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Up the wolves Edition

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What's New?
>Winter Veil 2017
>Celebrate the coolest holiday in the Nexus with new Skins, a Quest, and more!
>Ends January 8th
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>Stealth rework, Laning changes, Performance-based MMR, Laning updates, and more!
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>Alexstrasza, the Life-Binder
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>Hanzo, Master Assassin
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>Tier lists are effective guidance tools, but should never be blindly followed
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heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/greymane#lOqX
heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/greymane#h9ar
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when

Stiches n hammer is da bes

Friendly reminder to stand in Mommy's circle for milkies!

>Storm bow Hanzo with Play of the Game as his storm talent
This much fun ought to be illegal.

>Xul will never be good
How do I accept this and move on, lads?

Most people go cocktail build because it has "reliable" poke and is strong for that fact.

heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/greymane#lOqX this is the "standard" cocktail build, it's not the 'best thing' ever but it works.

My personal preference lies towards this: heroesfire.com/hots/talent-calculator/greymane#h9ar build however. Greymanes AA's are strong and people frequently underestimate how much damage his human form does, especially at 6.5 range. Sometimes I'll go on the prowl at 13 because it lets you run around at mounted speed if you're able to consistently poke people, but razor swipe range is also strong.

The extra attack speed at 16 is what makes you one of the highest dps heroes in the game at killing immortals, but if there's really tough targets the giantkiller is better.

Either ult is good, but GFTT is prettymuch annihilate squishies and get an additional gapcloser (cocktail + aa -> e -> q -> r r).

Blunderbus at 20 because it's a massive improvement to waveclear and extremely safe. You'll never get a full GFTT reset chain off without the fight already being won so don't bother, leave that shit to genji.

The important thing to remember with greymane is that you have two forms, and it is in your best interest to make use of *both of them*. Yes the wolf does better damage and has armor, he's also melee without a giant healthpool and no sustain, if you jump in early you are going to die. Use your human form to poke and soften people up, use your wolf form to finish them off once they're weakened. It can even be beneficial to switch back into human form for an extra q or the AA range in addition to the dash, people often seriously underestimate how much distance you can get from jumping onto something like a wall with E, q'ing for some range, and then rolling back out in human form.

>enemy Kael couldn't finish his quest

>targeting a kael halfway through his quest and finishing yours
>as butcher
is there ever a better feel?

>butcher on enemy team
>my team bullies him the entire game
>ends game with 7 meat

Why doesn't the game just end if you lose a tower on towers of doom? If the enemy has two braincells you will never come back.

I like to imagine myself squeezing the lifemilk out of her dual set of breasts and gulping it down with a grim yet satisfied expression.

strawpoll.me/14529822

waifu poll

>Bullying Butcher the entire pre-10 game with Alarak
>At 10 taking Counter, he's so pissed now he can't resist charging you the instant 10 happens
>Immune both his stun and Lamb, Silence brand, Lightning and shove him back into me with Tele for the finisher when he tries to run
>He begins actively rotating away from me, refuses to engage me directly
>ends with 19 meat

Making Butcher players go timid is truly a joy.

needs little bags of gold around him and a jew shadow somewhere in the pic

>yfw the next Hero is Overwatch/Warcraft

>Nobody's banning Nova or Valeera in draft.
>Have to deal with mass specialist clown-fiestas in QM, along with the aforementioned Nova/Valeera.

>implying it isn't firebat

>Plebbit: ToD alters too slow to spawn
>Blizzard: We'll fix it
>Plebbit: ToD alters too fast to spawn
>mfw plebbit controls this game now

Inc Valeera nerf btw

>Blood elf has OP silence
It's just being true to the source material.

>youtu.be/O24-gxocqgw
good taste OP

>tfw all the invisible heroes are shit now

I like your reality. Can I join it?

how can you have existed for a week after the update and still not realize how busted they are?

I mostly play the Meme Slug. Could often see/troll them before, but the new forts make it super easy.

>try to fix ranked
>screw it up over and over

*interrupts your objective channel*

when does varian come off free rotation? I'm tired of losing because of memes

SELAMA!
*firebombsyou*
ASHALNORE!
*whirlwindsyou*
*flamestrikesyourteamto20%hp*
BEHOLD THE PHONIX GOD ALLAH!

Hearthstone heroes when?

*interrupts your life abruptly*

Post a build that hasn't been tried before or its severely underrated

Oh, look is non-alcoholic, but DUDE WE..JADE Lili and Chen.

I want to feed Valeera my mana.

greymane has 3 possible builds determined by his 1-7 talents

wolfheart + insatiable + quicksilver bullets make him a better raynor gives him better mercing and 1v1 people. Noob friendly and good for low levels or big maps where full 5v5 don't break that often.

going full Q build is usually the best at high levels since it gives you multiple target range damage in teamfights.

only go wolfheart + eyes in the dark + wizened duelist if you're a greymane god and can actually benefit from such a risky build.

for heroics go bullet if enemy has multiple frontline and go for the throat if they have multiple squishies.

13 go running wild, unless you can see better benefit in either on the prowl or unfettered assault, all serve a better chase and disengage in one way or another.

16 go alpha killer on multiple tanks, otherwise go executioner. Only go eager wolf if your team lacks any sort of reliable cc.

20 always go for hunter's blunderbuss both waveclear and teamfight damage is insane.

>Implying it isn't Blackthorn

But seriously, we are still missing Mal'Ganis or Tichondrius. I'd also LOVE to have the option of running a full Angris Council or Hell Evils teams. I think we only need Ithareal and Imperius for the Council, although we're missing a fair number of Evils.

>Still no Baal, Mephisto, Andarial, Belial or Duriel

...actually scratch that last one. That guy still terrifies me to this day.

I'm not sure who from Starcraft I'd like to see get in at this point. Fenix?

Varian is one thing. I want Butcher to go. I'm tired of seeing people picking him and feeding constantly.
Unless of course he is on the other team, then he makes his full stack in 10 minutes. BECAUSE FORCED 50% IS REEEEEEEAAAAL.

>Hammer rework didn't remove Orbital BFG

What were they thinking?

>5 minute win condition at level 20
how shit are you

but muh preparations...

Vision isn't their problem anymore, it's the shit they can pull off.

Nova got three of her previous talents (including a level 20) baseline.

Valeera also got some talents thrown baseline, including a buffed variant where EVERYTHING of hers can teleport now, not just ambush.

>Nova rework didn't remove Nova

What were they thinking?

>get towers
>on grave keepers side

>Varian's banner of Stormwind is a boot of haste instead of a lion
What the hell Blizzard, it is worse than a fucking leaf.

Sometimes I wonder what were they thinking when they created it, it has no real purpose besides constantly pushing a lane and damaging structures.

They just need to nerf/remove the part that was unintentional for shiterrs sake.

>Ragnaros, Lightlord

Why'd you expect anything more than a dude who died in a cutscene?

>mewn stream right now

>transgender streamer looks more fuckable each year
Help me bros i dont wana become a slave to trannies

didnt that cuck say he wasnt playing until valeera nerfs?

masturbate more to kill your sex drive

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which one of the two?

Come on, some characters don't even get a cutscene.
At least he didn't die as a 5-man boss.

Steph

I just noticed I only need 9600 shards to craft every last item I want.
I have 11.000 shards
They are: Sad+Happy Cloud, Purple Demonic Auriel, White Anub, Aryan Winter Valla, White Femablo and Pink Winter Stitches.

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have you tried fucking a woman?

Honestly this is is a more legitimate question

That's the right one!

>mewn ever leaving heroes again
laffin

>matched with 4 stack
>all the worst players i've ever seen

Gimme rexxar build n tips ty

pick a better hero

I wish this game was bigger

>enemy alex puts down circle
>get ready to aoe the shit out of her whole team with kael
Thanks

>mfw playing Abathur in QM when the enemy team Hanzo picks THAT quest

I would but no one else has a bear waifu

gm is a bretty gud animal husbando?

>open launcher
>first thing I see is the face of an ugly tranny
Where's the option to opt out of streamer advertisements?

He is.

people don't play vikings enough for my liking.

I can have more than one baka

How can he be that bad? First season I played League I got to D2 or D3.

how does zul'jin get his hair to look so majestic?

how much milk can she produce in a day?

the next 2 heroes are starcraft and diablo though

They are both viable.

bad guys always have great hair

>Keeps making threats to leave HotS
>Is playing HotS right now

that's gay

Listen man there's nothing gay with liking weredilfs

Decided to do one last match with the virgin dark lady before sleep and what do you know, i got the orange
Oh god, if only it was ginger nazeebo or sugar plum ;_;

it's that hero you really wanted instead

zul'jin's not a bad guy though

I want hanzo but i want the sugar plum much more since i can buy hanzo later with the worthless gold

I don't think hanzo is even in boxes yet

he is
one user got him a few threads ago

he is, several people posted on leddit about getting him day one

Fuck dat has been. I want a lightforged waifu

Good. I only play this game because of warcraft

I have two hanzo skins already from boxes.

Fake. News.

ima get fuggin murdered.
no bets needed

>artanis in bronze
nah you fine

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

>here coooomes the bad guuuuy
what did he mean by this?

>play qm
>play against a garrosh and jaina 2 man stack
>groundbreaker into warlord's challenge + ring of frost deletes 3 of our team every fight

umm hello, i'd like to report something really gay.

>get a full zerg wave
>win
sick map
never had so many

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