Heroes of the Storm - I was a little sad when I couldn't buy Lunar Li-Ming outside the bundle, so I made a gif to channel my frustration instead. Enjoy!


I was a little sad when I couldn't buy Lunar Li-Ming outside the bundle, so I made a gif to channel my frustration instead. Enjoy!

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 04:47 PM PST

http://imgur.com/oJHbSAp

I love the developers but just some things they do for profit makes me sad. I realize she'll probably be available later separately but just thought that this was too good of an opportunity to pass up using this gif as I only had to change like 20% of the words to match.

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Try mode settings no longer save since Valeera patch

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 02:05 PM PST

Small-ish bug here, since Valeera patch your try mode settings no longer change. As someone who uses try mode often-ish to test my mechanics and different talent builds, its kinda annoying to have to set it to level 20 and remove malfurion every single time. Just wanted to post this in case blizzard was not aware, and I had not seen any other post about this. :)

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I'm just here waiting for the hilarious interactions between ETC and Lucio

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 12:23 PM PST

Can't imagine what they might do. Possibly each other arguing if electronic or guitar music is better. I just think it'll be so funny having them both in the same game.

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QOL change: Update tooltips to reflect changes in cooldowns, mana cost or damage.

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 06:56 PM PST

Tooltips currently do not adjust to show changes in cooldowns, damage or mana costs.
http://imgur.com/gXBUx01
http://imgur.com/icbxgyd

As you can see here, two screenshots, one with mana reduction talents and a completed CDR talent. The other with no mana reduction talent and no completed CDR talent. Both show the same mana cost and the same cooldown.

When it comes to a cooldown reduction of 2 seconds, it isn't that big of a deal, but this problem also applies to longer and more critical cooldowns, like Xul's bone armor if he takes shade and increases the cooldown by 20s. Or Ragnaros with Heroic Difficulty at 20, shaving off 50s from his trait.

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Xul's Bone Armor details nowhere to be found in QM hero select

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 02:59 PM PST

So, I now know what Bone Armor does thanks to looking at Xul in the Shop tab, but I was thoroughly confused for a bit as I was looking through his talents/abilities in the hero select screen. I kept seeing references to Bone Armor with no explanation of what it does in the first place. I think this information should be added to the hero details in the hero select. Thoughts? Are there other heroes with similar issues?

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Grubby - Lucio Revealed and Full Talent Review

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 11:46 AM PST

Baited (HGC North America - Naventic vs Team Freedom)

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 04:23 PM PST

Can we please get an official "how to draft" properly guide?

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 06:17 PM PST

It seems that a lot of people have trouble drafting. Even at master MMR, there are some pretty terrible drafts. Not that you can't win with a bad draft, but it definitely puts your team at a starting disadvantage.

Especially poor drafting choices like no tank and/or no healer; which you think would be common sense, but doesn't seem to be. Yes, we know you can win without them, but if I recall, the win percentage is very low (I'm sure someone can link it). It is definitely not ideal practice.

Things that could be addressed are:

  • How to counter opposing team picks? Ex: If team Red picks a invisible heroe, many support heroes have reveals and should be usually be picked. If team Red picks double warrior, certain heroes can counter that and should be picked.

  • What picks have synergy? Ex: Malf & Kael, Auriel & Guldan, Zarya & Valla, ETC & Jaina

  • What is considered a good 1st pick/ban?Ex: Strong wave clear on push map, strong DPS or solo lane capabilities on collection maps.

  • What is considered a good ban/counter ban?** Ex: If team Red picks double warrior, team Red should look to ban Tychus or other great warrior counters.

  • When is a good time to double warrior or when is a good time to double support?

I would love to see a video guide or at the very least, a well written article on the Blizz website/battle.net app/in-game info links and think this would be highly helpful.

Do you guys have any other input?

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HGC North America :: Team Freedom vs Team Naventic :: Discussion Thread

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 01:50 PM PST

When?

The match is planned to start at 14:00 PST / 23:00 CET, 10 minutes from this post.

Streams

Community challenges

Teams

Team Freedom vs Team Naventic
daneski flex - flex bigempct
Insomnia assassin - warrior bkid
KilluZiioN support - support Kenma
Nazmas assassin - flex Tomster
zugrug warrior - assassin Zuna

Format

A single best-of-5 match.

Each team bans one map. Then, the "home" team chooses a map for the first game. In the following games of a match, the losing team of the previous game will have the choice for Battlegrounds selection or first hero pick in the draft. Initial map bans:

Team Freedom Team Naventic
? ?

Game version

Games in HGC weeks 1-3 are played on the patch before Valeera patch. Most notably, Valeera is not in the game and Tassadar and Rexxar reworks are not there either.

Match reports, VODs

Website Link
Master League -
Twitch -
YouTube -

For feedback about the match thread, please contact /u/lerhond.

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lagf ?

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 03:15 PM PST

HGC Europe :: Team Dignitas vs Team expert :: Discussion Thread

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 11:20 AM PST

When?

The match is planned to start at 20:30 CET / 11:30 PST, 10 minutes from this post.

Streams

Community challenges

Teams

Team Dignitas vs Team expert
Bakery support - flex adrd
JayPL warrior - warrior BadBenny
Mene assassin - flex bLaDe
Snitch assassin - support Cursen
Zaelia assassin - assassin Nic

Format

A single best-of-5 match.

Each team bans one map. Then, the "home" team chooses a map for the first game. In the following games of a match, the losing team of the previous game will have the choice for Battlegrounds selection or first hero pick in the draft. Initial map bans:

Team Dignitas Team expert
? ?

Game version

Games in HGC weeks 1-3 are played on the patch before Valeera patch. Most notably, Valeera is not in the game and Tassadar and Rexxar reworks are not there either.

Match reports, VODs

Website Link
Master League -
Twitch -
YouTube -

For feedback about the match thread, please contact /u/lerhond.

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HGC North America :: Tempo Storm vs Team 8 :: Discussion Thread

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 04:20 PM PST

The only two remaining undefeated teams from North America finally meet here in Week 3. Team 8 has had a fairly lenient schedule leading up to this point, which has resulted in them dropping only a single map so far in the HGC (Cursed Hollow in their Week 2 series against B-Step). Their residence on easy street comes to an end this weekend as they must now measure up to the likes of Tempo Storm and Gale Force eSports.

"Team 8 is 3-0 so far without playing the top teams. They'll be tested this weekend playing us and GFE. If they can walk away having won one or both series, they'll definitely be established as a top tier team in North America." – Harrison "Psalm" Chang, Tempo Storm

For their first matchup against Tempo Storm there are a few key things to look at. Tempo has had a lot of close calls, squeaking out 3-2 victories over Naventic and Team Freedom. They're no stranger to taking a series down to the wire. Both of their fall regional trophies were awarded off the heels of a series that went a full five maps.

One trend that has emerged from their games in the HGC is that the team has struggled on Battlefield of Eternity, having lost on the Battleground both times they've played it. Depending on how much respect they want to give Team 8, Tempo may ban the Battleground, but this opens up room for Team 8 to throw a curveball and possibly take them to a Battleground such as Warhead Junction – where uncharted territory for both teams may open up some opportunities for Team 8 to execute a cheesy pocket strategy.

source

When?

The match is planned to start at 16:30 PST / 1:30 CET, 10 minutes from this post.

Streams

Community challenges

Teams

Tempo Storm vs Team 8
cattlepillar flex - support Buds
CauthonLuck assassin - flex Glaurung
Fury warrior - warrior Justing
Jun support - flex Prismaticism
psalm flex - flex ToDa

Format

A single best-of-5 match.

Each team bans one map. Then, the "home" team chooses a map for the first game. In the following games of a match, the losing team of the previous game will have the choice for Battlegrounds selection or first hero pick in the draft. Initial map bans:

Tempo Storm Team 8
? ?

Game version

Games in HGC weeks 1-3 are played on the patch before Valeera patch. Most notably, Valeera is not in the game and Tassadar and Rexxar reworks are not there either.

Match reports, VODs

Website Link
Master League -
Twitch -
YouTube -

For feedback about the match thread, please contact /u/lerhond.

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An insight into Lucio's design process (courtesy of Simpsons)

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 05:15 PM PST

Failed Talent reworks

Posted: 04 Feb 2017 10:55 AM PST

There are a few heroes that have recieved talent reworks and they are right back to only having one viable build.

Dehaka, Zeratul, Tychus, and Butcher have incredibly high pick rates for one talent over the other 3 in the vast majority of their talent tiers.

If their intention with the reworks was to provide real options for players I think these heroes need to be looked at. If they set up the reworks properly they should be able to shift some numbers around to make the other talents a little more attractive.

It might be time for some tweaking.

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