Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

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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
youtu.be/oft62x2SmGg

What's New? :
>Lunar Festival 2018!
>Bring in the new year with Skins, Mounts, a Quest, and a high-octane Brawl!
>Feb 6 – Mar 5
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21464984/
us.battle.net/heroes/en/game/events/lunar-festival-2018

>Maiev, the Warden
>Now on PTR!
us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes/maiev/
youtu.be/Nb-ibABP9gs

E-Sports :
>HGC: Heroes Global Championship 2018!
esports.heroesofthestorm.com/en/
masterleague.net/heroes/
twitter.com/HeroesEsports
>Heroes of the Dorm 2018!
heroesofthedorm.com
youtu.be/XTYw1Vwc46k
>Where can I watch?
Blizzheroes @ 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/21387328/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21464990/
>Current Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21464985/
>Current PTR Patch Notes
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21387327/

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??

nth for best dragon mom, (Chromie)

poop it back and forth

Lili is fun and good.

no but really, when are tracer, genji, hanzo getting removed

Ah yes, hail to the Church of Fudge.

>Current month 2017
>No Kel Thu'zard
>No Maiev
>No Stukov
>No Garrosh
>No Firebat Hero
>No Alexstraza
>2 Overshit heroes with another one otw
Explain this blizzcucks

haha blizzard PLEASE add pharah next we NEED her in this game her trait could be Take Flight: soar up into the sky bypassing terrain for 7 seconds

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DAILY REMINDER THAT 27.07.2017 WILL BE FOREVER REMEMBERED AS A DARK DAY IN ORCISH HISTORY.

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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

>Very nice, very good
Garrosh Leoric Arthas Kaelthas Diablo
>Yeahboi
Zul'jin 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

Where is Mephisto?

why is there no draenei hero? are blizzard racists?

>no blackthorne

There is no 27th month

genji loses the wall jump or he loses protect

Or the dash reset

>teammate instalocks junkrat

not rigged

not forced 50

>quick match
>complaining about forced 50 in fucking quick match

>playing qm

Cairne and or Baine mother fuckin' Bloodhoof when?

you just need to push and it's gg.
How hard is it to adapt your gameplay ?

>spam pinging my vikings during the first tribute on hollow liked i'd be any help even if i gave a shit to turn up
fuck off niggers im trying to XP carry you

>unironically playing tlv

see you at the core teamfightlet

>haha it's ok if it's qm!

matchmaking LITERALLY does not matter in qm

crushed like a disgusting vegetable!

...

I fucking lost it m8

Blaze

Incinerator Gauntlets. Is this really all that bad, honestly? The alternative is essentially just an extra bit of health assuming you're standing in it, or extra damage on Q IF the fucked up hitboxes line up correctly.

Spoken like a true HotS dev.

The truth is every mode should be open to changes for the better, they only feed the "LMFAO FIVE CLOWN FIESTA LMAAAOOO" shit by essentially saying they refuse to do anything to change it so people just accept that and say "lmao yea like totally its just qm bro lmao". When in reality, they refuse to change any fucking mode, they do nothing to significantly change anything within the game modes themselves, despite them all being flawed, but because they speak out on QM and ONLY because it's the easiest mode to speak up on because it isn't THE mode you play for artificial "you're very good!!!" points, people just take that and parrot shit like "lmao dude its just qm bro haha chill".

The reality is it's all equally meaningless and as such, just treat all modes the same and look to improve things here and there regardless of what you think your playerbase thinks of it. But nope, they're lazy ncompetent fucks. Christ, it even took them almost half a year to nerf Mercy in OW when she dominated the entire game the second they reworked her. There's no real reason for that, it's just the Blizzard way.

if you're female, gay, or just high estrogen, don't bother using voice com or I'll bully you

you've been warned

>go top as 5
>team dances around in circles and twiddles their dicks
>get hooked and eaten by stitches
>suddenly the millisecond i die our team remembers how to play the game and kill them al
>go solo bot
>nobody attacks me
>team is suddenly able to win any engage with them
>group back up
>everyone loses 20 iq

>The reality is it's all equally meaningless
this
it angers me to no end when someone utters
>it's just qm
when in reality it's 20 minutes of my life whether I get fictional rating points that don't actually mean jackshit or not

>DUDE THEY SHOULD TOTALLY LIKE IMPROVE THE GAME AND STUFF LOL
Is there anything of value in your rant or are you just going to take a piss for the sake of it?

TEAM BUNGA

oh no theyre perfectly fucking capable as long as im in the frame
>WHATS THAT? BUTCHER JUST LANDED A 4 MAN ULT
>HTUTAHG SHOULD KMS
>WHATS THAT BUTCHER ISNT ON MY SCREEN?
>FORGOT IM GRAND MASTER FOR A SEC CAUSE OF IT LOL

daily reminder this is the correct image.

who should replace maiev as our new waifu? who should appear in the window? imperius?

as long as im not in the frame*

>block
>tychus

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>What is reading comprehension

"literally matchmaking like literally doesnt matliterallyter" is a bullshit excuse with no legit reasoning, and it's an excuse even they hide behind when, and we all know this, the game isn't perfect. Because it isn't perfect as is, you would think they would constantly be seeking to improve it, but they aren't, and there's no actual excuse or reason not to. Just shrugging shit off doesn't somehow make it valid.

The point is that's a retarded way to respond to criticism of a flaw. It holds no substance.

Mommy have a surprise for you.

I don't understand any of this

>go toplane
>team suddenly remembers that our comp is capable of 4v5ing
>get triple kill
>go with team
>team bitches OMG BUTCHER SHITPICK, holds every ult they have, and then forget how to play the game and funnel into them 1 by 1

HEY GUYS. I PLAY BUTCHER. WILL POST 49 MORE TIMES IN THREAD SAY: "I PLAY BUTCHER".

I PLAY BUTCHER

THREAD NEWS. I TELL FOR YOU. IS BIG SURPRISE.

I PLAY BUTCHER.

>The point is that's a retarded way to respond to criticism of a flaw. It holds no substance.
Ironic because it's as empty as saying "DEY BE DOING NUFFING TO IMPROVE DA GAME", it's an empty blanket statement, you just typed 3 paragraphs to say nothing.

What exactly is there to change in QM? Please tell me, because to me there isn't anything wrong with Blue being matched vs Red in Do you want more intricate rules about not having several specs in the same team? Those can be some of the strongest teams assuming you play around your strengths. Never mind that such rules would be pretty pointless as specialist is just another label for "assassin with a weird way to deal damage." If you can't handle that kind of randomness, there's 2 draft modes that allow you to build the comp you want.

Or is the problem somewhere else? Because at this point I'm just fucking guessing, if you want legit discussion, don't hide behind vague all-encompassing complaints such as "matchmaking is bad!!" and learn to fucking articulate your point of contention.

these 5 heroes need to be removed from the game

tyrael
auriel
lucio
naz
blaze

no room for colored people in a blizzard universe

>hey guys can we circlejerk about overwatch and act like complete fucking retards for no reason
bronze general really does seem to like its status quo.

>mal'ganis
no
>blackthorne
imperius is better.

thank you for your time, you may leave now

genji varian tracer dva illidan

>Do you want more intricate rules about not having several specs in the same team?
not him but there have been rules for quite some time now regarding tanks, supports and half supports
before that games were chosen by who got the support and the tank and who did not
some rules at the moment are shit, like zaryas and abathurs and tassadars and tyrande all getting matched together, makes leveling one of those a chore since it's the same game over and over again, but this doesn't mean they can't make a system based on more than 4 variables and 4 exceptions

>genji
>tracer
>zarya
>ana
>lucio
>dva

yeah genji is cancer not a hero

ETC
Sylvanas
Kael'Thas
Stitches
Nazeebo

cause i'm tired of shitters

found the overwatch cancer

thanks for the (you)s

imperius is window status at best

Overwatch is fair and balanced. The only current outlier is hanzo, and that's because his PVE damage is way too high (~2800 on an effective 2-3 second cooldown per w).

What's wrong with her eyes

JAYGAGLAG SERVICE ANNOUNCMENT FOR THREAD:

I PLAY BUTCHER.

The more rules you add, the longer the queue becomes to find a "fair" match, this much should be logical to understand. There's a balance to be found.

If you're saying you don't want 3 assassins matched against 3 specs, I'm saying it's a pointless requirement to ask of the "find-a-match-quick" mode since the fine nuance is on a per-hero basis, not on a per-label basis. Assassins and specs overlap the same role, damage dealers.

As far as the above match, system seems to be working as intended.

>Imperious is better than Blackthorne
LOL what? I'm not even a Blackthorne shill but that's so fucking wrong, Imperius had only a cameo ever in-game, Kyle has an actual game that he is the main character of. Blackthorne > Imperius for this alone.
However, I'd love to see them both. But your reasoning is fucking retarded.

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I'd rather bang the supermodel that had a cameo in a burger commercial than your ugly whale of a gf who was the main role of your indie patreon amateur movie

> URGENT URGENT URGENT
I need that Alarak "What is this shit?" picture ASAP!

fuck dude, I gotta replay this.

>Assassins and specs overlap the same role, damage dealers
false
having 3 assassins vs 3 specialist means you are gonna have 3 melee/ranged assassins vs 3 ranged assassins
ranged assassins without a frontline get fucked by default
so then again doing so in a team with no tanks means the game already decided who wins and who loses on most maps
so not to wait couple minutes more, I'll have to wait 20 minutes for an unwinnable stomp to end

...

what?

Love you, senpai!

>wake up
>faggalag causing butthurt again
how do you retards falll for this every thread?

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shit, this only proves that Sarlac would be a sick ass fucking hero.

>ProJared
F
rip
;_:

>having 3 assassins vs 3 specialist means you are gonna have 3 melee/ranged assassins vs 3 ranged assassins
Why are specialists ranged only in your mind? There are melee specialists. There could be more in the future. They occupy the same broad role of damage dealers, no matter what vague distinction you're trying to make to separate them.

>ranged assassins without a frontline get fucked by default
... not really. You seem to be working under the assumption that every map and every objective is a solo lane ARAM brawl, it's not. Melee assassins are shit without a support, they can be kited to death. Ever tried Malthael vs triple ranged? Does that mean we need more pointless melee vs ranged restrictions?

Again, if you want the game fine tuned to your exact comp, that's what the draft modes are for.

? What's the story?

Memethorne being the main character of his own shitty forgotten game has no weight to him being higher priority if even as a hero

I can guarantee people would rather have completely made-up characters like SC units or a baby murloc than that one guy who was in a game Blizz made 50 years ago

pretty much this. Murky has more popularity behind him than blackthorne will ever have

underage detected

I'm 31
stop forcing your shit childish memes

Using that image as an example, we have Nova and Azmodan on the same team, heroes that generally do not present an immediate body in a fight. With Ana, a healer that pretty much CAN'T act as a body in a fight or she's as good as dead and useless. What should change is that certain heroes should be tagged with these disclaimers, and the matchmaker should at least attempt to avoid piling them into one team for the sake of consistency. If you have two or more of these heroes that by design should look to outrange a skirmish, then everyone else on your team can't exactly play their own heroes as they're supposed to be able to, this creates a element of inconsistency in the mode that new players are introduced into the game through which is something else they should keep in mind but don't..

The same goes for the fact that there are 3 waveclear heroes on one team, and the other team has none in that they aren't built for it. Rehgar and Tass CAN but it isn't something they're meant to be doing as actively as the others, and the matchmaker should again look to spread out waveclear heroes much more than it does currently, for AGAIN the sake of consistency. It's not about whether they could possibly scrape together a win with what they've got or not, it's about adding some consistency to the game mode.

So what I was saying, and you fucking know it, was that there's absolutely room for positive change, but their response as to why they haven't holds no water and it just breeds more bullshit empty "lol its just qm" mentalities. You and I both know there's ways to improve QM, don't act like you don't know or that you didn't get what I was saying just so you could act like you're so much better or some arrogant shit.

But the same goes for Unranked/Ranked, there's more they could do for them as well, but give no hint of giving a fuck about. Extra ban slots, hero swapping, etc. They could at least TRY things out for a single season.

>implying

Ah yes the most popular blizzard character of all time, Kyle Blackthorne. Well remembered, why he's basically Mario, Sonic, or Master Chief.

Genji
Tracer
Hanzo
Nova
Abathur

>31
>shills Imperius
LOL

> You have the Warmatron's attention. Make it count.
what would you tell her hotsg?

Who ever said he was the most popular?

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I want to cum on your thighs.

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Upvotes to the left btw.
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hi there kiddo

Yeah? Then why not try out the option to opt for putting yourself in a slightly longer queue in exchange for a more "well-rounded" type of match? Anyone who wants to opt into it can, and anyone who doesn't clearly doesn't care where they end up as long as they can play, they can be used in normal "wacky" QM games or put into these new "slightly more balanced" games, it's just another option and like they always say, more options are good.

Also, Assassins and Specialists don't overlap. Some do but in general they don't. Tbh there should be a separate role for the real odd ones out, like Abathyr, TLV, and Probius. Murky plays more like an Assassin than the others, I wouldn't really count him although I know he kind of could.

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needs more lewds