Heroes of the Storm

Yeah, played a bunch over the weekend. I made the comparison before, and I believe others have as well, and this really is the tfc of mobas, really just what I needed. I just wanted a moba atmosphere with a casual mindset. Teamwork is very important in this game just as other mobas, but I like how the maps are smaller and you have a mount to travel around on making it easier to work as a team with pugs.

ETC has been my hero of choice, I seem to do a lot better on him than other heroes, I suppose because on other heroes I'm waiting on other people to make plays so I can capitalize on it, but etc I can make the plays happen. His peel is amazing, I can choose the target making it easier for an uncoordinated team to focus fire. If a dps/specialty hero gets just a little too close they are going to get stunned and knocked back into my party; likewise I can use his stun/knockback to keep heroes zoned out of a fight if the positioning calls for it. And I love the teleport ult, stage dive, it ruins so many people's day, can catch people out, or split push and drop in on a team fight, or get objectives.

Haven't tried tyrande yet, but I'm not sold on LiLi either, she seems like a solid hero, but I suppose as is typical for support needs a good team for her to support, the good thing is, she almost never dies so she is tricky to deal with. You can try and focus her, but with her increase move speed on hit makes her extremely hard to finish off, and if you focus the other hero she is with they are going to get healed a bunch. I just got her last night and only played a couple of games so it'll take me a little while to really use the hero.

Ok, yeah, I just had a bad first couple of games on lili last night. First team I play with that actually works together and I go 9-0. I guess my mmr has gone up over the course of me leveling because my games have fewer deaths than they used to.

Rime_sl said:

LiLi is my 'go to' pubstomp character. Good damage potential and amazing survivability/healing/support.

I am still terrible at the game, just as I was in DotA2 and LoL, but at least the games are short enough that I do not feel like banging my face into the keyboard when it is a nearly sure loss and my team wants to see it to it's 50 minute conclusion.

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I'm seriously about to quit playing until they nerf lili, they need to increase the mana cost of her heal big time. Its bullshit you can spam it and never worry about mana without even taking the mana regen passive at lvl 1.

I never played murky before is the new talent that buffs pufferfish aoe replace the one that increased it's health because it seems kinda bs otherwise to also reduce its explode time to 4s, its already a very small, if any, window for melee to kill/chase murky out and destroy the pufferfish. If they still can spec extra health and they explode 1s sooner it'll be impossible for a melee hero to babysit murky. Octograb is actually really good cc, so these murky changes just seem to me he is going to be even more annoying. Really can't believe they didn't do anything with the egg, there needs to be some kind of debuff that takes longer to respawn the further you are from your egg so it actually encourages people to drop the egg out on the map and not just stay in their base, or in the case of that not happening I don't think murky should be allowed to mount, again to encourage people to not just hide in their base.

You also didn't mention one pretty big new feature, you can report people now.

Tenks_sl said:

Are we BNet friends Mures?

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Don't think so, Serum#1204

Murked_sl said:

How is the playstyle of this compared to other mobas? Do I still need to click around in circles and try to snipe the last hit on enemies to get the gold/xp or w/e? I really hated that.

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Nope, no last-hitting, just need to be near the minions to soak up xp for your team. In hots the focus is much more fighting the other heroes than minions/creeps.