Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

More Blizzard Classic heroes when? Edition

>What's new?

>WoW Event; Play Warcraft hero with friends for free mounts
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20532383/
>Lucio and Valentine's day stuff has been released
youtu.be/MRlkCiPVmII

>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.

>Weekly Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20529705
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20564632
>Latest patch notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20564325
>Latest In Development Video
youtu.be/3KTsPR2oeSE

>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 LĂșcio-picking faggots?
"/join Veeky Forums" in game chat

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

Will get nerfed:

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youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY
youtube.com/watch?v=V4IOrH_FMIs
tentonhammer.com/articles/heroes-of-the-storm-tier-list
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

Where the FUCK is Maiev????

Wow I had no idea you could activate the bubble and still die as murky

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!

Blizz will ban you
I actually run a team like that with bros in qm and it's hilarious

>mfw climbing to masters with Valeera

why aren't you playing best girl yet?

I'm I just don't play ranked.

>tfw sneaking in a ress as Auriel in the middle of a teamfight
>guy is afk

do you not want a free mount at the end of the season?

Not really, those elemental mounts are shit most of the time

Which hero is the most fun and cute, and why is it Anub?

can i be kicked for afk if i infinite channel little murkies with murky?

if your little murkies don't hit or do anything, yes

Beetles r kute

Don't take ress always take krystalis, when someone dies lates levels when the cooldown is 60 seconds they ALWAYS alt+tab and go shitpost on reddit or something

It was an awful game anyway where i got to use Ress everytime it was up

If you had the opportunity to use legacy kaom's heart next league, what would be some dank-ass builds for it? I miss that item so much.

Has Blizzard commented on the ~30s queues in QM?

what's to comment? they are doing a crossgame promotion so there are more players than usual

No fucking way that is true

why not?

are you stupid?

is HotS dying?

Post your hero without posting your hero: music edition, because Lucio, duh

youtube.com/watch?v=yModCU1OVHY

why are moba players so angry

it's bigger than ever, actually

So you are saying millions of wow players have been playing hots for a week now in QM?
All those vs AI games sure are speeding up the QM queues

what about when this cross-promotion ends?
it'll be dead again

Do you have a better explanation?

>HL Master+Diamond
I'm surprised to see Memestrocity with such a higher win-rate and solid % of games played. What gives? When would you reliably pick it outside of "we're at core and about to win, therefore I'll troll-pick"?

youtube.com/watch?v=V4IOrH_FMIs

some people don't like playing against bots (such as myself) and there are a lot of autistic mount collectors in WoW (such as myself)

Those are WoW players though. They're stupid enough to not figure out they could just rush AI games.
Seriously though; they're the biggest Blizzshills around here. They most probably play some HotS once in a while, they just don't play all the time but now because of promo they're all playing at the same time. And even if it's just 5% of WoW's population, it equals 300% growth for HotS, hence the queue times

In games where abathur picks Monstrosity, it's highly likely that it's a game where ultimate evolution is not needed to win the teamfights. Because of this, he gets to throw around the Monster, which is actually a really strong summon... if your team can function without Evolution.

Think about it like this: In most games where you pick Ultimate Evolution, your teammates are either losing or need help. In games where you pick Evolve Monstrosity, they need no help.

large maps like Dragon Shrine it's really good

99% of any game's player pool is terrible and deserve every loss they get. In 1v1 games one has nobody to blame but himself, so there's nobody to be angry towards.

In team games/hearthstone one can blame teammates/rng, thus getting white-hot angry.

The bad part is that these angry moba players can't deal with 1v1 game stress, they can never again hold full responsibility. Once you try these falsely relaxing team games you can never go back to a real solo struggle.

Basically if your team can 4v5. Or 4.5v5 (hat/mines)

Interesting. How can you reliably make that call when you've hit 10?

it was never dead, it's livelier than it was 3 months ago, when it was better than 6 months ago.

It's getting better. Will if reach its potential fast enough before blizzard kills it (if they ever kill it, which is dubious)? That's the question.

Generally the only way to actually get monster to be effective is if you're going with either a symbiote or mine build - symbiote is the best of the two, because mines are gimmicky and can be played around.

The Monstrosity basically increases the player count on your team to 6 if you have the ability to keep an eye on both it and your team. Pick it at 10 if the hat is enough to give your team the edge in teamfights, or on maps that require large amounts of time to to capture objectives like warhead junction, garden of terror or the temple map.

"symbiote build" includes carapace? I see a lot of people picking that (hotdogs reflects this too) lately. I used to always go symbiote but for stab/spike instead with sometimes taking the 13/16 locusts.

Also, how does Sustained Carapace with Regenerative Microbes work with Hivemind?

I used to be a good Abathur but haven't touched him in a long time. I want to play him in HL but I'm anxious and probably garbage at talents (what to pick, when/why etc)

Pretty much this, also you would want monstrosity to " win harder". If you can hit level 10 before the enemy, then your team can win a team fight without a 5th, which at that point you add monstrosity to make sure you always have a 1 to 2 level advantage.

I've always wandered; why is Thrall there?

Hivemind's symbiote is talented, but half strength; regenerative microbes works with it, but you still want to hat the target who desperately needs healing as the primary target.

Defensive symbiotes are very strong, because it lets you act as a support as well as a specialist. It also gives you a chance to save teammates that the offensive symbiote cannot. However, if your team has 2 tanks you should definitely go offensive symbiote, since the damage offered by it will help to cover the void created by your lineup.

Insistence on sameness meaning he only has 1 build path. Too bad that isn't true since he can go lightning god or wind fury build

well is a really old pic

That makes sense and I agree, user.

I've seen mines work wonders against a team that has little/no sustain (support), especially if they have a squishy asshole like Valeera. Mines still seem very niche though.

If you have any other considerations/tips/talent stuff etc for Abathur please do share more. I want to be as good as I can before entering HL. I don't want to 'tilt' or piss people off immediately just because "wow aba pick gg"

Who should be it now?

>tfw gold 1, almost season end
Can I get to plat? How hard is it? I'm 9-3 so far, feels inevitable to go on a 6 loss streak. Most of my wins are total stomps

Yes. Blizzard changed the matchmaking so it makes more uneven games but faster

plat is as retard as gold, 3 games in a row i got a teammate with a brighwing, no cleanse against varian and malfurion, and yes the 3 times was against them

Okay.

Abathur works best with heroes who have durability, mobility and/or high attack dps. Muradin is a great partner for abathur because he's durable and mobile, and can spec into high attack speed with Skullcracker.

Of all level 4 talents, if you can get a teammate who can capitalise on Adrenal Overload it will win the game for you. Muradin, Sonya and Rexxar's bear are great hat targets, because they give you ample time to throw damage at the enemy's team, as well as them being able to take advantage of your attack speed boost. Do not pick Abathur if you only have 1 good hat target, though.

The most important thing to remember is that Abathur is a lot like Medivh; a great one will ruin the enemy's day. Any lower quality than that, and you're going to ruin your own team's day.

Fucking damn it they need to put a button that prevents abathur from moving i get constantly killed because i don't notice i started slithering somewhere

I just want the mount, idgaf about my rank

Also fix that fucking dead-zone after turning symbiote off where you can't do anything for a second. The fuck is this?

Anything below masters is easy

Sylvanas build anymore?
I don't know how to build her anymore. they changed her on me

Pick murky instead

I don't like murky. i don't enjoy the oneshot by chromie meme with him. kinda shit tbqhwyf

say that to the three games I lost where no matter what I said two of my teammates wouldn't stop trying to find new and exciting ways to die 1v5

Agreed. Good post.

What about locust talents? I even see some memers get the level 1 locust talent. Should you ever go full locust?

>wake up
>no in-dev blog or news at all

Locust build is good on big maps like Warhead where you can get a lot of splitpush value.

that is on friday, also pretty sure they will release the new heroe on march 13, since that is when the season ends

fuck

just fuck off already, it's never enough for you, every time they release a new hero, then instead of playing it and being happy, all you can do is "hurrr durr when will the next hero be?" but it doesn't matter because even if they releae 5 new heroes all you care about is the next one

why what, im no the one who asked when the new heroe is coming, im saying when he will come, learn how reply

pajeet detected

This one is not me. Locust builds the massive utility the symbiote build has for becoming a nuisance to the enemy team.

Short answer, don't take locust talents. The symbiote talents at every level are superior to the locust talents, and while locusts will certainly help remove pressure from your team, they would do that untalented, anyway. The strength of symbiote far outweighs your locusts, and if you DO end up going up locusts, you must pick ultimate evolution, or else you will be completely irrelevant to teamfights outside of occasional poke.

> they would do that untalented, anyway.
Not if they're untalented. Ranged locusts however are a different story. Especially if you have the 3x spawn talent.

Ranged locusts are quite strong, and locust brood is also strong.

However, Soma Transference allows for burst heal, which is incredibly strong. And Adrenaline Boost on 16 - a 40% movement speed boost for almost 4 seconds - is an incredibly strong talent, to the point of being almost broken. It gives symbiote's target incredible chase, as well as a great escape if they did not have one already. It allows you to save allies who would otherwise get chased down and killed.

What I'm saying is, locusts delay waves fairly well without talents. They may not stop bruiser camps like the ranged locusts, but they're enoguh to allow your team time to arrive and help you clear. And the locust talents at 13 and 16 are great, but aren't nearly as good as the symbiote talents.

I'll stop asking when the next hero is when they finally release ANY character that isn't Warcraft or Overwatch.

starcraft franchise is dead, they aren't gonna add any heroes from a game series which ended
and after the fuck up with diablo 3 they aren't gonna add any d3 heroes since nobody plays d3 anymore
so the next hero will also be ow

>3 games with people who dc/leave/afk in hl at diamond

Nope thats enough for today, fuck you blizzard and your constant never letting me get masters.

if every pleb could get masters then they would become meaningless

Been sitting at diamond 1 for a while. But having 3 losses due to factors I literally couldn't control and it lowering my personal ranking bonus because of it is stupid.

I'll probably be master before end of the month but having to deal with this stupid shit all the time is making it hard for me want to play the game.

>after a ton of warcraft assassins we will now get a heap of overwatch supports

>no valentine tyrande pron yet
WHAT THE FUCK

>dying to chromie as murky
is moving left and right to difficult for you?
Can you not time bubble when you see chromie casting in your direction?

What, Tyrande without her face markings?

>1 is a "heap"

Hello?

>we will
hi there

>no source
Hey!

>tentonhammer.com/articles/heroes-of-the-storm-tier-list

>Tyrael in S tier
How does this make you feel /hotsg/?

>Difficulty: Medium
>Description: Difficult to play well
What did they mean by this?

>drop sanc
>win the game

I'm suppose to be mad or something?

nova skin

I have no idea where Tyrael fits in a HL meta. Sanc is a game winner for coordinated teams, but that's always been the case.

Unrelated, how do you guys get good Horrifys off, I always feel like its range is too short for me to get a good one without dying or just sending them running.

Why is icy veins so shit?

I mean I rarely take Death Metal as ETC, but not for that reason. Tour Bus is amazing for getting effectively double moshes or a bolt of the storm impression, Storm Shield is nice utility, and Bolt of the Storm is Bolt of the Storm.

It also lets you mosh without actually taking mosh pit.

Well they are not wrong, at least not in that case. At level 20 dying is going to cost you big

My point is more how they say blink is the only real option, when blink is the most telegraphed way to say "IM GOING TO USE MOSH PIT NOW PLEASE DO NOT CC ME"

Ability to chose not to play against stealth in QM when?

if you drafted right and used bolt properly you shouldn't have an issue stunning the people who're able to CC you.

It's not the only real option though by a long shot.

i hope you like 10 minute queue times

Artanis really isn't that great, he is A+ tier. At HGC he had a 10% win rate. He is over hyped and don't really know why.

Tyrael being S tier makes sense considering artanis is there. Tyrael plus an off tank is a great team line up, good damage. Any place you would put sonya you could easily replace with tyrael so thats why hes s tier.

Azmodan being A+ is way too high, B at best.
How is Zarya and dehaka not s rank yet thrall is?
Thrall should be dropped to A or A+

>tassadar only at a
>tassadar had a 96% win rate at HGC
Sure you normally always need a 2nd support for him to work, but he is a god.
Alright guide I guess, but feels like it was written by a platinum 5 player who thinks he knows everything.

Rather have that than fucking Valeera every single fucking game.

Team fighting lots and it depends on the map. Maps that have a congested point to horrify thema ll its easy. Also don't worry so much about hitting everyone if you hit 2 thats still 4 secs of CC

>tfw murky main
>tfw valeeras don't even try to engage me
feels good man

While we're at it, could someone explan to me why Tassadar is so valuable? I don't own him and he mostly seems underwhelming when I see him in my games.

What's the thing that makes him S tier material?

Bronze or Silver?