Heroes of the Storm

Tenks

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At the start of the game before the gates drop a Goblin will spawn. If your team kills him before he portals out (gates open) you get some bonus gold for the game. How hard he is to kill is unknown but I'd assume trivial. Just a fun way to add a bit of gold as an event.
 

Arch

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There was a response to that (and items similar to that) from one of the devs, basically they said the ptr build may not always be the most current (so if something is missing there it isn't going to be removed, the build just might not be complete) they listed some other examples of shit that was gone but not going anywhere.
 

Pyros

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Yeah I got told they're putting the patch on PTR next week, so I'm not buying anything, I'll wait until I see nerfs/buffs, saving my gold for now. Well I bought Malfurion but he was 2k anyway so not a huge issue. Since I'm gonna be playing FFXIV for the next few weeks, I might as well wait, there might also be price reductions and shit so I'll spend my gold better by waiting a bit more. Plus Brightwing is on the free rotation so no real need to buy him until next week anyway.
 

Tenks

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I honestly think it would be a fair nerf. BW is still the strongest support (at least in pub environments) because she lacks any real downside. You can get burst healing with Gust and you get sustained healing via trait. Then don't even consider her E lets people effectively chase and retreat and Poly is arguably the best CC in the game.
 

2002User

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Chu is fun because he doesn't try hard even in the least. He plays trash tier heroes more often than not it seems and doesn't take himself seriously at all. Grubby is probably the best tryhard stream if you're trying to learn how to actually play the game better.
Nickhots is actually a pretty good streamer as well -- he has good interaction/game knowledge and answers every question that gets posted in his chat. He can be a bit salty at times, which can be entertaining or not depending on who you are, but at least it's a contrast from the other streamers who are always sunshine and rainbows.

As far as the Brightwing changes go, Gust of Healing nerf is pretty big, but I don't think it will wreck the hero entirely. Just make her more situational. In my opinion, I think people will start picking Malfurion to deal with lots of AOE damage instead of getting Brightwing just because "shes the best."
 

Tenks

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Browder said the trait is somewhat problematic because in the early game Leoric has basically a shorter rez timer than Murky
 

Pyros

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Browder said the trait is somewhat problematic because in the early game Leoric has basically a shorter rez timer than Murky
They could just make it scale, or add a penalty to rezing that is reduced as you level up or whatever, plenty of ways to deal with it. The passive looks really strong though, since you basically keep vision of people and stuff as you're dead.
 

Tenks

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I wonder if the Butcher mount will be a freebie. Since it is just the kodo with some shit added to it.
 

Pyros

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Instead of new heroes, let's get Chen and Sonya out the dumpster
I really liked Sonya when I played her, her damage output is pretty ridiculous I found when you use Wrath of the Berzerker and start spamming those smashes and shit. Also pushes crazy fast if people decide to ignore you because "lelz sonya is pushing, who cares". Like you can keep WotB for a stupid amount of time and you spam those 600-700damage line aoes every second or so, you'll demolish an entire lane in like 40seconds if left alone at higher levels, even specialists for the most part don't push as fast as her.

Her main issue I'd say is she's considered a Warrior for the game balancing purpose in QM, when really she's a tanky assassin. In HM I guess it really depends on how you build your team but it follows the same principle, you can't have her as your only initator cause she's pretty shit at it.
 

TecKnoe

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just tried playing a hero league game after a while of not playing, as soon as i switch to hero league, basically click play at the top my game freezes constantly.

this ever happen to anyone?

i logged into my cousins bnet account wich dosent have hero league unlocked and it worked fine.
 

Dudebro_sl

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I really liked Sonya when I played her, her damage output is pretty ridiculous I found when you use Wrath of the Berzerker and start spamming those smashes and shit. Also pushes crazy fast if people decide to ignore you because "lelz sonya is pushing, who cares". Like you can keep WotB for a stupid amount of time and you spam those 600-700damage line aoes every second or so, you'll demolish an entire lane in like 40seconds if left alone at higher levels, even specialists for the most part don't push as fast as her.

Her main issue I'd say is she's considered a Warrior for the game balancing purpose in QM, when really she's a tanky assassin. In HM I guess it really depends on how you build your team but it follows the same principle, you can't have her as your only initator cause she's pretty shit at it.
Wrath of the berserker is a billion times better ult than leap, anyone who is decent at sonya takes it. Every time I see someone play her and take leap I sigh and realize they suck.