Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

>he actually thinks that somehow he's not the autistic one here

WHERE

>last pick wants to play butcher
"they have a tracer and a lot of cc, don't
think the butcher is good here."
>Picks hims anyways.
"nah bro this will be an easy win."
>Proceeds to get rekt almost the whole game.
"THIS TEAM SUCKS DICK ANYWAYS!.

The one with heroes you want to play

Your lack of a cursor combined with the bitrate is a bit disorienting.

This game really needs more cowboys.

>not loli

>First time playing Stitches was a few minutes ago
>Have the most fun i've ever had
>*YOINK*
>*MUNCH*
>"PLAYTIME"
This is the most fun i've had playing Heroes.
Anybody else have this experience with other heroes, feel free to share.

He'll be soon since literally the next 10 heroes they release will all be overwatch faggots.

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Now play Artanis and see how bad Stitches is compared to Artanis

He would make such a good moba character because his kit is already catered to mobas

Fucking Blizzard had this shit planned way back

I feel like there's no chance of me winning if i'm not playing an assassin capable of carrying.

>thinking people exchange battletags of all things at a convention

literally almost any other form of contact info would come before that. Nevermind that at a convention everyone is a fucking grade A nerd anyway so at most they wouldn't care or would just go "oh neat jojo reference"

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Abathur buffs when?

Anyone wanna do 5 QP games with me? No frands

You say that as a bad thing.

>Hanamura
>teammate picks sylv
>I pick rexxar
>carry the payloads while he fucks the forts

only way to play this shitty map t

new players would be confused by it being high noon at night on garden.

Flex then

It is. Overwatch characters are the worst thing to happen to this game.

HotS doesn't steal from other mobas, it's the other way around

Zenyatta would be a cool concept for a support from Overwatch
>He uses no mana
>Transcendence would be amazing as a heroic
>Q is Harmony
>W is discord
>E is his Orb volley spread
>His other heroic choice is an Orb Storm akin to March of the Murlocs but more of a vertical rain
>Passive is his shield regen
>Harmony orb only wears off if he dies or chooses another target

how do I make it look better, I know nothing about webms

>>He uses no mana
ENOUGH

Tank and Bruisers is objectively the most useful.
1) A good tank can carry due to the game being centered around teamfights. A good tank peeling your team can let them kill.
2) Tanks are one of the most likely targets for a pick/ban so having as many as you can available is beneficial.
3) You only need about 5 of the actual assassins.
4) It has Varian and Ragnaros, two of the most powerful heroes right now.
5) Someone will generally pick a healer if you show tank pick.

stop stealing kills. reported

I mean, this could be fixed by mana regen the longer an orb stays on a teammate.
Feels like a good quest talent at level 1 DESU

>Go to throw an AI match for the event thing
>Enemy is taking forever to win
>Decide to play
>For the next few minutes ally AI runs in circles at the spawn
did i break the AI

Assassin Bundle.

Hear me out.

A lot of people ignore me because they're all "I don't like assassins", "I'm a X main", "I like Y heroes more though" but unless the other bundles have specific heroes you really want, go assassin.

When you say you are a X main, you are probably thinking about maybe 1-2 heroes at most. You don't actually give a shit about maybe 10-15 of the heroes in the bundles and probably won't touch them for a long time, let alone grind them to lv 5.

Supports all have their niches but generally do the same job. When you are tired of playing Malf, you are probably not going to start playing Li Li or Auriel. You'll want to play something that's not a support. And that's where Assassins come in. The bundle is full of assassins but they're not all brainless AA heroes, there is some variety of assassins, mages, and bruisers, and they all play differently. When you get sick of playing Valeera, you can go play something drastically different like Butcher or Falstad and still not get bored out of your mind because you're locked into mostly supports. Same goes for the other bundles.

I'd go with Assassin bundle no matter what. That way, you will probably buy shit you actually are going to spend time playing while still having some decent fallback options.

up the bitrate, lower resolution to keep sizes Veeky Forums acceptable. use webm for retards

>not getting the flex pack just for the Vikings

How do I play this game? So far I play Cassia, Jaina, and Sonya. Previous moba experience: LoL (but I'm shit at that game too)

Just play AI tell you get the basics. It's really not that difficult.

Lots of practice. Watch other people play the get the jist.

Forgot to mention, I also have Artanis, just got him yesterday and haven't had a chance to play him.

You pick abathur

I can afford any 1 hero
sell me on a hero Veeky Forums

>already has nova and valeera
>but not zeratul

Zeratul confirmed the only good stealth hero because baddies can't play him

gul'dan

play the mememeta hero leoric and win

Cursor is a screen recorder quirk, can't do much about that.

But what are you using? There should be a bitrate option somewhere on most programs that let you specify how nicely you want the webm to look. Veeky Forums's webm size limit is 3MB so you'd want to up the bitrate to get as close to 3MB as possible (assuming it's long and not like, 5 seconds).

Bitrate (bits/s) = (3000 bytes * 8 bits/byte) / clip length (s)

I say 3000 bytes not 3072 because the bitrate isn't going to be perfectly at the number you specify so that you can get some wiggle room when it's a couple kb over 3000.

Higher resolutions eat up more bitrate, so reduce resolutions to 720p max (e.g. 1280x720) instead of 1080p balloons. Of course, this also means that webms are going to be 10-20 second clips and anything past like, 30s is going to look like shit.

This is also only true for video games and anime. Live action film can get away with lower bitrates because video encoders are engineered for live action video. This is why occasionally you'd see like a nature documentary or movie several minutes long getting posted here and there and wonder how the fuck that fit into 3MB.

tl;dr
- Lower resolution
- Set better bitrate

here's some tips that eluded me when I moved from LoL
>the unique mob in a minion wave drops a heart that heals for 100 health, you definately want to capitalize on that
>study the maps. map objectives make or break the game and you really won't win by just winging it
>stealth heroes are not completely invisible and can be revealed if you land a skillshot on one
>healing fountains are imperative. make liberal use of them during laning phase

Why aren't you leveling your heroes to lv 5 yet? What's stopping you?

Probably a good way to figure out what to buy next.

>Flex
>ever
The value difference between Flex and Assassin is more than 10k gold. You could do better by just buying Assassin and spending 10k on TLV separately.

>people dont sort their heroes by level after 2.0

Auriel is disgustingly strong

Falstad is literally the best hero on Hanamura which Blizzard is going to make sure stays in rotation for fucking ever it seems

Gul'Dan is probably one of if not the best overall assassins in the game rn

Artanis

I splurged and bought every hero anyways lmao.

This game isn't about being autistic in a lane for 5 years so constantly follow your team to the objective and win teamfights. However, there are exceptions where there are heroes who are supposed to do exactly that while everyone else goes out and plays the real game for 20 minutes

don't judge me

>Falstad is literally the best hero on Hanamura

I need elaboration on this since I never play phallustad

listen to this user

pls gib samuro more health regen or at least more health
pls

Pedo.

>supposed to be a global presence that harasses the other team
>squishy as fuck
>escape is very predictable
>low health and health generation

>Xul
>Vikings
>azmo (to some extent)
>Gazlowe
>Sylv

Merc camps give a ton of xp compared to other maps, and the healing pulse camp gives you a huge advantage in teamfights

Falstad has a level 1 bribe = flying around taking the enemies merc camps 24/7 making your team 1-2 levels higher along with getting the camps themselves, Falstad is better than other bribe heroes at this because of his Z

there better be memes of this guy

This.
Artanis is fun in its more pure form

hope youre good at skillshots fag

Artanis is one of the best heroes in the game right now.

- Strong AA
- Variable builds
- Lots of survivability
- Lots of teamfight
- Both ults are good (but most people go for Suppression Pulse)
- "Artanis is a better Stitches" meme'ing if you can land your Q+E combos without killing yourself
- Great skins
Short of getting nerfed to hell, you can probably just main him all day and have lots of fun once you get the hang of him.

really makes me think, thank you

>it's a tyrande throws an owl across the map blindly and hits you when there's no objective episode
>it's a greymane makes it his mission to hunt you down in a team fight before anybody else episode

>some retard who keeps diving 1vX complains about my healing
>end match with 180k healing and 8 clutch heals

Why does Azmodan have the highest QM win-rate?

Why does no one pick Null Gate when playing Probius? Is it too easily avoided?
In the rare occasions I've seen the enemy Probius pick it, it's a gigantic pain in the ass.

Artanis is pretty good. He's one of the heroes who have the flexibility to do a lot of shit by himself without his team and I like that.

Hanamura is such a fucking terrible map I can't get over it.

massive health pool, massive damage, massive pushing capability

>he doesn't spot the owl on the minimap and dodge it

I've only seen it once on a probius on my team.

We lost bad

going to get a lot of that with new tyrande.in endless quest mode now.

>not fell queen chromie
you had one job user

give me a build

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I just want to know why owl build has the highest winrate at masters/diamond

My goto is:
- Seasoned Marksman
- Triple Strike
- Titan Killer

which makes it a lategame build but Artanis isn't THAT strong early anyway. He has survivability but his damage is weak compared to other bruisers and mages. I play him as a melee burster and do my best to land prisms.

because in the hands on a very skilled tryande it's a very versatile and strong build. However, its a huge amount of effort to get results a stronger hero would achieve easily. Guess you earn style points.

I never played Starcraft, are all Terrans rednecks?

Yeah, basically

>diamond, masters
>very skilled
>skilled

here's a (you)

>I am Ragnaros, Lord of Fire! Fear me mortal!

why do i always get these bufoons[/sopiler]

honeslty artanis is so versatile that I'd say you could do anything you want with him. I usually do
>reactive parry or Amateur opponent in battlefield of eternity
>shield surge 100%
>warp sickness
>purifier beam if they have a few immobile heroes that are a pain in the ass like morales, suppression otherwise
>triple strike
>zealot charge or titan killer if they have HP heavy heroes
as for level 20, everything in that tier is great so just pick whatever you need the most. Usually force of will if we lack a stronger frontline or nexus blades if we just need to kill and close out the game

Need something blown up?
ROCK N ROLL! KABLAMMO!

Basically, yes.
Imagine a crazy large amount of criminals shipped off into space a la Australia. The prisoner ship crashlands or something and the convicts get out and set up colonies and shit over a few decades. The Koprulu Sector Terrans are DESCENDANTS of these criminals.

The UED faction is not but they are only relevant for Brood War.

Why is Misha so fucking fragile now?

They still fly confederate flags and listen to lynyrd skynyrd

Damage in general has gone up as new heroes have been added while Misha has not been buffed

Amateur opponent is so good at wrecking forts and mercs I just take it in all maps.