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That intense frustration where you know everyone on your team is playing that hero for the first time. [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] Wow, fucking [B][U][I]WOW[/I][/U][/B]. Valla goes mid, decided laning against Sonya is too much work, and steals top lane. I'm top lane, along with LiLi, which is a pretty good combo. We fucking lost because this Valla wouldn't lane against a fucking melee hero.

[QUOTE=Skyward;47122950]Wow... Worst nerf of the patch? Tychus lost his cigar.[/QUOTE] It's Graves' splash art in League all over again...

[QUOTE=Banned?;47123530]That intense frustration where you know everyone on your team is playing that hero for the first time. [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] Wow, fucking [B][U][I]WOW[/I][/U][/B]. Valla goes mid, decided laning against Sonya is too much work, and steals top lane. I'm top lane, along with LiLi, which is a pretty good combo. We fucking lost because this Valla wouldn't lane against a fucking melee hero.[/QUOTE] Yeah, [I]fuck[/I] people trying to learn the game/a hero. (this was sarcasm)

[QUOTE=Banned?;47123530]That intense frustration where you know everyone on your team is playing that hero for the first time. [editline]11th February 2015[/editline] Wow, fucking [B][U][I]WOW[/I][/U][/B]. Valla goes mid, decided laning against Sonya is too much work, and steals top lane. I'm top lane, along with LiLi, which is a pretty good combo. We fucking lost because this Valla wouldn't lane against a fucking melee hero.[/QUOTE] I'm pretty sure lanes don't really matter in this. Just do whatever in lanes until the map objective starts then group up and do that till you win/lose.

[QUOTE=Masamune;47123877]Yeah, [I]fuck[/I] people trying to learn the game/a hero.[/QUOTE] She had all her talents lmao. [QUOTE=RainbowStalin;47123891]I'm pretty sure lanes don't really matter in this. Just do whatever in lanes until the map objective starts then group up and do that till you win/lose.[/QUOTE] Lanes do matter before the obj pops and Valla could muscle the shit out of a Sonya and get her out of lane early so we have an exp advantage. Taking a good melee/healer lane from someone is a fucking stupid move.

Holy shit lost vikings are hard but damn they're hilarious to listen to.

These goddamn network spikes are brutal. And apparently they're a really common issue that Blizzard has done nothing about.

I wish Blizzard just got rid of Rewind. Its such a bad idea. It just serves as a crutch to compensate for the nerfs they gave to characters because they have rewind... Just get rid of it and buff their kits, don't add it and nerf the kits to compensate. I mean you have, say, Anub who had his already weak survivability nerfed to make up for it, and then you get heroes like Zeratul who get skyrocketed to "too goddamn strong". Just get rid of rewind. If they're not preemptively nerfing characters into the ground for it, it's making them too strong. Its a bad talent. It's a horrible balancing nightmare and the game would be much better off without it.

Been playing Lost Vikings since release and I gotta say, they're super fun. My general strategy is to send all three vikings to a single lane until objective time rolls around, then I usually send Baleog and Olaf to go help the team out while Erik soaks the lane for XP. Viking Longboat is hilariously strong if you just sit on the outskirts of a teamfight and let it rain fire down on the enemy team. I've pretty much noticed that I'm coming out of each game with at least 80k in both damage categories with minimum deaths because of their Go Go Go! and Jump! skills. They're definitely squishy and easy to pick off if you aren't careful with them though. All in all, I think in a good players hands they can become a force to be reckon with while in a bad players hands it's feed city population: you.

Who do you have the most trouble against as the vikings?

Jaina and Zagara really screw me over because of their high damage both single target and AoE wise. Valla too, but she kills everyone in seconds anyway. Single Target DPS can be bad for Erik, but Baleog and Olaf can usually just walk away from that. Pretty much anyone with an effective slow because the vikings can really only get away by using their fast movement speeds. Also, don't pop the boat in teamfights if you're in the middle of the enemy team. That thing is made of twigs and duct tape.

Good info to know. I played against them on the haunted mines map and they seemed to be very effective at capturing the skulls.

Ok, Jaina is really bad and I'm glad I didn't buy her. She is too squishy for her own good. [editline]12th February 2015[/editline] Also, [I]fuck[/I] Haunted Mines. Again. You can win five golems in a row but if the enemy team gets the last two you're fucked.

[QUOTE=ryfry99;47128643]Good info to know. I played against them on the haunted mines map and they seemed to be very effective at capturing the skulls.[/QUOTE] Haunted mines gives me a headache when playing as the vikings since you have two minimaps to worry about instead of just one.

I feel like I've been underwhelmed by every hero I've bought except Tassadar and Sgt. Hammer. I just bought Nazeebo and for how much I've had my ass kicked by him, every time I use my Spirit I feel like I am throwing toilet paper at whoever I am using it on. I feel fucking useless. Nova got mega nerfed and I didn't like her after playing her anyway, Sonya is bad, Murky is awful [I]and got nerfed[/I], Tassadar got nerfed, Zeratul is boring, Raynor is free every other week. I also feel like every Warrior is really underpowered. They just nerfed the fuck out of Chen and Arthas, Diablo and Muradin are awful, Sonya got nerfed [I]and[/I] was bad in the first place. Fucking a.

[QUOTE=Banned?;47131348]I feel like I've been underwhelmed by every hero I've bought except Tassadar and Sgt. Hammer. I just bought Nazeebo and for how much I've had my ass kicked by him, every time I use my Spirit I feel like I am throwing toilet paper at whoever I am using it on. I feel fucking useless. Nova got mega nerfed and I didn't like her after playing her anyway, Sonya is bad, Murky is awful [I]and got nerfed[/I], Tassadar got nerfed, Zeratul is boring, Raynor is free every other week. I also feel like every Warrior is really underpowered. They just nerfed the fuck out of Chen and Arthas, Diablo and Muradin are awful, Sonya got nerfed [I]and[/I] was bad in the first place. Fucking a.[/QUOTE] On the other hand, I also hate going up against Nazeebo. Or playing [i]with[/i] Nazeebo for that matter; teammates like you trap you with zombie wall (accidentally or otherwise). That said, I usually like to play support or specialist heroes. I really like playing Brightwing. I also enjoy Abathur but some people don't really understand how he works which can be really frustrating. Or maybe that's just because I usually play Cooperative. I don't really want to bother other people with Abathur when I'm playing against others.

[QUOTE=Sparrowsluck;47119749]Auto-attack build is better for 1v1s, this game is about team fights. Her multishot build is the best way to pump out a load of damage. [url]http://www.heroesnexus.com/talent-calculator/15-valla#KEDEMFmBvIpBVKPAA[/url][/QUOTE]This build worked out much better than the auto-attack build. Thanks. Also would anyone happen to have a Muradin build? I played mostly him for my first few matches and he seems to be an initiator but apparently the 'throw Stormbolt at buildings' build is good too (whatever that one is)

I'm loving Malfurion at the moment, I like support classes in general though. Dat healing.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3wURQFNbhU[/media] Anub X Zagara OTP

Oh man, I know we have waaay too many Warcraft heroes as it is, but I'd love to see Trade Prince Gallywix as a supporting character. He could maybe ride around in a big spider mech like in the goblin tutorial, supporting his teammates so that he has less work to do.

That would be cool. I also think some of the overwatch characters would make easy transitions to HoTS.

I can't wait til they get added. But I think they've said they want to get Overwatch out the door first. Tracer's definitely going to get in a some point though. She's pretty much that game's poster-girl, and apparently her "rewind" ability is just like a character's in DOTA, so it should be just a feasible in HOTS.

My friends keep constantly telling me that the lost vikings are shit tier and they're useless. Meanwhile I keep getting top scores and have an 70% winrate with them. :v:

Am I the only one who enjoys Chen? And what is it about mobas that attract the most toxic of people?

[QUOTE=Masamune;47146588]And what is it about mobas that attract the most toxic of people?[/QUOTE] It's the competitive nature at work; MOBAs tend to be some of the more hardcore multiplayer games as well. It helps that, of course, you're anonymous.

^ Along with that, I'd say that it's because MOBAs are extremely team based games, if you take Battlefield for example, another team based game, even though your team may be losing, you can still do your own thing and have fun. In a MOBA you're effectively locked into an arena with other players, if the other team snowballs heavily, you can't do anything enjoyable with your time because you'll just keep dying over and over and over. You can't quit so you get frustrated and thus start to vent at other people out of frustration. If you take the toxic players from a MOBA game and put them in other genres, their toxic attitude wouldn't come through as much, because they can still waste their time and keep themselves amused, take that away and you get what you see in most MOBA games.

Zagara is so infuriating to lane against. [editline]15th February 2015[/editline] The damage output of hunter-killer is absurd.

Does anyone have a beta key? I've been in this thing for like a year and got crap all. I know I'm probably gonna get dumbed to oblivion but I really want to try this game out.

Just played my first real game. [t]http://i.imgur.com/mZv2fRl.jpg[/t] Good god. [editline]15th February 2015[/editline] Wait, what are 'mechanics?'

[QUOTE=Linkuya;47148404]Just played my first real game. [t]http://i.imgur.com/mZv2fRl.jpg[/t] Good god. [editline]15th February 2015[/editline] Wait, what are 'mechanics?'[/QUOTE] how much you contributed to objectives Collecting gold, getting skulls, etc