from 40 to 20
Lion's Fang slow increased from -30% to -35%
Taunt and Colossus Smash now properly reduce and increase health regeneration
Taunt health bonus increased from +50% to +60%
Taunt no longer reduces attack speed
Live By The Sword succesful Parry cooldown reduction reduced from 3 to 2 seconds
Increased Live By The Sword additional Parry duration from .25s to .5s(unsure if this is actually the case, will have to double-check)
Lion's Maw slow duration increased from -40% to -50%
Taunt Storm Talent reduced by Basic Attacks increased from .75s per basic attack to 1s per basic attack
Second Wind no longer gains additional healing from Mortal Strike(Bonus damage from trait)
Warbringer cooldown reduction reduced from 10s to 8s
>>
ptr is down!
>>
>Nerf to Li-Ming waveclear
>Nerf to Falstad Z
>Nerfs to Samuro
>Nerf to CD on Varian stun
>Buffs to Zeebo
>Buffs to the health of a noob

Everything is coming up roses.

>twin blades nerf, I think?

I'm sure that'll make a few of you happy.
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>>161853598
They are difficult heroes, as both require micro and knowledge in positioning. I would recommend wraith king/sven if you wanna play a carry or earthshaker/lion for a support. Also keep in mind mana in dota doesnt regen nearly as fast or easily, so be wary of spamming spells
>>
When the fuck does ragnaros release
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>>161913808
I don't see changes to li ming and falstad.
>>
alright I didn't play starcraft but warfield is the guy that used to be siege tank insted of sgt. hammer in the hots alpha right? it look like she's getting a skin to look like him
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>New Talent: Primal Swarm (E)
Enemies affected by Dark Swarm take 15% increased damage from all sources

holy shit
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>>161913939

Looks like the 13th, when the season comes to a close, comrade.

>>161913889

Ah, brilliant. I probably just going to play a ton of bots games first, which is why I was saying it probably wouldn't matter. Thanks.

>>161913985

http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20379599/upcoming-heroes-of-the-storm-balance-update-december-7-2016-12-5-2016

>>161914014

Yeah, looks like we might be getting a gender-bender skin for Sgt. Hammer?

https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/5gnjhk/ragnaros_ptr_datamine_dump/ sauce(?)
>>
Dehaka change.

Much needed movement speed finally baseline.
Lvl1 movement speed talent nerfed, no reason to ever take it over primal agression now.

> New Talent: Primal Swarm (E)
Enemies affected by Dark Swarm take 15% increased damage from all sources

Not sure how I feel about this. This replaced his version of relentless. Obviously strong but I have to check it out.

>Hardened Shield (Active)
Removed
New Talent: Essence Claws (Passive)
Basic Attacks slow enemies by 20% for 1 second
Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes grant Dehaka 5 Essence

Rofl.

So lvl 4 and lvl 16 you still only have shit choices. 1,7 and 13 it's between two talents each which one of the choices being very situational.

If you want late game survivability you better take Adaptation :-DDDD

All in all this is not a main tank. He still serves the exact role as before. His bruiserstyle got slightly stronger but then they removed relentless so it's weaker. All in all a splitpusher and that's it.
>>
>rehgar buffs
>didn't make the mount speed talent baseline
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>>161913939

Read the thread you asspie.

>>161898091
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>>161914158
That's a huge nerf for her.
>>
>You can now cast Phase Prism during Blade Dash
Nice, I tried this for about 5 minutes when I first got the hero and was massively disappointed.
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>>161913374
What change makes Dehaka a solo tank?

He still can't peel. He still has no reliable cc.
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>>161914312
a-adaptation!
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>>161914249

Yes, it is.


I wouldn't be surprised if it drops her win rate at low MMR into the bottom five, if she isn't there already.
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>tfw no tassadar rework
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>>161914732
I honestly hope they revert that change.
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>>161913410
Most likely fake since PTR notes are out and none of that is in there.
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>>161914796
He doesn't need one...

>>161914882
No retard that's from a balance patch not ptr.
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>>161914797

Mm, definitely a possibility. Might reduce it to 50% non-hero damage? We'll see.

Also; does this affect spawns? Will she not be able to delete Zig-zags minions with it?

>>161914882

Balance update, friend.

Sauce; http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20379599/upcoming-heroes-of-the-storm-balance-update-december-7-2016-12-5-2016
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>>161914919
No source. Nothing in 'patch notes' in bnet client.

As it was said; fake.

>>161914973
>nothing in bnet client
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>>161904007
Picking specs at level one would make him insane due to twin blades of memery
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>>161915006
Can't you stupid fuck see the literal source there? Are you really this retarded?
>>
>>161915092
Learn to read. Seriously. They said "nothing in bnet client" which is true.
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>>161910229
>recently bought sylv instead of xul
>price reduced
fuck me
>>
>>161915132
>december 6
>hurr is fake xd

Learn to read mongoloid.
>>
>>161915006

>fake

You can't be serious.

>>161915026

Yeah, I suppose that's fair. Seems weird to be this sort of unfed Butcher for the first ten levels, though. Even weirder if he eventually becomes a popular solo tank.

>>161915143

Isn't it just to 7000, not 2000 or 4000? Not the worst, I suppose.

>friend bought azmodan a week before he was reduced by 8000
>he still doesn't even know
>don't have heart to tell him because he's enjoying his azmodunk so much
>>
>>161915092
He's an anime poster. What do you think?

>>161914973
Oh no, Li Ming has a weakness!
Finally. Fuck her having anything but hero damage. Unless she's non-existant outside of teamfights, I will never be happy. Stupid cunt needs at least some downsides.
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>>161915216
No, learn to read.

>>161915205
You too. They said "nothing in bnet client" which is indeed fact. I'm looking at the patch notes in the client and there's nothing there.
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>>161915296
There's nothing in the client because is going to be released tomorrow nigger.
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>>161915369
>taking reddit as fact
You're the nigger tbqh.
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>>161915409
>battle net official site is reddit

epic for the win anon
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>>161915296
>hurr lel i'm talking -literal- lelel get fucked XD
If you haven't noticed, Bnet is a piece of shit and even relying on it to tell you news is a massive sign of brain hemorrhage.
Now get the fuck out you pansy wansy cocksucker, don't try to bullshit me with your semantics. You and I both know what you meant and you're wrong.
>>
>>161915240

Agreed, but doesn't she still have that Charged Blast, Seeker, Cannoneer and Fireflies build?

Then the Disintegrate for waveclear. Eh. I think it's a step in the right direction, though.
>>161915409

>balance update notes posted on the official heroes of the storm website are leddit fakes

I'm dead.
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>>161915487
>>161915464
>straight from reddit
>uhhhhh...wait it's bnet!
Straight-out lying.
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>>161915296
You are retarded, and this is a fact, jesus.
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>>161915567
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20379599/upcoming-heroes-of-the-storm-balance-update-december-7-2016-12-5-2016

Straight-out retarded xd
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>>161915562
>>161915487
>>161915464
>>161915634
>>161915583
See
>>161913410
Makes you think.
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>>161915567
>http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20379599/upcoming-heroes-of-the-storm-balance-update-december-7-2016-12-5-2016

Get fucked you illiterate moron.
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>>161915672
Reddit posted the balance notes? I don't even know why you're trying to say now mongoloid. Have another (you).
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>>161915682
>>161913410

>>161915759
>no source
>not even a link to the reddit
Okay, here's one.

straight from reddit
Abathur
Monstrosity is now always at maximum stacks
Stab range increased by 20%

but totally legit rite guise XDDDD
fuck having a sauce rite? :DD
also FUCK anyone asking for a sauce despite the only thing was "straight from leddit" gotta take it as fact!
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>>161910229
>just figure out a viable Artanis build
>They fuck with it

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>161915856
Here is the source, for the 5th time http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20379599/upcoming-heroes-of-the-storm-balance-update-december-7-2016-12-5-2016
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>>161915873
>just figure out the one and only build everyone has known and been doing since day 1
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>>161914167
I'm honestly surprised they didn't touch Drag at all, after stating they wanted to make him more of a solo tank. You're right, they just made him even more of a bruiser. I don't get this Blizzard logic. Is it because I'm not coked out of my mind?
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>>161915936
don't reply to him holy shit
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>>161915936
Learn the context. There was no source originally. The first post had "straight from leddit" and somebody questioned it.
>>
>>161915873
At least now there will be a reason to pick his damage oriented build, which is strong, but is completely outclassed (or at least was) by his shield build.
I for one welcome the zealot assassin
>>
>>161915856

Reddit sauce: https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/5gng4z/heroes_of_the_storm_ptr_patch_notes_december_5/datlh3q/

Official Hots sauce: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20379599/upcoming-heroes-of-the-storm-balance-update-december-7-2016-12-5-2016

Last bit of attention I'll be giving your addled mind.

>>161915998

Eh, see how it pans out. Some of these changes look interesting.

>also looks like hero league'll be solo queue only
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Ya'll are so easy to bait, Jesus Christ. Autism vs Dorks.


-----------------
Ming mains are crying everywhere. Good riddance.

Artanis "rework" is fucking weird. Can't really tell how he'll be without trying the PTR, though, he is bugged as fuck reading all reports.
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>>161916051
Learn to not be a retarded nigger
>somebody
kek
>>
ptr when

https://twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/805862028472512512

zz

>>161916147
>ming tears

Delicious.
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We need a mod to delete this shit
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>>161916143
>>161916151
Go to the original post and read down from there. You only have yourselves to blame.

>general so dead and the few chronic shit-posters are this desperate for posts
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>>161916312
>general is so dead you do nothing but shitpost and post meme faces

Hahaha retard.
>>
Colossus smash needs a nerf desu. Arms Varian can delete anyone with a bit of help, and sure, if you want him to play like that fine, but nerf the CD.
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>>161916383
>random words here
hahhaha buzzword
>>
This isn't going to be enough to make Prot Varian worth it. How the fuck did they not tweak Taunt at all?
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>>161916402
He's poorly designed, you use CS and become a stunbot for the next 20 seconds
>>
>>161916452
(you)
>>
>>161916512
(anon)
>>
>>161916580
(benis)
>>
(Myself)
>>
alive general
>>
LUNARA
>>
>buy nazeebo
>now I can duel zeratuls without issues
Where was this magical character hiding
>>
>>161917890
>Playing Nazeebo against an Illidan that took The Hunt
>Bait him into Hunting onto me
>Ice Block
>Set Zombie Walls around myself
>Laugh as that fucker charges onto me and ends up in a ring of "Get Fucked"

I love Nazeebo. One of my favorites.
>>
>>161917890

In the trash bin, were you live and eat, BRONZE.

Zeebo is T-R-A-S-H, don't waste your time there, learn another specialist. I recommend Xul or the undead whore.
>>
>>161918057
Suck my unranked dick enigger
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>>161917890
ur memeing right? he just blinks out
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>>161917890
>vorpal blade and he is out
>blink and he is out
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>>161918178

>unranked

at least finish placements to get that diamond icon desu
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>Bloodlust (R)
Added functionality:
All affected allies now heal for 30% of Basic Attack damage dealt during Bloodlust
>Rehgar, Valla, Butcher, Artanis, Tassadar team comp
>get flamed for picking Bloodlust
can't wait
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>>161918419
I got a bitching Gold portrait for HL and Silver for TL, I'm good, thank you!

>Healing your Artanis heal up
Nigger, I'm masturbating over how unkillable I am whenever I'm sticking swords up some idiots ass, don't ruin it with your gay ass support shit, I don't get big whopping shields that way.
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>>161918419
No
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>>161918772
>That juicy bonus to his auto attack damage

Oh fuck yeah, motherfucker. I am ready to go feral on bitches.
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PTR OUT
RAGNAROS OUT
LIL RAGNAROS OUT
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>>161916503

Taunt has 60% hp now and no reduced attack speed. Level 20 talent for taunt buffed, shield wall buffed, parry buffed.

How is that not buffs for prot?
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Alright, to all the people who were worried about his damage and waveclear:

Shit's on fire, yo. He's extremely durable and his damage, while not extreme, should not be higher for how beefy he is, the 9% burn on Sulfuras is just nuts.
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>>161919965

>it actually is

Thanks, Anon.
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>>161920018

No onr is wortied about his damage or waveclear.

Once you max out your Q quest talent you can two shot an entire minion wave with Q and W.

Meteor build is basically only good in bronze/wood league.
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W build is the best for Ragnaros

Screencap this faggots
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>>161920208

Thats not Q
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>>161920197
Spell Block on the Meteor is mighty nice though.

>>161920208
Literally fucking hammertime is best build.
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>>161920009
I mean the actual Taunt itself is underwhelming.
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Hold me /hotsg/, they nerved Artanis again. Is the cocksucker who is responsible for balance really so afraid of making him op? How often did his little boypussy get raped by protoss dick to be so hateful?
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>>161921103
>/hotsg/
Who?
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Q hits like a motherfucker but stacking the first quest talent is a pain in the ass.
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>>161920851

It's great against characters like Tracer, Zera, Thrall, Slyvannas,and Nova, etc. where getting caught out of position for 1.25 seconds means death.

Its a non-skillshot point and click CC thats unavoidable or cleansable. Its strong.
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For Ragnaros, pretty sure the go-to is going to be an E-centric build. The shield, CD reduction, double-E talent, it all synergizes too well without missing out on much else.
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>Sulfuras Smash and Living Meteor nearly 1-shots Li-Ming and Chromie

Potentially spooky.

This guy also hits so much harder than I thought he'd hit. Abilities feel pretty good, too.
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>>161921273
See how fucking triggered I am? Can't even get this shit right. Fuck this shit, it was fucking time for artanis to get loved
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>>161921625
Aaaaaaand I just realized the slow talent for his E makes it ridiculously easy to land Sulfuras Smash.

Yep, guarantee you straight E is the build to go and Lava Wave is sadly going to be too situational, probably only good on like 2 maps.
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>lava wave

I think this is the dictionary definition of 'bad design'
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>>161922003

Yeah, I definitely want to see what it'll do on maps like Infernal/Battlefield/Braxis, and if it'll instantly wipe out mercs.

And damn Dehaka can do quite a bit of damage coming out of a bush. Further testing required.
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>>161921993
Braxis for mad damage and Tomb to push back a spider wave straight into their own basis. And only when you're losing the objective.
It's really niche, but I like it.
Unfortunately, Hurling Sulfuras is just too fucking nice, it has a big oomph to it, deals a wadload of damage, has big range and even stuns on top of it.
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>>161694719

Apparently, Warfield was datamined on the PTR. Keep those boypussies tight, your BBC daddy may come sooner than that WC trash.
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>>161922426
it's a hammer skin
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>Sulfuras Smash
>Heroic Difficulty
>Chromie-levels of damage from twice the distance

Whew. I don't know if this'll be a thing, but I know it'll be fun.

>Chromie's Sand Blast
>Li-Ming's Disintegration
>Kael'thas Pyroblast
>Nova Triple-Tap

Good night, squishies.

>>161922426

It mentions BFG, doesn't it? Seems like it'll be a skin.
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for anyone wondering regarding rag on braxis

Lava wave does not insta kill zerg, only damage, but it's over 50% damage on the big zerg
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>>161923161
So it wipes out all the small shit that does the most damage, good.
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>>161923268

yeah he's still the most incredibly broken hero in every situation we've had for a very long time

no idea what blizz have been smoking
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>>161923339
Well he IS a raid boss. Only natural for him to feel like one.
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>>161923339
His Sulfuras build feels like what I've wanted out of Arthas for a long time. Just a big impactful smash right in the enemy's face after an already hard hitting basic attack.
Shame about the long cooldown on his trait, I'd have loved to dick more people with slows even if it did less damage in exchange.
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>>161923501

thats a terrible justification desu

cho'gall was meant to be the 'raid boss' and thats why he required 2 players and gave double value on everything that hit him
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>>161923697
Yeah, but AoE effects only get half the value out of him because they don't hit him twice. Compare two people getting hit by Jaina's blizzard to just Cho'gall eating that one :)
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>Silver City map

Angel ARAM. Neat.
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> playing Diablo with another diablo and rag on each team
> 2x ragnaros and diablo screaming and dialogue
> 2x audio from fire waves, tackles, meteors, explosions
> Diablo lightning storms as Ragnaros possesses a keep

Stop blizzard
I can only get so erect
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>Chromie now gets to pick talents at 1, 2, 5, 8, 11, 14 and 18.

Oh, interesting.
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>Soon the enemies will have a... molten core
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So what do you think Rag's home screen will be? Him erupting from the volcano and smothering Varian in a pile of magma? Cause thats what I want it to be.
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>Rag not a specialist
>More Samuro nerfs
>Artanis ruined
>Dehaka already good now insane-tier
Blizzard balance.
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>>161927324
what's the fucking problem with rag not being a specialist? you can't complete your dailies?
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>>161927324
They didn't nerf samuro enough
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>>161927324
Dude, just play unranked draft, whats the big deal
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>>161927324
Samuro literally should never have existed.
There isn't a worse character and his mere presence in a game makes it worse.
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>>161927324

>1-shot chromie, ming, kael and nova from a lane away

idk seems like assassin to me

>>161927459

agreed. nerf him until he has a negative winrate at every mmr so i don't see him picked every goddamn game
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>>161927603
>1 shot
Nice meme
>From a lane away
Double nice meme.

Rag is all close-range outside of his trait which is mostly about pushing niggers away from forts and clearing minions.
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>>161927597
>Blademaster is one of the most powerful heroes of Warcraft 3
>They port him to HotS with a faithful kit
>But then they just made him even better
Thats where it went wrong
Also:
>Heroes who cannot be revealed while invisible will no longer shimmer like regular invisible heroes do, not even when they get hit
How the fuck do you stop him from running at you and literally appearing on top of you now with no warning from fog of war?
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>no winter lunara on the ptr
Unbelievable
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>>161915562

>Disintegrate for waveclear

STOP

(break)

POSTING

(break)

RETARD

every thing you post is trash
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>>161929106

Hey, I didn't say that's how it should be used.
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>>161928665
by not standing near a bush?
its 1 sec default and 2.5 when talented.
he isnt invsible for the whole wind walk.
also he gets yet another damage nerf because shitters cant handle a slighty better gazlowe which is all he is good for right now.
do camps and let his mirror images eat skills.
his siege & hero damage is already shit and will get even worse.
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>>161930114
>by far the highest sustained AA damage in the game right now
>a slightly better gazlowe
didn't think i'd find anything better than li ming player tears
samuro players BTFO
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>>161931276
t. Zeratul
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>>161853667
>locked
>being welfare'd every ability at lvl 1 is a good thing
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>>161807614
cringe
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>ptr STILL down

feels bad
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>>161934708
>shitter thinks ptr is down
ayy lmao keep trying pleb
playing on it right now
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The next multiclass hero is going to be Anduin Lothar, a support/assassin, switching between light and shadow.
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Does rags lava wave destroy zerg too on braxis holdout? That seems like it would make the zerg wave useless
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>>161935750
I think you mean Anduin Wrynn.
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>>161936029
Shit, you're right. Well, it's going to be him or some other priest who switches between shadow and light
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>>161935861
it doesn't oneshot the zergs but it deals like 1000 damage per second so it kills most of them
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>>161935861
Yes but think about it this way, stop the wave, but have no ult to hold the point at all.
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>>161936226
It makes it so the zerg wave doesn't matter though so getting it really is pointless
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>>161936473
It doesn't take out the ultralisks or the brood lords though
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>>161936651
>Brood Lord
Guardian.
>>
Official Tank fun ranking.

From most to least.

Anub'Arak
Dehaka
Sonya
Tyrael
Leoric
Muradin
Rexxar
Arthas
E.T.C.
Diablo
Chen
Zarya
Stitches
Johanna
Artanis
Varian
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>>161937571
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>>161916093
>>161915873
This is an awesome change- all of his current lvl 16 talents had the potential to give Art a massive power spike but you were always forced into picking shields. You can get a 25% vulnerable on a literal 4 second CD. That's totally nuts and it's finally viable.
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>>161937571
Switch varian with johanna
>>
>why aren't you ganking
>where's my support
>they're taking all our towers
>stop fighting and let me lane

where did all these fucking LoL players come from
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>>161937571
>tfw jo is my fav tank
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>Ragnaros, the Fire Lord and sustain melee assassin, does not have a 'burning rage" talent
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>>161937571

I miss when snare on Q was a baseline part of Chen's kit
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>>161937826
Used to be mine too. Playing her I learned that game but now she feels boring.

You can't set up kills for your team as well as with other tanks. If I play her now it feels like I'm entirely dependant on my team. With other tanks I can set up plays much more easily.
>>
>>161937571

I'd personally rate Chen a little higher just because of how much he bullies all the popular squishies.

Quality list, tho.
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>>161911758
Specialist Dehaka still viable?
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>>161938395
That's what he's built for, nothing about that changed, it's just that now he does more damage. You still don't have any reason to take Adaptation either.
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someone on my team instalocked zeratul

should I just dodge it
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>>161938624
yes
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>>161938395
He's the exact same as before.
You pick the same talents, only difference is you're more splitpushy lategame and on 13 you most likely take the aoe vulnerable.

He plays the exact same. If anything he gets pushed into the splitpush role even more now since enhanced agility got worse and he doesn't have relentless anymore.

Before there were 2 playstyles, one very niché. Now there's one.
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let's meme it up /b/ros
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>>161938624

>lose 600 points instead of just playing a fun hero and only losing 200

up to you, unless it's placements or unranked
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THE TIME HAS COME

THE TIME HAS COME

THE TIME HAS COME TODAY
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>>161938807
>wood 2
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These patch notes man

>Artanis Tier 0
>Rehgar Tier 1
>Anub Tier 1
>Li Ming dumpster tier
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>>161938989
went 7-3 in my placements about a week ago, got put in diamond 4

currently plat 2 and dropping fast

HLEP
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>>161938848
I think he says "Our time has come"
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>>161939237
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW2alu51C4U
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>guy on other team named artanis
>ban artanis
>somebody immediately dodges
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>>161939347
Thank you for letting me listen to the shittiest song in the world.
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>>161939347
[Remove]
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>play Auriel+Rehgar on the PTR
>cuck Artanis with blinds and knockback while he's charging for prism
>BL and Shield talents on Rehgar
>12 games, 100% win rate
the memes are real
>>
>want to play chromie
>people always pick my counters
I want to die
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>>161937571
Tyrael with Judgement = high as fuck.
Tyrael without Judgement = mid-tier at best.
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>>161940345
>chromie picker that doesn't do it only if last pick
i want you to die as well
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>>161940536
They always make me first pick almost all the time. That or second. I just want to play her
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>another ming nerf
lel
I feel as if they should revert the orb change or something.

>>161940106
BL has pretty much always been the better heroic. Debatable only when you could AH yourself. Hopefully now people will realise.
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the enemy drafted ETC and Johanna and they buttfucked Zera every time he so much as looked in their direction

he didn't get a single kill, so he tried to shove lanes

they just ganked him

we called him out on a shit pick and he left the match

we lost but the AI outperformed him

why do people pick zeratul
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>>161940634
ming is played "pro" hots pretty much every game. pretending like she isn't the best mage is pretty stupid
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>>161940635
I don't know. I just got done losing thanks to an idiot Zeratul who refused to join team fights because "he's a ambusher" and he "couldn't" take them down if they're at full health.
Entire game is like this.
By the end, he has 0 kills, 8 deaths, 10k hero damage.
I was playing Malfurion and I managed to notch 3(team only got 6 total) kills, and over 20k hero damage(yay roots).
Idiot useless players are attracted to him.
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>>161940849
Who's pretending she isn't good?
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>>161941029
>I feel as if they should revert the orb change or something.
asking for reverting nerfs because her waveclear got worse
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>Heroic Strike (Trait)
>No longer heals from Second Wind, and now benefits from Ability Power
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>zeratul pick/ban
>considered really fucking strong
>blizzard are going to buff him
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>>161941749
A good Zeratul can be utterly terrifying. But he also attracts a lot of complete shitters.
Stories like >>161940996 and >>161940635 are very common.
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>tfw getting MVP in GM game as TLV
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>>161942416
lmao6viking
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>>161942740
Play more Tychus and Lili.
>>
i wish my boy, faxual best char abathur, objective best char of the game, didn't feel so limited in upgrade choice

basically every tier has an obv best option which makes picking stuff at all feel pretty pointless most of the time
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>>161942416
wtf 2 eriks
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>Garden Terror
>Terrible comp, I am also terrible
>Get teamwiped multiple times
>Later in the game entire party is down with 50+ seconds to respawn, core defenseless
>They ALL attack the top lane tower
>We both launch our last GT at the same time
>Rush bottom, their GT follows ours alone and gets killed
>Win levels behind them with 3x the deaths
I still have no idea what the fuck they were thinking. They SHOULD have won but just never... did.
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>11 users in vg chat
>these are two of them
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>>161942416
>vs ai
LAMO
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>>161943453

Refusing to rush core during oppurtune times is the #1 reason shitters lose games.

Killed 3/5 of the enemy team and they won't rezz for another 50 seconds? Better take four merc camps!
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>>161944695

I've lost a lot of games because shitters want to rush core when the enemy team is resurrecting in 12 seconds...
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>those Artanis changes

Shield was nerfed way too much
Threshold of activation means jackshit if the cooldown is longer and the shield is that low
I don't understand how they want people to play him

Diablo's okay thou
Loss of rampage speed buff is fucking stupid
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>>161944829

It's all about timing and being in the right places at the right times as a team, as is the case with most mechanics of this game.
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>>161939058
Please give me the source of this image.
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>>161945130
Boku no Pico.
Now fuck off.
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>>161943865
kek fucking bitch got baited hard XDD
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>>161945251
Its not even lewd anon, be nice

>>161945130
Here you go
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>>161945528
>not lewd
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>>161945330

>that death at the end
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>>161945661
Theyre just fighting over who has the best butt. Its not lewd, its SERIOUS BUSINESS.
>>
How would one go about testing the champion changes in ptr? Only have the option to buy raggy for cash for example.
>>
>>161945528
This is exactly what I wanted. Thank you.
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>>161946402
You want to test heroes changes or new heroes? Is not the same.
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>Medivh not support
>Ragnaros not specialist
>Kharazim not multiclass
???
>>
>This Nova brawl.

Holy shit I thought people got mad when the hammer brawl existed.

Why do people insist on treating brawl like it's fucking Grand Master hero league? "IT'S JUST A GAME: THE MODE" shouldn't be taken so fucking seriously. My god.
>>
>>161947071
At least this one is fast, each fucking hammer brawl lasted hours.
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>>161946402
Yeah, PTR is cash only for new heroes. You have the same pool as in your main account though. And if you buy Rag in PTR, you'll have him next week.

I'm also itching to play him, but I think I'm gonna wait. 75k gold.
>>
>>161947195

But the hammer brawl was actually fun by comparison. Nova-snipe reminds me of why I prefer UT to CS Shit community that demands perma-mute doesn't help things either.
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>>161947071

>when somebody flames for picks in brawls

;-;
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>>161946754
IS the confusion around Rag not being a specialist a meme or is he legit one of those classes mis-labled like sow sonya is a "tank"?

I insta-buy specialists and was thinking of getting rag
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>people see hero catagories as roles and not a spectrum where fitting into any given category is a convenience for gameplay purposes and not a hardline "X character is this role ONLY NO EXCEPTION"

I bet you niggers are mad because Sonya is a warrior but can't solo tank too, what a bunch of asspies.
>>
>tfw magma wave instantly kills jaina in try mode from full hp, wipes every minion out

HOW IS THE NOT THE MOST BROKEN ULTI?
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>>161947586

>if you run away you take damage more than once

LOL
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>>161947586
It spawns from your base and travels at the speed of darkness.
>>
Who is the best hero in HOTS and why is it Brightwing?
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>>161947687
It moves faster than a non-mounted hero, and leaves a patch on the ground behind it that deals damage. Just eating it, without chasing it, instantly kills jaina at level 20.
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>>161947586
Move to another lane anon
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>those diablo changes

Just had a match on ptr and he's a fucking beast
Durable as fuck while eating away 30% of warrior's hp just because of that giant killer talent on charge, not to mention the utility of moving shit around at pleasure

He might even be Muradin tier now
>>
>>161947842
>An ENTIRE LANE area denial

even if it did ZERO damage, control of an entire lane for that duration STILL makes it stupid op
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>>161947397
His skillset is definitely more like that of an assassin, with damage, more damage, a buff that explodes for damage, damage nuke, and a fucking lava wave, but he definitely has a more unique identity than any other "assassin." The power of lava wave doesnt lie in its absurd DPS, but its minion insta-kill feature. Its incredibly powerful in the right situation. Sulfuras Smash is more like an Assassin-y ult, but it could also be hard to properly land. Molten Core doesnt actually help him fight at all if he isnt near a core, and is much more potent as a stalling tool than an actual assassination method. You can tank shots from objectives, use your nigh map-wise range to deny objectives and catch stragglers, or delay until your team can show up. Its just so unique and doesnt say Assassin at all.

So Rag is, on the surface, very much an assassin, but he also relies pretty heavily on positioning, utility, CC at times. He could can be called a specialist, but if was given a little bit more pushing power or merc control that wasnt just more damage, he would DEFINITELY be a specialist.
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>>161947582

>Sonya
>Tank

Not with that kit she's not.
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>>161947910
So how is that double charge talent? Charge, Overpower, Charge must be really fucking good at picking off people. If the enemy team doesnt have an effective means to stop you from charging back or overpowering, thats a free kill on whoever you grab, right?
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>>161947937
This, Imagine an ult that auto recasted itself traveling the whole map damaging everything in his path every couple seconds, that would be broken as fuck.
>>
>want to get into the christmas spirit and buy something
>all the skins are for shit heroes
T-thanks, I hope the mount is available solo, at least.
>>
>>161948371

>No Christmas Chromie

I'm sad.
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>>161947780
I got MVP once as BW. It was pretty grand.

Monarch skin or bust.
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>>161948537

there's always next year
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>>161949053

>The HoTS curves + that outfit.

Christ. I didn't realize how much I wanted that until now.
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>>161948108
Lack of engage due to the removal of the rampage speed buff is an annoyance, but if people rush your backline it's 1k damage from abilities only, not counting another 1k from firewave and autoattacks while they are stunned, and the flat 30% hp giant killer

It's huge burst damage for a hero like diablo

Not to mention the permanent light version of spell shield if you decide to go for it and the massive increase to his healthpool
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lol to the people who think artanis got worse.

hes much better. they designed him to more a bruiser and got rid of that shit tank build people would take over the superior swap build
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I know Tracer is balanced. Hell, I'm pretty sure it is popular that she is actually undertuned and bad. But games like this, man. Games like this.

Help me be less bad.
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>>161950047
>nova
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>>161950047

>help me

Stop playing Nova.
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>>161950047
>nova
>2 kills
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>>161950743
>>161950164
>>161950110
It is QM. I'm not shitting up draft as Nova.

As for the kills, I fucking know. Tracer survives and kills me, because clones don't do shit, pinning shot doesn't stop three dashes. The only kill I got on her was with a chill on her and recall on cooldown.
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