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[Gaming] Heroes of the Storm hype thread - Now Fully Released
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The level 20 upgrade to Divine Storm is CRAZY. Just CC the entire enemy team.
I get that feeling with Abathur. After having a chance to play him a little more with his changes, he's a BEAST. Especially when you get the double symbiote talent. I was able to wreck face by parasiting both tanks. With the talent, when you cast your spike or spine burst, it comes from both heroes that you have infested. Unfortunately we lost that game after I cleared ALL their towers straight to the core, but the DPS decided that they were going to flog the dog while we were pushing the core and lost us the game. But MAN, his new ultimate combined with the locust swarm can just destroy a fort like nothing.
The only thing I don't like about his new ultimate is how squishy it is. It can ramp up if left alone, but a smart enemy isn't going to leave it alone. And because it's treated like a minion, it draws fort/tower aggro and can be burst down pretty quick.
I think they need to either give it more starting health, or treat it like a hero rather than a minion.
It's fine the way it is. When you parasite on it, you gain full control of it so that solves the drawing tower aggro problem. The one thing I learned about the new ult is that it is NOT meant to deal with heroes, it's meant to assist with pushes, and in that it accomplishes its purpose in spades. Plus, if you have the double symbiote I mentioned above, you can take control of the monstrosity AND cast with a member of the team.
Abathur should always be split pushing and tearing down lanes when the enemy is occupied with other stuff. Too many Abathurs focus on one lane only until they push it down to the core and the only way you can keep the enemy off balance enough to deal with them is to be using burrow to get all over the map and push multiple lanes simultaneously.
Abathur should always be split pushing and tearing down lanes when the enemy is occupied with other stuff. Too many Abathurs focus on one lane only until they push it down to the core and the only way you can keep the enemy off balance enough to deal with them is to be using burrow to get all over the map and push multiple lanes simultaneously.
Even when you're controlling it, the towers still treat it as a minion.
The only problem with Abathur is that, while he's great at split pushing, having him on your team turns nearly every teamfight into a 4v5. And teamfights seem far more important at the moment than the ability to split push.
I think he still needs a lot of work, or the game overall needs to be tweaked to allow split pushing to be more viable. It's why Azmodan is so weak at the moment as well.
I think he still needs a lot of work, or the game overall needs to be tweaked to allow split pushing to be more viable. It's why Azmodan is so weak at the moment as well.
Again, I think that's due to bad players, not the character itself. You should be split pushing and assisting. Abathur's designed to do both at the same time, but is stronger than one over the other based on what talents are chosen.
What that means is the map you're on and the enemy team comp should completely determine what talents you select. You can build Abathur for pure team fights.
Not every mount, I've noticed she rides astride on the big lizard.Yeah, I noticed that too. She rides side saddle on every mount.
CLASSY. AS. FUCK.
One thing that kind of irks me is that one of the level rewards are mount variations and most of the heroes I love, Falstad, Abathur, Anub'arak, etc, don't use mounts, so no reward for that level
Being an Illidan player, I always like to see Illidan getting played. A lot of people think he sucks, just because he's hard to use. Today while leveling up Tyrande, I was up against an Illidan player that was pretty good, and was becoming a terror to our team.
Until I picked up shrink ray.
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!
Also, is there anything more satisfying than getting an owl kill from halfway across the map? Message from Hogwarts: fuck you!
Until I picked up shrink ray.
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!
Also, is there anything more satisfying than getting an owl kill from halfway across the map? Message from Hogwarts: fuck you!
Yeah Sgt. Hammer has a jet boost CD instead of a mount. Would be nice if non mount heroes could get a bonus colour scheme instead or something of that nature.Yeah, I noticed that too. She rides side saddle on every mount.
CLASSY. AS. FUCK.
One thing that kind of irks me is that one of the level rewards are mount variations and most of the heroes I love, Falstad, Abathur, Anub'arak, etc, don't use mounts, so no reward for that level
If they were really creative, they'd have variants of the unique modes of transport, like different flame effects for Azmodan's fire feet, different color wings for Anub'arak and Zagara, Different thrusters for Hammer, Flight animations for Falstad, etc...
Just let hammer's mount ride on top of the tank.
Also, Azmodan can ride the flying carpet. He even puts his arms out... all that's missing is him making airplane noises.
Azmodan is Aladdin confirmed.
I can show you the world... IT WILL BURN.
Abathur is on sale right now, so I decided to pick him up. I'm still of the opinion that he's bad right now, but they'll buff him eventually, and he's fun, so why not.
While leveling him up to 5, I had an interesting game on Dragon Shire. Team seems focused on chasing after the enemy and refuses to capture the shrines.
*sighs*
You guys are gonna force me to do this, aren't you?
*starts burrowing* the shit I put up with.
......
DRAGONTHUR! Come to save the day!
While leveling him up to 5, I had an interesting game on Dragon Shire. Team seems focused on chasing after the enemy and refuses to capture the shrines.
*sighs*
You guys are gonna force me to do this, aren't you?
*starts burrowing* the shit I put up with.
......
DRAGONTHUR! Come to save the day!
I've captured the shrine many times with Abathur. You just have to be prepared to run away before the timer runs out, or you're dead meat.
Abathur can also take merc camps, but you have to rely on timing it right with your locust spawn and placing mines at the camp. He used to have bribe and I think removing that removing that talent was one of the things that really nerfed him. I think if they moved his symbiote copy ability further up his talent tree, it would go a long way to making him more powerful.
Yeah, I was jungling with him. Pretty easy once you get the spawn three locusts ability.
So, I'm still reading the patch notes, but damn did they nerf Chen. This surprises me, did anyone think Chen needed a nerf? They've taken away a lot of his damage potential and returned him to basically just a shielding tank.
Brightwing and Arthas nerfs were expected. Anub'arak got a slight buff in that he gets rewind again, but rewind has been moved to level 20.
Illidan loses executioner. This makes me sad, I had fun duo-queuing with a Jaina or Thrall and obliterating people with that slow/extra damage combo.[DOUBLEPOST=1423587134,1423587033][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, wow... Murky nerfs? He now grants 1/4 hero experience when killed, loses killstreaks when killed even without an egg death, and loses gathering power.
Well thank god that Murky threat has been taken care of...
To be fair, standing and drinking was kind of what Chen already did best.[DOUBLEPOST=1423587361][/DOUBLEPOST]
DAFUQ? Murky was already almost dead last in the MMR rankings according to HOTSlogs. WTF?
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Tyreal loses cast aside!? There goes my reason to ever play him.
Tychus gets a rather big nerf to his odin. It now has the same health % that Tychus has when he casts it, and Tychus dies if its destroyed while he's in it. Guess it's time to try using the laser.
Zeratul can no longer prison-steal merc camps.[DOUBLEPOST=1423587654,1423587552][/DOUBLEPOST]
Tychus gets a rather big nerf to his odin. It now has the same health % that Tychus has when he casts it, and Tychus dies if its destroyed while he's in it. Guess it's time to try using the laser.
Zeratul can no longer prison-steal merc camps.[DOUBLEPOST=1423587654,1423587552][/DOUBLEPOST]
True, and I like that mechanic, but without the damage he has no reason to stand and drink, because the enemy has no reason to target him.
They do once he gets the talent that gives his shield to everyone around him, which, really is the only talent from that tier people ever take.
They sound super complicated, which makes me sad and intrigues me at the same time.
I've played two games with them so far. Won both! I've been keeping two together (Olaf and Baelog, the big and medium ones) while the third (Erik, the fastest) is used to soak xp lanes that are empty or aid with some added range dps other heroes. And bringing all of them together for team fights. When all together, they actually are pretty formidable, with Olaf hopefully tanking and Baelog and Erik damaging from range. They can put out some surprising hurt when concentrated on a single hero. Their lack of a mount means positioning is all the more important, though Erik is faster than other heroes on foot and is decent at chasing.
Also, the viking longboat is just too cute. They even sing a little shanty while piloting it. It also has its own life bar, similar to Tychus's Odin pre-nerf.
Also, the viking longboat is just too cute. They even sing a little shanty while piloting it. It also has its own life bar, similar to Tychus's Odin pre-nerf.