Cute and deadly edition
>Whats New:
Greymane on the 12th maybe
>where do I find you meme-loving faggots
/join /vg/
>What hero should I buy?
Find the ones you enjoy playing and buy those. Don't buy cheap heroes just to get into Hero League, it's not worth rushing into.
>Links nobody visits anyway
Official Site: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/
General News: http://www.heroesnexus.com/
Tips & Tricks: http://heroesofthestorm.github.io/tips
Hero Rankings and Statistics: https://www.hotslogs.com/Default
Talent Calculator: http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/
Free Hero Rotation: http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/13604571130
Previously on /hotsg/:>>127756378
Where the FUCK is Maiev????
I can't believe how slow this general has gotten recently
>>127929489
>benbrode.jpg
>>127929282
Jelly tbqh I got Arthas and Diablo when I ordered
>>127929282
>QM
>4 stack of try-hard heroes + me
vs
>randoms
>lose
>>127929689
they had a higher collective MMR
>>127929542
People are getting tired of this game.
Pretty sure it's this shitty meta. Stunlocks into burst isn't fun, and there's little skill involved. QM can't be our savior because people spam meta shit there as well, and we just end up with the same issue. If not, then it just becomes a game of "who rolled the best comp?".
>tfw lose to RNG in real life
>>127930963
I think it would be more fun to just have everyone pick autoselect and "roll the best comp" for realz
plus some people would get characters theyre not that great with and just imagine the shit show every game. That would shake things up.
>>127930963
even chu8 is tired of this meta.
his job is literally to play heroes for 8+ hours a day and he's done it without getting tired of the game for months until now
yesterday i played a QM where the enemy team was a 5 stack with diablo, tyrande, kael, zagara, and muradin. this game is cancer right now.
Reposting suffering.
Most likely no balance changes with Graymane!
>>127931196
They should make auto select count towards all the quests for specific roles
I need to win 1 more game as cho'gall to get him. Anyone mind helping me out?
>>127931231
Chu8 was really only playing raynor, thrall, kael, nova every day for hours. That would burn anyone out
I can't stand some of the people in this game. The second anything bad happens, they just start shitting over everyone on the team. Fuck it's just a game. No need to get butthurt.
>>127932019
The ASSFAGGOTS playerbase shit. Just mute people being faggots.
>>127932090
is there a way to flag them so you never queue into a team with them again?
I've tried reporting & blocking communication, but then they just start ping spamming
>>127931398
The frequency in which they put out balance changes is fucking pathetic. It has been ever since Alpha, they've dragged their asses so hard. Balance patch one every like 7 weeks? Come on. There is no excuse for that shit.
Hopefully more and more people harass them into putting out changes faster.
>>127931724
Join /vg/ and ask someone there.
>>127932197
nope, i've reported/muted people and been queued right back into a game with them.
and we still cant mute pings from specific players. i'd love to be able to mute some of the saltlords that decide to spend 20 minutes pinging their designated shitter for the game, but apparently thats not conducive to proper teamwork.
>>127932320
It really is atrocious. Look at how often Riot was putting out balance/hero patches when they were really growing their playerbase. They would put something out every two weeks, even if it was just a small balance tweak. Hell, sometimes they would even hotfix certain issues. That Tychus bug of going invisible on Towers of Doom is something that would have made Riot temp ban him. They slowed down their patch cycles eventually, but if you don't want players getting bored you need to shake balance up often enough for a solid meta to not come into existence like it has now.
I'd honestly rather Blizz act like Riot and put out heroes and patches every two weeks even if that meant certain heroes became completely trashcan tier. Hell, right now 31 out of 46 heroes have losing win rates, I can't see how they can make it worse unless they try.
>queue in QM
>uther literally starts crying about everyone being bad 3 minutes in
>doesn't stop until the game ends 15 minutes later
>>127934252
I bet that faggot want a surrender button.
>>127933895
I remember at one point, Riot had even stopped production of new heroes and prioritized everything else.
Honestly, I wish Blizzard would do this. Dumbshits on Reddit keep saying "we need more heroes to change up the meta", but that's far from a solution to fucking -anything-.
How to spec Nova? Gotta try some of this instagib goodness
>>127929689
Only constant
>>127934609
Read her talents, realize there is literally only one way to spec her, have fun killing shit.
>>127934609
Ambush
Gathering power
AA shell
Precision strike
Lethal decoy
Crippling shot
Rewind or blink
Remember that your decoy can use your abilities but only if yours are off cooldown. So use decoy first then your other abilities. Might as well get used to using W first because you need to w first at 16 to use the vulnerable.
Your decoy also applies vulnerable and a slow with crippling shot and can use snipe
>>127931398
"WE HAVE GIVEN UP"
t. Blizzard Untertainment
>>127932320
This
Seriously how hard can it be just open up notepad and change a few numbers and see what happens. Everything has to be a huge production with blizzard. Like they take pride in taking forever to do anything
>>127931398
no money for east coast servers
no money for hero trailers
no money for balance patches
ded game
>>127935867
Does decoy apply stuff without lethal decoy?
Tfw want to play moba
Tfw hots is boring as fuck now
Tfw hate lol
Tfw dota has input delay and shitty art
Tfw HoN just had huge balance patch that changed everything so I can't even be comfy returning
Sm-smite?
>>127936772
Pretty sure it does 'apply stuff' (as in, slows and Vulnerable debuff) even without the talent.
>>127936863
HoN balance patch wasn't really that huge, it's still easy to get into.I still play it everyday.
>>127936772
No
Other plus to lethal decoy is dismount and disrupt channels like hearth and objective capture
>>127936617
>Everything has to be a huge production with blizzard. Like they take pride in taking forever to do anything
Soon™ xDDD
>>127936863
>Tfw dota has input delay
wew lad
>>127937006
I miss Amun Ra and Rampage for some reason
Stompy stompy goes the rhino! Good boy!
>>127936863
>startup frames is "input delay"
You're probably one of those shitters who gets counter hit on everything in fighting games, and them complains about the game being "broken".
>>127937192
Damn right Rampage is so fun, going in fast and bringing back someone to your team is great.
>>127937287
>>127937098
https://youtu.be/7QYpU-PCIHg
>watching chu and mewn few days ago
>they go to dota 2
>wtf there's a huge delay before my hero moves
>yea that's just dota 2
K
>>127937539
Hon has such cool alt skins too. I love the rhino alt skin where its just a huge rhino
IM CHARGING WHATS HIS FACE
ult him
HEY GUYS LOOK WHAT I GOT
ded
>>127936678
The vulture smurfs and 3 month-long sale was a desperate plea to the community they needed more money. If only we had recognized this sooner so we could buy all the heroes with real money on all our smurfs so we could see the game survive.
>>127936863
Smite is a fun game to enjoy casually, but desu you can't really get any more casual than HotS so I don't know if that's a step up or down
It has some reasonably popular alternate game modes like Arena, Assault, Siege, etc. Its Dota-like mode, Conquest, is probably the worst of the bunch, with poor matchmaking and a really obscure but stale meta.
Smite is a fun game if you play it uber casually, but its Dota-like map is garbage with a meta even more stale than League's
>>127937287
>startup frames to move
>23 people in chat
dead channel
dead game
>>127937716
Fuck yes, they have the best alt skins of every game.
>king minos puppet master skin
>the puppet is a minotaur
Such a shame the game isn't more popular.
>>127938259
My bad, I was thinking of how people usually complain about spell cast times.
As for the delay on movement, it's pretty much emulating the Warcraft 3 behaviour. I have no idea why would they do such a thing, but they did.
Have they nerfed Rehgar recently? Just played after 4 month break and he feel really fucking bad.
>>127938285
I always wondered why it wasn't more popular. I've played every major moba and its always been my favorite
>>127938617
He's just underwhelming when you consider karazhim/uther/tyrande exist to all do what he can do but better.
>>127938617
Or I guess after the scaling patch the healing doesn't feel as strong in early game anymore.
Both teams have tanks so it's balanced
>>127938285
>mfw ragebane
>>127938617
He's perfectly fine, if anything he had his healing buffed. However he's crap compared to Tyrande, Uther or Morales because he doesn't provide stuns or a means of preventing hard burst.
It's all about burst and stuns right now, even in QM. Ancestral Healing can't keep up like Kharazim's Divine Palm can.
But yeah, he's great, it's just that he isn't an overpowered shit.
>>127939048
It overflowed with third-worlders and dudebros, making for one of the worst communities any game has ever spat out
>>127936863
>want to play a MOBA
>Blizzard is trying to kill HotS
>all the rest are shit
welp
>>127939048
Maybe because it's harder, or doesn't have as much advertising as the others.
>>127939241
>gorilla warfare artillery
>pull them fukers in account icon
Would hots have done better with blind pick instead of hero queueing in QM?
>>127937774
I bought all the good looking skins too, I did my part to fund them, but it just wasn't enough :(
>I can never spot stealthers
>my team never spots stealthers
>play nova
>half of the enemy team can see me like I didn't even have stealth
>every game
Most retarded mechanic ever
>>127939452
FUCK
I forgot about that
Hahahaha
>>127939551
Not exactly sure how blind pick would work but it would be a damn fucking site better than QM is nowadays
>oh boy, tyrael/azmodan/rehgar/nazeebo/chen into a 5-stack with tyrande, muradin and kael'thas for the 70th time today....
>>127939678
>people are better than me so the game is bad
So HotS used to be my go to game, I would come back home after a long day, duo queue for a couple of hours and hopefully come out positive in MMR.
What other games are people playing that fill this void? I'm playing old games like KotoR and ready to jump back to playing diablo 3 (2.4) next week.
I really want HotS to succeed because i find Dota to be too much for me despite playing it for so many years.
I know bronzemane is coming out and not optimistic at all.
>>127938617
He picks up really late. He's got insane healing at level 16. At level 1 he's a awful healer, the 9s cooldown on chain heal is painful. And he doesn't have any utility or damage to make up for it.
>>127939551
Fuck no, people would end up treating it like HL anyways.
All they need ot do to fix QM is to separate Warriors/Bruisers, quite possibly Assassin-like Specialists and the odd Specialists like Vikings, Murky, Abathur, and fucking enforce new rules to accomodate that.
>>127939963
>graphic settings affect stealth detection
>monitor quality affects stealth detection
>there's probably a hack to make it easier to detect
It's a shit mechanic
>>127940024
swtor is pretty good right now. its not kotor 3, but some of the class stories are fun now that i dont have to do a million bullshit mmo sidequests to keep up in levels.
other than that, i need help too senpai.
>>127939551
i'd rather have blind pick than this mess, but >>127940081 is right. i think there should be a limit on the number of meme heroes allowed on a team. i'm getting really tired of tabbing back into hots when my queue pops and seeing that my team consists of abathur, nova, lunara, hammer, and me.
>1 warrior or 2 bruisers
>1 support
>1 sustained dps
>1-2 randoms
This would make QM much better
>>127941004
>implying this ded game has the playerbase to support that
>implying 90% of this games nonexistent playerbase isnt queued up as nova or abathur anyway
>>127940389
If this is bait then congrats,you hooked me
>>127941004
Warriors are the biggest offender at the moment. As somebody who rarely wants to play any Warrior that isn't Rexxar, it's fucking retarded having to go against Muradin and shit as the only Warrior on each other's teams. Do-able, yes, but it then becomes -too- reliant on the rest of your team to play properly, and it's complete fucking garbage just knowing that he's going to have an infinitely easier time than I am.
>>127940043
So for example if I play as Rehgar and enemy team has Morales we pretty much have to hope he's an awful player or we have no chance to win early game and the game seems to favor early game now after the scaling patch.
>>127941480
Stop playing shit like Rexxar?
>>127941513
>So for example if I play as Rehgar and enemy team has Morales we pretty much have to hope he's an awful player
Blizzard's ok with that being the counterplay to TLV, so yes. At least in that situation you could have just not played Rehgar
>>127941207
thats the shit people are forgetting, first try to find 10 people queuing at the same time anywhere near the same mmr
Then more than a few of them cant be rexxar, murky, nova, zeratul, abathur, hammer, illidan, lunara, brightwing, chogall, gazlow or sylvanas
>>127940024
takada? what?
This game is starting to remind me of Transformers Universe right now
Went to shit in near record time because the devs were too slow/clueless to do anything.
>>127941587
Yeah, I play Guardian-esque Warriors whenever I feel like it, but generally I don't. Point is, I shouldn't have to completely change my preferences just because they can't do their job.
I mean, they want this game to be more casual and appeal to those who want to play what they simply just WANT to play, and don't want anybody to feel cornered into heroes/roles they don't want to play, right? That's what HL is for if you REALLY want to, yeah? Then they can step on it and fix their QM and general matchmaking bullshit ASAP, which would NOT be hard at all to do.
>>127942545
it's a pity, really
the time between updates takes too long, and recent updates have mixed up things too little
released heroes have little impact and often end up being painfully weak, thus barely changing anything with their presence
i really want to like it but it needs some real improvements throughout
>>127942834
I'm kinda bored right now so if anyone wants to hear about transformers universe and how it collapsed I'll write up a bit about it.
This game has felt like a giant desperate money grab from Blizzard. I mean $10 for skins? AND PEOPLE BUY THEM?! Fuck man.
>>127942545
game will die soon, Blizzard has a hard on for overwatch right now so all resources are going to that.
>>127942969
i'm currently modifying data and having little success, so feel free to
you'll have at least one reader
maybe we can write blizz an essay on what to improve like that
>>127942969
I'd read it, even if just to compare it to how BLC died.
>>127943015
everything blizzard does they try to charge out the fucking ass for. Look at "skins" in hearthstone
They just cant get away with it here, because they actually have competition
>>127943114
alright. well first off Transformers Universe (TFU for short) was made by Jagex Games Studio, the same people behind RuneScape and FunOrb, the latter of which was left to die without any word on it. Originally said to be a Transformers MMO, they instead went the MOBA route.
There was only two modes, team deathmatch and control points. Games were 4v4, but with no class limits. Your team could be 4 of the same mech if you wanted, and that became highly encouraged later on as balance became worse.
First off, leaver penalties. There wasn't any. People were often so afraid of their KDR being damaged (an ill-advised account stat) that as soon as they felt their 'team' falling behind they'd just leave. Leaver penalties were added for a short while, DC'ers complained and they were removed again.
There was no Versus AI for practice, and the tutorial only showed you the controls, and not any sort of thing useful in PvP combat. The only AI was unrelated enemies (the terrorcons) and only faced either as an idle hub time-passer or as a sole, repetitive PvE mission. Capture points was poorly done and whoever got the first point usually won from momentum. Going as 4 of the same 'ranged assassin' was the ideal strategy, usually Overclock. Team deathmatch, was never balanced as said before. Lose opening skirmish, two people ragequit, 2v4 for the rest of the game. No chance.
'Items' were in the form of consumables craftable outside of the game. They were also buyable with real money, making for what was not direct P2W, but you had a definite advantage over people who did not bother with stat-boosting augments.
cont.
>>127944058
>Jagex Games Studio
oh god i am already fearing the worst.
>Your team could be 4 of the same mech if you wanted
this reminds me an awful lot of a certain upcoming game mode. hmm.
the tutorial stuff is something blizz did a lot better in comparison but i can see some similarities alreadyi fucking hate .cia files
it's a "pushing structures while they have 3 dead is overrated, let's focus on capping our merc camps so their sylvanas can clear them in 2 seconds" episode
I fucking hate being support, it's like being chained to retards and being yanked left and right by their stupidity
>>127939678
You have to assume that the enemy sees when you are aren't in a bush. That's how I play nova.
>>127944620
but without merc camps, how will you ever win games? When I see the enemy team trying to take a camp, I rush them all solo then ping like crazy once I die, but my teammates are always too retarded to stop them. Fucking noobs.
>>127943327
Lunara was my first purchase. Tried to send the message that, hey, charge fair prices and I'll buy things.
I doubt they noticed :p
>>127944058
Now for the main thing. Balance. First off, it was commonly known that many of the younger and more inexperienced players favoured the Autobot side (they wanted to fight alongside Optimus Prime just like in the movies!) while older players (edgy teens) went with the Decepticons. The Decept players were ofc more experienced and usually easily beat Autobot teams. Jagex took this as "Autobots are too weak/Decepts are too strong" and repeatedly nerfed Decepts, despite many of the better players agreeing Autobots had a clear advantage in higher level play.
Speaking of higher level play, matchmaking was awful. Downright awful. It either took ages to find you a game, threw you in a game that was already being stomped (usually your side, you replacing a leaver) or with/against clueless players.
Anyway, balance. Jagex opted to only introduce more and more proficient damage dealers after a while (Post-Flatline and Sparkscape for anyone who played) Sparkscape itself had incredibly high damage and strong AoE healing at the time.
Healers and tanks got nerfed, but damage dealers only got stronger and stronger. Stealthies got introduced, and just like Nova, had the absolute highest sudden burst in the game. Then came Macro and Firebreaker, and all hell broke loose. Both capable of instakilling anything the second their shields dropped, games became 4 Macro vs 4 Firebreaker, or as close to it as possible. Both of them almost directly outclassed other mechs, and were unchanged until the game was shut down after a few months of no meaningful updates apart from one more Auto and Decept.
Basically, it was hyper offence bullshit where unlike HotS, going tank/healer wasn't mandatory or even close to advisable.
cont.
>>127945034
The paywall was pretty harsh. Buying a new mech cost an absurd amount of relics (in-game currency buyable with real world money or VERY SLOWLY obtainable in-game) and 3 mechs for each side were locked behind Founder Packs, which cost as much as £400 IIRC. It also just so happened that for a while, one of the £400-pack exclusive ones, Astraea, was a weapon of mass destruction compared to the others, at least until powercreep rendered it obsolete. There was no sell-backs if you decided you didn't like the new mech (no try mode either!) or if it got nerfed a ton a month later. Usually when it wasn't the issue and other things were (see also Conduit, Decepticon's version of Morales who Autobot players were too retarded to focus down.)
Reskins weren't cheap. They cost a ton of relics, and were little more than colour variations, with 'new' skins taking an absurd amount of time to come out due to Jagex's incompetence.
One thing I forgot to mention for ages was Jagex's refusal to potentially think of it as an e-sport if it got popular, which, well, it certainly won't when there's no incentive to git gud.
Anyway, through a combination of the actual MOBA part being shite, absolutely nothing to do (no daily challenges either.) and Jagex being way too slow to act about anything, they eventually announced the shutdown when it became clear they weren't going to make any money off it.
This was all in the space of 2-3 months. And there's a very real chance of the same thing happening to HotS.
>>127939809
>taunts
>you can have different announcers
HoN deserved better.
>>127945910
Forgot to note they apparently re-imbursed everyone who spent money on founders packs or relics during the shutdown month or so, probably as the full admission of failure.
also for the record I haven't bought anything on either TFU or HotS with real money. Too skeptical of either game's long term existence. That and TFU seemed fun for a while at first but I was never massively impressed with it.
anyone wanna help me get cho'gall before its to late? I only need to play one more game with him.
bnet: ChefEsten#1368
>>127941904
I don't think MMR should be the be-all-end-all in QM
It's QM not ranked.
If it's standing in the way of someone getting a game before 3 minutes queued it should be sidelined
>>127946530
I'll add u in a sec
>play warrior
>both teams have 0 supports
>play support
>both teams have 2 supports and 0 warriors
why is QM designed to create the most retarded teams every time
4 days until Greymane
what's your guess on his week 1 win rate?
i'm getting 32%
>>127947449
Because it has a small player base to match you around your mmr and give you a team with a support of the other one has one, or no support if the other team doesn't as well as a warrior if one team has one and none of the other team has none.
>>127947806
60% he OP
>>127947806
If he can bring stupid burst, he'll fit right in. If he can't? Yeah, 30% or so.
>>127945034
>>127945910
>>127946362
well that was a lengthy but interesting read
long story short, they tunnel vision'd themselves into this crazy, broken meta and were too dumb to try and spruce up or balance things and only further broke things
>>127947806
something awful
they are too afraid of changing up things or releasing remotely strong heroes
>>127947806
I don't think it will be as bad as lunara, but he doesn't really fit the meta so 38%
>>127948191
>>127948139
if his melee diving burst thing is as good as they said during Blizzcon, he might just fit in perfectly
like a Sonya + Greymane or Diablo + Greymane
super heavy dive oriented comps, might work out
This game has gone straight to shit since chogall and the scaling. It wasnt in a an amazing place before but it is fucked now.
novemeber largest balance change ever, involving every unit in the game
december 1 hero release and small balance patch into 3 weeks of vacation
Assuming the game even fucking survives, is going to be like this every year? No fucking news for all september and october, because they are holding shit back for blizzcon, one month of activity, then a month of vacation, before going back to regular schedule?
Spectating when?
>>127947806
honestly think he'll be pretty good
I got to play around with him in try mode a few weeks ago. His autoattacks as worgen are very strong. Both offense + defense mobility. Good sustain too, iirc worgen form didn't use mana.
>>127947806
Once people learn him I think he'll be less then 50%, but higher than 45%. Playable, since it looks like he does indeed do good damage. But at the same time why aren't you just playing Thrall? He's got poke and crazy melee. But he's also got strong self healing where Greymane doesn't get any 'because it'd be too strong' and has a better ult.
>>127950964
reddit plz
>"hey last pick guy, could you pick a support? this is the only role we're missing and it would really help the team"
>no answer
>instalocks nova 5 seconds later
>only constant
>>127951662
Why support when you have the #1 playa killa in da gaem just delete the entire enemy team and get carried n00b
Something else is that Greymane will probably be the lowest selling hero since the games launch.
Who wants to spend $10 when lunas whole bundle was $7 and every hero for 6 months has been shit on release
Hard to say how this could effect his winrate
>>127951890
inb4 he's OP just to get more sales
>>127950964
That is how fucked this game is. That retarded shit is at the top of the games reddit page.
Here, go post this shit, and collect your reddit points
>>127950964
Is this game good?
>>127947806
>No stun in the Stun and your Dead meta.
He's fucked.
>it's a "the enemy team has either mage on Shrines and you don't so there's literally no reason to play" episode
>>127952393
Yes.
But the devs are terribly slow and clueless.
>>127952393
it was fun 3 months ago
>>127952247
reddit already took that from us
>>127952575
Oh did they? We will always have stimpacks....
>>127952393
if you are going to play, find someones refer a friend link for 2 free heroes
23.80.47.35:10132
Ts3 ip for those in the fun quick memes
>>127952676
There's a year long stimpack now.
>>127952745
Oh shit, can I get that if I've already started playing?
>>127952883
the game won't even be around for a year
>>127952947
You have to be under a certain player level. 5 I think.
>>127952947
I tried with a friend who was already level 7 and it didn't work for them.
>>127952956
and i should give a fuck about your opinion... because... ?
>>127953135
that's not an opinion just the reality of hots
>>127952956
>he thinks a free to play game will last less than six years
>that split second where you're retreating against tyrande and she lunar blazes your retreat path but you still walk into it like an idiot but are okay with it and accept your fate
>>127952956
Servers cost nothing to maintain. In the event the game does lose development, you can believe the servers will stay up until daily logins are under a hundred, and even then it still probably won't happen if the micro trans are still in.
>>127954125
They shut down the east coast servers though
>>127954396
Can you still play the game?
>>127954396
but not because of money
there was an issue with the eastern server banks that had nothing to do with Heroes of the Storm, it was the server bank guys that fucked up, which is why Blizzard is routing all US East people to the other server banks around the world that world (like ORD01 in fucking latin america)
no word on wtf actually got fucked up in the server banks, but it wasn't Blizzard's fault
>>127952745
Where should I look?
I went back through a couple threads in the archive and didn't see any links.
>>127954982
Where did they say that? The only thing they've seemed to say on it was this
>>127955107
are you NA or EU?
people can only use Refer a Friend referrals for that specific region
if you're NA, you need to use someone's NA referral link, EU for EU
>>127955328
>as part of some networking changes that our Development team has made
my bad, actually sounds like they dun fucked up their own servers, from the looks of it
just gonna make some changes here and... oh fuck... quick reroute everyone to US8 and ORD1
>>127953981
Every Tyrande I've played against has fortunately been terrible, but I love this post even though I can't relate to it.
Before you ask, I've played only 3 games of HL.
Quick, how to speck monk if I'm the only support?
is there any word on beta ending and the game launching?
>>127956512
Iron fists
Overtake
way of the hundred fists
SSS
Quicksilver
Blazing fists
Epiphany
how come after every win streak I get complete and utter retards matched with me and terrible team compositions?
>>127957537
forced 50
>They updated Starcraft 2 to add Sgt Hammer in the co-op mission.
She's canon now boys.
You're last pick in HL and they locked in
Tyrande
Raynor
Diablo
Muradin
Zagara
Who do you choose and why
Nothing is worse than a bad Zeratul with 10 deaths
>>127956512
Transcendence
What you feel is best.
Echo of Heaven, unless you really need Cleanse
Either Ult
Relentless or Spell Shield usually, if you need neither make your best judgement
The one that heals more when more are present or the one that cures roots and what not if you need that
SSS upgrade if you took that, Divine Palm upgrade or Storm Shield if you went Divine Palm.
>>127957938
Kael'thas
Duhhhh...
>>127957938
gazlowe and type russian in hopes someone on my team dodges
>>127957938
Uther. No matter what the rest of my team does, I can at least not be blamed for us losing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/404mev/chu8_here_this_is_my_concern
Thoughts?
inb4
>>127959708
i have that fuck tagged as so... should i bother reading it first because i feel like i need to read it before reading Chu8's post
>>127959708
>Caring what a streamer thinks
>Implying Tyrande is a free win
keep this shit in the >>>/trash/
>>127959708
he loses with tyrande on his team all the time, it seems like he always loses when he plays as tyrande
>tyrande
>free win
yeah okay
Blizzard really should just ban Tyrande outright until they figure out how to balance her. It's annoying to play against a comp built around her not impossible just annoying in solo queue not a problem while on comms and announcing where rotations are heading.
>>127960707
>Ping where gank is heading
>Retreat to behind your gate
Holy fucking shit that was easy not comms required
It's the same exact thing as surviving a Nova or Kerrigan gank
>>127960707
They've just added too many stun heroes, it's not really just tyrande it's the current meta of stun + burst and her vaulnerability contributes to that. Just tone down her trait to have a shorter uptime and nerf vaulnerability in general she would be fine.
If you are playing in low level games anyway Tyrande and the meta is a non issue.
q u i c k m e m e
Just saw a zagara use her maw on a merc camp when there were two other teammates helping her take it. In the same game i saw butcher use lamb to the slaghter 1v5 then dive in and die immediately.
>they were only like 100 mmr lower than me
How? The mere fact that i noticed their failures should mean im better than them. Im not the best player in the world but i dont dive 1v5, or use ults on merc camps, why am i lumped in with these retards? Is MMR hell a real thing? I always thought i was where i belonged in terms of mmr but after countless games with that level of retardation im starting to wonder if theres nothing i can do to escape this.
>>127931047
more like won the RNG. I'd rather have those two.
>>127961735
The matchmaking wants your win/loss to be 50/50 so it's pretty hard to raise your mmr when you play solo since you can't really carry alone
>>127961330
You clearly have not played with the retards i get matched with. You ping danger and they run towards it and die. Any other ping they ignore completely. This is every game, without fail.
>>127962043
But why are they so close to me in mmr? Im clearly not that bad. Not even close.
22% win rate on towers of doom boys
really glad they got rid of haunted mines for this
>>127961593
o_o
jaina lovers
>>127961390
The big reason the current meta exists is because of Tyrande and Vulnerability.
>>127962237
Because they get forced into a 50/50 win ratio too so their mmr doesn't really move anywhere either
>>127962578
Just change vaulnerability to be weaker. The scaling changes made stunning and bursting too strong.
>>127955107
I don't think you are allowed to post raf links here, you can try the vg chat ingame, but will probably have to search reddit or twitter
or if you post battletag, someone here could friend you, then send their link
its raynor and sylvanas free plus 3 day stimpack, so its worth looking around to find one, but you do have to be under player level 5
>>127962237
Forced 50/50, and the matchmaking system actually gives you lower MMR players to average out your team's TOTAL MMR to be close to that of the opposing team's MMR, which could very well be 3-4 decently higher medium-high MMR players, with 1-2 lacking, med-low to low MMR players. They think this balances it out, somehow, despite bad players having more of an effect on a game than a great one, because it's so fucking team-based.
They don't know how their own game works.
I wonder why I keep wasting time on this shit tier game. The MM system is the worst I've ever seen in any game.
Anyone need to unlock Cho'gall? I want to do the quests
>>127965670
Me too mate. Lunara was the last straw for a while. I just can't take another shit tier hero release.
>>127965670
Actually to be honest, it's not about the system, it's more about the playerbase being 99% underage casuals in a team-based game
Playing BHB as LILI
>Thrall holding 12 coins at 17 minutes, game is tied
>passes halfway point and runs right into 4 enemies
>dies immediately
>"guys is was trying to turn in
just fuckk my shitt up senpai
>>127968794
I mean, he was.
>live in arizona
>get put on ORD1
t-t-thanks b-b-blizzard
>>127969601
>live in Nova Scotia
>get put on US8
>still only 100 ping
wew
Man, I know we're in our death throes and everyone is bitching, but I fucking love this game so much. I had a bunch of really fun games today.
>>127970525
Good, because this is an actual good game, it's just that the devs need to get their shit together.
They are killing off hots so they can use the hots servers to host Overwatch
>>127929489
Zeratul pretty much have her War 3 kit aside from vengeance doe.
>>127970591
this desu. Dustin needs to pull his head out of his ass, and if he does this game could be really good
>>127963094
>yfw you realize you are the turd that balances the MMR for the top 200
>>127968183
I like lunara, she plays like KT and jaina as a position DPS, cept she is sustained dps. Sure she is weak in the current stunlock meta, but she can kite fairly well, not to mention when you get ult you gain a lot of mobility from jumping over mercs etc, not to mention lv 20 talent on ult, if you took speed on wisp you can send it ahead and jump over it.
anyone else having some retarded lag in game recently?
>>127970609
>implying hots even has its own servers and they aren't just SC2 servers set to a custom game mode
>>127969149
thats ok, but that late in the game, fck at any point in the game play safer with all those coins. dont go the dangerous way to turn in coins, its that easy
>>127970950
SC2 is dying too so they will just pull some of the servers from there to use on Overwatch
>>127970638
Wardens in WC3 weren't Stealth heroes
Well they did have the Night Elf "Stealth at night" trait but Tyrande doesn't have that either
>>127971319
by next Blizzcon they'll have shut down the servers for every game but Hearthstone desu
Gucci, since you're so curious about my setup, I'll link you my PCpartpicker tomorrow and get a good screenshot of everything.The two I have now either contain the Mrs. or contraband and I can't put either of those on the internet.
Being able to run everything on Ultra is nice. Makes finding cloaked units super easy.
>free leorky and nova week
>sylv doesn't use passive on forts
>too much of a bitch to even throw W or E on the forts
>lose game because she has lowest siege damage and lowest hero damage
what the fuck
>>127974534
She was the low mmr player thrown into your game to make you lose. Gotta keep that 50/50
fuck this game
fuck matchmaking
fuck tyrande
fuck the retarded Towers of Memes
never playing this fucking game again
see you all tomorrow
>>127975049
I swear all the maps they add are worse than the previous, just like the heroes and patches
>tired of getting constant mirror matchups
>play the least picked support in the game
>next matchup is nova zera BW thrall vs nova zera BW thrall
only one unique hero on each side
fucking why
>Just got Income Tax Return for being a good government goy
>Oh boy, Can't wait to build a new pc and not to worry about dipping to 10fps anymore when BW peek-a-boo's in or when Diablo uses Apocalypse
>Oh right, this is a dead game
;_;
>>127977000
checked
maybe next year, when blizzard adds proper multiplayer support
>hero bans
>map bans
>working reconnect
>observer/spectator
>death recap
>more information
>left clickable enemies
>proper ranks
>visible MMR
>3+ man Hero League
>working reports
when is this game coming out of beta again?
>rank 11
>trying to get to 1
>keep running into shit like retards ignoring objectives and diving tyrandes (???)
help
>>127977742only constant
>try to view details for a specific match on hotslogs
>keep redirecting me to account management page
Do I need a premium account to see that shit?
Did well all day and then I lose 4 of my games in a row and almost lose all my progress
>>127978471
Don't give them ideas
I miss ded gaem just being a meme
This Canadian nigga B-stepping all game vs a /vg/ stack comprised of 4 bronzies and one panda lover we B-step while killing his core. Once again proving you can't fuck with merica
>>127981791
He was playing Chen with my skin combo, too.I hope he learned his lesson about taking barrel
>>127981791
>proving you can't fuck with merica
or pandas
>>127975049_iktf_
Big news /hotsg/ Gucci is no longer bronze he is goldQM
>>127929282
>see this
>instantly want to order 2
fuck........... blizzard got me
>>127975335
i would fucking suck dick to get mines back just to get the towers map out of the rotation
>>127983801
There is literally nothing wrong with Towers of Doom.
Sub 10min game new meta.
What's up with all the shitty Sylvanas? She really that hard?
Why does every single bad Sylvana (90% of all Sylvanas) think
>hey i got my Q so i dont need to autoattack ever!!11
>>127983801
you would suck dick anyway you faggot
>>127983801
I'll play a mines custom game if you suck my dick senpai
>>127940024
league and csgo
>>127978301
The only constant is blizzards shit teir matchmaking. I have my up and down days but it doesnt matter. I win or lose depending on the quality (or lack of quality) of my teammates. Anyone who says otherwise has not seen my teammates and got thrown into high enough mmr early on so they never have to see the drooling retards.
>>127984106
nice vs ai match m6
>>127986256
typical moba response, get good honestly
>5 game losing streak because i keep getting full supp+abathur/murky teams while enemy gets tons of aoe+tanks+great engage
This matchmaking is stupid fucking bullshit and has no fucking regard for teamcomps or even equal experience of teams.
>>127986939
If you've recently won a lot, this is why you're having a loss streak. This happens to everybody, it's how their Forced 50 system works. It seems to purposefully fuck you up with comps or generally terrible players to put you at a disadvantage in hopes of getting you a loss, because you've recently won a bit too much.
Been happening since Beta, it wasn't like this in Alpha, but probably because the player pool was so small, it was like a little community just playing together.
Do i need to polymorh nova before or omly after she firess first triple tap shot if i want her to have full cooldown?
Where does Kerrigan stand currently? She good?
>>127988089
While she's channeling it
>>127988262
good kit, useless ults.
>>127987887
its kind of amazing that people give this much credit to the mm system
or is that just this games level of player
>>127989228
Tips for her?
I just started playing her but so far have 2/6 w/l so I dunno if it's me or just bad luck.
But how is Maelstorm useless? IMO it's pretty good.
>>127989542
It's the best ult out of the 2, but it could be better
Why can't blizzard afford to do a balancing patch every 7 weeks and then sooner if needed? We haven't seen any changed since Cho'gall
>>127989542
She is too squishy and it doesn't do that much damage. It's not useless, but it's not good and it's only okay with an uther to ds you while it's up so you don't die instantly.
Kerrigan just needs help after the scaling changes.
>>127990492
Buffs were confirmed for her loooong ago, around the time morales was out
So how is Arthas atm? I heard he'd been hit pretty hard with the nerf bat some time ago, last I played him was when everyone was when Falstad still had his Blitzkrieg ult methinks.
>>127988089
She shouldn't be even coming near the teamfight if you picked Peek-a-boo, so I doubt you'll even need to Polymorph her at this point and save it for channeling
>>127990398
but we did. Small Artanis and Cho'gall buffs.
how the fuck do you counter hammer + morales on BoE, seems like if both are semi competent, you spend so much more effort than is worth to try to take them out of the fight, and if you don't it's autolose
>>127991713
If you don't have like a kael, tyrande or something to be able to range stun her you won't be able to do anything other than just not fight in her siege. Nova destroys her too
>pick zagara
>rest of team picks assassins
>one shitter dies every 30 seconds
>>127992915
just go infest + nydus and steamroll on a lane, nydus at core and infest 2 catapults gg
bets
>inb4 blizz quality matchmaking
>>127995253
Red wins in under 10 minutes
>>127986256
your impact on a team is 20% if you are solo queing. If you are good you will climb not over 10 games, or 50 games, but more like 200-300 games. You can also speed it up a little by duo queing. And dont listen to "bwaaa i won 5 games and lost 6 matchmaking is unfair waa" - its total nonsense in terms of statistics
>>127995329
it works, IT WORKS! matchmaking is saved!
>>127995253
I had the exact same comp yesteday while playing gall. Is this what blizzard strives for in matchmaking?
he-hey man
>>127989346
>its kind of amazing that people give this much credit to the mm system
>or is that just this games level of player
MMR isn't like, fucking magic. They don't have to literally tell us the 1's and 0's to figure out the idea of how MMR works.
You're worth X points. It takes the 9 people that would create the closest game out of the people in que and groups them up.
The better you are, the more you have to carry. The more you win in a row, the heavier the weight gets until you get a loss.
