Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

Fear me mortals Edition

What's new?

>D.Va Hero Announced
youtu.be/UgJLvtx5PzI
>Nexus Challenge 2.0; Oni Genji skin, Policeman D.Va, loot boxes, and more in Overwatch and HotS
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/nexuschallenge20/
youtu.be/Bv2t9lwC7lk

>**Megabundles Announced**; All players will be able to unlock up to 20 heroes for FREE
>Promotion ends May 22nd, 2017
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/megabundles

>Heroes of the Storm 2.0; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20695700
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20
>Genji Hero Announced; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/genji
youtu.be/-SJgvzPRFEI
>Hamamura Battleground Announced; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/battlegrounds/hanamura
youtu.be/Dq5-18Vt-c0

>For new players
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE
>New & Experience Players - Advice on Improving and Not Raging
youtu.be/dR220gLIUEo

>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 Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20718358/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20724210/
>Latest Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20726730/

>Hero Rankings, Various Statistics, Talent Calculator, & Wiki
hotslogs.com/Default (Slightly inaccurate)
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator
heroesofthestorm.gamepedia.com/Heroes_of_the_Storm_Wiki

>Current Tier List
robogrub.com/tierlist

>Where can I find you AFK Jainas ?
"/join Veeky Forums" in game chat

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1st for throwing ur qp games

jokes on you i play draft

Why did they have to stick with a shitty RTS control scheme and not an action-type scheme ala Overwatch/Smite/Paladins.

Give me my WASD movement.

Lune sprays FUCKING WHEN

I bet there will be at least one hero added that controls that way. Would be rad.

Hm? Why would you want half your game to be focused on moving? Having to hold a button down to move directly from A -> B doesn't make anything more fun, just more tedium.

This way, you only need to interact with movement when it matters and can focus on other things like watching the map and timing.

Turn off camera lock.

Where the FUCK is Maiev?????????

>They add a top-down shooter hero
>WASD to move
>Right-Click auto attacks as a skill shot
Would be rad indeed

So how the fuck is quick play supposed to be matching these team compositions?

what do you mean lili isnt a mage?

>Linking to results

afaik when d.va uses her boosters the camera goes into first person with wasd moveset so she can fly on a 3 dimensional plane

It feels like only the enemy team knows how to play this game. No one goes for the map objectives, feels like overwatch. Thank god i only have to play 5 games of this shit.

What bundle did you buy?

strawpoll.me/12887565

Give Dehaka another useful build that isn't this heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/dehaka#kfwz

What kind of idiot added the AI game dailies? what the fuck? Why would i want to play fucking retarded boring ai matches:?

Other
Other
Utility
Other
Support

Vs.

Other
Utility
Other
Support
Other

Not complicated.

I know I need 14 heroes to lv 5 to play ranked but after that can I use heroes that I don't have at level 5?

TAAAZ'DINGO

Teamwork is a skill in this game too. Not everyone has it and this game is more mechanically demandimg than overwatch, so friendlies don't know how to play their heroes let alone work together.

Gets better as you continue to play, but you obviously don't seem interested so bye.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't equate assassins with specialists.

>Pick stitches in comp
>Getting flamed
>End up winning the game for the team with fat hooks and bile blocks
>Team doesn't even say GG

What makes Samuro so bad? Just that he gets fucked by blinds? Or is he just generally weak?

nope

No, at last check.

Yeah, but that doesn't matter if you aren't the problem. Bronze through Gold players are basically bots.

You don't want that. They don't buff shit talents. They nerf good talents, and when people still pick the good talent they nerf it again and only after they drove the actual good talent into the ground they'll buff the shit talent, but not in any meaningful way.

>pick submeta hero
>teammate insta leaves

Pusher
Mage
Support
Pusher
Support

VS

Mage
Support
Pusher (kinda)
Support
Assassin

yeah no clue.

Weak early game. He doesn't start getting okay till lvl 7 and he really starts hitting hard at lvl 16. The problem is there are other characters that do what he does but better.

Not to mention for awhile Rag was in every game and Rag fucks Samuro.

Oh man, I would love that.

OW fag here and former DotA 2 player - which mega pack should I choose if I am actually going to try in my games? I know they are drastically different games but I used to mainly play Timbersaw, Dark Seer and other solo offlane heroes in DotA.

Maiev with mobility + shackling abilities to deal with all these overwatch fucks please.

Trait = blink, because apparently a teleport as a trait is fine now.

Shadow Shamn shackles, poison dagger and fan of blades

It does. Only exceptions to that rule is Abathur and Medivh, who are utility instead.

I want to believe

Sounds like you want Supports and Specialist but tanks and bruisers are really strong right now.

Solo offlane? Any pack that has Dehaka, Leoric or Sonya in it. Don't know how Timbersaw or Dark Seer play, but looking up Timbersaw briefly you'd probably like Sonya look her up.

Flex for a little bit of everything, Warrior if you like to be aggressive, assassin of you want more newer heroes that play like ADCs from other games.

>shackling abilities
Imagine something like the butchers Lamb to the Slaughter but with less cool down.

tanks or supports. This game is like overwatch in that everyone picks the squishy offense heroes and tries to 1v5 like a dumbass, and no one really knows how to counter tanks so you're free to just fuck everyone up as Stitches/Diablo/Butcher, and no one knows how to focus healers either so just existing as Lucio or Morales will win you a lot of games.

Damn I hope she gets added soon.
Remember that shadowstrike sound from wc3?
Would be neat if they'd use that.

It does for most of em. Half of specs are just assassins with a gimick, to be honest.

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whichever one gives you the most heroes

Don't bully the Murloc. He's the savior of his people you know.
>No murky raid boss

>6"0
>5"10

just got 1600 shards. which nimbus cloud do i get? fart cloud, nazi gas cloud, or pretty blue cloud?

master x master is coming out in the summer and has WASD movement and a tag-team system where you pick two heroes and can swap between them

it'll only be worth playing for pohwaran though

...

that would be the most disorienting shit
awful idea

Zeratul already has the kit. Skin at most.

anyone that didn't buy assassin likely already had the majority of heroes in that bundle

it had the most value and the most waifu, you'd be a fool not to get it

>play azmo in qm
>don't need to do shit just push lanes and dunk people
ez wins

who else is really good in qm?

>Do QM with Veeky Forums chat
>They're terrible
>Go solo all the time
>Walk into objectives one at a time and die
With all the shit talking in these threads I expect you faggots to at least know how to play the game properly.

By now you should have realized the golden rule of competitive multiplayer games is the louder a player shouts and rages, the worse they actually play.

Valeera. Zagara. Xul but fuck Xul.

The people who bitch the loudest are the worse and they never improve because they blame everyone else for their short comings as a player.

Butcher seems like a bigtime pubstomper.

Probius if the enemy team is retarded.

You must have had bad luck, Out of the last 10 games I've played with Veeky Forums we've only lost 2.

It's been a bad day on HL

I was at promo to masters, and then this

fucking kill me

Butcher only works if the enemy team is retarded AND you have semi-decent support AND the enemy doesn't have CC.

>Diablo is arguably the best tank in the game
>He's boring as hell
>Lucio and Morales are probably the best healers in the game
>They're boring as hell

I didnt think Id enjoy Tassadar this much

Tyrande and Azmo are FUN!

>Morales
>best healer in the game

>Towers of Doom
>Braxis Holdout
>Braxis Holdout
>Hanamura
>Towers of Doom
>Braxis Holdout

I don't think I'm going to make it to the 15th.

>diablo
>better than varian, dehaka, arthas, artanis or sonya

I agree on Morales and Lucio though.

>those fucking hips

>make a team of stuns and burst
>win literally every game

why dont stuns have diminishing returns yet?

Ain't that just the way.

Do you think she's into cats?

Because cleanse is a thing, also stuns are only really useful against low health high mobility heroes.

>butcher has unstoppable

just don't be the first one in

the real problem with butcher is if you get shat on earlygame.

> blink
> fan of knives
yes please

oh ok

so when you stun lock anything 100-0 in half a second, the team who's now minus their dps can then go on to win the fight

Never. Heroes with CC shouldn't be punished for being paired with other heroes who have CC.

Best way to practice kerrigan combo? I keep fucking up the W placement with respect to the E drag.

wow people are bad at this game lol

I'd say she's the best single-target sustain healer.
Her damage reduction and fairly strong heals are nothing to laugh at.

Problem is that after one fight she's pretty much done and if there's intense AoE she can't keep up.

Well the Dps shouldn't have been caught out Desu.

XD

the dps just got caught out that isn't the fault of the stuns that is the positioning of the player

>doesn't know how to bait the charge

That's just her battlecat companion. Don't be silly.

>abathur clones me as hammer
>we sit in the middle of 4 dudes and just rain hell upon them
>chen tries to use that ult where he splits apart
>we just sit through it and kill all 3 of them

2hammers2stronk

Voted, but I grabbed Flex because I was entirely new to the game and wanted the most variety.

I've enjoyed it enough to drop some dosh on chests so their dumb OW crossover worked for at least one dipshit.

Assassin, I was missing 3 characters from that the other ones I was only missing 2 or less

>just trying out heroes in vs AI
>cursed hollow
>start laning with tychus
>he gets a kill right away with my help
>cool this will go smooth
>he spends rest of match dropping and rejoining over and over and over

>clone stitches
>I grab an enemy as the real stitches uses helping hand at almost max range

only worked once, but it was glorious.

i like night elf facepaint because it looks like their makeup started running after crying all night

2tank

Q - Shadowstrike, ranged DoT that slows. Can be talented to make it longer range or do more DoT damage.
W - Fan of Knives, short ranged AoE, can be talented to either shoot projectile daggers in all directions or increase the AoE.
E - Blink, short teleport that briefly stealths Maiev (for 1 sec)
R 1 - Spirit of Vengeance, creates a shadow double of Maiev that does 50% damage and copies all her abilities, lasts 30 seconds.
R 2 - Jailer's Shackles, after a short channel, stuns a single hero for 3.5 seconds and allows Maiev to drag the hero with her chains.
Trait - Pursuit of the Betrayer, sight of enemy heroes increases Maiev's speed by a stacking amount so long as Maiev is within a certain range. Decays quickly when enemies go into fog of war.

The hero is basically already made, just put it in the game.

I figure since she's a warden, she may as well have some form of imprisonment.

Q - Warden's shackles (Maieve and target are stunned for 3 seconds, can be cancelled early, slightly less than ranged attack range (talents can allow Maiev to attack during shackle)

W - Poison Daggers (Maievs attacks become ranged for 3 attacks, they apply a stacking poison and 7% slow)

E - Fan of Knives (a simple AOE around her, talents lead to it being better, maybe some armor shredding)

trait D - Blink: blink to a destination, ( if an enemy uses a movement skill near Maeiv, Blinks cool-down is reduced be 5 seconds)

Ult 1 - Avatar or whatever, more HP, Blink has no cooldown for ten seconds

Ult 2 - Crystal Prison (Maeiv gains and aura that slows, silences and blinds enemies, they cannot be attacked while in this Aura) Sort of a walking void prison.


She should feel like playing this dude from Jumper. Just hounding the shit out of mobile characters.

Just sounds like Zeratul with a Samuro ult.

Her Q is just Singularity Spike with a DoT instead of delayed damage.
W is Cleave, down to the talent to increase Cleave range.
E is blink.

So that hero is already in the game.

MOOOM
LOOK
I DID IT

On second thought, perhaps he poison daggers should stack armor break instead of damage

>Stealth

Nah.

Maybe they could make her a Warrior instead of an Assassin, although the Warden hero was more of the assassin type.
I do think that her trait should be movement speed when chasing, her whole character is about never giving up the chase.

And people who think she's exactly the same as Zeratul just because she has a blink and PBAoE need to kill themselves.

These blizz elves are too lewd for me mang.I can't take it. Aside from that, how does Val thread her fuckhuge massive ponytail through her hoodie's tight orifice? I'm thinking it can be loosened maybe with a lace or something.

>Blue hair

I like this artist.

Also tfw no white nightsaber mount so I have to improvise with the lunar tiger