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>>161951976
actual previous thread, my bad

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1st for Brightwing

>tfw i want to make hots videos but i'm shit at the game and I can't even meme properly in-game

RIP dbro

>catch somebody out
>auriel knocks them to safety

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1-3 tychus to 10
4-6 raynor to 10
7-9 lunara to 10
0 uninstall

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Is /hotsg/ ready for the Dehaka domination?
Global, wave clear, ice block in basic kit, (dis)engage, longest non heroic stun in the game and sustain out of his ass.
Better get your first ban ready because ETC will look like a choir boy compared to this guy.

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>>162218629

>>162218737
not enough to solo tank

>>162218737
Funny since he's already pretty good. Now they've made him S-tier.

>>162218737
aoe 15% vauln too for the duration of his dark swarm, and he will be taking 40% less damage while that is up as well.

I don't know why they buffed him so much, he was good already.

>>162218629
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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!

How does ability power buffs work?

>>162219249
It buffs the damage of any ability. Anything on the Q, W, E, and R.

>>162219318
what about Li ming cannoneer?

>>162219379
Considering it converts it to Ability damage, I imagine it would work on that as well. Good question, nobody's ever talked about that before. Probably because there were no ability power buffs in the game until somewhat recently.

But yeah, it states that it turns it into ability damage, so I think it's pretty much assumed it would work on that.

>>162219318
Well it says I have a permanent buff but when I hover my mouse over the skill the damage shows the same

>>162220135
Tried chromie in the ptr. At level 21 it said my damage was 945 on the skill but with the 5% buff from her new talent it was hitting for 996. Some reason your skills don't update the text to show your damage buffs

>tfw get a game with no healer

wowie

>>162222695
>needing a healer
git gud

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Classic Xul when?

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>>162222695
won towers of doom no healer

>>162223601
>those tychus talents

LMAO

>>162223601
>losing to a gazlowe team without a support

tilted off the face of the planet

>those talents

yo hol up

>>162219318
Pretty sure it also increases healing

>>162223807
>>162223878
The thrall was being a little bitch last pick "i dont heal" only tanks leoric arthas

>tfw the whole team came in the game to lose

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I just don't know what went wrong.

>>162226680
your low damage :v

>>162226680
Gul'dan was apparently really tasty.

>>162226680
Blizzard Matchmaking (tm) enforcing your 50% winrate.

>>162226739
Not much worse than the Xul's who was never with the enemy team.

who counters Ragnaros?

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>>162226680
>xul, sylvanas AND kael'thas
>on tomb
>having ANY hope of not drowning in catapults and spiders

>>162226857
Probably Leoric and Tychus or other heroes who can do good damage to high-health heroes.
Kiters like Tracer or Valla or Lunara could stay away and alive if they can dodge his hammer.

>>162226739
His damage is low but that chromie damage is just shameful

>>162227454
The chromie was AI for half the game, oddly enough, Alarak and Guldan weren't.

Reminder that if you look up the dictionary definition of "anti-fun garbage", you'll find a picture of Chromie. You get to play "dodge the skillshot or be instagibbed while she has zero risk of dying" all game long, and she's still getting more fucking buffs.

>>162227975
Pick a hero that counters her. Play tracer or illadin and jump past the front line and fuck her shit up. Fuck even Thrall, Lunara, and butcher will fuck her shit up

>>162228194
Can't do that in QM.
Even if you play a draft mode and draft a diver, they will only run Chromie with heavy peel so you will never ever ever ever ever ever reach her, and if you do, you get stasis'd or 80% slowed and she fucks off.

Making an even more cancerous version of Hammer was a mistake.

>>162226981
i....sense............dearth......................within this palce.........

>>162228379
Git gud

>>162227975
4chan, the only place on the internet where people bitch about chromie or think varian is op lol

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>>162228379
Chromie is only a B+ tier hero

>>162228702
That doesn't not make her anti-fun garbage, Anon.
It doesn't need to be OP to be fucking annoying and fun-sucking to the max.

Another example is TLV, the worst design in the game by far.

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>>162228702
>valla
>better than raynor

>>162228491
healing magic......quaint......but useful

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>>162228585

Well, she is pretty unforging to play against. You can eat a Kael'thas Q, but not a Chromer Q/W.
Pleasantly surprised her damage turned out to be as high as it is. Tempted to try playing her again.

>also tfw no winterveil helper elf chromie skin

>>162228702
>one third of roster in S tier
>varian included
>especially twin blades varian

hah

>>162229212
fury varian is the biggest bronze trap in game.

>>162228702
The only heroes on that list I enjoy consistently playing are Malf and Varian. Dear god, why are all the good heroes the most boring fucking things.

>>162228702
>sylvanas
>two powerful ultimate
>two
HAHAHAAHAHHAAHHAAH! WHO WROTE THIS?

>>162228702
>zeratul S tier
>on solo queue tier list

who wrote this

>>162229382
Looks like tentonhammer

>>162229282
It got me to Masters before the nerf.

>been qued for rank for 8 mins now
I just want to try ranked and get my placement

>get first kill of game
>get winning kill of game

nova brawl can be pretty okay

>first game playing ranked
>my team won with us being 5 levels above them
I'm now afraid I'll get a shitty group after this good of a game

>>162231897
>save teammate with holo
>kill someone with regular attacks
>sniping still targets that think they're clever

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HELL

ITS

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>li li will eventually grow up to be a lard ass like all other pandaren

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>>162234918

>we still don't have an adult female pandaren

>>162235015
>tfw furries will never be burned alive

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>>162235015
>play qm
>get put on a team with diablo, azmo, tassadar zarya and me as uther
>basically no damage
>vs a premade 5 man party that's hand crafted to work together well having 2 assassins a specialist/assassin a tank and a support/assassin
>lose horribly
Why is this shit allowed

>>162235491
truly the worst feel

Play HL, get a Valla, Valla gets Strafe vs enemy team comp composed of Kerrigan, Uther, Rehgar, Arthas and Azmodan.

Everyone screaming like mad children (or man children) at Valla for her ulti pick.

Valla going solo deep on Azmodan, only to die a few seconds later from a timed gank. This is repeated 5 times and we lose the game on Sky Temple in 15 minutes.

So this is the power......of Solo Queue HL?

Next patch is going to be the final death of this game as we speak, once people run out of their free stimpacks and goodies, every sane player out there who wants to improve will quickly realize that this isn't the game where you can do that.

When is Strafe ever a good pick? It does 0 damage and that's all it does.

>>162238845
>valla going deep for one of the beefiest heroes in the game

I don't think this has anything to do with solo queue, desu.
And yeah, curious to see how the changes to hl and tl will pan out.

game can't get any deader

right

it's ten matches you need to play before getting assigned to bronze league isn't it
with the nexus challenge taking place is there a chance of me being able to pick li ming and be a shitter with her before anyone else can do so

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Cute

What's to expect after Ragnaros?

>>162238905
Strafe is longer range than your autos, lets you stay mobile while dealing aoe damage, and gives you another dps option while blinded. Most importantly, though, it pauses your stacks, so if you get zoned off a teamfight for a bit or if autoing is too dangerous, you can strafe and keep your 10 stacks. Strafe doesn't do great single target damage, but zero stacks valla does even less.

It's mostly a preference/situational thing, though. Both the ults are good.

>>162239103
Not sure what the lowest is, but I imagine it's somewhere in Bronze. Has anybody placed B5? Just curious here.

>>162239207
Some troll, probably. Zz.

>>162238958

Everyone, including myself, were asking politely at first as to why she picked Strafe vs an enemy team that can lock her down and just cancel the ult.

>the response wasn't "all muted noobs"

This has VERY much to do with solo queue, desu. Whatever happens, this game needs some voice chat, since Blizzard will never, ever, ever, acknowledge that some of their designs (yes, I know it is the developer's fault here, not the player's, but!) are flawed and since 10% of the game's population follow the so called pro scene who make up the strategies to win games and since Blizzard decides to nerf every one of these strategies into the ground with their "everything is viable" mentality, then you'll end up with a game stuck in a design balancing loop that will never cease, making it a frustrating experience not only for the player, but for the developers themselves.

I don't know what the fuck they were thinking when they came up with this "pick a talent, pick an ulti" system, because it's fucking stupid and it just gives you the illusion of "viable" builds.

Let's face it, how many heroes out of the complete roster have more than one strong build with the off chance at having another two viable builds in case of certain situations. Not many I'd say.

>>162239304
Isn't Uther the only one capable of reliably shutting down her Strafe, though?
>game needs voice chat
Ehh. Not sure about this one.
>viability
Most things below masters are at least somewhat viable.
>"pick a talent, pick an ulti" system
Hit or miss. Some Heroes have it pretty rough, whereas others are a bit flexible. I don't love it, but it isn't the first thing I'd heavily criticize about the game.

>>162239596

Kerrigan was playing out of her mind as well.

The game needs more staff to make it better, I agree. That would be the main thing, but at this point it is safe to say that Blizzard has relegated this to "f2p garbage that's bringing us some cash here and there".

Funnily enough, they are shelling good prize money on tournaments for this shit instead of using that budget to get more staff, push more updates and refine the game even more.

E-sports is a disease I tell you.

>>162239951

Well, if Kerrigan lands her stun it doesn't really matter which Heroic Valla took.

That might help. Doesn't feel like the game'll ever really "take off", though. Never losing that "babbys first moba" hasn't helped, and they've done the WoW thing of only coming out with barely enough content to keep people hopeful.

Yeah. I'm not sure why they're trying to build a compeitive scene in a game that isn't really being played.

>guy first picks zeratul and says it's what the pros do

Thankfully it was just smurf placements and I was able to dodge. Which is, like, -600 points on a ranked account, whereas losing is, like, -200.

>the punishment for wasting a few seconds/minutes of everybodies time isn't as severe as picking abathur and pressing Q on somebody then afking
>alternatively hovering support then switching to murky at the last second and say you're going march, then hoping somebody else dodges

>>162240443

>punishment for dodging is triple that of losing/afking

Meant this. I'm tired.

>>162239207
Zul'jin is all we can be sure of, chances are Valeera with be the second hero for the set. Blizzcon Leaks have stated both Kel'thuzad and Reinhardt are also somewhere in the works, and the axolotl leak still leaves Aidan somewhere close to done.

>>162240584
Aidan will likely be in January for the Diablo anniversary. So I'm thinking it might be him after Rag.

>>162241184
Ahahahahahaha nice one

>>162240584
as someone has already pointed out, ax's leaks were mostly about wow characters (and some diablo ones)
probably we wont get so many wow heroes in a row so expect some starcraft/ow guys (at least, I hope so, where is my goddamn gui montag)

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Next hero should be around New Year's. Right?

I think we all know who it is.

>>162240443

I'm not getting murky's and abathur's in my league, I now have to deal with the last bastion of cancer which are bad plays & talent picks.

I feel sorry for you dawg :(

Back to my rant though! What the fuck is up with this insane push for e-sports nowadays?

It's the biggest money sink a developer can have and most of the time, it isn't even feasible to build an e-sports scene for a game that's not only competing with better, more established peers, but a game that's as lightweight as you can possibly imagine.

I can only dream what great features and improvements that money could've done for the game.

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Who do I buy next?

Sylvanas
Chen
Dehaka
Varian
Ragnaros

>>162242572
Ragnaros on day one with real money

>>162242572
sylvanas gets a price reduction next week.

>everyone early picks assassins/specialists
>force late picks into tank/healer instead of being able to react to enemy picks
I hate the moba community.

>>162243241
>tfw tank and support main

It's nice to always get what I want except when I get forced onto ranged assassin and embarrass myself.

>>162243241
Boo hoo, at least it isn't fucking quick match

>Entire team has actually legitimately no crowd control
>Against the Butcher
>I shut him down for 99.9% of the game with blinds as Auriel but the one time I die (lol 70 second respawn) he just walks at everybody else on my team and kills them because our comp is garbage

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Got Dehaka and Vikings to 10 boys, didn't buy Dehakas' master skin though I really don't like it.

>>162245517
You made the right choice, it's one of the worst ones and you can barely even notice it

Reading on the new seasons MMR, can anyone tell me if my MMR is getting completely erased if I haven't played anything ranked in S2?

Or will it take my QM mmr into account after I do my s3 placements.

Asking this because missing out on one ranked seasons definitely seems worth it if it finally allows me to start from scratch.

Thanks

>>162245517
Imagine being this guy

>>162242664
in bundle with cute skin

>shaman always has both hes before he draws 15 cards
I'm starting to get mad.

>>162246978
Wrong door, pal. The gay orc procession is two doors down the hallway.

Why are qm games where your team consists of 4 supports and an afk gul dan against a team with proper roles the most fun you will ever have? Uther the tank, Medivh the dps, lili the healer/dps and tass the specialist. Actually winning like that is the greatest thing ever

When Will hots finally make some changes to roles. Got in a match yesterday where our support was a tassadar and enemy team got a kharazim and malf. This game really needs to make a difference between healer and support.

>>162247530
>Quick Match
If you wanted balanced comps then don't play the shitter mode.
Tass is getting rework probably Early January, for all it helps you cope. He's getting Life Leach from shields baseline, but the talent that makes shields last forever is GTFO (which is good, since that's the entire point of shields that they're burst protection). But he's also getting many dmg talents, which makes it fair to assume they want him to be sorta like Kharazim and Tyrande, able to build support but equally as viable when built full dmg.

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>playing Arthas on EU

>>162248652
>but the talent that makes shields last forever is GTFO
>like Tyrande

aaand another "support" that's getting dropped from hard tier to worthless garbage.

>>162248652
Sound good. But I would Just like to see a support tab for heroes like medivh, tass and tyrande. But that is pretty much confirmed with the coming of varian and his multiclass

>>162241184
Don't you mouthbreathers have enough diablo heroes already?

can this game be kill already I don't need ads for this shit when I'm browsing real moba content. literally a shit stain on the genre's pants.

>>162250730
more like the only clean spot on this genre's pants

>>162246303
It's just level 10, easy to get

even dustin balder severed his ties with this game

deader than dead

So is haunted mines coming back or is it gonna be just a brawl? that would be pretty lame

>>162254897
It's coming back as a map, basically BoE v2, the only thing which is still the same is the objective itself.

What're the best and worst master skins? I personally love Gul'Dans master skin and hate Tracers. It makes her look like a sjitty Dr Ngine.

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>mfw playing the ptr diablo

>>162246043
Anyone?

>>162246043
You can't start fresh, you got in there because of your QM mmr in the first place, unless it's significantly greater you'll probably place wherever you were.

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french bronzie here I just don't know what to do shall i come back to this trash because I mostly miss the shy nerds from /vg/ I used to play with or just continue drinking myself to death.

>>162261257
i'll play with you, get on vg channel on EU

>>162261257
/vg/ meme team has long since been disbanded
stop drinking yourself to death tho, that's what hobos are supposed to do

>>162261398
No disrespect here senpai, but I'm a little dry right now need to get myself fired up on booze. besides all the good peepz on EU log in around 10 PM CEST

>>162239207
Someone not from warcraft

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Ana Amari
Ranged Support

Abilities-
Snipe: DoT if it hits an enemy hero, HoT if it hits an ally. Passes through minions, structures, and monsters.
Biotic Grenade: AoE heal for allies. Deals damage to enemies and decreases healing efficiency for a short duration.
Sleep Dart: Stuns enemy hero for a short duration, or until they are attacked.

Nano Boost: Apply a buff on ally hero granting increased movement speed and damage resistance. Available at level 1. Gain charge by healing ally heroes, and a small amount from enemy takedowns.

Talent Ideas

Snipe:

CD Reduction if Snipe hits an ally Hero
or
Quest- After hitting 25 enemies with Snipe, reduce its CD by 1 second and increase its DoT by 25%

Sleep Dart:

Quest- For every 1 second an enemy is stunned from Sleep Dart, reduce Sleep Dart's CD by 0.2. Maximimum reduction of 3 seconds. Upon reaching 3 seconds CD reduction, Sleep Dart gains a passive effect that causes friendly minions and structures to ignore sleeping targets.

Nano Boost:

Sustaining Boost- Boosted heroes have 100% healing regen

Experimental Nanomachines- Boosted heroes deal 30% more basic attack damage and 25% ability damage, but are vulnerable for the duration of the buff

Nano Cloud- Increases the amount of charge generated via healing. Boosted Heroes are shrouded in a cloud of nanomachines that deals constant damage to all enemies in its radius

>>162262261
>an actually viable support

HA
nice one

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>>162262261
>adding in Ana
>when her ulti from OW is literally just a repackaged stim drone

>go to starcraft gen
>no one is talking about the game at all

>go here and people talk about the game despite how bad they are

jesus... actual quality.

>>162263548
are you complaining or praising?

>queue for brawl
>400 seconds later
>still no game
>write this post
>get queue
Are they keylogging me?

>tfw wanna try a bunch of other heroes who i haven't seen on rotation still
>tfw only 3k gold and already level 40 so no more welfare gold

i hurt my self to day

>>162266054
Go get the level 5 hero welfare gold

>>162266227
that's the only thing keeping me going

also you get 750 gold at level 9 i didn't know that but it takes a year

>be leveling thrall to 5
>be playing braxis holdout
>YOU ARE NOT PREPARED
>beat the shit out of prepared man because I had my mana bar full
Thrall is fucking bullshit

>>162266321
Taking a hero to 9 is half a day if you're serious about it with a stimpack.

>>162266570
how will i play battlefield or workout anon

Did varian block got changed? Now it feels like he blocks twice as more than before and its fucking obnoxious

Why does it take like half a minute to get from the end of a game to queue again?

ITS OVER BOYS! Press F!

Rats are leaving the sinking ship.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/12/08/heroes-of-the-storms-game-director-leaves-for-unknown-blizzard-project/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+venturebeat%2FSZYF+%28VentureBeat%29

>>162266885
you're a whole 2 days late

>>162266885
>>162267283

but Heroes is FUN

also maybe they're making Warcraft 4

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>Varian is the only warrior on the team but he goes DPS

>>162267986
"DPS" What talents, retard.

>>162268052
>varian goes for either of the two talent trees that aren't protection
>he does this as the only warrior on the team, effectively leaving his team without a tank
this is not hard to understand you spacker

>>162268378
>Protection
You're the """spacker""" tbqh

>>162267986
>the shitty multiclass puts him as the only warrior in a team
>he is forced to go prot despite not being comfortable and good at it
>you lose

>varian
>tank
ebin meme :DDD

>rather varian taunt someone with no effect than to instakill someone
HOW NEW @ VARIAN R U

I wish that people would not use WoW terms in games like this. I understand the relation of Varian to WoW and warrior talents and whatnot, but people still apply the terms like dps and tank to fucking Dota or League (shit game btw)

and anybody who says MOBA is a cunt

it's disingenuous and ugly to bleed your shitty lingo into other games you lazy fuck cunts

NEXT HERO AFTER RAGNAROS WILL BE MAIEV

HER LAUNCH SKIN IS A SUPERHERO SKIN

SHE'S AN ASSASSIN

I COULDN'T SEE HER TRAIT OR HER Q

SHE HAS SOME KIND OF MARK THING THAT CAUSES SMALL BLACK THINGIES TO HUNT DOWN HEROES AND A THROWING GLAIVE THAT BOUNCES BETWEEN ENEMIES THAT MAKES THE MARK EXPLODE

HER HEROICS ARE SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE AND A BLINK THAT DOES AOE DAMAGE WITH 4 CHARGES EVERY 6 SECONDS

CAP THIS

>>162218629
boy

>>162270901
already done

>>162270516
But I was excited about Valeera.

>>162270516
that was just a zeratul skin dude

>>162263548
You should really visit WoW general.

>>162269754
>developers specifically talk about how they were inspired by arms-protection-fury when making Varian's kit
>almost everyone who plays HotS is a blizzaboo who's played the majority of the games Blizzard has released
really makes you think
there's also nothing wrong with using terms such as MOBA, dps or tank as they're useful blanket terms with few substitutes

>>162270516

>37 assassins in a row

Fucking blizzard I just want to heal

>>162270516
>Maiev after Ragnaros, so January
>She actually will come (maybe) next year

I know that you're lying, but that is pretty much how I imagined her kit to be, if she ever were to actually come out. And I like it.

On a second thought; isn't it just her SC2 Arcade kit? As in, the one used in Hero Line Wars?

>>162269754
Do you even know what those terms mean? No really, do you? Also they're not only applicable to WoW.

>double tap R
>blade storm immediately cancels
>loses us the game
wow

How is Taunt Varian? Should I go full Parry or still take Warbringer?

>>162272945
>how is taunt varian
garbage
always take the stun on 4

>>162270516
MORE WARCRAFT ASSASSINS

DIABLO C U C K S GET DUNKED ON

>>162261257
you should have never left rylia

fuck you

>>162245517
jesus christ

>>162272880

Yeah, same with Sonya. Is there a way to disable it? I recall Chen had something similar with his D, but they ended up changing it.

Alternatively git gud, but just making sure I'm not missing out on some interface/keybinding setting.

>>162242564

Oh, haven't bumped into Abathur or Murky in a long while. Plenty of people who can't pilot the difficult heroes, though.

Again, not sure why they're pushing e-sports for this particular game. I can understand Overwatch, sort of. Hots just doesn't seem to have the playerbase, though.

>>162276398
>Alternatively git gud
sick meme shitter I'm better than you'll ever be you fucking downie

>>162277103

I was referring to myself.

Because I've fucked myself over spamming the key.

Not you, comrade.

>Devil’s Due (Passive)
>New functionality:
>Regeneration Globes and Healing Fountains are 2% more effective for every stack of Black Soulstone

so he gains 120% of his health at 100 stacks by tapping the fountain?

>>162277625
yes.

>>162278475
oh baby it actually does
time to pick him up

Question; if you can't see the enemy Chromie, do you have any indication that she's casting her W?

>dragon thing
>noise

Just curious.

>>162279424
No, you have no indication of it.

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>Aidan

Literally who? The real and greatest injustice is the lack of mephisto

>>162279557
Cool, thanks. I've just only played with the gnome recently, not against her.

>>162274221
HAVE WE NOT

SUFFERED ENOUGH

>>162270516
FINALLY

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Thanks for supporting our dying game scrubs.
No hero sale for you this time.
Happy New Year faggots.

P.S if you want to be a special snowflake you have to buy our shitty bundle

>>162281721
>Special Snowflake
oh lord

>>162281721
this post made me think
maybe it really is dying

>>162282012
what a clever and witty joke

>>162281721
>wowtoken probably won't be changed to offer battle.net currency until after this offer expires

fug

i want gingerbread zeebo

>>162281721
>>162282012

Why the fuck isn't Special Snowflake portrait for lvling Abathur and Vikings to 10? Now every fuxker will think he's special. Fucking participation trophy generation!

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page 10?
have an exemplary display of Blizzard's AI pathfinding instead

>diablofags think their game has iconic characters outside of the second and third games

Making me lol out loud over here

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why will I never get out of Bronze league v2?

why do I keep winning one and losing one

how much more do I have to heal people to win a game :(

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>>162285932
Butcher was in Diablo 1.
Of course, he's basically the Hogger of Diablo.

>>162286178
You need Tychus to be more assassin, less specialist and actually do some damage to the enemy team and Varian to stop fucking feeding.

>>162286178
shit team comp?

>>162285721
anub bot does the same, like every fuking time he wants to attack a gate/tower

>>162286252
how to get these teamates tho

every 2nd game I get brain dead teamates like this and it is so goddamn frustrating. this is my third time being demoted back to Gold r2.

I dont know what I can do at this point. I'm trying to get to plat before the season ends but I can never seem to win more than 2 games in a row

Jesus Christ tank Varian is fucking immortal

>>162285721
kek I had the exact same fucking thing happen to me today. Also Muradin.

>>162285932
>Cain isn't iconic
>Adria isn't iconic
>Griswold isn't iconic
>Wirt isn't iconic
>Butcher isn't iconic
>Leoric isn't iconic
>Lazarus isn't iconic
>playable classes aren't iconic
you baited me there, faggot

>>162286512
Well, for one, stop playing for the weekends. At least stop playing ranked. Weekends are when all the shitters and their grandmothers log on and I usually go on an 8+ game skid with retards who can't handle their class.

>>162286643
>>Cain isn't iconic
"Stay awhile and listen" is better known from D2.
>>Adria isn't iconic
Literally who? the witch
>>Griswold isn't iconic
Literally who? the blacksmith
>>Wirt isn't iconic
Only his leg is.
>>Butcher isn't iconic
See >>162286193
>>Leoric isn't iconic
No tangible presense until D3
>>Lazarus isn't iconic
Known better as his biblical namesake than Blizzrd's Priesty McEdgerton
>>playable classes aren't iconic
Literally most generic character class archetypes since the dawn of pen and paper RPGs.

>>162286643
the whole franchise is an obscure mess, you got luck they even considered adding from it to the game,

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>this brawl

>queue as 4 in brawl
>pub picks worst of the three in first round
>then picks chromie
>then picks chromie again over ming and kerri
>doesn't say a single word all game despite sucking shit every single time and not taking the hint that chromie is shit, chromie is shit if you're shit and chromie is not as good as ming or kerri
>talks right at the end when the game's over
>we carry his ass
Pubs suck dick.

>>162247028
Fuck you.

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>played 1 year ago, got Jaina to 13
>Came back with friends for Genji skin, decided to do competitives
>check guides

>TenTonHammer: "Level 20: Arcane Power. Arcane Power allows for an even greater burst of damage while refunding mana."
>Icyveins: "Arcane Power is a truly useless talent."

who do i trust?

>>162289730
Improved ice block is the answer

>>162289730
Yourself after experimenting in a non-competitive environment and go with what feels better to you.

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>>162289730
>reading meme guide clickbait sites
How about you play the game, faggot?
Also, you take ice block.

>>162289730
Arcane power is just a win more ability, iceblock is the standard pick since Jaina has no survivability before then

>>162289991
This. I've not seen a single person/site/source that I agree 100% with. And this isn't just a "I use meme talents" I actually trust myself more than anything else with this sort of stuff. Also statistics are easily abused and mis-lead people a lot.

>>162289730

Every talent has situational use and can be considered good or bad depending on the circumstances of any particular game you may find yourself in.

Not every talent is a safe pick, and guides tend to showcase "cookie cutter", "good enough of the time" builds.

If you want to be successful at any hero, you need to learn every talent, all of your counters, and when each talent would be good or bad in different scenarios when you may find yourself being countered or looking to fulfill a certain role that your team comp needs.

Hope that helps senpai

>>162288694
lmfao, got me good

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>>162288694

>get smashed in first round
>able to pick lunara in the next round
>win
>pick lunara again
>landslide win in our favor

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Plat 3 to Masters in 1 week, only Rexxar. Check those HL stats, son; I carried every single game. Soon I'll be the only Rexxar autist to hit GM.

>>162295234

Oh, nice. Congratulations. What got you playing Rexxar?

I never really tried him because I heard about a lot of bugs, and the pet micro seemed finicky/difficult.

>>162295234
Congrats, anon! I never see a rexxar in rankeds.
What site are you using for the win%?

>>162295234
You posted this on reddit. I saw it.

GTFO reddit plebe

>>162296419

He's the most fun hero in the game and he's a god.

>>162296764

Hotslogs

>>162296845

Eat a dick faggot.

>>162296845
> I saw it
So you are a reddit fag as well....
I'm speechless of your retardation

>>162297191
Go farm some more reddit upboats with your rexxar guide you turboshitter.

>>162296845
always did suspect reddit had invaded here with their meme formatting

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>>162295234
>that low winrate

>>162294309
CUTE!

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Is he any good?

>>162263548
Visit the wow private server general, it's amazing how they go through threads at lightning speed without talking about the game at all

>>162300368
he's as good as your skills at sex

>>162300368
he's next in line for a rework, don't bother using him for now

>>162300368
Competent second support.
Used to be great in the beta.
Then they nerfed the shit out of him.

Apparently, Naz got buffed a bunch? Any people playing him?

>>162295234
20 Rexxar here, I was thinking of trying the same "Only X" thing next season too. Either Rexxar or Dehaka or something.

>>162301552
>dehaka

He'll probably be a contested pick after the rework, unlike *probably* Rexxar.

https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/5hf3ga/interest_in_a_comprehensive_rexxar_guide_from_a/

KEK

>no one but shitters playing ranked since it's end of season
>l-l-look rebbits, w-want a guide?

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Jaina is good for ___

>>162302469
nothing

>>162302469
cute

>>162302469
Help.

>>162302516
Sylvanas get out.

>>162302469
public degradation

>>162302469
hugs

>everyone suddenly picks nova every qm game again

what happened

>>162302765
This is the only correct answer.

>>162303004
>people stopped playing nova

wot

>>162303004
Nova was always a #1 pick in qm, but also we just had the nova brawl that ended so more people probably wanted to keep playing her

>>162302469

Hello.

Why is every single professional streamer in this game a shitter?

They're all atrociously bad.

>it's a na >>>pro tries to tell you certain talents or heroes are bad episode
every time

>>162295234
How much shit did you get when you flat out said "I'm going Rexxar no matter what." and how many dodgers did you get because of it?

>>162304813
>goes over the build
>there's only 1 build for mura!
>koreans go a different build b-but it's a joke build!
>third win is must have, block is bad
>iron forged is better than skullcracker, you need it for synergy with your w!
>on 16 I always take give 'em the axe
No wonder they're so shit

>>162286178
iktf senpai.

>finally get to rank 20 before "placements"
>stopped playing a while before palcements get released
>comeback few months after placements, do placements booted back to rank 35
>lose motivation to play
>come back few months into s1 le spooky sleleton man carries me through placements los 2 games gold 5
>come back for s2 4 loses, until realized how ebin druid is and carry me through placements gold 3

>>162302103
>muh website warz

fuck off loser!

>>162306323
>this mad at getting blown out
rebbitors are amusing

>>162302469
BMing and asspulling in hearthstone

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>>162306373

>small as shit community for this game as is
>"lol users of x media are such fuckers, users of y media are clearly superior"
>talking about the same shit game

literally autistic get over it

>>162302103
>high ranked
>3k mmr
rofl

>>162306537
>on 4chan
>surprised about autism
READ IT FAGS EVERYONE

>>162306537
What's your talent choices on 4, 7, 10 and 16?

>play ravenlord map with gazlo
>be a complete fucking cunt and always have at least one of my enemy tower conquered
>clear all the camps at lightspeed
>solo the boss for extra cuntyness
God I feel like a piece of shit now

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DEATH?

>>162310497
i................am........the master..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................of death

>>162309631

Yeah, this actually works for some time, actually. Not sure why Bronzies are tilted by Gazlowe/Azmodan picks, because they're actually pretty okay at low MMR.

>>162241814
Thats totally fair, we did get those firebat and reaper files datamined not too long ago, I forgot to include them in my post. The reaper file was probably referring to OW reaper, but I have my hopes it was a SC one. I've said before, I dont think its talking about Malthael since none of the files use nicknames except for the SC unit names but thats just my opinion.

>>162310693
not anymore kid.... *unzips dual demon hunter daikatanas*

*flips around you*

*trips and falls on ass, then trips again and falls on face where ass landed and sniffs*

nothin personnel squid.

>>162217175

I would love a western outlaw Tychus Skin.

>>162312040
It could work

>old ass gatling gun
>cowboy hat
>boots and shit

blizzard... stop appealing to the fucking chinese

Ever since the last hotfix the game has had like a half second delay on everything I do. Is it just me getting fucked or is this an actual issue for other people?

And no it's not the internet I play a bunch of online games and it's only this.

>>162311650
ass magic............................quaint.............................................but.......useful

just got the patch download when is patch day

>>162315856
Tuesday

>>162315856
same day as always, boss

>>162313443
okay, now how do we do the fucking lazer drill and mech?

>>162316157
Use an old Starcraft I goliath instead of the odin.

>>162316157

idk probably some beat-to-shit mining drill like something you'd see in Firefly

I'll have to think about the mech, but probably something similar; just used a really old lookin' dated piece of tech

This hero is not Guldan, who is?

>>162316456

Thrall

>5+ minutes for ranked queue
what the fuck

>>162316027
I'm new to the game

>>162316007
So same day as wow got it

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>>162316312
A giant fucking retarded mechanical spider.

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>>162316312
I'd prefer something in the vein of this for the mech.

An early generation version of the model of the mech, where the cockpit is rather open.

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>>162316871

Not him, but Blizzard thing. Weekly stuff done on Tuesdays, generally. Patches and stuff.

>>162317506

pls i'll take any spider i can get at this point

>>162316157

Think of a giant locomotive

>>162314906
who are you quoting..

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Sometimes I almost feel sorry for my opponents.
Then I realize Forced 50 is coming up fast and I better take a break from the game.

I honestly feel like Soul Harvest on Nazeebo might be a bit underrated. Situational obviously, but on say two lane maps where a lot of fighting goes on in lanes, or against divers and such, I actually think it's useful.

>>162318321
>that web hole

Spiders are for sexual

>>162300368
He's good with auto attackers. He's particularly godly with tracer, tychus, valla, illidan, zarya, et cetera

Is stitches a viable tank?

Can you guys carry me on my TL placements?
I forgot it's about to end

>>162320108
They deserve it for drafting 4 ranged with no peel.

>>162321332
if your team has half a brain to play around stitches.

You literally are only there to hook/engorge or hook and combo wombo with your team.

You peel for your team by eating magic shots for heroes like Li Ming and bodyblocking stun projectiles.

>>162321332
Not really, no. He's more of a set-up utility bruiser. Good with extra frontline. If he's the only warrior/melee, he's shit UNLESS the team he's in is good and the Stitches is at least good so you can hook consistently and 4v5 all the time.

>>162321492
Your mmr affects your placement more than your win/loss.

Get some randoms and lose 10 games. Most teams will be similar to yours so you might actually win.

Holy shit Uther is hot garbage
Rework when

>>162321332
He's viable but only in specific comps. He needs follow-up for his hooks and/or a full blow up team for gorge.

>>162321930
He isn't. He's very comp dependant. You need a divehero on your team that benefits from your shield and an enemy team that does burst instead of heavy sustain.

>>162322052
>Not going Meme Storm

>>162322052
All of his talents are old and garbage
I mean youre talking about burst healing and the old fart doesnt even have Lay on Hands. Inexcusable.

>>162321782
Yeah. I'm used to not dying as Artanis in that situation. I didn't realize until the end that none of us had died once.

>>162320108
>draft 4 squishies and one tank
>people expects to not get raped

>>162322895
>chen
>tank

>>162322924
Ok, disruptive bruiser.

I fucking wish I had Forced 50. I'm probably at a 75% lose rate right now. If not more.

Im lookin forward to some of the buffs in the upcoming patches

>>162324703
Really excited for Diablo. New tanks when.

>>162323748
Remember: when you win it's because you are good. When you lose it's because Forced 50.

>>162325093
>when you team absolutely carries you
>when you're sololane on a 2 lane map and 30s into the game your team starts dominating, killing shit left and right in the 4vs4

>Lose a game
>Some random person on the enemy team whispers "easy easy keep trying piece of shit"

I've never seen this person ever, and there was no weird sense of rivalry between us in-game. Was I mistaken for somebody else, or is this schizophrenia?

>>162325271
What hero did you play?

>>162325372
Nazeebo, and he was Nova.

The ONLY thing I can think of, is when their team was about to win, he started hearthstepping at low health, so I threw some spiders on him and killed him. Maybe he was pissy over that or something.

>>162325271

>feeling like fun so queue quick match on lunara
>enemy team has a four-man premade with a pretty solid comp
>they get a 15 or something kill lead and start bstepping all over the place
>whatever it'll be fine late game
>catch their ming out and blow her up
>proceed to force 4v5 and wipe them
>bstep all over their core and in front of their hall
>two of them whisper me a novel of insults after the game
>with me on ignore of course

And that's my blog post for the week.

>>162325941
Just a question, how much did it take for you to be comfortable enough with Lunara? Especially with how she moves.

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POST 'EM

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Hey guys you were right, Jaina is cute.

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>>162326558
I don't play much so I don't know if I should

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>>162326167

I still haven't gotten the hang of it. Not completely, anyways. Haven't played her enough, which is why I went to play a Quick Match.

Fuck High King's Quest, Lion's Maw is where it's at.

the amount of dcs people have in this game is astounding

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Who level next?

>>162329708
Zagara

>>162329708
diablo or leoric you FUCKING cuck.

>>162329852
That's my first choice, actually. I love covering a lane with creep and blowing its buildings down then monopolizing all the merc camps with Nyduses.

>>162329879
This was my second choice. Level a tank for when I can't play a specialist. A healer too. Then maybe an assassin. But Diablo is shit still so I'd go for Anoob, Stitches, Leoric, or Muradin.

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>>162329708

Here's a vote for comfy lane bug, even if she has fallen out of the meta.

>>162329708
>>162329990
>7 of the top xp heroes are lane pushers
When will we get another comfy specialist? Mengsk fucking when?

>>162329960
No, no tanks. Embrace your niche and play only specialists. Maybe supports. Then you'll play like a woman too.

>>162329960
at least you maxed out the patrician specialist first

how about rehgar for healing and tychus for assassin they are fun

diablo is fun too fuck you plus he's getting buffed next week anyway

also redpill me on abadurr

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How many games would it take a consistent Master player to climb from Bronze 5 to Master?

>>162329708

Level literally all those fucking 4s to 5 in whatever order you want.

>>162330648
Also curious about this.

>have account that's currently D2
>wondering if I can place Bronze if I lose all ten placements next season

>>162330648
It took the rusky girl something like 250 games

>>162330648
There was some grill russian master/gm that went from bronze to master in like a week. Not sure of how many games, though. There was also a pro player on EU that did the same thing.

>>162331613

Found it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/4xriq8/nostromia_has_now_reached_masters_from_bronze_5/


Hotslogs of the account: http://www.hotslogs.com/Player/Profile?PlayerID=7734633

>>162330594
>go slow mines
>have mad map awareness
>babysit reeee team mates with hat
>drop mines at choke points around map on enemy side
>win games

Don't pick abathur if they have zeratul or anything that can quickly get to you like falstad

>Get angry at this game
>See that paragon supposedly got a new fast paced mode
>Try it
>Match lasts 36 minutes
now I know why I keep coming back

>>162332412

>league friend and I swap, he tries hots and I try league
>55 minute bronze game because everybody is too scared to end

have sort of grown to almost enjoy the post twenty minute objectives/bosses winning the game outright, keeps things from dragging on too long

remove garden tho, map bans/roation when

>towers of doom
>entire team at a single keep we lost
>3 altars popping
>can't give up altar or we lose
>no one even trying to go near one
>go to an altar
>die expectedly but it there was no point not to
>Y U FACE CHECK A BUSH?

Why are people in this game so fucking stupid?

>>162332576
why do you think

this is like the moba you play if you don't like or aren't good at mobas

>>162332798
kek when league-fags so sore over their shit game they have to come here and remind us that league is still shit and not worth playing.

If league or any moba are so much better, then why aren't you spending your time playing them instead of coming here and making a joke of yourself.

>>162332917
League is better, but I like playing Hots more, so here I am.

>haven't played enough dota to comment
>also haven't tried any of the other mobas

>>162333287
If you like to play hots more, then league isen't better.

What the fuck is this level of retardation.

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>>162333287
>i like league more so i play hots
to inteligent for me

>>162333638
>reading comprehension
I specifically said that I enjoy Hots more.

>>162333418
League is better than Hots regardless of which I prefer, though.

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grinch alert

>>162334551
A post I'd actually upboat.

>>162302469
Jaina is good for JUST SURRENDER

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What's the best time to jump into ranked? I recently got my 15 heroes to level 5 and wanna give it a go. On a six or seven game win streak in qm, so I guess I feel like this is the natural progression.

Not on a weekend, though. Fuck that.

>>162286178
Little bingo!

16 games lost in a row.

What's your record?

How's the new Adaptation?

>>162335371
I've still never had enough to full an entire page with red.

>>162333813
On basis of what? Exactly what makes LULZ "better" than hots? More players?

More players =/= better game