/hotsg/ - Heroes of the Storm General

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>What's new
Bunch of shit announced. Chromie and Medivh. Season 1 finally rolling out. New Ranking systems.

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20111014/ranked-play-revamp-5-6-2016

[YouTube] Heroes of the Storm: Chromie Hero Spotlight (ALL Abilities & Talents!) (embed)

[YouTube] Heroes of the Storm: Medivh Hero Spotlight (ALL Abilities & Talents!) (embed)

>where do I find you panda-loving faggots
/join Veeky Forums

>Do you have a discord?
discord.gg/0u3cyKnzMnnU2wjN

>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: us.battle.net/heroes/en/
General News: heroesnexus.com/
Tips & Tricks: heroesofthestorm.github.io/tips
Hero Rankings and Statistics: hotslogs.com/Default
Talent Calculator: heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/
All of the hero voice lines: rpboyer15.github.io/sounds-of-the-storm

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>Properly formatted thread edition.

I done goofed

Where the FUCK is Maiev????

>Chromie health at 20: 2562
>Azmodan health at 20: 6004

Defend this.

Why is Chromie so bad?
I always laugh my ass off when they shoot the dragon cumshot and it misses by a mile. Flamestrike is better and I actually know where that's going.

Fourth for bronzies fighting in the channel

Is nothing sacred anymore?

I just wanted to play team league

>Fire a blast into the air that lands after 1.5 seconds, dealing 965 (458 + 4% per level) damage to enemies in an area. Enemies cannot see where the blast will land.

like that

>largest model in the game
>has a nearly useless skill (Demon Warrior)
>has a high profile skill that requires general proximity (All Shall Burn)
>has a high cooldown and cast time on his defining spell (Globe of Annihilation)
>trait is a joke
>autoattacks are average at best
>did I mention he's fucking fat as shit?
Azmodan doesn't have it easy.

stop playing Chromie user

Smaller radius, shorter range and less damage

THE BEETLEKING IS BACK BITCHES! I love it.

Also, Globe's radius doesn't show up until it's already traveling through the air. By the time they see it it's usually too late unless they can blink.

ANTI-MAGIC BEETLES

How is Gazlowe after his rework?

Judging by the fact that nobody ever talks about him, I assume he's still "LOL THIS SHITTER ON MY TEAM JUST PICKED GAZLOWE TIME TO THROW GG CANT CARRY THIS FAGGOT"

>Start plying again after a year
>Find Li Li to be fun as fuck
I think I'm just meant to be a supporter. Any other heroes I should try?

He's really good, fucking turrets are op as fuck.

>Smaller radius
I'd say they're about the same, Dragon's Breath can be increased though

>shorter range
granted

> less damage
debatable, globe has to be farmed for quite a while, DB can be talented for more damage

> Globe's radius doesn't show up until it's already traveling through the air. By the time they see it it's usually too late unless they can blink.
Enemies cannot see where the blast will land.

I'd say the skills are comparable, however chromie can Q spam at range, while azmo needs to get close to E

almost as if azmodan is a Specialist

Beeeeeetles!

>
I'd say the skills are comparable, however chromie can Q spam at range, while azmo needs to get close to E

for follow up damage I mean

>I'd say they're about the same
I'd say you're stupid.

>I'd say they're about the same, Dragon's Breath can be increased though

Are you joking? Globe is nearly twice the radius.

Azmodan simply does Chromie's job better than she does and has nearly 3x the health to help him do it better. Chromie has better zone control, but that is not worth a 4000 health difference.

>I AM YOURS!!!
>I AM HERO AND OBEY!
>TAESTU MY BLUEHADE
>WAZAAAABI

Dragon's breath isn't even close to globes radius even with the upgrade it's not even as big as flamestrike

He better have that accent or he's going to be trash.

Let's be honest, they're not going to give him the super over the top caricature voice.

I will be pissed if they just make him another fucking Orc though. Keep the Japanese accent though, make him sound like Hanzo from Overwatch.

>Chromie has better zone control, but that is not worth a 4000 health difference.

Why not? Compare each hero's entire kit.

Yeah, he'll probably have a mild Japanese accent. I mean Chen has an accent after all.
youtube.com/watch?v=kBd671LvlZk

>my-a-blade-seeks-a-vengeance
Dear god it took me eons to figure that one out as a non-native english speaker

>bronze the post

>LOL THIS SHITTER ON MY TEAM JUST PICKED GAZLOWE TIME TO THROW GG CANT CARRY THIS FAGGOT
well it's true

>silver the post

silver>bronze

If you're not gold, you might as well be bronze.

How do I play Abathur?

So, what character should you never pick on what map?

That's a very broad question.

Lay a mine in the enemy base and burrow straight to the core. They'll never see it coming.

>How do I play Abathur?

Don't.

Butcher on any of them.

Never pick Chromie on battlefield even if they buff her, her PvE damage is too low

I like this "Abathur is worthless" meme. Where did it begin?

Is Chromies hourglass going to be a mount?

From the terrible Abathur players that eclipse the actual good ones

True.

Probably fair, though I do love hurling breaths at the immortal and the people "defending" it when there is a stand off.

Wasn't that the cancerous faggot from the last thread? "Yelatsogood"?

He probably meant that if you need to ask a question how to play him, you shouldn't play him in the first place.

arthas burst is crazy

I bought the pig for Chromie.

And though that would be cool, having her hearth be the hourglass and her mount would probably confuse people.

I like the billy for her, I want the hellbilly for her fel queen skin though

Is it true that Chromie dies if greymane jumps at her?

This
Abathur above all other heroes

Welcoem to HotS, where you either burst like a fucking mad man or you're trash.

They fucked up this game a long ass time ago. It started with Thrall and KT, and just got worse.

How is everyone building Arthas now?
His damage is pretty good, but I still melt in team fights
Still not sure if he can solo tank

Tassadar is oddly satisfying though boring to play.

Try him out.

Chen is also fun and cute if you are a furfag.

that's him, and he's asking people about the previous thread

Any infos on what you get Hellbilly for?

I'm guessing it will be released at the start of the new season that is also roughly their year anniversary so maybe a new billy every year

Why are heroes so fucking expensive in this game?

>Wonder Billie: Rewarded for making a real-money purchase in the Tech Alpha and Closed Beta

>Billie the Kid: Rewarded for making a real-money purchase after launch

I'm guessing Hell Bille will be for a real-money purchase during Season One

>tfw everyone wants you to play Arthas but you like Anubarak more

i dont even want to know how ridiculous this hero were before the nerfs

Hellbilly will probably just be a shop buy bonus again like the other 2 billies

Not a furfag but I'll look into Chen and Tassadar. Thanks!

Li Li is super cute though

>tracer
I feel sorry for the red team Chromie.

Gold is fairly plentiful, but as it comes from quests, you have to play every day. It is part of a strategy to keep people playing.

should feel sorry for their whole team since he got a spoonfeed tracer match

I feel sorry for that fucking comp.

>ETC can be interrupted during power slide
There's so fucking many instant teleports in the game, you'd think they'd at least let the slow dashes be unstoppable

Valla can be interrupted on her vault too, Kerrigan on her leap

And Illidan in the hunt

How to fix Chromie:
>Base increase to W Radius
>Q does 50% damage to creeps, minions, monsters, still passes through them like Thrall's W
>At LEAST 50% more health

Shes fine as is.

because Blizzard practically throws gold at everyone

Chromie feels really shitty and awkward on maps like Blackheart's Bay and Battlefield of Eternity where you actually have to kill creeps.

Her q doing like 50% of it's damage to minions to passes through would make her so much better

I dont feel like this got aknowledged enough. buff nerub plx

He got reworked along with Arthas.

I know, I've been playing him like all day. He's so inferior to arthas its not funny.
Still alot better than before tho imo

>Activision blizzard so terrified of losing players, they shut down any and all videos of DoTA2's free mod of HotS
Fucking pathetic

Anub looks like a better mage killer with all his resistances though.

Chromie does absurd damage from the longest ranges in the game.

She doesn't need to be able to kill creeps more than she already can with her huge aoe nuke that hits the whole wave

Join the legions of warriors who are considered useless because of no wave clear

I didn't look into this at all, but come on. Dota 2 looks like shit, I wouldnt play that shit for free even if it emulated hots.

Arthas can literally become immun to magic at 20. Cant keep up as Anub :(

>huge aoe
AoE is tiny untalented
Not to mention a 14 sec cooldown which is huge.

>Join the legions of warriors who are considered useless because of no wave clear
She's a fucking assassin mage you mong.

Whether it looks like shit or not has 0 bearing on Acti-blizz acting like giga-tyrannical lawyers, trying to stomp out any and all forms of their game

Then again, they DID shut down a 100% free, self coded vanilla server that racked up 150k unique players, so maybe they think if they brutally eliminate all GOOD competition, the disheartened players will go back to the BAD source?

Its crazy, them protecting the shit they created.

>She's a fucking assassin mage you mong.

And that means she needs waveclear?

She's designed around poor waveclear and good hero killing. She's basically supposed to be their second attempt at Ming after they fucked that up.

>She's a fucking assassin mage you mong
she's chromie you cookie cutter shitter.

This is every company in the world, go make a Lion king musical without Disneys consent.

Best example to use because they at one point sued the people who made Kimba the lion
And lost the case

Azmo has longer range, also it's a small radius even if you take the upgrade plus it's a 14 second CD (unless you take loop then it gets a 25% damage reduction) that if you are using on creeps you are going to miss out on a ton of your damage

Chromie definitely needs help, and her horrible waveclear is one thing that really holds her back.

Wasn't that Japanese or something?
China can bootleg whatever they want, but you'll never see an american company get away with it.
DotA is american.

"protection" infers to what? pretty sure, so long as no money is being exchanged, favors used, or the like, its fair game

on top of that, if blizzard has the right to shut down a mod of HoTS, which is free, then Valve/Riot should shut down HoN/Smite/HotS for stealing their entire IP

Dota was on warcraft 3 long before any of those.

Protection from someone else using their shit they created over thousands of others and big money to develop for free. If you cant understand the sentiment you never created anything of the slightes value or are a pinky maggot slut desu.

Also - Valve shutting down the source they stole their own game from? lel

>having chromie on your team in hl means you are fighting a 4v5 all the time
great game

>cursed hollow
>Pick chromie
>blast them away

In fact, Blizzards EULA says anything even made with their programs are their property.

It's actually more of a preventive measure.
If they allow things like that to slide then in future court cases people can say that they haven't protected their IPs in the past.

Also same genre isn't theft of an IP.