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What's New? :
>Heroes Mecha Storm has arrived!
>Abathur, Rehgar, and Tyrael mecha skins and bundles now available!
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>Blaze, Veteran Firebat; Now LIVE!
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>Stealth rework, Laning changes, PBMM, and more!
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>Guides, Tips, Talent Calculators, Youtube Content, and more
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>*Unofficial* Heroes of the Storm API
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>Current Weekly Sale
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>Current Weekly Brawl
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Previous:

Motherfucking when

Who?

Put y our faith in the light he'll be here

never, unless they feel a mighty need to copy the ship guy from dota 2

I want to put lots of half-elf babies in Tyrande's womb!

>literal nobody

>the light will save me
>the light will BLEEEEAAAAAUUUUGHHHHGH

To be fair Kunkka was one of the most fun heroes in dota.

why can't Dehaka main tank? he's got high hp regen, the longest stun of any basic ability for a tank, high damage, and cannot be body blocked

what more could you want?

So imperius is coming up, right?

Ideas to fix Tyrael's trait:
>If Tyrael kills an enemy hero or hits 3 enemy heroes at once with Archangel's Wrath, he is instantly revived at that location with full HP and mana, and all basic ability cooldowns refreshed. This effect has a 180 second cooldown.
>Quest: Block damage to self and allies with Righteousness 100 times
Reward: Allies also gain Archangel's Wrath, but do 60% of Tyrael's own damage with it
>Archangel's Wrath can be activated to explode while alive for 30% damage on a 20 second CD.

more and more I think about it, I'm starting to not like the idea of Reinhardt in Hots.

Just imagine.

It's very unlikely Reinhardt will be allowed to tank and shit out damage like in Overwatch because he would be outclassing every other melee characters if that was the case.

His charge without Diablo's ability to turn the target back to the team means that he's going to dive and feed, and feeding in this game is so much worse than OW.

Finally, the bullet proof shield is kinda meaningless when characters can just dive past it.

anybody have that image of 2 stills from warcraft 3 showing that admiral proudmoore was entirely right and did nothing wrong?

no mal ganis
leak was wrong
behead the leaker

He lacks reliable CC and peel
He's more of a beefy ambusher

his role is to split and join fights, you need another tank to lead the rest of the team.

Because he's gotta build essence stack before he can become an unkillable asshole.

HASAKI

but the leak says firebat -> mal'ganis -> belial

That all depends on how they implement him. I think it would be nice to have a dedicated anti-poke tank and they could definitely make talents for the shield to make it effective against melees heroes as well.

Something like
>Enemy heroes that pass through Reinhardt's shield deal X% reduced damage for Y seconds
>Enemy heroes that pass through Reinhardt's shield have movement speed and attack speed reduced by X% for Y seconds

wait, the sword has a fucking hand drawn onto that floating coin?

>This entire picture
Who fucking decided that any of this was good design? I don't even mean, "the skulls are too edgy" or "Pauldrons are too big" kind of generic WOW complaint, but in general,of basic color theory and shit. Why does the guard on the sword have a red trim? Why do the gauntlet have different colors? Why even have same color cloth on the wrappings, under clothes, and ribbons?

the fuck

>belial
>before mephisto
>before baal
>before andariel and her big fucking tits
Fuck you blizz

Also add a lvl 13 talent that makes you win the game if you hit all 5 enemies while you're at it.

its based on this

Diablo 2 is dead and buried. Only D3 heroes allowed

wew lad. this is some shit armor

>wait, the sword has a fucking hand drawn onto that floating coin?
Its a jojo reference

an actual tank like ETC to be with the team while dehaka is splitting, drawing at least one person to him then burrowing to his team

>Cassia
It's also not a matter of game but of Diablo general lore. We'll get the 7 tathameth demon heads and the 5 angiris council angels for sure.

Tier 10 was the bottom of Paladin tier set designs

The Night beckons.

Is*

He's still one of the most broken middles at 6.

we're gonna get paladin from D2 because WE WUZ KNITES N SHIEET

Embarrassing.

>tfw they power creep the shit out of Ana by giving Dreadlord his WC3 Sleep

I hope they make it a AOE point and click sleep on his ult or something

hello I'm auriel and I'm retarded so let me just aegis root my ally so they can die 2 seconds later when they would have survived just fine if left alone

If it's any dreadlord but Varimathras at least one of the Ults will be Inferno/Rain of Chaos.

Ay

>Is

Have you seen the state of the dota general recently
We're more alive than they are

You lucky cunt

BASED
BLIZZJEW

Blizz jew smiles upon you this day

>Abathur's Ultimate Evolution can now copy an hero on the enemy team
Would this be broken or a good addition to his kit?

how many gems have you bought cunt

just revert the cd nerf.

where's my mecha li li skin??

>tfw Dehaka just wants to collect essence but mommy won't let him

>Playing against mecha Tyrael and Tassadar
>Can't tell who is who in clusterfuck team fights
I hate this.

can I trust grubbys tier list or is there a better one?

shoot yourself in the head and it will arrive soon.

the leak also said alex and hanzo weren't supposed to be out yet

it would be broken, you could always finish off someone as long as you had vision of them

That dosen't answer my question

Do you remember how many lootboxes you have opened in your life?

it's fine, it's not like tiers matter anwyays unless you're playing HGC. You can win with anything.

i really like the mecha skin, but i am very sad that they mad it for such a boring hero, i tried tyrael sveral times and he is just so weak and tedious to play

It would be broken, yes.
Revert the cd nerf.

Tier lists are really good for this game.
Grubby's list is based on his own experience in EU master solo queue, so is subject to opinion.

It's best to look at several tier lists, like OP has provided, or map dependant tier lists and come to a conclusion based on game knowledge after you play more.

No, one of the main draws of ranked hots is that you can draft for counter and synergy, the idea of an opposite hero stealing your pick even temporarily is contradictory to that

god arthas is so fucking ugly in hots

>Alex is tier 1 in grubby's list

Did she get buffed? I thought she sucked

being a death knight that merged with an orc necromancer's spirit will do that to you

Im pretty sure only attacker plays him anymore

she's always been great

yeah, Both him and Uther could use model updates.

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they should make him look more like his wrathgate counterpart

>tier lists aren't really good for this game
Fixed

>It's very unlikely Reinhardt will be allowed to tank and shit out damage
Yeah... if only there was something equivalent in this game. Being able to tank and shit out damage... it'd be so cool. Maybe we could call these types of characters "bruisers". Of course, there'd only be Reinhardt at first, but we could have more of them later.

*swift strikes your face from a bush*
*throws 50 shuriken to your face as you try to retreat*
*deflects your own tower shots to you*
*jumps over a wall and disappears before you can ping for help*

*walks around my own towers*

>the only way to kill a genji is if he's retarded and kills himself

Thanks for reiterating that for us.

so that's why his winrate is low

God mecha tyrael is so fucking good
Blizzard really outdid themselves with this one

...

>Tier lists are really good for this game
because the average tier list user should be playing Genji or Ming right

Yep. Genji is one of those pure autistic heroes that play by themselves. Either he does it right and you die or he fucks up and he dies. His escapes leave room for nothing else, the only time Genji dies is when he fucks up.

t. blizzard employee

Aren't

I'm a dumb phoneposter and this shit has a mind of it's own

Does anyone have any idea what happened here? Pretty sure that Swift Strike is supposed to go through walls

clicked on the one pixel of the screen where you couldn't teleport, bravo

Probably aimed it at that point ya can't walk on. Fucked it up that way and he just flopped into the wall instead, since he couldn't get to the point he wanted to go either.

>when the other team gets the gold/plat player
Hero League feelin' a bit of a mess.

Looks like he might've tried to dash through the length of it instead of, like, a pixel up. I'll go check that in a sec.

You can still see the shadow of his strike on the other side of the wall after he dies.

garbage fucking taste to be eytch

>play quickmeme as good old greymane
>go 22/21/0 with 61k hero damage thanks to a russian garrosh throwing people into me/me into people
damn GM is amazing

And he originally used Daelin's model when DOTA was still a WC3 mod.

>angry paladin with the badass sword is so f*king cool!!!

Come on man. That is among the worst tier paladin armor

He really is.

Yep.

Have something better.
a) Baseline Even in Death quest, abilities DO deal damage:
>Shield 10k damage with W
>You can use Righteousness during Archangel's Wrath
>Hit enemy heroes with 100 basic attacks
>You can use Eldruin's Might during Archangel's Wrath
>Hit 40 enemy or ally heroes with E
>You can use Smite during Archangel's Wrath
>Complete all three
>You can also use your ultimate ability during Archangel's Wrath and dying instantly resets all ability cooldowns

b) You can activate Archangel's Wrath manually to become invulnerable without dying, damage down to 225. 120 CD cooldown. CD reduced by 10 for each enemy hero hit by the explosion. After the explosion you continue on as if your D-Shield just expired. Trait will NOT trigger on death while it's on cooldown. If you die while it's not on cooldown, it triggers like it does now and the damage is doubled to the current 550.

This just in roofs fuck up ninjas.

>First picks Illidan
>The same guy who first picks Illidan is also the guy who bans
>First picks Illidan despite enemy team getting the first pick and they go Muradin
And I was looking forward to winning this promotion game.

that's your opinion
it's much better than the rest of the garbage we got that xpac

Nah we already have the superior human pally with Uther. Next pally should either be Maraad or Lady Liadrin

>these skins
>Rehgar, Tyrael, and Abathur comp is actually OP

illidan is actually really good on that map, but I'm guessing he's just gonna try to solo the boss and die to it. Also surprised you're not more upset over murky.

The only leak I heard says mal gains is next. What r u smoking

Same leak had Belial on it faggot