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Gustav posted:You're not always last pick though. And if you are, Dehaka isn't an option. True, but you're still drafting leo last pick with no entomb targets.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:The worst heroic is absolutely Twin Blades of Fury and it's not even close While I don't like twin blades either, a fried and I have been duo-queueing as twin blades and Johnana, and I just enable his dives. The amount of abuse you can take and the brazenness of moving to the enemy and forcing them to back off is hilarious.
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garrosh can walk up the enemy wall during a seige, and pull somone close and toss them out of their base into your horde. It's a wonderful feeling.
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Aug 17, 2017 23:54
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TwoWordName posted:I had an Illidan in QM last night that seemed genuinely angry that I took gorge on Stitches outside of ranked They were pretty furious about a lot of things considering they quit contributing after losing the first tribute fight but that's the first time I've seen someone mad about the ultimate that makes getting picks easier? Bile really helps illidan out, as if you can position your bile drop to slow the whole enemy team down illidan can go to town shredding them. It's boring and not as flashy but is the more reliable ult, even if gorge picks are super fun.
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Aug 25, 2017 22:11
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Knifegrab posted:Who is the tankiest tank? I just want to play someoen who just soaks damage, I don't really give a poo poo about much else, I just want to soak and soak and soak. I love Jo but she's not in a great place right now, except if you need blinds. I'd recommend muradin over her, double thunderclap with healing per hero hit, avatar, ignore pain, third wind.... Muradin is nuts for absorbing damage and not caring at all. Dehaka with adaptation is also rad when you pop it, eat a ton of damage, and burrow until you get your life back. He's a brick shithouse of regen if you can stagger out the damage a bit. With stiches people generally build for slam, but if you're in QM and got a good healer or two, stiches tank build with extra healing received can be infuriating for the enemy team.
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Aug 28, 2017 06:19
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Gobbeldygook posted:I just played my first 10 hero league matches ever, went 7-3, and placed into silver 2 When I placed this season i was all excited because people were taking draft so seriously, calling picks, making suggestions, and playing a really tight game. I placed plat 1 and was super stoked, I was silver last year. Then my next 3 HL games had 3 different deliberate throwers, including the infamous leo eternally camped on an enemy keep dying and rezzing over and over and over. Also to the cloudmount dude, depressed cloud is best cloud because it represents your enemies torment as you crush them into dust.
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Aug 29, 2017 07:06
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Five of those wins were with Brightwing. I should probably get gud at a better support.
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Solo laners and specialists are usually distinct from eachother. xul and sylvanas can both be zoned out of their wave fairly easily by many bullies, same as heroes like azmo, zeebo, etc. All these specialists are optimally used by enhancing the push of your team, especially by strong waveclear rotations into multiple lanes. Some of them are mediocre to viable at holding a solo lane, but any good solo laner is happy to smash them.
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Aug 30, 2017 01:47
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No Wave posted:D Va is great. Such a weird hero, so much fun, only really obnoxious on brexit holdout where she can clear 2/3rds of a wave immediately. I played a ton of DVA when she was released and had a great time bullying the hell of people, but i haven't played her since her last round of nerfs. I think the turning point for me was when an abba accidently cloned me and it made me laugh, because dva without her mech explosion feels like nothing. I haven't tried out her lvl 16 talent that makes her dash, the other day i fought a dva who took that and lit me up with that and triple laser, really surprised me.
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Aug 31, 2017 22:33
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I wonder if they would want to de-emphasize quick match before they introduce anymore multiclass heroes. Varian seems like a problem they still haven't solved. It's interesting how QM shapes heroes like Varian. His recent change in QM matchmaking rules made it so he now usually has to specc tank, which varian QM players usually wouldnt do. After being effectively forced too, his winrate went up because taunt is the superior build, and then taunt gets nerfed even though it's been unchanged for months and months.
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Mind over Matter posted:There was a creepy Zerg eyeball disc, presumably it will come back for Halloween or something. The Eye Pad rules. My mount I'm sad I'll never have is the moneypig. I had the money at the time too, but I foolishly chose to fill my roster. Heroes are forever, skins can be seasonal, mounts are fleeting.
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Sep 1, 2017 22:22
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And meanwhile no Kyle "Blackthorne" Vlaros, or a single TLV skin or tint since 2015. Poor classic blizzard fans. There are dozens of us, dozens!
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W.T. Fits posted:But what is the worst sound in HotS? The sound of hammer being confirmed on your team during draft.
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Sep 2, 2017 21:25
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appropriatemetaphor posted:What're your impressions on his build options? Like aa vs wraithwalk or whatever. I love blinding the stimmed mithril mace Leo, so if blinds are on the table don't go that way.
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Sep 7, 2017 22:19
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Power Bottom posted:I cannot possibly put into words how wrong you are. HOTS's playerbase is huge, thriving, growing, and the same could be said for its professional scene. Every bit of effort that Blizzard puts into HOTS farts out income like you wouldn't believe. Now, granted - HOTS is not nearly as enormous and all-encompassing as League or DotA, but that doesn't mean it's small - it's just contending with two games that had several years' worth of a head start in building a playerbase and delivering content. It doesn't feel like it. I got a friend who when we queue looks up every player on hotlogs, and there is a massive variance in mmr between players in most games. Also if you play steady at all you get used to seeing the same players again and again. We play on US West Coast if that matters.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:I played a couple games with Abathur and I enjoyed him a lot. How do I get good? Can you clone high value assassins and do work with them? If your abby can't get clone value out of Illidan, Genji, Greymane, Valla, etc. then you'll never be good.
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Sep 13, 2017 03:23
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Mierenneuker posted:Something is being teased: Truly the most terrifying proposition. Please Blizz, cut your losses and scuttle this map. I've never liked the game less than when this map was in heavy rotation.
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Sep 14, 2017 20:16
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KT scales at 2.5% to counteract his huge powerspike he gets when he completes his quest. Someone on reddit did the math, and at level 20 quest completed he's on an equal powerspike to most other characters, but the earlier he gets it done the more out-of-control his midgame potential is. Getting this quest done asap means grouping against the most amount of characters possible and above all else focus landing your combo as reliably as possible. He's almost like a ranged kerrigan in this aspect.
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Ultric posted:So I randomly started playing Medivh a few nights ago. I kinda left him alone after launch as I couldn't get the hang of him at the time, but now...I mean, dang, I think I found my calling. He seems like he has a ton of utility and works well in most situations, plus a well aimed Seal can totally turn a fight or objective. I'm mostly curious, why do a lot of folks say he's garbage at higher levels? I'm by no means a master yet and I mostly just play QM but I can only imagine a pro would essentially be the king of the battlefield with this guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jyhnomVLmc&t=465s Here's Roll 20 Vs MVP Black from the midseason brawl back in June. At the time MVP Black was considered the best team in the world, and Roll 20 drafts Medivh Diablo and runs a train over them. Total disrespect draft from MVP, but a cool game to watch the elite Koreans get destroyed by some really steller Medivh+ Diablo work.
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Sensual Simian posted:Oh man this is such an unpopular stance to take in this game but I proudly claim "likewise." I play video games primarily for the enjoyment they provide and a toxic community of nerds who rage over inane poo poo every loving game seriously negate any and all fun had. I still play QM to keep my gaming skills in check, but 75% of my games are against AI and 99% of those games are drama free. If you like AI give this weeks brawl a shot. It's just all random 5 mid, so it's consequence-free. The only thing you gotta do is draft a tank and a healer and then just go nuts. Even then I've had a zero healer team beat a double healer team, so anything goes.
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I've been playing a lot of Rexxar lately, and I like him a lot as your offtank, especially vs. Garrosh. He can toss Misha around all day and she'll just stun her way out while healing massively. This requires playing Misha at max range though, cause Rexxar himself getting tossed is devastating.
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Mierenneuker posted:They definitely made some good improvements to the AI. Hammer for example will no longer siege every 3 seconds and will actively poke at you while moving around. The two dumbest things AI things i've seen in this game was during the hanamura push brawl, two dvas on my team were both bots, and for no reason at all mid game they both hearthed, then just sat in base hearthing over and over without moving until the game was over. Also old murky ai used to lay his egg in lane where enemy minions would kill it, then he would die, pointlessly.
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I have to write "10", "9v10", "19v20", and "4v5" a lot. Seems like in QM people sometimes don't pay attention to these basics principals, namely don't fight a talent tier or man down, and don't take an even fight over nothing to gain. I wish i could convey that with pings, maybe by pinging our level and theirs, and a ping that said "wait" or "we are missing a dude please don't take this fight". If people are lovely and won't stop being lovely you mute them, tell them their muted, and talk poo poo about them with the rest of the team. Be prepared for some choice whispers afterwards.
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Macaluso posted:Tell your friend to tell whoever's job it is that everyone really wants a Mantid or a swarm of Mantid as a hero, thank you I want a swarm of zeglings, but they'd be even worse than samuro's problem of giving the enemy mass quest stacks.
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Sep 28, 2017 03:53
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Avalerion posted:Even during an objective or when they are pushing down your keeps? In both those situations, if you go in 9 v 10 you're far more likely to die than they are , and then they can keep doing what they are doing safer and longer. Instead, spread out to all three lanes, kill minions, and if you see an enemy, run away from it. It's a sacrifice, sucks to got put in that position.
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Midnightghoul posted:However loving inept the HOTS devs are, I do enjoy playing this insanely overpowered Falstad Two days ago I played the 5-man mid brawl as an all Falstad team. One of the most fun all-identical brawls I've had, the great hinterlands snipe wars was tense and exciting. Not to mention looking at a flock of dwarven gryphon riders in a big group unexpectedly reminded me of warcraft II.
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Sensual Simian posted:that llidan that flies in at the end is the icing on the wtf cake Totally. Guldan flying back with "UNSTOPPABLE" and a frantically distressed animation is pretty great too.
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the yellow dart posted:I got probably my favorite HOTS moment of all time when as Azmodan by Orb of Destruction didn't quite finish off Baby D.Va...but the demon warrior that spawned from it hacked her to death while she got bodyblocked. It was beautiful. One time in QM I got the perfect the perfect alley-oop. I was Azmo, and had an Abby vs. Abby match. I Dunked their Abby for 80% of it's life and spawned the demon warrior, and then our Abby hatted it and finished the enemy Abby off. We then laughed about it in chat and no one else had any idea what had happened.
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MMAgCh posted:Have Blizzard even acknowledged the fact that the Destroyer skins are supposed to have completely replaced voice-over according to the store, but very obviously don't? They mis-labelled it, it's an altered voiceover, not a replacement. I guess they say her voice is a little less filtered when she's in the mech, and there's a dragon noise when you hit q, but is otherwise very hard to notice a difference
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Kitfox88 posted:i am excited that i will be able to buy a good stitches skin and thus actually play them Bikini stiches rules though. His autoattack noise is a hollow plastic thunk from his bucket, which accurately reflects his autoattack damage. When he dies all his little beach toys have their own physics and scatter to the winds. Lastly, when searching for matches, tell your friends that he has a dead skeleton dog hanging off the back off his pool floaty, and when they rotate stiches to see, call attention to the nastiest rear end in the nexus directly behind that dead dog and make all your friends sad.
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It's sub-optimal for Chogall to pilot vehicles because Cho can't use his E to set up detonations for Galls E.
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Talmonis posted:Speaking of TLV, I cannot stress enough just how frustrating it is to play against a good TLV player on Dragonshire. Playing TLV on this map, the early game can be hard to get moving here, but if you have any sort of map control past 10 the game is over. Their ability to cap both points and dragon while the rest of your team pushes hard somewhere is a real rush hahaha.
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Paranoid Peanut posted:My pc crashed while playing muradin earlier, we were lvl 10... I logged back like 10 mins later and joined the final push (team was at lvl 22). The Ai helped me net mvp. There are a couple bots that kick a lot of rear end, and Muradin is definitely one of them.
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Orange Crush Rush posted:Stitches Bot makes better hooks then about 90% of any Stiches player you will find in QM Muradin bot is the only bot to ever win a pro game. A year or two ago two pro teams were fighting at the HGC Brawl, and the Muradin players computer went down and was unable to be recovered mid-game. They decided to finish the game with a bot, with the rule being they would not focus fire it. Mura bot loving wrecked them hahaha.
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Toshimo posted:I want to see someone use Regenerative Microbes on a Bloodlusted Zeratul during Shadow Assault. I had an abba heal for 50K in qm once with microbes. Kind of made me wonder wth all the other abbas have been doing this whole time.
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No Wave posted:Doing your hard camp on BoE at any time besides immediately before an objective is a fairly significant misplay (this isn't intuitive and i forgive my teammates for not doing this). That's the most dramatic example because shaman camps are so ridiculous and the BoE objective is so important. On BHB for example it doesn't really matter. What? On BHB, timing your bruiser and seige captures and then forcing a fight at turn in is how you consistently win that map.
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No Wave posted:Forcing a fight is way over my and my teammates' head, brother, but sure If your team or theres has enough coins to launch a volley, a fight or poke war over turn in is nearly inevitable. Before this happens, take your camps so you can sit around and poke turn in while your split-pushing mercs do work. Granted I only play with a fivestack of real life friends on coms so coordinating this has gotten pretty routine.
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