Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

Fresh 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-things-announced-at-blizzcon-2016
youtube.com/watch?v=4900jOY8cCM

>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.

>Where do I find you Vikings-as-first-pick-drafting faggots?
/join Veeky Forums

>Current weekly brawl:
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20374411/blackhearts-revenge

>Latest patch notes:
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20352063/balance-patch-november-10-2016

>Official site, general news:
us.battle.net/heroes/en
heroesnexus.com

>Hero rankings, various statistics, talent calculator:
hotslogs.com/Default
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator

>For new players:
youtube.com/watch?v=wPk004vsjuE

>Tips and other useful resources:
heroesofthestorm.github.io/tips

Drafted correctly:

Other urls found in this thread:

svelien.deviantart.com/art/The-dream-619790256
twitter.com/AnonBabble

nth for Varian Rygged is a malignant, ugly cancer but Samuro still is too.

2nd for Leoric is fun to play

3rd for waifu power rankings

Undisputed Goddess Tier
Tyrande*, Kerrigan,

Barely Not Goddess Tier
Jaina, Nova, Sonya,

The best a Guy Can Hope to Marry Tier

Li-Ming, Valla, Sylvanas, Tracer

Beautiful (With Abnormalities) Tier
Auriel, Lunara, Zagara, Chromie

Seems Good (But I'd Like To See More Before Making A Judgement Call) Tier

Johanna, Morales

Average (With a Cute Face) Tier

Hammer

Built Like A Man (Saved From Dumpster Tier Due To Pretty Face) Tier

Zarya

>play on blackheart bay in quick match
>paired with a kal'thas, murky, and Sgt hammer
>they decide to all go middle
>they do nothing but die all game, constantly lose team fights and over extending
>they never get a single turn in, the enemy turns in over five times
>kal'thas has 10k hero damage at the end of the game

Did I join wood league or something or is matchmaking really THAT bad?

If by cancer you mean should be banned so you can't get him on your team. Yes.

>sonya that high

I count skins so it's because of super Sonya

Then count Zarya's Thunder Guard skin too, where she is actually decent there.

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>qm on curse
>we are getting curbstomped
>tell team to get boss
>we get boss
>tell team to hold the line because enemy team is going full retard on mid
>push top along the boss
>enemy team ignores me
>raynor
>call hyperion while my team is holding the line kerrigan style
>mfw we won

Can you name the 3 best Master Skins?

how to dodge pyroblast with bolt of the storm?

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The lost vikings, abathur, brightwing? Honorable mention for chromie.

>BW
>Chromie
Decent, but nowhere near best.

I agree on TLV and Aba 100%. I'd like to add in Thrall and Gazlowe.

Have you seen her fucking hips

Doesn't change the fact that she has no ass, hips and is an overly muscular woman which is completely unattractive

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Woah that's cute. Got one with color?

I just had two fuck heads leave 5 seconds into the game because Samuro was on the enemy team. During Samuro free week.

Best zerg.
Best legs.

Aha, but did your teammates really vanish or were they actually Samuro's mirror images in disguise?

>Best a guy can hope
>Hope herself isn't there

Your list is bad

>no Brightwing

fel queen chromie for qt mini waifu tier

They were playing Leoric and Tyrael and both left after saying, "Samuro? Fuck that."

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>Liking the frog

Honestly they fucked up to not notice the free to play week or to think there would be no Samuros in their games during the first free Samuro week.

At least there's draft games.

Why is he so perfect?

tyreal, murky, li li

How long does it take to find a brawl game? I've been in queue for 5 minutes now. Is the game really that dead?

Gul'dan, Rexxar, Xul?

No the brawl is just garbage

it's like the only one you need to even look at the minimap for. everything else has been rumble in the bronze.

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Dead game

Reposting last leak

Upcoming stuff:

Zul'jin
Valeera
Kel'thuzad

Icethrower Zul'jin
Mechalord Gazlowe
Lil' Deathwing Brightwing

Amani War Bear
Gyrocopter
Giant Toad

Reworked Haunted Mines

Though, fear not, for every time the leak seems to be exclusively Warcraft characters, yet there always are other franchises inbetween. Wonder how it works that leakbro knows only about Warcraft (and sometimes Diablo) stuff

>no ysera
rip my life into pizzas

I really want Giant Toad mount.

I never win ranked games in blackheart, why

>Overly strong, ranged warrior comes out.

"Can't have that."

>Nerfs her into moderately busted, but not overly so.

"They'll never suspect a thing."

>Have a fucking melee assassin fiesta.

You're the single most tasteless guy in this fucking general right now and you should probably consider suicide.

Zarya is still really strong. She was fucking broken before.

나는 넥서스에 오기를 기다릴 수 없어!

For a moment there I thought Azmo's belly was his face.

Person who asked to be red-pilled on Arms Varian yesterday.
I gave him an honest to god try several times over.

I'm a changed man. There is nothing like going Arms Varian, dropping a Dalaran banner and just deleting a Samuro before he even has the time to do cheeky Mirror Image tricks. Or just a Nova who thinks she's hot shit Mark Wahlberg in Shooter as you scream with the fury of at least 3 middle-aged mothers losing at online poker.

Tyrande "undisputed"

We're totally getting her next year, aren't we?

She's an absolute snoozefest in overwatch, why would you want her here other than muh plastic waifu?
Reinhardt is the only hero who deserves to be in this game.

I can't believe Nova is so fucking useless. My god. And this is okay, to this dev team.

Source? RIS isn't giving anything.

She's the strongest stealth assassin by design, buff her a little and the bronzies are going to raise the roof.

So is this shit game still going or is it just Blizzard keeping e-sports on Life Support at this point?

I was good enough to tryout for CoG about a year ago but that was the last time I played, I'm pretty fucking broke and I'm getting sick of it, should I bother trying?

sorry user. svelien.deviantart.com/art/The-dream-619790256

ey nice. What are you apologising for? Cheers, user.

>why would you want her here other than muh plastic waifu?
Blizzard would want to put her in because people will spend money to play as their obnoxious plastic waifu.

i agree reinhardt has cool gameplay ideas but so does d'va with its self destruct and eating up projectiles. i would vote for reinhardt over dva

Need more silly pictures

Would appreciate sauce of pic related

dAED GAYME
stupid GAYMERS
and oh this general (which has to be the worst of all generals)
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At least release Kel so I can forget the above.

no sauce. i made them for shitposting

make more then

>Kel'thu freaking zad
>Lil' deathwing Brightwing

Zul'jin and Kel'Thuzad is about damn time. What took them so long?

Old man Antonidas skin for Jaina when?
I want to pretend Wc3 Archmage is back.

never, we also need arcane mage with mana hunger problems, although leming might've taken that role when I think about it

i think a half decent chromie is more op than any hero in the game.
Can miss 80% of her spells still gets top damage on team. its pretty easy to nail heroes who move in predictable paths.
If you build a proper support team she is nigh unstoppable and will just delete your team.

Other heroes i think are broken messes in certain situations: Malf, Kerrigan, Zarya, Illidan, Mura.

I dont think specialists and supps are in a good spot right now with malf being tier S I think the only other one that competes is Tassadar in certain setups. BW is okish but Auriel imo hard counters her. Karazim is now an assassin who pairs extremely well with medivh.

All specialists are in a bad spot and are extremely situational niche picks. Xul got hardcore nerfed by mount speed and is only good on two maps. Sylv is like a win more hero and will never be picked on an equal setting between two korean teams

I hope we get a spellbreaker type hero too.
Mana burn, area cleanse, annoying as fuck dot that ruins life and maybe steal the dota idea of silence.
It would make me so angry to play against that I'd love to see it in game.

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Glad you saw the light user

hopefully Zul'jin will have some viable anti-mage mechanics. The game really needs it.

what a shitter

I think they should redesign the garden terror, it looks ugly and stoopid and its autoattacks have next to no visual and audio feedback

Are you both blind and death?

Garden Terror is already nerfed enough, leave it alone or else it gets redundant as a mechanic. Actually it already nearly is.

>blind and death?
>death
Are you literally retarded?

the autoattacks make next to no sound and he looks dumb

This.
Back in beta the terror maimed heroes with every AA, now it's a fucking joke.

>literally
>retarded

Almost got 5 in the hotsg bingo. Next time use three more of the following:
>fag
>try again
>lily
>kel'thuzad
>shitter
>my team was bad

no
>only constant
>bronzie
You should surrender your shitposting license immediately.

>no t. bronze

>lily

>tfw

>play auriel in shit league
>people don't stack for heals

I'm not saying stack all the time but after a fight just group up a tiny fucking bit so I can hit all of you with it jesus.

When are we getting On The Rag

next week on ptr is my guess

>play prot
>lose
heh

Was Lunara last year released earlier than usual because of Christmas? I know that her price got cut to 10k after only one week from release, but was her initial addition any earlier than 3-4 weeks schedule?

>Hey Bill, look at this awesome concept art for Varian's banners
>The artists sure know how to do their job, huh?
>>Nah... I don't really feel it, let's just put the boot on the banner and call it a day
>Excellent suggestion!

>concept art
You do know what that means, dont you?

They do have to fit in dedicated files size for each hero, and Varian already requires 3 sets of anmation for his attacks, they had to cut corners in a few places.

Pic related, another case of this.

she was released on the 15th of December, after Cho'Meme who was released on the 17th of November, so she was on schedule

360 Day stimpack worth it? Or will the game be dead by then?

if it didn't die until now it won't die anytime soon

I doubt a bunch of feathers and an oni face on the sword are enough to cause more problems than Varian's 3 stances.

Alarak is cute!

>power rankings as tier list instead of actual power rankings
user please

>Not playing Samuro as a specialist

who's bill