>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.
How hard is it to play Artanis? I like the look of him.
Levi Williams
>Cute AND fun
Mason Young
>most stuns nerfed >kael's stun untouched Kael buff confirmed. It's like so hard for them to ever nerf kael without nerfing other heroes around him to make him stronger
Isaac Sanders
That Gazlowe stun might as well be a buff because literally NO ONE gets hit by the stun outside of the wombo combo that only really works in Bronze. You pretty much only use it to clear waves or for area denial.
Levi Diaz
How long is the stun duration for kael?
Benjamin Clark
1.5 seconds when you empower it, and you usually empower it.
Jackson Rodriguez
>Was considering the idea of learning how to chen >He gets a small buff
Not often in my life I make a good choice
Robert White
>rank 5 HL >people still pick shit tier champions, ban something nobody would ever pick anyways and don't counterpick
Isn't rank 5 supposed to be the at least "good" players?
Sebastian Hughes
Then it's pretty much in line with all the other stuns
Logan Kelly
>Isn't rank 5 supposed to be the at least "good" players? Well, you are in rank 5 so what did you expect?
Leo Phillips
>People still call them champions when the word heroes is in the fucking title >Spanish
Jose Edwards
Most stuns are 1 or .75 seconds now
Landon Carter
Other good players like me?
Jayden Smith
MEDIVH
Ryder Lopez
You guys think the Chromie bundle will have a mount? I don't feel like buying that skin
Noah Wood
it will have the fel Billie mount
Blake Robinson
How to talent Muradin?
Thomas Reed
Q to stun D to heal
Jonathan Collins
guys need one more hero to get into HL what should i buy that would be the most competitive ? thrall, johanna, diablo, falstad, zeratul is falstad still worth it after the nerfs also can zeratul carry HL placement games ?
Elijah Adams
Thrall
Andrew White
with these team league queue times I'm starting to think it will be physically impossible for me to complete the placement matches
Jack Bennett
johanna, diablo and thrall are good options no he is shit unless they have memetc no
Ethan Gutierrez
Hmm ye...price estimate?
Angel Allen
did they add bans for this game yet
Ethan Smith
A while ago, yup.
HOTS has officially left beta.
Dylan Bailey
no idea famalam sorry
3 months back i think?
Bentley King
Yes. HL has two bans each, one right at the start, one halfway through the picks.
Aiden James
It's out of beta when season 1 hits and we get the actual ranking system, we are almost out.
Brody Howard
neat
When's season 1? Sometime june? I remember that's when it was first 'released' I guess.
Christopher Martin
Asking again since I got ignored. How hard is it to play Artanis decently?
Owen Powell
>Sometime june?
June 14th I think.
Jason Wilson
>Tracer has a 0 ban/0 pick rate in Korean/European Tournaments.
Tracer is OP they said. She has to be nerfed or she'll ruin the meta they said.
Samuel Perez
Not that hard, but it's all about comitting to something and either doing it or dying half way, you're relying in your team in the sense that you must be in the same page with people, artanis can win situations that other characters normally won't be able to with let's say, 40% health. So niggers instinctly just walk away when they see a nigger coming Other than that the other "hard" thing is timing your W and improved Q to get full shield value and try to lose as little if none effective HP
Zealot charge baseline helped him a lot, i'd say. Other than that just make sure to take templar zeal + psionic synergy otherwise you won't have that much solo sustain, and don't understimate amateur oponnent, usually a must pick in BoE, but can make you a solid creeper and if needed you can shit on buildings
Charles Brown
thanks for the quick answer glad i didnt waste 10k on zera based thrall it is then
Nicholas Powell
I think they're not allowed to pick Tracer yet in tournaments because she came out while they had already started. Could be wrong though.
Dylan Edwards
she deals so little damage early its insane no waveclear also
Caleb Rivera
Nope, there's a two week ban on new heroes, but Tracer has been out officially for 2 weeks now. People just aren't picking her.
Jordan Reed
Tracer is the epitome of poking someone to death. The pulse bomb being the only source of serious damage.
Easton Jenkins
13 upgrade to W is very good for waveclear. Of course gives up other serious AA upgrades She deals good damage to squishies and Pulse Bomb is great too She's not OP at all though
Connor Williams
I still can't believe Chromie got picked.
She was at the top of my most wanted hero list, but I never thought we'd ever actually see her.
Dylan Lewis
Link?
Leo Watson
I just want Kel'Thuzad, but I doubt we'll ever get him.
Easton Fisher
>She's not OP at all
Tracer was exactly like Butcher on release. Retards who didn't know how to position would get blown the fuck up because they were wandering down the enemy jungle with zero thought and would blame the fact that they died on the hero instead of their own stupidity.
Grayson Murphy
>spend 10 minutes in team league queue >spend 5 minutes playing
wew
Nicholas Ward
I know how you feel When Bayonetta was announced for Smash I also lost my shit.My favourite character but never actually thought she'd be picked
Samuel Powell
Except Butcher can't just say LOL NOPE and fuck off when that lone Li-Ming was actually a trap to get Butcher
Sebastian Phillips
>Kel'Thuzad >Unique visual silhouette >Liches are one of the most iconic Warcraft figures >Death magic and Frost kit only overlaps with one other hero.
We'll see him soon, I'm sure.
I'm glad they picked Chromie, but I'm disappointed they made her a mage instead of a support. A weird choice because in WoW she's an observer and the one time she helps you out in combat, she's healing you the whole time.
Michael Miller
What? How?
Adrian Powell
>expecting the team of new devs to know anything about warcraft lore
Nicholas Jackson
I've seen 2 different videos of people rushing one lane and finishing in about 2:38
Liam Bennett
vikings soak 4 man push mid (quite potent with li ming, raynor + etc buff and bw aoe healing everyone) take enemy mid bruisers get plant power push with plant and bruisers
Jacob Wood
What would Kel'Thuzad do differently that wouldn't just leave him as a Jaina/Xul hybrid?
Michael Diaz
>played HL for first time >want rank 20 for mount reward >go 10-10 in placement games >rank 31
How? my last few games were with people in the mid teens? Why did they place me so far down?
Noah Foster
neither Jaina nor Xul have a single Lich spell, stop posting this
Hudson Ward
cuz 10-10 is a terrible score
Carter Johnson
That's weird myplacement were like 7-13 and I was placedin 18.
Camden Nelson
yeah I had a 5 game losing streak in the middle that hurt
Michael Rivera
>Frost Nova: AoE Root with slight cast time. >Dark Ritual: Sacrifice Minion, Gain Ability Power and Mana >Detonate Mana: Targeted damage, burns mana and causes AoE damage around target. High cooldown. Ults: >Comet Storm: Like Blizzard, but roots anyone caught in it in place. Comparatively low damage for ult. >Death and Decay: Like Phoenix, but slows and damage is done by health percentage based. Higher damage and radius than Comet Storm.
There you go.
Benjamin Bailey
I like it. Now the most important question. What alt skins would he have?
Owen Allen
Carnival skin called the xylobone, an egyptian skin similar to tassadar and desert queen.
Noah Hill
Problem with Tracer is that anything you'd want to do with her, Zeratul does better.
Luis Miller
Necromancer and evil stepmother
David Kelly
Master skin would be just a bigger helmet and bigger pauldrons
Nolan Bell
I lost two of my TL placement matches against a team of khaldor, antihero and friends
those losses shouldnt drag my rank down too much right
Parker Robinson
side question, any idea how many games it would take me to get to rank 20 from 31?
like how many "points" does it take to go from one rank from the next, and how many do you get on average, per win?
Robert Cox
toaster webms from the trench
Camden Cox
Is that a froggy in a bubble?
Connor Long
man those red faggots are really trying to throw the game.
Jose Diaz
Do you guys think the Arthas and Anub'arak changes will actually do much?
Wasn't one of the biggest complaints about Arthas his low mobility, and for Anub it was his shitty HP pool? Arthas only gets a mobility talent at rank 20 (which is probably going to be inferior to the Anti-magic shell anyway), and much of Anub's health increase is from that quest talent that everybody seems to hate.
Nathan Taylor
Arthas will be a top tier tank competitive with Muradin based on comp.
Anub'arak will be the best Bruiser pick and will be Chen levels of niche, but strong pick when you can get away with a two warrior comp.
Kevin Carter
>Wasn't one of the biggest complaints about Arthas his low mobility I thought it was his low survival and hp.
Angel Ward
I think it's like 3 wins per rank
Cameron Kelly
depends of win/loss-streaks. i'd say about 2 games per rank if you win most of them
Angel Mitchell
thanks
idk if I can handle another 20 games of HL ...
it was brutal at the start with all the rank 40s it wasn't until the mid 20s that I actually enjoyed the games
William Jones
>Frost Nova Soo...literally the same as Arthas' root? >Dark Ritual It'd be either completely useless amount of power and mana, or OP if it'd be anything considerable for just one minion. If it's to be used on more minions (stacks/area/lowCD), then DOTA level of bullshit exp denial would commence and I'm sure Blizzard doesn't wan't those *anti-fan* mechanics. >Detonate Mana Same thing: Blizzard stated they don't want enemy mana manipulation, because it's unfun (and useless against manaless/other resource heroes).
Bth ults are good though. Man I want Kel'thuzad. I hope it takes them so long because they want to do him right.
Jace Garcia
>Soo...literally the same as Arthas' root? what the fuck. user are you retarded?
Nathan Ortiz
Where the fuck is Superman?
Ethan Myers
I got over three times the normal amount of points for the first few games after placement matches so if you go on a winning streak you might end up rank 20 in 10 games
Carter Cox
No it wont they deconfirmed that.
Landon Diaz
Dead, just like this thread
Blake Phillips
What are your ideas then?
Austin Wright
Damn, that's rough.
Charles Peterson
Chromie is ridiculously fucking fun. Nailing someone trying to hearth behind their gates is the most fun you can have in this game.
Jace Rogers
>Nailing someone trying to hearth behind their gates is the most fun you can have in this game. This is why I like greymane.
Oliver Brown
That's what I used to like about him. Now that shit almost never happens
Alexander Price
Yeah he was nerfed to oblivion.
Ethan Rodriguez
Well, worgen build still works. Cocktail is pretty meh now, and that quest talent is shit, specially if people don't stand behind each other
Henry Barnes
Did you mean Azmodan?
Oliver Perez
The problem with worgen build is that most of the time you don't get enough following from your team.
No.
Hudson Campbell
Will Arthas ever be good?
Jack Foster
He said Nailing not DUNKIN' ON! boi
Wait for the next update
Also Tommy can you hear me?
Ryder Bell
Where's our boy Grom? Them trees are not gonna cut themselves.
Brandon Cooper
It makes me sad that people will just cry nerf for Chromie instead of just being more unpredictable when the W is about to go out.
When you're hearthing just either move further back or hearth somewhere that's less predictable instead of by the well or between the fort and tower.
Ethan Robinson
And buff kael remember you've to buff kael in anyway after any update
Samuel James
What do you mean? They're literally nerfing the talent one talent that sometimes people pick that buffs his AA after his W next patch! That's huge!