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HORDE BOIZ Edition

For New Players :
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm!
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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? :
>Dragons of the Nexus Event!
>November 14th - December 12th
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/events/dragons-of-the-nexus
youtu.be/XQV2MLHFYFg

>Blizzcon 2017 Announcements!
youtu.be/6hFb9mslQRc

>In-Development
>Alexstrasza, skins, mounts, sprays, and more!
youtu.be/PQZCl3GK3ng

>Alexstrasza, the Life-Binder; Now on PTR!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/alexstrasza/
youtu.be/y-aq0b3AzbQ
>Hanzo, Master Assassin
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>Hallow's End 2017 Event!
>October 17th - November 14th
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21042410/
youtu.be/lzmMnT7DB9I

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/21182205/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21179031/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21159501/
>Current PTR Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21179026/

Where can I find fellow players to group up with and discuss the game? :
>Blizzard App - Social Tab invite links
>NA
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>EU
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>In-game
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wher eare the hot pictures of tyrande?

>tfw over 50% of the heroes in 2017 were overshits

Probius buffs when

What about Mal'Ganis?

who

I don't see why that's a problem, it's a new game. I can't wait until Moira joins as a support

overfaggots get out re

i have 20% win rate with rexxar :/

What does Alexstrasza's week old milk smell like?

week old milk

This is Lana
She animated Alexstrasza, Dehaka, Chromie, and other cute heroes

Say something nice!

>Chromie
a shit

>Dehaka
>Cute

thank you beautiful angel!

She animates my hero if you know what i mean.

thanks for boob physics

new Li Li is FUN and GOOD!

Is it worth buying a stimpack or nah ?

>Rehgar in wold form isn't the bear.

Shit image.

if you play often then yes

Can't wait for Symmetra.

only buy 30 days + ones, the others aren't worth

year stims go on sale around this time of year so hold your shekels until we get confirmation if there will be a sale or not

I'm going to take Alexstrasza's virginity!

Shut up Nozdormu

ysera when?

A lot of things i noticed is that no one ever plays OW heroes.
If they do, it's most likely they have WoW avatars
If they got an OW avatar, they're most likely playing a WoW hero.

>my personal experience
discarded

wonder what her ass tastes lke

poop

I'd use an Ana one, but they all suck.

I want to eat Kerrigan's hair.

I usually use whatever avatar that matches my rank boarder, or level for quick match.

That's pretty petty tho desu

It's like they went out of thier way to not show skin or something. Not one skin that looks like the Alexstrasza I was introduced to in WoW? I think she looks great, but just feels off with the pants or something lol

her sgt. hammer cosplay was cute

Anyone got the download link for the ripped emoji and sprays?

disgusting fat whale

Tracer removed from the game when?

what did they mean by this, gucci?

He is right tho abusing qm with op comps because the matchmaking sucks is only thing a silver shitter like you would do

it wasn't me, I was specialist tracer and 313 stack naz before this

Should i leave it there so i don't risk having to do it again in the future?

If enemy team picks her, just have your team double support, she’ll become the most useless hero in the game.

whats a good site for builds?
dont want to use hotslogs since they dont allow adblock

hots.guide/ is decent
could use some UI improvements

>needing a site for builds
If you want to copy popular shit just watch the streamers like all the other brainlets.
If you want to get good just keep playing instead of spending time theorycrafting so you can get worthwhile experience instead of some halfassed wisdom.

This is wrong. /ourguy/ animated the elf form, some other guy did the dragon form.

heroeshearth.com/tiers/mcintyre/6497/

Nothing really changed with Junkrat added, Johanna might be tier 1 because Korea showed her in the tournament, and won.

cho meme is FUN

>If you want to copy popular shit
literally what he's asking for
>just watch the streamers like all the other brainlets.
why would he do that if there are sites that just list the popular builds?

>... instead of spending time theorycrafting
exactly the opposite of what he's doing

your post makes no sense user

lmao no one ever whispered me. couldn't handle the 5 man bronze 5 meme master cho meme dream team

An "ideal" build is nothing but theory crafting.
Any moment you spend thinking about doing things in a game outside of said game is theory crafting.

I've found that any site that lists builds for hots is objectively shit and typically wildly out of date.

Leave it to a frog poster to spoonfeed shit to babies.

Jesus christ, ana is such a shit support in this game
and in her original game as well
She should just be removed from both

He has a point. 5-stack in QM? Are you fucking retarded?

She’s good if people aren’t bad at her. I have a 60% wr out of 60 games with her as solo support.

People still think the other level 1s are giod, when Sleep Dart is the only way to go.

user was asking for a site to copy builds from so he wouldn't have to think about it, in game or out of game. but you can keep using buzzwords if it makes you feel smart.

hotslogs and similar sites use data from actual games, they just show the most popular and highest winrate builds, why would it be outdated unless everyone stopped uploading replays?

>Leave it to a frog poster to spoonfeed shit to babies.
u mad im glad

>Ana is released in OW
>Most op thing in the game but 12yo kiddos can't aim so she flies under the radar
>Blizzard actually BUFFS her
>winrates through the roof, entire meta built around her
>Blizzard nerfs her
>still more effective at high levels than the healslut hero Mercy

>gets released in HotS
>has an ability that makes basically immune to ganking and can shut down ulting heroes in their tracks
>has an ult that gives her global presence and one that turns someone on your team into a hypercarry
>"B-but she can't HEAL HURSELF"

Genji is literally in every one of my games

Ana has always been bloated, and now that bloat is in HotS too. I applaud them for actually managing to add a functional support sniper but holy shit can she do too much:
> hitscan damage
> hitscan heal
> AoE damage
> AoE heal
> heal boost
> complete heal denial
> mez at the drop of a hat
> amazing ult

>"B-but she can't HEAL HURSELF"

Basically same meme Alex is getting with Q build.

Heck, even one of the pro players showed Q build Alex the way to go. But here we are, everyone circlejerking E build.

I dunno, I have recently gotten back into playing the game been leveling her up in quick match and she seems pretty damn shitty compared to literally any other support
like her healing dart is fucking useless if your teammates or enemys are playing any hero which moves around a lot
Though then again I have always had an extreme dislike for abilities in any game that function like her healdart does with selecting targets so I am immediately biased against her.
Plus I usually main Lost vikings so I can't talk at all about what is actually shit or not, but she seems completely shit to me personally

Sounds like a l2p issue. She’s easy if you play mages a lot, especially Chromie. You need to predict where someone is moving, don’t be a shitter and aim where they last were.

As soon as Piercing Darts is finished, what’s aiming ?? She’s probably the most fun, and kind of broken healer. As soon as you get 13, as long as enemy team has roots or slows, you’ll instantly double your healing, add Sharpshooter at 16, say hello to 30k-50k more healing than the enemy healer.

>tfw you have a really good Nova game and don't fuck up even once

feels good man

You can still use hotslogs with adblock enabled if you also run NoScript. Just allow hotslogs but don't allow cloudflare in NoScript.

That being said I only advocate using build sites if you're playing a hero you're unfamiliar with and want a general "overall decent" build for running a few QMs. Yes, some of the talents are (sometimes much) more situational than others, but when that situation arises you want to be able to identify it instead of being locked into the mentality that there's only one good build.

>You can still use hotslogs with adblock enabled if you also run NoScript
wtf
I tried that like 2 days ago and it didnt work
tried it right now and it works

I have a collection of skeleton avatars which i rotate

>your Nova is going work
>but their Azmodan is siegemaster420lul and you can't push for shit after picks have been gotten
>Nova rages at the team

Why have Nazeebo players been getting worse and worse with every month?
It is NOT acceptable to be level 20 and only have 120 stacks.

do people not know how to deal with malthael or am i just getting lucky? ive been stomping with him lately

I only use ublock and it works by itself

Despite how good he is he doesn't see much play in lower leagues.
I came back to this game like 2 months ago and still haven't bothered learning his abilities because I've seen him maybe 8 times, and once in HL.

I think he takes a bit more work, everyone is just spamming Sonya over him.

How many sets of squats could Tyrande do?

all of them

I was about to list that avid horse riders tend have have very strong legs, however I'm not show how bumpy a cat's ride would be compared to the powerful trotting of a horse.

Elves tend to be lithe over powerful, and while nightelves break that tradition a teensy bit with the druids that still them being in bear mode tho, their normal forms are still very skinny even if the males have fuck huge chests and shoulders.

Opened 5 legendaries this event and still no Wolf and stein, really don't wanna have to spend schekels on it

...

Q build is sound as most healer's Hardened Focus talent was their highest winrate talents by far.
The thing with her is that you need an off support or godly positioning to avoid dropping in health from poke, and your Q targets need to back away so you can get your fucking flowers.
10% on E is much more solo support friendly, as is W/Globe buff.

I'm sure that as the high priestess of Elune, Tyrande is physically stronger than the average night elf and must boast impressive thighs and powerful buttocks

I got it on my first free box

literally just got it today. i think i lucked out

why the fuck cant you destroy junkrats shit?

Have you guys done your TL placements yet?
You only need to do your TL placement matches to get the mount, you know.

>received hate whisper after the game
>got blocked before i could answer
How do i deal with this? I'm tempted to log on my other account just to trash talk him

report for abusive chat
watch as literally nothing happens
move on

Hopefully she doesn't get disfigured like Alex did

>tfw no friend to play Cho'gall with

>How do i deal with this?
Are you 12? There are worse problems in life than some random trash talking you in a video game you know

I wish Tracer was better for HL. I'm really fucking good with her - consistent MVP - but she's just so fucking bad in HL.

they probably also can't be whispered by people whom they don't have added, so I wouldn't bother

she's a great counter pick to the last 3 heroes released actually:
ktz
ana
junkrat

are they picked often in HL? haven't played it in awhile.

Trufax. I thought she was terribad based off every Ana friendly or otherwise I encountered and wrote her off as an undertuned meh hero with a few gimmick talents. (Poor self sustain, no waveclear or utility, limited mobility, poor dmg) then I tried her during free week and jfc.

The amount of heals she can shit out is obscene. You can easily break 100-120k healing per game. The skillshot is piss easy to land, heal denial is ludicrously good, sleep invalidates so many ults/decisive abilities, you can shoot bushes every 2s without going anywhere near and save your idiot teammates from facechecking them, and the ridiculous range she can heal from means if you actually understand how to play support and have proper positioning it's very hard to be pressured unless the enemy team goes all in to dive you. If only one or two people dive you they have to overextend to a suicidal degree and your team just collapses on them and instantly deletes them. It's the same way Morales is really good on Braxis if you spawn on the left side, but you get that sort of safe positioning range on pretty much every map.

she's fine in HL, just never first pick material unless you also get tass.

Problem is I only like playing Tracer pretty much, so I would always want to pick her regardless. I'm a terrible teammate to have.

Anyone else having more mirror matches recently?

Pretty much my experience with her. See her in quickmeme on release and everyone is shit with her, play her in free week and holy shit.

Once you land your first 10 sleeps you have the range to never die. Shut down anyone that relies on abilities to do damage (so 90% of the dps in hots) because -75% spell power is fair and balanced, and nano boost combo-ing well with loads of heroes because of the aforementioned reliance on ability damage in this game. She's real good.

>some asswipe sends me hate after the game but blocks responses

You do what you just did, user.

You tell everyone what a cunt they are and report them.

>Valeera
>anything but shit
>Chromie not top (male)
>Zagara anything but shit
Fuck off

View of this Dragon and that other slut?

Tbf Tracer is really really easy to mvp with because of the way it's calculated, especially at lower levels where counter picking won't happen, or QM where you're likely to run into people you can just eat alive. Feels like the vast majority of Tracers you run into are abysmal feeders, but pro play notwithstanding, she's basically a pubstomper and can do it fine even without being babied by a Tassadar.

Realistically speaking though, given the pointless brawling that characterizes average level HL, you gain huge value just by being able to confirm kills for your team. The fact remains that people who can actually tank well are not common, people who can support well are less common, and overly aggressive assassin's/specialists are everywhere, which basically means free kills and free wins if you don't get outsoaked.