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I don't understand why you guys don't just play hero league? Almost every game there is close. Are you just trying to get better with a character?
Tass is a "healer".
I wept and wowed never to take QM seriously again.
I don't understand why you guys don't just play hero league? Almost every game there is close. Are you just trying to get better with a character?
I don't understand why you guys don't just play hero league? Almost every game there is close. Are you just trying to get better with a character?
What I wish they would add is a group finder like wow for QM. Que to fill a role, tank healer dps, and then it builds the right team comp for you. Tanks and healers will have shorter ques and dps have to wait like forever. But at least you'd get to play what you want and still get a good team comp.
Otherwise simply accept that the consequence of picking whatever hero you want to play as and queuing by yourself is going to be some nutty team compositions every now and then. Or playing with an asshole. Or playing with people that don't gel well and instantly cooperate.
What I wish they would add is a group finder like wow for QM. Que to fill a role, tank healer dps, and then it builds the right team comp for you. Tanks and healers will have shorter ques and dps have to wait like forever. But at least you'd get to play what you want and still get a good team comp.
If you want good team compositions then play HL.
Quick Match needs to be quick. I don't want to wait 20 min+ just because I want to dps.
So far no one has really run into the issue, since once they start getting saturated, they just slow down.Oh absolutely, I was just wondering when/if the roster gets big enough and their really isn't much new that can be added what would happen.
Thanks for your answers.
I don't understand why you guys don't just play hero league? Almost every game there is close. Are you just trying to get better with a character?
Ketch said:What I wish they would add is a group finder like wow for QM. Que to fill a role, tank healer dps, and then it builds the right team comp for you. Tanks and healers will have shorter ques and dps have to wait like forever. But at least you'd get to play what you want and still get a good team comp.
Alur said:I'd love to see this too. I'd also like to see them give the bonus gold or whatever to tanks or support or specialist or whatever is needed at that time to make well rounded groups.
Alur said:You're thing about a one minute draft session where people have to pick heroes - even if they pick a comp with no support or no warrior or what have you - is probably about the only way to solve the issue on a mass scale from my POV. Then the blame is entirely out of Blizzard's hands. It could lead to more toxicity and gg's before the gate opens, though, who knows. I'd still love to see it. Drafting is one of the funnest parts of the game.
I've seen some hammer players that are big believers of the stealth talent once the patch hits. The shorter cooldown on siege mode means you can get the stealth burst a lot easier. Sounds promising, I'll definitely try it out when it goes live. I've always liked sgt hammer. I don't think that the hover siege is all that great though. Graduated range is too good.So is Stealth Hams a new thing? I just played a match where Hams took that level 1 stealth talent and combined it with mobile siege later and had the weirdest play style. Creeping around while invis and then trying to burst/gank players. Stealth Hams hunted their Aba like she was a Nova or Zeratul. So weird, kinda funny, weirdly effective.
So is Stealth Hams a new thing? I just played a match where Hams took that level 1 stealth talent and combined it with mobile siege later and had the weirdest play style. Creeping around while invis and then trying to burst/gank players. Stealth Hams hunted their Aba like she was a Nova or Zeratul. So weird, kinda funny, weirdly effective.
I don't understand why you guys don't just play hero league? Almost every game there is close. Are you just trying to get better with a character?
Are you uploading to HOTSLOGS? If so, could you email-hide your profile on here? If you can't even escape the problem at rank 1, they need to be roasted for it.Another hero league game, another match up where the enemy team is comprised of ranks 1's and 2's and my team has a rank 43 and a rank 35.
Unless placement matches are purely locked to only people in placement matches the changes they are making will make absolutely no difference to the quality of games. There needs to be a much harder differentiation between different ranks, and the number of games played absolutely needs to be taken into account for hero league. Someone with 1000 games played at 3100 MMR is a very different player to someone with 20 games played at that MMR.
It would be about the same as Dota 2 solo queue All-Pick, which is pretty much the same experience as solo queue Quick Match in HotS. Kinda all over the place. I don't know what the equivalent of 5th pick offlane Sniper would be in HotS but that's the kind of thing you'd see.
Unless people on placement matches are segregated into only playing with other people on placement matches these changes won't fix a thing.
Blizzard said:This initial placement may be slightly more conservative to ensure we don’t overshoot your rank and create a poor experience.
It is frustrating. One of our group whose currently at rank 12 has been trying out a smurf account as a test, and it's *ridiculous* how much of a difference that makes. The fact is if you screw up your first few games in hero league, like most of us did when it was new, it's exceptionally harder to get to the high ranks.
It is frustrating. One of our group whose currently at rank 12 has been trying out a smurf account as a test, and it's *ridiculous* how much of a difference that makes. The fact is if you screw up your first few games in hero league, like most of us did when it was new, it's exceptionally harder to get to the high ranks.
I dunno I played random and still do and rank 1 was pretty easy. I've lost hundreds of games due to being unfamiliar with gimmicky heroes (I own them all!)
They already have the random hero selection which is supposed to pick the best role of hero that match-making needs. If they could re-brand it, better communicate its function or just add a +10 or +20 Gold to that icon to get people to use that feature more it might work.
It would be about the same as Dota 2 solo queue All-Pick, which is pretty much the same experience as solo queue Quick Match in HotS. Kinda all over the place. I don't know what the equivalent of 5th pick offlane Sniper would be in HotS but that's the kind of thing you'd see.
Sounds like HL isn't my cup of tea when I want to be the butcher or slyvanas.
Sounds like HL isn't my cup of tea when I want to be the butcher or slyvanas.
At least Murky's actually good.those are both good picks for HL. a bad pick for HL would be like first pick murky. or stitches or thrall or gazlowe...
There is the implication in this line...
"This initial placement may be slightly more conservative to ensure we don’t overshoot your rank and create a poor experience."
...that you will now be matched by ranks because it's basically guaranteeing your MMR is in that window.
Why do you reckon Azmodan & Zeratul is a good combo btw? Are you using zeratul to help clear the waves to stack Azmo?
What happens when Illidan is using The Hunt on an E.T.C. that is using Mosh Pit?
While Illidan get stunned while flying in, or will he hit E.T.C. adn end the Mosh Pit?
Could it depend on timing, i.e.: if Illidan flies in between 2 Mosh Pit cycles?
I ask, because I like using the Hunt to cancel big spells of enemies.
The game keeps resetting my mount to the regular horse.
That's annoying. :/
Looking forward to join up with you guys again. Do we still have a working mumble server? (I lost the info)
imo they should free character week the guys who gets the biggest changes that particular patch
like sgt. hammer