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I want more patches like the Gul'dan patch, where they touched nearly every hero and touched up their talents in slight ways. It keeps the game feeling fresh without overbearing changes.

Not nearly every talent tree needs a full rework. Small number changes can make a huge difference, too.

In the span of 10 years we went from 40$ for a full game to 300+$ for a full game with a brigade of "it's free, u no hev tu buy" brainwashed people behind it. Blizzard is selling them this and they are loving it :)

Remember the time when bots would dodge skill shots, retreat when they were in-danger, rotate properly and even gank; Blizzard was proud of that, even made a blog post regarding it?

Pepperidge Farms remembers..

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What the hell happened?

Difference from PTR:

• XP bonus, blog: https://heroesofthestorm.com/blog/21793050/

• Alterac pass will enter non ranked in 19 June, ranked in July 10

• added warhead junction nuke change dev comments

• Yrel AA and Q dmg buff

• Skins and mounts

A month ago, you enabled Kharazim's Radiant Dash to dash to "all allied units", because he couldn't dash to some specific stuff like allied creep, toxic nests, medivac, rip tire, wisp, etc etc.

Is it intended for abilities that can target enemy summons, to be able to target all of the enemy summons? Because some, like Illidan's Dive, still have a lot of summons that they cannot target, like Creep Tumors, while other abilities like Kerrigan's Ravage can target anything with a healthbar

Can confirm, it was horribly communicated.

It was tricky enough to figure out that the following happened:

• Drop in Shard-price happened after 3 weeks (not the usual two for non-seasonal events).
• The Bundles would disappear this reset (July 10th).
• The Mounts from the quests will be back in loot boxes in about a year.

Such stuff would’ve been perfect to refresh in the Heroic Deal forumposts, so that it’s not close to guesswork figuring it out.

Either way, sources for the above:

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21867180/new-echoes-of-alterac-bundles-and-skin-packs-2018-6-19/

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/game/events/echoes-of-alterac/

> Orphea's bundle is the first to force 3 mounts into the only bundle with her only skin.

You're wrong. Deckard had the exact same thing with his Wastewalker skin, and the Road Chariot - and potentially others as well. Deckard is the only one I remember, though.

Either way, the important thing is this: The Launch-bundles all change to Skin Packs a while after the Hero is released (~~pretty sure it's~~ 2 weeks, when the Hero drop from 15k to 10k Gold), removing both the Hero and potential Mounts from it. It's nothing new, at all.

The mounts aren't bundle-exclusive either, so you don't have to buy the bundle to get the new mounts - unless, of course, you'd want to buy them with Gems.

EDIT: Confirmed it's 2 weeks, as mentioned in the post made when Gem Only launch-skins were introduced with Alexstrasza, a year ago (2017-11-14). Heroic Bundle for the first two weeks, then converted to a Skin Pack.

> For example, this means that once the upcoming Alexstrasza Heroic Bundle is removed during the week of November 27, a “Dark Queen” Alexstrasza Skin Pack will enter the Collection. That Skin Pack will then remain available for purchase using gems indefinitely.

Source.

>These lush and deceptively peaceful gardens have grown over time, covering the once molten realm known as Dragon Spire. Beneath this verdant paradise, the ancient power of the dragons was sealed away... and their descendants have neither forgotten nor forgiven the trespasses of those who wronged them.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/battlegrounds/dragon-shire/

The existing lore states that the dragons are an ancient race, not humans cursed into dragon form, but rather ancient dragons bound into stone form.

Should we take this as a retcon, and disregard the previous lore, or is there some detail I've missed here? Is the race of dragons and their ancient power still cannon, and just this man happens to be cursed into a dragon as well?

edit: from fan's theorizing, it seems like Raena's husband always was and simply is a dragon. The curse is his stoneform, not the fact that he's a dragon. This would mean that she married a dragon! If so, I approve of this dragonkin romance ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

• SONIC AMPLIFIER: Lúcio can hit his enemies with sonic projectiles or knock them back with a blast of sound.
• CROSSFADE: Lúcio continuously energizes himself—and nearby teammates—with music. He can switch between two songs: one amplifies movement speed, while the other regenerates health.
• AMP IT UP: Lúcio increases the volume on his speakers, boosting the effects of his songs.
• SOUND BARRIER: Protective waves radiate out from Lúcio’s Sonic Amplifier, briefly providing him and nearby allies with personal shields.

Source: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/lucio/

I can verify this.

In line 48 of this script code, the units checked for contesting the capture point are grabbed.

I used the same UnitGroup(...) function in the SC2 map (which use a very similar engine) and the result verifies the center point of the unit being required to be in the area.

-> Center point must be on the point.

Well, I personally would find it better if they used the radius of the units for this. I dislike these inconsistencies between data and triggers in gameplay-deciding aspects.

> example: Arthas has 15 armor,

Arthas has physical armor only. Your example needs to use Greymane's Worgen with 10% armor.

Armor armount settings from the game files.

edit:

(I assume that the splash damage type is most likely planned to be not used in the game, atm. It is likely to be a relic of SC2. For example, Sgt Hammer's siege mode's weapon hits all targets in the area with "basic" damage.)

Can you guys reach out to whomever is updating the website and tell them to upload the new art on https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/media/ and https://blizzard.gamespress.com/Heroes-of-the-Storm

Feels pretty bad not having the new stuff here :(

Well you're gonna love this:

>Hanzo: The Target Practice quest tracker will now differentiate between targets that have been hit 3 times and those who haven’t been hit at all.

New and improved AI. Never forget that Blizzard literally made a whole post about how they were really proud of their new AI mechanics, especially for new heroes. https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21033994/under-the-hood-ai-2017-9-13/

Didn't they say earlier that 10 Placement Games were becoming the exception rather than the rule? I was under the impression that, if you've been somewhat active in Ranked recently, you only need to play one placement game that yanks your Rank closer to your MMR in case they diverged towards the end of the previous season.

Edit: Found the source:

> Placement matches were primarily intended as a way for us to gain more information about your skill level in the absence of previous match history. However, the more games you play during a season, the less necessary it becomes to reassess you at the start of the next. Going forward, those who play enough ranked games during the current season will only need to complete as little as one placement match when the next season begins. After completing your placement, you will be placed based on your MMR at the end of the previous season.

> Just because they have a surrender option which lets a team give up.

I wouldn't be shocked if this were a big factor. Sun Tzu said, in The Art of War, "To a surrounded enemy, you must leave a way of escape." That's spot-on. If you hem someone in with no escape, they'll fight to the death, causing you great harm at the least. When things start looking bad, our fear impulses look for an escape valve--i.e., surrender. In HotS, the only escape valve is leaving the game, which comes with negative penalties and also requires you to sit out the game's duration. With no escape valve, your brain starts working on desperate ways to salvage the situation--and sometimes, they figure it out!

Here's our typical press release finishing move:

Roll20, owned by The Orr Group LLC, began as an effort to keep developers Riley Dutton, Richard Zayas, and Nolan T. Jones in touch via long distance tabletop gaming. Since launching via Kickstarter in 2012, it has attracted over 2.2 million users as a free service, becoming the preeminent way to play tabletop roleplaying games online and developing into a staple of in-person play. The award-winning program continues to be funded by subscribers who receive features that assist advanced gameplay.

TL;DR you can play board games on the internets. :)

It is a coin flip.

>Players will no longer enter an infinite rejoin loop if both Cores are destroyed simultaneously, and victory will be assigned to one team at random.

1. Bakery Rehgar (me and bakery are friends for a long time and get along really well).

2. Positioning and cooldown calling/understanding of the strength of your cooldowns.

3. Anything that is like Thresh from LoL.

4. I don't read very often. It's something that for some reason never really took of for me, I get bored with reading literature. But, if I had to say a book, I would probably say Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig

You could stop using Adblock Plus. That shit straight up <em>allows</em> certain ads. It will even replace some ads with their own.

Get a proper ad blocker, like uBlock Origin (not to be confused with the non-Origins clone.)

I don't use HotsLogs, but I took a quick tour around the site and got zero ads and zero signs they detected I was blocking ads.

with a quick google, it looks like at least mini games has expired, but I wouldn't be surprised if the others havent.

https://kotaku.com/the-patent-on-loading-screen-mini-games-is-about-to-exp-1744705351

Her damage is my biggest concern. I like the general focus of her kit, but she's basically a non-entity in combat right now when it comes to damage. 236 DPS for her AAs at Lvl 20 places her somewhat in the middle of the pack for Warriors, but her abilities do little-to-no damage themselves, which is bad considering they each have a windup time. It's a shame too because she's got a really cool kit overall, and if she could output more threat on her own then I could easily see her in the main tank role.

Also, while a minor point, one thing I think you may have overlooked is that Aegis of Light has potential as a tool for protecting fleeing allies, or for pulling back to defend the back line from dive. You're right that it makes little sense as an engage since the tank should be first in the fray, but it may work fairly well as an anti-dive tool. Someone like Genji jumps on your back line, you jump back into your team and give them all armor in the process. Similarly, Gift of the Naaru would make a decent burst heal on a back line target that got dived on by the enemy team. Admittedly it's maybe not the best use of such a thing because it's still antithetical to the sort of play style you want from your main tank, but it's a possible explanation for what they were thinking there.

But yeah, I was on board with the idea of her kit, but she just doesn't generate enough of a threat IMO.

EDIT: And sure enough....orange text to buff her damage. Though possibly not enough.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/20581822/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-march-14-2017-3-14-2017/#Design

Sky Temple

• Removed a few bushes in the jungle between bottom lane and middle lane.

>Developer Comment:  We love the gameplay around bushes, but feel some maps--and in particular certain lane transitions--have too many bushes for players to negotiate. We are starting to cull some bushes starting with Sky Temple. While this change is small, we are happy with its impact on the map in our internal testing and want to see how this impacts the game as we look to make similar adjustments.

not every map should be the same

Drives me up the freaking wall!

It's been more than a month since the release of Anduin (April 30 Patch Note) and he's finally added to the roster page on HotS official website!

Is she? Whoa, I really thought she was like 14 or 15. She looks so young!

edit: You're right!
https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/heroes/dva/

Come to think of it, it might not be a good idea to have a 15 yo girl repeatedly die in a game. Some people might take offense. It's cool with 19 though, those we can kill by the truckload.

There was a lot of talk about the rework to QM mentioned from Blizzcon. The roles are intended to shuffle around, teams are guaranteed to have a tank, healer, ranged damage, and roles that are in hot demand will receive bonus XP for their player level.

Call of the Nexus (to my understanding) is these changes. However, I could be wrong. CotN could be limited to only the bonus XP, which isn't as exciting. I was hoping someone could confirm this.

Edit: I went for another look. Bad news. It's only the XP bonus according to the PTR notes.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-gb/blog/22636771/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-november-5-2018-2018-11-5/

There's still hope that forced composition is here too, but I have my doubts.

In "Thinking, Fast and Slow", Kahneman tells of a study where a store sold canned tomato soup, once without any limitation and once with a "only 10 cans per person" limitation. The second round had a significant increase in sales.

Edit: Even more remarkable is that customers didn't even come close to the later-imposed limitation of 10 cans per person when there was no limitation. Feigning rarity caused people to buy more than they would've bought otherwise.

Here is a recent interview with Dustin Browder.

He continues, "We've added a whole new system to the game, an artifact system, and this allows players to customize a lot of the core stats on their heroes. This is one of the things we had a lot of requests for from the players. At the same time, they didn't really want it to be a part of the talent system--they wanted the talent system to be more focused on skill, heroic abilities, all that stuff--so we thought it might be kind of cool to give the players the ability to customize the stats on their characters before the game launches. So now you can go in and you can get these artifacts and you can slot them into your hero.

"This also ties into a request from a lot of our players for something more to do with gold. a lot of players will purchase a couple heroes and be totally content with that, but say 'I'm earning all this gold, what else can I do with it?' We thought this could be a cool thing you can do with your gold--buy better and better artifacts and customize your hero."

Does ANYONE remember ANYONE asking for this at all?! Seriously. No one has EVER said, "You know what his game needs? LoL Runes!" And the gold? People have been complaining with not ENOUGH gold to buy heroes with, and how long it takes to acquire.

I am a bot. Here's a transcript of the linked blue post for those of you at work:

Incoming Bastion and Sombra Toast Poses

Josh Engen / Overwatch Team

We recently created a couple of victory poses for Bastion and Sombra that weren’t originally intended for use in our Winter Wonderland 2017 event. However, they ended up being used in a number of marketing assets, which was understandably confusing for some of our players who saw the poses but were unable to collect them.

So, as an extra-special treat, we’re going to grant both of these poses to all of our players, regardless of whether or not they logged into Overwatch during the Winter Wonderland event and earned or purchased Winter Loot Boxes. Once they’ve been added to the game, anyone who logs in will receive Sombra and Bastion’s “Toast” victory poses.

The poses have already been added to the PTR and will be headed to the standard version of the game in January, after the Winter Wonderland event has concluded.

To learn more about the Winter Wonderland event, click here. In the meantime, put on an ugly sweater, grab a mug of hot cocoa, and hunt down a Yeti with your fellow Meis (or fight back as the mythical beast himself!).

Blizz had done an April Fool's joke where you could use "Google Street View" to walk around Dragon Shire on the website. It was called "Nexus Lane View".

It seems like it is no longer available.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/20085252/in-beta-nexus-lane-view-4-1-2016/

> NOTE: Call of the Nexus will not be active immediately active, but will be enabled a short time after this patch hits the live servers.

from ptr patch notes

OK: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/

Click on the square that says New Comic: Secrets of the Storm (the one with Cain as it's cover). It will send you to the same PDF. Or just open your B.net launcher the link is still there.

At 10:00 AM PDT

Official Blog : https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21793049/tune-in-as-we-reveal-the-next-hero-and-battleground-2018-6-1/
Tweet EN https://twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/1002601251819798528

There's always the HotS starter bundle that's been available for years. $9.71 (on Amazon) for Sonya, Zeratul, Li Li, Zagara, and Jaina, plus a Zeratul skin and a mount. Would probably be better at about $5.99, but not terrible.

https://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Storm-PC-Mac/dp/B00X0GLXQG

Yeah, starting with Alexstrasza, all the skins that release with a hero will be gem only. Skins that are released later for the heroes will be able to be bought with shards, but release skins will be forever gem only. https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21182206/upcoming-changes-to-hero-launch-skins-and-bundles-2017-11-6/

It sucks but it is what it is.

Those sorts of tools are super empowering and cool!
Making something (even a 5-10 minute experience) in an app like that will definitely teach you about game development, logical thinking, and problem solving, if not specifically about a programming language.

Gamemaker is another really good, approachable option.

GBStudio is cool too as a fun, easy to use tool for making Pokemon style RPGs.

There are so many choices available if you want to get started in games. I think as long as you are making something you are on the right track, no matter what you are using!

ok listen up soldiers! enemy team have not enough tributes to unleash the course, they are 10 and we are not, but here is the plan, we will delay them forever if each one of us engage 1x5, by the time the 5th member of our team is dead the first one will be already returning, so he will repeat the process, eventually they will be out of mana and the tribute will be ours -SunTzu, The Art of War

Book: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Dish: Sushi

Vegetarian Dish: ummmm. I mean I can throw down to a bomb salad anytime.

Movie: Fight Club

TV-Series: Game of Thrones, Spartacus, Sherlock, Luther

Game: Halo 2

Emoji: ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Please consider The Acceptable Ads Initiative: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads

It still shows some ads to help free-to-use services, but blocks the really annoying ads that don't meet size, placement and content requirements.

For reference.

I actually don’t think the bar system is working properly either.

Medivh has an 8/10 scale on the complexity and he’s considered Very Hard, so is Abathur at a 9/10. So 8+ seems to be “Very Hard” Heroes. Or so you’d think. But yet Illidan 8/10, same as Medivh, and is a Medium difficult hero.

Kel’Thuzad is a 7/10 and is a “Hard” hero. So 7 and less you’d think are Hard heroes. But the other Kt, Kael’thas, a great hero overall, but way easier to play than Kel’Thuzad is also 7/10. Sure he’s also considered a “Hard” Hero in HotS but he’s much easier to play.

So in “bar metrics”, unless they change Whitemane’s complexity down, is a “very hard hero” same as Medivh. 8/10.

I can help you out: You can always check the address bar if you somehow aren't able to remember which site you are on. If it starts with a green lock followed by "https://www.tumblr.com/" you're on tumblr. Otherwise, you're not.

HotS was also my first moba and learnt relatively quickly. And yes, it is very friendly compared to LoL or Dota2.

I think learning what every hero could do was the toughest part. Knowing which talents to pick was also rather difficult for me, but just followed some guides on the internet. Once you get enough experience from the game you can start making your own builds or copying them from good players.

My advice: tell your team you're a new player and that you're willing to learn. Ask them what you should be doing, where to be on the map, etc. This way you will learn much faster and with time you'll start making the right decisions on your own. If they're toxic, just mute them or the chat and report them. Also, if you have another friend that plays HotS he can help you a lot. Try to make friends in game, and play with them in a party. This way you'll get bonux XP with heroes (which will give you faster gold to buy heroes or other stuff) while they can also teach you the basics of the game.

And finally, if you want to jump into HotS, you should do this first. This way you get two heroes and a Stimpack (it boosts both XP and gold earned after every game).

At 1:01:48, Dread is about to explain why taking down forts is so important for Cloud 9, and it refers back to their earlier discussion at the beginning of the game about the difference between Cloud 9's Waveclear comp and EDG's Stun-lock comp (that discussion started around level 2 or 3 and lasted until about level 7 or so, lots of good info).

I'm sure to high MMR players this is basic, but for plebes like me, the explanation was very articulate and informative. Lol at Artosis at the end of that lesson too "I hope you donate your brain to science after you die."

Nurok's girlfriend made a post yesterday about Blumbi and Darkmok in a russian social network: https://vk.com/braineverest?w=wall-113999417_1711

In the post she hints on some changes in EU which are not yet announced:

> В этом сезоне мы уже не увидим наши любимые команды в прежнем составе. Всю сцену HGC коснутся перемены. Да, да, вы не ослышались, абсолютно всю, даже всеми любимая и самая популярная команда Европы, решила прибегнуть к изменениям в своем составе. Но сегодня не об этом, да и разглашать до официальных анонсов даже самые сладкие спойлеры я не могу.

Translation (by me):

> We are not going to see our favorite teams with the same lineups in the upcoming season. The whole HGC scene will change. Yes, you are not mistaken, absolutely every team -- even the most popular and the most beloved one is going to make some roster changes. But today I should not disclose anything not yet officially announced -- even the sweetest spoilers. ~the main part of the post about Blumbi and Darkmok leaving TL~

Pretty sure that by "the most popular and the most beloved teams" she means Fnatic. I would guess that they could replace scHwimpi -- we saw at Blizzcon that Quack started to play Genji and Li-Ming a lot more often and those were one of the strongest scHwimpi's picks during the 2017. But I will be very surprised if it is anyone else.

Rich has secured GM No. 1 in Asia last week and he has recently reached 20K points with just 124 wins and I can't really think of anyone who has a winrate (76.5%) close to his.

His high-risk plays really thrives when paired up with trustworthy teammates, but I think his success has to do with something more than that. If you ask me, Korean HL is full of randomness and ~~craps~~ just like any other region.

forgot to check out and post this.

The new event site looks fantastic :)

For comparison to last year's: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/game/events/lunar-festival-2018/

We actually got more stuff this year. I'm actually surprised.

It's part of the MM changes they have been working on. How soon it will be until it is live is hard to say though.

> Non-Participation and Intentionally Dying

> Going AFK during a match, leaving matches early, and dying intentionally are all behaviors that harm the game and compromise a match. We’ve been working on ways to address these behaviors while limiting the negative impact they have on others. As part of this endeavor, we’re deep into development of a loss forgiveness feature, which will mitigate ranked point deductions for players who lose a game due another’s failure to participate. The leaver will be penalized for the loss and repeated offenses will result in harsher penalties. The system will initially only forgive losses caused by leavers, but we plan to expand it to include AFK players and intentional dying in the future.

The armored versions get added next week when Alterac launches, you can find pictures here: http://www.wowhead.com/news=284753/heroes-of-the-storm-echoes-of-alterac-event-yrel-and-alterac-valley

They are also mentioned in the patch notes: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21849060/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-june-12-2018-2018-6-12/

The following new Mounts will enter the Nexus during the week of June 19:

• Swift Stormpike Ram
• Swift Dark Iron Ram
• Swift Stormwind Ram
• Raging War Wolf
• Raging Timber Wolf
• Raging Night Wolf

These, I assume, will be buy-able with shards.

For those who are intersted in the sketch of the current season again:

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21535474/2018-ranked-season-2-dates-and-rewards-3-1-2018/

This is a perfectly valid question and one that has been asked before and I didn't really have a good answer.

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Thanks to you I literally just discovered that the rules of the event under which the original creator submitted Janitor Leoric grant Blizzard license to do whatever they want with it.

From the event page (https://heroesofthestorm.com/zh-tw/blog/20131414/):

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(Google Translate): "Given that Blizzard has provided you with the opportunity to participate in the player's painting project, you hereby grant Blizzard and event organizers a non-exclusive, global, royalty-free, permanent license for commercial or other development and utilization. The artwork submitted by you to Blizzard and the artwork/illustration created by Blizzard Property. These developments and uses are for commercial purposes, can be contained in all media, in whole or in part, whether or not the character or form is distorted, including but It is not limited to its website, but it can also be used for internal, commercial and advertising purposes."

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It would seem that Blizzard already has all the license they need to create and profit from Janitor Leoric.

Here is a link to the changes they are making to the ranked system in the coming season: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21771817/ranked-play-enhancements-coming-with-2018-season-3-2018-5-11/

Have you watched some of his VODs? For example, check out ~1:43:30 on this one https://www.twitch.tv/rudeism/v/58911477. He uses powerslide, facemelt and gets one guy in his Mosh. It's acutally not that bad.

If he plays enough games with his guitar, he will play against other players who are just as bad as him with mous/keyboard, so it's fine.

please don't buy these things, it's mostly snake oil.

• Trouble sleeping? light (especially blues) suppress melatonin. so if you're having trouble sleeping just turn down your monitor brightness at night or give this program a try. https://justgetflux.com/

• Feeling strained? just take a walk around the house after every match. strain comes from you focusing on one thing for a long period of time. The glasses won't help with this.

> Blizzard didn't tell us this when it was implemented.

It was just there in patchnotes. There are a lot of problem because people can't just sit and read carefully.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-gb/blog/21940930/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-july-11-2018-2018-7-11/

> Diamond, Master, and Grand Master Hero League players who have placed in the current season but haven’t completed any games in a while will be considered “inactive”.

Don't know how long "for ages" is for you.

Here are her patch changes.

Also note the general Stealth changes in patch notes from 2017-12-12. It's no longer an "eye exam" to see who can spot the shimmer. Stealth is more visible but still untargetable unless you hit the stealth hero with a skillshot.

The most noteworthy things are that her stun was cut in half (release: 1.5s, current: 0.75s) but now has a 2.0s blind afterward while her silence is actually longer (release: 2.0s, current: 2.25s).

Also, being in "deep shadows" (Vanished for 3s or more) all her from stealth abilities have 5 range and teleport her behind the target (the way the old [[Death From Above]] used to work).

She was more powerful in non-draft modes (and arguably still is, though not to the degree of Cho'Gall) because half of dealing with a niche hero is counter-drafting them.

If you can silence or stun key opponents (a blinded Tracer is useless, and a silenced Diablo can't throw people around) without getting yourself killed you can have an impact. But in order to do that you're also tied up by cooldowns on Vanish, the ability in question, and possibly the 3s "deep shadows" rule (if you want the 5 range teleport).

Balance patches are always the 2nd Wednesday after a Hero release, so it should be tomorrow.

Not sure about Tracer deal. If there is, it probably involves a shop update which happens later today in the afternoon (at least for NA to my knowledge).

Ranked changes are coming as indicated in these patch notes: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21771817/ranked-play-enhancements-coming-with-2018-season-3-2018-5-11/

Well, this must feel awkward.

Really, really awkward.

Yes I'm buying. Long time Dota 2 player and I also paid for the Dota 2 access back then (it was 30 bucks). Don't regret it.

>Quantity may be limited

That's interesting tho.

They're already easy to find both on the official site (via "News"): https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/

Alternatively, they're also easy to find via the Launcher (click on the small "Options"-cog.

A third ban is coming https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21771817/ranked-play-enhancements-coming-with-2018-season-3-2018-5-11/ I have no further information to share today though. Keep your eyes peeled!

Here's hoping that the GIFs they are using here will appear on the Hero Pages along with description updates.(especially Diablos Fire Stomp and Lunaras Wisp)

> Dragon Shire will become(or is) Garden Of Terror. On the top of map There is Dragon Knight hidden and near him shrines from Dragon Shire.

They are, at the very least, in the same Realm: King's Crest. It also makes some kind of sense that Lady of Thorns could be the earlier version of Queen Nightshade.

> Also Dragon Knight have very intresting quotes such as "Dragon shalk rule again" So propably There Was a Dragon Nation in Nexus.

There was, actually. The Dragon Spire. It's described in the battleground descriptions on the official site:

Dragon Shire - link

> These lush and deceptively peaceful gardens have grown over time, covering the once molten realm known as Dragon Spire. Beneath this verdant paradise, the ancient power of the dragons was sealed away... and their descendants have neither forgotten nor forgiven the trespasses of those who wronged them.

Garden of Terror - link

> Once the royal gardens were a splendor to behold. But lately a shadow has fallen over them... Writhing tendrils creep across the grounds at night, and a number of servants have disappeared while walking its twisting paths. Queen Nightshade claims to be unaware of these incidents, but some are beginning to suspect she has gone mad.

I would absolutely love the idea that some Realms (or at least King's Crest) were warped by time - because then we might see a Dragon battleground. It also fits the whole theme of the Nexus pretty well, by replaying the same scenarios over and over again, heroes are from different periods of their individual time, have items/memories from after that, and so on.

Who's the new hero coming in the update?

> First and foremost, players will get to battle as a new hero named Rehgar. He's an agile character who is inspired by the shamans of Warcraft. "He's a pretty cool and aggressive support character," Browder explains. "He can change into his mount form whenever he wants very quickly. He turns into a ghost wolf and runs around. He's a very special kind of support character, and a lot of fun to play. Basically, Rehgar is a shaman with a bunch of elemental abilities. He's a classic Warcraft III Shaman build."

Source

Wiz : highest mmr in NA, Naventic coach, pro player, very fun and friendly person

Best HL gameplay among streamers and he often duo Q with other pro players. definitely not nearly as many viewers as he deserves.

Also Rich streams (best player in the world). It's in korean but there are often korean viewers who speak english and can translate if you have questions.

There are some rare occasions where an outside publisher may succeed in the Chinese courts. Koei Tecmo successfully sued a major Chinese piracy group for cracking and distributing their games, despite the group's arguments that &quot;Romance of the Three Kingdoms is public domain.&quot;

Best at the moment

You can check other wallpapers at Official sites media section

It hasn't even been a week since Cain's release! 17 days ago we had a big balance patch buffing undertuned heroes and talents while nerfing overtuned ones, link: https://heroesofthestorm.com/pl-pl/blog/21656682/ This is getting ridiculous, how often do you want them to drop balance patches? Daily?

A couple of years ago the people who worked at Blizzard all grew up and matured about the idea of every female character needed to be in a chain-mail bikini.

Here's Chris Metzen talking about how they wanted to get away from it in their other games like Overwatch.

I really don't understand how you can get false banned so much that you're silenced for a year and a half, as I've never seen that happen to anyone I've seen.

Anyways, they haven't fixed the report system yet. Its still WIP and there will probably be an announcement when something is coming for it.

Latest update concerning the report system: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21701411/heroes-of-the-storm-development-updates-april-12-2018-2018-4-12/

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21797340/upcoming-event-chest-and-bundle-changes-2018-5-24/

>* If you used gems to buy Nexomania Loot Chests prior to 07:01 p.m. PDT on May 23 (4:01 a.m. CEST / 11:01 a.m. KST May 24), you will receive a number of new Nexomania Loot Chests equal to the amount you originally purchased. > > * These replacement Chests will feature the updated event item drop rate mentioned above and will be awarded within the next few days.

Hi u/SheevSyndicate!

You're correct. The Hell’s Screamers, Match of the Century, and Sun’s Out 2017 bundles will all be available until June 11. There aren't any surprise bundles coming later during Nexomania, so if you decide to pick one up you should be safe choosing from those three.

Also, your post made us realize we hadn't listed the end-date for these bundles and the patch notes are being corrected. So, thank you for bringing attention to this!

They have given away large collections of heroes in the past and I wouldn't be surprised if they do it again.

Of course very recently there have been a number of vocal complaints about match making and a number of other balance issues as discussed here.

It makes sense to get those updates and probably the changes to quick match where every team will have a tank, healer and assassin with 2 flex spots in before making another huge push to attract new players to give the best first impression possible.

To be precise she committed suicide by throwing herself off Icecrown Citadel but the Val'kyr convinced her. You can read it here: https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/story/short-story/leader-story/sylvanas-windrunner

No silly questions. It can still be done:

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/game/recruit-a-friend/

I invited myself 4 times on different e-mails, got them to required level and got the mount. My friends were already invested in HotS so there was no one else to invite.

Okay. Activision Blizzard had a net income of $500 million in the quarter ended March 31, 2018. 31 days in January, 28 days in February, and 31 days in March is 90 days. 500,000,000/90 = 5.55 (repeating, of course) million in net profit per day.

Dyrus, the winner of Tryhard for Good, had $52,000 donated in his name. Voyboy had $19,600, and Scarra had $22,300. That works out to $93,900.

The only thing we don't know is how much Blizzard paid Dyrus, Voyboy, and Scarra to do the promotion. It lasted a grand total of three weeks, though, and considering the pull of each of them and the revenue they would have lost for the drop in viewers, let's be generous and say that Blizzard paid each of them $10,000. That brings the total spent on Tryhard for Good to $123,900.

123,900/5,560,000 = a whopping 2.2% of its daily net income. I am more than confident calling that a drop in the bucket. Happy?

Edit: changed the final percentage from 0.22 to 0.022 and then to 2.2% because hey, sometimes a guy gets caught up on decimals. Also I went to school for theater so please correct my math if it's wrong.

• Blizzard has already said in the past that they think double support with heroes like Tassadar, Tyrande, and Medivh are fine, and they are perfectly okay with that style of composition. The fact that a "double support" style of composition as you define it is so popular, has more to do with the Medivh rework than it does with actual healers, because of his Arcane Explosion Circle of Protection one-shot combo.

> We know characters like Tassadar, Tyrande, and Medivh cannot be played as a solo Support. They need to be paired alongside a healer. This is totally fine! We are perfectly okay with these characters showing up in double Support comps (because otherwise they wouldn’t have a team composition they fit in). source

• They have also said in the past they are fine with the occasional double support composition in that same article.

>We are mostly trying to move away from the “double healer” team compositions that we are seeing so commonly. Like everything, double healer is okay in moderation, we just don’t want this to be a common strategy that doesn’t care about map, enemy team composition, etc.

• I find your argument that waveclear doesn't mean double support is a lot weaker is very lacking. Not just because something like that is hard to prove, but also because Blizzard can balance around support's waveclear, regardless. And from what I've heard of other pro players and coaches, most agree that the lack of waveclear was the primary thing that killed double support.

Well, here's the post:

https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/20297652/battlenet-update-9-21-2016

They aren't really specific about what they will do, but it sounds like they think the brand is obsolete.

It actually isn't a scam! The Heroes of the storm purchase as you can see from this amazon link (hopefully this doesn't get deleted) actually comes with five heroes: Sonya, Zeratul, Zagara, Li Li, and Jaina as well as the Ronin Zeratul Skin and the Golden Tiger mount. That edition is the only way to get the golden tiger mount.

If you don't mind spending a little money, Amazon still sells the starter pack and for only $10, it goes a long way:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00X0GLXQG/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;th=1

There are extremely few great pure melee assassin players so that it's actually the best role if you want to join competitive. If you filter heroesprofile for Masters only, then Kerrigan tops the winrate charts!

https://www.heroesprofile.com/Global/Hero/?timeframe_type=minor&amp;timeframe=2.54.3.86223&amp;game_type=sl&amp;league_tier=master&amp;mirror=Exclude&amp;build_type=Popular

Meanwhile there is currently no single top #100 player maining melee assassin across all 4 regions: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-gb/leaderboards/storm/19/americas/ (Contrary to the false legend Melee Assassin is the 3rd column from the right) but I have seen players playing >80% melee assassin in top#100 before. The last one I remember is Munky, although Liquipedia lists him as offlane.

This is the correct answer. If someone takes no actions during a draft screen the lobby is disconnected and they get the leaver penalties.

This was changed in the Artanis patch, October 2015

>Players failing to select a Hero in Hero League draft lobbies will no longer be granted a random Hero. Instead, the AFK player will now receive leaver penalties and the game lobby will disband, placing all remaining players back at the queue screen.

This does not stop someone from pre-selecting a hero once the draft started and going AFK at that point, but having a ready check doesn't solve that problem either.

Checked the comics: She gets it on issue #2 while showing Deckard Cain that the Raven's Lord realm was corrupted by the Dark Nexus.

I think she stabs the Nexus Core, and uses the diversion to trap her father in the Dark Nexus, or banish him to an unknown realm.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/media/

> The higher someone's rank, the less time they should get

Already the case (see here).

Actually, they do. Scroll down to "Matchmaking Improvements".

There is also a few official developer posts about the new roles being an integral part of the improvements to matchmaking—which I will link here if desired once I find them again—since they realized how absurd most of Quick Match's team compositions have been.

Good stuff!

Definitely something I'll consider adding to the upcoming Resource-page for The Nexus Compendium, along with stuff like Midgame Moves.

I might poke a bit with how to properly link to the specific parts of it over time - but either way, it seems like some good stuff. :)

Non-Ranked Battleground Pools Temporarily Reduced:

Alterac Pass

Braxis Holdout

Cursed Hollow

Dragon Shire

Infernal Shrines

Tomb of the Spider Queen

source

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21771817/ranked-play-enhancements-coming-with-2018-season-3-2018-5-11/

*As a result, we’re pushing back Season 3’s start date from the week of June 11 to the week of July 9.

God, this is like the 10th thread in the last 24 hours. I wish Blizzard hadn't changed the background to Alterac Pass and started the event quest this week already.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-gb/game/events/echoes-of-alterac/

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21849060/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-june-12-2018-2018-6-12/

Alterac Pass comes out next week.

>While these rule changes are specific to Hero League right now, the next set of matchmaking improvements we’re planning to implement will be targeted at Quick Match. While we aren’t ready to announce a date just yet, we’ll have more details to share with you later this summer.

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/21771817/

Development update from the 12th of April

Reddit AmA from the 13th of April

This isn't even a month old.

What are you talking about?

Oh, you are correct. From the game files:

• Minions are flagged as minions.

• Mercs in camps are flagged as creep.

• Captured mercs are flagged as mercs and minions.

• Other monsters like Haunted Mines' skeletons are flagged as creep.

Taken from PTR's UnitData.xml

It's the classic that most modern military theory is built around. However, as you know games in HoTS involve a total of 10 players. The Art of War is most directly applicable to upper echelon military strategy, and does not address small units tactics to the same extent. Current Army doctrine takes an approach that is very easy to break down and apply to the eSports scene. Further along the series, I will definitely be discussing some broader strategic themes that could also be applied.

Also, if anyone is curious about his Twitter Background picture, it is from Magic card Evermind, and here is the larger image.

Text version too, for good measure.

~~IMPORTANT: Only updated in Europe & Asia regions, at this point.~~ UPDATED! Live in all Regions, and Level Requirements added!

> * Raynor > * Muradin > * Sonya > * Nazeebo > * Uther > * Jaina > * Kharazim > * Yrel > * Gul'dan > * Ana > * Lunara (Required Level: 5) > * Imperius (Required Level: 10) > * Medivh (Required Level: 15) > * Zeratul (Required Level: 20)

~~Note that the level requirements are yet unknown, and will be updated once available. It is however known which 4 Heroes are behind a Level barrier!~~

Source: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/heroes/

Also, a handy link to the Prediction Results as well.

Nope, Munky currently has 7'902 points -> https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-gb/leaderboards/storm/14/europe/?optimizelyId=8603521632&amp;analyticsEnv=prod (Apparently the MMR is stratospherically high)

They should add Unranked Draft to the Game Modes page for the three year anniversary. There is an "Unranked" section, but it doesn't contain Draft. It does contain Brawl (which is a joke imo).

URD was introduced on June 14th 2016: https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/blog/20143449/heroes-of-the-storm-patch-notes-june-14-2016-6-14-2016/

Boosts are a clone of stimpacks, with the added bonus that the more people that have them in-game, the more bonus xp you'll get.

One thing that is interesting is that the bottom of this page says that boosts can be applied retroactively to a game. So I'm not sure if that means you can save them once you open chests, but it's definitely interesting.

The official HOTS page for her has "HIGH PRIESTESS OF ELUNE" as her title, written in caps just under her name...

https://heroesofthestorm.com/en-us/heroes/tyrande/

And I'm pretty sure her first appearance (Warcraft III) was as a "priestess of the moon".

She obviously wields a bow and has some kind of affinity to hunters, but saying she shouldn't heal because she's a hunter is like saying Uther shouldn't heal since he carries a bad-ass hammer and wears plate armor.

Yes, report.

Seems like HOTS could use a "Gameplay Sabotage" option like Overwatch (leaving aside arguments over whether reporting "works").

Here are the categories for Heroes of the Storm.

None of them really apply ("Abusive Chat" would be a massive stretch but it's the closest I can think of within the categories that exist).