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For New Players :
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/#/
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/progression/
youtu.be/wPk004vsjuE

What's New? :
>In-Development
>Hanzo, Winter Veil skins, mounts, sprays, and more!
youtu.be/_OuyewX-Kew

>Dragons of the Nexus Event!
>Ends December 12th
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/events/dragons-of-the-nexus
youtu.be/XQV2MLHFYFg

>New heroes, Stealth rework, Laning changes, Performance-based MMR, Laning updates, Voice chat, and more!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21179036/
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21273594/
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21295033/
youtu.be/6hFb9mslQRc

>Alexstrasza, the Life-Binder
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/alexstrasza/
youtu.be/y-aq0b3AzbQ
>Hanzo, Master Assassin
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/hanzo/
youtu.be/t6wRlSIcF2Y

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/21293461/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21273601/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21273597/

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
Type "/join Veeky Forums" in the chat

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i did it lads, i did it!

I'm excited for the new changes including stealth and laning! Also, there are at least two good new christmas skins.

Jesus, you're even worse than me about never playing the same hero twice. And here I though that that was what was holding me back. Nope. Congrats!

It feels like I have to relearn Valeera now, what the fuck.

shitty OP edition

is literally the same but you use garrote talents

waifu poll

strawpoll.me/14529822

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>Zarya has more than zero votes

Faggot culling when?

when does eu come back up boys?

>my waifu is shared by almost 10 other people
feels fucking bad

excuse me, she's MY waifu

>hanzo can nearly take siege camp with just two scatter arrows at level 4
this character is garbage, isn't he?
haven't played a single game with/against him

>three stack of retards literally 0-0-8
>all blame the other two guys
every time

No, he's fine. However he suffers the same fate as Junkrat as he lacks finishing power because his damage is all poke.

Did anyone else earn the reindeer mount and not have it show up anywhere?

Or is it that I've just unlocked the ability to purchase it now?

idl, either ultimate is pretty good. Same with Q, especially if you take level 1 quest/piercing.

Not to say that they're not better when paired with a diver.

>sonya is your waifu
more like husbando

worst quality matches today
like everyone is fresh out of their first AI game or something, it's embarrassing

if you do QM there's always a Hanzo on both fucking teams
shit got obnoxious immediately

So exactly like Genji was? And Tracer?
And every shit fuck overmeme hero?

Why can't we use our ranked mounts from last season in rank now ?

It's not so bad. Feels great to finally have a good winrate

at least your server is up

You mean there's always a lot of people playing the new character the day they're released? How absolutely horrible.

I know, right!
It's awful!

They buffed Hanzo a little before release right? He honestly still seems super bad.

Especially with people taking the twin dragons. I don't know what they're thinking.

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just tried him pre-buff on ptr. seemed better to me than some of the 40% win rate shit they've put out over the past few years and the buffs were pretty good. give it a day for people to get off their first few games and it should turn around some.

WHERE IS MY FUCKING REINDEER REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee

Fair enough. I remember people called Ana super bad too.

>taking an established character's iconic ultimate over some OC donut ult
>I don't know what they're thinking

>give it a day for people to get off their first few games and it should turn around some.
that's what they said about alex and she had a 40% winrate until they nerfed everyone along with her a tad bit

Is Sylvanas meta now? With the infinite ammo on towers

It definitely gives her a stronger impetus as a pick for autism pushers.
Pity she's still pretty shitty for damage except against total scrubs.

Yeah, there's always at least one guy just out of his depth.

only had 1 game with a sylv (enemy team) and it was disgusting.

10 minute loss, and we fought hard to last that long ://////

Sylv is always meta on BoE/Mines

the damage nerf on buildings makes them basically permanently black arrowed even if sylvanas isn't in the game, so I actually think she's less meta now than she was

them tities are meta

PORTRAITS ABOVE THE RED LINE = the best portraits in the game, the portraits of generally intelligent, quality people with good taste

POTRAITS BELOW THE RED LINE = the portraits of various gay fags, trannies and other subhumans. if you ever used one of those portraits then you should be beaten to half death or even outright killed in front of your parents

DAILY REMINDER THAT 27.07.2017 WILL BE FOREVER REMEMBERED AS A DARK DAY IN ORCISH HISTORY.

youtube.com/watch?v=SVYmPIJt2BI

Blizzard really fucked up with Garrosh's representation in Heroes of the Storm. His abilities and role do not fit his character fantasy in any way. His kit should have been for another character.

Yes, he is fun to play. But he should have been a bruiser, like Artanis, but with burst and less focus on defense and with an ability to force 1v1.

>what Blizzard devs did
Hey guys we plan to release Garrosh somewhere in summer 2017
Fast forward summer 2017
Alright guys just attach some existing kit to Garrosh and release him. And dont forget to make a legendary skin + bike with a bunch of tints

Hanzo is deleted by double support harder than Junkrat I think

Feels bad

when will you stop ?

At least junkrat have the mine hanzo have nothing.

>download patch
>heroes of the storm is now playable
barely lol

anyone else feels like the increased zoom is messing up with your learned ranges on the skills?

everything feels short ranged now

>150 dps on AA
>25 dps on Q (plus the initial burst of 250)
>185 damage on team every 10 seconds (5 seconds with talent)

I mean, it's not the highest, but her single target isn't bad, plus she brings wailing arrow and a long range teleport.

>internalising distances based on screen length and not relative hero size
Scrub.

>Friend ended season Plat 2
>Highest was Plat 1
>This season ranked Diamond 1
>4-6

>Be me ending Plat 2 last season
>Highest Diamond 5
>Get Diamond 5
>5-5

Wut

does tracer have the best butt in the game?

>hanzo arrow spawns way behind his head

really makes you think, doesn't it.

no

Kek

>playing valeera garrote in qm

It's too fun

>people thinking hanzo is the cancer that is making everything terrible right now
>when it's actually nova
hanzo can't do shit nova can carry entire games and is generally super fucking obnoxious

>illidan hitting the immortal
bless

What if your portrait isn't on that list?

*balloon squeaking sounds*

trust nobody

>mfw Tyrande sits on my face

>*balloon squeaking sounds
No user, the asses are sweaty and oiled they would make another sound.

Li Ming is the best!

>killing someone who was running back to their gate with scatter arrow blasting into their dick
feels great

What is the reason for those facial expressions?

ye i can't dash out of their screen as Genji now

>someone walks into the little narrow passages hoping to juke

>29 necrophiliacs

This is the sole fucking reason she became warchief. To appease the fucking necrophiliacs.

Illidan is slowly turning up the thermostat. The first to break ass contact has to go on a date with him.

the windrunners have been mary sues since their inception lad

Tracer butt in Hots >>> Tracer butt in OW

For real.

>third winter veil chest
>get the cookie mount
>is the blue one I want for Valla

Feels good.

How are you even supposed to play Valera? She sucks at sticking to people so it's pointless going for a Garrote build unless you plan on fighting a tank or something.

I'm pretty sure they're competing with eachother to see who has the best ass. They take the competition very seriously.

>0-1-3 valeera with 11k damage
>"wish we had a hanzo"
>me, hanzo
>5-3-1 65k damage

Kerrichan!

Is this new with the patch? I hadn't seen it before today

Those have been in since 2.0

So are specialists fucked now?

No, some got better.
Low level leagues and QM are 1000000x more fiesta than normal though so mileage will vary if you don't play a real mode.

Nope.

tracer doesn't even have the best butt in overwatch, and there are plenty of women in hots that outclass the female cast of overwatch in general

That just looks flat and dull user

holy fuck
with new timing on obj game is some much slow and boring now

>"the laning phase matters more now"
>everyone still just goes mid and has a cockfight for 6 waves worth of exp
nice

>people are retarded
there is only one cure

Unreal. Zeratul from tier 1 to tier shit.

Li Ming's ass is better. Valla in the Deputy outfit also has an amazing ass.

>hotslogs
>QM

Play Vikings

>towers now have infinite ammo
>maps have lost all detail and look like blurry messes
>stealthies are even easier to kill

>null change means fuckall because hyper buffed minion
>tfw ultra settings and good res, game got prettier
>stealthies are now high risk and not low risk
best patch

Hanzo is actually just straight worse than Junkrat

what were they thinking

I was talking about the map in the corner. It looks ugly and I am playing on ultra too faggot

>minimap got blurry
time for glasses m8

>stealthies were always low risk
>He couldn't see the shimmer

>no real fear of dangers
autist warrior race?

Guys, please help

Red or Blue Winter Jaina?

>old stealth was high risk
now you're just going full retard

red!

It was as anyone past plat would shut a stealth hero down. Stealth was only low risk if you play QM or gold and below