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Heroes of the Storm |OT2| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Outdoor Miner
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I think I'm done with this game. I appreciate Dustin being so honest. I can't continue to support a game that Blizzard themselves don't care to. They made about $120-150 off me on HOTS so it's mission accomplished as far as they're concerned.
Some people are saying she could even be tomorrow. She's imminent, anyway.
Just Kael? Syl and Hammer are pretty far up that list too.
AnathemicOne
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I need it in my veins. Oddly enough she looks way better in HotS than in D3 model-wise haha. As a big fan of Wizard and my main in D3 she will we most definitely be the first hero I purchase with RL monehs.
kael is on another level in aram fo my money
sylv is up there w/ him but cant carry an entire game like he can
hammer consistently gets wrekked, but I feel like ppl might internalize not being allowed to idle in his red ring as a sign that he's stronger than he is
hes really strong if you really didnt get lucky w/ your comp and really weak if you did get lucky
sylv is up there w/ him but cant carry an entire game like he can
hammer consistently gets wrekked, but I feel like ppl might internalize not being allowed to idle in his red ring as a sign that he's stronger than he is
hes really strong if you really didnt get lucky w/ your comp and really weak if you did get lucky
That'd be my guess as well. It's more a product of trying to retrofit than it would be if they built from the ground up.
Still not a good excuse, but I suspect that is part of the delay. Add in denying needing bans in the first place, then deciding to put them in eventually, and sprinkle in Blizzard's glacial development process and you have enough salt and vinegar chips to last a lifetime.
Still not a good excuse, but I suspect that is part of the delay. Add in denying needing bans in the first place, then deciding to put them in eventually, and sprinkle in Blizzard's glacial development process and you have enough salt and vinegar chips to last a lifetime.
jaundicejuice
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The Starcraft II engine. I mean this whole endeavour initially probably didn't have a lot of funding, manpower or internal buy-in when it started. Using Starcraft II's engine was a cost-effective method of quickly prototyping but then the game is also held back by whatever limitations the engine may have.
It's easy to simply say this should have x instead of y but implementing x might open up a series of cascading dependencies. It's just a can of worms that opens up another and then another can of worms.
Maybe it wasn't didn't need, maybe it was just "won't be doing", but yeah, last year or in late Alpha the stance was still no bans.
They weren't about catering to the competitive side of the game til after the game was already launched, if you recall, so a lot of the stuff they are doing now runs counter to the initial design/intention.
Sort of like how they've tried to distance themselves from "easy" and "casual" with some of their hero design choices and the like, and definitely with their rhetoric.
They weren't about catering to the competitive side of the game til after the game was already launched, if you recall, so a lot of the stuff they are doing now runs counter to the initial design/intention.
Sort of like how they've tried to distance themselves from "easy" and "casual" with some of their hero design choices and the like, and definitely with their rhetoric.
AnathemicOne
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So how does ranked work in the preseason? I never played ranked at all since Alpha so yeah.
It's still the same as when it was implemented except now there's a 20 game placement.
Ranks go from 50 to 1. When you're in your placement period your rank won't show, and after those first twenty games you get placed at whatever rank range your MMR falls in all the way up to rank 5.
From there, during your next 20-30 games you'll be able to get an increased amount of points per win (via bonus points) and rank up very quickly. As you get further away from placement, the points gained decrease vastly but the amount you lose stays the same.
At a certain point, you'll probably start losing more points than you gain or at least going about 50/50, and that's when it has you where it thinks you belong.
There's no bans, and no groups larger than two in Hero League now.
Ranks go from 50 to 1. When you're in your placement period your rank won't show, and after those first twenty games you get placed at whatever rank range your MMR falls in all the way up to rank 5.
From there, during your next 20-30 games you'll be able to get an increased amount of points per win (via bonus points) and rank up very quickly. As you get further away from placement, the points gained decrease vastly but the amount you lose stays the same.
At a certain point, you'll probably start losing more points than you gain or at least going about 50/50, and that's when it has you where it thinks you belong.
There's no bans, and no groups larger than two in Hero League now.
found an article from dec 2014 that kind of talks about it
www.dailydot.com/esports/heroes-of-the-storm-ranked-play/
www.dailydot.com/esports/heroes-of-the-storm-ranked-play/
It's been so bad lately. Really not sure what they changed. Teammates are just getting worse and worse.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Remember when Liquid's Cris said they were trying to buy out 2 players but that they were way too expensive. Now which 2 players were just bought out?
http://team-dignitas.net/articles/news/Team-Dignitas/8794/athero-schwimpi-transfer-to-fnatic
The wording sounds weird I don't trust these anymore considering they said pretty much the same when they paid for Schwimpi.
http://team-dignitas.net/articles/news/Team-Dignitas/8794/athero-schwimpi-transfer-to-fnatic
The wording sounds weird I don't trust these anymore considering they said pretty much the same when they paid for Schwimpi.
Hero league or quickmatches? or is it both?
QM only. I don't play HL.
I suppose it's payback for a 13 win streak I had like months ago as Kharazim.
ogn in english
http://www.twitch.tv/ognglobal
casting feels a lot better than the other ones ive heard, but it helps knowing that doa's natural voice actually sounds like that
http://www.twitch.tv/ognglobal
casting feels a lot better than the other ones ive heard, but it helps knowing that doa's natural voice actually sounds like that
This Lunara comp from RaveHOTS makes no sense- there's not enough DPS with two tanks.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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I'm usually not like this but I'm gonna go out on a limb and bet RaveHots takes the series
3:1
I'd even go so far as to make an Avatar bet.
yeah Li-ming looks incredible. so pumped
btw, I just took a D3 Wizard to L70 too during the new season there so now I got my new mount in HoTS
i like your avatar a lot though, it's a win-win?
i hope they do a rebroadcast tomorrow, wanna see where mvpb is at
Familienoberhauptvogel
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This is the rebroadcast, hence the spoiler tag.
Oh MVP Black, now I get it.
Samurai G0SU
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Dont say that. I wanna jump in during the summer lol
Fine Ham Abounds
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Well, cleanse change making it OP for your friends and worthless for you basically means Uther has to save shield and hammer for himself. Final nail in the coffin for me, he's just not fun for me anymore. What do I pick now, range on Q over Globes and heals on basic attack? Nah.
So now I'm left with Rehgar who no one likes but me and Tassadar who I havent won a game with since the last time the Braves went to the Series.
Bring on the new heroes, there's like 5 characters left I enjoy in QM.
So now I'm left with Rehgar who no one likes but me and Tassadar who I havent won a game with since the last time the Braves went to the Series.
Bring on the new heroes, there's like 5 characters left I enjoy in QM.
AnathemicOne
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Everyone loves Abathur in QM
Samurai G0SU
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But im pretty sure he is always afk.
i like him too! Going to spend more time playing him and brightwing
Orochinagis
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I dont really like her voice, but her abilities looks amazing outside her second heroic. Also she is a full arcane mage filling the mage elemental slots.
Outside the Fel magic which is for Warlocks
Would mean a balance patch too. Makes sense w/ her an Space Lord in the poster together.
At a minimum, we get PTR.
Correctarino.
That quote looks like exactly what we said, though.
The small balance updates come separate.
If it's a real honest to god mega patch with balance plus heroes I'd be surprised considering there were a decent amount of changes in the recent small one already.
Then again not much they've done lately makes a whole lot of sense.
The small balance updates come separate.
If it's a real honest to god mega patch with balance plus heroes I'd be surprised considering there were a decent amount of changes in the recent small one already.
Then again not much they've done lately makes a whole lot of sense.
It's not. Balance updates with major patches are still happening. (see: final paragraph)
The mini-updates are for small knob-turns they're pretty sure don't bust anything up.
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