Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

Murky's vengence draws near edition

>What's new?
Lucio is the next hero, will be released on Feb 13th
youtu.be/iQ_1HIvclmQ
>Latest In Development Video
youtu.be/3KTsPR2oeSE
>For new players:
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE

>Which heroes should I buy?
Play all the heroes on free rotation or try mode and see who you like. Don't buy heroes just to get into ranked, you'll regret it.

>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20532380/hammer-time
>Latest patch notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20532382/heroes-of-the-storm-hotfix-patch-notes-feb-8-2017-2-8-2017
>Weekly Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20529509/weekly-sale-feb-7-14-2017-2-7-2017
>WoW Event; Play Warcraft hero with friends for free mounts
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20532383/for-azeroth-2-6-2017

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

>Current Tier List
robogrub.com/tierlist

>Where do I find you meme murloc lovers?
"/join Veeky Forums" in game chat

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

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reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/4mh256/theres_a_guy_on_Veeky
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rpboyer15.github.io/sounds-of-the-storm/
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

>when your team picks three assassins that all rely on autoattacks to do damage

ordering one bullet to head please

"Sorry I don't play support."
"I can't tank."

youtube.com/watch?v=MRlkCiPVmII
yay

hey bronzie heres a protip
to micro vikings you double tap 1 2 or 3 issue a command then double tap the next number there should only be a half second tops between you rotating through all 3 vikings this is something literal silverbabies in starcraft can do

if you leave a viking afk in a bush you're a scrub stick to illidan please

Anduin is a discipline priest though, noone likes those.
Velen is a DRAENEI with big lore relevance and a holy priest.
Velen, Maraad, Yrel, we need blue russian aliens.

So Stukov after or is Blizzard still booty blasted about the leaks?

>Lucio is a black guy who believes music brings people together and he's leading the REVOLUTION against the evil bad corporation

Is irony lost on Blizzard?

>Lucio is supposed to be some famous talented edm artist
>his music is "okay" at best

>"Sorry I don't play support."
>"I can't tank."
>you're forced to play support or tank
>turns out they can't play assassins either

good game

>JUSTICE
>HE FIGHTS FO JUSTICE
come on. if you buy this guy, you're a cuck.

You're always a cuck if you voluntarily play any support other than Monk and Rehgar.

>you're forced to play support or tank

this is the problem, stop being an assassin babby and learn to play all the roles

Please no bully Auriel

/pol/ pls go

They did it again

Shut up and suck my big DPS dick you healslut.

t. blue pill normie who doesn't even understand that his favorite game company engages in social justice wankery and is shoving down propaganda down his throat

but sure, act as if I am making it politically..

t. faggot

lmao

Post this whenever someone says Valeera is good

>Justice
That does seem a bit off. He more fights for freedom. But whether that's a good thing or not depends strongly on where one falls in the argument over the importance of the human life and if the concept of choice is necessary for life.

The wall riding doesn't make him immune to stuns or anything does it? Would it make him more susceptible to Auriel's whip or things like that?

You ain't attacking so I can't suck shit

>Valeera chasing
>Against someone who can attack while moving
>Against someone with MS roid and knockbacks
ye nah tote legit user gj :))

>Valeera is good!
>B-But she's bad against the tier 1 first pick heroes
;thinking;

LUCIO COMING AT CHU
youtube.com/watch?v=MRlkCiPVmII

>immune
One of talents make him immune to roots but not stuns.

Wall Riding itself only makes him immune to body blocking and improves his speed to just a tiny bit slower than a mount. There are talents he can take to make it give him 25% damage reduction, immunity to slows/roots, move far faster than a mount and so on.
His only anti-stun talents are a talent that makes it so he heals every time he gets stunned/silenced/stopped he heals, and a talent that cleanses allied stuns but not his own.

No, he is only immune to body block.

>Lucio and Tracer
>Tier 1 first pick
:lul:

sonya looks so good on the rooster mount. looks like a final fantasy character on a chocobo

Lucio has a 100% ban rate in tournament so far.

Sonya like all females in the game looks good riding a cock.

still hoping for him to come later in the year

>buy Anub arak
>win every game

The fact that I didnt saw the champ in over 80 matches is probably why nobody knows what he does. They stay in my beetle range and chill

LUL xDDD "cock" !!!! its like "penis" LUL!!!!

Calm your tits

>no one plays him
He's got 1,5 times the amount of matches as Nova and top winrate on hotdogs. This means that there's shitton of people playing him. Maybe you're too bronze for them.

Iam not even 40 m8

>girthshatter will be the most op ult in the game

tommorow i will finally have enough gold to buy valeera
i'm hype as fuck since i'm tired of playing just samuro zera and nova all the time

Is this the first spotlight you've watched?

>it's been a year since i first posted this

jesus where does the time go

Tihis was fun, i went full teleport build just to fuck with valeera and i exploded her so many times, she always tried so hard to get away but nope, i had teleports coming out of my ass

the more important question is where you went
draw more stuff

what should i draw?

Anub

murky becoming super buff and huge and scaring everyone with his sudden gains

Aba that is doing that thinking face but with his other arms too.

Chen solving problems with alcohol.

Question:
In 95% of my matches, I'm always top experience with like a huge comparison to all of my teammates. Is this any good? Am I being too passive with how I play? Sometimes, I do play Specialists, and I really wanna get good with Abathur, but I also get to play tanks and assassins whenever I can.
I also always try to go even (by going from top to mid or anything such as that, or take mercs) vs my enemy in terms of levels whenever we're behind, which I guess it's a great thing?

Soaking experience is really good, but only if you're not giving too much up for it. For example, if you're just passively soaking a lane while an objective is going on, you should really be at the objective.

As a rule of thumb, though, if there's nothing important going on at the moment, you should be soaking.

>For example, if you're just passively soaking a lane while an objective is going on, you should really be at the objective.
Yeah, I literally always contest them, even if I'm top soaking while the objectives are at bot side. I do try to shove if I can, or if I have a good hero that actually can shove, but otherwise, I jump right forward to the objectives.

I honestly thought I was just doing too much soaking but it just seems to be good.

Do you still play Heroes? Where did you upload your stuff again?

Yeah, a big problem at lower levels is that lanes often just go unsoaked when there's nothing else on the map to do. Soaking efficiently is definitely one of the better ways to get better at the game.

Nazeboo confirmed for countering wins.

I realized immediately, yeah. Lanes go uncontested and it's kinda impressive because not even the enemy takes opportunity of this. I even see people go 2 top at BhB which is kinda questionable when you can just have 1 at both top and mid if it's a specialist or just someone that can clear easily.

Fuck, I second this.

Thirded, this is great.

Sonya whirling around laughing as people try and hurt her.

Arthas and Leoric being bros

Stukov, Mengsk, Velen, & D.Va are next

you forgot Maiev

>Melee range AoE
>Teleport
>Stealth
>Short ranged damage ability
She's already in the game

t. I haven't played wc3

2:27 LMAO

>tfw inevitable all Lucio brawl

>Lucio Ball

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!

HAHHA SOME HEROES ARE USING THEIR DANCE ANIMATION! HILARIOUS

Why are queues fucked right now?

>Implying fan of knifes isn't exactly the same as Zeratul's ability
>Implying shadow strike would make it in after the failure that is Lunara
>Implying Shadowmeld wouldn't just be Zeratul's trait
>Implying she'd have avatar of vengeance
>Implying she wouldnt have some kind of imprisoning ability like void prison

So according to the same guy who said Lucio is likely next, the biggest forced OW meme should be next, followed by the archangel of death.

Fffffuck that, Reinhardt when?
I want an all Hammer/Mace beefcake comp with Leoric, Ragnaros, Thrall, Reinhardt and Muradin!

Anyone else having connection problems right now?

>get into draft
>everybody wants to play a tank
>okay fine I'll just go brightwing, ban tychus
>have so much sustain we just keep killing them over and over
>game ends like 51-0

Not looking forward to the tracer of supports and op murky every game. This seems like it's going to be a very horrible patch

can anyone queue up? i keep getting an error

yes we are

Well at one point an user said Reinhardt should be within the next few months, but I'm not sure if it was the same guy who called out Lucio or not.

No. Blizzard is fuckin up.

does anybody know the directory for the heroes voice lines folder? I only managed to find the one for the sound effects

>lucio's aoe speed making lunara's speed worthless
as if she wasn't already bad enough. all this mobility creep is getting out of hand

rpboyer15.github.io/sounds-of-the-storm/

What hasn't and isn't creeped, though? Heroes that are new and have been buffed/reworked are mostly better than those untouched/old.

Gaz, Aba and Azmo still needs some work and buffs to be reliable and competent without being niche, overly situational and people complaining about it in higher-level play.

>incoming week of valeera/murky/abathur/nova/you teams
This game actually has gotten worse week after week.

>aba
>nova
Why? Valeera because she's new and getting buffed ( :^)))) ) and Murky because of rework and looks very strong.

Aba works suprisingly well on heal/support build but it doesnt get reflected on stats screen.

>Why?

Aba got buffed and is a noobtrap.
Nova because she's FUN and USEFUL, unlike that old hag Valeera.

funny post

>ally plays *that* hero
>he's completely awful and won't take any advice
>no worse feeling in this game than that
Which hero does this to you?

>carapace meme
NO

But it is dumb how they've removed his 'role' in stat-screen.

Noob-trap as in noobs like him and suck? He's a decent hero in higher level--sometimes even used in tourny/pro games.

There's no single hero. It's more just retards that you frequently see.

Fucking Artanis and Ragnaros. ALWAYS. I don't trust anyone who plays that hero anymore unless it's one of my friends.

>There's no single hero
that isn't the game

I think you should reread, user.

HAHA YES FRIEND ! GREAT JOY !

I only trust azmo when one irl friend plays him

>I'm the only Azmo in my group
>We win at least 90% of games with him
>Random shitter tries to blame Azmo for a loss despite doing well all game and we all hound on them for being the shitter
Feels good. Cut out a hero that is for you.

Azmo is fun, it just feels so bad that Q is absolute dogshit if you don't talent for it, meaning you can never properly talent for laser. Even if you talent for Q, your contribution to teamfights still isn't massive. Why can't it have more base damage? Why can't I get a "reduce CD by 4 seconds for each enemy hit, up to 8 seconds" talent for Q?
Why am I doomed to irrelevance outside of lasering that diving Illidan and bodyblocking my teammates?