Mommystrasza Edition>Latest PTRhttps://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24232472/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-september-2-2025>Latest live updatehttps://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24224135/heroes-of-the-storm-live-patch-notes-july-29-2025
Alex's 500 HP buff talent is the most fun level 20 in the game. Peer-reviewed by /hots/bros.
if you play murky you need to be euthanized
Diablo heroes > Nexus heroes > Overwatch heroes > Warcraft heroes > Starcraft heroes
>>1979773Murky is best for dealing with shitty allies. When you can clear waves instantly and come back 6 seconds after dying it's not so stressful. The issue is that eventually you reach an MMR where people know how to deal with puffer fish and don't take the bait off chasing you. All that leaves you is octo and while it can be effective, it's easily counted by killing you so it's not the I win button it was on lower ranks. However, of you're upset about playing against murky, the only thing I can sympathize with is that you have to babysit him and he can fuck to forever, you can't fuck up once. But he's very easy to deal with for most heroes. Li Ming is an interesting case. She has no counter to fish bribe, but he does provide her trait value. Most murky players are bad and the fake egg talent needs to be changed. It needs to have collision detection so he can't hide under the obviously fake eggs. That shit is cancer and bribe is better anyway.
>>1979444I hate mei's voice so much. I only realized recently she's supposed to have a chinese accent. I thought she was just retarded. I also hate her voice lines. Speaking of shitty accents, why can we have samuro who is literally 2 flavors of racist asian caricature but queera has to speak with a British accent? I would pay money for regular fucking voices on her, orphia, yrel, and mei. Also if they made a white queera skin they could charge 50k gems for it and they'd double their profits of the last five years. We got black valla, chromie, and DVa. Why not?
>>1979896>why can we have samuro who is literally 2 flavors of racist asian caricatureBecause blademaster is an iconic character made in 2002>why can't we have blah blahBecause this game belongs to company that's been ran by dangerhairs and onions yuppies for years
>>1979755how so? it's like 2 auto attacks of a tank>>1979825>Diablo heroes > Orphea > Overwatch heroes > Warcraft heroes > Starcraft heroes > Dogshit > Birdshit > india/qhira/ratshitftfy
>>1979745
>>1980182Creating life with Alexstrasza!
>>1979926That reminds me, Anna and tracer too. Why does dva sound normal?
>>1980404>>1980406>>1980408A meme from the past... forgotten, like heroes in a storm...
>>1979745Her face was ruined
>>1980436It is not forgotten as long as we keep it alive
What to do, /hotsg/man?
>>1980682Accept and post their most played heroes.
Is Deckard shit, or just at low mmr?
Heroes of the Storm, a game that caters to the autistic.
>>1980428D.Va is supposed to be a heavily americanized streamer/esports person so they didn't bother with giving her a noticeable accent. Earlier OW heroes were more about recognizable accents rather than authentic/accurate ones (looking at you, Zarya)Ana came in a bit later when they started to push more for the representation angle, and making her sound more "ethnic" was their idea for beating it into people's heads that she was from EgyptAnd as for Tracer, well she's a bong, and bong accent is safe stereotype, no one will write an angry petition for a character that goes OI GOVNA 'TIS CHEWSDAY INNIT(this is all for Overwatch btw, in HotS they just used the same templates when voicing these chars)
I had an anuberak player in qm today. He was spamming every ability on cd including locust swarm. He was always out of mana and didn't peel once. I looked at his profile after the game. Playing for 10 years, level 261 anuberak. How? How are people like this? How many games did he ruin over the last decade? How can you be this dedicated and this bad? He wasn't a bot, he did respond to messages.
>>1980966samuro clones for insistence on sameness
OP forgot to link previous thread >>1870084
>Valla player decides on last second to switch to Muradin>bitches all game we have no damage and none can kill shit
>>1981455>Murky sole survivor Yeah that's pretty bad.
>>1981455>>1981500lmfao
Whitemane's lvl 1 quest feels like a trap but it's so addictive in ARAM
Zagara's lvl 4 quest feels like a trap but it's so addictive vs. Nova/Samuro
>>1982168it has decent scaling and AAs are a significant part of Zagara's damage output so I think it's actually the best oneMedusa is only good for Infest splitpushingEnvenom is only good against like a pesky Genji or to win early trades
Seriously, should I give up on deckard like I did Lucio? I'm qm/low mmr he's fucking useless. The sleep ultimate is pointless, your allies wake them up, and they dodge your pots like it's lava.
>>1982812if you're low mmr you should just pick a hero and play then and watch your own replays until you're not low mmr anymorewhich hero it is doesn't matter at all
>>1982948Well I got 100k gold and own most the heroes I want. I really like Lucio, but qm my qm allies don't benefit from move speed (they don't move.)I just had a game where my artanis was so timid I had to melee deathwing to death by myself with deckard. Sapphire bonus damage ftw.
>>1982957see>>1982948
>>1982968Watching my replays doesn't make me not get leavers and trolls every other game. I know that statistically I should get 20% less trolls since I'm not, but it really doesn't work out that way. If I get 2 wins in a row I get a enemy 5 stack and troll the next two games. Solo que climbing is nearly impossible. I do get potty trained allies, but only about a third of the time. I do have games where my team manages to overcome shitty qm comp or whatever, but it's so draining I can only do it a couple of times before I don't have the energy to keep trying. Improving just gets me shittier allies. I try best to work with them, but unless I want to play murky robotically I can't carry them. On the heroes I have trouble with I get players who carry me, but only about 25% of the time. IDK the experience you've had, but for me, I'll win 7 in a row then have 20 straight games of leavers, griefers, and players who've been playing for years but don't understand the basics of rotations, soaking, and objective values. When I win a game after an extra 10 minutes and really close team fights because my level 2000+allies don't know you can right click the core and don't have to do an objective that will spawn when the other team receives I just don't have the energy to do that 5 more times that day.
this game is still alive?
haven't played in years, had a shit load of fun when it was brand new and slowly stopped playing it around 2022. what's deathwing and yrel like now? they were my favorites to play>>1983075asking this too
>>1983075NA ranked is pretty much dead in the sense that the skill level has plummeted and you meet the same 20 people in diamondARAM is ARAM, you can find a game in seconds but it's ARAM and you might be forced to play a healer or something unfunEU is still alive or so I heard
>>1983075>>1983091On EU you will easily find matches in all modes except for Brawls – in cases of those it will heavily depend on the time and the particular brawl. And Unranked Draft, but that was never alive.
>>1983075NA here, <5 minute queue times for ranked at plat peak times. If you wanna play at 3AM it'll be like 10-15 minutes and a shitshow of rankings.ARAM is <10 seconds no matter the time. Don't play QM so no idea.
I'm still amazed by the pathology of these people who've been playing for 6+ years, have thousands of games she are still complete noobs. I mentioned the anuberak earlier, but the number of qm players who legit don't understand XP, objectives, or even that you can right click the fucking core is astounding. Do these "people" just play for years, never look into how to play better and never learn? and why are so many latin american?
Be kind to the 40% wr 2 KDA player with 10k games played. Maybe they're disabled.
NEW MAIN MENU THEMEIT'S HAPPENING
>>1986805Lol, maybeAlso unrelated: what's the point of them changing the holiday screen if the chests are the same and there's no quest? I guess they stopped doing event chests?
>>1987174what did they mean by this
https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24229032/heroes-of-the-storm-live-patch-notes-september-30-2025
>Blackheart's Bay, Hanamura Temple, and Warhead Junction will enter Ranked map rotation in the coming weeks!What the FUCK is the janny thinking? Yeah let's put the SHITTIEST maps in the ranked pool!
Dehaka fucked even further. Need 5 globes to get old z
Also they cut the slow from the fort change and reduced the area. It's so lame they might as well have removed fort mechanics altogether. Jimmy's inspire stacks with the new minion buff, expect a lot of split push laner.
>>1987489The janny wants me specifically to play ranked.He's succeeded.
Do you strictly need to play three placement matches to get a rank by the end of the season? Or can you play one and end up with a rank after the season ends?
>>1987831Better hurry up and play the other 2.
>>1987482>Locust damage increased by 25%.Spawn Locusts. Destroy enemy biomass. Logical decision.
Is my game bugged or is there no 2025 season 2 listed in the drop down history menu
Never mind, logging off and on fixed it
I don't think I like the tower changes... makes diving so much easier and it's hard to punish coordinated teams now.
for the love of god port this game to steam. the blizzard client is so shit
I do not like this patch. It promotes tardpushing and I will just lose even more games due to retarded teammates who never show up to defend forts. Well at least Abathur is marginally better.
>>1989757>Well at least Abathur is marginally better.They removed the small xp globes so his delayed soaking is worse.
>>1986208If a player develops a bad habit and doesn't know, how can you expect change?To answer your question though I think it can be a factor or a combination of these variables such as lack of knowledge, selfish attitude, no competitive drive, inattentiveness or just simply stupid. Playing for a long time doesn't really change the outcome of these previous points. Some people really do lack the innate ability to 'git gud'
>be mura>be in deep shit>dwarf toss away>"HOPP!">hurry away to safetyalways makes me chuckle
>>1989757It's fun for tanks and the siege-brained, unfun for pretty much everyone else.They should've just pushed the individual map changes to live, those are all good.
>>1989534Steam would just launch bnet
>>1989784I had a nazeebo today on my team wall me in and fail to lower it, then he walled around the immortal making it impossible to melee. Playing for ten years...
>>1990534I read on the Diablo 4 discussions on steam that it doesn't require bnet launcher, just a bnet account so you can login
>new patch is dogshit>the notes are in broken English>new mount looks similar to a Labubuit couldn't be more obvious
The minion inspire is an awful change. 0/10 Janny apply yourself.
>>1991058>>1991259I'm not a big fan of the minion change, but the fort change makes malfurion, wm, and Andy much better because you can hit heros to heal without building aggro. I suspect they may roll back the minion thing a bit, not remove it completely. That would be admitting it was dumb, but just nerf it to near useless.
>>1991394Yea I don't mind building targeting change at all. I think that was an intelligent move but right now babysitting lanes is so mandatory that QM and lower ranked leagues are basically unplayable since the average player can't see the minimap.
>>1991259>locks Exterminator>PvEs all day>mutes your toxic ass
>>1991440forgot to add>loses matchat the end
ok so here's the deal ok im going to deal 2 dmage/sec to the whole enemy team the whole gamesee my dmg stats? i'm a better dps than you.
>>1991511When did dps become "total hero damage?" Is it a zoomer thing?
no, i will not play sonya
>>1992663You don't like Leap?
Just played a QP match with a Cho'gal Aba combo. it was the most disgusting thing I've seen. even worse than the tryhards that party up Cho'gal+Auriel.
>>1992705Nta, I don't like any hero you have to sperg out and press buttons on every cooldown. There's no objective reason, I just personally don't prefer that kind of play style.
Did they change matchmaking? holy god have the teams been dogshit lately. every fucking game is one sided now
>>1997216Not that I'm aware of. What they did change "recently" is the timer before the matchmaker starts to "expand" the criteria is lower. This is only relevant for ranked. There's a sort of MMR for QM and ARAM as well but considering these prioritize finding a match quickly, you're always flipping a coin on whether you'll get actual human beings or monkeys as teammates.
Janitor broke the game.
>>1997273"Veteran challenge" works. I got my starter chest that I never got before. >>1997221>>1997216Is it because of the new season and people with new accounts trying to get a good placement? QM seems shittier than usual.
fucking jannie REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Interestingly, league got ddos'd earlier today. Cohencidence?
You cannot kill that which has no life!
>WHJ >Team is licking their wounds after a small skirmish >Two people start hearthing>ming randomly decides elegantly throw themselves into the middle of the enemy >misses every ability>enemy all have full hp>spam pings me for not backing them up>call them out for starting an 1v4 when team already was hearthing before they decided to do that play>they start intentionally feedingFor what purpose? Its all in the replay everybody can see what you've done. Instead of admitting to a very bad misplay they had to sink even further into their stupidity?
>>1995591Good news! Sonya is not that kind of a hero.
Mommy milkers!!!
>>1997704>For what purpose?there is no meaning, no purpose, we feed, we ping, it's mindless savagery, this Nexusverse is mindless
I opened that "starter chest" I got from playing the veteran challenge since the game was down. It contained 3 epic and one legendary. Is this normal? >>1997875
I didn't mean to link the previous post, IDK how that happened
>calibrated silver 1Well, it's been nice knowing you, /hotsg/, I'll just go kill myself.I used to think being a platshitter was disgraceful...
>>1998764This is normal. I don't think you can place higher than high silver nowadays. What your rank will be 100 games from now is more accurate.
>>1998770I calibrated low plat a couple months ago (I did suffer a colossal loss streak afterwards to low gold)
>>1998862Oh you mean not on a fresh account? Then yeah, you are bad and should feel bad.
>>1998893Why would I smurf in this game? (Or any game, but especially this one)
did janny fix aram yet?
>that one Rexxar who afks in the back because he's too afraid to lose his Animal Husbandry stacks
>>1979745Imagine deathwing plowing this nonstop and making hundreds of baby dragons haha. . .
This is odd. I got an email saying I was silenced, but I'm not. It looks legit and isn't telling me to click anything. Why?
>>2002359Check all the regions, you could have mistakenly received a silence on a server you do not play on.
>get praised like a deity first game, and get told they'll miss not having a healer like me always>next team i'm in shits on me non-stop
>>2002411Interesting. I only went on the other server once to check if it was also not working. I wasn't there long enough to get silenced, especially considering no one could play any game.
>>2002551I had the one exact same ally and opposing healer 2 games in a row. First game, "why do you have half the healing?" Uhh because I can't heal you when you're dead 2 screens away? Second game I have twice the healing. Only difference was feeding ally changed team. This was iron fist kara vs enemy malf...
>>1979745>>1980460Not in the cinematic. She looked fine there. Then again characters always look better in cinematics.
>>2002948She looks terrible there.
>come back to this game after fuck knows how many year>alternate between aram and qm>every qm, without exception, people gather mid and fight from minute 0>other lanes usually free so i go to one of them and soak instead>meanwhile there's a high chance the lane on the other side of the map is emptyDid my account mmr fall down into the shitter realm while I was away? Kills don't feel like they give more xp than a single minion wave at the start of the game. Also, I often get matched with people with single/double digit account levels.
>>2003410I think that after a long period of inactivity (1-3 years google tells me) your MMR soft resets to silver something. There's no silver rank in QM but you get the idea. The "good" news is that since your MMR uncertainty is so high right now you should be able to win most games if you simply outsoak.
>>2003413I've racked up 50 qm games since I came back and people are still brawling mid at the beginning. I may just be a shitter myself, even though back when numerical ranks where a thing I managed to achieve rank 10.
>>2003410>>2003431people have been fighting for first blood at mid at the beginning of the game since the game was releasedplayers in QM tend to play just for fun, if you want optimized matches go play ranked
>>2003410On top of what others said you used to be able to get full XP from that until a VERY (less than a couple of weeks ago) patch by running up and grabbing orbs after the mid fight.
