Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

Purge the scum that pollutes this realm Edition

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
youtu.be/oft62x2SmGg

What's New? :
>Maiev Shadowsong confirmed!
twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/956587499618357248
>Tune into HGC Jan 26th for the Spotlight reveal!
>(EU Game #1 Method vs. Fnatic)

>Heroes Mecha Storm has arrived!
>Abathur, Rehgar, and Tyrael mecha skins and bundles now available!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21366966/
youtu.be/J2LiUsEOqcU

E-Sports :
>HGC: Heroes Global Championship 2018!
esports.heroesofthestorm.com/en/ twitter.com/HeroesEsports
>Heroes of the Dorm 2018!
>Registration begins Jan 22nd
heroesofthedorm.com
youtu.be/XTYw1Vwc46k
>Where can I watch?
Blizzheroes on Twitch

Community Resources :
>Guides, Tips, Talent Calculators, Youtube Content, and more
us.battle.net/heroes/en/guides-resources/
robogrub.com/builds
>*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/21464983/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21464990/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21464985/

Where can I find fellow players to group up with and discuss the game? :
>Blizzard App - Social Tab invite links
>NA
blizzard.com/invite/paGDfZaX
>EU
blizzard.com/invite/K0YLXSnvk
>In-game
Type "/join Veeky Forums" in the chat

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Where the FUCK is Magatha??

>wanting magatha instead of Cairne or Baine
Disgusting

Unlike Cairne or Baine, Magatha is unique and is relevant to the story of at least 2 expansions. Carine and Baine are literally just placeholders that have no meaning other than to be big chief of many cows.

waht is waacraft dree

Post chad/virgin heroes that you want/or not

>Magatha is unique and is relevant
OH NO NO NO

Name another relevant female tauren. You can't.
Name another relevant tauren villian. You can't.
Name who killed Cairne and took over Thunderbluff. Magatha.
Name another tauren who had meaningful interactions with about 20 heroes that are in the game right now. You can't.

She's a shoe-in

>Purge the scum that pollutes this realm Edition
Will she be anti-Overwatch?

>hanzo "nerf"

she'll be anti-semen being in my body if you know what i mean

>join brawl
>team chat disabled
holy shit hotsbabs

Why would you want to chat in brawl anyway

What meaningful conversation or shots could you call for first time downies who don't have access to talents and probably don't even have all if their limbs in place?

>wanting more tauren
we already got the only relevant tauren in the game, that's enough

Don't fight it

1hr 10min till Game #1 EU

My favorite fallacy.

Dude BANTZ lol!

where the FUCK is maiev??

>only /pol/ knows about fallacies
that's another one

We got the only irrelevant tauren you mean. There could not have been a worse choice. Meme characters are never the right choice.

Spotlight up in roughly 2.5-3hrs from now

she's a garbage character who should've died in a random low level dungeon

Why are we still here… Just to suffer? Every night, I can feel my heart, and my brain… and even my sinuses… The weight I’ve lost… and the frands I’ve lost… It won’t stop hurting, like they’re all still there… You feel it too, don’t you?

I’m the one who got caught up with Quick Match, a party above matchmaking, even reddit, and I was the parasite below, feeding off TGN’s power… They came after you in TGN streams, then Twitch. Grubby just… keeps growing, swallowing everything in his path, getting bigger and bigger. Who knows how big now… Mewnfare… I’m gonna make ‘em give back our past… Take back everything that we’ve lost. And I won’t rest… until we do. Our new Channel. I don’t know how long it’ll take, but I’ll make it bigger… better than before… Mewnfare...

Things have changed, Mewn. We pull in money, new players, just to feed in Quick Match. Rubbing our noses in bloody Battlefield of Eternity dirt, all for views. The world calls for YouTube content, and we answer. No greater good, no just cause. Quick Match sent us to hell… But we’re going even deeper...

youtu.be/T4A6HSw0__8

tfw unironically enjoying nova

oh ok thanks

The fact that she hasn't yet means she's important, unlike some other tauren who are no longer alive.

She is going to get killed pretty soon considering her last role in game.

Helping fags get a doomstone? Nah, she's fine.

>Don't worry about me bro I'm just going to stay here keeping an eye on the doomstone

Yeah she is not going to steal it at all.

Good, maybe her second ultimate can be using the Doomstone :)

Chromie nerfs when?

Never because she's balanced. Telegraphed attacks with clear weaknesses and oriented around scaling into the late game.

Medivh removal when?
DUDE 2 SECOND CD INVULNERABILITY LMAO!!

Omg TLV removal HWEN????
THEY ARE 3 AND ME ONLY 1
EXPLAIN THIS HOTSBAB

Sorc when
Imperius when
Druid when
Assassin when
Deckard Caine when
Mephisto when
Baal when
Belial when
Duriel when
Andariel when
Aidan when
Cydaea when
Itherael when
Izual when
Zoltun Kulle when
Real Fenix when
Mengsk #1 and #2 when
Overmind when
Tosh when
Selendis when
Vorazun when
Rohana when
Aldaris when
Duke when
Zasz or Daggoth when
Overmind when
Izsha when
Ulrezaj when
Narud/Duran when
Hybrid when
Zurvan when
Azshara when
Vashj when
Kil'jaeden when
Archimonde when
Mannoroth/Maghteridon when
Mal'ganis/Varimathras/Tichondrius when
Velen when
Yrel when
Deathwing when
Ysera when
Malygos when
Grom when
Gallywix when
Cenarius when
Moira when
Anduin when
Lady Liadrin Prot Paladin when
Lor'themar when
Xavius when
Akama when
Al'akir when
Neptulon when
Therazane when
C'thun when
Yogg-Saron when
N'zoth when
Thermaplugg when
Alleria when
Khadgar when
Turalyon when
Whitemane when
Vanessa Van Cleef when
Broll Feral Druid when
Naisha or Shandris Huntress when
Nazgrel Raider when
Ner'zhul when
Blackhand when
Doomhammer when (never)
Kargath when
Teron Gorefiend when
Cairne/Baine when
Hamuul when
Lana'thel when
Morgraine when
Lilian Voss when
Twin Emps when
Etheral when
Vol'jin when
Rastakahn when
Admiral Proudmoore when
Faceless when
Mo'arg when
Tyrant Futanari when
Murmur when
Fel-reaver when
Alive Nerubians when
Centaur when
Trogg when
Kobold when
Vyrkul when
Male Naga when
Harpy when
The memes I forgot when
Do your fucking job, Blizzard.

>pyromania+meltdown+suppressive fire
>genji and ragnaros trying to power through it
>mfw
shame his AA build is lacking thou

>remove the weakest character in the game
lmao
Medivh is only good at the literal professional tier. He's garbage grade even in Masters. He annoys you because he took away your sicc confirmed kill? Well too bad his team has to carry his heavy ass dealing no damage whatsoever.

Sorceress has a name update your shit

It's Isendra

yeah he's just annoying I don't unironically think he's overpowered
especially when some FUCKS duo queue medivh and varian
meanwhile my team blows their load into the infinite protect machine

>AA build
there like 3 talents total, what do you mean build? The stacking dot at 20 is really good

Yes when she ults you with that time trap there's SOOOOOOOOOOOO much counter play

>dealing no damage
Lol

>Litterally white li ming in pic
>Not different enough to be a skin, let alone a separate hero
*Sorcerer when*
????

Blackthorne

>doesn't know how to counter temporal loop
So cute QMbabs are

Depends how long the first match lasts. Maiev spotlight is right after the match that begins 30 mins from now @ 9am PST

4 hours from now*

>all mages are the same
>kael is literally male elf jaina
>kt is literally dead jaina
>ming is literally asian jaina

The Ult upgrades are each miles better is the point.

Stimpack is only worth taking for the movement speed to bodyblock better, because faster AA = worse stutterstepping and the damage increase is marginal 44 -> 88 WOO almost as much as most ranged supports can manage
Incinerator Gauntlets do nothing for actual teamfighting. They could make the buff affect heroes too and we could talk about it, but as it is the oil spill incineration is more of a malus than a bonus.

AAAALL that shit is solved by giving him 20 more damage baseline. 60 -> 120 with stimpack is ok, that's basically Mura's damage with Give them the Axe, except on a bigger cooldown.
Incincerator Gauntlets buff all AA damage by 25%, suddenly they have a reason to exist Crossfire is superior for single target damage at 40DPS, whereas Incinerator Gauntlets are for AoE with 15 extra DPS per target

mobile.twitter.com/HeroesEsports/status/956706866247098368

Excuse me?

You're just playing his wrong, he doesn't have an AA build because his main point is abilities because he's a main tank and not a bruiser.

3 hours

Best out of 5, so even if every match is 25 mins that's still not 3 hours from now

Yeah, I know. I told you why AA talents are shit for him. AA build is a meme. Taking those talents denies crucial talents for more important abilities.
Then I told you what the talents would need to do to not be shit, or what would need to change about him baseline for the talents not to be shit.
So AA build could kind of not be a meme.

You have to remember whenever talents exist and seem to synergize with each other, people will think they might be worth taking (slam build Sonya, E build Ragnaros), so they HAVE to be good or you'll get dead party members in your game completely dragging you down.

What I'm saying is he doesn't need a """""build""""" for any of those talents to be usable. It's fine, they have clear uses and the only one with a downside is Incinerator Gauntlets

That ult is shit and chromies who pick it are retards. And the counter play is tell your healer to take cleanse, have unstoppable/iceblock, have an armor buff or don't get so fucking far out of position that the ult is a death sentence.

In short stop playing a retarded qm faggot.

Downsides for the earlier two talents are the opportunity cost for not taking better other talents.

Buff his bad talents, is what I'm saying. They ARE underperfoming too, so this isn't just me whining about nothing.

the whole AA thing is a mess
if you pick incinerator gauntlets you either forget about slows entirely until lvl 20 or you are forced to pick adhesive petroleum, meaning your flame stream is mostly free to use whenever, but by picking those talents you can't take crossfire nor feeding the flame so it's not like flame stream is gonna have that much use beside subpar damage
You are less survivable, have less utility and do less damage until lvl 20, at that point you aren't gonna pick flash fire, meaning you probably picked bunker also
So what's the point of all of this ?

Right I forgot that EVERY hero has unstoppable
Also her w has no telegraph

HGC EU starting up now, who we rooting for boys?

It has no indicator where it lands, but it DOES have a telegraph when she casts it and it'l always land somewhere around her 1.5 seconds later :^)

>Very nice, very good
Garrosh Leoric Arthas Kaelthas Diablo
>Yeahboi
Anubarak Abathur Azmodan Hanzo Dehaka Varian Thrall Ragnaros ETC Muradin Illidan Guldan Greymane Kharazim Rehgar Zagara TheButcher
>Its ok bro
Chen Artanis Gazlowe Falstad Tassadar Raynor Zeratul Tychus Rexxar Samuro Tyrael Malfurion Nazeebo TLV
>Wath a FUCK...
Alarak Blaze Chogall Chromie Xul Genji Malthael Stitches
>Wtf? why did you add this garbageshit?
Probius Brightwing Junkrat Murky Kelthuzad LtMorales LiLi Medivh Stukov SgtHammer Uther
>Faggotry
Dva Cassia Zarya Valla
>Tranny faggotry
Auriel Jaina Johanna Lunara Kerrigan Nova Alexstrasza Sonya Tyrande Sylvanas Valeera
>Tranny faggotry xtreme
Ana Lucio Tracer LiMing Maiev

Post yfw Maiev brings Hanamura back into the game

Its in her spotlight video

(You)

Method and then Dignitas

Wasn't Shwimpi Fnatic?
Method still gonna lose. Hopefully fast, unless they mean after the first game, then I don't care either way.

Reminder thay we're all gonna make it bros

She isn't Kael/anub though.

The kick him for being an asshole during blizzcon.

Yes Schwimpi went from fnatic to method and Wubby from fnatic to dignitas
Fnatic replaced them with Badbenny, formerly method and Mene from dignitas

Mene is an asshole so I hope he loses

>relevant [...] tauren
>relevant tauren
>name [irrelevant characters without actual story significance]
>[...] tauren who had meaninful interactions
These don't exist. Magatha is a nobody and no one but furries care, yiff in hell cowfucker.

I see you like muscleboys and dicks

Together, or not together. These are the last traces of those dreamlike days.

Just have someone step between Chromie and you to block the sand blast. I know bronze players can only move by rightclicking on heroes but you could at least try.

I love you good OP

>years talking about Maiev NEVER
>she ends up entering the nexus
christ almighty i sure didn't expect this

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

...

I can't, you win.

Lets hope the tranny fag sjw lgbt bitch shit Maiev is actually a prank by blizz this time and during the spotlight u all will get rick rolled and it turns out to be Belial

jesus this is some /v/ + /pol/ shit

Does Gaymane have any other builds other than cocktail? It's pretty good I guess, but a bit bland.

Sure thing redditard, you'd love some more D3 right :)

Faggot. Take any non-cocktail talents and you have cock/tail-less Gmane.

Where's Deathwing, Blackthorne, and MalGanis?

Yes he does.

Too big, taking cover in the background, disguised as the flower by shadow magics, respectively.

us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/maiev/

Interesting.

Mommy vs. Medivh
bets?

us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/belial/

WEW
E
W

us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/superman/

Holy shit guys they jebaited us

Fuck, wrong link
us.battle.net/heroes/cn/heroes/maiev/

Fnatic destroy early. If it comes to an even late method should win

Only one of these will actually work within the next few hours :^》

PUT IT ALL ON DRAGONTITS

Best bug winning.

>alex
>leo
>diablo
>stukov
>medivh
Love it.

Is this NA vs EU right now?

No, it's league play. EU league and later tonight NA