Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

Cherish all life Edition

For New Players :
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm!
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>HotS: 2017 Year in Review
youtu.be/ruAjkRwnCss

What's New? :
>Dragons of the Nexus Event!
>November 14th - December 12th
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youtu.be/XQV2MLHFYFg

>Blizzcon 2017 Announcements!
>New heroes, Laning changes, Skill-based MMR, Laning updates, Voice chat, and more!
youtu.be/6hFb9mslQRc

>Alexstrasza, the Life-Binder; Now LIVE!
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/
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Community Resources :
>Guides, Tips, Talent Calculators, Youtube Content, and more
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>*Unofficial* Heroes of the Storm API
>Upload your replays and contribute data for more accurate statistics
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>Tier lists are effective guidance tools, but should never be blindly followed
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>Current Weekly Sale
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>Current Weekly Brawl
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>Current Patch Notes
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first for mommy

I've been meaning to ask for a while, but why is the OP of this general unnecessarily long? no one is going to read your novel faggots, keep it short

Those gooks don't deserve to touch my mommy!

Where the FUCK is Maiev?!

what grinds my gears is using pictures that have indistinguishable thumbnails.
this one and the last one both do, but i'll get over it.

Because attempts in the past to create pastebins and such have failed, and when OP can't post the thread for whatever reason someone always shits it up.

Also the OP isn't for people who are here regularly, it's for noobs and people lurking to check news and shit and maybe it will draw people in and attract some attention.

Doesn't matter anyway, you get 2000 characters why not use em'.

why the FUCK is this allowed?

>Search for QM
>No games for ten years
>Search for bot game
>Found instantly

Why does nobody want to play the real game?

Friendly reminder.

-If you think Alex is bad, then you're a bronzecuck that can't even play her properly
-If you think she's not delicious then you're a faggot that needs to go back to /b/ and masturbate in your sissy thread


Now if you love her, then you're a man with patrician taste.

Why is Alex fat with downs face?

what should I unlock next

there is literally no counterplay to alex's meteor shower, you dive her and try to burst her only for her to get a protected escape that shits on your team

real fun hero to play against

>Pick Alexstrasza
>Muradin as solo tank
>Malthael only melee dps
>Both dive across the map nonstop
>6 deaths each

Why do people want to try and out feed each other ? Is it another pissing contest ?

Performance based mmr when ? Getting sick of this

We used to put the HotS logo on every OP and people bitched about that too. Fan art works and is easy to recognize.

Most other generals have some completely unrelated meme shit image in the OP so at least they are relevant to the game.

lost vikings

your problem is you're not choosing random. random is the best way to unlock heroes because you level up heroes quicker and get in matches quicker, it's worth the sacrifice.

...

OP here, I forgot to delete the Halloween links. My bad.

>running through jungle
>other team has the vision tower
>all of a sudden i start getting hit by fireblasts
>taken down to half HP without even seeing anyone
>a genji comes out of no where and kills me before i can react, run away, do anything
um, yeah..

yeah at least it's relevant.

I'm going to force myself on Alex and make her orgasm like crazy!

>mommy will never breastfeed you
i don't wan't to live anymore ;_;

Something like that picture almost happened in my latest game.

>Genji dragonblades 2 of the enemy team but barely has any health left
>Starts to B
>Enemy Ana's Sniper ult goes off and she starts zeroing in on him
>Stukov and Cassia immediately bear-hug him, blocking the shots while he ports out.

Bro-hugs save the day!

MOMMY!

>6 out of fucking 10 games in my placement matches have a leaver on my team that just keeps disconnecting and connecting over and over
nice

degenerate

I won 1 of my placements games and lost 5, all of them thanks to trolls and leavers.

Not gonna touch comp again.

tumblr fucking shit
kill yourself my man

Junkrat. He's tons of fun.

Random gives bonus points?

>Tumblr
Try again retarded chimp, is not even from tumblr cucklord.

Sometimes

bets?

how many here would be satisfied with maiev being implemented as a skin flr zeratul? entirely new model voice lines and interactions but got same spells and talents

best mommy build?

>Zagara on a small ass map
Italy

pizza

My brain is telling me Italy but my heart says France.

>entirely new model
Hero Profile may become a factor. I doubt it'll happen regardless, though.

>already getting ORC'D
pizza

They already said they wouldn't be doing that unless for super special occasions like Diablo where it's literally the same character or Widowmaker where the hero was overlapped out of possibility and Nova covers her niche.

Right ofc
Left is such a meme comp

my first thought that it was just a HL troll pick comp
but then I saw the commentators

TLV

You DID make the most of your first win of the day bonus today right /hotsg/?
youtube.com/watch?v=ixuNMIqRlag

PSA
FUCKING STAND INSIDE IT
ITS NOT HARD

>other team has a kael'thas or chromie
geee

Guldan.

>not liking sagas

You some kinda queer?

cmon man
its ugly as fuck

>teammamtes actively try to not stand in it
>goes balls deep into enemy lines an dies
FUCK NOOB HEALER UNINSTALL GG

round 2

baguette

Looks like baguette wins

>Pizza did not go Butcher
Vikings is free meat, free meat makes for a scary Butcher. It's like they want to lose

b-but mommy, i'm full health

Guys forgive me for saying Alex was bad on the last 2 or 3 threads, i finally understand how to play her now

Malthael or Stukov

who is the annoying twerp casting on the right?

I'll take that as a yes.

You're skin and bones, user. You need to be healed more, get some meat on you.

sameface + ugly as fuck "anime" eyes

I think many of Alex's talents should have been baseline, actually i feel like for some of the latest heroes they make their skills and then remove some of the traits and put on talents

Bakery, pro player gone caster
>muwaaadin

Just played ~10games with Alex and this is so on point jesus christ.

Good vikings won't die too often. Butcher is just shit. Counters to TLV are good pushers with a global and big kill pressure like Illidan.

leave it to frogs to use cheese strats

They want heroes to have weaknesses in this game. Picking a damage talent means you don't get the nice healing talent, getting the cleanse means you don't have the bonus on your Q, or whatever. It's not like Dota or league where you get items to completely get rid of your weaknesses by the end of the game.

It's intentional, they don't want heroes good at everything and when they are it's hard to nerf them without destroying them, like Rehgar will get soon.

Butcher is only shit if he can't get his meat.
>Good vikings won't die too often
Perhaps, but each Viking is 20 meat.

The faster CD on her Q when above 75% health should be baseline

umm maelth obviously

>Butcher is only shit if he can't get his meat.
>vikings won't die
Gee, I wonder what's gonna happen

who won ukrain vs russia yesterday??

is that an illusion trick or is the observer UI much more zoomed out than regular vision?

>Too often
They will die, more so if you coordinate the attack. But I'm not saying that Butcher counters Vikings, I am however saying that Vikings can become a huge liability when there is a butcher.

Russia 2-0
cyka

Where are you watching this?

it is zoomed out
blizzheroes @ twitch

>put it in backline
>every wants to team fight RIGHT NOW at half health and ignores it
>put it in front line
>suddenly everyone doesn't want to team fight >out shit that green circle is gone LETS FIGHT NOW

they even managed to make her gameplay feel like you are playing a mother surrounded by dumb kids, that dedication.

Observers have had a more zoomed camera for ages, they are making that view the new default next patch

Butcher can't doublesoak.
Butcher on his own has no killpressure on the soaking vikings.
You can't have your 4m hunt down Vikings, especially not on Towers. If you do you'll be horribly outpushed.

>baguette choking

Blizzard loves their hero fantasy

wtf i love pizza now

>hotsg says italy will win
>france wins
>hotsg says france will win
>italy wins
nice going bronzies, lmbo

HON HON

I said France and then Italy will win, didn't post though. I am /hotsg/ too, so /hotsg/ was right.

If you go Q build, even if they don't stand in it, you should be high enough health from W going off in backline, to get nonstop Qs to the front.

Haven't had a problem much, in past 30 games.

What are some heroes that enable you to not completely rely on your teammates to win?
My go to heroes are muradin, garry, uther when I feel like my team isn't going to carry their weight

>load into garden as kt
>finish convection in 2:40
>literally nobody on team other than me and alex even once go for the seed camps when they spawn
>don't get our terror out even once before game end

I'd say the split pushers have more potential, Zagara, Azmodan, even Murky.
if you do want to team fight it's Greymane, Sonya, Malthael, most of the meta picks.

Arthas is good for 2 things: Rooting and bashing Squishies. If they have a fuck load of soft targets, go Trait build and farm stacks hard early. If they're melee heavy, take ALL root talents and the quest at 4.

Trait build can make life hell for any soft targets you can catch even for a second. With about 30 stacks and the double shot talent at 16 you can chunk most of them for 40-50% of their HP. Makes them real easy to zone for fear of being smashed.

Why does first ban not ban Garrosh anymore ? It leaves Dehaka open to either teams, who is annoying to deal with just as well as Garry.

>Team first ban Zag
>Enemy Team bans Dehaka
>Our team first picks Greymane
>Enemy team gets Garrosh

Garrosh tilts everyone regardless of how good or bad the player is and that's powerful in HL

I dont tend to ban Dehaka anymore, simple because I'm starting to feel sorry for Dehaka players

match point
>baguette are mad lads

>azmodan bans
eggsblane

target banning pizza

one of the italyfags is a god tier azmo.

>banned all the zero
CHAD ITALIAN PAIZANOS ASS SMASH COMING THROUGH

bakawee is such a beta boy lol