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Heroes of the Storm |OT2| Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
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Familienoberhauptvogel
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I went full q build so far with submerge at 20 but I've also been playing against a lot of tracers.
What is the standard frequency of new hero releases and how far in advanced are they normally announced? I started playing around Samuro release and following him was the Varian/Rag Blizzcon announcement and their subsequent releases so I don't know how it works normally without Blizzcon announcements.
Lately they've announced a pair of heroes and released them and after both are out, they announce the next pair.
This time will be different, though, due to the holidays. We probably won't hear anything til after the New Year. Vol'jin is the next one, we presume, based on a teaser shown at Gold Club World Championships, but we've heard nothing else since then AFAIK.
This time will be different, though, due to the holidays. We probably won't hear anything til after the New Year. Vol'jin is the next one, we presume, based on a teaser shown at Gold Club World Championships, but we've heard nothing else since then AFAIK.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Usually you see an announcement within 2-3 weeks of the last released hero that was known coming.
I'm hoping for Fenix or Genji, just anything but a Warcraft hero.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Usually theyll be announced a month ahead, then put out on ptr the 3rd week after, and released the week after that
Unless they do a bundle of announcements like Varian and Rag, in which case theyll release wach one after another, every month.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
it's generally a 3/4 week cycle sometimes prolonged by PTR first.
Anoregon
The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Ya the lack of trolls in this game is frankly disgusting.
TheSadRanger
Banned
Lucio or Zenyatta :O
Too bad they've said that we're not getting any supports anytime soon :/
Lucio has nearly the same kit as Brightwing as does Tyrande with Zenyatta. There's a lot of overlap between hots and overwatch.
Tyrande with Zenyatta? Say what lol. The damage amplifier, sure, but several heroes have that. Zen's healing is completely different (more like Morales) and his orbs can be utliized however they please for his damage IMO.
Lucio's passive will be a problem, yes, since it already exists to some degree on Brightwing. I'm not sure how they'd bring him in as anything but a speed bot, which is kind of what he is in OW now I guess.
Lucio's passive will be a problem, yes, since it already exists to some degree on Brightwing. I'm not sure how they'd bring him in as anything but a speed bot, which is kind of what he is in OW now I guess.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Varian is dope.
Kinda want male barb next. The Diablo classes still have a ton of potential.
Kinda want male barb next. The Diablo classes still have a ton of potential.
Mercy and Zen have similar healing to Morales, yeah. They can find ways to flavor that stuff up though.
Ana is not like anyone in her core gameplay, really. Uther only has one skillshot and it's not even his primary heal. To actually have to hit every skillshot to get any heals at all would be interesting. Stim is like Morales, yeah, but her ult could easily just be the sleep.
Ana is not like anyone in her core gameplay, really. Uther only has one skillshot and it's not even his primary heal. To actually have to hit every skillshot to get any heals at all would be interesting. Stim is like Morales, yeah, but her ult could easily just be the sleep.
scoobs
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Tyrande for Zenyatta was a strech I can admit but it was mostly because she has a built-in an on-demand "Discord orb" and her healing output is pretty low like Zenyatta. You pick Zenny when you need a little more DPS just like Tyrande. In any case, as much as I want another support in hots I don't think it'll come from the Overwatch section of Blizzard.
Like i feel it wouldnt be hard at all to differentiate between lucio and bw, all you have to do is accentuate their specializations
The main difficulty w/ lucio is that theyd have to amp up their time frame for getting storm shield out of the game and that ms boosts are hard to balance in this game
The main difficulty w/ lucio is that theyd have to amp up their time frame for getting storm shield out of the game and that ms boosts are hard to balance in this game
it does lots in fights (think of bw e w/o the block, u def feel the power behind ms), used to be standard on etc when it was 20%, ms does lots in other mobas for everything but in hots it's gonna be relegated to off-mount stuff, which is still nice
if u think of circles of influence in mobas it basically buffs your ability to move them around, lucio was also used to this effect in higher lvl overwatch (a lot in season 1), where the speed boost was like many magnitudes more valuable than the heal boost. it's different in a point and click game but a lot of the benefits still exist. and like ostensibly lucio would have an aoe for it. but yeah I agree that lucio is probably too much of a headache to adapt to hots atm
MotionBlue
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Ragnaros is the most fun I've had in a MOBA in years. The developers deserve props for that.
Ok, so everyone's top 3 heroes released this year? From a design, fun, meta, or whatever standpoint.
I think mine would have to be, in no particular order:
Auriel - A healer with solid waveclear and can make plays, and a ton of great talent choices. I love the frantic nature of her gameplay.
Alarak - Great poke, sustain, and I love how he can mess up tanks. And again, he can really make plays if you master his telekinesis.
Medivh - I love the complexity of Medivh's kit. At any given time he has to think about what he's doing, and always needs to make a choice about when to be in raven form scouting. I'm not great with Medivh, and I love that he challenges me to play better and better.
How about everyone else? Sounds like Ragnaros will be on most of your lists. I've got nothing against him, and he's probably in my upper half of heroes from this year, but he's just not my style so much.
I think mine would have to be, in no particular order:
Auriel - A healer with solid waveclear and can make plays, and a ton of great talent choices. I love the frantic nature of her gameplay.
Alarak - Great poke, sustain, and I love how he can mess up tanks. And again, he can really make plays if you master his telekinesis.
Medivh - I love the complexity of Medivh's kit. At any given time he has to think about what he's doing, and always needs to make a choice about when to be in raven form scouting. I'm not great with Medivh, and I love that he challenges me to play better and better.
How about everyone else? Sounds like Ragnaros will be on most of your lists. I've got nothing against him, and he's probably in my upper half of heroes from this year, but he's just not my style so much.
I'm an expert
Formerly worldrevolution. The only reason I am nice to anyone else is to avoid being banned.
Medivh, Xul, Dehaka would be my top 3 this year. Wish I had more opportunities where I could pick Medivh.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Zarya, Chromie, Li Ming.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Xul was this year? Feels like ages ago
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Honorable mention and RIP to elixir pokegod Greymane. You'll be missed.
thekillermuffin
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Medivh, Auriel, Li Ming
Honorable Mentions: Greymane (RIP), Varian
Honorable Mentions: Greymane (RIP), Varian
thekillermuffin
Member
Just played my third brawl game for the portrait and gold.
Got a Kerrigan on my team that never once went into the mines, and was literally never with the team. Whenever I asked for help the person berated me in Spanish. I translated one to find he was saying "suck black dick". What a game.
Got a Kerrigan on my team that never once went into the mines, and was literally never with the team. Whenever I asked for help the person berated me in Spanish. I translated one to find he was saying "suck black dick". What a game.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Streaming is weird, it's so personal like watching reality TV only actually real. So like last week Karen is streaming and telling everyone she's going to see fan, then today bam they broke up.
I didn't sign up for this, I only wanted to watch some professional hots.
Also there's some dude called kbro who's somehow at fault but it's not Kenma which he reemphasizes on and apparently it's someone from Tempo but fan deleted the tweet where he called them out.
Unrelated to that or idk akaface called Naventic out on something and bige is still the chillest dude in the mix.
I didn't sign up for this, I only wanted to watch some professional hots.
Also there's some dude called kbro who's somehow at fault but it's not Kenma which he reemphasizes on and apparently it's someone from Tempo but fan deleted the tweet where he called them out.
Unrelated to that or idk akaface called Naventic out on something and bige is still the chillest dude in the mix.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
do we have some hot vid of the truth coming out
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Fan is pretty buff why would he be a basement dweller? I was more surprised he had an online relationship.
Fan and Karen always streamed hots together. Karen's actually a pretty good player.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
scoobs shittalked?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Fan's not a gafer in this thread, I don't see the relevance.
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