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Heroes of the Storm |OT3| Chromiehounds
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Familienoberhauptvogel
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Wait will Cassia release before 2.0?
Looks like the napkin math folks are out and us longtime/hardcore players are getting hosed with the amount of boxes being rewarded versus what we could earn if we hadn't already burned through those levels. Here's the thread.
The post:
This is what I referred to earlier when I said it wasn't worth playing on live til this comes out unless you just REALLY want to play. If you have already pushed each hero past level 5/6 you're not gaining anything really. If you have heroes below that, you want to save them til after because you're probably already capped on the amount of crates you'll receive as is.
The post:
This is what I referred to earlier when I said it wasn't worth playing on live til this comes out unless you just REALLY want to play. If you have already pushed each hero past level 5/6 you're not gaining anything really. If you have heroes below that, you want to save them til after because you're probably already capped on the amount of crates you'll receive as is.
Most likely, yeah, they're not going to stop new releases, they'll just preview/test them on the beta before launching them in the current version.
Yeah, it's a common box per hero level so far as I understand it. At the very least it is for levels 1-5. So we are just fucked on those. Also will be fucked on numerous rare/epic boxes it seems.
I am hero level 624, so adjusting for the new curve I will be hero level like 1000+ or something. That part is gonna feel bad. That's a lot of stuff we will miss out on.
I am hero level 624, so adjusting for the new curve I will be hero level like 1000+ or something. That part is gonna feel bad. That's a lot of stuff we will miss out on.
.Just going off that (and leaving out hero specific) I should get something like 24 epic, 100 rare, 500 common chests due to being account level 624. If you adjust for the inflation of the new hero progression, my account level will probably be nearly twice that however and now I'm missing out on even more.
Instead I'm getting 70 chests. RIP.
EDIT: Folks are saying that you will receive epic and rare chests in your 70 at a rate based on your actual max level instead of just at the rate it would be in the first 70 levels you leveled up. That's somewhat better, but still sucks. Now I'm salty I played Probius solo and leveled him to 7 already. Could've been more free boxes.
Heroes 2.0 Beta is on my launcher now. It's installing.
EDIT: Upon logging in it says it's down for maintenance.
Genji and OW match semi-confirmed?
EDIT: Upon logging in it says it's down for maintenance.
Genji and OW match semi-confirmed?
The sprays could be visually distracting, but the banners only go down in specific circumstances, like a merc camp capture, or an objective, and even then, it's always just a single banner.
Patch notes: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog...rm-20-open-beta-notes-march-29-2017-3-29-2017
PTR still not up.
PTR still not up.
Yup, probably w/ unlockable Oni Genji HOTS-side skin.
Well any and all progress you will do during the beta will not migrate over to your main account so there's that to help.
I'm not concerned about the banners and honestly welcome the sprays replacing bstepping as a bm but that's probably the FPS guy talking in me.
on PTR I'm account level 70 and got 14 boxes (12 common 2 rare).
so far I've gotten a Kharazim skin, Brightwing and Lt. Morales heroes, and the other kind of junk through 4 chests. I rerolled 4 times before the Kharazim skin, but before that I got Dream Genie Chromie and trashed it.
EDIT: Ranger General Sylv, Deputy Valla, and Raynor hero too.
so far I've gotten a Kharazim skin, Brightwing and Lt. Morales heroes, and the other kind of junk through 4 chests. I rerolled 4 times before the Kharazim skin, but before that I got Dream Genie Chromie and trashed it.
EDIT: Ranger General Sylv, Deputy Valla, and Raynor hero too.
For anyone curious, the rest of what I got from my boxes:
3 day stimpack, Butcher beast mount, Prisoner Tychus skin, Thunder Star chariot mount, Queen of Ghosts Kerrigan legendary skin (from a common chest), High Priestess Tyrande skin, Diablo master skin, Rehgar master skin, ETC hero x2, Morales master skin, Butcher master skin, Kerrigan master skin.
Seems like good stuff drops at a decent rate. I duped out and/or looted 1,390 shards as well and countless voice things and emojis.
EDIT: Man those Super Power portraits. TAKE MY SHARDS
Know some of you have wanted this for a long time so here you go...Prime Evil Diablo:
3 day stimpack, Butcher beast mount, Prisoner Tychus skin, Thunder Star chariot mount, Queen of Ghosts Kerrigan legendary skin (from a common chest), High Priestess Tyrande skin, Diablo master skin, Rehgar master skin, ETC hero x2, Morales master skin, Butcher master skin, Kerrigan master skin.
Seems like good stuff drops at a decent rate. I duped out and/or looted 1,390 shards as well and countless voice things and emojis.
EDIT: Man those Super Power portraits. TAKE MY SHARDS
Know some of you have wanted this for a long time so here you go...Prime Evil Diablo:
Goodness the PTR character copy was a long time ago wasn't it? Half my collection of owned skins is missing on my character here.
EDIT: Some of the new tints are fantastic, although I feel a bit sorry for folks who bought the Cyber Anubarak or Dehaka skins. The new tint for each of those is much better than the existing tins (Neon, with moving lights, and Camoflague with nuke symbols respectively). The new black variant for Ringmaster Greymane is fab as well.
EDIT 2: Actually this makes no sense. It knows I own the Spider Gul'dan skin, which I didn't buy very long ago - but doesn't recognise I own the Fel Chromie skin, which I bought when she was released?
EDIT: GOLD KAEL SKIN PLEASE BE MINE NOW!
EDIT: Some of the new tints are fantastic, although I feel a bit sorry for folks who bought the Cyber Anubarak or Dehaka skins. The new tint for each of those is much better than the existing tins (Neon, with moving lights, and Camoflague with nuke symbols respectively). The new black variant for Ringmaster Greymane is fab as well.
EDIT 2: Actually this makes no sense. It knows I own the Spider Gul'dan skin, which I didn't buy very long ago - but doesn't recognise I own the Fel Chromie skin, which I bought when she was released?
EDIT: GOLD KAEL SKIN PLEASE BE MINE NOW!
They must have ported in your PTR profile. That's definitely not enough w/ the port-over formula: http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/heroes20/progression/#cashing-in
Good news for those who dig master skins. Each tint only costs 100 shards. You can get Bloodfang Valeera (the classic, OG tint) for basically nothing. Legendary skins are 1600 per tint, though. Ouch. Prime Evil skin gonna cost a fortune if you want all 3 tints.
Yeah PTR chests/rewards/etc is all based on whatever you had on PTR previously. Not similar to live. All my skins are here from live, though, unlike Maledict.
Yeah PTR chests/rewards/etc is all based on whatever you had on PTR previously. Not similar to live. All my skins are here from live, though, unlike Maledict.
So far I've found these new skins:
Prime Evil Diablo
Legion Kerrigan (very similar to Succubus)
Bezerker Kharazim (basically Wolverine'd monk)
Ordermaster Valla (neat new skin with two tints, kind of a different take on her master)
God King Leoric (awesome af)
Lots of new tints for various heroes or new takes on old skins. Neon War World Sgt. Hammer is fucking awesome, for example.
Hard to tell. Normally I'd say no but people love loot boxes even if you can't keep any of it. And you hurt yourself playing on live. Basically it's just a holding pattern.
Prime Evil Diablo
Legion Kerrigan (very similar to Succubus)
Bezerker Kharazim (basically Wolverine'd monk)
Ordermaster Valla (neat new skin with two tints, kind of a different take on her master)
God King Leoric (awesome af)
Lots of new tints for various heroes or new takes on old skins. Neon War World Sgt. Hammer is fucking awesome, for example.
Hard to tell. Normally I'd say no but people love loot boxes even if you can't keep any of it. And you hurt yourself playing on live. Basically it's just a holding pattern.
You definitely get them if you port in a hero from 1.0. Unsure if you get them if you buy them in 2.0.
Want to highlight this
Brewmaster Chen
Neon Cyb'arak Anub'arak (Maledict wasn't kidding. It's good. Nexus Anub basically) Worth noting that this Anub skin tint is counted as owned by me but the new Dehaka mecha skin tint is not. Pretty weird.
Prime Evil is the shit. Legit impressed. Several of these are very nice honestly, or at least certain tints are.
Can you imagine the length of the in-development video if they wanted to cover all the new skins, portraits, banners and other tid bits they are releasing for 2.0. I'm also eating fresh crow for playing devil's advocate again on the content creation pipeline being maybe caught up.
scoobs
Member
Haha ya, we'd stop complaining about the short in Dev videos then. What did I tell you?? I knew the skin output was insanely lacking lately
So if I'm reading the patch notes correctly: If you bought a skin or a master skin, you get both current variations for free in 2.0. However, it doesn't say anything about regular skin variations, other than the fact that they are becoming distinct items and won't be progression unlocks. Maybe those won't transfer?
Yeah Cassia is on here.
Everything I've bought previously is showing for me right now. So whatever skin you got before, the tints are still all there. If you buy it after, you're buying tint by tint, though. There are also several new tints in the game for certain skins. Those tints seem to be hit or miss - some are showing as owned by me, others are not. I would venture to say the new ones showing as owned are bugs and that they'll have to be purchased with shards or found in a loot box.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
To the surprise of no one I'm sure, I'm gonna be Grandpa Get Off My Lawn about this new direction. I dislike pretty much everything about this, and I feel bad for anyone who ever buys the "we're giving you CHOICE to SAVE YOU MONEY" line. It's bullshit in politics, it's bullshit in business, and it's bullshit in game microtransactions.
Still, I'm hardly the target audience for this, and it's going to have little effect on my frequency or desire to play.
On the bright side, I have like 5 characters at 14+ with 2 of those at 20, but I've never even bought 60% of the roster, so I have stuff to do if I wanted.
Still, I'm hardly the target audience for this, and it's going to have little effect on my frequency or desire to play.
On the bright side, I have like 5 characters at 14+ with 2 of those at 20, but I've never even bought 60% of the roster, so I have stuff to do if I wanted.
A lot of the new skins are very minor changes to existing skins, to be fair - there's a new Sylvanas skin (Warcghief Sylvanas) where she has a new bow and covers up her tummy, for example, but that's the only changes. Same with robot Kael, where he has a new head and legs but otherwise looks the same.
Some of the new tints are ace though - the black Li-Ming basic skin is far better than her master skin I feel! (and there's now 6 variations on star princess Li-Ming which is weird).
Note - Probius Master Skins currently not showing up, but you can get them in loot boxes.
Here's an imgur album with all the new skins and tint.
OMG would you look at this tint :
This will be an instant purchase with leftover shards for sure.
OMG would you look at this tint :
This will be an instant purchase with leftover shards for sure.
This is reasonable to me. Ive actually spent too much time thinking about f2p lol, and the way the free aspect of it serves to...cover up or make excuses for some real skeevy shit, but in the end im still susceptible to the whole "well...im not personally spending money and i dont really have the will to grind the axe for other ppl", which is also part and parcel for the f2p model haha.