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>no mecha skins
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

le funny blizzard

Blizzard really wants you to use Tranquility don't they?

I genuinely chuckled

madmen

Okay, that's pretty good.

>Warhead Junction is out of the rotation

Remember when Abathurs spike damage was buffed by 1?

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Too late to get your mom's portrait now.

WHERE
ARE
THE
MECHA
SKIIIIIINS

>Hanzo buffs
>no mecha skins
Boo
>samuro buffs
>bunker buff
>Valeera nerf
>scaling changes to minions and structures
Yee

>hanzo got buffed
but why
that hero is fucking retarded strong

Oh boy

>Hitting a Hero with Storm Bow or Basic Attacks reduces their Armor by 5 for 4 seconds, stacking up to 25.
What the fuck is even the point of Tyrande now? seems like everyone's getting vulnerability these days, Hanzo at 7 in this case

read that again

Hanzo takes like 12 seconds to get 25% armor reduction up, Tyrandes is instant

Nice. Hanzo is fun. What build did they buff? (Please be Q build)

Can't we remove BOE instead? Or rework it so that it allow for more character diversity.

>ONLY -0.25s Garrote nerf
They have got to be kidding
Should've just nerfed the duration harder and not the damage

>Valeera still shuts down anyone for 2.5s
>on a 8s cd
>this is fine because she has to put herself at risk!!!
>nevermind she has the hp of a tank
>and 50 escapes
yawn
I love wasting a ban every time because blizzard has a hard-on for stealthed sluts

Read the notes faggot

TLV rework when?

>nevermind she has the hp of a tank
She has less HP then Tyrael, she has a lot less HP then Muradin or Diablo. Her HP is on the same level as Garrosh but she dosen't have nearly as much survivability as Garrosh

if I want to play a never dying tank that anchors for his team what is the best between johanna, muradin and arthas? I'm not a very good tank player so when I have to fill I want to make sure I never die

Arthas or Muradin.
Arthas has better in combat healing and lots of slows and roots. Muradin has better out of combat healing and lots of stun.

tyrande doesn't have 7.5 range

Muradin is most versatile
Arthas if dealing with tons of melees
Johanna for peeling and dealing big dick damage

I'd go with Johanna honestly because I genuinely think she's overpowered atm. Playing Arthas is straight suffering if the enemy team isn't perfect for him and Muradin is strong but rather unremarkable.

Johanna deals damage?

Take Sins Exposed, Blessed Momentum, and Blessed Hammer then get back to me

>valeera nerfed to the ground
>malfurion meme build is over
feels bad.

Servers up already?

Johanna is really good in some maps, but also really good against some popular heroes like Illidan and many AA-based heroes.

>popular heroes like illidan
que

> Ranked Battleground Rotation
> Added
> Volskaya Foundry

Finally

Fuck off too.

now to convince my team the objective is weak and pushing structures is more value

Arthas and Johanna mainly counter AA heroes, Johanna is neverdying while Arthas has an engage that isn't his ult.
Muradin is more all-around and has mobility but you need to know what you're doing. It's not rare to see Muradin players who abandon their backline to chase a support they can't kill alone.

It's unironically a pretty nice map.
I just hate the loading screen splash art. It's so unfinished.

Gez Nova how come the HOTS team lets you be on so map loading screen?

Servers up.

>log in
>still have a chest
Well, that's a nice little surprise.

those anime Muradin eyes

Merry Christmas user

I wonder if aa Zera is a thing now.

>It's unironically a pretty nice map.
agree, except for the 3rd objective which is fought on conveyor belt which is plain retardation, playing around it is minimal and it lends to chaotic, unfun teamfights

>150% W untouched
Fuck.
>Shieldbreaker gone
Thank god, no one with 7.5 range should get 1k autos just because some Aba/Tyr accidently gave you a 100 hp shield. Too strong for literally clicking on someone with ZERO cd always
>Never Outmatched untouched
They could slightly nerf that one to 3s CDR
>Spellpower still shit
Not enough value for the effort, especially compared to the ezpz instant value of W or Armor Shred
>Armor Shred
Stupid good because you can easily keep any frontline hero at 15-25 armor reduction so both you AND your team can wreck them
Meanwhile spellpower is skillshot dependent, drops super fast, and only buffs his own damage (only the skillshots tho)

Overall he gained one good talent so Never Outmatched isn't the standard while removing the shitfest that was Shieldbreakers.
Now buff the fucking Q talent you cunts.

I find it very fitting for the map

Id say Johanna, she's by far the most survivable of those tanks and the easiest one to play. Her only big vulnerabilities being bodyblocks and shield shatter varian if for some reason you go indestructible when he has battering throw.
But Id say arthas and mura are stronger in certain situations. Johanna doesn't have really low lows but doesn't have sky high highs either

I thought AA zera was the thing after the rework

Thanks, I'll give Johanna a try, had 4k gold saved up

No. You either went wormhole meme build or cleave meme build.

>Retarded monkeys on Blizzard forums and Veeky Forums believes that Valeera was nerfed to the ground.

Seems like the bronze shitters think their opinion matters one single bit.

Valeera was too damn good and reached the top 1 of the ambushers on GM because she was broken as fuck, now she's a bit more balanced but the 2.5 seconds silence is still something that will make her overpowered, plus the poison damage.

Learn to play retards.

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cleave meme is funny though, especially with VP

Wait I thought Shieldbreaker only did damage to shields? Why are they even removing it, this leaves Varian as the only shield breaker in the game. Do they really want Varian to be the only counter to Sonya, Artanis and Zarya or what?

You still go Might of the Nerazim with cleave meme build. Actually now that I think about it it's more of a cleave w hybrid meme build.

>reached the top 1 of the ambushers on GM because she was broken as fuck
Yes her 46% wr was impressive lmao

where's that playlist from some threads ago?
youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw

>Valeera was too damn good and broken
Now who is the bronze shitters

youtube.com/watch?v=PvF9PAxe5Ng

Tad too weak, now it's looking better
Legit choice for PvE heavy maps, BoE and works fine and dandy without Nerazim

>AA build VP
>Q build VP
>full blowup DBZ teleporting Nerazim
>Q build Nerazim (it's shit because it doesn't stack)
All these work, though the last one is kinda memeing around.

Remind me again why EU has to wait till Wed for patch day?

>Valeera 885 1438 31,3 % 53,6 % 0,2 %
This is the only league that matters you braindead bronzecucks, stay mad at how you're still trash at the game even with a broken hero.

Because it's currently the time that most people play at and servers can't be closed for maintenance?

When is voice chat gonna drop?

I don't play not filthy knife ear slut stealth slut, I play the thinking man's Stealth character

>thinking man's Stealth character
>The shitter hero
AHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAAH

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I meant before his rework and that wasn't and ultimate
but even now VP is better for cleave meme build unless you're a retarded baddie

Works like that for everything else, but his damage carried over onto health.
That said, it was still too binary, either no one ever has shields so it's shit, or whoever has shields plays with 1-2 abilities, multiple talents and roughly 600 max HP less
It oneshots Tassashields, a is CD and reason for his existence. On 7.5 AA range with no cooldown. That's more than Varian does with a later talent while being melee (activatable has a reasonable CD and will only strip one out of five shields from a distance on average)

Wow, she deals less damage than the average bruiser

oh boy

Well lads is Firebat as fun as we wanted him to be?

Fuck yeah, he's awesome.

>Garrosh buffed
>Malfurion's healing nerfed even more

>inhales

"Buffed"

One toasty boi

>red blaze somehow more useless than a beginner bot

>Winston, Mcree, and Torb are indentical
>Genji, Mercy, Reinhardt, and Tracer are posed different

Mercy and Reinhardt confirmed for hereos, Winston, Mcree, and torb confirmed for skins

Another overpowered piece of shit huh
You'd think they would learn, considering every other hero that can do literally fucking everything was or is OP too
Blizzard just can't release a balanced tank/bruiser, can they?

mate it was quickmatch, clam down

>1-1 calibrations
>zero (0) HL games played
>1000 qm games
>in masters 2k game
wtf blizzard

There was a blaze in the enemy team too

Blizzard has always had shit matchmaking. The only game I can even think of where they had decent matchmaking was probably SC1 Ladder. After that, they kinda said fuck PvP in general.

>Blaze has access to Nexus Blade at level 20
That's weird seeing how Nexus Blade is mostly reserved for brusiers

everytime

This is why I still come to this place.

Well he CAN be a bruiser if talented towards it and even without them more damage is always a good choice for a tank that can already do fairly good amounts of damage.

It feels really underwhelming though, should've done a bit higher damage imo

anyone care to explain the joke?

>samuro nerfs

okay. i guess 75 base hp is supposed to make up for nerfing the go to crit damage and wave clear talent by a quarter

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The point is that it stacks with everything else and works on minions and shit
Constant damage over time and slow is hella good

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>nerfed mandatory talent and buff other ones
Wtf blizzard??????

>lv 280
>Friends around of 100
>Everyone on the enemy team is 500+ with two 1000+
How is this allowed

How are you this retarded

Levels don't mean shit

Well they must've played for a fucking long time or been high enough when 2.0 rolled around