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Kusaru posted:The ~Blizz Insider~ in Discord thought it was Studio Trigger, but I didn't see anything confirming it. https://twitter.com/RachelRichmond/status/953367701660975104 So per one of Blizz's Project Producers, it's not.
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No Wave posted:I think bunker is better than combustion in the way that Zeratul is better than Nova. And I will happily take the Nova every time because I am not high GM. Butter Hole posted:McIntyre and other pros prefer combustion too. Not that their opinions are gospel--I'm speaking from my personal experience. Granted I was in QM and not in a competitive ranked game. Kyrosiris posted:As someone who primarily plays backline heroes, I like Combustion for the same reason I like Shifting Sands on Chromie - being able to dictate "no, gently caress you, we're fighting right here" is powerful. I get that Bunker has uses but I've seen way more pivotal Combustions than I have Bunkers. moush posted:Combustion is instant though, they're very different ults.  use of 70 Mana I've ever seen, especially from an ability that's supposed to be an ultimate.bamhand posted:Combustion is really, really, good. You don't need to charge it to full, just release when someone is about to make it out of the radius. Also bunker is loving trash unless your team is on comms and can coordinate what exactly your plan is. And then it's probably still not very good. Communication is key, and often helpful.
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Jan 16, 2018 22:07
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Kyrosiris posted:https://twitter.com/RachelRichmond/status/953367701660975104 According to the various reply threads branching off from that one. The music was by https://twitter.com/dundeemusicT4 who's one of the Overwatch composers.
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Jan 16, 2018 22:09
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I've just found the additional slow and damage from combustion to be really, really good at making sure everyone you just barreled into gets locked down and murdered. And that bunker has no hp and can easily be killed by just some AA's while also preventing anyone inside from doing anything useful. Remember you have to rely on your entire team not to be an idiot and either go in or not go into the bunker at the right time and thereby making your fight a 4v5. One person doing the wrong thing can screw over everyone. Kind of like how Junkrats on your team can screw you over by using the kamikaze ult as an initiation except you have to hope all 5 members of your team aren't dumb instead of just the JR.
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Jan 16, 2018 22:12
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Kith posted:I think a major part of why I don't think Combustion is very useful because Blaze already has a ton of slows and damage over time available to him in his default kit, especially when you factor in Adhesive Petroleum and Grill and Kill. In the big scheme of things, a 30% slow is not THAT different from a 60% one, especially when you can follow up a slow with a stun. I like the concept behind Combustion and I think the sound effect for it is cool as hell, but it's just so goddamn awkward. See, I've always seen it used as a second salvo - once you've got people slowed and poo poo, hit the Combustion and really make them panic while getting shelled by the backline.
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Jan 16, 2018 22:19
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bamhand posted:I've just found the additional slow and damage from combustion to be really, really good at making sure everyone you just barreled into gets locked down and murdered. And that bunker has no hp and can easily be killed by just some AA's while also preventing anyone inside from doing anything useful. Remember you have to rely on your entire team not to be an idiot and either go in or not go into the bunker at the right time and thereby making your fight a 4v5. One person doing the wrong thing can screw over everyone. Kind of like how Junkrats on your team can screw you over by using the kamikaze ult as an initiation except you have to hope all 5 members of your team aren't dumb instead of just the JR. The Bunker has 1300 base health, 1932 at Level 10 and 2862 at Level 20. I don't know what the gently caress kind of situations you're playing in that "some AAs" are able to chunk nearly 50% of Blaze's health out of existence, but maybe you should look into trying to use the Bunker a little less recklessly, yeah?
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Jan 16, 2018 22:21
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Kith posted:The Bunker has 1300 base health, 1932 at Level 10 and 2862 at Level 20. I don't know what the gently caress kind of situations you're playing in that "some AAs" are able to chunk nearly 50% of Blaze's health out of existence, but maybe you should look into trying to use the Bunker a little less recklessly, yeah? Shrug, I only see the bunker come out when we have a bad Blaze and then we lose. When we have combustion we win. You realize that when you're inside the bunker you do practically nothing right? People go inside the bunker, make the fight really lopsided in the enemy's favor then oh whoops, we lost that team fight. Oh and bunker has a 25% pick rate and 43% win rate. Versus combustion with 47%.
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Jan 16, 2018 22:28
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This anime trailer is like a dumb hyperactive puppy or something, I can't help loving it. 
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Jan 16, 2018 22:54
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Bunker suffers from the classic “WOW Lightwell problem” anything that is designed for preserving the safety of others that requires their active engagement is flawed in concept. 90% of people playing damage dealers are thinking about doing damage only. They consider it someone else’s job to keep them alive and the majority of game design enforces this view. In its absolutely optimum conditions for use Bunker is better. In my opinion those conditions will never be met in a standard pickup game even with coordinated friends. I would go Combustion every game and just rely on yourself to engage fights with higher initial impact than rely on your teammates to understand how to use a Bunker. The performance stats so far clearly bear this out as well.
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Jan 16, 2018 23:12
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I'm at work so I can't find out first hand, but AA Sustain/Smite Tyrael looks like he'll be great for QM.
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Jan 16, 2018 23:22
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the anime trailer is fuckin rad and i already bought the new abathur skin 
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Jan 17, 2018 00:00
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I'm low on shards so I may just end up throwing down real bux for the skins. Especially since the bundles aren't super bloated.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:08
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The bunker is a big giant "please gently caress us right here" target.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:50
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lucifirius posted:The bunker is a big giant "please gently caress us right here" target. I had to teach a Stukov that when they bunker up, THATS THE loving BATSIGNAL FOR LURKING ARM!!! After he learned that, it suddenly went from losing game to WRECKING poo poo.
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Jan 17, 2018 00:56
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Oh jesus christ. Mecha Tyrael's response to Abathur's chatter at match start is "Eldruin glows with an awesome power! It's loud roar tells me to defeat you!" I love how his quotes are around 90% G-Gundam references by volume, but his skins are explicitly the Strike Freedom and Deathscythe Hell Custom.
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Jan 17, 2018 01:11
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Kurieg posted:Oh jesus christ. Pls add playable Fel Reaver with Big-O skin, thx Uncle Blizz.
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Jan 17, 2018 01:34
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i've played blaze a whole bunch and so far my experience with bunker vs. combustion is that you have to play it by ear and pick bunker if the enemy comp seems to have debuff-reliant champions bunker would gently caress over and they're competent and your team seems like they're trying to avoid damage and not just playing like "RUN AT ENEMY TEAM AND MASH MAXIMUM DAMAGE BUTTONS" i think i've picked combustion over bunker like... 66% of the time, and when i do pick bunker sometimes i've misjudged the situation in which case it's about as useful as a wet fart, but when bunker is useful it's really useful one trick to combustion is to fart out a bunch of oil slicks first so that it's harder to get away from you
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Jan 17, 2018 01:38
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Kurieg posted:Oh jesus christ. gently caress, now I want them, but I'm so loving bad at warriors. 
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Jan 17, 2018 01:38
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I think combustion is generally the better pick but bunker is absolutely the correct pick vs certain heroes. For example, bunker is a hard counter to Malthael's tormented souls.
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Jan 17, 2018 01:40
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bunker also fucks over combo-chromie hard because getting into it just makes the time loop effect vanish and do nothing, even if you immediately get back out
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Jan 17, 2018 01:41
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If you buy only one of the new skins, which one?
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Jan 17, 2018 02:59
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Are all new characters legendary by default now? Im slowly buying dudes I like but its gonna take a while. Do I buy the cheaper dudes I like to have more options or save up for the new hotness?
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Jan 17, 2018 03:10
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Erdricks posted:If you buy only one of the new skins, which one? 1.) Black abathur 2.) Wing Gundam Tyrael 3.) Any rehgar (they all look similarly nice, up to taste) But wait two weeks, one might speak to you in-game and it'll be 800 shards cheaper then anyways. Or you might open one.
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Charles Bukowski posted:Are all new characters legendary by default now? Im slowly buying dudes I like but its gonna take a while. Do I buy the cheaper dudes I like to have more options or save up for the new hotness? Yes. Price drop after 2 weeks (and usually a nerf) but then still 10k gold for a long while.
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No Wave posted:2.) Wing Gundam Tyrael The gundam color schemes are named "Strike"  "Deathreaper"  and "Justice" 
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Erdricks posted:If you buy only one of the new skins, which one? 1) Pick MechaTyrael 2) Go to try mode 3) Set level to 10 4) Pick judgement 5) ??? 6) Never play any other character again
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Sassy Sasquatch posted:1) Pick MechaTyrael I can't really figure out if new Tyrael is good. He's always benefited from a specific drafting comp, and I had thought that the sustain talents would make him better for QM. But with QM being what it is I can't even really tell. I think he'll still be a niche second warrior for shields and sanctification, but I love the idea of smitin' and fightin' all day with my Gundam. 
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Jan 17, 2018 03:51
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I know Tassadar's other 20s are probably objectively better, but nothing is quite as satisfying as the Force Wall upgrade talent for sheer being an rear end in a top hat value. What's that? You want to run away from our Valeera and Kerrigan? Too bad. 
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Jan 17, 2018 04:59
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Tassadar's Force Wall counts as a solid object for Diablo's Shadow Charge, which is why I love it.
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Jan 17, 2018 05:12
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BrianBoitano posted:Yes. Price drop after 2 weeks (and usually a nerf) but then still 10k gold for a long while. And then once in a while they drop an older 10k hero down to 7k.
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Jan 17, 2018 05:16
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After playing Kel'Thuzad more on free week, I am still really unclear as to what constitutes a "structure" for chains, since it was horribly inconsistent and for some reason he doesn't have hanjo/lucio wall vision, even though he's just as dependent on it as they are.
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So is Stukov bad now? Was going to ban him out on Braxis but the team started raging that it's a waste. edit: and first HL game of the day our tank goes 'I'm drunk as gently caress lol' and feeds appropriatemetaphor fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Jan 17, 2018 |
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Jan 17, 2018 05:23
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Structure is an enemy building. Basically if you can attack/destroy it, you can chain it.
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beejay posted:Structure is an enemy building. Basically if you can attack/destroy it, you can chain it. So, you can chain them to enemy walls/forts, but not friendly walls/forts?
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Kith posted:Tassadar's Force Wall counts as a solid object for Diablo's Shadow Charge, which is why I love it. Yeah, I basically slam-pick Force Wall in any game I have a Diablo in, because it's just so free.
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Toshimo posted:So, you can chain them to enemy walls/forts, but not friendly walls/forts? Correct.
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Ok I cannot handle silver HL. How do you do the MMR reset thing? Just don't play HL for a season? Or is the lesson just don't do hero league.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Ok I cannot handle silver HL. How do you do the MMR reset thing? Just don't play HL for a season? Or is the lesson just don't do hero league. Your MMR is never going to really reset. You have to play your way out of it.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Ok I cannot handle silver HL. How do you do the MMR reset thing? Just don't play HL for a season? Or is the lesson just don't do hero league. Get a new account.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Ok I cannot handle silver HL. How do you do the MMR reset thing? Just don't play HL for a season? Or is the lesson just don't do hero league. Your MMR is always soft-tied to your account for all your matches you have played across all modes. Your QM, Unranked, Hero League, and Team League games all matter to your MMR. I played the exact same 10 team league placements this season with 3 people and we went like 7-3 or 6-4 and I ended up placing Platinum, my friends placed Silver and Bronze. I have like 7 or 8 people who I run groups with regularly, and we will play pickup unranked, and me and 1 other guy do the bans 100% of the time because we are roughly tied for the highest MMR in the group. The games you play in the ranked mode of the season matter a lot, but your overall account MMR matters a lot too. After that initial weighted ranking I think you just rise or fall based on your in-season rank vs. whomever you are playing.
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