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Heroes of the Storm |OT2| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Someone else can do it better, but a few things:
New hero each month, of course. Ragnaros, Varian, Samuro, Zarya, Alarak, Auriel, Medivh, Gul'dan are the ones since May.
Two new maps that are Starcraft related (Braxxis Holdout and Warhead Junction).
Brawl mode is in, which is basically a reworked version of the Arena mode we saw at 2015 Blizzcon.
Hero League/Team League have seasons, now. We're in season 3. Team League is the spot you go to for playing in groups now (even 2/3 mans). Hero League has just been changed to solo queue only.
Mount speed was reduced in order to make rotations/etc more meaningful. Global abilities (Falstad's flight) also just recently got nerfed to compensate for that.
Awesome, thanks.
Happy to hear about more Starcraft maps, and all them heroes. Reduced mount speed doesn't bring it anywhere close to LoL levels of speed on rotations I hope?
Nope not at all, people didn't even notice in the floor builds till the stream pointed it out.
whew good
Familienoberhauptvogel
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Alur works like clockwork just like when someone insults glau and I'm around.
What do you mean?
Familienoberhauptvogel
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He immediately reacts to shit talking with shittalking even when he's not the subject of it.
So which of the new heroes are the ones to get right now, apart from Zarya and Auriel because Imma knock out a bunch of AI games with a friend to get those. Samuro seems pretty appealing to me on paper since I like mobile assassins but I read he was nerfed recently?
Oh and what's the likelihood that there will be a sale in the near future cause I got a bunch of money on my account and I'm definitely not spending it on Overwatch boxes.
Oh and what's the likelihood that there will be a sale in the near future cause I got a bunch of money on my account and I'm definitely not spending it on Overwatch boxes.
thekillermuffin
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I've only done 4 placement matches so far in it, but I'm loving the switch to solo HL queue. I don't feel like I'm at a disadvantage by solo queuing, and TL is now more flexible with friends.
Dice
Pokémon Parentage Conspiracy Theorist
tfw they think they're getting away with a sliver of health but then the meteor drops on their head
When the one being is reasonable is yoshichan you know something is up.
That backhanded compliment to Yoshichan. So cold.
EDIT: have to say it's been a while since the heroes I like to play/am good at and/or our group was good at were strong and we won so much.
We won 60%+ or so during Zarya's release but it wasn't quite the same. High winrate with Sammy too. Having the variety of options is nice.
I've now played 10ish games as not Rag to go with about 20 games as Rag. He's no doubt OP but he hasn't felt oppressive against me excepting when he's in defense mode. In regular fights I feel he's ok.
And again I will state from experience, the hammer ult is legit. Milly had some nice success with it and I've had it used against my team devastatingly. If they hit wave too hard he's still gonna be good.
EDIT: have to say it's been a while since the heroes I like to play/am good at and/or our group was good at were strong and we won so much.
We won 60%+ or so during Zarya's release but it wasn't quite the same. High winrate with Sammy too. Having the variety of options is nice.
I've now played 10ish games as not Rag to go with about 20 games as Rag. He's no doubt OP but he hasn't felt oppressive against me excepting when he's in defense mode. In regular fights I feel he's ok.
And again I will state from experience, the hammer ult is legit. Milly had some nice success with it and I've had it used against my team devastatingly. If they hit wave too hard he's still gonna be good.
BreezyLimbo
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scoobs
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I just got the "Scrapper" award post-game. I did 60% of my team's "teamfight damage."
I've never seen it before, because no team exists that is more incompetent than the one KillerMuffin & I were on.
Holy shit we had a Zarya do 20,000 hero damage in a 31 minute game. Dude was just walking between lanes clearing waves... as Zarya.
I've never seen it before, because no team exists that is more incompetent than the one KillerMuffin & I were on.
Holy shit we had a Zarya do 20,000 hero damage in a 31 minute game. Dude was just walking between lanes clearing waves... as Zarya.
thekillermuffin
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My favorite was our Li-Ming that acted like she was a melee assassin. Little ol' me is just trying to learn Ragnaros and we get paired up with those peeps.
BreezyLimbo
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his molten core damage isn't even that great
scoobs
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Oh laaaaawd, I know you love him but come on now... can you at least admit Heroic Difficulty is absolutely absurd
BreezyLimbo
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scoobs
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Oh my gosh please try heroic difficulty. Play like 5 games with it and come back and let's discuss which is better.
BreezyLimbo
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Lava wave.
scoobs
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Worth noting that Heroic Difficulty increases the damage of ALL of his abilities by 50% (including Lava Wave), Molten Core cooldown is 50% shorter, and it lasts 50% longer. I'll let you ponder the possibilities here... perhaps give it a try. The value you get out of this talent is just nuts... the biggest power spike in the entire game by a country mile
BreezyLimbo
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Counter point: Two lava waves
I think scoobs is right on Molten Core. It's insanely strong and that's the biggest issue most Ragnaros' I see have, and I'm guilty of it too - being too precious with it and holding on to it. Should really abuse the hell out of it.
Part of the reason you were killing the other so hard damage wise yesterday was because you kept using yours, Milly. The damage piles on pretty strong, and he's better (and safer) dealing damage from there than he is in the middle of the fight. I don't think his in fight damage is all that great sans when they let you get potshots with Q because your other main damage is a 12 second CD.
With that said, re: level 20, I'm still in the two Lava Waves camp. You can defend forever with two of them plus Molten Core. And you can also push hard af with two of them. Heroic Difficulty has a higher winrate in QM at Master/Diamond, and Lava Surge has the higher winrate in HL and TL at Master/Diamond.
Part of the reason you were killing the other so hard damage wise yesterday was because you kept using yours, Milly. The damage piles on pretty strong, and he's better (and safer) dealing damage from there than he is in the middle of the fight. I don't think his in fight damage is all that great sans when they let you get potshots with Q because your other main damage is a 12 second CD.
With that said, re: level 20, I'm still in the two Lava Waves camp. You can defend forever with two of them plus Molten Core. And you can also push hard af with two of them. Heroic Difficulty has a higher winrate in QM at Master/Diamond, and Lava Surge has the higher winrate in HL and TL at Master/Diamond.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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seriously fuck this brawl. Ragnaros trait is so stupid on mines, 3 golems in our favour in a row couldn't get down a keep and they had 2 ragnaros to constantly push the map in their favour.
I never felt like it actually did anything though. Out of all the times I can't recall me actually securing a kill with it unless I was pushing lava wave down the lane too. The biggest issue I saw was since there was a healer on each side it was pretty easy to heal up from the damage. It's not a ton of burst, at least not the W. the E for sure but it has a delay on it.
It did a ton of damage.
You can't secure kills with it most of the time because no one is just gonna walk in a straight line for you to kill them, but you are chunking them and almost constantly hitting someone because of how low the CD's are.
I think you're seriously underrating how much of your damage comes from that. It's pretty hard to use just Q and a 12 second W and a shitty E and put up 100k damage. You got some high value Lava Waves, for sure, but not enough to add up to the damage you had in a few of those games like the Sky Temple one, for example.
You can't secure kills with it most of the time because no one is just gonna walk in a straight line for you to kill them, but you are chunking them and almost constantly hitting someone because of how low the CD's are.
I think you're seriously underrating how much of your damage comes from that. It's pretty hard to use just Q and a 12 second W and a shitty E and put up 100k damage. You got some high value Lava Waves, for sure, but not enough to add up to the damage you had in a few of those games like the Sky Temple one, for example.
Well I can say I wouldn't care if they touched that part of him. It's fun, but it doesn't last long enough for me to be up in arms about it.
And we'll have to test this 100k theory. I'm aggro as fuck on him with Q build because you have to.
I need to toy around with E build as well. Some swear by it. I'd have to rank it Q, W, E right now. I also think he has some diverse ways of building into multiple specs as well. That may be the way to actually go.
And we'll have to test this 100k theory. I'm aggro as fuck on him with Q build because you have to.
I need to toy around with E build as well. Some swear by it. I'd have to rank it Q, W, E right now. I also think he has some diverse ways of building into multiple specs as well. That may be the way to actually go.
BreezyLimbo
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Counterpoint: by fire be purged
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