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What's new?

>Malthael's Bargain; Now LIVE
>The event lasts until June 26
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20811888/

>Malthael, Aspect of Death; Now LIVE
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/malthael/
youtu.be/qSBHR77CqTE

>Latest In-Development video
>Malthael, Summer fun skins, and more
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20834649/
youtu.be/GMcd8QEPzUY

>Heroes of the Storm 2.0
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20695700/
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/

>For New Players
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE
>Official Community Resources, Guides, and Tips
>Talent Calculators, Statistics, Youtubers, and more
us.battle.net/heroes/en/guides-resources/
>Tier lists are effective guidance tools, but should never be blindly followed
heroescounters.com/map
robogrub.com/tierlist
tentonhammer.com/articles/heroes-of-the-storm-tier-list

>Current Weekly Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20861962/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20852960/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20838723/

>Where can I talk to like minded individuals to discuss shitposting?
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lune when

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>they have a morales
>nobody goes after their morales
send help

>i am morales
>our team has 3 tanks
>no one peels
>varian goes taunt and we have zero damage
>they just walk through our team and kill me
>"lol shit morales bad position"

Where the FUCK is Maiev????

>picks genji
>loses
i don't understand

>they have lunara, genji, anub
>constantly dive morales
>"wtf morales do you see the map????"

Honestly I think that's the primary issue with her.
If you draft her for her E, there are better early game heroes for setting stun trains with unless you're really desperate for a 5 man stun team.
If you're drafting her for the AA and trait, you're typically better getting someone like Valla or Greymane who doesn't melt the instant they're caught out and doesn't need the whole team there benefiting from Trueshot to get value.
If you're drafting her for the owl, you're useless until 13, and even then the owl just isn't worth building around aside from that 13 talent which is great.
If you're drafting her for late game in general there are far better heroes.

She's just a load of potential that isn't met because she can't shine in any one area.
Though honestly I would love to see them make her "Hitting D target heals" talent baseline.

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You suck.

Genji, like Illidan, is a high skill hero that's very easy to fuck up with but can really fuck shit up if you play him well.

What's leoirc's tank build?

>someone picked em
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MY DICK
Why do i suddenly crave for Space Jam?

Reanimation
Willing Vessel
Paralyzing Rage
Whatever
Crushing Hope
Unyielding Despair
Spectral Leech

>no tank
I thought these teams were professionals

link?

>Olaf
HIBLE HABLE HABLE
Its on twitch...blizzheroes?

ah yeah it is
tuned in just in time for the vikings team winning the game

Funnily enough TLV lost midgame and were behind on exp.

>tfw tyrande will never sit on my face

naww

>You will never suckle on Tyrandes dick

>HIBLE HABLE HABLE

kek
Do Scandinavians find the Vikings funny or annoying? I'm curious.

imgur.com/a/zsPv7

So which Viking is the best one VA wise?
Why dont we get TLV inspired level...like the factory one or the spaceship? Game had such good tunes.

youtube.com/watch?v=_1QY5gLPs-o

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waiting for buffs and not ded game and thread

Why are all the solo healers so boring?

Summer sales have us in a slump for now, we will be back soon.

>tfw bf's cock just popped out and filled me with hot stinky seed

Am I right, fellow Abathur mains?

Dehaka can do so much damage if everyone would just let me walk up to them and not kite

>not gf's cock
fag

>it's another team runs around aimlessly in qm episode

I wasn't here for Hallow's end, but fill me in; will Abathur's skelly skin be available for purchase again?

Probably from special holiday lootboxes

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two days until we find out whether summer skins will cost extra while also being season exclusive

Of course they will

best girl

bought brightwing announcer when i should have bought murky announcer

Opinion: All of Thralls new quest talents are trap talents except double lighting charge. But crash lighting tickles my autism so hard I always want to take it.

They will also be marked as Legendary despite the fact that skins with no re-done voice overs are actually Epic quality.
So basically, we'll be paying 6 times the amount of shards for a normal epic.

wolf cd seems very good if you're not a shitter like me who always misses one at 6 stacks
it's a lot worse in QM when neither team has a frontline for you to get ez stacks off of though
actually i think the same applies to the windfury quest.
thunderstorm is dumb for sure though

>Abathur can't use pronouns
>Clearly says For THE Swarm
???

>Play Anub
>Zagara in team

>nice legs
>creep

What the shit blizzard?

Thunderstorm is legit good though, the slow is fantastic and if you have 2 charges from your earlier quest it's very easy to just alternate all the time.
Unless you're some dumbo who can't keep track of who he used his abilities on. But if you got the Wolf quest and finished it, Alpha Wolf is just too good to pass up on, 25% root uptime is nasty.

Nah fuck the wolf quest. That's a reward that helps a spammy talent, not a critical team fight root.

It encourages bad plays imo. You need to be landing wolf for your team, not to get gibbe dat stacks. I thought it was good at first, but found myself frequently never completing it, that move has a weirdly thin trail and an unclear definition of what part of the wolf hits. It feels like maybe only the wolf's head hits.

Just take the extra mana and small amount of cooldwon reduction. That plus 2X chain lighting lets you just spam shit all day without a care in the world.

Alpha Wolf is just really good even when you don't have wolf quest though. Longer disable and 9% maxhp added to your burst damage is always nice.

I have no clue when you'd want to take tempest fury though. I guess it gets stacks faster for the windfury quest but it comes at 16 which is kind of too late to make a big impact in the number of stacks you get before lategame.

The slow is good with either of the level 1 quests honestly, but the stacking quest takes forever to stack in normal circumstances it's usually not worth it.

>'the' is a pronoun
sasuga american education system

Actaully thuderstorm is good, but I don't think of it as a quest talent since it's never fully "complete" or whatever.

I'd say that 16 is a toss up depending on your buiild/comp.

Do I unlock genji? I played him the the brawl where everyone was him and he seemed really op from my pov. Literally can't die and does free damage

tempest + double stacks of resilence

= 10 resilence every windfuty + wind fury teleport at lvl 20.

Dont get meme attack dmg windfury quest, get ansectrol wrath and build it up very fast.

But thats for a tanky heavy enemy comp.

You pay for it and he is yours!

He is basically "choose hard CC or I win"

>Frostwolf's Grace, cast D + wolf + windfury
you get healing worth 5 + 1 + 3 stacks of resilience
but actually more like 7.5 + 1 + 3 stacks because of the 150% heal
but actually even more than that because it is currently bugged and gives the 150% bonus to every passive proc
plus it triggers followthrough so it's even better if you have that

>grace of air + tempest fury, cast wolf + windfury
1 + 10 stacks of resilience, so about as good for healing
but worse burst damage
and worse sustained regen when you can't hit heroes or creeps

Play him with an allied Uther and he's unkillable.

I'm pretty partial to Impassable terrain on sunder in certain enemy comps.

If they have malf or morales or something you can split them off and let your team murder the shit out of them.

Oh believe me I love the follow proc on the D talent. It has no animation, so you can pop it right after the first windfury hit, and basically drop two follows in fast susscion.

>150% bonus to all procs

I did not know this.

how the fuck do you tell stealth heroes shimmer on some maps that are fucking brown and gray like spider tomb? valeera kept moving around and the stupid shimmer was barely noticable

Mess with graphics settings.
Also during those moments where she's unrevealable she has no shimmer.

Why do I keep coming back to this game if I'm so bad at it and don't have fun playing it?

Because you enjoy looking at Tyrande's side boob and or panties.

autism
common problem with 'competitive' games like this
if you don't actually have fun playing the game you should uninstall or you'll end up doing retarded shit like playing to try to grind up your rank while being unhappy the entire time

>2 warriors
>2 supports
>1 assassin
Wtf is this meta?

They should add a talent for Kael'thas at 7 called Merely a Setback that makes it so you don't lose convection stacks if you die

>Dragon shrines
>We got dragon
>2 enemies down
>Have a clear way to the core through the middle
>...
>Allies decide to take a detour and go through another lane
>No win

>Get dragon again
>2 enemies down again
>Now we have 2 clear ways to the core
>...
>Yet again, they decide to go through more towers
Why do they keep doing this? So many games we can end the game. Clear route to the enemy core, managed to wipe entire enemy team... Yet, they decide to take boss, and mercenaries and shit, instead.

They should remove convection because since it gives bonus damage bronzies pick it over better talents in the tier and never finish it because they feed like crazy.

Do any of you guys actually play the game, or do you just come here to bitch about it? :p

>talents
>s
arcane barrier is good but if you pick the trait talent youre copper league

Name a better hearthstone animation than Cyber Kael'thas
You can't

I still don't understand why Cyber kael is banned in pro games.

MMR decay for ranked when?

Does it change his animations significantly?

dont know how to webm (5.6mb)

gfycat /SolidOldfashionedAuklet

No, same animations and same spell visuals.

So I'm thinking about reinstalling the game after about a year break.
Can someone tell me if Sonya is still good? How usable is she in ranked now?

the only reason to play rank is to grind rank, if you are playing ranked for fun you're doing it wrong and you're probably ruining the ladder for other players

It does change his particle effects. Pros think the different colors make flamestrike harder to see i guess.

Angel Diablo, striker Ming, flame Malf, and marauder Muradin are also banned.

Good again, her healing was buffed from spin.

She's best used on maps where you need a solo laner and is a decent counter to clump up comps.

sylvannas is better than tyrande

>x is better than tyrande, for all of x∈(Heroes)

incorrect

Thanks, can't wait to slam and spin again!

>incorrect
incorrect

incorrect

name 1 counterexample

every 3 months grindmasters ;)

Medivh

gaz

mostly everyone except sylvannas

Those aren't mutually exclusive.

Got it to work but can't play audio here and I'm not fucking about any longer

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lmao the throws

Best girl!

If its QM, I like destroying all enemies buildings before killing the core, makes it more humiliating.

Why is this minor character such a powerful hero?

>minor
nigga he's the Yoda of Starcraft he's a legend

That's just a white picture, I don't see anything at all

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Why were the vikings nerfed so much? Pretty much no damage when I played with them during beta and every other hero is an assassin now that can burst you down in a 2 skill combo, not to mention the number of 2 lane maps rendering them useless