Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

WHEN?

>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

Previous:

I want to fuck all the elves.
We need a garrosh hero so i can join his warband and pillage elf settlements and take their women.

How do I git gud

>when you lose a won game.

Watch your tank's movements.
Don't just dive their backline without a plan or at least your team being able to support you.
Predict movement patterns of different heroes.
Know EVERY fucking ability and talent in the game.

Is Brightwing autistic?

Brightwing is a monster.

It's definitely not on human levels of intelligence

just land your skillshots. She melts everyone and is a hassle to deal with. Drop the aoe that slows everyone to a fucking snail crawl on a chokepoint and shoot away

>2 diablos in the game
why is this allowed

cute

>still no femdiablo
WHY

So which build is the better build for killing heroes from icyveins her dragonbuild or sandblast build?

Chromie is more of a personal choice hero, like Leo
It depends on your playstyle, team and what you're most comfortable with.

by selecting her fel queen skin tint #1

Way ahead of you

got it

Maybe next year.

So I really like Diablo characters, and have them all but Nazeebo and Xul, which should I buy first?

Xul. Nazebo is shit now. Also summoning Spooky scary skeletons are FUN!

Sleep tight fluffer and Xul.

xul

nazeebo needs a re-rework

Slutty christmas zagara skin where

>liking diablo

LUL

>jack in for some heroes of the storm
>win 3 games daily

Has some top tier obscure waifus.

Best Diablofu coming through.

Do you think the villains in Diablo use humans as sexslaves?

When will they update LiLi's model so her face doesn't look like crap? Just give her chen's face texture and she is improved significantly.

had a +month break

back now son, gotta go na someday

Never
Ever

Why Illi didn't love her?

Obsession does things to a man.

because she's insane and stupid

She was a little yandere, thats all.

>Why don't you love me when I love you!
She's autistic. Lack of empathy or understand for other people's feelings is a clear sign of Also delete this holy fuck
NO FACES ALLOWED!

>Arthas
>Brightwang
>Xul
>Li-Li
>Sonya
>Xul
>Johanna
>Xul

It's mostly her flat hair and stupid bangs that bother me.

I'd recommend Xul, definitely.

>xul_typing_on_a_keyboard.jpg

So how do I get better with Abathur? Just spam him and don't let people talking shit about me get to my head?

Why does infest not show the damage increase?

just dig everywhere and only watch minimap

not that hard.

No. "Being" or "getting" good at Abathur means you have some baseline skills already, mostly using the minimap, knowing when to safely soak/push a lane and the ability to play your most damaging assassin in the team just as well as he does. Never pick monstrosity you cunt.
If you are confident in your ability to play shit like Illidan, Butcher and all those other safe Evolution choices, know how to play the game without taking your eyes off the minimap for more than 2 seconds at a time, that's when you play Abathur.
In short, getting good at Abathur can be done by getting good at other heroes and the game in general. Don't shit up games without accomplishing anything with him!

Bugged. Not sure if it even increases the damage, although I only spent a few minutes testing in Try Mode.

He's honestly the type of Hero you learn after you've gotten everything else down, and even then I'm not sure he's worth the effort when you could just practice Vikings.
Also a tad team and composition reliant, which leads a lot of shitters learning the Hero to just blame everybody else.

He's a pretty neat guy.

worshippers..............................................................quaint..................but............
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...........useful...................

I'm Plat in ranked, i've just never played him so I have no idea what skills to go on
So just be near creep waves to soak xp and watch other parts of the map?

>tfw they ruined best girl in D3

>no patch today
well time to kys myself

Sort of. You have more than enough wave clear to keep two lanes shoving, with time to gank/harass in between.

>infernal shrines
>alternating between mid and bot
>objective spawns bot, alternate between top/mid while I wait
>group up to contest objective, as soon as we win (or lose) I'll go back to soaking/pushing the two lanes the objective isn't in

Just to give you an idea. He's a pretty solid counter to auto-attackers, especially melee (Thrall, Illidan, Dual-wield Varian), especially those that rely on mobility. Just not the best pick on maps like Battlefield, where you don't get much of the laning benefits.

Sort of has that Sylvanas thing where if the enemy loses the first punisher they'll also lose two sets of towers and a bunch of fort ammo.

Just started...when can I play the shortstacked cutie

Pay 10000 gold.
If you get to level 15ish and play all free rotation heroes to 5 for the 500 gold each, maybe thirty games?

What, Chromie? 10,000 gold, as I recall.

>level heroes to 5 for 500
>dailies for 200-800
>2000 gold reward every few account levels
>weekly brawl (three

What maps do I take Crowd Surfer over Speed Metal?

You need to learn god timing to hit people coming out of stasis traps so you can use them offensively. Need to learn how to hit people with temporal loop if you don't know how. Need to become really good with positioning and game awareness so no one can sneak up on you. Need to practice a shit ton to get leading shots just right. Need to learn to hold on to your W to get more sure shots rather than spam away.

i just noticed, are the new heroes lacking victory animations? samuro stood out like a sore thumb just standing there while the rest of my team were dancing and shit

Or take Moebius Loop for higher DPS and reliability AND forgiveness for missing over higher burst.

he's very stoic

he's just an introvert

What's with him, anyways? His model looks dated as shit.

I want to fuck maiev

>that hair

Mmm.

He's blizzard's first timewalking hero

she's not maiev if that's what you are talking about

that would never make it into any video game

If they do give her a helmetless skin I hope she has a cute scar like my waifu

I'm pretty sure it would make its way really quickly into sfm tho

Too bad she only wants ilidan deamon cock.

Whats canon color hair, i though that all night elves have black, blue or green hair.

she has white hair in legion

did you ever play wow in any state

or even see night elf official art before wow was made

an assload of them also have white hair

it's not uncommon

'Dunno.

>Whats canon color hair
White, it always came out of the top of her helm

Maiev is CUTE!

never ever pt.2

>yfw there are retards who thought that was a part of her helmet

Get rid of 80% of those polygons and he's ready for hots

>topdamaging as muradin

i love haymaker

What are you on, my friend, hots models are sometimes pretty detailed, if anything, his armor and weapon are not plastic enough.

>arthas crying in a corner with his toy sword

new townhall heroes podcast in 25 minutes

too bad its with na players but its been a month since the last one so should be lots to talk about

Who's the closest to Maiev in the game, Zeratul?

Yes, he literally stole her moveset, except for his heroic.

*

I went and checked her (Warden?) WC3 page, and looks like he took her entire skillset, minus ult.

Haven't played WoW recently and don't recall what her skillset in there is, if it's ever even shown.
Anyways, the next Night Elf'll probably be a Nidalee Feral druid, or something.

Oh, that's a shame, Zeratul doesn't have a single good skin, even his master skin is trash

thisalee crow pls

F U N

I'm trying to master Leoric, but I find it difficult to know when to use his E properly. I tend to pick the Hardened Bones Talent that makes him resistant while wraith-walking, but is the abilities main function to reposition/escape? Or is there some kind of utility that I'm missing? I found out I could use it to escape a Chromie Temporal Loop which is great, but my resistant body still gets nuked.

play wc3 and come back, tell me she feels anything like that turd zeratul and his spaghetti slash

>not Broll to complete the gladiator trio along with Valeera who's coming soon.

>utility that I'm missing

Using it to negate CC, for one. Tank additional damage with the talent you mentioned for two. Also using it to preposition, escape or catch somebody out (especially with wall ult).

Yeah, it's on my list. Haven't had the chance yet. I've just heard that he has her skillset and checked the wiki.

That'd be neat. What other characters might a Feral/Guardian druid be?

>Fandral, although I suppose we just got him in skin form
>Hamuul
>Broll
>mind is blank now

I think broll would make a good bear druid. Night elves need a tank and another dps or specialist for a full night elf group.

Going off her WC3 kit, she would be more like a Zeratul who relied more on hit and runs and setting up kills before finishing someone off. Maybe she could pass a specialist rather than an assassin. A poison slow, a basic AoE clear, a non-instant blink, and then some fun ults involving imprisonment and summoning avatars of vengeance to splitpush or boost your in-fight dps and create more targets for the enemy.
I could see it. She never had the damage to be an assassin, anyways. She's a Warden, not an executioner.

Right, glad I'm not completely missing something then. It seems like the March of the Black King is definitely the weaker ult (at least in most situations), but landing it can feel incredible, moreso with the level 20 upgrade.

What about a Troll Druid? (Are there any Troll Druids?) There aren't any Trolls in the game, or some more Tauren?

Heh, imagine a female tauren, or troll. Probably wouldn't sell as well as a night elf, though.

The first female Dreanei will probably be Yrel for that very reason, but I may be horribly wrong.
I just really want a shape shifting hero, preferably a spider, but I'll take a cat/bear.

>a mary sue from the worst expansion in the history is going to sell well
Nah, probably Velen who needs to fill the priest role anyhow.

We still need a prot/ret Paladin. Problem is there's Liadin and Yrel for it.

I'd argue Liadrin is more iconic. She even has a hearthstone hero. On the other hand there's no female Draenei apart from Yrel at all. She seems to be the only one who'd warrant a hero.

We need a fem draenei badly

>20 upgrade on March

That's a bit of a rough go, isn't it? I was under the impression Spectral was the go-to for more damage, and Hardened otherwise. Buried Alive just doesn't exist.

Not saying that I like that forgettable goat, just that she'd probably sell better than poor ol' Velen.

>also seems like varians brat son'll be the token priest when he's inevitablly added
>multiclass like father able to go disc or shadow idk ideas

I'd like to think a Priest Hero would be Anduin, and he'd be another multi-class hero, but you choose at Level 1 to go Shadow or Disc/Holy. Velen would be a better choice for a Healer Priest, but I just want a Shadow Priest in the game. Gul'Dan wasn't DoTty enough for my liking.

That'd be true, but it's still something I'd like to see. I'd love to see a Bear Druid, but now that Multiclass Heroes are a real thing (Karazhim didn't count I guess?), a Druid really is the perfect candidate for it. Even if it's just Feral/Guardian, since Malfurion covers the Resto spec nicely.

Trait could be mind vision, choose a target (if a hero it's on a time limit) you can see that target's vision like a scout drone.

It is yeah, but I really love ending my March and having five Spectral Leashes up. I normally take the % health on Auto attack Talent, though I've used Hardened every now and then.

>a shadow priest that isn't a troll or undead

You disgust me

>caring about a character being a mary sue
>in world of warcraft
what? that is like 100% of the good guy characters