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Kanos posted:Prime Evil Diablo in motion, especially crawling around, looks like a sinewy xenomorphic nightmare creature. The thin body frame coupled with the enormous size of the Prime Evil design creates this weird unsettling gangliness that I think really works for a monster that's supposed to be the incarnation of terror in a way that Roid Rage Diablo doesn't for me. I'm pretty sure they were going for the HR Giger vibe of a feminine thing that moves unnaturally and also eats you I don't think they could get away with Andariel's design nowadays since she was basically buck naked but the sprites were low res enough that no one noticed. At this point Baal is guaranteed sooner or later and I really do want my boy Duriel with the 9 player game freeze while he goes to act freely. The dream would be if they picked obscure Act 1 monsters that punked people on their first runs through Hell like Bishibosh, Corpsefire or Treehead Woodfist but even Rakanishu and Pindleskin are already stretches.
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It would blow my mind if Andariel was added as anything more than a skin for Kerrigan because they both fit the general aesthetic of "extremely dangerous naked lady with weird back things that serve as murder implements". It'd save Blizzard the trouble of have to make up a kit and it'd avoid having to do something about the design (either updating it and incurring the wrath of Diablo II grogs or leaving it and incurring the wrath of... everyone else).
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Getting something like this "right" has got to be extremely hard, because the original material is very open to interpretation. I played some unranked draft tonight, and was in a 4 v 4 as the 1 filler. During draft someone on my team started shaming me on team chat for most of my HOTS games lately being vs AI games I do in the morning while drinking coffee before work. I told him to eat poo poo, with some more words than that, but it was not a pleasant experience. Won tho, so wasn't all bad.
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Alarak rules
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Haven't been playing hots because drat BfA is amazing. Here's a clip I found. https://clips.twitch.tv/BoxyAntediluvianSoybeanOSfrog
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:The Butcher! Holding a carrot and a bunch of references to soy and chia
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Two HGC players/streamers are doing pretty big giveaways on their streams over the next two Saturdays. Next Saturday they are giving away SSDs and the following Saturday they are giving away high end graphics cards. I think they are also giving coaching sessions. Def worth checking out imo, I really like Hosty. Don't know how Udall is as a streamer, but you dont even have to sub to enter.
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Erdricks posted:Two HGC players/streamers are doing pretty big giveaways on their streams over the next two Saturdays. Next Saturday they are giving away SSDs and the following Saturday they are giving away high end graphics cards. I think they are also giving coaching sessions. Def worth checking out imo, I really like Hosty. Don't know how Udall is as a streamer, but you dont even have to sub to enter. Is it weird that I'd rather win an unlock all heroes code or even like 100k gold than expensive hardware?
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Blizzard unveils new currency type for HOTS:![]()
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Looking forward to the new hero, untextured reference cube.
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Kurieg posted:Looking forward to the new hero, untextured reference cube. ![]() gently caress yes
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I think they oversexualized the cube
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Put some pants on that thing
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Great another hypermobile hero
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So apparently I'm really bad at Zeratul. Getting a bunch of games against the Butcher sure didn't help. It doesn't seem like you get enough damage for all the hassle of playing him unless the other team groups up; I'd much rather run Greymane or even Valeera. I'm looking at buying a support next, Deckard or Stukov. I think Deckard is better and easier to play, but I'm way more likely to be able to pick Stukov. Thoughts?
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I'm looking at buying a support next, Deckard or Stukov. I think Deckard is better and easier to play, but I'm way more likely to be able to pick Stukov. Thoughts? They have both really fun utility and mechanics, IMO. I'd say buy the one you like better, no point in appeasing the meta too hard if you simply don't have as much fun with the guy you can theoretically play more. I'd say Stukov has a bit more learning curve than Deckard, but they both benefit from a good sense of timing and combos, so just see which one you'd enjoy learning more.
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:So apparently I'm really bad at Zeratul. Getting a bunch of games against the Butcher sure didn't help. It doesn't seem like you get enough damage for all the hassle of playing him unless the other team groups up; I'd much rather run Greymane or even Valeera. Zeratul is the most miserable hero to learn how to play, I hated grinding him to 5 and will probably not play him again for a long rear end time
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Stukov slaps the poo poo out of anyone dumb enough to get near you
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Zera is superfun once you hit 16 and, even more so, after 20. You’re just an unkillable machine that chunks the entire team down with a couple Q’s.
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Star posted:Zera is superfun once you hit 16 and, even more so, after 20. You’re just an unkillable machine that chunks the entire team down with a couple Q’s. Of the four games I played last night, I had one where I felt effective, and got less so as the game went on (yes, I went Q build). I was getting locked down so hard I wasn't able to use Wormhole a lot, which......leads to a lot of deaths. Also if the red team isn't grouping up it doesn't feel like you're accomplishing much. It's possible he's just not for me - Greymane is the only melee assassin I've tried that hasn't caused me a ton of problems. I'm much more comfortable doing anything else (maybe not MT but it's been a loooooong time since I played Muradin or Diabro). e: I learned his escape and what he is and is not capable of, which is half the point of this exercise. It's hard to be good at the game when you don't know what most of the heroes do. Corsair Pool Boy fucked around with this message at 14:00 on Aug 27, 2018 |
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Corsair Pool Boy posted:I'm looking at buying a support next, Deckard or Stukov. I think Deckard is better and easier to play, but I'm way more likely to be able to pick Stukov. Thoughts? Hey, if you think Deckard is better and easier, go with that. When you say "way more likely to be able to pick Stukov", do you mean in draft? Because I've seen him get banned pretty regularly, lots of people fed up with that silence. (But then, I'm wood league.)
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I'm not even a good kind of wood. I'm like, poplar league.
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<3 McIntyre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8vJtlb1FEk
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What is necessary to carry yourself out of gold.![]()
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Diablo and Garrosh? Weird draft
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Star posted:Diablo and Garrosh? Weird draft
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It looks like Jaina and Valla were both solo laning with Diablo, Garrosh and Malf in the main lane? Only way I can parse Malf leading the charge in hero damage.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:Hey, if you think Deckard is better and easier, go with that. When you say "way more likely to be able to pick Stukov", do you mean in draft? Because I've seen him get banned pretty regularly, lots of people fed up with that silence. (But then, I'm wood league.) Yeah, wood league here too. I feel like I see Deckard get banned/picked way more than Stuky, but I haven't done a ton of draft mode lately.
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Gobbeldygook posted:Yeah, that Alizee's team doesn't have any good solo laners is glaring. It would have been way better if Diablo or garrosh was thrall, yrel, etc. Diablo probably should have been in the solo lane but it looks like Valla was. I mean, gold and below (at least) almost no one differentiates between warriors; they're all 'tanks'. I had a dude that was showing Diablo pick Kael instead at the last minute because I already picked a 'tank' (Blaze).
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I kinda love that Mephisto and Alarak are bros
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Kurieg posted:It looks like Jaina and Valla were both solo laning with Diablo, Garrosh and Malf in the main lane? Only way I can parse Malf leading the charge in hero damage. I'm "leading the charge" in hero damage because Gold 2 is trash and everyone stands still and gets rooted and no one punishes aggressive auto attack weaving. I've been master and diamond all TL seasons and diamond a few HL seasons. Most games since I decided to build malf for damage and spam him, I out damage at least 1 or 2 assassins. It's worth trying for those good at malfurion! 13-4 and counting Alizee fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Battle Malf got even stronger now that you don't have to pick movement speed at 1 or ice block at 13. Get at me celestial attunement.
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Isn’t battle Malf just gettho Whitemane? Saves you 10k gold I guess.
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Sassy Sasquatch posted:Isn’t battle Malf just gettho Whitemane? Better CC I guess?
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So having not played for 2 years, I had about 10 quick matches this week. 9 of them were on Cursed Hollow - what happened to the other maps? Also no one types in the chat anymore, not a single line was typed in 10 games. Is everyone using the voice chat now?
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Froghammer posted:I kinda love that Mephisto and Alarak are bros Mephisto: Such hatred burns within your heart. An infernal, that will consume ALL OF HUMANITY. ... Murky: * murloc noises* Edit: Upon killing Diablo II heroes. Mephisto: I'll have to kill you again. And again. AND AGAIN. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 10:58 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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kaesarsosei posted:So having not played for 2 years, I had about 10 quick matches this week. 9 of them were on Cursed Hollow - what happened to the other maps? Also no one types in the chat anymore, not a single line was typed in 10 games. Is everyone using the voice chat now? New / returning players will get cursed hollow a lot. Give it time.
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Sassy Sasquatch posted:Isn’t battle Malf just gettho Whitemane? Nope, and WM is banned still most games.
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