Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

All aboard the ruse cruise Edition

For New Players :
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/
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us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/progression/
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE
>HotS: 2017 Year in Review
youtu.be/ruAjkRwnCss

What's New? :
>Hallow's End 2017 Event!
>October 17th - November 14th
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21042410/

>Junkrat, junker demolitionist; Now on PTR!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/junkrat
youtu.be/PoolAOfCPRE

>Assault on Volskaya Foundry battleground; Now LIVE!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/events/volskaya-foundry
us.battle.net/heroes/en/battlegrounds/volskaya/
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Community Resources :
>Guides, Tips, Talent Calculators, Youtube Content, and more
us.battle.net/heroes/en/guides-resources/
>*Unofficial* Heroes of the Storm API
>Upload your replays and contribute data for more accurate statistics
hotsapi.net
stormspy.net
>Tier lists are effective guidance tools, but should never be blindly followed
heroescounters.com/tierlist
robogrub.com/tierlist
tentonhammer.com/articles/heroes-of-the-storm-tier-list

>Current Weekly Sale
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21033648/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21072299/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21106217/
>Current PTR Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21072302/

Where can I find fellow players to group up with and discuss the game? :
>Blizzard App **Beta** - Social Tab invite link
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>Instructions to join
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>In-game
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Previous :

post lewds of ur waifu

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I TURNED MYSELF INTO A SPECIALIST MORTY

I main Genji and Varian

Specialist is where it's at.

By the same coin if you are really good but your teammates are not you cannot carry them on HoTS like you can on Dota.

>thinks this
How's silver working out for ya

tyrande nerfs when

idk every time I queue into a top 10 gm they contribute significantly more to the game than everybody else

at least usually

and yet whenever I queue against a GM, I identify the 2-3 weak links of their team and gank them over and over again

An avg team of 3k mmr players will always stomp a gm with 4 2.5k players

>hotslogs mmr
Hahahahahahahahahahahahah

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I wouldn't even be mad after something like that desu

Literally how do you stop the Zeebo late game?

Post-20 he shreds apart your whole team while having enough health (and ice block) to survive most shit that would kill a normal mage. Guy sits in the backline throwing shit but if you dive him 1v1 he wins the duel 9 times out of 10

That's not an answer, there are things you can't get around, such as your character not being able to self sustain or not being able to clear lanes.

Besides because the game doesn't has items you can't really adapt that well to different situations, at least not with a good portion of the cast.

Prevent the late game from happening

You don't.

You need to crush them before 20 or hope the Nazeebo is bad.

obliterate him in the early game because you can walk right over him

Talents substitute well. In QM, nothing matters so the ability to carry there is meaningless. In ranked, you can carry if you can draft properly to the map/enemy and can outlay your opponents mechanically.

There's no secret to carrying, just got gudder.

>lose 75% of my hp from an owl

lol

It's balanced because she has to be far away to do that much damage :^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^)

>Talents substitute well
No they don't, for the large majority of the characters talents only ever further specialize them in their niche. Not to mention the absurd number of talents that are simply useless.

It's not like on Dota where every character can buy a few items and suddenly they can heal teammates, self sustain, deal a shitload of damage, become invisible for a escape, or reset all cooldowns.

>tfw gonna >splurge on the 12400 gems when Junkrat is released

am i a good goy?

>"""""""support""""""""
>actually the best duelist in the game
Blizzard just needs to classify her as an assassin already.

Honestly I like it better this way. Yeah it further specializes heroes but it also means you can't just buy waveclear or sustain or mobility or something to get rid of your weaknesses. If Blizzard wants the hero to have a weakness, you're not getting rid of it.

>If Blizzard wants the hero to have a weakness, you're not getting rid of it.
Considering how blizzard is absolutely pants in the head retarded you shouldn't be happy with that.

>tfw no panda gf

>finish tutorial
>muradin is the tank
>jaina is the assassin
>tyrande is the support
sending mixed messages desu

Tomator and Blackthorne when?

>when the enemy butcher gets his stacks in the first five minutes

t. 1700 player

wonder if next year's mount will be harder.

also

>tfw it's better value to grind ad chests then play without stim
for a game putting out like thousands of shards worth of stuff a month they could do a little better to keep people grinding. i could buy maybe one legendary tint a month at most and i play every day.

inb4 >but it's free shit, stfu

>loses anyway because he's butcher

>not keeping his ass in check
what are you doing nigger?

Nah, they won and he got mvp. Went like 20 and 2.

>bits
can i get a quick rundown on this?

>lost vikings

Dodge his first frogs + jar and dive. He will throw another jar at your feet before dying but that's life.
Assuming he didn't take IB, of course, if he did, get fucked.

>enjoying a few heros i didn't enjoy when i leveled them to 5

www.twitch tv/blizzheroes/esports/hgc-2017

grind ads in another window while doing anything else. minimum of 5 bits per 30 second ad, not sure what the max is but i've seen 100 and 75 sometimes. link is blizzard's special cheer program. this year's ends november 4. i don't think they said it's coming back yet for sure but the teams seem to like it.

so you get "virtual money" for keeping a tab of retards playing a game? (not him) but curiosity

not even that, only need to play the ads though the cheer button whenever you want. well whenever it lets you in its limits. so you can't just burn it all out in a day. i averaged 220 a day from the start to 10k bit.

I don't get the option to watch ads for bits. Is there a prerequisite?

It's beta, works for like 10% of people who try.

Be murrican. A big price to pay for peanut internet currency if I say so myself.

i despise this game and hope everyone involved in its development gets slaughtered like a pig.

and ppl that actually enjoy this game and gain more positivity than negativity from this utter pile of digital shit.

i play since alpha.

what i got rom this game :

1/3 of my hair became grey (im only 19), my nerves are absolutely fucked and im very easy to piss off both irl and in game, i do not tolerate a single fuck up and am ready to shower anyone with death wishes and horrible curses no matter how close they are to me

im a heroes of the storm now ! THX BLIZZFAGGOTS.

Imagine if Tyrael's mana costs were cut by 30

Are you okay? Should I notify your school?

Tyrael doesn't need lower mana costs, he needs impactful abilities again. Imagine baseline Cast Aside and Hollowed Ground.

I just got around to playing Garry Hellyell and holy shit, they should just rename this character to "at least 6 easy kills in your game, guaranteed"

>he needs impactful abilities again
He could use being able to cast after he dies base at least.
As it is his passive is one of the worst in the game.

>enemy gets too close to our fort
>throw them over the wall

>just nerfed warlords lv20 upgrade

fuck fuck shit fuck fuck fuck piece of shit

also friendly reminder to /hotsg/ that decimate is inferior

Garrosh is THE BEST

>Don't even think Garrosh is particularly strong but have to ban him anyways just in case someone on your team is a little dumb

>triple tap

They need to make literally every trait talent he has baseline and give him real choices.

It's called "Garrosh takes out the trash" not "Garrosh fights a good Nova" man.

>Taunting a taunt Varian without his W up

This is a good feel

How can anyone stand watching Grubby? Such an overrated streamer. His salty attitude is on par with Mewnfare

Are there any characters that are completely busted OP in the right hands but no one can play them correctly?

Diablo comes to mind

How does anyone fuck up playing Diablo?
>E + Q into wall/your team
>Always consider your movement based around the terrain and what you can smash people into.
>Take the talent at level 1 that makes a regen globe regenerate 60% of his health

Seems pretty fucking simple.

Grubby is not even remotely close to mewn in the salt department. Grubby will get annoyed for sure, but Mewn will start raging and having a full blown meltdown. Remember when he """"quit"""" hots?

People watch him because he's positive and has that weird Dutch sense of humor

>trying to climb
>get guy in placements
>picks Valla
>dies 14 times
It has been quite the day, friends.

Feast or famine. If you die and lose your souls it's sort of over, at least for a while.

They probably spam their buttons on cooldown without thinking about positing. You have to be very patient with him compared to most tanks

>grubby
>salty
Lolwut
The worst I've seen him get was when he was stream sniped literally like 14 games in a row and he went to unranked and QM to shit it up as Azmodan and Murky

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Jaina

>tfw you N'wah too hard

>silenced
Haha

>just lost 5 in a row
I don't get this matchmaker.

What a nice fellow.

That Nova player is in all of my games, all of my wins and all of my losses as different heroes, using different names.

People are saying he is salty right now because he lost vs a retarded as fuck comp and he was explaining what happened and everyone is like "LOL YOU'RE OVERTHINKING GRUBBY JUST TURN YOUR BRAIN OFF AND SOLO PUSH" and he is trying to explain why he is explaning.

Hol' up
>in placements
>Against players in the top 151 in the entire game
Blizzard???

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>deep tit scars
Hit and a miss

Yeah that happened a few days ago when he was on the retarded comp as Abathur. His team threw by going in on a 4v5 with clone down and he was flabbergasted because they were steamrolling them.

garrosh is so fun

Too bad his ability kit is that of a treant with really weak damage.

Just compare Falling Sword with Stage Dive

RIP Joey Jojo, no longer does anything that any other tank can do better

A lot of people were unhappy with his kit (especially the EMBED poster in hotsg) and I get that, it is a little odd how pathetic his damage is.

But FUCK THAT he's so fucking fun to play I seriously never get tired of throwing people behind my walls.

It hardly matters when he can displace people so much that he can guarantee easy kills

why didn't he just warp out

Who knows

>you can throw the exploding meka

>artanis uses Q for inconsequential amount of poke
>dies
like why even

I've seen placements in games with top 10
most of them were smurfs/secondary accounts
a couple were silver-plat in prior seasons

oh and we won that match diablo picks were too strong

So this strangest thing happened to me today, our support was giving me shit for going Hunger for Power with Gul'dan. Why would anyone ever give Gul'dan shit for going with Hunger for Power?

>horsepants playing nigger music

>picking hunger for power

What the hell is picture related? Got this after rejoining the game.

>watching manlet streams

a terrible aspect ratio, dear lord

a typical jew trick

I can't even explain the appeal of Horsepants streams but I can't stop watching

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NEW lobby/reconnect system
Coming after Blizzcon

Alexstrasza
Tildon (Firebat)
Hanzo
all three will be in this year's Blizzcon cinematic

Alex is multiclass assassin/support, swaps between dragon and humanoid, has global heal
Tildon is AoE dmg bruiser, overheat mechanic, very tanky but low mobility
Hanzo is just a skillshot assassin, scatter arrow bounces from walls

Thunder Godess Alexstrasza
Dragon Hunter Tildon
Sin'dorei Hanzo

Raynor also get's viking themed skin with dragon rifle, will line up with his rework

Christmas skins for LiLi, Tychus and Rexxar

horsepants reads here so hopefully we can fix him

That becomes a crap shoot though. If you're great you can carry a match, if you're playing the carry. If someone else is, and they suck, or if the other team's carry is just plain better than you're still fucked. That's my biggest problem with those games. You have a carry and a team full of enablers who's only job is to get him fed so he can win. While the other 4 are important, it's only insofar as their ability to let the carry win for them. And by contrast if one person drops the ball and feeds him, or steals a kill from your carry not only do you have the same problem as Hots (one person hurting the team) but it's a far more significant problem that all but guarantees a loss.

>Tildon
>Not Jack Frost

I refuse to believe Blizzard would ever use the character only barely mentioned in lore over the ironically pun named protagonist.