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Heroes of the Storm |OT| Pretty sure that Abathur is AFK
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Believing that Kerrigan getting her L1 E talent baked in as part of her base kit adjusts the skill cap of the character in any way is absolutely ridiculous.
Patch notes Monday, possibly Sunday if they leak out on other time zones.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
It's identically as ridiculous for me to hear that you think it doesn't.
E drags the enemies a set distance. Properly placing the W in relation to their current position is completely unchanged. The skill involved in using the correct timings and placement is totally unchanged.
The range increase was considered mandatory in competitive play, and it's not like her other L1 talents offer any huge benefits, it just gives her a slight marginal buff.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why you DO NOT post on GAF while being high on medicine.
I thought they made her W and E the same ability (you grasp the enemy and it automatically stuns the opponent).
My apologies.
I thought they made her W and E the same ability (you grasp the enemy and it automatically stuns the opponent).
My apologies.
LOLOL <3
Also, she was hit hard by the envenom/B4B changes, where she lost a ton of burst, so they're trying to push her back up the tierlist.
THH mentioned they'd be shocked if they gave him a new skin while he's in his current state, because it just wouldn't sell.
But then again, Bikini Stitches.
The Kerrigan changes actually make me want to play her more. I want a character that depends on shields and currently that is not Tassadar.
I've been running a similar build in AI matches. My go to strategy with Possession is to treat it like Promote; grab the three warrior minions, blow up the rest with Unstable Poison, then leave as the lane gets pushed by a set of six warriors, three of which boosted by Possession. Do the same to a second lane then go back to join the team. It's still kinda weak. I'm wondering if I should just grab an entire wave before an objective fight rather than just half a wave in two lanes, because it'd be faster to get to the fight. But putting it all in one lane doesn't feel as useful.
Note: Medic with Medivac is an indirect buff to specialist split pushers.
I've been running a similar build in AI matches. My go to strategy with Possession is to treat it like Promote; grab the three warrior minions, blow up the rest with Unstable Poison, then leave as the lane gets pushed by a set of six warriors, three of which boosted by Possession. Do the same to a second lane then go back to join the team. It's still kinda weak. I'm wondering if I should just grab an entire wave before an objective fight rather than just half a wave in two lanes, because it'd be faster to get to the fight. But putting it all in one lane doesn't feel as useful.
Note: Medic with Medivac is an indirect buff to specialist split pushers.
Aquavelvaman
Banned
Really psyched about the Kerrigan changes. She's one of my favorite assassins but she definitely needed a talent update.
I don't play Kael enough to totally grasp his changes, but it looks like his early game is getting better and his late game is getting less ridiculous, which sounds like what he needed.
Combining merc lord with superiority will make jungler Sonya a little stronger, that's cool.
I don't play Kael enough to totally grasp his changes, but it looks like his early game is getting better and his late game is getting less ridiculous, which sounds like what he needed.
Combining merc lord with superiority will make jungler Sonya a little stronger, that's cool.
What are these Kerrigan changes you guys speak of and when can we expect them to be implemented?
I need some more Assassin Heroes, and was curious about picking her up for 7k thinking that she would get a buff soon, but held off from buying her last week. Still have the 7k gold though saved up! I love me some melee anything!
EDIT: Nevermind, I see them now!
I need some more Assassin Heroes, and was curious about picking her up for 7k thinking that she would get a buff soon, but held off from buying her last week. Still have the 7k gold though saved up! I love me some melee anything!
EDIT: Nevermind, I see them now!
Aquavelvaman
Banned
See Kirblar #8408
Kerrigan is a super fun melee, but she's pretty hard to play well. I hope these changes come in the monk patch.
The Many-Faced Blizzard God saw fit to grant this one an opposing Rehgar who did not know how to play Rehgar when I was one game away from rank one. He healed for 4,438. In a twelve minute game. I bet his team was salty. Plus we had Sylvanas on HM so gg:
48-34, 82 games total.
I played a little bit of everything
The majority was solo though I did group a couple games with Milly to get past rank 5 and into 4, and then grouped again with another guy who played support for 3 games once I got to rank 3.
Zeratul got me some wins at the beginning and the end, but it was shifting from picking mostly support to picking Zagara that got me the majority of the final two ranks.
The ironic thing about me hitting rank one is that this account is my very first account in HOTS and the one I played throughout Technical Alpha. Consequently this account is silver in QM and now rank 1 in HL. My main account is diamond in QM, silver in HL lol. Polar opposites.
With all that said...of course they'd fucking announce today they are resetting our ranks in (likely) less than two weeks. Short lived victory but at least I made it.
Started in silver now we here.
EDIT: Should I use my BM avatar I made?
48-34, 82 games total.
I played a little bit of everything
including being AFK as my pick came up due to one reason or another 3 times (yes, shame! ding ding shame!) and getting TLV three times at random (which I can barely play and even less so a few weeks ago - what are the odds?). Final record on TLV, 1-2.
Zeratul got me some wins at the beginning and the end, but it was shifting from picking mostly support to picking Zagara that got me the majority of the final two ranks.
The ironic thing about me hitting rank one is that this account is my very first account in HOTS and the one I played throughout Technical Alpha. Consequently this account is silver in QM and now rank 1 in HL. My main account is diamond in QM, silver in HL lol. Polar opposites.
With all that said...of course they'd fucking announce today they are resetting our ranks in (likely) less than two weeks. Short lived victory but at least I made it.
Started in silver now we here.
EDIT: Should I use my BM avatar I made?
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Huge Tyrawl bufd now that he can move towards his invul field
Turdburger
Member
he needs to report on Zeratul
The sanc buff is insane. I wonder if that's actually going to make it to live. Seems ridiculous
The sanc buff is insane. I wonder if that's actually going to make it to live. Seems ridiculous
BreezyLimbo
Banned
as it is I'm pretty sure Judgement is picked all the time, Sanctuary seems like such a false choice.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I got Kerrigan to 10 in two days and have a 66.5% win ratio with her.
Now tell me your accomplishments with her. It's okay if you don't, I'll pretend like I didn't see your god awful post.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
jokes on you both kerrigan sucks
Congrats on no life, lol? My Kerri is sitting at 60 even at level 8, nice try dodging your skill vs. mine and bringing up one single character.
It's hilarious to see you talk about how players are so toxic when I've seen nothing but the same from you in this thread multiple times.
It was actually a blessing to see you not posting, sad to see you back. Good thing GAF has your back though and is completely okay with how much shit posting you do.
I like that we're seeing improvements to useless (non-solo-Q oriented) Ults here. Long overdue.
Robottiimu2000
Member
Oooh! Drama!
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
"Congrats on no life"
I'm laughing so much, how could I even hate on a post that starts like that? Love you Milly, no matter watcha think of me. Peace and love to all of this community (HeroesGAF, of course - not the people in game)!
I'm laughing so much, how could I even hate on a post that starts like that? Love you Milly, no matter watcha think of me. Peace and love to all of this community (HeroesGAF, of course - not the people in game)!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Wait Superiority is now rolled in with Merc Lords?
Neat
Neat
jaundicejuice
Member
Superiority and Merc Lord being combined sounds interesting. I kind of dread the Robogoblin Gazlowe's I'll be facing.
The original Nether Wind range being baked in to Lapsed Gravity sounds nice.
I actually like Pyromaniac quite a bit, I've used it on more defensive solo-queue builds where I'm taking skills like Clairvoyance, Arcane Shield and Bolt of the Storm. It's great for those lulls in between fights where you just spam throw out free living bombs and drive the CD's down on your abilities.
I'll give splitting the charges a shot.
kirblar said:
The original Nether Wind range being baked in to Lapsed Gravity sounds nice.
I actually like Pyromaniac quite a bit, I've used it on more defensive solo-queue builds where I'm taking skills like Clairvoyance, Arcane Shield and Bolt of the Storm. It's great for those lulls in between fights where you just spam throw out free living bombs and drive the CD's down on your abilities.
I'll give splitting the charges a shot.
A week from tuesday, PTR goes up Monday.
jaundicejuice
Member
I played with a warrior who thought they were the tank as if we were in a mythic raid in WoW.
Edit: Have the match making changes (placement games) been implemented already? I am seeing some really weird behaviour, the kind of stuff I haven't seen since the alpha or whne the game went public beta, people just afk'ing in lane, soaking exp to circumvent the fountain AFK, just yolo rushing one by one into a deathball over watch towers or lost objectives. Just weird, dumb things.
Edit: Have the match making changes (placement games) been implemented already? I am seeing some really weird behaviour, the kind of stuff I haven't seen since the alpha or whne the game went public beta, people just afk'ing in lane, soaking exp to circumvent the fountain AFK, just yolo rushing one by one into a deathball over watch towers or lost objectives. Just weird, dumb things.
Just bought the Starter Pack for $11. Didn't have 4 of the 5 Heroes from it, plus I get that sweet tiger mount!
I have now spent monies on the following:
-$40 Founders Pack (ended up being a total waste because the whole point of this purchase was to buy access into the beta back then and I never even played it during that time cause I was intimidated by the whole MOBA scene. But it gave me some heroes, skins, mount and gold so whatever)
-$5 Starter Bundle (If you don't ever want to spend real money in this game I get it, but I'd highly recommend this $5 at the very least. Great deal with solid Heroes (Muradin!), plus you get a stim pack)
-$11 Starter Pack on sale (this was a great deal, already had Li Li but the other 4 I didn't own. Sweet skin for one of them, and the TIGER MOUNT)
All in all, I've spent $56 for a total of: Beta access, 11 Heroes, 4 Skins, 5 Mounts (they gave me 2 different pony mounts for purchasing stuff), 2500 Gold, and a 7 day stim-pack.
I just started playing this game a month ago, but I'm fairly happy with the pool of Heroes I have now. A total of 18 so far through bundles and in-game gold. Never thought I'd spend this much money on a F2P game but I don't feel bad AT ALL about it. I've already put more time into this game than any other $60 retail game I've bought in the past few years (mostly Xbox One) and it's just a ton of fun and Blizzard is a on a roll right now with this game.
Now I just need to save about 7k more gold to buy either Rexxar or Medic at launch. But I just hit Player Level 40, so the gold income slows down...
I have now spent monies on the following:
-$40 Founders Pack (ended up being a total waste because the whole point of this purchase was to buy access into the beta back then and I never even played it during that time cause I was intimidated by the whole MOBA scene. But it gave me some heroes, skins, mount and gold so whatever)
-$5 Starter Bundle (If you don't ever want to spend real money in this game I get it, but I'd highly recommend this $5 at the very least. Great deal with solid Heroes (Muradin!), plus you get a stim pack)
-$11 Starter Pack on sale (this was a great deal, already had Li Li but the other 4 I didn't own. Sweet skin for one of them, and the TIGER MOUNT)
All in all, I've spent $56 for a total of: Beta access, 11 Heroes, 4 Skins, 5 Mounts (they gave me 2 different pony mounts for purchasing stuff), 2500 Gold, and a 7 day stim-pack.
I just started playing this game a month ago, but I'm fairly happy with the pool of Heroes I have now. A total of 18 so far through bundles and in-game gold. Never thought I'd spend this much money on a F2P game but I don't feel bad AT ALL about it. I've already put more time into this game than any other $60 retail game I've bought in the past few years (mostly Xbox One) and it's just a ton of fun and Blizzard is a on a roll right now with this game.
Now I just need to save about 7k more gold to buy either Rexxar or Medic at launch. But I just hit Player Level 40, so the gold income slows down...
jaundicejuice
Member
I've got Kael at 17 and the grind to 20 feels like it's taking forever. Those 15 and 20 hero rewards are the only thing left outside of dailies.
You know, that's a good point. A lot of people misunderstand "supports" in DOTA making them ward bitches or healbots. But in DOTA "supports" are actually the heroes who can be viable without items and most importantly they start out strong whereas carries are more item dependent thus starting out weaker ending strongest.
HOTS could do similar dynamics by making "support" classes had access to powerful flat stat skills whereas assassins could have more % based skills that scale with level. That would be a more dynamic and flexible system than what they've got going on so far.
jaundicejuice
Member
The swings matches are taking is nuts, like you're beating on a bag of puppies and kittens imbalanced. Most of the games I've been on are completely one sided, 30-something to 2 stomps.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
I'm really digging nova.
I rally hate when people decide just after 5 mins of playing that we're loosing so they decide to stay on their line and never move from it just for the sake of making us loose more quickly.
Those people should be kicked out and be replaced by a bot or let us have a surrender button.
Those people should be kicked out and be replaced by a bot or let us have a surrender button.
You also play for fun ...
I am in the same situation as you.
Are there even any codes out there, besides the retail pack and maybe Valla codes for new accounts?
Where is it on sale for $11?
Feels like they're phasing out that ability in general from ranged DPS.
Just google for Heroes Of The Storm keys, and you will find sites like this:
http://www.allkeyshop.com/blog/buy-heroes-of-the-storm-cd-key-compare-prices/
which leads you to sites like this:
http://www.gamesdeal.com/heroes-of-...m&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=allkeyshop
I have no idea if you can trust the later site, though.
And if you are worried: the keys are not region locked. After entering them, you can decide on which region to use them.
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