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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?
>Placement games in Hero League are bugged
twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/942932675307872257

>Winter Veil 2017
>Celebrate the coolest holiday in the Nexus with new Skins, a Quest, and more!
>Ends January 8th
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/events/winter-2017
youtu.be/Lr6lZtuXI-4

>Stealth rework, Laning changes, Performance-based MMR, Laning updates, and more!
youtu.be/oft62x2SmGg
>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/21275369/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21342091/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21307436/

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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waifu poll

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elves master waifu race

Which Hero pisses you off the most?

le balance marathon runner of infinite damage

We need a separate poll for mommy with just Alex, because I really want to pick Johanna, but can't.

>make a character with an infinitely high skill ceiling
>also make them the worst character in the game
Bravo Blizz

Medivh is too hard for us mortals

>first game of ranked
>last pick gives absolutely no hints as to what he will do until the very last second
>picks kerrigan
>I am now solo tanking as sonya

you don't need a tank if they dead

why d oes zagara not work on warhead junction? ive lost 4 stragiht games with her on warhead, but won 4 straight with her on cursed.
i feel like i get ganked way more in nwarhead and escape far less often there too.

Warhead is far more open and faster to rotate lanes than Cursed Hallow, and lanes are longer meaning it's a further run back to safety therefore easier to gank Zagara. A good Zagara can work on that map but if they have literally anyone hunting your lane you are worthless.

yeah ive had 1 genjis and 3 novas (all last picks)
im also not used to people at my elo knowing how to play genji

Yeah she's a weird hero that is good at splitpush and big maps but her kit makes her more of a pain on smaller maps where she can escape easier.

Weird hero

>Want 1600 shards to get best announcer pack
>Get an average of 5 shards per chest
Nice.

I dunno. I usually do really well with her on Warhead. But then, I usually stick to one lane until that fort is down and then use Nydus to hop around to each merc camp and then go back to pushing.

>own no stealth heroes
>none on rotation this week
>none on rotation next
okay.

ive honestly stopped soloing merc camps as zag since the changes, infest just feels too powerful to ever not be withranged minions pushing somewhere, ill help my team do camps obviosuly, but i used to play her like sonya.

Yeah. Since the changes I will still get them, but usually just the siege guys along the bottom lane as a distraction while I push another lane and the team grabs the bruisers and pushes the third.

the only camps ever worth taking are hellbats because it amplifies infest so well

Tracer, especially in QM.

>9 death Diablo
>Always out of place
>Nazeebo autistically stacking
>Always 4v5
>Still win because finally go 5v5 once Naz got his stacks

y r ppl like this

>leddit begging for handouts because of the bug
you'll get nothing and like it scrubs

>mewn is streaming hots

that was fast

he's a baby and literally no one watches him for anything but hots, and barely anyone watches him for hots

Grubby was right, he's a child that only does it for money because it's all he's got and that's why he's a salty loser because he knows it too

>just started this game
>already getting bored but grinding to buy cho while my friend buys gall
>will probably drop the game when i find out he's shit

i just cant find any good moba aside from dota and its getting old for me ;_;

>Do you like me now user?

it's a good game but you will hate it if you only play QM
play a real mode

also they give out cho'gall for free all the time, just wait

>Buying Cho'Gall
>Is literal shit

Do you boo

Tracer, Genji, Junkrat and any stealth other than Zeratul

Take a break man, also chogall is fun that might be what you need.

>buy cho while my friend buys gall
guys should we tell him

no

you wont tell him, you're too pussy

>t. nigga that got raped with garrote build

virgin mewnfarez and chad grubby when

nigga only one of you has to own him

yeah

oh really? well it's still going to take the same amount of time to get him anyway, still good news though thanks

is rank fixed or should I not even bother doing my placements

I loved you before Valeera. I love you still.
I just don't play you because I don't want to make you look bad, you deserve better than bronze

read
op
fag
got

hero reveal next week right?
right?

Nothing till january.

>have friend that's really bad
>despite this, he still has "its the team's fault" syndrome
>he finally does ranked placements, you'll never guess where he placed
>tells me ranked is broken and placed him wrong
>also tells me his team lost him every game he lost and he could only carry 2 placements himself
>his average deaths was 9 in his placements
>his statline in every single game shows he was not really contributing to the team significantly
how can people actually be this oblivious to what's right in front of them?

probably nothing until next year

warcraft map soon

>the only new maps we've gotten the past 2 years are the 4 worst maps in the game not named haunted mines
sausuga blizzard

Volskaya and Warhead are kino though

Hanamura was good after the changes desu

someone's gotta reverse the dates on this meme, his life's crashing down before he starts eating way too much shitty food.

>foundry
>the map where you win by ignoring the objective
eh

>Orc architecture

..give us Andorhol you faggots.

>Introduce Andorhol
>Introduce Koltira and Thassarian
>Introduce Tirion Fordring

IT WRITES IT FUCKING SELF.

>Koltira

Step lively

B E G O N E
T H O T

>work my butt off carrying the game as Morales, the hardest carry in the game
>zero deaths
>top kill participation
>don't get MVP
I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE STUPID KILLING SPREE, BLIZZARD

WHERE IS MY MVP

FUCK YOU HANZO, GIVE ME BACK MY MVP

pretty much fucked to what the boxes hand you for a while if you are new but easier boxes makes up for it.
assuming you owned everything shards would be roughly split between the rarities. getting dupe heroes and dupe epic skins is a big chunk of the income but that's going to be irregular.

yeah it seems like things are looking up. could add a 5th on top from 4 days ago with him in an actual restaurant.

that hanzo carried your asshole so hard it isn't even funny
>heal slut
>mvp
>QM
laffin

SHUT UP HANZO

YOU WOULDN'T HAVE DONE SHIT IF I DIDN'T SAVE YOUR ASS FROM THE BUTCHER 24/7

GIVE IT BACK

silver 1 in bronze 3 user here
i have already climbed to bronze 1, games are getting marginally better, should be back home in silver soon
id like to think this has been a learning experince, but its been terrible honestly.

it's a different world at the very bottom
bronze makes silver look like master rank it's so bad

Today was a pretty fun day though, despite the MVP theft.

>Somehow manage to survive an entire game as Kael vs a Genji Tracer Butcher 3 stack on Dragon Srhines
>More damage than any 2 of my teammates
>hard carried

>QM rewards me by putting me against a Butcher Genji Tracer Kerrigan 4 stack 4 consecutive times
>With my teammates being 3 soft ranged and either Valeera or Zeratul
>4 consecutive times

NAH BRO FORCED 50 AINT A THING.

inb4
>QM

Happens when shitters shit so hard they force you to lose your fucking mind and tell them exactly how shit they actually are. Fucking snowflakes can't handle actual truth.

>199139947
>qm

>QM
Of course it's forced 50 you retard it's a dice roll mode of who gets the better comp/less retards. Play a real mode faggot.

its just bullshit that my poor qm record got me put in bronze 3 from silver 1 at the end of last season, i assume thats what did it, the only reason i play qm is to level heroes to 5, my qm winrate last season was 39% while my HL winrate was 51.4%

>tfw more official stats never ever
I just want to see that Master is now the top 15-20%

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

>similiar players died 6.1 times with morales
Are you bronze?

...

>Play a real mode
You mean ranked where it's just as much of a coin flip as to how many retards you get in your team?

In ranked you flip a coin as to who's more retarded

In QM you flip like 87 coins and if they aren't all heads then you lose because you don't know your team, the map, the skill level, if the enemy will be a 5 stack, your 4 stack will be AI players, how many allies are girl gamers, etc.

>51% winrate
>good
you belong there

>In QM you flip like 87 coins and if they aren't all heads then you lose
That's not a forced 50 anymore

>Be Abathur
>Always have to reveal stealthed units for people
>Stealth update makes stealth characters visible to a blind chimpanzee
>Still have to reveal stealthed units because people don't see them
Wew

Is he the most badass support in the game?

Unironically yes

Trying to peek under Vala's skirt with this new sking is giving me perma boners fuck.

Anyone has a SS of her ass or managed to see under that?

Under 18 year olds are not allowed on Veeky Forums, please leave

i had a 51.4% winrate in SILVER 1 that is where i belong
not BRONZE 3
its like you didn't even read my post

Hanzo gets two points per highest stat for being both highest in the team and the match, so he's 27 to your 25.

Also
>caring about MVP in QM
>caring about MVP in general

>Fourth day in a row of "play 2 games as overwatch heros" quest
Gettin' real tired of your shit Blizzard. Should I just sit on the quest until I get two others? I have no idea if theres a way to game the system so I don't have to deal with this bullshit.

yes

Play ranked and your quests will complete automatically.

Most manly for certain. Blizzard should give him an AA meme talent at 20.

Play only QM and never play with Overwatch heroes so you don't have a chance to get the quest since you already have it. Also increases your chance of getting a better quest

Also while we are talking about quests, what happened to the play 8 games or win 3 games quests? Haven't seen either one in atleast two months

save quests, having 2 shit quests increases the chances of the good ones

If you get a shit quest, don't finish it asap. 200 gold then is the same as 200 gold now anyway.

Also, unranked mode automatically counts towards any quest that isn't Win 3 games. So you could play Murky all day every day on unranked and get all the gold.

Ranked or They Are Billions?

>playing ranked right now
slightly sketch

silver 1 at the end of last season placed in bronze 3 user here. ive lost 5 of 6 and im back in bronze 2. holy fuck i dont get it. 4 of those 5 games were lost due to trollers/feeders. this is absolutley soul crushing

> twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/942932675307872257

hold on, user

just got in another game and i alredy had someone quit in draft. fucking kill me.

Hang in there, buddy.

They might even be doing another reset. Imagine.

6 of last 7, i had a player who thought you woun the game by having most exp, when we got wiped 4v5 at the objective level 24 on tod, he told us we were all afk players because he had 22k exp and we all had like 8k
im so close to perma uninstalling the game, this fuck was BRONZE 1

queued up for one more game, 1 guy immediatley said "lets lose fast, im here to troll"
so i finally dodged, im going to bed.
FUCK THIS GAME

>get matched with an abathur 3 times in a row
>enemy team gets the tyrande instead all 3 times
jesus fucking christ im tired of having dead weight

So was Tyrande fucked by the stealth rework? Is Starfall the only choice now?

oh shit i forgot you lose mmr for doging, that means ill be in a demo game to bronze 3 next time i play, i was in bronze 1 and 10 games above .500 in hero league this season 3 hours ago. itwas a different troll every game too, its not like i queued into the same guy every time.

still need mobility to escape or sometimes finish kills. the stealth part is and was pretty meaningless without other stealthies.