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stopped playing about a year ago, was mmr decay ever implemented? If not look out diamond 1 im about to shit the place up

have 50k gold

which of these guys are not shitters

not fond of melee assassins with no/shit mobility, like everything else though

ps tyrande still best waifu

Rag, Lucio, Artanis, and Probius are all top tier right now.

Event next tuesday user.

She wouldn't do anything to you user, she plays ball on Tracer's team.

daily reminder:
if you ever make an OP, don't do forget to reference the last thread:
don't be this fucker:

How good/shit is Thrall?
I've tried him a couple of times now that he's in the free rotation but I can't seem to -get- what I should be doing as him.
Which of his Heroics is usually better?

artanis is a strong contender for one of the best heroes in this game right now. also grab lucio, ragnaros, zarya, and medivh

are you talking about the stream?
thats not an ingame event

For anyone that's played PTR, how is my boy doing on it?

just like let me fight lol

what a bad OP

The stream is literally just to fill the maintenance period of 2.0 going live, user.

We need more ways to mitigate spell damage. AAers are so fucked in this game, there's so much to mitigate their primary source of damage, and all mages have are "heres a spell shield for some heroes, and for others, well just have your warrior absorb all of it and get poked down lol"

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ill take your word for it

also have been watching a few "pro" matches on youtube and they havent used a new map once. in fact they just seem to rotate between the same 3 maps every single series

are they all shit?

So should I get my 3< heroes to 5, or get the other lower heroes to 4?
Don't know if the gold drop at 5 is bad or not.

Pro games officially ban certain maps and Blizzard lets them unlike Memewatch.

Leveling means you lose out on lootboxes next week so don't do it.

we arnt going to get retroactive rewards? what a bunch of bullshit

what was chu8 banned from and why

You get infinite boxes and EXP to get boxes is much lower than live. It's really not a big deal.

losing on purpose to get to bronze

>picking Zul'jin
>not taking TAAAAAAZ'DINGO!

What's the fucking point?
It's like you want to play a Troll Warrior but not actually act like a Troll Warrior.

Guillotine isn't a death sentence like Taz'dingo is. It also forces you to play with good positioning to use you we be kangs choppa da ax move.

>falling for trap'dingo
Nobody takes the bait anymore outside of silver. Everyone sees it coming and backs off or stuns/blinds him out.

>not having already leveled all heroes to at least 5 for those sweet Kamas

Yugo pls

Alright, soon, 2.0 hits. I can't wait to get the rest of these heroes.

Post how many you got left. I got 18 (more than I thought left). 10 of which are 10k heroes.

got em

don't you know the best kamas are the ones you haven't gotten yet?
Potential>in hand

I get the feeling that when I play Rexxar, Misha is actually the tank and I am the distraction, is that correct or is that retarded?
He's a lot of fun to play but sometimes when the clusterfuck of Heroics begins I have a hard time keeping track of where she is.

What's the proper zagara build this days? Haven't played in over a year.

That's correct. Misha is the tnak, Rexxar doesn't really get to do much at all. In fact, he's vulnerable to just being dived, and thus flat out countering him.

>Not leaving your entire hand empty and settling with solely Li Li.
Crates are gonna have all those heroes.

There's not really just one "good" build because Zagara is all around in a bad spot now.

Take Nydus if you intend to splitpush all game and be a nucance, take Maw for fighting.

Take Mutalisk if you want to splitpush, take Giant Killer Hydra for fighting

Take Baneling numbers for pushing, take slow for fighting

There's a trend if you can't tell.

is there a way to disable replays being saved automatically?

>there be people in this thread RIGHT NOW who don't enjoy playing in Blackheart's Bay

Not my fault ya refuse to cough up the doubloons, ya landlubbers.

Unless you want the get a lot of veteran boxes, then you need to level a lot, whatever you desire

Why are nova players so useless? Literally 3k more hero damage than Johanna and less than half of her siege damage

Man, what part of stick together do people not get? Is Mines just a retard magnet? They have a Valeera, Malf. You DIE.

Her only use is killing heroes, she can't do anything else.

Bad Novas are anchors for your team.

Why did nobody tell me that Johanna aka "run and people and perma-cc them, and also never get chain cc'd ever" was so fun?

Because spell damage shits all over her, moreso than before. And this game is nothing but spell damage out the ass.

Is there some kind of hidden matchmaking adjustment that gets put on you to only pair you with shitters when you play TLV?

When you play TLV in QM, you're asking for a bad time because they are only good on 3 of 12 maps with coordinated teams. You are basically asking 4 rando assassins/specialists to carry you regardless of circumstances, which will end badly.

You know what was surprisingly painful? More silences being introduced. Alarak would frequently ruin my day.

So... have the Immortals spent an eternity just, sort of slowly shooting fireballs at each other?
Did they actually fight each other before but now they are tired of this shit?

He was pretending to be retarded

anybody have that loot box spreadsheet to see how many loot boxes you get after 2.0? or would any user be kind enough to show me where to go to do the math?

Same goes for Abathur, same goes for Rexxar, in that it's you and 4 Assassins/Specialists who all won't bother to turn on the stealthers or Butcher who just dived onto you.. There are some heroes you cannot play in QM, and are too niche in QM to consistently use for one reason or another. Problems like these are easily fixed, yet they won't do a single fucking thing about it.

starting to wonder if they do this on purpose.

>easily fixed

Loling out loud at you

you picked ETC, you should have known you'd lose

Are you implying that ETC is bad?

Is there ever a reason to get the cleaving locust of the ranged?

you poor sap

If they have Azmodan or melee take exploding locusts

Exploding locusts punish wave clearing, ranged locusts punish them harder for not responding to your locusts in lane

All these people that I'm playing with while leveling are garbage.

>gain lead
>enemy team can neither contest turnin nor enter their own jungle
>win

ebin
quality map
veto/blacklist when

She's a mobile ward capable of soaking experience. And killing Heroes. That's it.
If she isn't making picks then the Hero is almost entirely useless.

Why would you want to disable that?

anyone tried tassadar on the ptr? are the nerfs as hard as they look?

>nor enter their own jungle
>jungle

No, it's just hurts solo support Tass with a Hyper carry.

what about the archon lv20 nerf?

>play new hero
>get focused

feels bad

>Tfw nobody on your team fucking tries to use any of their billion skillshots to try and reveal the stealther
>And they instantly forget it's there the instant they stealth

Would you like a hero based entirely on RNG?

I have never played Starcraft, what the fuck are spin sequences?
What does it mean that they are good?

sauce?

We're bound to get a Cardstone hero sooner or later.

jaraxxus would be cool,i know he is from wow, but the meme began in hearthstone

Genetics stuff. Abathur is the evolution master.

as opposed to that
other thing we call it

>mercing
>heroics
glad these never caught on

>meme began in hearthstone
No it didn't. It was meme during ToC and had a bunch of remix songs back then

Well it is. For heroes like TLV or Abathur, use their QM rules system to label them as "comp-dependant" heroes, only allow them to be put in games with Warriors and Supports. For Warriors like Rexxar, Leoric, etc. Give them a double-label of "Bruiser/Comp-dependant", and if they're the only Warrior in the game, the opposing team must also have a bruiser, otherwise they'll always get matched with an actual "Warrior" hero, etc.

>I've put an absurd amount of cash into a game where they're going to make everything obtainable for free

More tass nerfs? FML.

They already ruined my boy with that shit rework and now they're making him worse. I'm sorry blizz hates you buddy.

>tfw own all but like 5-6 heroes
>only log on for dailies
>have only spent $5 on Abathur when I started because whoa this guy is neat

Looking forward to free skins, desu.

> the meme began in hearthstone
wrong

Dofus: The Treasures of Kerubim

How much we talking, user?

You helped support the game, that's reward enough

>That guy last thread who said 5-stacks can only play against triple and duo queues.

lmaono. My team was a bunch of soloqueues. And I see these faggots all the fucking time, not only do they do nothing but 5-stack, but they all pick pretty great comps ({With Medivh of course, someone has to be the pegboy of the group) and I'm pretty positive they use voice comms. This shit shouldn't be allowed.

It's especially odd because the system considers Abathur and Medivh "Sustainers", yet we didn't have a "Sustainer", which means not only do 5-stacks inherently have a massive advantage over everyone else, but the system seems to bend the rules for them as well. That's pretty fucked.

QM has few rules, it's a clusterfuck that you agree to in exchange for short queue times. Only in TL does the 3-2 v % rule apply.

Newbie here, I'm familiar with other mobas like LoL or Dota(1&2) just wanted some Hero suggestions;

I like killing players with huge nukes at a range or obnoxious, flighty, hopping characters that chase and harass, what characters fit either of these types? Ty for any input

>huge nukes at a range
Chromie

> flighty, hopping characters that chase and harass
Illidank

>huge nukes at a range
Kael'thas, Chromie
>Obnoxious, chase and harass
Lunara, Valla

>friends express interest in nexus challenge
>send them the recruit a friend thing
>aight lets do bots
>nah that's gay
>queue qm
>win almost all thirty in a row

it's not like the mode was worth playing without friends in the first place desu

what do you play in lol
>nuke at range
because I'd probably recommend Chromie, even if positioning and her E can take a bit of getting used to

>chase and harass
Lunara, Illidan