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[Orochinagis]

RIP servers, 25 mins queue.

Well. Malthael is like kill or be killed, he cant escape for his fate

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

what is it with Dignitas and boss calls on cursed hollow lol?

 

[Alur]

That Malthael load screen is pretty awesome. The main screen isn't bad either.

Didn't realize that new Treasure Goblin was a gold sink. 10k gold.

EDIT: Damn, no summer stuff yet. Sir Murkalot and the Zera and Sylv skins are in though.

 

[Prelude.]

That Malthael load screen is pretty awesome. The main screen isn't bad either.

Didn't realize that new Treasure Goblin was a gold sink. 10k gold.

EDIT: Damn, no summer stuff yet. Sir Murkalot and the Zera and Sylv skins are in though.

I think it starts like on the 27th or something. They datamined some summer stuff including the start date.

 

[Milly79]

17 chests (15 normal, 2 rare) not a damn new item in sight.

 

[IceMarker]

Malthael pretty fun, just won my first QM game! This is my current talent build. He's really good at doing merc camps.

 

[AbundantChoice]

Oh my god those whimshyshire cloud mounts are *expensive*. Still, I want them. Hmmm

 

[Rizzi]

The new loading art is pretty dope.

 

[Milly79]

Oh my god those whimshyshire cloud mounts are *expensive*. Still, I want them. Hmmm

Yeah, was a rough day on the currencies, lol.

Had almost 4k shards, down to 705 after buying the sad cloud + the new Li-Ming skins and another Malthael skin.

Bought the Malthael bundle with gems and the Golden Golbin.

 

[FieryBalrog]

Watching Tempo Storm go 1-1 w Dignitas using Chen-Genji-Abathur made my day

And Dig got all their favorite picks too. And tempo storm had to use a MULE.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

dig were cocky af. Deserved that loss 100%.

Props to Tempo for punishing them like that. Series was not a good look for them overall though, Dig rolled them for 1 and a half games.

 

[Fancolors]

I forgot how much I disliked Bay. It's still miles above Hanamura and Mines tho

 

[Rizzi]

Dragon Shire is the best.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

Malthael is just a reminder that I should buy diablo 3 expansion.

edit:
Did malth reap blizzard's servers? Cause random disconnect like 10 minutes ago and when I launch hots again it says I disconnected. So I restarted blizzard app and now I'm not even online. Estimated wait time is growing too.

 

[Syf]

Servers been shit all day. WoW had a big patch probably the reason. They all just died too.

 

[Rhaknar]

as usual, we in EU thank the US for being our patch beta testers :3

 

[Prelude.]

Guess who's back.

 

[Alur]

Not surprised he's back, but am sad that people just went right back to watching him.

 

[Syf]

I guess I missed some drama. What happened?

 

[Kadin]

I was gonna jump in and work on this 15-quest event but servers way too unreliable still. Also I kinda want that goblin mount...

 

[Skab]

I just want to say the creepy tristram remix that plays in the background of the mathael splash screen was a nice touch

 

[KevMan1815]

I saved up 20 boxes for today and the only new hero I got was Lunara. Not a total waste, but it would have been cool to Malthael.

 

[Fancolors]

iirc hots does the same thing as ow. the box content is generated the moment you receive it so opening it in a later date won't make it have the new stuff.

i don't know how it deals with rerolls tho

 

[Prelude.]

I guess I missed some drama. What happened?

He said he was gonna leave HotS because he was fed up with the meta and become a variety streamer, so basically he left for a months doing 3 digits viewers and now he's back.

iirc hots does the same thing as ow. the box content is generated the moment you receive it so opening it in a later date won't make it have the new stuff.

i don't know how it deals with rerolls tho

They said it's generated when you open it, not when you get it, unlike OW.

 

[Alur]

No, it's the opposite. Not generated til it's opened in HOTS.

 

[Fancolors]

huh, i swore it was the opposite.

guess i should have stored those boxes.

does that include the summer stuff?

 

[thekillermuffin]

iirc hots does the same thing as ow. the box content is generated the moment you receive it so opening it in a later date won't make it have the new stuff.

i don't know how it deals with rerolls tho

It's generated when you opened it. Got the new Murky and Sylvanas skins in my loot chests today that I had saved for the past week or so

 

[Prelude.]

huh, i swore it was the opposite.

guess i should have stored those boxes.

does that include the summer stuff?

Nope.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

I like the thrall rework.

1 - echo of the elements: the quest that rewards extra chain lightning reward

- It's easy to complete, synergizes with the rest of the build as you'll see.

4 - mana tide: restore 20 mana and .5 sec on cooldown when trait triggers

- looks weak at first glance, but you're triggering resilience so often it'll add up. With 2 chain lightnings that hit 4 times each that is 2 away from triggering twice. Then this is also buffed later as well.

7 - follow up: bonus damage after ability

- the windfury one looks good too, but I figured this one with double chain lightning is gonna add up a ton of damage

10 - earthquake

- I mean duh, it triggers your trait and becomes one of the best team fight ults in the game at 20

13 - grace of air: double trait from windfury attacks

- pretty damn ridiculous now you're triggering trait from a single ability, and that gets the cooldown and mana return from mana tide

16 - tempest fury: last windfury hits 3 times

- The thunderstorm talent seemed awkward, at least with this build. When you're trying to burn a target down I think you want to use both chain lightnings on the same target. Although thunderstorm seems good, it seems hard to maintain.

20 - no brainer buff earthquake

 

[KevMan1815]

No, it's the opposite. Not generated til it's opened in HOTS.

This is true. Hence why I saved them. I had confirmed it before and I did get one of the new Murky skins from one box.

 

[Orochinagis]

Xul is pretty clever to use undead against Malthael btw.

 

[Celegus]

Played a Cho'Gall in QM for science just to see how bad Malthael ruins him. We should probably just delete Cho'Gall out of the game now.

 

[jaundicejuice]

Malthael is just a reminder that I should buy diablo 3 expansion.

Literally the only good thing about Diablo 3's campaign is its expansion.

 

[Kioshen]

Well, that was satisfying. I managed to stack 144% sadism as Alarak and got an MVP out of it. I died a couple of times in the early game but then I found my groove back on landing those combos and nearly went hero of the storm too.

 

[scoobs]

New Thrall seems REAL strong.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

just played Auriel with Chu playing malthael. Malth is a hypercarry. He gives SO much hope, we never died except for a couple picks.

 

[Rhaknar]

EU is up

No malth from my 29 boxes I had saved up, best I got was a Legendary D-Va skin, and the D-Va announcer. Bought Malth with gems and Genju with gold.

 

[brian!]

Psalm and jun carried the shit out of g2 against dig, tho dig did help them a bit. Cursed bullet??? Against genji and w/ nothing to follow up a tank that gets chunked by it?? Dig's teamfight is too poor for an ult like that. Really wp by ts, they played the draft correctly

 

[scoobs]

just played Auriel with Chu playing malthael. Malth is a hypercarry. He gives SO much hope, we never died except for a couple picks.

you just got lucky and queued into his game? Or are you doing sub games w/ him?

 

[brian!]

Oh man the throw in estar vs. l5 g1 was really sad, they deserved that win so much

 

[Orochinagis]

I just cant make Malthael work, like I got killed on TFs

 

[Rhaknar]

Nu Thrall seems great

 

[Fancolors]

Now we need something to make Raynor fun

 

[Ronabo]

I played with a level 69 Raynor earlier.

I felt kinda sorry for him playing such a boring character so much.

 

[scoobs]

Nu Thrall seems great

So this is the build I'm using for new Thrall. There are some tough choices at level 4 and 7, but overall I think this is far and away the best build.

 

[Karsticles]

IMO, Raynor's problem is that he has close to zero impact on fights until mid game.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

Literally the only good thing about Diablo 3's campaign is its expansion.

I liked diablo 3. I had a lot of fun with the time I had in it. No regrets with that purchase, although I am tempted to buy the expansion every now and then.

 

[Familienoberhauptvogel]

Psalm and jun carried the shit out of g2 against dig, tho dig did help them a bit. Cursed bullet??? Against genji and w/ nothing to follow up a tank that gets chunked by it?? Dig's teamfight is too poor for an ult like that. Really wp by ts, they played the draft correctly

Dig threw a lock for 1st or 2nd seed by losing to Tempo like that.

Mene's tweet afterwards was a simple "shame" funnily enough.

 

[Rhaknar]

So this is the build I'm using for new Thrall. There are some tough choices at level 4 and 7, but overall I think this is far and away the best build.

lol the build I tried was almost the complete opposite

 

[scoobs]

lol the build I tried was almost the complete opposite

I'm 99.99% sure Crash Lightning is the inferior lightning talent at 1, and I don't think Thunderstorm is anywhere near as good as Tempest Fury. Fun talent though.

Rest of your build seems situationally good though, no bad choices really.