Heroes of the Storm

So many haters in this game. Thing is worst than cs / sc / every previous mmos i played, combined.
People need to stfu or dont play with pugs. Thank god for mute option.

Ao-_sl said:

Bad as DotA or LOL?

Click to expand...

It might be his first moba in which case he was not prepared for the shitlords.

Dudebro_sl said:

auto-pick says it selects the role most needed by your team..........I get azmodan.......are you fucking serious blizzard. Specialist isn't even a needed role on a team.

Click to expand...

Azmo wins games bro. Dunk master time.

I play almost all azmo, but I'm not in ranked. I do work.

They're making so once you hit lvl 30 you won't be talent gated anymore. Hopefully next patch.

I didn't think this was possible, but I managed to win a game in ranked with 2 AI's. 1 was the entire game, the other dropped at the around level 10.

I feel like I get an AI at least one out of every 6-7 games. It could actually even be more than that. I wish that was tracked in Hotslogs.

Bad thing about Azmo free week is everyone thinks dunk build Azmo is what you need to go for regardless of map or team comp. I had an Azmo on my team that finished literally with 9k damage at the end of Mines going dunk build. It takes a bit of execution to actually make it work and some people are fucking terrible. By comparison I was on Tass with like 16k and our actual damage were over 20k each. Then I got matched with the same guy next game and had to carry his ass again.

Anyone word on Sylvanas this week?

Apparently she wasn't even playable at PAX. So I'd doubt it.

How is Illidan balanced?

DeLLy_sl said:

Illidan is amazing. One of the few heroes in the game that I used to think was awful because the community said he was, then I played him until 5 and I can't stop playing him. He is definitely my go to assassin when playing with friends.

You just gotta make sure you build him somewhat defensively. If you go all damage you will definitely get rekt.

Click to expand...

Illidan benefited both from direct buffs (documents/undocumented) and a great deal of hero nerfs. The primary undocumented buff (that's probably a bug) is how his W in the last patch gives him CC immunity - it's not supposed to do that. Illidan squirts out of a lot of death situations right now merely by pressing W, and it's pretty unlikely that it'll stay that way. Indirectly Illidan was GREATLY boosted by the complete gutting of tank heroes in the game. In particular, the fall of Arthas and Chen helped out Illidan a lot. Both Arthas and Chen had strong enough damage/CC that Illidan really couldn't live when diving into a team that had either.

Basically, two patches ago, Illidan flowchart was -

Go in --> Get focused --> Die to full team + damage tank while being unable to avoid CC.

This patch Illidan's flowchart is -

Go in --> Get focused --> Team doesn't have enough damage --> Team can't CC you because you get to use W for invul frames.

Basically in short, Tol is right, and Tenks is incredibly ignorant about how patch changes can drastically have an effect on a Hero's viability.

I gotta wonder how long maps will be free. The resources they're spending on maps could be put towards more heroes or skins which will get them more money. But new maps, while keeping the game interesting, don't directly put any food on the table so to speak. Maybe they'll open map making up like SC2 once the game releases.

That said, have they said which heroes are under development? Sylvanas is next of course, but then who? I've heard rumors of Kael'thas, Dahaka, and D3 Wiz, but that's about it. Oh, and ppl begging for D2 Necro.

I kind of wish they would stop with the maps and just focus on more heroes because at this point when the new map hits, you will only have a 1/7 chance at playing on it so woop-de-fucking-doo.

They are taking far to long to add heroes right now anyways. 34 heroes is nowhere near enough to keep matches varied and interesting.

It's crazy how many characters they can have in this game with their lore from multiple game worlds yet the list is so small at this point. If the sylvanus patch isn't even hitting this week that's just ridiculous. That patch should have been last week already.

34 heroes is plenty enough to keep things varied, IF talent specs actually changed the class enough so as not to resemble itself when in another spec. Scale back the baseline and make the talents REALLY matter withmeaningfulchoices. Changing the way core skills work, while giving them an alternate color or skin when specced a certain way would take much less dev time than creating new classes from scratch, and it would increase diversity exponentially.

Ya but let's be reasonable here, that's not gonna happen.

Yea not to piss on your parade but the dream of having every talents viable with meaningful, different, specs was / is / will never be. No matter which blizs game. Theres always a go-to spec and terrible filler talents options.

Like others said, the only thing that can hurt hots is blizz themselves. They have so many characters to choose from. Theyre competing with companies that sports many more heroes. They always aim for this perfect balance and fail to deliver on the volume. I dont care if my Faltas is fubar for a month or 2, since am having fun playing king leorics. Release the game already, pump more heroes, balance over time.