What's the hold up, I wonder?
What's the hold up, I wonder?
Hello i'm biggie I have decided to part ways with Team Blaze. I love this team and I believe every one of the members on the team is extremely talented. I really enjoyed the short time that I was with the team taking 2nd place in ETS. I've never had so much fun playing on any team in my competitive career, but due to my personal reasons that I wish to not talk about I will be going my separate ways with the team and wish them all the best of luck! I really hope they find a great replacement for me<3
He added that playing for Naventic had in some ways held him back from dedicating himself more fully to the game. “I’d like to fully commit myself to making NA a better region over all," he said. "I didn't feel like my team was dedicated enough going forward."
One example he offered of the team's lack of commitment was that Stafford "McIntyre" McIntyre went on vacation in the lead up to the Spring Global Championship in Seoul. Erho said that decision left the team "with poor performance at the event" and "led to breakdowns in communication both in game and out of game."
“I was approached and have talked to several organizations within NA. I will be playing for a top team in the upcoming Summer Regionals. You will see me soon."
What's the hold up, I wonder?
bige fits nvt much better than erho imo just personality-wise
LOL
KT getting dunked on by Gaz
I am surprised by how low Butcher is, silence on Lamb is really strong.
How is Li Ming considered balanced
If a mediocre or bad player picks her, its balanced because than she is squishy as fuck. They made her mana pool drain and not regen anywhere near as much at launch. love the character, one of my favorites. I hope they don't rebuild her or nerf her further. I recently have taken to Greymane and have had a lot of success. Just bought Xul and he is definitely my favorite specialist.
Well you don't balance heroes around mediocre and bad players. Or at least you shouldn't. Her burst is too high, and the range on her laser ult could be brought down a bit. Her range in general is absurd, and makes her playstyle too safe. She should have to risk something for all of the damage she is capable of doing, and yet she is given the longest range, and a low cooldown teleport. Something has got to give.
Dam he just put himself out there, much respect
They're not as good as they used to be, but Nova Zeratul on the same team is actually the least fun I've ever had in a video game in my entire life. Both on my team, and against them. No fun is had for anyone.
Well i assume the kenma/erho pact is because the community shits on them nonstop more kenma tho
Big e is pretty good friends w/ zuna and the score article makes it seem as if zuna/kenma would have voted to kick if it came down to it, but fan/mac were the saltier ones at the time. Erho shitting on mac in-game is pretty unforgiveable, that's pretty clear
Dunno how it'll turn out, i think zuna can be a really great warrior player if he puts work in, i dunno how much big e was involved in blaze theorycrafting and stuff but he seems outspoken and open-minded so all in all it should be a net positive. Playing w/ zuna warrior vs. erho warrior feels like a pretty big difference though
Ketch and I played through what were arguably some of the worst games I've seen since Open Beta last night. Check this particular one out:
Lili and Nova were named ToxicSTD and BigBadSTD respectively. Should've known going in, yeah?
Anyway, after getting no heals for 4 or 5 straight matches, I queue as heals and we immediately get double heals on our team. Our laning phase is not great, but it seems like we'll manage...and then the first chests spawn.
Lili and Nova spent virtually the entire game after that standing at turn in. It was exactly like what someone was describing a few weeks back on Blackheart's Bay. Ketch asked them nicely three times to go soak lanes or at least do something productive, but they just kept pinging turn in...meanwhile the opposition didn't even have enough coins to get a full turn in any of those times. Li-Ming goes to their pings and all three die (repeatedly) before level 10 and give the enemy two turn-ins by losing the few coins we could scrape from the chests because those were the only two spots on the map the three of them recognized as sovereign territory.
Ketch was stuck solo laning bottom and pinged for help several times (he was getting caved in by gank attempts and mercs), but they wouldn't help. I, as you can see by my EXP total, was soaking both mid and top by myself as a healer just to keep us caught up and get to 10. We make it to 10, win a teamfight, and we are actually even leveled and then...
In the middle of a team fight, Nova tries to open up on Butcher for reasons unknown to man, god, or the aliens. She manages to sneak away but I'm guessing she got clipped by a spell or AOE or something. This culminates in Butcher charging her and his whole team showing up and destroying her in about .213 seconds. While dead, she says "HOW DID BUTCHER SEE ME I WAS STEALTHED?" I try to explain to her how, and she dismisses it. She says she knows what she's talking about, and that I'm wrong. She then says "Which one of us has the master skin here? So who would know?" I couldn't help myself, I had to go lowbrow too and said "Which one of us is rank 1 here?" Thankfully that shut them up for the rest of the game, surprisingly, but we still had to suffer through 5 more minutes of the Night's Watch on the turn in before the enemy team wiped us enough and turned in enough to win.
I haven't seen stubbornness and play that shortsighted in a long time. I didn't check the MMRs but I feel like we had to be playing with a very mixed comp of MMRs for that to happen.
The reddit thread on Soaking XP perfectly sums up my grievances at my MMR. Especially the part about fighting over nothing.
Often enough I'd go back to laning after losing an objective only to be alerted by the sound effect of my people dying. Then I'd look at the area of the lost objective and see them fighting over literally nothing. Same if we're late to an objective. Instead of returning to laning they'd rather fight and lose over an already lost objective.
https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/4dq9sj/dont_forget_to_soak/
Thread in question.
And then they blame you cause you went soaking instead of dying with them
Speaking of map issues, the new reworked Terror on Garden feels all kinds of useless. Not been a big fan of it. The run-and-gun playstyle kind of evolved because the thing was so easy to burst down, and now that it can't really run around (or shouldn't) it just feels like a shittier Dragon Knight.
Just realized on the latest patch, they nerfed my random portrait on the load screen... uhg now I have to spend the loading time planning on what I'm going to do with the character I got, and no one else can see how cool I am by hitting random instead of choosing a hero.