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FOOTFAGS WON EDITION

>News:
Heroes of the Storm is ALIVE!!
PTR for Xal'atath patch is live
Xal'atath is releasing on 2026-09-28
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I was hoping there would be a thread up for this. First hero in nearly 6 years. There must be still be 3 of us here!
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>next to no RNG
>mounts
>shared EXP
>supports that actually support
>characters all feel unique thanks to traits
>no shopping aids
>talents that actually change your character
>status effects that are consistent and easy to understand
>armor is simply a flat percentage damage reduction
>different maps with different objectives
>animations that have soul
>all abilities (except ult) at level 1
>12-18 minute games
>comeback mechanics that work
Heroes of the Storm is objectively the best ASSFAGGOTS.
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>new hero is another infinitely stacking assassin with a blink
Weird but could be worse I guess
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I wonder if Blizzard forgot him?
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>>2946672
>First hero in nearly 6 years
Holy shit has it really been this long?
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>>2948885
>Hogger was released in Heroes of the Storm on December 1, 2020
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>Man I wish Blizzard would update the game so people play again
>ARAM is now full of map hackers and mouthbreathers (More so than usual)
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I dropped this game back when they released d3 map and started pushing for e-sports shit.
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>>2946708
>mounts
trivialized map traversal is bad
>shared EXP
individual performance not being individually rewarded is commie dogshit
>no shopping aids
means the only reason to B is to heal at fountain. fucking boring
>comeback mechanics that work
so every game lasts til level 20+ and nothing before then matters because of all of the above
Game is alright but not even close to "objectively the best" like your retarded cunt mouth was shilling that it was. Also, fuck blizzard and fuck you.
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>>2952327
>trivialized map traversal is bad
What? The traversal is exactly the same you're just reducing time spent doing nothing.
>individual performance not being individually rewarded is commie dogshit
Not an argument
>means the only reason to B is to heal
Assuming your fountain is on cooldown, correct.
>so every game lasts til level 20+ and nothing before then matters because of all of the above
Games can easily fiish before 20. Comeback mechanics reward smart play.
>but not even close to "objectively the best"
Your complete lack of any valid argument says otherwise.
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Imagine being this desperate for crumbs for a kusoge that rightfully died.
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Starcraft trailer gave me an itch to reinstall hots and play a lot of Raynor and Tychus
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>>2953112
Even with korean stutterstepping, Raynor remains a mid tier hero outranged by 70% of the roster
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Hey this is me, your teammate for the game. I haven't played in 3 years. I came back because I heard the game was getting new stuff lol. Sorry for my 16 deaths lol. Wow they changed Yrel a lot!
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>>2955361
i do this
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Absolute noob here. I made it to rank 25 and bought myself the assassins hero box how do I get in with any groups or play parties because the only blizznet friend I have has been offline for 3 years and I'd like to be in the company of longer players who'd be willign to scream at me what to do because I still feel like I only know a quarter of the heroes.
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Why does the game randomly run like crap after not having played it in more than a year?
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So...
https://heroesofthestorm.blizzard.com/en-us/game/ranked-play/
I wanted to try this game but even your in game links are dead anons
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Repopulate the red dragonflight with Alexstrasza
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Hello /hotsg/, it's good to see you again. I hope you have been well these past few years?
With all these new and returning players I hope everyone has a great time.
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Diablo heroes > Nexus heroes > Overwatch heroes > Warcraft heroes > Starcraft heroes
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>>2965382
Zeratul would like a word
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>>2965382
Abathur is the most unique and often impactful hero in the roster. Your ranking is wrong and invalidated.
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>Hags of the Storm
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Probius rework to make him a support when?
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>>2965382
diablo and starcraft have the most solid lineup
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I've not played for years, have they change Tyrande any?
Every time I've tried this game again they've changed her.
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played when dev shut down. can't play this game without a streamer with a jew nose from throwing my game, just uninstalled
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>>2970491
https://nexus-patch-notes.github.io/heroes/tyrande.html
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>daily mission
>play 2 games as nexus or overwatch
>none on free rotation
Poor design.
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>>2973847
You can get one in ARAM, but yeah.
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>>2973847
You can just play with someone else who has it.
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>>2965526
No idea who she is but my dick wants to impregnate her
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>>2946334
hotsg is back!?!?!?!?
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The free 1-month stim from Blizzcon has been a disaster for game quality. So many returning players with the skill of a toddler who run into towers and average double digit deaths in a 15-minute ARAM.
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>>2987498
I'm gonna play my first game in 6 years now, you better not queue
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kek the general chat in this is amazing, completely unmoderated
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>>2988031
indeed, its always fun. peoples unfiltered insanity is great.
any hots players today? Just queued into ranked, got my first drink and ready to feed.
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look guys, I met an eceleb! we got fucked!
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>>2989861
Very cool
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how can you not love hots? lmao
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>>2965526
feeta of the storm.......
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>>2990403
its like a time capsule from a better time >>>/wsg/6242470
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Post your stats. Lifetime and all game modes, no hiding anything!
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Are we back?
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>>2994639
Can't, I've been banned too often for "abusive text chat" even though I have chat disabled. That's when I knew this crap was automated, and I stopped caring. Only play on smurfs these days
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>>2995526
no. it'll be dead within a week
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>Grubby is defending the p2w 8 dollar hero cost
He's the biggest blizzard shill there is
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Anyone else unable to log in on EU? Says that Blizzard services are temporarily unavailable.
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>>2998401
Planned maintenance
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>>2998432
How long is it going to last? It was supposed to end at 18:00 CEST.
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>p2w hero
Yeah blizzard is attempting to sabotage this game yet again, it's amazing how much they hate their own product.
That or they are just that greedy and incompetent, which is even more likely.
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Do your duty and pay up. It is your responsibility to prove product is sustainable. Do not disappoint current holding company.
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This lag on EU is atrocious, do we have more players than the servers can handle?
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Xal is obscenely overpowered. They did a great job. Make a character to I guess show you’re still developing the game, but make her so OP that every match is now 100% determined by who has the better Xal’atath which will be great for making everyone just not even log in. Great stuff.
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>>2998865
Every new character is overtuned on release. Does anyone have that webm of release Kael? And he wasn't even the worst offender.
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Im genuinely shocked how half assed this new hero is and they expect 8$ for this shit
>mini map symbol has a black cross
>character portrait looks like ass
>poor animations
>generic voice lines
>most p2w character since li ming
>no announcer
and not even reskins
they couldnt even be fucked to hire an artist to do a few reskins in an afternoon but ask 30$ for the bundle fucking kikes
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>>2998983
Blizzard is an awful fucking company.
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>>2998335
Most of the community is defending it and understandably so.
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>>2998865
>no hard CC
>no self-sustain
>no game-changing R
She's fine.
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>>2946708
you forgot
>blatant EOMM serving you 4 hot potatoes
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>>2999661
Meds. Now.
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Xal can attack while moving. I can see that being annoying in rare cases where you'd have to press H to hold fire but it's obviously strong otherwise. 6.5 range too.
D is basically a 4th ability and it doesn't interrupt her attacking.
Orb R is the highest damage (875) ult at max channeling, beating Pyroblast.
Some awkwardness in how Q+W have to be combo'd and how unintuitive E is unless you use it as a quick dash.
Lots of damage and you can talent for a bit of disruption but no self-sustain and crappy defensive talents.
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>keep zoning out Xally as Chromie or Arty
She doesn't feel special. A bit over designed ability wise but that's it. Doesn't feel nearly as nightmarish as like, release Li Ming
Also compare her minimap icon and chat icon to all others. All the little inconsistencies with her are stupid funny
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Honestly this game is/was pretty well made, it was really for blizzard to just drop its development like that
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>>2994639
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>quit Blizzard everything 5 years ago
>hots was still fun to the end at least
>reinstall with a friend just to kill Xal
>doesn't rape me or remind me of OP hero releases back in the day
I still think Xalatath is overtuned numbers wise, but the current crop of players willing to buy in to her just seem to suck ass on average
Yeah I ain't paying real money for that shit. Only here as long as the 30 day boost lasts
Also holy fuck they beat my boy Zul'jin with a hammer while I was gone. Losing so many axe stacks on death is devastating. Only time I felt useless replaying was with Zul'jin if I had any early deaths
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>mfw people whine on the first day they cant get the new hero for free
I never expected another one, nvm that its less than two serving of fries at macces or some shit.
Support this game now and they MIGHT not kill it instantly.
Anyway, is her summon a minion talent for E bugged? this thing just doesnt show up half the time I E
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>>3002787
I don't want them to support the game. The best version of this game is when they abandoned it. The balance was stable and the only people playing were those that enjoyed it.
The quality in ARAM has dropped dramatically I just play SL now.
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>>3002946
Sorry, braindamaged retards opinion not welcome.
>The quality in ARAM has dropped dramatically
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>>3002946
>The quality in ARAM
Dude it's fucking ARAM lmao, who cares about quality
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>>2999942

Add Rokhan/Shadow-Hunter.
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Annoying heroes slowly killed this game, they need to rework half the roster to not disable you for 10 years.
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>>3003521
whiny bitches ruined this game that means (((you)))
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>>2999942
Someone post the Garrosh 'dark day in horde history' cap. I lost it
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>>3003052
>>3002955
Your complete inability to address what I said speaks volumes. With ranking, the only way you're going to get quality games is with a smaller dedicated playerbase playing because it's not a fad.
There are objectively more clueless visitors playing and the quality of games has dropped. I'm sorry that me being objectively correct offends you.
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Without*
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>>3003521
>using a bottom tier one trick pony melee assassin for your argument
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>>3003669
only a retard wants the game to stay dormant and unchanged. the game is still only people that play it because they love, theres between 50 - 150 in the all chat depending on the day. thats nothing.
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>>3003680
>only a retard wants the game to stay dormant and unchanged.
Based on what? Theres no guarantee updates make the game better or retain players.
The bug fixes from the janny are welcome, but the character and balance changes haven't been recieved well at all.
>theres between 50 - 150 in the all chat depending on the day. thats nothing
General chat is capped and instanced you massive retard
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>>3003531
>>3003679
>Don't suggest a way to address the problems
where are your ideas, saying it's fine the way it is is literally the wrong answer, the game was dead and will die again if players don't have fun.
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I fucking hate that game it's insane but I'm addicted.

You die or kill everybody all game yet your character doesn't feel any stronger or weaker because it's an friendship lalaland game.

It's so slow paced that you have time to get a drink before you see an attack reach your hero but because your hero take so long to move you can't dodge it and watch it die in slow mo

People are absolutely retarded and can't get on objectives on time or damage an enemy who pushed too far and focus the tank instead because "tank 3/4 hp but healer full hp no good"

Also this new hero face look like a tranny and you know it's a developper who put himself in the game with this DEI purple.
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Xal is just casually topping damage every single match unless they’re functionally AFK. I’m not even bothering to log in until they fix her. It’s a complete joke.
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>retard is defending no content/updates for hots
actual braindead holy shit
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>kill Xal'atath
>she stops doing damage
It's that fucking simple
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>>3004057
You lost the argument so bad you're terrified of replying to me directly. Save some dignity and don't bother replying next time.
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>>3003874
I haven't been impressed by the Xal players I've met in ARAM, and she should thrive against drafts that don't always counter her.
She has no self-sustain and her E should be saved for an escape, so that's always going to keep her in check.
That being said, her D is probably too strong right now and stacking too easily. I expect that's the first thing that's going to get nerfed.
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If you were the one to decide how much a new hero would cost, in money and not gems, how much would you charge?

Eight bucks seems that such an abstract number. Not five or ten - a nice round number - but eight?
>And, yes, it needs to be actual money, since anyone that played HotS while it was on maintenance has thousand of gems and hundreds of thousands of gold just sitting in their account.
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speaking of xal
https://wetpussygames.com/adult-games/voidlust.html
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>>3004719
I'd put it out for free as an apology for abandoning the game, getting rid of the team that knew what they were doing, and for using Indian sweatshops to make Xals assets.
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>>3004995
>futa
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>>3004719
>And, yes, it needs to be actual money, since anyone that played HotS while it was on maintenance has thousand of gems and hundreds of thousands of gold just sitting in their account.
So what?
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>>3004719
Special case. I'm working with an undead game. If I'm not roleplaying a braindead corporate drone I'd use this opportunity to pull in as many as I could. Xal is bait, I want them to buy the other 5000 products already developed ingame. I want them to buy the dilapidated warehouse I already paid for, not just the new package.
0 dollars and new players get her for free. Then I cut the price of the entire roster. 4k becomes the new standard max. Because gold has become irrelevant with no content released for 6 years and new players don't care for the farming. Anyone I catch in the net will get flooded with endorphins as they unlock new heroes constantly. And I boost my undead zero maintenance game into relevance for 8 more years and I continue milking.
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>>2973847
Playing ranked increments the "play matches as [x]" quests regardless of which character you're playing as.
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>>3003874
I just blow her up. She can't escape worth shit and so many people ignore her for some reason. She gets the fire bomb like everyone else.
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>>3010297
>She can't escape worth shit
Her teleport is instant, has larger distance than Falstad's dash, can be cancelled right after the first warp and can be talented into at lvl 1 to give her movement speed. What kind of players are you playing against?
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>>3010419
Ones who keep teleporting into the Flamestrike for some god damned reason.
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would it be appropriate to marry a hots character?
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I'm trying to imagine a Xal played perfectly, and I think she can be hard to punish given how strong a backward E is. No CC or point and click damage means E can't really be punished, but that's every hero. Draft CC to win.

That being said her Q is short range and W does little unless it explodes on something marked by Q. So playing her at a safe range neuters the hero's damage, unlike a Chromie or a glass cannon W Ming. Nothing uniquely unfair here.

Her Rs are also a DPS loss because of the 2s channeling time. The level 20 Void Eruption upgrade is however genuinely disgusting and needs a nerf. It's zoning, insane damage over time, insane burst, and it basically resets cooldown if it catches 3 heroes.
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>>3012024
xalatath played perfectly kills with stacked trait. her Q & W are for softening targets for killing D.
20 upgrade for Orb Ult is insanely broken, personally I wouldnt sleep on portal ult. Its very versatile, can push like a motherfucker and is excellent for taking bosses as long as you bait the stomp yourself. also has an excellent upgrade at 20 for large maps.
shes an insane teamfighter anyway, with a very underestimated push for most lobbies
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I made an ARAM meme, please pick up the globe
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>>3004995
>futa
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>>3015363
xd
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>Try to have have chill game with bro
>He keeps getting in flame wars with randoms

This is on me, I should have known that MOBAS were not games we can relax with after he refused to turn off chat
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Ive fond memories of playing hots
Does the game still have casual players? I'm aware they added a new hero but I despise WoW's storyline after Legion so I don't like her.
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>>3003874
There is some mental retardation in the player base. Their brain doesn't register they are standing in front of a burst mage. They need to learn it through experience and several dozen lost games. Just like with Li Ming or Chromie, I don't stand still and let Xal blow me. I save myself for Azmodan and his balls.
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>>3018708
One could argue that casuals are all that's left of the playerbase. I'd consider myself a casual if it weren't for the fact I'd consistently reach high diamond by doing advanced things like soaking or showing up to objectives. Anyway, I kinda stopped playing ranked after realizing even diamond players were monkeys who couldn't be trusted to do these things half the time.
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>>3018772
>advanced things like soaking or showing up to objectives
Calm the fuck down there Einstein the camp on the other side of the map just respawned
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>just soak because beating up little people feels good
>just take merc camps for free globes to eat
>just show up at objectives because fun guaranteed team fight
>follow the path of most resistance for fun fighting all the way to the core
>score high Plat whenever I tried storm league
This game always felt simple for me. Simple and fun. I don't have to worry about 20 different fucking things and can just focus on team fighting
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AAAAHHHHHHH
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>>3021724
To consume meat one must know how it feels to be the meat
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY5spQ31qH8

Oh boy, new HeroStorm!
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>>2999661
>I would be in GM if it wasn't for my team mates
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>>3023560
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>>3023560
>carbot clearly enjoys doodling hero storm still, despite breaking out from just animating blizz stuff and drawing whatever he likes
>still turns it into a cautionary video about hope n cope
He made me smile at least, but yeah, I still expect this wave of the game to totally die unless we get stuff after that second guaranteed hero
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Nerfed already lol.

Hey everyone,

We just pushed live a hotfix with Xal'atath balance changes.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24303007/heroes-of-the-storm-live-patch-notes-september-28-2026

Xal'atath Balance Updates

Abilities

Shadow Mark (Q)
Void Orb speed slightly increased
Void Step (E)
Targeting range reduced from 5 to 2.
Distance between teleport points reduced from 7 to 6.5.
Now prevented and interrupted by Immobilize.
Void Volley (D)
Base damage per missile reduced from 90 to 72.
Now generates 1 charge for every Basic Attack against enemy Heroes and every 2 Basic Attacks against non-Heroes.
Void Eruption (R)
Uncharged damage reduced by 20%.
Fully charged damage reduced by 5%.

Talents

Level 1
Anchored Core
Radius bonus reduced from 50% to 25%.
Level 4
Dark Barrier
Now only triggers when enemy Heroes are hit
Level 7
Silence of the Lamb
Silence duration increased from 1 to 1.5 seconds.
Level 13
Dark Heart's Protection
Detonating the Dark Heart on a target affected by Shadow Mark now Silences all enemies hit. Previously silenced on cast.
Level 20
Rift Invasion
Portals now have non-lethal Health decay, stopping at 4 Health.
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>>3025757
They should've just completely removed her quest on D as the sole change.
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Xal's new E baby dash is pathetic. Pathetic!!
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whitemane and alexstrasza
both oiled up and naked
who's winning the heal-off
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>>3027567
boobs
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Another evening spent griefing SM
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>>3025757
what is up with the lvl 20 portal upgrade nerf? I dont get that one at all
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>>3029003
The portal now decays to 1 hp. It can still push a lane indefinitely but any hit will destroy it.
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>>3029016
yes but WHY? dont think its worth 2 talents points now, nvm a lvl 20 one
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>>3029044
I guess they wanted to avoid a Probius Gate Keeper situation where you have 6 void minions in your face constantly and heroes that lack a long range ability or a global can't counter the pylons/portals.
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>>3029066
but the idea of the upgrade is that they HAVE to close it. ah well, was a fun time while it lasted.
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>>3029110
Probably because she can hold two lanes entirely down with the portals. This just means that they have a better chance with it.
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Fall event 2018... SOVL....
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how do you deal with supp playing uther, not stunning and not healing? feels hopeless
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>>3031691
I mean its the same as a damage dealer not damaging and a tank not tanking. You internally rage and move on after the loss.
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>>3031691
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoLGALAC0pk
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>>2946708
Problem I've had is that one team just stomps the other team and you either get destroyed or play a non fun game against bots
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>>3033705
Play ranked
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>>3031123

I was there, when they did their first event. Good times.
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It's crazy how when I stopped playing tank and support my enjoyment of the game skyrocketed even when I lose
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>>3033777
I don't wanna wait 30 min for one game.
Is ranked really better? Been a while since I played it
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I think I'm shadow banned. I type things in general chat but ni one responds to my messages
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hello
pls forgiv englis
I am orc
why xalnussy cost real money
thank
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>>3034964
Leave, tourist.
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>>3037046
woah
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>>3034303
>>my games aren't balanced
>play the mode that attempts to balance
>>I don't wanna
fuck off retard pick your poison
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>>3037749
Just tried a couple ranked games and yep it's still a stomp one way
Have fun with this garbage
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>>3034051
But tank is one of the most fun roles. Have you even played Muradin?
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>>3034051
But tank is one of the most fun roles. Have you even played Garrosh and thrown someone into an Aba landmine or a boss's wind-up attack?
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>>3039087
Proof?
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Xallys Dark Heart explision mechanic is fundamentally broken, with the nerfs its getting ridiculous. this shit moves at my grandmas speed and STOPS CHASING THE MARK if LoS is broken.
what a piece of shit
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>>3034051
But support is one of the most fun roles. Have you even played Stukov and pushed a dive man across the map into your core to die alone?
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>>3039576
No
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Ive decided Im going to learn Alarak in QM. Any pointers?
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>>3044301
Trait means you should obviously be spending your time murdering heroes and not PvE-ing, though your auto damage is fairly high, so sieging is acceptable when there's nothing to murder.

Q should probably be quickcast. It's T-shaped so you can punish heroes that try to step to your side too.

W has a ~0.3s daze (basically a stun). This can interrupt stationed channeled abilities like Mosh. Alt+W is your dash/escape toward your cursor. It's probably the ability that takes the longest to fully master with so just memorize the range and practice. Most players don't respect Alarak's range and you should punish them with an immediate W+Q.

E is your sustain/long-range poke.
R should be Counter-Strike 90% of the time, Deadly Charge only if your team sets up.

Builds are fairly intuitive, either pick all Q talents if you want to murder melee, or stick to the safer E build and start scaling for late-game dominance. 13 and 20 are situational, though I'd stick to the safe Pure Malice and Wrath.
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>>3044414
>Alt+W is your dash/escape toward your cursor.
Never mind. It's in the direction Alarak is facing, I misremembered.
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>>3044414
>Alt+W is your dash/escape toward your cursor.
good advice. this is my ping button so Ill be constantly pinging I guess ... xD
>R should be Counter-Strike 90% of the time
I figured, deadly charge is VERY tempting in a lot of QMs, especially since I always take the talent for both ults at 20 currently.
My biggest hurdles are not running to clear when my team is ignoring the map again as I do on most heroes and realizing matchup mechanics. heres to hoping experience will help with this ...
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They're still whining about Xally's damage, lol. Damage is all she has. Nerf that and you might as well delete the hero that some spent 8 bucks on.
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Can I play Stitches as a damaging hero?
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>>3034343
bots
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I'm uninstalling after 3 games again, It really sucks. There's actually nothing to play until forever drops.
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>>3034051
My personal rule always comes back to not playing healer in ranked. Tank preferably not. I have done my dues. You are at the mercy of the matchmaker and when it is time to even your winrate you feel it. Healing doesn't mean anything when the rest of your team eats every skillshot it can find on the map.
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>>3047406
Based. The "support" icon stands for "I only play Abathur" not that I will heal for you.
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>>3046805
He's a serviceable off-laner and, in a pinch, he does have a damage build, but you shouldn't pick him for the purposes of a damage dealer.
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aaaaaaaaaaaaaand the game is dead again
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>>3047206
Good. All you visitors have ruined this game.
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>>3046805
Everything is possible in QM.
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>try Xally's level 20 R against dummies
>16k damage (20k+ with some angles) across 4 heroes
Who balanced this?
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>>3051908
Just don't stand in it you retard
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>Nazeebo on enemy team
>Goes for toad build against a team of ranged assassins
Oh, golly gee, how silly of him! That should never work out~
>The entire time my team is running into toads, trying to chase him and walking into zombie walls
>Or just waiting for them to get big, and THEN trying to chase him through them
>While also making sure to attack the Zarya bubbles
Is there a parallel universe where players can learn from their mistakes?

>>3044301
Play cautious, but not like a pussy. You want to be aggressive when you can, but not reckless. It's a balancing act, but you want to more aggressive than passive.
His Q build focuses on buffing his close range burst and physical attacking prowess. His W is focused on pulling enemies and setting your team up for good engagements. His E build is a slow burn that can throw out big damage.

His autoattacks have a very short startup and recovery time, so you can stutter-step weave them into his fights.
Your bread and butter is to W(telekinesis) someone into his Q(Discord Strike) and wail on them while they can't fight back.
Your E(lightning) is your poke and sustain. While it can be talented to become absolutely crucial, it's his most modest ability out the gate.
His R's are both great, but I prefer Deadly Charge, since it allows you to be that aggressive Alarak that swoops in for a surprise 700 damage. Counterstrike is great for countering melee dive comps, since the AoE is fucking massive and it keeps you safer from the dive damage which WILL be targeting you most of the time.
Also saves you from Pyroblast and the like. Any hero on the enemy team that has a big 'fuck you' R, you might want to wait on picking your own R to see if they go for the ability that they intend to target you with.

Never go for Rite of Rak'shir. It's a win-more talent. It's a trap and can cost you the game since it can take longer to stack.
Pure Malice can be the best if your team sucks, and you doing 40% more damage could win the day.
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>>3050244
They came back and remembered why the fuck they left.
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>>3050244
Maybe they shouldn't have spearheaded their long awaited revival with a p2w hero
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>Another teammate crashed out in ARAM again

Why do people go to the 'chaos zone with no balance' and then complain about the abundance of chaos and lack of balance?
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>>3052116
>Never go for Rite of Rak'shir.
disagree if they have someone you can absolutely milk for sadism
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>>3054669
It's still a win-more talent. If they have bad players you can milk, Blade of the Highlord gets you your sadism, faster, even if it has a limit of 40%. Then there's Pure Malice which is legitimately one of the best talents in the entire game for making a comeback.
If you're not able to control the game with 170% (or 190% with Show of Force) then it's not going to happen at 210%.
Rite is for having fun, a lot of fun, but if he's just starting then I don't want to him him be the guy that takes Rite and never gets anything from it, like 95% of the Alaraks in QM.

>not actually mad, but it's the most relevant Alarak picture I have
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>>3052843
"loooool umad over aram loooool"
every time
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>install game
>enter quickmatch
>get matched against an obvious 4man smurf squad
>my teammates are nonstop seething at each other
>game ends lv12 vs lv16
>the loudest bitch on our team (ranged dps of course) gets an MVP spot because xhe dealt 41% of our team's damage
>uninstall game
This game has so many systemic design issues going against it. No wonder it's dead.
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>>3055287
>old reaction pictures
I miss the /vg/ general...

>>3058332
>giving up after one (1) quick meme
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/allstars_gamepedia/images/9/99/AlarakBase_Attack04.ogg
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>>3058429
Ok buddy, enjoy your dead game.
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>>3058429
>old reaction pictures
I chatted with the guy that made this as an artistic lineart shitpost back in the SC2 days. He's happily surprised it's still in use and that someone else colored it.
I'm pretty sure that was in the /vg/ threads that it resurfaced after a couple years.
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>>3058332
>>3058443
How is it "dead", pray tell?
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I pick Resurrect to grief my "teammates"
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tracer needs an orc skin
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>>3068782

That would be more Zarya. How about a Troll?
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>>3068890
>How about a Troll?
That's what Gazlowe is, right?
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>>3070939

Gazlowe is a goblin, but I could imagine Tracer pic related with tribal clothing.
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>>3071063
Goblin deez nuts lmao gottem
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>>3071063
Ana, Lucio, Genji, Tracer, and Zarya all don't have Warcraft skins.
If anything, Lucio could be a troll with some voodoo hoodoo 'Ya mon' healing. Trolls already move and talk like Rastafarians, and that roller-bladed dork would fit right in.
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can we somehow get another dragon or is that being greedy
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warcraft does not need ANY new representation in this game
aside from finishing up gelbin mekkatorque there should never be any new warcraft content again
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I wanna see more original characters like Orphea and Quira. Would give the devs. ideas that may not fit any Blizzard character lorewise.
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>>3074276
I fight for the Nesus!

>>3074635
That's risky business. Iconic characters sell, or would sell if people actually had to buy gems after this long of a hiatus, better with the recognition, and only 50% of the original donut steels were well received and enjoyable.
Which is a shame, since Qhira is fun to play, but then I have to listen to Qhira's bland voicelines instead of anything interesting.
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>>3074878

I still wanna have all the remaining Warcraft III heroes to be added.

Rohkan - Shadow Hunter

Cairne - Tauren Chieftain

Laddy Vashj - Naga Sea Witch

Mannoroth or Magtheridon - Pit Lord
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I can usually see what a hero was going for, or what kind of autist is going to main that hero for years and stubbornly never swap, but I don't see that with Xally, she just has good damage and a big fuck you R at 20 but she doesn't really have an enjoyable niche imo.
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>>3074574
>there should never be any new warcraft content again
They kind of already blew their load with Starcraft, and Diablo, aside from one or two apiece. Baal, the Mengsks, The Overmind, and other never-evers.
If you take the biggest IP off the table, all we'll have left is Overwatch, and they were asking at Blizzcon if people wanted them to add 3 Overwatch heroes that were released in 2026.
Reinhardt, not putting that nobody into HotS without some divine intervention, but truly 100% iconic characters like fuckin' Jetpack Cat were on that list.
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>>3076807
>Jetpack Cat
Rienhart seen interesting in how their going to add him into the game, but do you have the pic for the new heroes suggestion at blizzcon?
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>>3076956
It was a questionnaire on the computers there. There's an image floating around from over the left shoulder of a guy, but I didn't save the better picture.
Best I can do is the full list: Winston, Kiriko, Mizuki, Jetpack Cat, Leeroy Jenkins, Blackthorne, Selendis, Fernam, Lorthermar and Harth Stonebrew.

Oh which I could only imagine Selendis, Kiriko, Harth, and Fernam being good.
Blackthorne would be the most kino never-ever there ever was, but he doesn't really have much in the way of stuff he does aside from shotgun and taking cover.
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>back to pre-xalatath numbers
grim
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>>3076807
>Baal, the Mengsks, The Overmind,
and Selendis (supposedly partially done prior to life support), Lilith, Itherael, the other 3 lesser evils, D4 Druid. StarCraft indeed has few more characters to add, but Diablo has plenty.
Plus, out of legacy series, there are Blackthorne, Tomator, maybe some Rock and Roll Racing rep.
All without touching Overwatch or any upcoming SC/Diablo games.
Literally anything would be better than a new Warcraft hero #45.
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>>3078016
>viewer numbers
this is an image of you
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>>3078615

>D4 Druid

Would rather have his D2 look.
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Is HoTS worth picking up for a complete newfag and is it even still alive? I've gotten bored of Smite 2.
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>>3078990
Yes it's pretty good for the most part.
>Smite 2
Nice, I played the fuck out of the first one, mained Sun Wukong, Rama, and Ao Kuang. This game is very different, just so you know. There's not many transferable skills.
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>>3078990
Id say give it a try
the biggest problem for new players is the stupid character unlock system and I honestly wish they would just get rid of it
before unlocking a dud you can try out every character through the shop
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>>3078990
Honestly at this point, no. Community is so tiny that many games are just top players smurfing. Search the leaderboards and see how many are just new accounts that stomped to the top.
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>>3078990
I think Blizzard are surprised by how much people continued playing despite it being in maint mode.
I don't know why the fuck they haven't added a battle pass to monetize it.
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>30day boost from blizzcon is gone
>no reveal of this second hero yet to string me on
Guess it's back to a coma for me
I piled up like 40 loot boxes if new cosmetics get added
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>>3078990
If you're in EU or near, absolutely. Americas, still yes. Asia, however, will test your patience, from what I've heard.
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>>3082613
loot box content set when you obtain them
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>my mid diamond acct has a 60% wr this season
>my plat acct is at 48%

It's probably because I flex into heroes I'm not as confident with on my plat account, but it FEELS like you're way more prone to having a griefer or just an actual glue eater in plat

I'm torn because I like playing lots of heroes but the diamond games have such a boost in quality it's insane
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>>3083817
You can stumble into plat by accident almost. It's no surprise that's the rank where you'll find the most "temporarily embarrassed" shitters and griefers.
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>>3078896
Bring them both. D2 druid gets Wereshape stuff and D4 gets the elemental.
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>thread up for over a month
>not a single post about Alexstrasza
It's over.
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>>3092502

What is there to say about her? Everyone agrees, that she's hot. I like her cleavage skin.

I'm very surprised, Blizzard hasn't censored much on this game, considering the fruit paintings in WoW and Whitemane's covered legs in the newest Warcraft III expansion.
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>>3092844
>What is there to say about her?
Her level 4 talents suck. Not a single one of them is fun to take.
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>>3092907
Exuberance is fun. Turns you into a healing Lunara.
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>>3097649
>You purposefully made 3027 games worse for everyone else
What drives a man to do that to his fellow human beings? Purple skin? Doe pussy? Legitimate sociopathic thoughts?
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>>3097938
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>>3092502
>>3092844
ugly face
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>>3097938
That's a r*dd*t*r.
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>guy on my team said wtf
>check scoreboard
>he got muted after that
>started pinging everything
why does this baby game even have chat lel
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>>3101606
this didn't happen
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>>3103142
Quite literally. Blizzards autobot isn't good enough to mute midgame.
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Who are your Heroes of choice if you want to smack people with big autos in QM? Normally for me it's Zul'jin, Leoric, or an attempt at Wizened Duelist Greymane but I've been trying out Alarak with the Discord Strike build recently and it's a lot of fun, depending on the enemy team.
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>>3092502
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>>3105833
Thrall, Tychus, Raynor, Samuro for me
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOT7s3J1JGQ
New HeroStorm
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>>3105833
Maiev. For some reason she has amazingly high autoattack damage and you weave them into her death pulls.



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