Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

BIG DOG IS OFF THE LEASH EDITION

>What's new?

Two new heroes, Varian and Ragnaros announced at Blizzcon, along with a new brawl map and a couple of new skins.

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20327398/new-heroes-and-more-announced-at-blizzcon-2016-11-4-2016

youtube.com/watch?v=4900jOY8cCM

>Latest patch notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20324866/balance-update-october-10-25-2016

>Where do I find you big human cock loving faggots?
/join Veeky Forums

>Which heroes should I buy?
Play all the heroes on free rotation and see who 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

Previously on /hotsg/:

Other urls found in this thread:

reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/4mh256/theres_a_guy_on_Veeky
reddit.com/user/SSJ5Gogetenks
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20344328/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-november-7-2016-11-7-2016
youtube.com/watch?v=KPE9dzzgt2U
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20327397/team-up-to-conquer-the-nexus-challenge-11-4-2016
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

The pandas migrate first.

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!

That sucks. Is karma worth money or something?

No.

BY FIRE BE PURGED

no

no

captcha:STOP

The new brawl is everything a brawl has to be.

They're just "feel-good validity points".

On Reddit, you're generally upvoted for saying things everyone likes and thinks you deserve praise for, while downvotes mean you said something that people either don't agree with or dislike, and they've deemed your post unworthy of a read, so if you accumulate so many downvotes, it hides your post so only people who want to go out of their way to read all the hidden poss at the bottom of a thread can read it.

As impossible as it may sound, Reddit is more of a hivemind than Veeky Forums. Agree with everyone else and you're welcome, think and say anything that may be controversial or negative in any way,and your voice doesn't deserve to be heard, unless everyone else has deemed it appropriate to say.

UGU

why not give us the thunderlord skin, wielding thunderfury, blessed blade of the windseeker?

I want him already.

i haven't played this game like like 5 months

is Sonya still gud?

Probably because Al'Akir may be on the table.

If it has good damage and a stun, it's viable. Yes.

I'm buying him day one.

Since Butcher, yeah. I'm crazy about this game, despite getting worse as time goes on.

Can we sexualize Ragnaros?

WIIIINNNNNDDDSSS

She's good on Infernal Shrines and works pretty well on Braxis Holdout.
Other than that, there's better warriors, but she's servicable if you're into barbarian snu-snu.

Gah, what is that thing?

Damn dead thread.
Love it, the stealth changes are "stealth" buff for Samuro. It's even funnier not seeing him anywhere in the notes other then in the change to stealth.

Let's make stealth even more annoying!

Does anyone even use Recon Drone or Tassadar enough for it to matter

>Samuro: Way of Illusion Talent stacks now properly grant bonus attack damage to Mirror Images.
He did get a buff in the bug fixes

is that a fucking chibi skin?

>possession can now be used on catapults
Total game changer

>stitches tries to gorge me just as i entomb him

Sounds like a forum for Hillary supporters.

I'm scared.

What is the worst team comp you can imagine?

LIKE SWATTING INSECTS

Abathur, TLV, Cho'gall and Murky

Why do Ragnaros and Al'Akir have an obsession with insects?
Are the other Elemental Lords racist against insects too?

I think it's on all reveals like BW teleport reveal, Kara's dash reveal, rehgar's reveal.

I trust this person. It'll be an interesting couple of days

Messed up the quote as I came from the other thread. I meant this guy

>dash reveal
Well no longer, he instead has wards on a pretty low cooldown.
Also, no one uses reveal talents except Medivh and maybe Tassadar against multiple stealth heroes.

is a wow pet skin.

They said another patch will be coming this week and one of the things on it is nerfs to Samuro.

Looks like they buffed her talents a bit

She feels the same, crushed a game with her just now.

Did they buff or nerf Artanis? What about spooky skelington man?

Artanis is getting a rework but it's not releasing now. They said they are looking into buffing Leoric.

Damn they still haven't buffed mr skeltal? Guess they still have PTSD from his release.
Oh well

Everyone's favorite memer with a progress update. You all know about my dream to get to bronze 5 and I have about 4 more games to throw to get there. I discovered a new meme on sky meme where you stand outside the temple and kill the minions so you don't cap for your team :^)

Lunara is somewhere between cute and not cute

BW definitely uses the reveal talent when they are against stealth heroes

Of course

literally who

Becayse thats the important part naturally

Wouldn't you if those pesky insects were trying to ruin you shit all the time?

>Raden bursted a huge volcano on top of alakir cucking him forever

lmao

holy fuck I've seen this pics a shitton of times and I just noticed therazane
what the fuck is she doing

Being a fat NEET as usual.

>mfw the titankeepers try to impale me and they realize I'm made of stone

Post statistics

>watch samuro video on youtube
>this guy talking about lvl 7 talents saying that burning blade is the best in every situation and crushing blows is complete garbage
literally creating bronzies. no wonder half the playerbase is retarded

phantom pain is da best

They're all situational.

snake eater is better desu

>have a piece of shit human being intentionally feeding
>we all agree to report him for it and abusive chat, IRL threats included
>most likely 4x reports for abusive chat and 4x for intentionally feeding
>i get him in my next game
this fucking game

Hey, can anybody else not get into the PTR? I keep getting stuck at authentication. I need my Varian time man.

I didn't know 50% of the playerbase was pros

Jokes apart, stop being to generous, pros ate like 5%, and decent people another 5%, clearly 90% of the playerbase is lacking a brain

>falling for it and giving shekels to blizzard to play heroes on PTR
ayy

>not just playing it in try mode

Yeah okay shekels mhm

I'd still give my money to Blizzard for Varian though. Been a warrior main since Vanilla in WoW, this is everything I could have ever wanted in a champ.

>they still haven't gotten rid of garden terror

I'm in since a few hours ago, you gotta keep trying until you connect, but you gotta have connections to play Varian in anything else but try mode.

well even in the fucking blizzcon that shitty map got played, the only map that even pros hates is the blackheart bay

Dehaka is shit! SHIIIIT!!

>constant losses
>feels bad want to quit
>change attitude
>start every game positive, greet everyone and tell them to do their best and I'll do my best too
>stay vocal and on top of pings
>thank people when they help with lane, camps, objective, etc
>win rate skyrockets
>my own morale is increased as a result
>slowly climbing out of MMR hell

A little kindness goes a long way. Dig yourself out of the salt mines and others will follow. Stay positive and make the game more fun for everyone and yourself too!

what a faggot way to climb

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...

I wonder if that's what he says to his Yakuza underlings after a long hard night of drug smuggling.

>hating on jackie chan

how low

The game is more enjoyable when everyone isn't frothing at the mouth because they are blaming their entire team and being toxic shitters. It's a game focused on teamwork, and the team that hates each other less is more likely to work together, and that wins your far more games than trying to brute force carry with four people who hate your guts and don't have your back.

I'm not hating at all, I just wonder if he's as enthusiastic and cheerful after a good Colombian Necktie.

>Show about jackie chan taking over a yakuza organization and guiding them to the light with his no trabbu superpowers
I`d watch that

They buffed Leo's numbers and Suck Nope a bit, he is somewhat decent now and even sees competitive play, but rework is nigh.

Same with Artanis, some numbers buff, short dash to target after using W is baseline now (about half the distance of Zealot Charge, which is still a popular pick), but again rework is nigh upon us and they are probably gonna let him use the Prism during Blade Dash, finally.

I thought he already could? I read this somewhere

sounds like a dictatorship desu senpai

Supposedly his best buddy Yakuza overlord guy, is a real fucking nice guy who helps old ladies cross streets and stuff. Jackie's putting that Jackie touch on them for sure.

>dictatorship with no leading figure or military oppression

There was sort of a leak during some of the recent PTR instances and Artanis got the promised dashprism, but then evil blizzes said nope, not intended, later this year.

WTF there's aactually a seperate bar in player profile for matches played as multiclass heroes.

So will they add more of those? Will they rework any existing heroes to multiclass? Why didn't they just call Varian a specialist?

I need another supp. Auriel or Brightwing?

specialists are a meme

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20344328/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-november-7-2016-11-7-2016

The important points :
>new character : Varian
>terror & dragon reduce duration of blinds by 50%

>Modification about the stealth
>Abilities that reveal Stealthed/Cloaked Heroes will no longer remove the Stealth/Cloak effect, but will instead temporarily reveal the cloaked Hero.
>Scouting Drone : Now also reveals Stealthed/Cloaked Heroes

>illidan modifications

>thrall ults balanced
>Earthquake deals 50 damage to Heroes with each pulse (will now trigger Frostwolf Resilience)
>Sundering : Stun duration reduced from 1.25 to 1 seconds

>zeratul rework
>kharazim rework

>other small modificiations on various heroes : alarak, raynor, xul, abathur, sylvanas, Leoric

>They also talked about a rework of Leoric soon.

what do you think about it ?

if you have tyrande, start with auriel, then get bw. otherwise get bw / tyrande you scrub
if you want to play support properly you need all options available to you

don't you have frogs to eat

arent you a little bit late user

>mfw getting abathur on brawl

>constant losses, up to 12 in a row sometimes
>feels bad, quit for a while
>come back with a changed attitude
>start every game positive, greet everyone and joke around with them at the game start
>shotcall, ping, communicate
>still fucking lose to constant feeding, 4v5 at objective, not ending the game when given the chance and afk flaming
>slowly sinking deeper into mmr hell like every season
>don't give a fuck any more

youtube.com/watch?v=KPE9dzzgt2U

Don't buy Auriel, she'll be permanently free next week.

h-how

PSA:

DO NOT BUY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING HEROES!
DO NOT BUY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING HEROES!
DO NOT BUY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING HEROES!

>Auriel
>Greymane
>Kerrigan
>Li-Ming
>Zarya

They will be given out for free between November 15 and January 4.

us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20327397/team-up-to-conquer-the-nexus-challenge-11-4-2016

he radiant dashes twice
thats still a lot of damage

:^)

>15 games with a friend
i didn't want zarya anyway...

what happens if i already have all those heroes?

they will be removed from your account until you completed the cahllenge

They'll disable those heroes from all game modes until you play 15 and 30 games with your friends.