Drake-haka edition
>What's new
new patch is live, ranked season 1 and unranked play + medivh are alive, next hero confirmed to be gul'dan
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20143449/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-june-14-2016-6-14-2016
>where do I find you panda-loving faggots?
/join /vg/
>Do you have a discord?
https://discord.gg/0u3cyKnzMnnU2wjN
>What hero should I buy?
Play all the heroes on free rotation and see what types you like. Don't buy heroes just to get into ranked, it's not worth it.
>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/
All of the hero voice lines: http://rpboyer15.github.io/sounds-of-the-storm
old thread: >>146106649
WHERE IS THE GUL'DAN ANNOUNCEMENT YOU FUUUUCKS
Your soul shall be mine!
>>146297075
THEY FLEE BEFORE US!
>>146297034
This! How long does it usually takes for them to start teasing the next heroes?
>>146297824
this is some monster musume shit
>>146297985
Usually the week after the last hero released is when we start hearing news.
>>146297824
>tfw don't play this game enough to justify buying skins
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
>>146297824
>no facial animation
>lacking full themed ability package
>uses default voice
:-(
Can we agree that after Gul'dan we will be getting another Overwatch hero?
>>146298691
Typical QM. Nothing of surprise here.
>>146299079
Picture not related, right?
>>146299210
It's obviously going to be Reinhardt or some other tank.
>>146299079
it'll be Mannoroth
>>146299362
I think it's supports we're sort of lacking right now, though.
I will ask again because I got ignored
Any tips for playing as Jo?
>>146299515
we need another female dragon healer
anyone has some bot that they can share? i need anti-afk in training mode or quick match / vs ai, just run into towers and die when respawn. so bored of playing but need to lvl heroes to 5 on my smurf
>>146299532
>use D to negate crowd control
>hold either W or R to interrupt Mosh Pit, Li-Li jugs, etc
>ideally E on steroids, like Raynor W, or Valla Searing Attacks
>Q and body block to keep a guy close enough for your team to kill
'Dunno, you'll have to probably be a bit more specific. She's tanky as hell, which leaves you plenty of room to experiment and learn.
>use D to immune ETC power slide, follow up with W to nullify Mosh Pit
Could probably think of more stuff if given some examples. Brain still on low power.
>>146299784
>hots
>hacks/cheats
pls too soon
>>146299936
how is it cheating if i literally need something that will make my hero suicide after respawn without me having to alt tab to the game
>>146299515
Seconded.
>>146299936
Thanks, most important thing at the beginning is probably best talents for, lets say an average 2 assassins 1 spec 1 healer 1 tank, I've also heard that she excels in both diablo maps
>>146300086
Blizz used to ban people for using UI mods even if it just changed how the replays look
>>146300351
>9 supports
>1 from diablo and 2 from SC
Where is my Auriel or my female protoss healer???
>mfw finding out that Anub'arak shits all over Chromie
Time to play tank until the Chromie meme passes
>>146300351
>only one Diablo support
Looks like we'll be getting that angel soon.
>only two Pandaren
Suffering.
>>146301304
He honestly does well against a lot of Heroes, especially late game.
>pick him into Li-Ming
>collect free points
How do I climb out of silver?
>>146303280
Xul and Zagara.
>>146303280
Solo? Impossible. Because in your rank theres an equal amount of shitters and people who know what they are doing, meaning its a grind that leads no where.
t. gold solo player who realized there is no way out.
>>146297280
Heh, greetings.
>>146303683
Replay, please.
I'd love to see one of these Plat/Diamond players trapped in Silver/Gold.
>>146297280
Sauce plz
>>146304842
you know who those 2 characters are anon
get to work
how buy skin with gold????
>>146305108
They already fucked themselves over making the base/master skins better than the $7.49 and $9.99 skins, friend. Doubt we'll be getting those any other way for a while.
As much as I'd like to see some sort of Hexteach crafting system.
>try to get friends interested
>they can't afford Hero
>can't gift it to them and they don't want to shell out
:-( Wish there was at least a way to gift.
>>146305108
Click buy on skin?????
>>146304978
Well, now I found it and it's terrible. ~__~
>>146305376
I think they'll add it one day, every hero has even a line for when you gift him to someone.
Gazlowe is the best as usual:
>hey, it's not my money anyway
>>146304978
oh hey pahael has a new search interface
neat
Where the FUCK is Maiev????
>>146305376
>Master skins
>Good
?
Most of them are just adding spikes and/or plates. What the fuck? And for 10k g? Lamo what a waste.
>tfw you got bonus personal adjustment points right into grandmaster
feels good to have your greatness recognized
>>146306446
Eh, to each their own. I've had my eye on Xul's since his release, but I don't feel confidant enough to wear it.
>>146306351
Not terribly familiar with her; what might her kit be? I thought Zeratul ended up taking hers.
>>146306486
Congratulations, friend.
Solo queue, by chance?
>>146306631
Yeah solo queue.
>>146306631
GM is just grinding games, you just keep playing. GM is more of a joke than non-GM ranks.
ETC's master skin is the best skin in the game. Prove me wrong.
Tip:you literally can't
>>146306716
Nice, dude. Always a little discouraging only ever bumping into duo-queues.
>>146306828
Oh, really? Perhaps I'll need to queue again in a bit. Sort of lost interest after securing Diamond on smurfs.
>still haven't finished placements on main for some reason
>>146306868
The blue and gold colouring of Zerg hunter Zeratul is the best.
>>146306868
Samus medic exists, and I'm considering Chen's master skin, since I have gold and no interesting hero to buy
>hotdogs says I'm a whole rank under what I am in-game for HL
nice system lol
>>146307086
Basic Zerg Hunter is the best. But I like that all his color varations are basically all 3 options of "cloak warrior" from LoTV campaign. Base is regular Dark Templar, second is Taldarim Blood Hunter and third is Khalai Avenger.
>Diamond is meant to be top 18%
Eh, not sure what I was expecting, honestly. Probably something a little more like League, though.
>>146308540
What a vague post.
>>146308540
>Diamond is meant to be top 18%
sauce? that's a lot of percent
>>146309076
Never mind, turns out I was thinking of Star Craft 2 distributions from a while ago.
>>146308791
'Dunno, just sort of thought there would be a little more exclusivity to League.
>>146305376
You can buy a blizzcashTM code and give it to them but I assume you meant with gold. Which ya it sucks I agree.
>>146309573
Nah, I'd just like to be able to purchase a Hero, skin or mount in-game for $ and then have it sent to somebody I know, having them log on to receive a gift notification, or something like that.
>>146306019
As said here there do seem to be be unused sound files suggesting it's something they'll do in the future, though.
>or maybe they just recorded all those extra lines in case, and never end up using them ;-;
>>146310613
My friend bought a gift code and gave it to me as a present. You could do that.
>>146310613
sucks, but there's no gifting feature in HotS yet
and this shit's been asked since tech alpha, so i doubt we'll ever actually see it
>>146299079
>>146299362
isn't zarya literally confirmed for being worked on?
zarya is a disgusting lesbian lgbt piece of biological trash. i used to like blizzard because they are like the only game company that doesnt have lgbttrash characters in their games (dragon age, mass effect, witcher, elder scrols ALL THIS HAS GAYS and other creature)
oh how i was psised then i saw how tracer looks like.. and then zarya, loool................ times change
and during blizzcon 14 they confirmed that there is some homo in overwatch
i wonder who
soldier x reaper ? junkrat? lucio?
>>146311253
How do you buy a gift code? The only thing I've seen is like those packs you buy in a store or something, or like a promo code that comes with another game like the jaina code from overwatch.
>>146313723
I think Zarya would be fine if she just had like blonde hair, the pink hair ruins her.
>>146313903
So, an even more butch Johanna.
>>146314048
Basically what happens after a threesome of Brightwing, Johanna and Sonya.
>>146312734
>particle cannon
Okay, this is sort of neat.
>weapon charge
Eh?
>grenade-mode primary weapon
Eh, this is something.
>Ultimate is literally Grav-O bomb
>Tassadar shield
The passively-regenerating shields she has seem to be the only other thing she has going for her.
>>146313738
Uh, dunno. I recently purchased this, though, and haven't used four of the Hero codes.
>http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/heroes-of-the-storm-starter-pack-pc-mac-cd-key
Pretty sure websites sell individual Hero/mount/skin codes as well.
I'M HERE TO FEED!
>>146296859
>implying the last hero won't be alexandros mograine the creator of the ashbringer
fags
why is he so adorable?
>>146316239
So is their only 2 characters left and that's it?
I would imagine they would milk this thing for as long as possible
>>146316460
No, there are more heroes coming up.
>>146316408
Kind of looks like his face is melting desu
>>146313723
You have to be 18 to post on this pho enthusiast board young man.
What should my damage look like at the end of a match as Anub'arak? I feel like I'm not contributing as much as I should be.
Also any general Anub tips are welcome.
>>146317394
step 1. http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/anubarak#kFH- ALWAYS this, except lvl 20 talent situational, leech on 20 VERY GOOD for long poke fights
step 2. never use E to start team fights, unless u have some good advantage
step 3. after my reply, dont listen to any of the subhuman faggots from /hotsg/, they are literally no better than reddit in giving shit advices
if u dont believe, go watch stalk EU grandmaster on twitch
>>146317796
>always take dampen magic
>never regen master
bait/10
>>146317796
>never use E to start teamfights
>takes Epicenter
>not taking BFB
>>146318321
You generally shouldn't use E to start teamfights.
>hello I am in the middle of your team and as you can see I just used my only escape ability, please focus me down instantly
>not taking aoe everything build on kinkbug
fucking scrubs
>>146318636
I think >>146318321 is stating that Epicenter is only good for initiating fights but >>146317796 says you don't use burrow to initiate. Therefore making that talent pretty pointless.
>>146318725
>not going maximum beetles
>FREE beetles
>FREE healing
Uh.....hotstards?!
>>146318830
I get epicenter fairly often and I don't use it to initiate. Just because you dont rush in like crazy burrowing into 5 people doesnt mean you dont get it off on 2-3 mid-fight.
>>146318830
>can't give beetles their own little shields anymore
why live bros?
>>146314048
I was thinking more like an ugly sonya
>>146319032
Uh... if you hit 4+ with epicenter Burrow is back off cooldown, so why wouldn't you? If shit gets intense you can just burrow right back out.
>>146319748
If you hit everyone-1 or everyone you get a free one. Anything less is silly! Great talent we have here.
>>146319861
Someone gets it. Sick of people arguing in vacuums.
>b-b-but if you do x y z and then suck my dick it's a great talent!
>all these conflicting talent choices
can't say who's right or wrong so i just wont listen to anyone here
>>146320143
>not figuring it yourself
Talents are among the easiest fucking thing in multiplayer video games.
Tip: Not every talent is auto-pick every game. Use your brain a little.
wow dude kerrigan is shit
>>146320249
okay nerd
wow dude kerrigan is so much fun
li chink... nygrande.... butts...
>Medivh and Chromie are literally so bad that they've pushed every other hero's win rate to over 51%
nerds
Correct!
>tih-rannd
Incorrect!
>tuh-ronn-duh
>>146323210
>new heroes have low win rates
>heroes that require a brain have low win rates
What's new
>>146323675
>Tih-ran-duh
Super Tyrande WHEN!?
>>146324108
>>146324171
that's what your mom said last night
>>146324417
>>146323210
>Monk is the lowest win rate after those 2
What? How? Winning with Monk is easy, at least at my shitty rank
>>146324531
because people are shit with palms. you're as good as a monk as you're good with palms, so if you can't land a palm, you just shouldn't play him
>hero talent calculator 404
tyrande
ded thred
ded gaem
I'M HERE TO MISS ROF!
>>146329126
>I'm here to miss everything!
- Me playing Jaina in 2015
I'm here to fail!
>Chromie gets 1k hero damage
>Hahah yeah i hate this champ. i want that gold though
>Just go to ai then
>Lol nah man get half? hahah nah
>i dont care if i get muted lol
This is why HoTS is a shit game
People just don't fucking care about playing the game right they'd rather act like inbred fuck nuggets for a grind. seriously.
>>146331069
>Chromie takes R wombo combo build
>doesn't land a single one
>point it out
>DUDE I'M STONED GIVE ME A BREAK
>>146316408
if E-sports ever takes off for mainstream audiences, Benedict C. could play him.
>>146331069
That's most games. Why do you think Micro-transactions are billion dollar markets
>>146331069
>play chromie for the first time
>top on both siege and hero damage
>least deaths
Seems like a pretty easy hero to play, just chill in the back and snipe people. More of a sniper character than Nova
>>146331069
If only Blizz kept afk training in
>>146333307
Pretty much. Nova's a bit of a simple character, really.
>slow
>snipe
>aoe heroic/pick off
Quite lack-luster. Zera generally has more use.
Just need a character with a skill that's similar to both Nova's snipe and Chromie's Sand Blast. Where you charge up to fire but there's no projectile speed (instant) so wind-up like Chromie, but instant like Nova's snipe (assuming it's instant)
>quick match
>nova shitter
>does nothing but try and burst down the enemy johanna all game long
>enemy team has squishy Greymane, Chromie, Medivh
but nooooo, she has to keep attacking their tank
>>146334518
This happens frequently, even in high ranks. It's a universal thing in multiplayer games like assfaggots. Tanks are the easiest to hit so people tend to focus them. And again frequently I try to get players on my team (if they're focusing tanks) to hit the squishies instead. Nearly every single time it works. The most recent example a couple days ago, we were crushing early game then middle game we were starting to lose because we (as a team) kept focusing the tanks in both team fights were slightly lost. I encouraged my team to dive and focus their squishies first (I was Leroic and said I'll go straight for them, lock them in and slow) and we 5-wiped while we lost 1.
It's worth communicating, despite many people (vocal minority really, like reddit) saying communication is bad.
2 types of HL games
Either
>you're doing poorly and team mates incite fighting, and no one helps each other out
or
>you're doing well, and everyone compliments each other and helps each other out
>>146334986
Sounds like games in general. Not just HotS and not just HL.
>lose promo match to get into masters 4 times now
just end my life already
Play HL, fap or uninstall?
>>146334803
There's no way to phrase "stop hitting the tank" without idiots feeling personally insulted.
>>146334803
>>146338783
theres nothing wrong with attacking the tank if their backline is fairly safe
>>146338883
>FUCKING RETARDS STOP HITTING MURADIN
>he jumps into our backline, kills our Morales and then runs away
>>146339215
Sure, sometimes it's okay. Key word: Sometimes.
>>146339215
>there's nothing wrong with attacking the tank
>as nova
ok, anon
i should have known something was up when vikings got picked
>>146339545
I had a muradin kill me as raynor from full health, he took grandslam at 20, he punched the diablo next to me hitting me with that damage, and thunder clapped and punched me again and I was just dead before my heal could even trigger.
>>146339594
Lebin suicide to poke a squishy mindset
>>146341128
you comments was cute because you seem to have forgotten that Nova has a cloak and she can just as easily just sit back and pick off squishies while everyone else is distracted
but that's okay, you can keep sniping tanks with spellshields and block as Nova
i'll see you when i make a smurf and climb from bronze up to masters
:^)
>>146342354
She doesn't have a lot of range though.
>>146342354
>"""""""Invisibility"""""" = Invincibility
Laugh out loud.
how do i carry in this game?
>>146342840
get gud
>>146342840
Play Kerrigan
>>146336913
take 5, here we go
>>146345882
i lost 9 promos to move from diamond 3 to diamond 2, half of those losses i had to win two games to get a promo match again, my winrate is 58% but im not progressing.
>>146342840
I think the entire point is that you aren't meant to be able to. Wasn't quite able to appreciate how little you could "carry" in Hots until I spectated a friend in League go 50-0 playing Zed in some Bronze/Silver game.
>>146345882
Good luck, comrade.
>Yesterday everything was a blunder, even when we were winning, ended up losing at the last minute
>Today we steamrolled and team was communicative but not throwing shit
Not saying that forced 50 is real, but man quite a change of pace between both days
>>146346942
>>146347958
i did it, lads. finally. now i can lose it in 2 straight games
>>146342840
Duo queue with someone who is good as well, that is the only way to do well in this game.
why are you niggers never on /vg/ when I play :^[
>>146342840
Master chen
>Using what few resources I still controlled within the Horde, I acquired many of the long-dead corpses of the fallen Knights of Azeroth. Into these twisted and decayed forms I instilled the essences of the greater members of the Shadow Council who were quite willing to return to the mortal plane to wreak terror and havok once again. I furnished each of the dark riders a jeweled truncheon through which they could better focus the unearthly powers they would brandish. Into these jewels were infused the raw, necromantic magiks of the freshly slain Necrolytes. Thus were the Death Knights born.
>Orgrim Doomhammer was pleased with these Knights of Death. Although the spirits of the Shadow Council remained loyal to me, they feigned allegiance to the War Chief. Orgrim was well satisfied with the realization of my promise, and allowed me to go about my own affairs.
>I will be patient and bide my time, pretending to be the faithful servant until the time comes to show this presumptuous, boisterous upstart who is greater between us. My designs to discover the Tomb of Sargeras still remain. I have assembled the Stormreaver clan to be my support when the season finally comes to strike back at Orgrim for his insolent crimes against me...
>That day draws near - and Doomhammer cannot know what terrors await him,
>for I am Gul'dan...
>I am darkness incarnate.
>I will not be denied.
when?
>tfw so close to buying a master skin despite wanting a handful more heroes
>one of the skin colours are nice while the other two are awful
Suffering.
how's season 1 of hots been treating everyone?
was it everything you've wished for?
>>146352312
it's everything forced 50 wished for
>>146297136
Man, those red robes will look so good )I hope).
>>146299384
I sure hope they gan get his VA and not a new one like sylv and anub, I'd play him just for that rumbling voice.
>>146353903
>fear the Legion's might!
>Squirm! Scream!
>die, mongrels!
>Gul'dan, what have you done? I am so... weak
the voice acting is the best part of that fight, second best voice acting after SOCRETHAR
>>146351537
Where is that from?
>>146354580
the Warcraft 2 manual
>>146354692
Cool
>Game 7 of Placements
>3-3 right now
>First ban
>I first pick Valla after KT/Ching Chong bans
>Morales and Rehgar also banned
Predictions!
>>146356669
>illidank with 0 illidank support, Stiches and Xul to shut Illidank down
3-4
>>146356669
You should lose.
Anything could happen, though.
>>146356669
All in on purple, blues gonna die to overkill and strafe while they try to focus illidan.
>>146354564
WC3 pitlord is boss too.
>"What is your feeble request?"
>>146356987
Illidan was master skin. Ended up throwing the game and never grouping for teamfights.
>>146357121
We did. 3-4.
>>146357128
FUCK THIS KIKE GAME AND ILLIDAN AND HJKLKA;DSFJLDSKFJLK
>>146358015
THEY'RE IN THE NEXT FUCKING GAME. I've literally never draft-dodged until today.
>>146358083
Yeah, it's unfortunate.
I managed to get matched with a duo-queue that insisted on "always" playing Cho'gall, then picked him and told everybody else to build around them or we would lose.
>enemy drafts tychus
>he just stands there and lets tychus get full D value
>blames everybody else
Figure it's whatever, then queue for another match.
>same duo-queue Cho'gall
>they instantly lock in AFTER the opposing team drafts Tychus
Sometimes I really do wish Hero League was solo queue only.
>>146358083
It was literally four of the nine people from the prior game.
Do I go 3-5 or 4-4? I'm guessing forced 50.
>>146358494
Lili an Jojo v Tracer should work out pretty well for you. Two giant killers at 13 will help a lot against those fatties. seems 4-4 baring any terrible fuckups.
>>146358494
If that illidan was half fucking decent the last game was an easy win.
This is a free game, double tank with jaina tracer as damage. No way you can lose unless they're like two divisions above you
>>146299362
>Reinhardt
>inb4 he gets a Blackhand skin
>>146358589
Yeah Lili wanted to Malf but I said nono the blinds dude and so Jo went from Dibbles then too. I went Giant killer on 13. Stats btw.
>>146359003
Oh totally. In the dumb mistakes dept. it was, worst to best: Illidan (a bunch all game) > Tychus (big noticeable mistakes instead of a bunch of little ones) > Jo (getting picked off solo more than 4x) > Myself (a few small and big) > Malf (only really one)
>>146359626
Don't do drugs, kids. I forgot the image.
>>146359448
>we can rebuild this place. BUT NO ONE WILL EVER PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER!
Hi I haven't played this game in a long time. Does unranked let me play without that fucking gay hidden MMR yet?
>>146359860
unranked draft just means it's unranked
but there's still hidden MMR to pair you up with people of similar skill
it would be fucking retarded to just randomly pick people, there has to be some form of matchmaking, you cocknugget
>>146360837
That blows. I just wanted to stomp noobs as Chen all god damn day. This sucks
Has ranked stabilised now? I've placed into Plat 3 a while back and hardly touched ranked since.
I'm in love with a twitch girl & I don't know what to do about it so I guess I'll post it here.
There's this girl who streams often who reminds me of my ex. She looks just like her & sounds like her too. I've donated quite a bit to her & watch her every time she streams. I also have all her VODs saved & cut up into different sections based off different things
>Variety Streams
>Thrall
>LiLi
>etc
This way if I feel like playing I can play say Sonya & I can put on a VOD of hers playing Rehgar & imagine we're playing together.
I also have all her VODs saved as mp3 files & play them when I go to bed so I can listen to her voice like she's going to bed with me(but not in a weird creepy pervy way. Like a comforting & spooning her & protecting her from evil kind of way)
I'm going to go meet her at Blizzcon this year & I'm going to see if I can get some of her hair but idk if I can save up enough to go
>>146362080
Do it anon, also try to sneak into the women's restroom when she's inside and offer her your heart. Women are least prepared when you get them in the restroom.
>>146362080
>(but not in a weird creepy pervy way.
THE ABSOLUTE MADMAN
>>146362080
If this isn't bait, don't do it
>>146363212
relax i'm not going to cut her fucking hair i will ask her permission & ask her if i can have a locke of her hair. Then I plan on later donating to find out what kind of shampoo she uses so I can keep the smell to enhance the experience like she's sleeping with me
SEA ded as fuck
>>146363493
SEA same as Australian servers or is there another for HotS?
>>146363287
Don't stop there. Just tell her the truth.
She knows your donating a lot and realizes you love her. She's probably burning to see you in person.
Make a good impression on her and maybe you won't even need her hair since she will be sleeping next to you anyway.
>>146363493
>SEA not flocking another f2p game
Surprising
Their toasters can't handle it or something?
>>146363287
If you're planning on idolizing her so much, I'd rather encase the lock of hair in a pendant. That way she can be with you at all times and when someone asks you about it, you can always say it's from a dead relative or something.
You should also dress up as a noble knight when you ask her for the lock of hair.
>>146363565
its a sub-region of US
>>146351537
Lads, I finally realized how Orgrim will take down Gul'dan in the next movie!
Remember that he didn't have his iconic armor in the movie? That's because he will only get it in the sequel.
Orgrim is now an outcast and traveling alone. But he's still mad at Gul'dan. He will most likely go and hide at Blackrock mountain at the start of the movie.
In the meantime Gul'dan will assault Stormwind and fail. They could do it like in the games where Kilrogg and Cho'gall are responsible for the failed assault. Kilrogg already appeared at the end of the last movie and they need some scenes for Cho'gall.
So the failure will make some orcs unhappy with Gul'dan and they will desert. So these orcs will find Orgrim and ask him for help since he spoke out against Gul'dan last time. Maybe they could be Blackrocks who are now without a chieftain since Blakchand is dead. So Orgrim becomes chieftain of the Blackrock but he still needs a way to beat Gul'dan's magic.
Here he gets contacted by some desu ex machina like the ancestors, ghost Medivh, Deathwing or whatever it doesn't really matter, who tell them to forge a suit of armor inside the mountain from the ore found there. Orgrim forges this armor which turns out immune to fel magic. So he goes back and overthrows Gul'dan. But being a true orc he still fights the humans and sacks Stormwind.
>>146362080
>donating to a streamer
lmao just end your life senpai
I've seen loads of different li ming builds, whats the best go to one normally?
>>146364831
Can I queue with a bronze player if I'm doing my placement matches? Would it put them with a higher level of people? I want to help a friend get to silver 1, but my main account is diamond and I can't queue with them, but maybe on a smurf account?
>>146366714
>senpai
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>>146366976
how knew
>>146366956
>Can I queue with a bronze player if I'm doing my placement matches?
no
>>146367054
well that sucks I guess I can never queue with him
>>146367136
make a smurf with meme heroes only
>>146366924
First he lost his friend, then his clan and now his ice cream.
He will never be in HotS either.
Poor Orgrim.
why do i top every single stat as pRIM41 p4K133Dr in every QM game, including reverse topping the death stat?
So this is the power of forced 50. Raynor that complains all game to boot. I knew it'd come since I had great placement matches. I take it ranked is still fresh and fucked up?
>>146367609
Its partly that its fresh, but also without real mmr decay, people that havnt played in months but come back now there is a ranked season are placed higher than they should be.
I know this is the case because I fall in that category, placed in plat 3 and now plat 5
>>146367469
Honestly he could work as a Thrall skin, but it would have to be the movie version otherwise it would be literally Thrall with a different head and skin tone (same armor, same weapon).
It wouldn't make sense with all the shamanistic abilities but we already have widowmaker calling nuclear strikes from space.
>>146366924
Despite all the faults of movie Orgrim, at least he wasn't treated even remotely as badly as in WoD.
>Thrall's armor from vanilla with 2003 textures
>that pathetic looking hammer
>storyline cut
>>146367189
>did this with the intention of having an only zera/murky account
>ended up just playing with that account and never playing on my main again
how goes the last 24 hours, lads
>>146368186
Quite horrible. Won 5 matches in a row, now I've been in lose streak. 3 in a row (with buddies). I don't want to continue.
day 3 whoops
level 20 now
>>146368581
I stop playing for the day if I lose 2 HL games in a row.
anyone know that rawrior guy
>>146368972
only that he donates a lot to chubby8
I'M HERE TO THROW!
>>146369053
Real talk, is Jaina that bad now or is this referencing poor players and their tendency to pick her up?
>>146369136
yes
>start playing auto select only
>fun multiplies tenfold and win 80% of the games
Good God, you guys should try this
>>146369136
both honestly
>li-ming banned
>kael banned
>shit i'm first pick i better insta lock jaina instead of: falstad, another global, thrall, greymane, xul/zag on tomb/bhb/ds, rexxar on ds, sylv on boe
>mfw
>lose 7 placement matches
>still get -26 Personal Rank Adustement in Gold
Why does hotdogs say I'm gold HL but in the client I am plat 3? It's far lower than my supposed QM MMR (diamond)
>>146371257
QM != HL
>>146371475
Can't you read, anon?
Hotdog HL = gold
In-game HL = plat
Both are HL.
>>146371257
Because hotslogs mmr system is different from Blizzards system
Who should I get to level 9 next?
>>146371257
because you're actually bronze
>>146372287
Murky
>>146372442
Everyone is the same rank in this dogshit system.
>>146372991
exactly
grandmaster or bust
>>146372991
I'm grandmaster rank 40 tho.
>grandmaster
>not just calling it "I queued with a friend"
When will they remove duo queues from HL?
>>146373601
There are many grindmasters who solo queue'd to it though??
So i was recently given an account with ~1900 rating in both QM and HL, large hero pool, that i'll be playing for a while. 5-3 in placements so far and i'm 90% sure it will end up in gold regardless. Are there any non-shitters here in gold that wanna duo and climb? My own account is ~2600 in diamond, i don't feed, i don't shit talk, i don't draft jaina or any other shit heroes. EU, mostly play after 9pm GMT+1, leave battletag if interested. Willing to try with anyone except li li mains.
anyone that puts out want to duo queue?
>>146373503
yeah I saw you are the only guy in /vg/ with high rank, was it hard? which rank did you get after the placements matches btw?
So uh, why is Jaina bad exactly? I haven't played in awhile and only recently been getting back into HoTS this past week. I remember she was top tier with KT back then. What's wrong with her now? Nerfs?
>>146374561
People are shit. KT and Ming are much safer since she requires a little more thought than just tapping QWER as fast as possible while watching Game of Thrones reruns.
>>146374561
Eh, not so much nerfs as shit players using her. Li Ming does her job better with more mobility and Kaels just his usual power house self. She's mediocre with a good player. If you got a good team, say you and 2 others are partied up and communicating, she does decently well. I always liked her, but just never played enough to git gud.
>>146374561
This hero need the best positioning in the game to both survive and deal effective damage, people play her like an assassin thinking it's okay to kill 1 or 2 people and then die when in reality Jaina must be played in a way it wears down the entire enemy team so the healers can't keep up and your team can advance/ win objectives / secure kills. You must prioritize being alive with Jaina rather than trade kills at all times, losing jaina is worst than losing Kael since at least kael probably did enough burst damage before it dies but Jaina needs more time to do sustained damage to all the enemy team.
You can spot the bad jaina players when
-they use ring of frost on 1 target
-they are on cooldowns when you need her the most, like in mosh pits.
-they use W on 1 target unless necessary
-panic on any meele assassin and use all their spells on it
-aproach the entire enemy team just to pop E + W and then die
-not behind team when tf starts
>>146374489
Got placed diamond 3 after 6-4 placements.. was always top 100 in every blizzard monthly ranking and highest was 4k mmr on hotslogs.
It wasn't that hard for me, but that's a relative question. Getting grindmaster was easy for me, just like rank 1 was easy for me.. but once you're here it's literally just grinding for points and has no connection with MMR.
Which is why at least 10 of the top 20 people in NA leaderboards are people abusing singapore/south american servers. Complete joke... but still tons better than the old rank 1 system.
>>146374561
She still has her damage from when she was first pick.
The problem is that they removed her sprint talent, removed bolt of the storm talent and moved her last and final defensive ability ice block to level 20.
So now she literally only has ice block and it's at level 20.
The only reason she is hard to pick right now is because she's so god damn easy to kill and literally anything with a movement ability (e.g. most assassins) kill her without breaking a sweat.
anyway to afk AI matches for exp? i just want the wow pet.
>>146376141
>jaina
>sustained damage
Yeah nah. Jaina still 1 shots most people. Her damage is still there and she is 200% burst, not sustain.
If you're playing her like a sustain damage dealer, you're playing her wrong.
She's bad because they removed sprint and bolt, the only things that kept her alive.. and moved her ice block to level 20. So she's incredibly easy to kill.
>>146378014
No, they fixed that last week.
>>146378014
>>146378329
You can still afk with abathur. His locusts do damage and prevent you from being kicked
>>146378014
queue commands
have them run into lanes and occasionally have them run back in
let leoric spook around in the enemy base
>>146378174
yeah not sustained damage, but distributed damage? when I play her I make sure to hit the largest amount of heroes so everyone is low, meaning they can't just dive at me to kill me or they risk a team wipe, It works for me better than just securing kills desu someone else can do that.
>>146369136
it's referencing bad players tendency to focus on memes.
>>146369356
they don't own most of that shit.
mighty bust will fuck up games just as much in low leagues.
same with the green man of sundering away good moshes and other misadventures
sylv is so overrated i pick zag/xul then ban the other with second ban so i get a guaranteed shitter to play against.
only greymane is worth mentioning because he replaces a lot of what she does in damage potential and has a disengage
>>146374561
she's not bad just the illidan of mages. you can afford no mistakes and can't mindlessly draft her early like many other ranged assassins.
>>146376141
more or less this but it's not so easy in practice. even when the other team is hanging around trying to give you a free team wipe if you just wait another <20 seconds for their healer to burn the last of their mana someone on your team will be stupid and make a mess of things.
>>146379684
>they don't own most of that shit.
the only excuse. everything else you're just wrong about. i did not mention falstad and thrall because of their damn ults, they're better than jaina overall, and not to mention its a lot fucking easier to miss a rof than gust or sunder. i precisely said when and where to draft sylv also. seems to me you just cant understand that you're waifu simply isn't a good pick anymore.
>towers of doom
>tfw your team ignores all lanes and mercs and just tries to fight all game long
>losing the game thanks to it
>just start laning with nova
>suddenly we start doing much better
>turn a 5-30 situation around and win with 2 health left
Ended with us capping all the towers. Had to use precision strike to clear waves all the time and once saved the game by interrupting a channel. Thanks Medivh for taking the specialist slot so everyone just kept trying to fight as usual, thinking someone is going to clear the waves for them
OFFICIAL list of heroes that are any fun to play in hots, my 1 year of experience, played almost every day. anything that isnt in this list is a pretty shit hero (in terms of having fun) and just showcases that blizzard rlly fail as game designers. i have all heroes
WARRIORS
muradin - pretty funny vs noobs, jump around never die and insta kill squishies in late game
chen - pretty funny esp with barrel, never die
dehaka - cool kills and never die with D from takedowns talent
leoric - pretty cool medieval guy, walk around and never die, trap everyone with entomb
ASSASSINS
kaelthas - lvl 20 hero, still not bored of committing genocide
illidan - he comes close as a fun hero, but kinda meh. assassins succ
SPECIALISTS
gazlowe - nice trollpick, u have to be rlly shitty to lose vs him, but when u win games its pretty funny
medivh - unkillable god of tricks and teamfighting
TASSADAR
tassadar - same as medivh, vs dumb retards (even on high mmr) u can be rlly annoying, pick archon and u can be ur teams tank, bait ppl and never die
tyrande - tassadars wife, pretty fun to blow ppl up like they r some jihadists
anything else can be considered fun only by an autistic subhuman piece of faggot shit.
abathur is not fun, his kit is boring as fuck.
vikings are not fun, too dependant on ur team not feeding and rlly sucs balls that each vviking doesnt have their own abilities
>>146381257
>>146381257
>aba
>not fun
Pleb shit/10
>>146381478
except only 3k pleb shits play abathur nowadays.
>>146381717
So people better than you. Agreed.
>install this game again, because why not
>play 5 placement games
>diamond vs diamond
>seems promising
>team is filled with monkeys
>lose 5 in a row
>u are le only constant team ooga me booga
>uninstalled
>>146381257
You have some shitty ass opinions. ETC not on warrior list? How is not getting 5 man mosh's and having the ability to win entire games by yourself not fun? Unless you're just shit at the game.
There are many other heroes that are way more fun than the shit you listed too, but I only want to point out 1 more.. Rehgar.
How can you not enjoy rehgar as a support? What the fuck?
Fuck you and your shit tier taste.
>>146381756
"people" is an implication that they are human? average new players get 3k in 500 games, its very bad monkey rating, but it appears that its some height for u. if i had spare money i would spend it on your euthanasia
>>146381979
>u
>your
Didn't know getting BTFO by an Abathur caused brain damage.
THE SKELETON KING CALLS YOUR NAME!
