Heroes of the Storm
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If it makes you feel better Nova is going to get nerfed pretty heavily soon. Probably in a patch in the next few weeks. Nova is frustrating but also pretty easily countered. Just take block if you can at level 1 and spell shield at 13. She literally can't do any damage anymore. In fact I've recently hopped aboard the party bus of speccing very much for survivability and defense over offense.
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Oh I am sure she will get nerfed with all the bitching being done about her. The truth is she has limited escape options and if they are a stupid playing and running around close you can knock them out of stealth. But if they are good they roam lines and hop in fights where a player it already at 50% and just zero's his ass in a second. As a stealth unit she shouldn't have more burst than non stealthed assassins. Even so it isn't a big deal either way. When your team groups it's less of an issue, but if you solo pug they stomp. My biggest complaint is there aren't many tools to balance the stealth. An example of bullshit is when they are behind your towers when you are going back to base since there is no detection.
Hell I think the gold gain is my biggest issue right now. Otherwise as I said it's pretty fun over all even if dumbed down compared to other MOBA's in this one it really comes down to team fight vs team fight.. Since laning, items, and XP don't matter.
Someone posted this on SA:
Heroking Interviews Heroes Game Director Dustin Browder - YouTube
"huge nerf, the biggest nerf ever, enjoy your nova time now, it's not going to last."
I know he's joking, but we've all played enough blizzard games to know to anticipate a massive nerf into the ground and then get in on the next FoTM that they take 8 months to nerf instead.
Heroking Interviews Heroes Game Director Dustin Browder - YouTube
"huge nerf, the biggest nerf ever, enjoy your nova time now, it's not going to last."
I know he's joking, but we've all played enough blizzard games to know to anticipate a massive nerf into the ground and then get in on the next FoTM that they take 8 months to nerf instead.
You gotta ping man. You can't expect everyone on your team to be a superstar. People will generally blindly follow pings. So if you are engaged in a 1v1 just above the lane just ping yourself or the enemy and generally the person in lane will assist. Can't complain when your team mates didn't make the right decision if you didn't let them know what you felt the right decision was.
Clairvoyance is overall just a good skill. Very nice for "I think they're taking these mercs" and getting confirmation or denial. I know some of the tip top level teams are starting to get away from it because the map movement is pretty predictable so they are saying the only time you use clairvoyance is when you already know where they're at so Cleanse is starting to get a bit more play.
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Speaking of Uther... such a strong support. Lots of direct healing, two stuns, can keep healing and stunning even after death. Absolutely my go to support. My repertoire is basically uther, tychus, valla. Need to get proficient with a warrior now and Arthas seems like the obvious choice. Thoughts on that ?
If you get good at Arthas you can be proficient at the "OP and probably gunna get nerfed" trifecta of Arthas, Uther and Tychus.
I really wonder how accurate hotslogs is... every time I upload a replay batch all the losses are duplicates while almost none of the wins have been uploaded.
One of the HOTS personalities said he talked to someone at Blizzcon asking how accurate Hotslog really is compared to their internal MMR and he said they checked it recently against the playerbase and it wasn't accurate at all
Man Nazeebo is insanely good. Once you hit 16 to get the bonus poison damage to heroes he just puts out absurd hero damage. I swear my ult was doing like 5k damage everytime I popped it. I also found out Diablo is an excellent counter to him since Diablo can just ult when you ult to cancel it.
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I just purchased him myself because everytime I see him on the enemy team he's a force to be reckoned with. He's a beast in lane, and like you mentioned, puts out insane hero damage. His ult is channeled, but I don't think many people understand that and unless you stop him quickly he's already won the teamfight. You could also scoop up sprint if you're worried about mobility. Looking forward to playing him more.