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>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 Odin-without-Master-Assassin-talenting faggots?
/join Veeky Forums

>Current weekly brawl:
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20401307/heroes-brawl-of-the-week-the-mines-reopen-december-16-2016-12-15-2016

>Latest patch notes:
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20405715/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-december-14-2016-12-14-2016

>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

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First for Jaina is a dirty orc whore

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>ponyfucker

They are in this thread RIGHT NOW!

I've been playing my games for the new genji skin and I must say the games pretty sweet. I did not expect that.

We know.

Too bad it's scoffed at and ignored, so the playerbase isn't nearly as high as it could be.

>play with a bro and his silver friends
>winning
>then they do throw after throw like they're intentionally trying to lose
Tip; don't play with silvers. One of the most agonising losses.

I only played ai games so it was easy but I liked how rehgar felt. Support with good heals and shit but I could still beat some ass it was tight..they're on to something better.

Which slut should they add?

Why is every HL game now filled with troll picks, how do these guys even get to diamond

Amazon no question

kerrigan is the best hero. debate me.

>tfw no qt amazon gf

Why do people hate Lt. Morales?

Oh, Rehgar got buffed. 20% higher base AA damage, few talents buffed, his Blood Rage ult is now a teamwide stim drone with automatic heals, which is bonkers if you have shit like Valla, Raynor, Illidan or Varian on your team.

Amazon got a Nova skin already, so she's out.

We don't need another mage. But we have no WoW rogue hero and no Diablo Stealth hero. Kicksin might be nice, yeah.

Jaina is CUTE!

>when you carry a game as Uther

>when the enemy team is retarded

Blood rage ult is fucking nasty and the other one is really good too. I really like how everything feels like a goddamn raid and it's just eye candy as well. Really nice. Is the blademaster fun? I want to play him but he's like 10k.

Regardless whether you win or not, managing 4/5 more abilities than your team-mates is a satisfying ability on its own.

Because people don't know how to focus a healer down that has to be leashed to whomever she's healing.

Solo Varian tank, is that a thing? Because it feels like it wouldn't be, the fucking guy can't do a whole lot.

Depends.
He's a slippery squishy annoying cunt with lots of damage.
Similar to Zeratul or Nova in deleting unaware backline characters, but can put up a decent fight on the frontline. AoE fucks your shit up though, don't pick this guy against KT or Guldank if they know what they're doing.

tell me about the ragnaros builds

Thrall with earthquake and rehgar with bloodlust is pretty op right now. I wonder how they would buff stimdrone to make it competitive with bloodlust

>stim drone now only give 50% attack speed and 12% movement speed
>it no longer have a CD or duration, just drain mana from morales

Amazon has a skin, which means she'd have to at least look different. There's some potential there, they could make her trait switch between melee and ranged kind of like Greymane.

Assassin has a lot of possibilities, because she could be a shadow summoner, a trap placer, an elemental melee martial artist, and fling ranged blades at people. There's a lot of completely different takes on her you could use.

Sorceress is kind of covered by Li-Ming, but this version of that archetype could be done differently. She could be a lot more benevolent and humble, someone who knows she doesn't know everything about the mysteries of magic. She could be a close range mobile aoe caster throwing sprays of frost shards (a shitty version of frozen orb), planting fire hydras like turrets, zapping for damage based on max hp with static field.

>lava wave is sent
>thrall earthquakes while everyone is in the middle
>can't get out of lane
>kills 3 people stuck in earthquake

Thrall is really strong now because of how good earthquake is with rag and rehgar

So I'm still somewhat new to the game, I have some characters that I literally can't manage to lose the game with regardless of the dumb shit my team picks, and then I have characters that should fit into a team comp but EVERY time I pick it my team seems to go full retard.


Does stitches suck THAT badly? I can hit about 80% of what I throw and every time I pick it I get a pair of usually Illidan/varian that dive into shit 2v5 before I can help anyone with anything.

I don't pick him as a solo tank and I usually pick him with multiple stuns on my team. It's so frustrating, should I just not play it until my mmr is higher?

what tanks should i get

Sgt. Hammer, Leoric and Johanna.

etc, mura and johanna
dunno about the reworked ones but those 3 are the holy trinity of tanking

>playing placement matches
>91 estimated wait time
>waiting for 500 seconds

Explain

I stole this from reddit.

In terms of the overall metagame, what is the ranking order of ranged assassins from best to worst?

>no WoW rogue hero
>Genn

I am sad that abathur has an hard counter now

And it's not even a specialist

tell it to every single ragnaros i've played with
all the did was splitpushing all game long

...

What is the point of Alarak?

If you're gonna play a melee assassin, why not just play Thrall or Kerrigan who does the same thing but a lot better?

alarak is edgy tho

>land 4 person ring
>3 really clumped up
>no mana for blizzard
no pls my dreams

Why even play Jaina anyways?

There are like 3 viable mages in this game.

is tyrael good

i don't like a lot of these heroes but i need 14 of them

He's a good off-meta pick, especially if you encounter a lot of heroes like Butcher you can cuck with Sanct.

Any word on Auriel getting fixed? Her knock-back is incredibly buggy, inconsistent and unreliable. Sometimes you can whip someone and have them slide along an object and sometimes they'll be stunned, sometimes not. You can whip them on a rounded object and sometimes they'll be stunned, sometimes not. And sometimes you can whip an enemy and an ally will block their knock-back.

*Sanct/Holy Ground

I want to fix Auriel with my unholy cock!

tyreal is only good in expert hands due to holy ground and sancti
in a sub 3k MMR team your teammates wont be able to take advantage of your spells and he will be a liability even if you are good with him, imho

Jaina is really good, just a lot of people suck at her. Crazy how many terrible jainas there are out there

jaina died to hero power creep

START RUNNING

can you redo talents in game

nop
hero whose trait allows him to switch talents after not having been hit for a while when

are there bans or something in ranked

why do i need 14 heroes

>Slut

A draenei.

>are there bans or something in ranked
yes

>why do i need 14 heroes
so that you can actually pick at least a single hero if you're the very last guy to pick one and every other hero you own has been banned or picked

4 bans and 10 picks = 14 heroes

>be me
>historically absolute shit at melee assassin/bruiser
>pick Ragnaros in ranked anyways
>contribute absolutely nothing to teamfights
>just D on structures when they are close and R lanes on cooldown
>die the most times on both teams
>also have the highest hero damage, siege damage and xp on both teams
>we win

This hero is absolute bullshit, not because of his high damage per se but because he's so fucking easy to play.
His heroic is completely brainless. There are very few situations in which the correct choice isn't to just use it on CD on the lane most pushed by the opponent. It might not be optimal but it's never wasted.
At least I suppose he's kinda fragile in teamfight, he shits out a ton of AoE damage but dies isntantly when focused (compare to Dehaka, Sonya, Thrall). Still this is probably the lowest skill floor hero in the game.

do everyone a favor
dont fucking do ranked before at least reaching the lv 40 and get used to play all your damn roster
why do people want to rush into the fucking ranked and be the retarded who will inevitably bring the whole team down

>spider map
>both teams have rag
>my team is losing all team fights
>usually only get one or two from their team
>takes 35 minutes to lose because rags ulti is too fucking good
Let me guess, no nerfs until next year because they are all on vacation?

uther is fucking shit why did i get him

THE LIGHT ABANDONS SNOWMAN xD

>uther
>shit

uther is alright
you just need to learn to play around his high mana costs and burst heals

>this hero is okay if you look past all his crippling flaws
really made me think

What have the latest leaks been? I haven't played in a while and missed them.

I feel that these days you can't "play around it" anymore. His kit just demands too many resources in form of time and mana to achieve similar effects than other supports.

Multiclass tank heal rework please.

Classes were a mistake and multiclass was two mistakes in a single hero.

>he's ok if he isn't shit

They nerf new heroes two weeks after release, do somerthing else meanwhile or ban him

>I can't read

Agreed. I'm starting to realise that classes are pointless and only create some filler and issues.

Which sluts are missing in HotS?

ur mom

valeera, yrel, liadrin, whitemane, alextrasza

Except everyone at Blizzard goes on a vacation for christmas and new years so we are probably stuck with this rag for a month

they're doing a hots tournament at a place nearby
should i go there and show them how bronze i am?

Is there some reward for getting a hero to level 20?

successful autism diagnosis
also 2000 gold

Can we get the new hero already? Ragnaros and Varyan are some of the worst most BORING announcements since the game started. Literally trash.

Even fucking D.Va is way more exciting, sheesh.

Anti-Aliasing.

>Can we get the new hero already?
youtube.com/watch?v=JmndxoF74qQ

How old are you? Would you stand out in the group of 14yo's?

you get bumped to hero level 50 when they change the system next year

>Varyan
>with a y
Stand still.

pretty shit "cutscene"
then again it was a while ago

Lich Queen Jaina skin when

>enemy ragnaros is good
>friendly ragnaros is bad

new patch when

>quickfags

With the release of demon hunter tyrande

>temples
>we got sylv
>she calls rush bot wall
>we get the whole keep and 2 kills
>snowball all the way to victory from this
gold league

>he gets into plat
>does the same calls
>loses game for people
thanks

>meet him the very next game on spider as an enemy
>attempts the same shit on top lane
>wipes his team
gold league

9 out of my 10 favorite female streamers in HotS are in Silver, Jesus Christ. Only Gela knows how to play this goddamn game.

>see cute german hots streamer with a decent voice
>master
git gud NA

So I just came back from 17 days of surgery/recovery, bought Rag immediately because I felt the need to spend money on something and cannot yet safely leave my house

Am I correct in thinking that just building around his Q and the regen skill at 4 with Lava wave is the way to go with him?