/hotsg/ - Heroes of the Storm General

"Overwatch soon, cya fuccbois" edition

>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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Is Rexxar high tier now?

He's still hard to play, but now he actually gives Vikings-level results for all the effort you put into him. Absolutely worth playing if you enjoy him as a hero. He's a solid pick on every map, and S tier on Dragon Shire.

Expect most people to say he's low tier because they're used to playing Kael'thas and Xul and are frustrated that they can't mash their keyboard and win games.

Where the FUCK is Maiev????

getting her elvish cunt full of demon dick

Reminder:
Next 4 heroes are:
-Gul'dan
-Samuro
-Auriel
-Varian

Proof:
boards.fireden.net/vg/search/username/Axolotl/

>Kael'thas and Xul to mash keyboard and win games.

That's an awful funny way to spell Li-Mangy Slut, user.

When the fuck is a level 7 talent going to stop dealing more damage than a good amount of level 20 talented damage-specific ults?

You forgot Medivh...

Chromie nerfs when? She is literally worse than li-ming was on release.

>making greymane great again
trumpmane skin when?

>mfw Tychus is actually neat and fun

>fixing his shit ult will make him playable
doubt.jpg
inb4 both of his ults get impactfuled

Where the FUCK is Maiev????

>Vashj being worked on
>Azshara never
ugh

if these links are true I'm fucking done with this game
Varian? Fucking seriously? Who gives a single fuck about Varian

Where the FUCK is Superman???

>skins: Volleyball Li-Ming
My dick is not ready.

RIP THICK VULTURE

Don't stand in front of that end, kid.

>Rexxar is my favorite hero, WarCraft character really
>First hero I've gotten to level 20
>Just started playing again
>These Rexxar buffs

My quarry nears.

This.

greetings, traveler

>it's a sergeant hammer sits in stealth and watches the team die episode.

Medivh. Gold.

Finally something approaching a proper wizard instead of this clutch of pretenders. He looks like a wizard. He acts like a wizard. His spells aren't from the school of thought that wizardry is defined by blunt instruments like fireballs and lightning bolts. The defining trait of the wizard is wisdom; magic is merely what the wisdom reveals. Medivh's spells will certainly have to be used wisely to be effective. Playing him will be like playing as Gandalf trying to usher four belligerent hobbits through Moria. Every game will be a grand adventure!

Polymorph goes ever on and on
Spread from the hero where it began
Until they get wise and spread out
Of course that was all part of the plan
Pursuing them into defeat
Until they all lie in the grave
Then at the core four hobbits meet
But will we win? I cannot say!

contain your autism

>When the fuck is a level 7 talent going to stop dealing more damage than a good amount of level 20 talented damage-specific ults?

I've been wondering about this since the release of Li Balanced Mage. If it were a 16 Talent, maybe. But at 7? What the hell?

>No draenai

>tfw Tyrant Velhari never

...

Is Hammer a 100% trollpick now?

>Increases Basic Attack damage by 30% for 3 seconds after hitting a Stunned, Slowed, or Rooted target with a Basic Attack. Using Basic Attacks against a Slowed, Rooted, or Stunned target during this time will refresh the buff duration.

Has TLV been stealth buffed?

Ok. so what should i be doing as rexxar?

>[YouTube] Heroes of the Storm: Chromie Hero Spotlight (ALL Abilities & Talents!) (embed)
>[YouTube] Heroes of the Storm: Medivh Hero Spotlight (ALL Abilities & Talents!) (embed)
One job.

>He's still hard to play, but now he actually gives Vikings-level results for all the effort you put into him.
So, absolutely none?

Any of you finding this game fun anymore? There's just so much burst in the meta that you must play someone that abuses OP range, a runfag like illidan and tracer, or some can't diefag like muradin and Jo, unless you want to get raped.

Just came back after weeks and played a few quickmemes with arthas. Although he does much more damage and heal a bit more now, there's still nothing you can do against tracers and their like. I just see the squishies from both teams ram into each other, dying instantly, and whoever leftover will pick off your immobile tank (being me). You can't peel because kek recall, you can't bodyblock or slow because they'll always be out of your range. You'll die, it just takes 5 seconds longer.

Will they do another rescale to fix this bullshit? Or is this game too deep in the burst hell hole to ever get back up and be fun again?

We've gone from
DUDE POWER CREEP LOL
to
DUDE MOBILITY CREEP LOL

And they just nerfed stuns across the board, thereby making mobility that much better.

And Chromie melts to anything that's mobile because they have an easier time just staying on her than they do breathing.

they've been buffed as much as anyone else with executioner
it's not entirely useless anymore but it's still situational
i do wonder if this buff spreads to other vikings or is exclusive to the viking who triggered it

also isn't it on the same talent level as large and in charge or impatience is a virtue? both of those seem like much better options than executioner

>There's just so much burst in the meta
Before the scaling changes burst damage was lower, but even a single level deficit could be game deciding. And I'm not sure that's a better model.

How much of a situation is it for Jaina to show up? Worth taking then? Lots of slows all round.

that entirely depends on whether or not you consider a player picking jaina to temporarily boost an individual viking's damage output by 30% (alongside jaina being jaina) more important than olaf gaining a 1s stun alongside his 30% slow or 0.25s cooldown reduction every time a viking hits something
i'd wager that it MIGHT be an option you could consider if you've a jaina on your team who lands her shots well and plan on participating in fights alongside her for some reason
keep in mind that you'd need to have your vikings follow her around to maximise efficiency, though
olaf can kinda do the executioner thing on his own with his slow, but baleog and erik both need someone else to apply slows/stuns/roots to benefit from it
if you'd keep olaf and baleog together and let erik follow jaina maybe?

>361 AWT on Rexxar in QM

All these bitches flocking to my husbando because of Shitlogs.

That's good advice; thanks. I'm an not advanced in vikings. Jaina hanging around makes executioner seem like a solid talent for the likes of Raynor though.

i wouldn't call myself too advanced either, seeing as i've been playing the game on and off as of late
just dropping my five cents on the thing

executioner might be worth it if you have someone else around who can consistently and frequently apply slows to enemies, e.g. jaina
olaf's slow might help things a little, but ultimately i feel as though that alone wouldn't be reliable enough for the vikings to consistently benefit from it
even then, you'd need to ask yourself whether or not a temporary 30% damage buff is better than a 1 second stun, during which your entire team might be able to unload a bunch of pain on the enemy or escape from a nasty team wipe because they all overextended, or being able to use spin to win, jump/nordic attack squad (if you picked it for whatever reason) and play again/viking longboat a fair bit more often due to the fast cooldown reduction their attacks allow for
executioner might have a niche now, though, which is an improvement over not being very worthwhile in any situation whatsoever

>decide to pick Arthas because not 5
Shit, either all enemies were bad or he's kinda alright now.

did you not hear of the rework he got with this patch?

I only heard that every warrior got changed or something like that. Something about regen globes?

>get early pick
>gotta play tank or support so you dont get counter picked

>get late pick
>gotta play tank or support since the first three went assasins

who is the best range assassin at the moment

yeah you didn't hear of the rework he got
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20120032/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-may-17-2016-5-17-2016#Arthas

>love chen
>no problem

>its a now you get to waste 25 minutes of your life for +2mmr game!

what is this from? is this a new ranked thing or something?

Yea i just went and read the notes. Feelsgoodman.
Although either anti-magic shield is bugged or interrupted by stuns, because i activated it and died to Chromie and death recap had shitton of ability damage agains me.

weird
mind sharing the replay?

Damn, i forgot hots has replays...how do i share it with you? And anyways im at work right now, so i can give it only in 9-10 hours from how...

>skins randomly disable in QM
>have to play as ugly regular chromie
cmon blizzard I even jewed to you to stop seeing her ugly mug at least make it work

hotsstats

the big "WATCH" tab allows you to view replays
using that, you can have the game take you to your replay folder with all of your replays
just upload the replay file somewhere and post it so that i can grab and view it like that
it'd be interesting if stuns can break anti-magic shell

neat

Arthas is a lot better now but why did they keep E

It's shit and always has been.

E needs to increase his movement speed at LEAST for X amount of seconds when you turn it on, with an internal CD. Or something.

>lose from first minute of game because one guy DC and doesn't come back

this game should just end under this circumstance

how is this fair? this is literally 15-20 mins just waiting to lose 4v5

no wonder this game is fucking dead. there's no QOL enhancements in a f2p game.

if you make an account on hotslogs and upload the your replays there is a share option

you can also upload the replay in question to megaupload or mediafire

you can even upload the replay to desu.sh or uguu.se

What's the problem with it?

I don't think Arthas needs speed, expecially since he got new talent.

Make re-making it to be active instead of toggle would be better. I just can't think or anything that you can add on it (passively, not via talent) that won't break it.

Attack speed slow should be on it as standard, imo.

I only saw ASS on talents. I guess they don't really like it. And really, Infinite AoE slow of any kind?

How do we fix CHROMIE, /v/?

Do we reduce the wind-up time on Q? Raise her HP?

Give her the same range Tyrande's owl has.

Buff HP slightly.
Don't change the wind-up time of Q, but increase its width and speed slightly. Make it easier to land but Chromies can't just spam it without consequence.

Is Uther still good after the stun nerf? I mostly play warriors and wanted to pick up a support.

The stun nerf is made up for by the Conjurer's pursuit reward. Also Divine Storm now stuns for as long as Diablo's Apocalypse, while also being instant.

she does a ton of damage but she cannot land that damage, which is the only reason she is balanced

why those asian eyes tho

>conjurer's pursuit reward

basically a nerf desu

as li li you needed ALL the mana regen per second lategame not additional mana

Best case scenario you're gonna miss something like 2 MP/s compared to the previous version. Which means that unless a skirmish goes on for more than 50 seconds, the new version beats the old one. I don't think even the longest BoE immortal dances last that long, so it should be a net buff in the end.

Is Calamity still the go-to build for Ming? Diamond-Masters popularity shows it is but I'm kind of not feeling it.

I fucking hate this community everyone is so shit it hurts
Get baited into oblivion by shitters afraid to die
1 for 3 trade becomes 2 for 0 because SquishyAssassinsTM stayed in backlane while jerking off and expecting to snipe everyone
+ no voice chat to coordinate this bunch of retards FUCK

That adult Lili is better than most of the tittymonsters people make, but I still want to see a cute, nonsexual, cuddly Lili like Chen.

I really like that actually.

So, I play QM, 3 assassin and 2 specialist games are bound to happen. How do you adjust? Some people seem to avoid teamfights entirely, which doesn't seem right. I know in that type of situation, I am gonna die a lot, but with no frontline, I want to know how to go about things.

And build options?

Is that guy a blizzard employee or something?

Just started playing HoTs yesterday guys. Long time Blizzard fan but never fucked with MOBAs. this seems a lot more fun though.

Ive been playing as Kerrigan. So far its good. What other characters should i check out?

i only have abvout 6000 coins so i dont want to waste it on someone boring.

Kerrigan is literally a shit, out of the meta hero.

What kind of style do you like?

Then I can ASSIGN a hero to you.

"out of the meta" what does this mean?

Im enjoying Kerrigan because i like the jumping attack and the pulling back attack. Allows me to pick off weak enemies and get a lot of kills.

>look mom, I'm bronzeposting on /hotsg/!

it means you'll going to get anally raped by a strong dominant sonya futa cock in prison you bronzie

Everyones got to start somewhere. Im a scrub at HOTS but i have no doubt i can learn quickly. But whatever, i can get help elsewhere. figured this would be the best place for advice on the game.

>best place for advice on the game

you're looking for >>>/reddit/

>30% winrate
>balanced

She is useless against people with 2 braincells (aka move around) and basically super RNG dependent.

It spreads to other Vikings so Olaf marks an enemy for death whilst you chased down the cunt with a 30% damage buff.

I guess it depends but I ran executioner on TLV with a Chen on my team and we just wrecked face.

>People that duo with rank 20s in rank 1

kys

get a referral link for you region before you reach lvl 10 to get raynor and sylvanas for free.
don't care about the meta too much yet.
play the heroes in the free rotation. get the ones you like playing.
expensive doesn't automatically mean good(meta wise).

What's the party limit for hero league? Two?

whispering an enemy sylvanas after winning vs them...

reported

Why do you take that much effort and time arguing with an asshole?
I mean, I respect you, but that was a bit of a lose of your time

Where can one get this link ?

well i usually wait quite some time after every hero league game, i dont want to get matched with any retards from my team / opponent team. im also an extremely super fast typer, taking places in the top 100 in 10fastfingers