Heroes of the Storm

Tenks

Bronze Knight of the Realm
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I'm honestly starting to really hate Valla. She either is played by someone somewhat capable that blows everything up or she's played by some dipshit looking for the FOTM. The first person that I always see complain in a game, and totally degrade the morale of the team, is always a Valla player (assuming there is one).
I think the personality that gravitates towards Valla is just a toxic player in general. Very rarely will you see the tank or support be the one spewing bile it always seems to be the damage dealer.

And yeah since she requires a certain amount of positioning you can get a Valla on your team who's #1 enjoyment in life is being out of position and crushed. Then complain about how it is the teams fault no one backed her up.
 

Dudebro_sl

shitlord
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So ya, 3 warriors on a team is a death sentence to lose. Might as well camp fountain if that happens.

I still notice a trend where the more range damage characters your team has, the better chance you are going to win the match. Last night I got the team of sylvanus, raynor, valla, jaina, and zagara. The other team had a healer and tank and was balanced, but we completely obliterated them. Their tank couldn't even get in close to us without dying instantly.
 

bixxby

Molten Core Raider
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I just tried Nova for the first time. Wow I do not like her at all.
Really depends on the match up you get. Some matches with her suck noodles, but then you get those games where you just destroy dudes all day and it's just fantastic.
 

Mures

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Bought my first hero w/ money. Zagara was the last hero I really wanted to own and was 1/2 off. If anyone is interested in gauging how ftp the game is, I've been playing since the last wipe, in alpha about 6? months ago; I've earned all the free gold you can in a reasonable amount of time and I own about half the hero pool, I think there are 33 heroes and I have 16. Get to save up for master skin next.
 

Alpha

Bronze Knight of the Realm
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I'm honestly starting to really hate Valla. She either is played by someone somewhat capable that blows everything up or she's played by some dipshit looking for the FOTM. The first person that I always see complain in a game, and totally degrade the morale of the team, is always a Valla player (assuming there is one).
I have 58 games played with Valla and 9 losses. I rarely talk in game because I'm too busy wrecking...
 

Tol_sl

shitlord
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I disagree. I think Malf is where supports need to be at and Rehgar needs to be tuned down.
I feel like he got left behind as the other supports got tuned up. His moonfire feels really anemic these days, his heal takes a long time to kick in, and the root is nothing to write home about. I think at one point he was pretty great but now people would generally rather play tyrande/uther/rehgar
 

Arch

Lord Nagafen Raider
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Yea I really don't like Malf, I think he is way inferior to the other healers but I admittedly don't have a lot of experience with him.
 

Mures

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Anyone do that heroes of the dorm bracket and do well? I only got 4 of the final 8 teams correct, but both ppl I picked as finalists are still in it, I picked arizona state to win it all. Seems the ppl at the top got 75-80% correct picks. Might watch the top 8 with the bros this saturday over mumble.
 

Lodi

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Anyone got a spare key they could PM me? I've now got a coworker that wants to try this out.
 

Tenks

Bronze Knight of the Realm
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I just deleted my last batch of keys. Sorry dude.

It seems twitch viewership of HotS has spiked up pretty significantly since the latest patch. Not entirely sure why. Probably easier access to the beta. It is 9 EST and ZPs is streaming to 650 people. Even a few months ago it wasn't uncommon for his numbers to be more around 100.
 

Neph_sl

shitlord
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I'd guess it's bc of Heroes of the Dorm, college people looking to get better at the game through watching streams?

I personally haven't been playing or watching much in the past 2 weeks, but the nice thing about this game (well, any multiplayer game, really) is that I can just hop in whenever.
 

Tenks

Bronze Knight of the Realm
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Yeah I haven't played much recently. Between SC2 and D3's resets basically at the same time they're consuming most of my game/view time. Though since I've completely stopped doing QM and really only play hero I find the game enjoyable again. Except I almost always play warrior it seems and it is by far my worst role.
 

Rombo

Lord Nagafen Raider
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Whats you guys experience with Illidan? I find him a blast to play and is awsome at ''closing the deal'' on heroes who would otherwise make it out and run from a fight.
I did maybe around a hundred games on him and his heroe dammage is actually quite low compared to other assasins. Even specialists like Sylv / Zag normally end above me. Am guessing thats his play style tho and not something wrong on my end. That result is just too common.

His speed and map control is saaaaweet tho.