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Heroes of the Storm |OT3| Chromiehounds

brian!

Member
Yah should be
I dont mean like a full reset, more like you lose a couple hundred + your first couple of games will hold more weight. Im going off hotslogs though so it could be completely wrong?
 

Alur

Member
Even in QM ?

Everything AFAIK. Not a huge reset, but some people get knocked back and others get pushed forward. Pretty sure I saw you in the 2300's after the reset.

EDIT: Make that 2200. You got knocked down a bit. You're in Diamond now due to the MMR squishing, though, haha
 

scoobs

Member
Idk you're dead so I don't think you're doing it right

You know, you make a good point there. I won a game finally (actually played well and got MVP) so I'm giving up on this venture and getting a nap in. Falstado is hard to play, despite all the losses I feel like I learned alot and was playing better towards the end there.

I consider myself a pretty damn good Dehaka player, and i think its weird that I struggle so much with Falstado
 

brian!

Member
To me falstad is an assassin that needs help, in qm at least i feel it's pretty easy for him to take incidental dmg and be out of the fight or miss q and be a bit useless
 

Kioshen

Member
Everything AFAIK. Not a huge reset, but some people get knocked back and others get pushed forward. Pretty sure I saw you in the 2300's after the reset.

EDIT: Make that 2200. You got knocked down a bit. You're in Diamond now due to the MMR squishing, though, haha

Hotdoggies squishes his mmr showing everywhere but afaik blizzard only do it for new season in HL. I was talking more about blizz mmr.

You know, you make a good point there. I won a game finally (actually played well and got MVP) so I'm giving up on this venture and getting a nap in. Falstado is hard to play, despite all the losses I feel like I learned alot and was playing better towards the end there.

I consider myself a pretty damn good Dehaka player, and i think its weird that I struggle so much with Falstado

Even if you show great stats, maybe you lost at the macro level. Rotations, invasions, opportunistic fly ins for pick offs lots of things that doesn't show on the stat board.
 

Alur

Member
Hotdoggies squishes his mmr showing everywhere but afaik blizzard only do it for new season in HL. I was talking more about blizz mmr.

I don't know for sure either way TBH. Would have to see those patch notes again. You might be right.
 
This was with magestad/hinterland blast last night. I also had to split soak a good portion of the game as well.

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edit: It's lolsilverhell but I'm trying to get out ;_;

It's rough :/
 

Altairre

Member
I'm done with Mass Effect andromeda trial so if someone needs chogall in EU I'm game.

What did you think? It's pretty rough around the edges but I feel like there could be a good game underneath it.

To stay on topic: Murky is still pretty good for pubstomping. People can't deal with his respawn at my levels.
 

Alur

Member
Arthelon is #1 grandmaster NA? Dats some shit. Surprised he cared enough to grind up to it.

His hate play for the game is too strong for him to just leave completely I guess. I dunno how else to describe how he talked about the game other than how someone else describes hate watching a TV show.
 
What did you think? It's pretty rough around the edges but I feel like there could be a good game underneath it.
I liked it a lot. Animations in cutscenes as well as faces are trash. The hold pistol the wrong way citscene is still in the game and you encounter it fairly early.
Game really doesn't share it's best side from the start.

Combat, exploration, companions, skills are all on point.
Hardcore was surprisingly really tough. I died a lot despite skilling pretty defensively.

The Galaxy interface looks really nice but is obnoxiously cumbersome. Zoom in, now zoom out, wait, zoom in, zoom out again. Now you can scan shit because that has historically been received well.
 

Altairre

Member
Agreed on pretty much all points. Coming from Horizon made it especially rough, but as soon as I was in the Nexus talking to people, hearing Krogans shit talking Salarians and vice versa, it felt like Mass Effect. I was playing on normal to get a feel for it so I picked charge and nova because I thought I might as well have fun with it and even on normal I almost died a couple of times just charging in. Still haven't decided which spec I want to go with, might try full on ranged biotic.

Sorry for turning this into a ME thread for a moment there.
 

Maledict

Member
Arthelon is #1 grandmaster NA? Dats some shit. Surprised he cared enough to grind up to it.

His hate play for the game is too strong for him to just leave completely I guess. I dunno how else to describe how he talked about the game other than how someone else describes hate watching a TV show.

It's much easier to get to #1 GM straight after a reset - the grind really doesn't exist at that stage, you just have to play very intensely for a couple of days. Someone has to get it first without that many wins behind them.
 

Ketch

Member
Arthelon is #1 grandmaster NA? Dats some shit. Surprised he cared enough to grind up to it.

His hate play for the game is too strong for him to just leave completely I guess. I dunno how else to describe how he talked about the game other than how someone else describes hate watching a TV show.

If you look at his stats he's played mostly supports. Also, I doubt his reign lasts long.
 
Agreed on pretty much all points. Coming from Horizon made it especially rough, but as soon as I was in the Nexus talking to people, hearing Krogans shit talking Salarians and vice versa, it felt like Mass Effect. I was playing on normal to get a feel for it so I picked charge and nova because I thought I might as well have fun with it and even on normal I almost died a couple of times just charging in. Still haven't decided which spec I want to go with, might try full on ranged biotic.

Sorry for turning this into a ME thread for a moment there.

After Overwatchgaf in here I have no remorse. I went Energy Drain, Backlash (hold button for reflecting shield, super fun) and lance. I probably made it harder on myself not considering detonations on my team.
 

Alur

Member
It's much easier to get to #1 GM straight after a reset - the grind really doesn't exist at that stage, you just have to play very intensely for a couple of days. Someone has to get it first without that many wins behind them.

Agreed on that, but still surprised he did it for a guy who hates the game so much...or so he says. Certainly in a game where most of the regulars he'd encounter dislike him if they know who he is.

If you look at his stats he's played mostly supports. Also, I doubt his reign lasts long.

Same. Then again that's most any of em who get to #1 that aren't full time streaming. But pretty surprised he did it at all. He just pops up randomly every now and then.
 

Altairre

Member
After Overwatchgaf in here I have no remorse. I went Energy Drain, Backlash (hold button for reflecting shield, super fun) and lance. I probably made it harder on myself not considering detonations on my team.

I wanted to get Backlash together with Charge so that I can go in, Nova and then hold up shield to protect myself but I didn't get to it.
 

Milly79

Member
Just Turian and Asari I believe.



The Quarians fucked up their ark. Looks like that sweat post on the Bioware forums was a bit too creepy and they decided to leave them out of it. Better not risk repeating that unfortunate incident.

Fuck it give me a sexy hanar then
 

Prelude.

Member
(Cho)'gall is more fun than I expected even though I kinda forgot about his trait and never used it, lul. Thanks, Familienoberhauptvogel. :)
 

scoobs

Member
(Cho)'gall is more fun than I expected even though I kinda forgot about his trait and never used it, lul. Thanks, Familienoberhauptvogel. :)

I could be way off here, but the armor trait is like... almost always the best option if your Cho has any balls at all. When I play Cho I'm always diving into shit and 25 base armor is insane for him.
 

Kioshen

Member
I'm so critical of other tank players all the time but when I get the driving wheel I just spaz out like everybody else. It's infuriating to no end. Especially because I thought I was getting better but tonight was just awful all around. I feel you scoobs.
 

Ketch

Member
after playing some more arthas, I feel like the atk speed build for him is like the worst build for him.... unless maybe your playing arthas as a melee assassin.


As a tank the other lvl 4 frozen tempest is the one you want and both of the other lvl 7 talents are way stronger then rune tap.

I feel like the build is frozen wastes, icebound fortitude, frost strike, remorseless winter, and death's advance. With the best tech options being at 1, 10, 16 and 20.

I want to play him a lot more, I think his talent tree is in a really good spot right now.
 
The Blizz Q&A comments regarding Probius are a bit baffling to me. They seem convinced they designed him properly despite nearly universal complaints about him thematically and then also balance wise.

It's not all that baffling to me, it's something I'm sort of used to seeing from the WoW dev team. People provide constructive criticism/feedback about something in the beta, like Legion's super clunky new Demonology warlock, they sort of double down on how everything is fine and designed as they intended and, eventually, they come around to exactly what people were complaining about. The upshot is the HotS dev team seems to have a faster turn around on stuff like this, although it may take a little while to see the communities complaints/feedback as valid or legitimate.

However if their idea for builder characters is strictly limited to planting turrets you simply kite around, I kinda hope they don't make anymore. Gazlowe and Probius are enough. Pylons providing teammates with buffs is an interesting idea they really take far enough. There's already a number of characters who buff teammates movement speed, attack speed, increase ranged minion damage, etc. It would've been nice if Probius could build more interesting Protoss themed things that aid your teammates or minions instead of a shitty, temporary turret. Make it more of a support specialist like Medihv than another PVE hero like Gazlowe.
 

Ketch

Member
Wow eStar up 2-0 on MVP Black right now, Valeera (ambush build) just destroyed for them.

These games have been great.

except that boe game... what a stomp.

estars draft was garbo

feels like estar keeps drafting heroes they've never played before.
 

Kioshen

Member
It's the best map for those brawls. Just big enough to flank, camps are useful and quick enough. Globes are close by so something you can contest to snowball.
 
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