Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED IT Edition

What's new?

>Volskaya Foundry map, Junkrat, Ana, mounts and skins revealed
youtu.be/8ywatBcHp2s

>Call of Kel'thuzad Event
>Join the Scourge in undying servitude with a new hero, new skins, and a bone-chilling challenge
>September 5th - 25th.
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/events/call-of-kelthuzad
youtu.be/-jInzG9Ukrk

>Kel'thuzad; The Lich Lord of The Plaguelands, Commander of The Dread Necropolis, Master of the Cold Dark, Founder of the Cult of The Damned, Former Member of the Council of Six, Creator of the Abominations, Betrayer of Humanity, Summoner of Archimonde, Archlich of Naxxramas, Majordomo to The Lich King, and Hearthstone enthusiast; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/kelthuzad/
youtu.be/Uv35ukl8c-w

>For New Players
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE
>Heroes of the Storm 2.0
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20695700/
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/
>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

>Current Weekly Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21033964/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21033387/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21043671/

>Where can I find fellow players to group up with and discuss the game?
"/join Veeky Forums" in game chat

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FUCKING WHEN GOD DAMNIT BLIZZARD

As fucking stupid as I thought this game was, the shorter matches than other games combined with the fact its actually a labor of love by the developers has won me over.

Too bad D.va is shit and a shit grating character period, no shekels for you blizz.

Every ranged hero in HOTS can shoot while moving unless you're a bronze shitter

goddamn junkrat looks terrible here

Reminder

youtube.com/watch?v=j-_J8Mb8Isk

>We finally get Deathwing acknowledgement
>It's D.va

>We finally get a new map
>It's Overwatch again

>We finally get a Varian skin
>It's cykashit

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I rarely see stutterstepping even in high plat, so there is that.

someone post the Dva Destroyer gif plz
i need it for reasons

i wonder what's preventing mopsio from buying a smurf account and just playing on that. it's not like they're in a studio

Le stubber steb is already a trash "mechanic" and they don't need to make it even easier for every retard to do it basically.

Plat 2 games

>entirely overwatch patch
fuck this shit. I'll be back next season.

Rules, their substitute NEEDS to be a confirmed HGC player, they can't pick up nonames.
Guess why.

>Valeera being useless as shit
yep

where are the hot pictures of tyrande?

Nice try fagglord but they didn't announce Firebat so clearly the leaks are fake.

>11â–¶Friends

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i'll b ur fren abu

>Every ranged hero can move while shooting with stutter step
>Even though you literally have to stand still to shoot and then you move again which is totally the same thing as Tracer

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oh, never read the rules and wont plan on it. then it's also silly for a toxic af player to have a main account. guess they never considered it a risk

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My name's right there just add me

Probably just a Reinhardt Skin

oh yes

People hate Overwatch heroes because of insane mobility. Genji, Lucio when he was in every game, Tracer all have insane mobility.

Zarya was broken as fuck, when they buffed her numbers but since than has fallen off a lot and D.Va is just a nuke and when she doesn't have that she doesn't matter.

I doubt Ana or Junkrat is going to have insane mobility.

So is Volskaya just replacing Hanamura? I would prefer if that map never returned.

>Deathwing stuff wasted on D.va

What a pity, unless it makes her both not useless and not obnoxious in the most boring trite way, get fucked.

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EVERYTHING WAS TRUE, HE DIDNT LIE TO USE AND ALEXSTRAZA IS COMING AFTER JUNKRAT AND ANA

but...but memes!!

thank god

Of course it's fucking stupid, they actually sign that they will 'uphold the highest standards of conduct and sportsmanship', it's literally against his working contract to do that shit.

nobody has a shooting animation longer than maybe 0.1 second except stukov with that one bad level 1 talent

Potato quality.

rip firebat

>Spine Launcher
>Bad

Shitter who can't build spotted

Junkrat will have a mine jump, and it seems like he's gonna get a global missile jump too. Then again, ETC has a slide and a global, so that might not be too bad. Then again, Junkrat's AAs will most likely be odd as fuck, and if they're ground targeted like cata's shoot at the last position with a slight delay, he might just be allowed to move while shooting, too.

Ana won't be mobile at all though, thank god for that silver lining.

gib firebat

This is basic logic here. You have to stop to shoot. This means that the person running away will gain ground by nature as opposed to hypermobility shit.

>Allies suddenly become professionals at dodging skillshots when trying to heal them

>unless it makes not useless
She is pretty good if you don't build her like a retard, but everyone tries to go pilot for le epic tank assassin when you really should focus on her being able to disrupt battle in mech.

And it is the first skin for her that isn't complete ass.

Firebat right now.

spine launcher is weak enough that it would be a tough decision to choose between it and the melee attack if it was FREE
but you have to give up a talent slot to get it

Junkrat has 2 Mobility moves

D- Detonate
This will explode all of Junkrat's bombs on the field, if he's standing in the AOE of one when he does this, it will launch him in a direction, ignoring terrain.

R2- Blast off!
A bit like Stage Dive, but with a much higher damage.

E - Sleep/Tranq Dart.(?)

YES FINALLY THE PUT ARTHAS' MOUNT IN THE GAME

Genji's lasts half a second actually.

I'd imagine that if the rumours are true about a fuel tank mechanic, that he would be tough to balance.

Something similar to a Tyrael trait, where he would have Fuel as mana, and if he is killed with a full fuel tank, explode and deal damage depending on the amount of fuel.

Where's this shit coming from?

>New map has conveyor belts
>Yet more mechanics that punish you for not playing mobility cancer

Q - Hurr.

blizzard.gamespress.com/en-CA/Assault-on-Volskaya-Foundry

Moonman Moonman, can't you see? Overshit heroes need to hang from trees.

I wonder if that's a mode you have to turn off and on like Zul'jin's trait. Like when you have it activated you can only target allies or something.

HEROES OF WARCRAFT
MORE LIKE HEROES OF OVERWATCH

I think the firebat model leak might just be an orgrimmar or WC Horde themed raynor skin, it looks like it has a skull on the shoulder and the zoomed in crotchplate on the second monitor looks like it has the horde symbol on it. Also, the guy has no tanks or flamecannons, and looks helmetless.

Can't wait for firebat though.

R1 - Stim Drone 2.0?

DELETE OVERWATCH

How long do I have to wait for Cow King and Lady Vashj?

why is that axe fucked? they photoshopped this?

Nah, it'll probably just be

Q - skillshot heal on ally
auto-attack - DoT on enemy

Similar thing to what they did splitting Genjis shuriken modes between his auto and his Q

>ana r2
is this a snipe ult that will actually be useful and not named Triple Tap

R2 - BOOM HEADSHOOT

dayum

>ana revealed
CALLED THIS SHIT SO HARD
I mean there is literally nothing wrong with getting more overwatch characters,

>two warcraft characters in a row
>starcraft character
>diablo character

It's not like they are just spamming them everyone got a turn and eventually they will run out of overwatch characters compared to warcraft characters so stop getting your panties in a bunch.

>I mean there is literally nothing wrong with getting more overwatch characters

Fuck off

lorefags eternally mad that new characters aren't from their """""favorite franchise"""

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W - Jarate, but it's good for you!

Heroes of Warcraft?
That's Hearthstone you fucking idiot.

There's always backlash over an Overwatch hero (especially two lol) because they're characters that are both new and are barely characters in their own rite other than to be shooty shooties in a game that is already basically a first person moba. I mean, they've got neat abilities, sure, but more often than not they come out aggravating to play against in a way other heroes typically aren't.

There is backlash because they are always cancerous as fuck in hots

Ana's kit

trait - ???
auto attacks deal DoT
Q - Nova snipe that heals enemies
W - grenade, increased heal on allies, lowers heal on enemies
E - skillshot dart that sleeps enemy (stun with longer duration but broken when recieve dmg)
R1 - massive armor and movement speed/dmg increase
R2 - long long long range snipe that either heals or deals dmg, whoevers hit

You're forgetting the fact that they attract Overwatch players especially if Blizzard adds a cross-game event and then everything becomes a walking cancerous mass.

It looks like she's kind of channeling it with the yellow aura around her gun. That's why I thought that, but you maybe right.

Jesus Christ this new map is braxis holdout on crack and not sure I like it.

not anymore

>massive armor increase

i sitll want to make an armor-stacking meme strat with nanaboost + varian banner + some armory guy like Chogall

assuming 'massive' means something stupid like +25 that would still be enough to keep big daddy cho at 70 armor for the duration

>d.va cancerous
Bitch is so useless she sees 0 play in any hgc matches.
Lucio was strong initially bhut after nerfs is no longer an issue, zarya is just mid tier, she can't move and shoot which is the normal complaint, just a solid character but not op. Only character people can complain about is tracer and genji, which are both assassins. And junkrat should be specialist and ana a support so we'll be fine, neither of them will have shoot while moving as it doesn't make since with them.

>People hate Overwatch heroes because of insane mobility.
Which is easily counted by the fact that they all break easier then a stick, except for Zarya.

genji has more hp than raynor

>it outranges chromie and a graduating range hammer that sat in the same place for 20 seconds

This is why people hate overwatch characters. Let me guess, it's not a skillshot but point-and-click, stuns, and it's on a 5 second CD

How to fix Nova
>Remove Decoy, add Sabotage Drone that behaves like a stealthed juiced up spidermine that you can remote control
>remove Triple Tap, add Lockdown, which is a targeted silence + slow for several seconds
alongside the general stealth fix that is incoming, this should help her not be so fucking SHIT
Reduce Q damage a bit for all I care, then she'd still bring good damage to the table + actual CC.
Or make exploding rounds baseline in a weaker state.

buff raynor

She sees some plays, usually on Shrines because she offers insane Shrine control with Nuke, but you are right. D.Va is kind of shit right now.

this game was objectively more fun before overcancer started tainting it

nah

Even if it's just 25, if it lasts 10s+ it still gives Papa Cho effectively 66% more life which is fuckall stupid to begin with.

it was more fun before faggots like you started playing the game and complaining about everything

Only alpha players should be allowed to post here

Genji has worse self sustain, damage and range then Raynor.

>Give her Sylvanas's ult.
>And Abathur Mines.

>finally buy murky
>mfw bubblin and pufferin and slimin all over like a moron just being irritating as shit
holy fuck stupid fish is beyond fun

So you're telling me I can play Morales and Nova at the same time?

>stukov likely won't make any kind of reference to the fact he's back in russia when he loads on new map

feels bad

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