Heroes of the Storm General - /hotsg/

Fire and the Flames Edition

For New Players :
>Welcome to Heroes of the Storm!
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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/game/events/lunar-festival-2018
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>Maiev, the Warden
>Now LIVE!
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E-Sports :
>HGC: Heroes Global Championship 2018!
esports.heroesofthestorm.com/en/
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twitter.com/HeroesEsports
>Heroes of the Dorm 2018!
heroesofthedorm.com
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>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/21507223/
>Current Weekly Brawl
us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/21529717/
>Current Patch Notes
heroespatchnotes.com/

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
Type "/join Veeky Forums" in the chat

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I want to marry and impregnate a Night Elf

first for the HIGH FUCKING LORD

i wanna impregnate nova...

me too guys, me too

never ever

Overwatch itself isn't that bad, user. Nor are Overwatch heroes themselves. The problem arises when Overwatch hero kits consistently have them playing an entirely different (and easier) game than every other hero in the fucking game that isn't from Overwatch. Bypassing terrain literally didn't exist until Overwatch heroes started being able to do it en masse. They literally are all playing a different game from the people playing non-Overwatch heroes. That's where the problem is.

Not just Overwatch. Not just the heroes.

Their fucking KITS are the problem.

Hi.

>got a free legendary tyrael skin
>don't own tyrael
what

Please drink Li Li's tea. It has absolutely nothing wrong it.

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me bunga
overwatch unga

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buy him user he's really good

Why is Nazeebo's mask emoting?

brap

ugh

nice 1 dude

*hi5*

*INHALES*
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NA
GM
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>Bypassing terrain literally didn't exist until Overwatch heroes started being able to do it en masse
hasn't falstad been rolling over terrain for years

diablo also charges over terrain
and muradin
and illidan
and basically every hero at one point because bolt of the storm exists

Shut the fuck up

Opinions?

I love Lunara!

It's his version of screaming the scream of infinite madness.

Reminds me of old dota wc3 loading screen art by kunkka

i want her to sit on my face

>nova in the corner wetting herself
hot

Actually that image depicts a snowy biome so its likely cold user

Man it's like you guys haven't sifted through the several drawing challenges that Blizzard has essentially paid for to boost this game's visibility.

Imperius is shit and I hope he never gets added to the game

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Maiev is making Butcher very much far from a instawin in QM, just FYI.

wake me up when morales or dragon mommy are in the f2p selection

/hotsg/, you are now in charge of hero balancing. What do you do to Maiev to make her submit and still be able to be called a Blizzard employee?

>Remove autoattack reset
>Umbral Bind deals no damage if broken by using Vault of the Wardens
>Vault of the Wardens now displays "PROTECTED+" as appropriate.
>Shadow of Vengeance damage quartered at close range, increasing to 100% at the end-point of cast.
>Shadow of Vengeance cooldown doubled.
>Fan of Knives minimum cooldown after cast is now 2 seconds, up from 0.5 seconds.

you're trash at this, stop posting

>tfw all I want to do is play abathur but my team always hates me

I just want comfy meme sluggery. I'm tempted to just exclusively play abathur and just mute everyone in every game at the first second and autism splitpush. I know its garbage but its fun and feels so good.

do what's fun to you user, fuck everyone else

>Alarak bullying Lili

.. the Highlord truly is the gift that just keeps on giving.

Why do they hate you?

Solution: stop trying to charge Maiev, faggot. She'll just trait it and then drag you even deeper than your Unga Bunga ass already went.

you can piss yourself in the cold

I'm not charging her, I'm not that retarded. Anyway, no big deal, he's level ten now and I can guarantee getting a tank or something by playing one now.

Abathur is a selfish pick. It forces your team to play a certain way and build around you

Is there ever a situation to not go Revealing+Nimble wisp as Lunara? It has been feeling like I don't even get a talent until 7.

>25-50 gold per AI match
>good heroes costs about 10000 to get
um

stop playing against AI then

You get 500 gold for each character you get to level 5

no
yes, she needs a raynor rework

dividing wisp has a little value on some maps
lunara doesnt have a level 1 besides natural perspective

Don't you get a free stimpack when you're starting? I bought Artanis and Lunara before my free stim wore off.

7 day from starter chest
7 day again from reaching level 10

just grind hard the first 2 weeks and you can afford multiple 10k heroes, not that you need them

- Maybe if you're playing against Abathur with mine build, you could try going CD or reveal wisp.
- Maybe if you're somehow solo laning or splitpushing, dividing wisp is good for protection.
- W CD on level 1 has synergy with AA crits at 7 and AA speed at 16 but it's rarely worth it.

Looks better than HotS Widow-Nova.

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I can't wait for the day when this image is empty again and all these fucking loser heroes are in the game

they need to make nimble wisp baseline but weaker so she can have a real fucking level 4 talent choice

Yes. At the VERY FUCKING MINIMUM, it should move at 120% so that it's at least as fast as her. But if they reworked only 1-4 talents, it'd be great. Oh, and cleanse at 20.

>Seasoned Marksman Lunara

Dusk Maiev or Darnassian Maiev?

Two question came up among my 5 man today;

1) Is Nova a mage character?

2) Is Tychus worth picking as your AA assassin if the enemy team only has one tank.

Thoughts?

1) sort of

2) no

sort of
depends, but usually not over alternatives

watcher maiev

Nova is a mage yes
Depends. By tank you mean warriors or what?
Whatever the case, tychus can work against solo warrior, specially because of Odin, it just makes you build different though and you would rather just have tracer or hanzo in his place at that point

>lost my first bot game because my team didn't do enough damage
okay
okay
okay
okay
okay

1. Yes
2. Yes. Tychus is very versatile and secretly OP. He has great waveclear and tankiness, some mobility and a bit of burst.

"Don't pick Tychus since enemy has only 1 tank" is a retarded argument. It's not like you would dive past the solo tank with Valla to attack backline anyway. Historically, his winrate was the highest against solo tanks since he has only 1 target to focus on. Minigun has a cooldown after all. I only wouldn't pick Tychus against solo tank if your team is dive comp, then get Greymane.

t. masters in EU

>Enemy deathballing with plant
>Butcher at top lane
>Ping for him to help
>Ignores us
>Enemy takes our fort
>Butcher didn't even take a tower

Made that easy win hard as fuck for no reason other then sheer stupidity. Thank fuck I kept boosting Alarak to turn the game around.

Not wrong, but that's why I only play him in quickmeme

slapathur brawl when?

>It's a "I play azmodan as a mage who lazers people" game
I hate it, why not pick an actual mage assassin if you aren't going to actually do specialist shit.

>Enemy gets two specialist
>Object spawns
>Nobody gets camp or objective
>Try to get a few despite being a healer
>Team berates me for not healing them
>Enemy now has all camps and a free objective
>Stick with team to make them happy
>They do nothing and just run in to die

I don't get why we ignored so hard when we were down 4 levels?

Gallywix when

What does /hotsg/ listen to while playing?
youtube.com/watch?v=xEeFrLSkMm8

music off
i need my tactical in-game effects only edge

youtube.com/watch?v=DOXh4sN0tLY
This on repeat all day everday

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>shitty Kerrigan jumps on to Azmodan.
>heal her so she can get out of laser range.
>Decides to instead engage Azmodan and tank the laser.
>dies
Why are shitters like this playing HL.

Idk, my team just steam rolled a group with a fucking hammer on our team. It was actually sad because they had a fucking diablo and as varian I can't really do much about it besides beat the shit out of him and slow him a bunch as he dives until 10.

>Play game
>Team with most overwatch heroes wins

Honestly this is fucking stupid. Every single one of them has some busted mechanic, 90% of the time it has to do with mobility too so they're all so damn safe to play. What the fuck were they thinking?

they probably came from league of legends where diving is meta and you can walk under turrets and tank spells and still do damage

"Please play our game OW players! You can own total noobz with your favorite characters who you main!"

>play overwatch
>fucking hate tank meta and HATE D.Va
>D.Va is in HOTS
really?

Imagine if Stitches sat on your face and ulted

there is no d.va in hots
there is a goliath hero and that's fucking it

what's good use of stitches poopoo ult? run around and use it to slow people down?

Basically, it was better when it gave you health regen while you did it. I don't get why they removed it.

wtf are you retarded? youtube.com/watch?v=HlrAD_fkZ74

>Towers of Doom
>Objective spawns
>Go to the enemy one while team gets the others
>Zag ignores it and pushes
>End up losing them all
>Tell her to group
>She doesn't
>Pushes nothing while showing up to the fight late
>Gets Nydus despite never being near us

I really wish I can just black list towers because nobody knows how it works.

Buff Zuljin

>tfw I miss suicide build murky.
That was the most fun yet surprisingly effective build murky had.

Wish granted. Caveat: he gets nerfed within a week.

He is joking about being self denial, because he don’t like her. Your head missed the joke so fucking hard.

Stop picking Monstrosity.

Just pick him on late game maps and get gud and stacking.

just give let the killing begins back to early game
its all i want
cant be a mad axe swinging troll for half a game basically

Sorry, best we can do is another talent shuffle except nothing will make sense.

Maiev

>lose first 7-8 objectives at towers
>fuck this unga quickmeme team time to feed camps for enemy
>clear sapper camp and lure enemy brightwing to it
>he doesnt take it
>emote and dance around the circle
>he starts to dance and emote
>he ignores it for like 50seconds so our bunga team comes and kills him
Heh... all according to keikaku...

Does QM always put you with your counter? Every time I want to play something different I get a huge counter that forces me to play safe.

Johanna loli is cute and fun and she tries her best to tank for you!

It often feels like that but it may be just confirmation bias. Try actually counting the games with and without a hard counter.