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Heroes of the Storm |OT2| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

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scoobs

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When the enemy team first picks Illidan, then proceeds to pick Butcher right after. Lili don't fuck around.
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Maledict

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why auriel rez sucks so much, it's no Mercy that's for sure...

Ancestral Healing is the real rez, not this shit.

Ressurect is okay in certai match ups (noticeably quick match), but don't underestimate crystal aegis. It's a lot harder to use, but as a means of preventing damage it's very powerful (rather than what most players do, which is use it when someone is at 10% life and they die straight after)
 

scoobs

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You see your carry dove too far in you just aegis his ass and the enemy team that was about to jump on him is suddenly out of position with nobody to attack.
 

Alavard

Member
Was feeling really good on Gul'dan last night. Man, he is so much better than on release. He especially felt good on Braxis, where enemies tended to clump up more and I could sustain around the capture points for ages.
 

scoobs

Member
You know what I love about this game? Every week I fall back in love with an older hero that I haven't touched in months and it's so fun to rediscover them and try different builds.
 

Alavard

Member
You know what I love about this game? Every week I fall back in love with an older hero that I haven't touched in months and it's so fun to rediscover them and try different builds.

That's going to happen more for me once we get the new progression system. I know it's dumb, but I often shelve heroes I've gotten to 9+ in favor of ones I haven't leveled up as much yet (I don't do that in HL/TL, mind you, I always try to draft the best I can). So I've got a bunch of heroes I haven't touched much in quite a while that I'd like to go back to.
 
You know what I love about this game? Every week I fall back in love with an older hero that I haven't touched in months and it's so fun to rediscover them and try different builds.

That totally happened to me with Kerrigan last night! I had been on a long run of specialists and supports, but then got an assassin quest so I was all "let's bring Kerrigan back out for a go" since I was a bit burned out on Alarak and the like.

And holy cow is she fun. Nailing the baseline Kerrigan ***** + the ravage followup if they survive and try to run away is highly entertaining. I'm sure i'll get bored with her again soon, but it was a breath of fresh air.
 

Ketch

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quick match with vikings is pretty interesting with weird team comps and bad vikings map. My micro is not as bad as I thought it would be after not playing them for awhile. I wish that the hero had better talent choices though, too much of his stuff is focused around just buffing specific vikings wish they would have other alternatives to bribe, spin, jump. lvl 4 and 16 are so bad for him.

Also I wish longboat wasn't trash. they could get rid of the stun on it now.... or remove the requirement for all three vikings to be in the same place. Just give me a 1 or two viking boat if i want it. It would make him a lot better on maps like braxis or battlefield
 
Can anyone help here?

I am having an issue where key presses in game are not recognized for some reason. I have to spam an ability for it to go off and this usually ends up in death.

Even pressing ESC on the main menu to bring up options only works like 25% of the time.

Any idea what could be causing this? it doesnt happen in any other game.
 
Yeah I had a bit of a google but could only find stuff from a year or more ago and none of it was resolved haha

EDIT: OK seem to have fixed it, it was Geforce Experience. Never had it cause issues like that before with a game but completely disabling it has fixed all my problems.
 

brian!

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You can press ctrl alt f in the game for more metrics, i find that a lot of the issues in the game are network related, the engine has a hard time dealing with stuff like that. Also try running it w/ dx9 instead i guess (can choose via settings in the launcher), sometimes that solves ppls problems

Oh nm you fixed it, ez
 

Brakke

Banned
Couldn't find a game last night, waited in unranked queue for five minutes, figured something was wrong, requequed to QM for another five, gave up. General chat was hollering about putting together teams for AI stomps, I guess to get the quest?

What a lame damn quest. 30 games??
 
haha cheers, yeah I have had issues before with the game taking huge FPS dips, so I had been round in circles looking a the stats and menus, alas it was Nvidia ruining it this time so I won't blame Blizz!
 
It's hard for some people

This guy was being a dick, and I pretty much said 'Fine if you're going to be a dick, then I'll just do my own thing until you apologize' and they just couldn't apologize looool.

So bad. People need to learn that pissing off the tank and then not apologizing for being a dick will *never* work out for them.
 
I am actually surprised to get too many new heroes for free on this event. I mean I was expecting something crappy as a mistery reward to get one of those heroes mentioned on the 30 wins reward but no, I got the Auriel, the only one I wanted plus the Arcanist and the other guys I dont care and a stimpack for 28 days. Without counting Zarya, two portaits , a genji skin for OV on console or PC.
 

Dice

Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
Got Tyrande to level 9.

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But now I have 3rd armored horse shade that perfectly matches her 2nd shade.

Also think I'll pick up Johanna since I'm at 11,780g and especially with the stimpak there will be no worries about having enough when Ragnaros drops to 10k. BTW didn't Arthas used to be 4k at some point?
 
I am actually surprised to get too many new heroes for free on this event. I mean I was expecting something crappy as a mistery reward to get one of those heroes mentioned on the 30 wins reward but no, I got the Auriel, the only one I wanted plus the Arcanist and the other guys I dont care and a stimpack for 28 days. Without counting Zarya, two portaits , a genji skin for OV on console or PC.

The game reaches 5 minute queue time for QUICK MATCH. 2/3 games have no supports, mostly assassins/warriors/specialists running around.

HotS MUST stay at the current playerbase or else it is going to spiral towards abandonment. Blizzard knows this, they want to offer huge initiatives to sustain the playerbase.
 

Ketch

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Does the boat really require 3 Vikings? I swear I've seen 1-2 hop in before.


Yea you can do one or two as long as the other ones are dead, so the functionality is already there, just make it to be all in range instead of all alive and in range.
 

Pooya

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This brawl feels like it favors defense in a big way, it's too easy to fire the cannons.

Since it's just one round takes like 3 min, if you have stimpack you can get rich if you feel like it, unless there is some kind of cap I'm not aware.
 

Alur

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The game reaches 5 minute queue time for QUICK MATCH. 2/3 games have no supports, mostly assassins/warriors/specialists running around.

HotS MUST stay at the current playerbase or else it is going to spiral towards abandonment. Blizzard knows this, they want to offer huge initiatives to sustain the playerbase.

LOL okay
 

scoobs

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The game reaches 5 minute queue time for QUICK MATCH. 2/3 games have no supports, mostly assassins/warriors/specialists running around.

HotS MUST stay at the current playerbase or else it is going to spiral towards abandonment. Blizzard knows this, they want to offer huge initiatives to sustain the playerbase.

Blizzard wants more people playing their games, news at 11.
 

Dice

Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
This event makes people leave forts standing to get the wins faster instead of maximizing XP. :(
 
All the Diablo series characters I've tried so far have been really fun (Azmodan, Diablo, Auriel) or at the very least alright (Nazeebo).
All the WoW characters I tried were awful to play as.

._.
 

brian!

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ok i wikied monks talents this is prob what id go most of the time

iron fists
heal (so crazy that he can ward hop now)
blinding speed
sss
e duration
hundred fists
more sss

which coincidentally is the build i went w/ the one game i played
dont forget to harass by charging up ur passive and proccing it w/ ur q
 

scoobs

Member
Happy to hear people are enjoying the new Kharazim. I wonder if solo support Kharazim is even MORE of a thing of the past now? Is he just a secondary support/bruiser?
 

brian!

Member
from looking at the talents on the wiki there doesnt seem to be any reason to run him as your solo support if you're try harding but he'd probably do fine tbh, still stronger w/ a melee heavy team and i guess he can peel for the backline a bit now too
 

Alur

Member
If you're solo supporting him he isn't a whole ton different IMO. It's when he can step off of that spot and flex that you can deploy the new talents and not potentially hurt your team.
 

Ketch

Member
ok i wikied monks talents this is prob what id go most of the time

iron fists
heal (so crazy that he can ward hop now)
blinding speed
sss
e duration
hundred fists
more sss

which coincidentally is the build i went w/ the one game i played
dont forget to harass by charging up ur passive and proccing it w/ ur q


Healing ward is trash, earth or air imo.

Also epiphany at 20 is legit.
 

brian!

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oh i didnt see that the diff monk statues had different cds, yeah I dunno then
healing ward is nice to have just cause it helps push you over for the ward hop escape, but I only really used it for hopping so id prob consider the other ones too
i mainly picked it out of guilt for going all dmg, but fuk it

oh wait you can get 2 charges of the vision one, that's insane, earth/air def seem superior on paper right now to me
 

Ketch

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oh i didnt see that the diff monk statues had different cds, yeah I dunno then
healing ward is nice to have just cause it helps push you over for the ward hop escape, but I only really used it for hopping so id prob consider the other ones too
i mainly picked it out of guilt for going all dmg, but fuk it

oh wait you can get 2 charges of the vision one, that's insane, earth/air def seem superior on paper right now to me


Yea air is the best if you don't care about supporting at all, earth is very strong though really hard to kill in the middle of a fight and permanent block for all inside. Really good against hard engage/back line dive/and Samuro in general.
 
Something I still don't understand with Glaurung is how his pool in competitive has been historically low when he's playing more than 3 heroes on stream regularly. He's been playing nothing but Dehaka and Alarak lately. I know he has no confidence in his Thrall but it's hard to imagine he held his comp pool low for lack of confidence.
 

Zackat

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So when I am switching color palletes in quick match screen it crashes my game sometimes. Does this happen to anyone else? This is just with this new patch, haven't had a problem with this game in months.
 
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