/hotsg/ - Heroes of the Storm General

Is Malth worth a day 1 purchase? He's looking severely underwhelming.

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he's the worst of all the giant killers imo, and his trait doesn't even affect any bosses since the % damage cap is like 5 thousand something

If I wanted to shred high health people I'd pick tychus, and if they picked blinds I'd pick leoric. If leoric was banned and they had blinds I guess I'd go Malth

seriously he has almost absolutely no damage outside his trait and 10% every 4 seconds is painfully slow in a fight

Just got plat 2 with 7-3

Don't worry, people just can't play him yet. Come live and he's going to be wrecking fools

>silver 3 with 8-2

;-; it's not fair

Malthael really reminds me of myself

Who wins?

Are you also an edgelord who makes other people ill just by being near them?

Red

DAMN

Surprisingly we won

Well no shit. Valla and Artanis vs 2 shitty no damage tanks and 3 squishes.

Wat. How the fuck did you guys win with only 1 dps? Was it a reverse sweep? Were you losing right up till the point that you won? Or did you guys just dumpster them?

They never even got 1 fort. They just fuckin sucked desu.

He still does deal Thrall AA DPS against squishies if he's constantly attacking, just no Thrall burst. It's plenty enough to kill a target that sticks around, and he does dish out a good load more AoE damage than Thrall does. Or did, not sure about the rework now.

Battleborn currently has 10x the number of players worldwide than HotS. Had to wait 3 minutes for 3 different co-op vs. AI games today in HotS and the games were all me solo vs. AI. Battleborn I'm getting games every 30s....

Should I get Varian? Is he fun?

Recommend me a support I like based on my other favorite heroes:

Jaina, D.va and Abathur

>vs AI

Well, Battleborn was just released as F2P, not to mention it's more FPS like, than a pure MOBA, which I think is more popular genre in general.

Auriel

Are you sure about that?

coub.com/view/usl5k

Will you buy him on release? I've had 18k gold for a while now and the heroes I don't have I'm content to wait for so there is no downside to getting him since he looks fun.

>Over 2 years later
>STILL no Warcraft maps
In-fucking-excusable

Why would they make maps from some shitty ancient mmo?
It's already bad enough we got characters from it, we really don't need a map based around clicking on exclamation marks and collecting otter noses.

I thought all of the fantasy maps were WOW maps, heh.

Warcraft ≠ WoW

I guess some see them as nexus specific and would want something like a WoW battleground or something from the WC3 campaign.

>Picks abathur in quickmatch
>Opponent also has an abathur, only time I've ever seen it
>Could literally feel the pressure on both of us
>We both do well
>We both get 2 commends

quit smoking crack

steamcharts.com/app/394230

they'd see them as nexus specific because they are. they aren't based on warcraft at all.

Why are there no AI games but in Battleborn I can get games almost instantly?

Fnatic did just pick him

most people dont play ai much

also, what difficulty? basically nobody plays anything but elite to fuck around or beginner to speedrun for quests so you will get even worse times outside of those

They are nexus specific. The original plan was for all maps to be "neutral" nexus ones. But they realized that was dumb and started making ones based on their games.

I think a better complaint is that we've got two Diablo maps but both are the same exact Heaven/Hell tile set

So all the characters, announcer, etc. don't exist in WoW? I find that hard to believe. (But can't be arsed to google right now.)

as an oldfag that tileset doesn't even scream 'diablo' to me... too bright and shiny, not dark and fucked up enough

1 elite 1 vet 1 beginner. 0 real players. Playing NA.

they really dont. i dont give a fuck how hard you find it to believe, its true.

How the fuck do Thrall, Sylvanus, Tyrande, Varian blah blah not exist in WoW?

Have you been rage-quitting games or something?
Because if that happens it sounds like you're in the quitters queue or whatever the fuck it's called.
That or you checked the box that says enables AI teammates.

How rude.

He's talking about the stages you tard

I thought they were diablo maps.

>So all the characters, announcer, etc. don't exist in WoW? I find that hard to believe.

>they really dont. i dont give a fuck how hard you find it to believe, its true.

Yeah but it filled 0 real people in 3 minutes each time and then fills the game with AI.

Yes, the characters and announcers in the stages, eg. Grave Keeper, Raven Lord. Tard.

well shit, my bad.

R-Ravenlord R-U-L-E-S!

>I thought all of the fantasy maps were WOW maps, heh.

have trouble following a thread?

How do we fix them?

Why blizz can't fix that broken cocoon by turning this shit into a skillshot or giving it melee range? Would fix like 90% of that shitty bugs imbalance.

Instead they nerf poor Jimmy even harder

Jim is so basic and boring to play blizz should just give him a full relaunch. Essentially make him a new character. A speedy short ranged bruiser mounted on a vulture bike.

Wow fnatic is dominating the koreans pretty hard with a samuro

It's okay ilu

Who was taking Bolt on Raynor anyway..?

As an assassin or a specialist?

I think people only play AI in Speedrun groups. I never bother, since I'm only playing AI to afk vs beginner bots.

>18k
Jaesus. I spend almost all gold on rerolling chests.

>go 8-2
>gold 1
how does this system work

Seeded based on MMR. It's shit.

In a series of individuals with lives spanning millennia, Varian has probably the most bloated backstory I've ever seen in a character.

I play about 200 QM games and has 54% win rates. During my placements I got matched with gold 3-4, then slowly raising to plat 2-3 (resulting in my losses)

help me /hotsg/
i returned after 1.5years and i'm enjoying jaina, liming, guldan, tracer, medivh
however i really really suck with falstad
i used to play him as a mage and combo his BOOMerang with hinterland blast and the activated 60% extra ability damage talent to delete a target
then the fucktards at blizzard made his hinterland blast more "impactful" by doubling its base cooldown
how do you play him now? i understand gust is awesome now, and i'm picking it 100% of the time

>I play about 200 QM

as a mage with boomerang and gathering storm. basically how you say you were playing him before...

>no stimpack
>literally feel no reason to play cause it takes ages to gain any experience to level heroes

wew

Just play a qm or two of a low level hero and reroll till you get one

they had to make the nobody they were making a king seem important

Is there currently some sort of "spend money for the first time and get something special" reward in the game? Is it the pic related?

Yes, there always was that kind of reward.

don't do it

So if I buy a bundle, I also get the Celestial Steed? I already tried asking this from Blizzard, but the GM that replied to me, didn't make it clear at all: "It looks like you are wondering if the Welcome Bundle for Heroes includes the Celestial Steed. Since it is something that is purchased with real money, it does not include the Steed. However, if you use the gems from the Welcome Bundle to purchase something, you should get the Celestial Steed :)."

Well, five euros would not be a bad deal, so I'm thinking about it.

If you buy gems you get get it, using the free gems you got on something doesn't get it.

sounds like they're saying you get it from any gem purchase, but not from getting the bundle as it is money not gems (though it includes gems so you could then just buy some crap with those if the bundle didnt give you the horse)

>Medivh
>"specialist"
>his only waveclear ability incentivizes you to use it on heroes
>can't really support a wave or do camps any more than a general damage dealer

What the fuck even is this hero? He's useless in QM.

This is what is so confusing. If the Celestial Steed is NOT the prize/bonus for making one's first real money buy, then what IS?

I think the Welcome Bundle would be nice for a beginner like me, assuming I'd get both the Zebra and the Celestial, but since that is not clear, I haven't bought it yet.

Specialist doesn't mean wave clear, it basically just means "unusual"

That's why TLV and Abathur are in that category

Just buy the cheapest gem amount which is $5 and you will get it

I know, but I'm not really interested in the gems. However, I would buy the Welcome Bundle, if it also meant getting the Celestial.

Really don't understand why the GM reply wasn't clear at all. Are they volunteers? I'd imagine paying for customer support would be a more advicable tactic...

You'll get it for the Welcome bundle. I did.

You got a lot of stimpacks from the initial chests, plus I think they gave everyone a large one at the start, still got 7 days left since 2.0 launched.

I just reroll if I get the standard for the rarity and never if I get shards.

Really? That's nice to hear! I'll report back if I do really buy it this weekend.

Damn. Did blizz really just randomly pull him out of a hat somewhere between wow expansions with no prior mention of this character at all? Well they certainly succeeded in making him a Mary Sue.

The gm seems confused on how it works, you don't get it from things you buy with gems, only when you spend real money. The welcome bundle should work since you spend real money on it.

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>tfw you dunk abathur as azmodan
youtube.com/watch?v=JaEWJVWiWMQ

He had existed, and been mentioned, but basically had zero development. Think like, Saurfang.

>Specialist is solo-push hero
Gul'dan is best specialist then.

>QM
Dead end game mode by design.