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[brian!]

Yeah i agree with that post w/r/t theme + his kit will always have a sense of oppressiveness to it due to it having to be the best single target heal, but im more in the famalie camp, like the idea that these are blizzard heroes is something that gets lost in translation to me pretty often

I do think kerrigan is a worse offender when thinking about theme though

I like the idea of assigning the kit to a sentry unit and making a new more appropriate tass but i mean i know this is very low on blizz's agenda lol

 

[Syf]

Yeah Kerrigan is pretty off too

 

[Alur]

The most jarring one for me, though I did enjoy him at release (which was more due to how OP he was than anything), is Xul versus what I expected the necromancer to be.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Artanis is banned in open division, since it's handled by gosugamers doesn't necessarily mean it's banned for regular.
For those unaware you can keep your position from a Q+E with a well timed W

 

[Milly79]

Brian you say wrt an awful lot and I gave to look it up every single time.

 

[brian!]

With regard to
Holdover from writing academic papers

 

[Alur]

r/u/a academia or r/u/a dropout

 

[Syf]

Brian had a phd all along

 

[Alur]

He is often philosophizing. I wouldn't be surprised if he was a professor just starting out at a small college or local community college and he posts on GAF in the HOTS thread to take his mind off faculty drama.

Spoiler

we just made a backstory for brian! boyz welcome to fanfic {OT1}

 

[Milly79]

r/u/a academia or r/u/a dropout

Hahaha

 

[brian!]

Im a former academia

 

[Maledict]

Artanis is banned in open division, since it's handled by gosugamers doesn't necessarily mean it's banned for regular.
For those unaware you can keep your position from a Q+E with a well timed W

Hmm, that's a big thing actually. Artanis is wrecking faces in normal play right now and not seeing how the pro's are drafting him and around him will be really sad.

 

[brian!]

Itd be weird if they let him through tmrw with that bug around
He's weak to rag, zera, tychoos, interrupts like etc/muradin/dibbles/bw, i see him as less something you have to counter and more of a pls have situational awareness character

 

[Alur]

Same. I have been winning a ton with him but feel it's main because there's 1 or 2 on every QM/Unranked/TL team that you can just pick on over and over with Q and E.

 

[brian!]

Don't get me wrong though he's strong as hell

 

[Milly79]

He's broke

 

[Maledict]

I don't think he's broke, and love the changes they made. I think he needs a very slight nerf to his damage and that's it - he's too strong at actually killing the person he has flipped I feel, and in general.

 

[brian!]

Yeah if he were to get nerfed that's the most reasonable thing imo

 

[Prelude.]

So, yeah, Nova or not, QM can be miserable regardless, it doesn't change that much. I'm currently 2-3 with her.

This last match was against a 5 stack (clearly on comms), all solo on our team, and they had 2 supports, we had 1. What the hell. I thought the thing with the mm was that even if you had one "bad" healer like Tyrande, the mm could put you against, say, a Morales, because she's a support, to balance the comp. But 2 vs 1?

Nova, Diablo, Malfurion, Raynor, Lunara vs Uther, Tyrael, Jaina, Gazlowe, Tyrande.

 

[Alur]

It only makes sure both teams have a healer or both teams have a tank or both teams have a specialist, etc.

If a group is in there long enough it can shed even those rules, however. And of course five stacks can have whatever comp they want, and it will only try to match at least one like for like.

 

[TheSadRanger]

Huh, that's odd. Why are the Lunar Li Li and Lunar Chen skins not part of the lunar bundles next week.

It says that ming and sam will in the new bundle and illidan,jaina for the 2016 bundle... Hopefully they at least do a 50% single discount or something on them.

 

[Milly79]

Maybe they're getting rid of the older ones when they come out with a new one? It's 2 years old now.

 

[Alur]

Bloodlust brawl about to go live. Sounds pretty crazy.

 

[Prelude.]

It only makes sure both teams have a healer or both teams have a tank or both teams have a specialist, etc.

If a group is in there long enough it can shed even those rules, however. And of course five stacks can have whatever comp they want, and it will only try to match at least one like for like.

I thought it was always a mirror comp, that's kinda weird. You'd think that if they pull 5 solo queuers they'd be able to match the 5 stack comp at least.

 

[brian!]

Hgc tiers from team liquid: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/heroes/518410-hgc-preseason-power-rankings

 

[Dice]

Just got best in game hero damage with Medivh looooool

 

[brian!]

yah dude pumps out ridiculous dmg

 

[Milly79]

If you can land Qs.

 

[TheSadRanger]

Dat owl skin is pretty nice too for 5 bucks...

edit: Just played Malf again for the first time in a while, yep he's still really freaking strong. Yet people complain when I ban him 1st round :/

 

[scoobs]

God damn tank Varian is so satisfying to play.

Unfortunate for that Tracer on the other team though!

The level 20 taunt upgrade is HILARIOUS against her. Charge stun, taunt, parry during taunt, taunt again, fall over laughing at dead Tracer.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Hgc tiers from team liquid: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/heroes/518410-hgc-preseason-power-rankings

tricked esports so low is insane, especially lower than diamond skin.

 

[Alur]

I'm ready for HGC to get started. Let's do this.

 

[scoobs]

Everyone interested join the fantasy league? I got the best roster from head to toe.

Holy shit this new brawl called Bloodlust sounds insane.

 

[Orochinagis]

The event is on? how do I get the rooster mount?

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Everyone interested join the fantasy league? I got the best roster from head to toe.

Holy shit this new brawl called Bloodlust sounds insane.

Me and Milly already did.

 

[Syf]

I'm ready for HGC to get started. Let's do this.

I'm hyped myself. Hopefully this new structure will be a boon for the scene and game.

 

[Alur]

Join the GAF Heroes of the Storm HGC fantasy league:

NA: https://www.rosterpocalypse.com/private_leagues/neogaf-na

EU:
https://www.rosterpocalypse.com/private_leagues/neogaf-eu

One for each region. You can join the other region.

 

[Syf]

I don't think I actually know more than maybe three HotS pros so this is looking like a disaster already

 

[Syf]

Joined though. So how does this work, is it week by week or?

 

[Alur]

Yeah you can change your roster each week. Can even acquire new players and get rid of bad ones.

Typically the people who know the least about it win the league in my experience, so don't worry too much. It's a lot of luck unless you are super serious about it, and I honestly don't know how you could get enough data to be super serious about it for this game like you could the NFL or whatever.

 

[Syf]

My strategy was:

-I know Udall from Dorm, and I liked him, and his family was cool, so #1 pick obviously
-Goku is a cool character
-Fan has a high rating
-You can't go wrong with a guy named buds
-Fury was a warrior and I didn't know any of the warriors so let's go

 

[Alur]

Yep I just picked the dudes I like the most til I ran out of points and then I filled with whatever was left.

 

[Milly79]

Why is it so hard to pronounce Samuro?

Kyle from ITN says it in a funky ass way that makes me cringe.

Shot on THH this week said SOM UR O...

It's as bad as people that can't say Tyrande right.

 

[scoobs]

Ya its pretty incredible. One of the dudes from Core pronounces Zarya as "Zuh Rye Uh." Its deplorable.

I'm starting to think the HOTS personalities are all illiterate.

Also, Bloodlust Brawl is out and its fun (if your team gets the right heroes)

 

[Kioshen]

Be careful about that, tried to help one of my coworkers pronounce Tyrande right and now I'm not hearing the end of it.

 

[brian!]

Tee yeh raindy

 

[Kioshen]

At this point, it's like trying to make people say Ryu correctly. You just need to move on.

@Scoobs

Got a list of correct heroes to pick in this brawl ?

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Sometimes I don't understand what hotdogs do in the background mmr wise. Did a super nice game on Artanis. Making plays, swapping fools to start snowball teamfights, get second best damage, second siege, better damage taken than the opposing artanis, top xp on my team and same death count as everyone else: get 13 mmr while everyone else gets 40+. I should start ignoring those numbers again especially since it's qm. I just can't help it.

 

[Milly79]

Be careful about that, tried to help one of my coworkers pronounce Tyrande right and now I'm not hearing the end of it.

Your coworker sounds like an idiot.

 

[scoobs]

At this point, it's like trying to make people say Ryu correctly. You just need to move on.

@Scoobs

Got a list of correct heroes to pick in this brawl ?

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Sometimes I don't understand what hotdogs do in the background mmr wise. Did a super nice game on Artanis. Making plays, swapping fools to start snowball teamfights, get second best damage, second siege, better damage taken than the opposing artanis, top xp on my team and same death count as everyone else: get 13 mmr while everyone else gets 40+. I should start ignoring those numbers again especially since it's qm. I just can't help it.

Its a pick 3 brawl.... take auto attackers if you can!

 

[Kioshen]

Your coworker sounds like an idiot.

Imagine pronouncing Tyrande but straight in french. Kyle is fairly mild in comparison hehe.

Its a pick 3 brawl.... take auto attackers if you can!

Oh it's a pick 3 type of brawl nevermind then. I'll bring out my trash illidan for this one !