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People seem a lot more bitter nowadays. I haven't played in a year or so, and have been trying out some heroes outside of my normal playstyle (Kerrigan, Valeera, basically melee assassins) and been getting a lot of poo poo for it. Also a shitton more ESL players; is there a unified Western Hemisphere server now or something?
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Aug 29, 2018 17:00
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You're picking the flex spot that doesnt fill any of the hard requirements that a team of strangers needs to function consistently (tank, support, solo, ranged dps) and people are getting annoyed? Wonder why? If you step outside of your normal playstyle into tank and support I expect people would be more accommodating. The issue is that hots has problems with its design and there's only so much fun to be had per team comp, and kerrigan and valeera hog more than their fair share. No Wave fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Aug 29, 2018 17:03
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The bigger problem at hand is people have basic knowledge of team compositions and tier lists and when you deviate from those you'll be looked upon negatively until you prove extremely valuable. What people don't understand is below diamond team composition isn't a main deciding factor as each team makes so many mistakes throughout the course of a game. At the same time though, unless you are much better at Valeera and Kerrigan than other characters who fill their role better, there's not much reason to pick them in ranked except for niche situations.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:18
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...in Quick Match though? I'm not bringing my Z-game trying-out-poo poo into HL/TL.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:19
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I always kinda roll my eyes when people pick Valeera or Nova because they tend to spend the entire game playing for numbers instead of objectives, and then whine about how the team is losing despite them 'carrying'.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:21
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Oh in QM? QM was made for Valeera and Kerrigan. Flame them back!!! The only big trap when playing kerri is that her 4 talent "fury of the swarm" is mandatory and changes how the hero plays entirely - she becomes a very effective macro hero and can take bruisers quickly. Also Q build in general is a trap. The kerri build is generally: Block/Blades Fury of the swarm* Bladed Momentum Maelstrom (I go ultralisk, dont be me) Double Strike Aggressive Defense/Essence for Essence (i've started favoring e4e recently) Psionic shift if you feel responsible, nexus blades if you don't I tend to not get flamed with this build because your macro is so useful in QM. No Wave fucked around with this message at 17:30 on Aug 29, 2018 |
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Aug 29, 2018 17:22
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Is Whitemane busted or balanced? Friend was complaining about how she doesn't seem to have anything great in her kit and I honestly don't know enough about her to say.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:33
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I think still busted? There's nothing special in her kit but her numbers are too high, like a certain space marine and a certain space goat. Maybe she's closer to balanced though now idk.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:37
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She is kinda great.
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Aug 29, 2018 17:43
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*Anime MILF laugh heals you for 1400 HP*
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Aug 29, 2018 18:21
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How are you supposed to be playing Whitemane to get the real good numbers? I can reliably get moderately high healing numbers but for a damage-dealing support I’m finding it hard to keep my damage numbers up.
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Aug 29, 2018 19:06
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Q build is still the best, spam that Q.
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Aug 29, 2018 19:13
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Be good at landing E, use it all the time, and do the E->W combo when the opportunity presents itself.
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Aug 29, 2018 19:16
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I play Whitemane like the greatest healbot that ever botted heals. Level 1: Clemency. The Cooldown Reduction is aces and being able to pull an Emergency Heal out of nowhere is super handy. It also directly synergizes with... Level 4: High Inquisitor. Clemency's healbeam triggers this, meaning that if you're lacking enemies you can fart out a beam on an ally to get all of your Mana back. Level 7: Zealous Spirit or Intercession. Depends on if we need even more healing or Unstoppable. Level 10: Scarlet Aegis. Because MORE HEALING. Also armor. Level 13: Self-Righteous. It basically ensures that you'll never need to heal yourself again, which is handy. Level 16: Radiance. Once you hit 16, your standard order of operations will be to cast Desperate Plea on three people in rapid succession and then hit someone with Inquisition/Clemency. Alternately, Scarlet Aegis your team and then spam Desperate Plea on whoever needs it, followed up with Inquisition/Clemency. Level 20: Scarlet Crusade or Subjugation. Depends on how valuable a team-wide Unstoppable is vs completely neutering someone's damage output. It doesn't have the fancy crowd control that other builds do, but it's awfully hard to deal with just by virtue of putting out SO MUCH HEALING.
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Aug 29, 2018 19:27
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Kith posted:Level 4: High Inquisitor. Clemency's healbeam triggers this, meaning that if you're lacking enemies you can fart out a beam on an ally to get all of your Mana back. loving WHAT I have been positioning myself so aggressively so I can get mana back You have saved my W-build Whitemane play. Thank you.
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Aug 29, 2018 23:35
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blastron posted:loving WHAT I have been positioning myself so aggressively so I can get mana back Once I got good with Whitemane I barely ever use clemency. It's a rare situational use talent where those certain situations its quite valuable. But 95% of the time I'm just casting Ws for days.
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Aug 30, 2018 05:10
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Clemency lets you top off your team between fights but other than that I dunno about it. Just rip and tear harder imo and you won’t have to top off your team because the other team will be dead.
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Aug 30, 2018 05:53
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Clemency into High Inquisitor is pretty much mandatory for me. need my manas and need my CDR
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Aug 30, 2018 06:54
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Clemency is worth taking for the cooldown reduction alone, but being able to trigger high inquisitor when there isn't an enemy around is double plus good.
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Aug 30, 2018 13:51
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Xul is so relaxing to play. Listen to his chill voice, waveclear a bit, raise some skellies, raise bigger skellies in teamfights or maybe fart a bit, it's up to you.
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Aug 30, 2018 18:22
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The ultimate zen for Heroes is if you can manage not to care if you win or lose, so yeah Xul fits that ticket.
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Aug 30, 2018 18:50
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Alarak is also acceptable because he never loses. You might have matches where it looks something like what a loss would look like, but the Highlord Never Loses.
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Aug 30, 2018 19:06
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Dietrich posted:Clemency is worth taking for the cooldown reduction alone, but being able to trigger high inquisitor when there isn't an enemy around is double plus good. 
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Aug 30, 2018 23:16
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Medvidh pre-Q completion is the most stressful thing in the game, and post it's the funniest, clownshoes rollercoaster of not-giving-a-gently caress you can get in HOTS? Having some Illidan charge you, so you Portal away, he Hunts back to you so you go back through the same Portal then turn into a Birb and taunt spray
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Aug 31, 2018 01:35
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Shockeh posted:Medvidh pre-Q completion is the most stressful thing in the game, and post it's the funniest, clownshoes rollercoaster of not-giving-a-gently caress you can get in HOTS? Yeah I think all this is correct. Especially when you get into the 20s on your Q stacks, because it's going to be really really hard to recover if you die. My best play in HotS was when I was Medivh being chased by Genji after a lost fight. I was almost dead, like really really close. I threw up a portal with the other side behind him, popped through, Q >alt W > Q he died and I hearthed home. I'm not really good at Medivh at all but I felt like a loving pro for a few seconds. Dead members of my team were watching and congratulated me.
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Aug 31, 2018 03:00
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I'm finally clicking with Medivh and he's just a huge ball of fun once you complete the quest. I can't wait to practice more ways to have good times with portals.
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Aug 31, 2018 06:05
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Now you're thinking with Portals! hey who else remembers this epic gaming referenc e
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Aug 31, 2018 06:54
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ironic shitposting is still shitposting
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Aug 31, 2018 08:00
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Bogart posted:Now you're thinking with Portals! It’s so brutal that Portal, an extremely well written humorous game actually caused a net deficit in humour
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Aug 31, 2018 09:13
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Blizzard games: Definitely not the place for dad jokes or pop culture references.
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Aug 31, 2018 12:27
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Medivh is listed as a Specialist but surely his abilities make him a Support right? Also if Probius and Medivhare 10k gold, are there ever sales on that price? I have 45k gold but no gems.
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Aug 31, 2018 14:41
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kaesarsosei posted:Medivh is listed as a Specialist but surely his abilities make him a Support right? Medivh doesn't count as a support because he's only got his shield which isn't enough to match up in healing/damage prevention to someone like Malfurion. But he definitely skews towards a secondary supportish role similarly to Zarya and Tassadar. Gold prices for heroes never go on sale. Only the Gem prices go on sale. Every once in a while an older hero gets a small permanent gold reduction but its not something you can count on and takes a very long time.
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Aug 31, 2018 14:46
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Orthodox Rabbit posted:Gold prices for heroes never go on sale. Only the Gem prices go on sale. Every once in a while an older hero gets a small permanent gold reduction but its not something you can count on and takes a very long time. https://heroesofthestorm.gamepedia.com/Hero_price_history Sort by event. I wish this would not include "price drops" that are the 15k -> 10k after 2 weeks standard they do, but you can see that there have been 6 actual price drops in the past 20 months, and that they used to actually do these pretty regularly pre-2017.
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Aug 31, 2018 20:01
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The biggest problem with playing medivh is it often immediately tilts teammates regardless of how good you are or your draft order. I had a game this week where someone was a medivh main with a line of green in his HL history all medivh. He's first pick, chooses medivh. Immediately 2nd pick is tilted, picks nova, afks whole game while typing slurs at people. Obnoxious.
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Aug 31, 2018 22:13
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Good Canadian Boy posted:The biggest problem with playing medivh is it often immediately tilts teammates regardless of how good you are or your draft order. That had 0% to do with the Medivh player, that's just your typical Nova main.
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Aug 31, 2018 23:27
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Good Canadian Boy posted:The biggest problem with playing medivh is it often immediately tilts teammates regardless of how good you are or your draft order. I hope you reported that sucker. Also Medivh actually dishes out quite a lot of damage if done right, so he's a mix of Support and DPS imo. A typical case of a utility character with his own niche. Honestly, the term "Specialist" might actually fit him.
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Sep 1, 2018 01:57
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They gotta just get rid of all the classes and introduce a ranking system. It’s not like it matters in QM and in Hero League it would improve the draft. Have meters like CC, Durability, Damage, Sustain and have those meters fill up as you draft.
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Sep 1, 2018 03:24
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I would love to play hl with a talented medivh one trick. Talk about ez mode 
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Sep 1, 2018 04:44
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Ritznit posted:I hope you reported that sucker. A lot of the current 'support's can if you play them right. Tassadar can put up absurd numbers as long as he has something to AA as an archon. It's not unheard of for Abathur players to lead in damage too. He's a support because he gives nice shields and portals the others can use, to say nothing of his scouting. Given that 'specialist' in it's current form means 'toxic split pusher' Medivh doesn't fit that at all.
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How dare you call Nazeebo’s Exciting PvE Lane Adventure toxic Just listen to all those dings!
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