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More two lane maps is the last thing we need. Battlefield of Eternity is already the biggest shitshow in the game by a mile, Haunted Mines comes in an easy second, and Hanamura looks like it might take third. I'll take a hundred Blackhearts or Gardens over one Battlefield any day. Two lane maps just blow. Except for Braxis which manages to be fun somehow. 
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Cassia is very fun and of course I'm not very good at her either. Anyone have any hot strats, builds, so on and so forth?
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Apr 26, 2017 16:03
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Macaluso posted:edit: unrelated, I really wish you could set up loadouts for random hero select. I don't ever want to ride the regular rear end horse or kodo ever. And I don't want my Anub'arak to end up with a regular skin over his cool yellow robot skin. Regular horse mounts are also scientifically proven to cause a team to lose. That's just the facts The topic of "I don't want random select to give me a random skin" has come up so often on reddit that when I saw it still does that after 2.0 I was honestly pretty surprised. I feel the same way, because there are some skins I just don't care for and got in bundles or whatever.
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Apr 27, 2017 17:32
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Kashuno posted:I will die on the hill of "Get talents that improve your turrets and Weaponize Pylons ult so you can have insane zone denial do not build the Q or W builds" I really wish more of his power was in his turrets and less in his UT shock combo. I realize they have to be careful how much area denial they allow, but even with talents backing them up the photon cannons seem super underwhelming. Which is disappointing.
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Apr 27, 2017 21:44
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It's the build I play too, to be clear. I maybe just am not playing well or hoping for too much. It seems rare that I get enough cooldown reducing cannon shots to happen that I have two up for any length of time. I love the idea of being a turret commander, maybe I just need more practice. Edit: Also on the topic of turrets, did they remove Gazlowe's ability to target his? I see robo-goblin has been reworked. Edit 2: Nevermind they just put it on 1. Mind over Matter fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apr 27, 2017 21:51
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BrianBoitano posted:Also buy the assassin mega pack on those accounts because why the gently caress not Because you could buy the support pack instead?
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Apr 28, 2017 14:39
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I just had a QM comp of Morales/Tass/Chen/TLV/Genji. I understand QM will be QM, and the match itself was a pretty typical low-MMR clown party. We even loving won despite being up against a far more reasonable comp. So I can't really legitimately complain. But for some reason, this specific weird QM comp above all weird QM comps feels like the game yelling at me to get over my draft anxiety and at least play unranked sometimes. I mean I know it's the RNG of the matchmaker, not some sign from the heavens. But drat if it doesn't feel like it.
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Apr 28, 2017 15:07
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Kashuno posted:That teamcomp looks like it owns to me. I mean we won so I can't chastise it too much, it just twitched something really hard in my brain. Unrelated topic. Does anyone have realistic, reasonable advice on how to be less of a sore loser? I don't rage out or flame people or anything, but I know I let losses get to me way more than I should in a competitive PvP game. Logically I understand they're going to happen, half the time or more. But I don't know how to take that logic to heart so well. 
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Apr 28, 2017 15:22
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Lemon-Lime posted:Bruisers are a type of warrior, neither Thrall nor Ragnaros are bruisers. The hero select screen itself calls both Thrall and Ragnaros bruisers. It also calls Sylvanas an assassin and Nova a mage, so.
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Apr 28, 2017 20:15
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BrianBoitano posted:Huh. In draft just now, our Rehgar said he wouldn't heal our Kael'thas because Kael said "100% muted" This is entirely abhorrent any which way one looks at it, but just because I'm trying suss it out. You're MisterHill, I assume Kael is the blacked out name, and one of the two right wing nutsos is Rehgar?
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Apr 29, 2017 02:02
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God I hope not, one multiclass fucks matchmaking up bad enough already. And the three weeks or whatever where Fury Varian was broken OP were basically my least fun point in HotS. Anything but that again. Disclaimer: I did not play during Samuro or Zarya release periods, so I can't compare to those.
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Apr 29, 2017 03:39
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Gustav posted:I have a little 1 over my Collections tab that's telling me I have a new Voice Line, but I don't have any new voice lines, none of the hero tabs have a number on them and there are no clips with a bright blue border to mouse over. I can't get rid of it and it's driving me insane. Right click on the collections tab option and you can mark them all as seen. If that doesn't work, you must really be bugged.
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Apr 29, 2017 17:25
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BrianBoitano posted:Thanks, goons, for TL throughout today. 75% more EXP than HL is worth the marginally longer queues. I had a good time and like I said I'm trying to work through my draft anxiety so I'm definitely up for more in the future. Thank you as well.
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Apr 29, 2017 20:41
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Against auto attacks, yes. Physical is auto attacks, Spell Armor is abilities. If it just says armor, it's all attacks.
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Apr 29, 2017 23:16
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Zwiebel posted:I appreciate that they gave Nova her own Bribe on a talent tier that doesn't really do much. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. I've felt for a while now that making Explosive Round more easily accessible would be a good buff for Nova without running the dangers of turning her back into her old Gathering Power broken-style self. Whether that's on a talent tier, or a change to her level 1 kit, I don't know. But giving her some decent but not amazing wave clear would be a nice way of rounding her out I think.
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May 1, 2017 04:02
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I have seen one Nova ever who took and was good with Ghost Protocol. They were a terror, but they're not the norm. I know I'm poo poo with it.Kai Tave posted:Change her trait from auto-cloak to some sort of variable ammunition ability that lets you switch between things like explosive rounds, slowing rounds, and maybe one other thing, and then put cloak as an activatable ability in place of Pinning Shot. I'd love this.
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May 1, 2017 06:05
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Kai Tave posted:Yeah I have to admit that "got 4 common items, pay 250 gold to reroll for a guaranteed better result" is vastly superior to Overwatch's own lootbox system and I kind of hope they backport it. Oh, is quality promised to go up on an all common reroll? I hadn't heard anything about that.
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May 1, 2017 08:16
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Just had a fight on Sky Temple where a battle for the boss came down to our Li-Li vs their Genji and Malf. Our Li-Li won and killed them both. Whichever goon is PureRok, I salute you this morning.
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May 1, 2017 12:05
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Goddamn I didn't realize you had time to go all the way to the fountain halfway through. That makes it even better. Also you can see me flub my movement and get pasted by the boss. Best Genji NA.
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May 1, 2017 12:57
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Hot Smart ARYAN Girl posted:Yes I know, but they are obviously perceived that way by people trying to pick up the game, and that is a problem. There, I'm done, y'all can go back to whatever. For whatever it's worth, I get you. I -like- stealth heroes and I still understand that whether or not they actually are disproportionately strong, they make things feel sour for many players. I personally feel like a lot of multiplayer games would be better without stealth, but that's a hard sacred cow to slaughter.
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May 1, 2017 18:18
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Orange Crush Rush posted:To be fair they are re-working Morales next, no idea if they are changing how the beam works or not though. Wait what they are? She's my very favorite hero in the game. 
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May 1, 2017 18:37
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Unrelated to the conversation, is there any way to make HOTS reliably open on a secondary monitor without having to move it there every time I load it up or swapping it to primary?
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May 1, 2017 19:33
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Macaluso posted:Yo so why is the Betrayer Illidan skin not named something like Shado-Pan Illidan or something. Cause that skin's warglaives totally have panda faces on them, and the pants are clearly based on the Pandaren art style. Meanwhile the description is just "Free after ten thousand years, Illidan would sacrifice everything in order to defeat the Burning Legion, prove himself superior to Malfurion, and redeem himself in the eyes of Tyrande." Like uh you really don't want to even briefly talk about the panda faces on your warglaives my dude I believe it's based on his Warcraft 3 skin. Where he was called the Betrayer.
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May 1, 2017 23:38
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Macaluso posted:Well what the heck!! Is there some actual backstroy about why his glaives had panda faces on them?? In War3 the model was low-poly and tiny, so the panda faces were just an easily missable Samwise easter egg, I think. Now 15 years later or whatever on a high def recreation of that model they're very noticable and sort of odd. As far as I know there's no actual lore about them, and I don't believe the Warglaives of Azzinoth have them in WoW. I also like some of the skin backstories and lore. A personal favorite of mine is the alternate Azeroth implied by Warmaster Chen and Shadowpaw Li Li where the forces of Lei Shen go head to head against Azshara and the night elves for the Well of Eternity. It would have been a more interesting alt-history than Warlords of Draenor turned out to be.
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So it's pretty common for Unranked Draft teams to go tankless or healerless or both, huh? I'm not going to get mad, people can play what they want. But I think in all the UD I've played today my side has had both twice. (I'm often one or the other.)
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May 3, 2017 21:24
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Then I guess I'm having poo poo luck. Edit: Checked Hotslogs. 2 of the 7 UD I've done today had both a tank warrior and a support on my team. Mind over Matter fucked around with this message at 22:17 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 22:10
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dont even fink about it posted:I'll admit it, I'm the filthy casual who actually kinda enjoys AI games, and hopes for Blizzard to put in more PVE stuff. I don't enjoy Vs AI games as they are right now, personally. I'm not against some more creative PvE stuff at all, though. NeurosisHead posted:Somewhere around gold in HL matchmaking there's a shift in mentality. Hero league itself is the new quickmatch; silence in draft, bullshit slam picks, nightmare team comps, specialists who just tower hump themselves to death all game, the works. Unranked draft is even worse in that matchmaking tier. In my experience in Gold/Silver HL it's pretty common to go tank or healerless, let alone unranked draft. Maybe I'll just have to try to tank/heal my way up the MMR a bit. Considering I'm 2-6 right now, I imagine my hidden ranking is in the dumps.
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May 3, 2017 22:25
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p-hop posted:Are some of the talents for Kael's E (the tornado disable) worth getting? I love building him for huge sunstrike damage, but his untalented disable just isn't enough if you are getting dived or ganked in your lane. Even if you land sunstrike and living bomb on 2+ heroes, you are still going to die. I haven't played KT much in a while, but when I last did Nether Wind on 4 was the usual pick. That's the one that increases range on it. Looking at Hotslogs, it's now a nearly even split between that and Mana Tap, so it's probably not worthless to consider.
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May 4, 2017 07:01
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Shibawanko posted:Today I went blind into a QM game with Tassadar, not trying him out first or anything, lost and got shouted at by 4 extremely angry Russians. That sucks. To clarify, I'm absolutely not against Vs AI existing as it does. For practice, for people who just like playing that mode, whatever. I'm not for one second saying to tear it down. I just mean that some more creative and unique PvE challenges would be up my alley. Or like someone said a few pages ago, give us an editor and Use Map Settings.
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May 4, 2017 07:41
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yes posted:Yeah you're just wrong. Haunt wins games Aw thanks. The other goons can attest I'm not really that good though. 
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May 4, 2017 18:50
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Shibawanko posted:By the way, I can't log into the EU servers. Anyone else have this? Check to make sure you're patched, maybe? They pushed 25.2 live for a fix on the US servers a bit ago.
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May 4, 2017 19:20
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SKULL.GIF posted:There was a huge goon-authored guide to TLV from last year, does anyone still have it? Olaf the Stout's: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3723892&pagenumber=605&perpage=40#post456414134 John Dyne's: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3723892&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=664#post457525026 I have had those two posts bookmarked for a while, they're in the last thread so they won't last forever but there you go.
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May 4, 2017 19:50
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Braxis is still the best 2-lane map. Hanamura is the second best. I actually like it as well, though people are clearly still learning it. If after this we get a map rotation with the other set as the pool, I'm going to be miserable for a while.
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I know that Smoke Bomb is the default Valeera ult, and it certainly has a lot of uses. But against caster-heavy teams Cloak puts in a lot of work. Just had an enemy group that had Malf/Kael/Li-Ming and Cloak saved my rear end over and over.
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May 4, 2017 22:56
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From my point of view it's Gul'dan who is evil!
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May 5, 2017 02:39
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Rez is better now than it was, and I like it because I'm terrible at timing the stasis ult in useful ways. Though I certainly won't say it has no uses. Rez is still terrible if you're like the Auriel I was teamed with earlier and rez Probius in the middle of an ongoing teamfight repeatedly.
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May 5, 2017 05:14
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In my opinion, email the blizz hacks account with step by step. Don't post it on reddit or here or anything.
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BrianBoitano posted:http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20766461/heroes-brawl-of-the-week-may-5-2017-checkpoint-hanamura-5-4-2017 Fun but a bit poorly balanced, is my experience. The defender respawn is just about on top of the last point and it's almost impossible to get them all dead fast enough at the same time to cap. Not that it's a big deal, it's a brawl and it's fun up util the forgone conclusion at the very end.
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Nephzinho posted:But then you're playing Medivh. I had the weirdest match last night. Towers of Doom with Medivh on my team. He told us right at the beginning that it was his first time ever on the hero. New player of the lowest win rate hero in the game sounds damning, right? So I pretty much resigned myself to a painful loss. But the guy was actually good, to the surprise of the rest of us. Good enough that he was better than a lot of people I've seen who have already sunk time into the character. Certainly better than I've ever been on Medivh. He wasn't flawless, but he certainly pulled his weight way way more than the rest of us had anticipated, and we won fairly easily with 20 HP or so left on our core. Certainly was a pleasant surprise. On the topic of Cassia, I've been playing her lately and I really like her a lot. She feels like she has actual build diversity, though that's something Heroes seems to be getting better at overall. Based on the enemy teams, I can find effectiveness in speccing for javelin, fend, blind, or auto-attacking. The only talents that I rarely change are at four and ten, Plate of the Whale is just too goddamn useful most times. I actually build her for Fend least of all, though I know that's one of her most popular ones. It certainly can be good but at least when I'm QMing it often seems to situational to put all my power in that dive. Finally, I have an annoying display bug on the new police hovercycles. One of the sets of flashing lights just floats about two feet in the air off the side of the right fin. I've repaired my game, updated my graphics drivers, hosed around with settings. Nothing seems to change it. I haven't seen anyone else commenting on it so I assume it's not common but drat it's annoying.
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SKULL.GIF posted:Horrify/Haunt really worked out for Synergy's Gul'dan as they continually were unable to engage at range. I especially appreciated the keep push at the end of the game where Gul'dan was (rightly) very cautious about getting too close to the enemy team and subsequently couldn't do any damage without risking being caught by Entomb. Here's my hot take: I would rather a player take a "sub-optimal" talent or heroic or whatever that they are reasonably confident they can get decent use out of than have them blindly conform to the meta and suck with it. Not specifically about Gul'dan, but my thoughts on the discussion from yesterday.
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