Heroes of the Storm General - /Hotsg/

Tyrande Edition

>What's new?

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20212896/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-august-9-2016-8-9-2016

>Starcraft maps, Alarak and Zarya:
youtube.com/watch?v=BUZBAOmzBh8
youtube.com/watch?v=uAXqZIBeS40
youtube.com/watch?v=dhhaPVdG7fQ

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

>Do you have a discord?
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: 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

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youtube.com/watch?v=SEVJjH1I3s4
youtube.com/watch?v=iWa-6g-TbgI
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kys

I don't know man. They're all so tall.

Shhh, don't be mad.

Is this game dead yet?

Was it ever alive?

At first, kinda.
But at least the porn is good.

killing the general 1 shitpost at a time

But how do you kill that which is already dead?

Reminder of reddit karma-whoring sell-out rats: reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/4mh256/theres_a_guy_on_Veeky Forums_who_has_accurately_leaked/

reddit.com/user/SSJ5Gogetenks
>ponyfucker

They are in this thread RIGHT NOW!

We are grateful for your contribution.

You love, you lose.

>haha dude fanart and waifufagging lmao
>le game is le dead
>reddit
There, I summed up 750 posts

Looks like a dozen posts at best. 12 = 750? Like being at university.

I do my dailies vs. AI so I can breathe out of my mouth and do whatever I want and there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Tyrande is the cutest! Also best waifu and most fun to play.

LUNARA

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we still meme in up in discord for people who arent in it yet

>xLegolas99x

Are there any penalties for dodging during draft?

For unranked, no. For ranked, I think you lose a fuckton of points after you do it a couple of times. Like, 300-400 point losses per dodge. I don't know for sure, though, since I've never dodged myself.

Underrated post

I once got -600 for dodging, FeelsBadMan

why is there no robots in this game?

>no mention of WoW lore discussions
Terrible summary

That is pretty damn retro desu.
Almost like xXxNe0th30neXxX

Dehaka has robot skin.
Can't think of too many sentient robots in Blizzard games though.
There's the SC Adjutant and Overwatch's Bastion and Zenyatta.

I'll keep it in mind for the next thread.

Do you get rewards for doing placements in both HL and TL? Or only the highest? The mounts, gold rewards etc

SC also has Talandar and the purifier protoss faction in general.

>mecha tassadar
>mecha dehaka
>gazlowe's backpack

ummmm

Both. And you get mount just by participating in TL, where in HL you have to hit plat at least.

So make sure to play at least placements in TL

>tfw WC dragon are just too big guys for the game
At least we have Chromie and Brightwing ._.

this plus you get leaver status and you have to play a few quickmatches to get rid of it again

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shitposting is the essence of Veeky Forums

Welcome to
TOWERS OF DOOM

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

why don't you post on reddit instead of polluting Veeky Forums with your dead game general

>tfw we'll finally have Kerrigan in a ghost suit
feels good.jpg

why this game runs like ass .My god i like to play but optymalization is beyond shitty

SC2 engine?

>1 nuke can wipe 2 towers and the gate

>it's a "captain doesn't ban Vikings on Garden of Terror" episode

can someone explain talent quests? havent played in awhile and just saw this
how often do they come up? per hero? / daily
gold reward?

lmgtfy.com/?q=hots talent quests

i not going to reddit to read 500 posts

literally play 1 (one) game of HotS, most heroes have one

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>boss is bugged
embarassing desu

is there ever any reason to not take Gathering Power on this educated gentleman here?

Spider Cluster.

>the only Troll we will ever get in HotS

>troll
It's actually a nigger with a mask

elaborate. GP seems to work way better.

>the only troll we will ever get in /hotsg/

rate my fan-made skin

>not superman

You die you lose your stacks which makes it a gamble.
The spiders do low damage but often making gathering power as a % modifier useless, the same goes for zombie wall but using it as damage is not it's main focus so this is minor.
Leaving only your toads as the main benefactor but again without toads of hugeness and landing them at a good distance the damage increase again isn't large.
Gargantuan has a good synergy with gathering power.
Spirit leaves you too open to dying and losing your stacks as it makes you stationary, making it's use increase on the gamble factor of gathering power.
If you don't take spider cluster then leaping spiders becomes alot less effective and the other talents in that tier are lack luster in my eyes.

I would buy it user

I understand. I don't agree, but I understand. I usually take Gargantuan because I like RNG AI and screaming at my monitor at 2AM

>win every teamfight but ONE
>lose the entire game

defend this

>fail to dodge all cars in your life but ONE
>die

defend this

Should be Illidan desu senpai.

That's the second worst drawing of ragnaros i have ever seen

whats the worst one

Finally got Auriel to level 10
I like her third colour best
Going to use her and Rehgar as my go to supports

Also post 'em

youtube.com/watch?v=SEVJjH1I3s4

no bully pls

holy shit eric you're full on autistic aren't ya

I said no bully!

these are the trans pride colors desu

Which are your favourite heroes?

livin the dream

What are the hearts?

I like playing support the most if i'm playing as a party Rehgar is my fave I used to really like Uther too but since they reworked his talents it gimped the wave of light spec I played the most so I don't really use him anymore.
For duo and solo I usually like to play Xul if he doesn't get banned

youtube.com/watch?v=iWa-6g-TbgI

Their heroes on my favorite bar for quick selection in unranked hero and team league

Dude, cmon...

>Want zarya
>Know I have more than enough time to save up gold
>Don't really feel like playing at all

feels bad

>want Alarak
>already have 5K gold and several level 9s coming up

feels good ;^)

Why do you want Zarya if you don't want to play in the first place? Logic intensifies.

>the car which hits you (and its driver) previously got hit five times
>yet it kills you if your car (and you) gets hit a single time by that car
Defend THIS!

The game burns me out from time to time and I tend to stop playing for a while
But I want zarya, and I don't want to come back 3 months from now and miss out on playing her
I wanna get her on release or at the very maximum 2 weeks later, but I really don't feel like playing right now

>level 9s
??

if you think you can afk and snooze off because you dominated early and mid game, you deserve to lose

heroes getting to level 9

is there ever any reason to pick this hero over xul or zag or even abathur

oh wow, that gives gold now

Saving up now, last buy was Morales. Choices are now sylvanis, kael, and anub. All are fun, but which would be better to practice with? Currently only ever play QM so I can practice for league.

kael is instabanned most of the time so don't even bother
sylvanas and anub are aight

yeah but its QM

kael just got nerfed though, he's not as retarded strong as he used to be

i know it's QM, but he wants to practice for HL
it'd be a shame if he poured time and effort into mastering something that he most likely won't be able to use, even after the nerf he's still pick/ban

I know, the people I usually have in my team are fucking atrocious, bad to the point I even think why the fuck do they bother to even play the game
Blows my mind

But, fuck, Alarak seems fun

I knew he was a usual target for bans but I always thought it was an exaggeration on how often. I run xul and Johanna so both play styles were pretty similar. I think anub would have a bigger impact since people seemed to go full retard with assassin choices.

I went from Gold 1 with 40 points towards the end straight to Gold 2 at abour 50% points, so I stopped playing altogether

is there ever any reason to do anything but play TLV on Gardens (and dodging draft on every map that isn't Gardens)?

>promo game to plat 3
>some russian on my team picks Sgt Hammer
>mfw winning anyway because kinkybug can't lose

When will Blizzard get a proper MMR system instead of this joke of a system they have right now?

Yeah I'm at the verge of that, I don't even know what heroes use now

>tfw just had an amazing aram game with hammer
eheh, ez >:D

I need to play more ARAM desu, it's so fun.