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Heroes of the Storm |OT3| Chromiehounds
- Thread starter Nirolak
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ended up over 1600 shards after the 10 boxes, got the red terran Rexxar.
I've been playing every character I can up to 5 and he really stood out to me, so I think I'll focus on playing him a while. I tend to do pretty well on him too, and there's always room to improve with micromanaging the bear.
I always queue with a friend who plays a lot of MOBAs and until recently relied on him for knowing when I should be going after merc camps. But Rexxar is so good at that I've gotten more proactive and I feel like I understand the game a lot better.
anyone else have some tips/recommendations or videos to watch? I typically do best when I get Animal Husbandry and basically all the Misha improvements + bestial wrath. But my last game with him was against some 2 support + 3 tank nonsense and I felt like I could've built him more effectively. Still won though.
I've been playing every character I can up to 5 and he really stood out to me, so I think I'll focus on playing him a while. I tend to do pretty well on him too, and there's always room to improve with micromanaging the bear.
I always queue with a friend who plays a lot of MOBAs and until recently relied on him for knowing when I should be going after merc camps. But Rexxar is so good at that I've gotten more proactive and I feel like I understand the game a lot better.
anyone else have some tips/recommendations or videos to watch? I typically do best when I get Animal Husbandry and basically all the Misha improvements + bestial wrath. But my last game with him was against some 2 support + 3 tank nonsense and I felt like I could've built him more effectively. Still won though.
Hmm I think it depends on the type of change. But even then they should probably but the new version on ptr for awhile or something.
Like I wish the wells on warhead were in a different spot so they couldn't so easily be sniped over walls, i don't think they'd have to take the map out of rotation to do that.
But honestly they should just take the bad maps out and rework them like they did haunted mines.
He does have interesting talents in there they're just too weak. Like he has a cool auto attack build but it's just such shitty damage that it's just not worth. They could buff his unused talents and he'd be good to go
Probably won't be on till Monday.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Speaking of sniping wells they have to fix that you can focus Kazra camps onto wells on Infernal Shrines eventually.
It's such a cheap exploit of vision that's running rampant in competitive.
It's such a cheap exploit of vision that's running rampant in competitive.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
If that was intended then they should nerf wells as having one is a huge advantage right now.
jaundicejuice
Member
Some people seem to tilt after D.va's mech the way they do Murky.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
same is true for her crits IIRC. When she came out a popúlar build was stacking the crits with the faster AAs to take someone out of a fight almost immediately. You'd W a wave then hold the buff going into a teamfight, get the 4 fast AAs in W again and have another batch ready. Healthbars vanished.
yeah in middle lane.
Gotcha.
Discovered this myself when we were playing yesterday but thought I was just imagining it. Guess I wasn't.
Why pilot health? She's already squish as can be. Maybe mech health or pilot damage if they feel pilot mode is too strong (which I honestly haven't seen happen in my games with/against yet), but honestly she doesn't appear to need any nerfing at the moment since she's settled in to just below 50% winrate.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Pilot mode can be annoying but it's like a nuisance really. I would much rather take the poke dmg from the pistol than having a chen ult push me around all the time.
edit: Also where the hell are the Carbot sprays!!! wth Blizz you even sell carbot merchandise
edit: Also where the hell are the Carbot sprays!!! wth Blizz you even sell carbot merchandise
They were playing Heroes of the Storm music during the entire announcement.
Yup, dat alpha music. Got me thinking 🤔
that robot guy from the Destiny 2 teaser I assume?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
K2SO?
Dead Prince
Banned
gotta give OW a break. can't have all the hero cross over. but i'm waiting for DVA skin in Destiny 2 though. and the dva mech from Hots to make its way there.
Yeah, Cayde-6 was the only character that actually had a personality.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
nothing of value was lost. To this day I have no idea why that game took off. It's trash and the raids aren't even good.
Cayde-6 is totally gonna be an Ana skin in OW.
You're probably right, but I'm a sucker for MMOs. Can't be much worse than some of the others I played, at least it was pretty for the most part. I mean I did spend like 2-3 years playing SWTOR =/
That kind of makes sense. Zenyatta would make more sense though 'cause he's a robot.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
As am I and I played Destiny for awhile as well as SWTOR, WoW and GW2 just in the last 5 years.
So listening to the end of CORE and they delve back into map rotations again. Beau is especially against them, particularly in QM where he feels the variety is kind of part of the experience there. I think scoobs said pretty much the same and that makes sense. I prefer a rotation to the full pool or seeing Garden/Mines pulled completely with no pool, but I digress.
Beau conceded he could see why 13 maps is too much for new players in QM, and suggested maybe they do a better job limiting the pool for new players with a rotation and removing that rotation later for veterans. His gauge for when to do this made me go WTF, though. He suggested that Blizzard should perhaps implement the rotation if you are below level 1000, but remove it if you are above level 1000. Tell me, how many level 1000+ players have you seen since April 25th? I've seen 5 -- and two of those are me and Milly. Simply getting to something like level 500 is a ton of play time. 1000? That's insanity.
I think just limiting the pool to some core maps for like 50 account levels would be good. I'd go with something like Cursed Hollow (3 lane "generic" map)/Dragon Shire (3 lane capture point + objective vehicle map)/Tomb of the Spider Queen (3 lane collect and turn map)/Sky Temple (3 lane capture point map) and then another two maps would be optimal. There's only 4 two lane maps by my count, and none are that popular, so I don't know what you'd include in the pool from that. Braxis? BOE? /shrug. I don't really think the first 10 games on Cursed Hollow does enough for new players. It does give them some stability, but then it throws them right into the fire afterwards...especially prior to 2.0 releasing. It might be a decent middle ground to do it that way for QM and keep the rotation only for the draft modes.
end rambling
Did you ever try Wildstar? Looking back the way it worked reminds me a bit of how HOTS works with skillshots and so forth. It was a lot different from all the PVP I did in SWTOR at the time. Wish it hadn't failed. Hell, I wish a lot of these MMOs had done better. Also wish I had stuck with FFXIV after it's relaunch. I hit max level and just petered out.
Beau conceded he could see why 13 maps is too much for new players in QM, and suggested maybe they do a better job limiting the pool for new players with a rotation and removing that rotation later for veterans. His gauge for when to do this made me go WTF, though. He suggested that Blizzard should perhaps implement the rotation if you are below level 1000, but remove it if you are above level 1000. Tell me, how many level 1000+ players have you seen since April 25th? I've seen 5 -- and two of those are me and Milly. Simply getting to something like level 500 is a ton of play time. 1000? That's insanity.
I think just limiting the pool to some core maps for like 50 account levels would be good. I'd go with something like Cursed Hollow (3 lane "generic" map)/Dragon Shire (3 lane capture point + objective vehicle map)/Tomb of the Spider Queen (3 lane collect and turn map)/Sky Temple (3 lane capture point map) and then another two maps would be optimal. There's only 4 two lane maps by my count, and none are that popular, so I don't know what you'd include in the pool from that. Braxis? BOE? /shrug. I don't really think the first 10 games on Cursed Hollow does enough for new players. It does give them some stability, but then it throws them right into the fire afterwards...especially prior to 2.0 releasing. It might be a decent middle ground to do it that way for QM and keep the rotation only for the draft modes.
end rambling
Did you ever try Wildstar? Looking back the way it worked reminds me a bit of how HOTS works with skillshots and so forth. It was a lot different from all the PVP I did in SWTOR at the time. Wish it hadn't failed. Hell, I wish a lot of these MMOs had done better. Also wish I had stuck with FFXIV after it's relaunch. I hit max level and just petered out.
WonderRade
Member
lol im like account level 470 and i have played semi regularly since alpha
im having a rough day guys... one of the worst I cn remember in the game.
then I just played this game as Malf, I was like "fuck it, ill do some healing"... I saw the light. I saw the green Malfurian light
I mean I knew he was obviously good, but I actually had a blast. No mana issues either which I could sware he had. That Twilight Dream ult is RIDICULOUS (I always used the healing one before as a noob)
then I just played this game as Malf, I was like "fuck it, ill do some healing"... I saw the light. I saw the green Malfurian light
I mean I knew he was obviously good, but I actually had a blast. No mana issues either which I could sware he had. That Twilight Dream ult is RIDICULOUS (I always used the healing one before as a noob)
Dead Prince
Banned
so i was playing in a group yesterday and someone in chat said hello youtube. then i started watching videos on youtube for wtf funny moments in hots. now i'm going to wait for when i'm clipped in there xD
Not really. The character classes are pretty much the same with slightly different grenades, and different ultimate abilities.
you could easily put together a HOTS character out of a Destiny class. Destiny talent trees would actually sync up well with HOTS.
For movement abilities there are classes with teleports, dashes and double jumps.
Sure they play similarly in the game, but you could give them different loadouts based on Destiny exotic weapons. I wasn't even sure if this would work until I started writing this post but I'm totally down with the idea now, shit.