Heroes of the Storm - Thursday Teaching Thread - Beginners encouraged to ask questions here! | January 11 - January 17 |
- Thursday Teaching Thread - Beginners encouraged to ask questions here! | January 11 - January 17
- 2017 Ranked Season 3 Rewards Update
- Blaze and zagara creep
- Tempo Storm's Cattlepillar Demonstrates How to Stack Thrall's Crash Lightning Talent
- "A Look at Map Ban Consistency in Phase 2 of 2017" by CourtneyHotS, Analyst for GFE
- Grubby really wants Misha to stay
- January 9th Patch - 48 Hours Later
- Introducing a blue post tracker for r/heroesofthestorm
- Let's apply the "mewnrant" to your favourite Heroes.
- Heroes Brawl of the Week, January 12, 2017: Industrial District
- Entry Level Esports #6 - Why is Everyone in Esports Broke?
- Tyrael Rework INC confirmed!
- Blizz has plans for visible MMR
- Games feel much better after the tweaks and changes! And seem to go a bit longer
- [Minor Frustration] Dear Nazeebo Players, you don't >HAVE< to go Vile Infection
- Unintuitive mechanic: being in Blaze's Bunker removes you from contesting points of interests.
- Mecha Tyrael Announcer?!
- Please stop spreading misinformation when whining about gem-only bundles
- Lag since this patch
- Fashion Illidan
- Probius: Pylons & Photo Cannons
- When you realize your team probably shouldn't be playing ranked. (muted due to music but probably better off that way lol)
- Can we have a way to Disable Specific Heroes from Random?
- Why are people complaining about expensive purely cosmetic skins in a free game?
- Team Fight Analysis with Hero Physio, the coach for LFM Esports - GankBush Squad
| Thursday Teaching Thread - Beginners encouraged to ask questions here! | January 11 - January 17 Posted: 11 Jan 2018 09:00 AM PST Welcome to the latest Thursday Teaching Thread, where you the community get to ask your questions and share your knowledge. This is an opportunity for the more experienced HotS players here to share some of your wisdom with those with less expertise. This thread will be a weekly safehaven for those "noobish" questions you may have been too scared to ask for fear of downvotes, but also can be a great place for in depth discussion if you so wish. So, don't hold back, get your game related questions ready and post away, and hopefully someone can answer them! If you wish to just view top level comments (ie questions) add ?depth=1 to the end of the page url. If you have any additional questions, /r/nexusnewbies is happy to help. [link] [comments]  | ||
| 2017 Ranked Season 3 Rewards Update Posted: 11 Jan 2018 05:11 PM PST
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| Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:58 AM PST Burning away creep has to be one of the most satisfying starcraft feelings in the game right now. Doing that just made me feel like "this is it, this is why the firebat exists. Why I exist" [link] [comments]  | ||
| Tempo Storm's Cattlepillar Demonstrates How to Stack Thrall's Crash Lightning Talent Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:16 AM PST
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| "A Look at Map Ban Consistency in Phase 2 of 2017" by CourtneyHotS, Analyst for GFE Posted: 11 Jan 2018 09:23 AM PST
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| Grubby really wants Misha to stay Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:52 AM PST
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| January 9th Patch - 48 Hours Later Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:21 PM PST
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| Introducing a blue post tracker for r/heroesofthestorm Posted: 11 Jan 2018 03:12 AM PST HeyGuys Just dropping by to say I've made a dedicated "blue post" tracking bot that tracks Blizzard gaming subreddits. /r/blizztracker_heroes tracks when blues post comments in this subreddit, and flairs accordingly for each Blizzard representative in case you want to filter something out or search for something in particular. There's still a few kinks with some of the titles that dont always show up, but I'm getting there. The goal of this is to easily let you track the posts of Blizzard representatives or to catch up on your Anyway, this all drove me insane, so I made my own. There's also main hub /r/blizztracker that covers all Blizzard games if you just happen to play all of them. Feedback is appreciated! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Let's apply the "mewnrant" to your favourite Heroes. Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:38 AM PST Artanis: This guy totally makes the game unplayable. He f!cking pops in outta nowhere like HEEERE'S ARTY! and then swaps you halfway across the f!cking map into his team and you can't do anything about it. And then when he gets caught and you think you're about to kill him, NO! he survives with a sliver of health cuz his shields pop the last second and he kills EVERYONE. When those shields go off you feel like an obese hamster who's just come to the OH FCK ME realization that he's been running on a fcking wheel all this time. That's what you feel like. There's no balance here. Greymane: Good god, this guy shouldn't even be in the game. He freaking blasts your backline to half hp in one damn Cocktail, and then he jumps in and rips you up and you can't do anything about it. Ever feel like a tennis ball some rabid dog is chewing up, clawing out, and chewing up again while going RAWRWARSDRWRAADRF???? YOU'RE THAT TENNIS BALL WHEN YOU PLAY AGAINST GREYMANE. Hell even if you're tanky he just pew pews you until you're low enough for him to rip you a new one. And to make matters worse, HE CAN JUMP IN, KILL EVERYTHING CUZ THAT'S WHAT HE DOES, AND THEN DASH AND ROLL OUT LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED! He can even solo camps so he can apply merc pressure in the offlanes while he slaughters your team! What a joke. Alarak: Holy sh!t this guy is just ridiculous. When you're playing against Alarak as a squishy, he just fcking pulls you in (NO INDICATION OF WHEN OR WHERE IT'S GONNA HAPPEN SO YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT) and then Silences you while bursting you down to half hp so his team can do what they want with you. That's when you know you're fcked, and your primal instincts will fcking keep you desperately right clicking to walk away even when you know it's fcking hopeless. And to add to that, HE CAN HEAL HIMSELF...AND BURST YOU DOWN AS HE DOES SO. Not to mention when you think you can turn the fight and you unleash all your rotations on him - he just god damn turns Invulnerable, sucks up all your abilities like a fcking black hole AND THEN DETONATES YOUR ENTIRE FCKING TEAM. I don't wanna feel like I'm playing against some intergalactic supernova. Muradin: Ever wanted to know what it feels like to be a human chased by an angry Hulk? God there's a reason why this guy's been nerfed and nerfed and nerfed again. One stun and you fcking feel it explode out from your screen and literally paralyze your entire body. And then he slows you and does a ton of damage to you, and when you try to use your mobility skills he just fcking jumps after you like fcking Hulk in ragemode and stuns you again. And when you try to punish him for it he turns into a literal brick wall and absorbs EVERYTHING - while killing your team. Oh and just when you think he's at a sliver of health and you can finally kill him? HE FCKING JUMPS A WHOLE SCREEN AWAY WITH THAT FCKING 16 TALENT. Then he regenerates and comes back to SMASH PUNY HERO. Diablo: Another one of those Heroes you can't do anything about. He's like a fcking guided nuke locked onto you. You can run and dance and sh!t your pants but that point and click is just gonna wall stun you, take out half your hp, and push you deep into his team. The moment you see him you know your life is done. Like I don't even fcking try to do anything anymore. The second I see a Diablo pop up on my screen I just take my fcking hands off the keyboard and mouse and pray to green baby Jesus, close my eyes, and take off my headset, because I just accept I'll be seeing the fcking death timer when I open my eyes again. Kharazim: When you play against Kharazim you feel like those poor knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail when they happened upon that Killer Rabbit in the cave. This guy just flies between your allies, pummeling each with his machine gun fists like fcking Ip Man. And just when you think he's run out of Dashes his fcking trait movespeed allows him to catch up to you and unleash the fcking wrath of Ytar on the poor poor squishy that's running away. OH and you think he's dived deep enough to kill? The guy either Palms himself to give himself a second life so he can full on pummel your team's faces in again and Dash away to safety, or he'll fucking Ultra Instinct SSJ Blue Kaio Ken X40 speed blitz even the tankiest of your allies to death in seconds with his fcking ridiculous %hp damage. Guy's got a fucking get out of jail free card in EVERY ability. Q fcking saves him cuz he can dash a fcking map away, W fcking HEALS, E fcking gives him insane burst and movespeed so he can kill you while getting out of fcking jail, R1 makes positioning irrelevant, R2 makes his AND YOUR positioning irrelevant cuz what's it matter when he fcking takes out half your hp with one ult or melts your entire team if they're low on hp WHILE he is Invulnerable like fcking Superman. Murky (not a fave, but felt like he had to be included): I never wanna see this guy again. Ever imagined what would happen if fcking cockroaches could melt walls? That'd be Murky. He'd fcking come up, destroy everything you have and everyone you love, and just when you've squashed him he comes back seconds later and does it again. It'd be the end of human civilization. And then mid-late game he turns into fcking Godzilla and it takes fcking forever to kill him and stop his push, AND THEN HE COMES BACK SECONDS LATER AND TAKES AWAY EVERYTHING YOU LOVE. AGAIN. Ever imagine what it'd be like if Godzilla would come back seconds after you've killed him (if you fcking can)? Yeah that's what it feels like playing against a Murky. Sylvanas (not a fave, but still): Sylvanas is like THE fcking plague. They should just rename her trait to "Black Death of the Nexus" because that's what it feels like to play against her. One fcking ability and she shuts down all defenses you have so her push and her team doesn't get melted by the newly buffed structures like your team does. Your team gets a few picks and/or a better objective where in all other cases you can safely play aggressive and push? NO! As long as there's a fcking Sylv on the other team she can fcking melt all your structures faster than you, making all your god damn hard work worthless. It's like the whole GAME is against you when you play against a Sylv. No matter how hard you try the game just doesn't want you to win. I don't wanna feel that way when playing this game. 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| Heroes Brawl of the Week, January 12, 2017: Industrial District Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:40 AM PST
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| Entry Level Esports #6 - Why is Everyone in Esports Broke? Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:45 PM PST
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| Blizz has plans for visible MMR Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:50 AM PST Xenramek, the community manager present on the german b.net forums was asked if MMR will be openly visible and he answerd: "We have plans to do so, yes." So in the near future, people might actually be able to tell if they're over- or underranked. It could really shed some light into situations like we have now (with all those master 1000 placed platinum players for example). Source: https://eu.battle.net/forums/de/heroes/topic/17617741648#post-9 [link] [comments]  | ||
| Games feel much better after the tweaks and changes! And seem to go a bit longer Posted: 11 Jan 2018 07:07 AM PST Anyone else under the same impression or is it still just snowball fest? [link] [comments]  | ||
| [Minor Frustration] Dear Nazeebo Players, you don't >HAVE< to go Vile Infection Posted: 11 Jan 2018 09:51 AM PST Noticed this several times, decided to make a screenie of it this time. Notice that we are essentially level 21 and Nazeebo has ~130 stacks of the 175 for Vile Infection. Now, [[Vile Infection]] is a GREAT talent to have, absolutely phenomenal and it's a huge powerspike for any composition. however if you are nowhere near completion of the talent (still 40odd stacks missing, all our lanes are pushed in, we're already level 21) it is better to pick another talent (~ppssht! [[Humangoid]] is really good!) than to pick the "best" talent but get no value. Effectively, our Nazeebo didn't pick a level 20 talent. So next time you find yourself in this position for whatever reason (this time Nazeebo struggled to get stacks in the Zeratul gank lane), please just pick a less good, but useful talent instead of the better, useless talent :) Ggs! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Unintuitive mechanic: being in Blaze's Bunker removes you from contesting points of interests. Posted: 11 Jan 2018 03:30 PM PST If you're fighting over a merc camp, and Blaze puts down the Bunker on the point, climbing in will result in the enemy getting the merc camp as you no longer count for contesting inside the Bunker. I find this very unintutive. A bunker (in general) is supposed to be used to fortify your position to establish your ownership of an area. In the game, it instead it ends up being the very thing that gives it up. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 11 Jan 2018 03:47 PM PST
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| Please stop spreading misinformation when whining about gem-only bundles Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:10 AM PST The new Blaze skins cost 650 gems. The skins alone. That's about 7$ and NOT fucking 20$. Looking at you current top post. I bought the hero with gold yesterday, then the bundle for 650 gems. Iirc the bundle with the hero is around 1200 gems? that's about 15$ or probably less since you can get 1170 gems for ~12$. It's not "20$ for one and the same skins is insane bla bla cry cry". Thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 11 Jan 2018 06:12 PM PST Important note: I just got ethernet this patch too and it all happened around the same time so I can't be sure if it's one or the other but I've had around 40 ping most the time when I played on wifi but now when I play with ethernet I get ping spikes through the roof (said it was 7.3k ping earlier) even though my speedtest will say 9 ping at the same time. Not disconnecting on anything else, so I know it's just a problem with heroes but maybe something is messed up in my ethernet properties? Idk. I've checked my driver too and it seems fine as well. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 11 Jan 2018 08:52 AM PST
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| Probius: Pylons & Photo Cannons Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:01 PM PST Probius Pylons and Cannons oh my... how I love this little guy. I even bought the new skins that just came out for him with the release of Blaze. But you know what I don't love BLizzard? I don't love that you keep releasing skins without coloring the rest of his kit. I'm not asking for something super special here just match the colors. (Throw the texture for the Cannons and Pylons into Photoshop and recolor, boom done.) Please just stop releasing new skins for him until you have an intern go back and just color match the skins you already have in game. (Hell I'll do it for free as an intern, just send me a link to the texture files.) You know I'm not the first to ask for this to be fixed, I have seen other posts about this here. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 10 Jan 2018 11:32 PM PST
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| Can we have a way to Disable Specific Heroes from Random? Posted: 11 Jan 2018 05:49 AM PST I like to random when i play with friend in QM sometimes, However I seriously do not like the last vikings, And I currently Cannot play Hanzo with his movement bug. So I would like to prevent them from being in my list. Now I know I can choose to only random my favorite heroes but this maxes out at 10, and I know I can stop myself from Randoming into Specs and Assassins but again this limits the list of possibilities. You might be thinking, well why did you buy TLV when you dislike them so. And the truth is when 2.0 was released I could get one bundle I had all the other heroes, this one bundle only had TLV in it for me. I am not one to turn down free stuff even if I don't like them. Anyways perhaps an unfavorite option or unrandomable option similar to Favorites. As a side note, I think it would be Awesome to Random in to a Cho'Gall. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Why are people complaining about expensive purely cosmetic skins in a free game? Posted: 11 Jan 2018 10:56 AM PST I'm generally curious it's a FREE game right? if you just play the game and spend no money you can unlock everything, yes heroes cost gold and it takes about 1-2 weeks to earn 10k gold but you can also get heroes in loot boxes just from leveling existing heroes you own that seems more than fair to me for a free game, looking different is not game content it's purely cosmetic, why are people getting so worked up these skins are pricey?
look at Path of Exile its an awesome free game every expansion is free and yea their cosmetics are way overpriced but they are just that cosmetics they don't affect gameplay at all
Cosmetics just change how you look you don't have to buy them if blizzard sees people aren't buying these bundled skins they will change how they sell these skins
A good example of this is loot boxes a while ago blizzard changed that loot boxes bought with gems would be rare instead of common rarity ones because people weren't buying them, talk with your wallet and blizzard will listen if you buy these bundled skins and then you complain that they are too expensive blizzard still made money off you and will continue to have their pricing model the same exact way
My point is if blizzard sees people aren't buying these bundles they will change how new hero skins are sold, in the meantime just enjoy the free game it doesn't matter how you look. You won't win games cause you look cool okay?
EDIT: the game is free and getting so many updates and new heroes basically every 2-3 weeks because HoT's is making blizzard enough money to justify paying their staff to design these new heroes and countinly balance them, paying the staff is NOT free while this game is free. if blizzard sees their model isn't making them money they will change it.
The fact that the main thing people have to complain about right now are the overpriced skins in this game that helps keep the game free and also receiving so many updates just shows how amazing this game is, lots of other games have way worse problems than expensive skins, look at Hearthstone where each new expansion you need to spend like 200 dollars to be able to buy enough packs to get all the new cards to stay competitive [link] [comments]  | ||
| Team Fight Analysis with Hero Physio, the coach for LFM Esports - GankBush Squad Posted: 11 Jan 2018 12:44 PM PST
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