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Heroes of the Storm |OT| Pretty sure that Abathur is AFK

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Alur

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That was pretty much confirmed at Blizzcon. IIRC the date was on his hero page. It was also in the datamined data, and they released the first of the two videos yesterday.

Game is down for a patch right now so it's a pretty sure bet.
 
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Sothis Krieg

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To unlock Cho'gall you have to win 2 games partied with a guy who owns it, right ? Hopefully a losing streak occurs at the same time. Many keyboards will break.
 
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Alur

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This was a hilarious play on Glaurung's stream last night:

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This was Glaurung's face during that play (which may be even more hilarious):

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And to complete the GAF circle of Glaurung:

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Enjoy.

Also for anyone interested, here are the VODs of C9's first series in the Gold Series League in China.
 
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brian!

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kirblar said:
The big issue is the forts and keeps. They are way too squishy.
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I feel like if maximizing soak doesnt garner the same advantage, the only other good option after a pick is to siege (which is why i think sylv might be gotlike this patch), and would mean lots more deathball pre-10. If the buildings are super squish you might not need sylv tho, no one really sieged after early kills in my ptr games, hard to tell

Aw i like haunted mines, wanted to try the death timer difference on this map
 
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Alur

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*movie trailer voice*

This December Haunted Mines returns to a PC near you with MORE snow(balling), festive forts, the abominable snow golem, and introducing a new feature: your team never gets the Sylvanas.

All that and more coming to the Nexus. December 2015.
 
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Fine Ham Abounds

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So one of the four maps I have a nearly 60% winrate on gets removed, effective nerf to my winrate

Why couldn't it have been Dragon Shire or Garden

Oh well, I shouldn't bitch, at least my GOAT Booty Bay lives

Looking forward to more chances to keep my 30% winrate on Battlefield consistently shit

I'm thinking maybe I should play nothing but Abathur for the next couple of weeks until structures get buffed, maybe it'll get me out of this 1900 MMR hole
 
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kirblar

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brian! said:
I feel like if maximizing soak doesnt garner the same advantage, the only other good option after a pick is to siege (which is why i think sylv might be gotlike this patch), and would mean lots more deathball pre-10. If the buildings are super squish you might not need sylv tho, no one really sieged after early kills in my ptr games, hard to tell

Aw i like haunted mines, wanted to try the death timer difference on this map
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This is the issue. Butcher takes 10 swings to kill a tower. Previously, it took 20. Siege heroes appear to have just gotten to "what's the point?" status re: PvE stuffs.
 
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Ketch

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Are those Chinese vods fucked up for anyone else? Or just me?


Any possibility that those minion/siege hp values are only specific to the new map? Where did those numbers come from if not ptr?

It would make sense on that map and they've done map specific changes like that before with minion Xp.



Edit: they know HM sucks and that no one likes it but still they only temporarily remove it.
 
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Nirolak

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Developer Comments: We’ll be adding Towers of Doom to the map pool in an upcoming patch. This will expand the size of our map pool to 10 total Battlegrounds. To prevent the number of maps we have available to players in Quick Match and Hero League from being overbearing, we’ve decided to temporarily rotate out Haunted Mines. We feel the number of maps we have available are reaching a threshold that we may not be comfortable with.
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So I imagine that rotations will be in after another map or so.
 
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Ketch

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Yea that's the thing they could limit it to a perfectly reasonable map pool. Still have a bunch for rotations and still never have to force haunted mines on people.
 
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Alur

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Guess it was just temporary and kind of a trial basis.

Like Nirolak said, sounds like it could be coming as a real feature in the future, though. It needs to be.
 
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kirblar

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Ketch said:
Oh shit is that the actual quote. It's not "forever" but I'll take it.


Also I'm pretty sure these Chinese vods are giving my pc a virus
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It is. Essentially "until we make an attempt to fix it, if we ever do."

If it worked like BOE w an open air gy it might work.
 
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brian!

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kirblar said:
This is the issue. Butcher takes 10 swings to kill a tower. Previously, it took 20. Siege heroes appear to have just gotten to "what's the point?" status re: PvE stuffs.
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Id kind of enjoy it if this is the case, a lot of this game favors the ppl ahead in a flow charty way, but they could hardly snowball it until post-10, hopefully this increases map snowball oppurtunities and still allows the team thats behind to fight back
 
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Milly79

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I'm not certain it's not a bug, so I wouldn't but too much stock into it. He's also on sale and people are speculating that they may be testing out gold reductions alongside the weekly sale.
 
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kirblar

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Milly79 said:
I'm not certain it's not a bug, so I wouldn't but too much stock into it. He's also on sale and people are speculating that they may be testing out gold reductions alongside the weekly sale.
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That'd be pretty insane- you can easily F2P it 100%% with that in place.
 
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Maledict

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Kirblar the Glaurang intensifies GIF is amazing, well done - it's perfect!

Also, how old is he? He looks incredibly young in that GIF.
 
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