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God help us all, Abathur and Murky are on rotation this week. :tried:

[QUOTE=Srillo;48432971]God help us all, Abathur and Murky are on rotation this week. :tried:[/QUOTE] Murky was replaced with Brightwing. [URL]http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/13604571130[/URL]

[QUOTE=kestner;48433784]Murky was replaced with Brightwing.[/QUOTE] That's even worse. At least Murky has the potential for being useful.

[QUOTE=Sparrowsluck;48433790]That's even worse. At least Murky has the potential for being useful.[/QUOTE] Not in free rotation lol.

[QUOTE=CB1993;48433852]Not in free rotation lol.[/QUOTE] [B]I LIVE! I DIE! I LIVE AGAIN![/B]

[QUOTE=Liliana_L;48425096]How did this happen[/QUOTE] Equal amounts of bad on both teams. It was actually a REALLY good game.

Only thing keeping me from getting into this game is the ridiculous price, 10 bucks for a hero??

[URL="http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/19818499/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-august-10-2015-8-10-2015"]PTR Patch Notes[/URL] Some awesome news for people that own D3.

[QUOTE=goobershield;48434645]Only thing keeping me from getting into this game is the ridiculous price, 10 bucks for a hero??[/QUOTE] They're all for free for a week, then its up to you to buy it with the ingame currency if you like it. so far, zagara its my love and waifu.

[QUOTE=goobershield;48434645]Only thing keeping me from getting into this game is the ridiculous price, 10 bucks for a hero??[/QUOTE] You can easily maintain a healthy pool of heroes without paying a single cent. Also if you own Diablo 3 you'll get Nova and, for three weeks after the next patch, Diablo for free.

[QUOTE=MrThompson;48435137]You can easily maintain a healthy pool of heroes without paying a single cent. Also if you own Diablo 3 you'll get Nova and, for three weeks after the next patch, Diablo for free.[/QUOTE] I have D3 and don't have Nova. I think you mean Valla.

[QUOTE=kestner;48434757][URL="http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/19818499/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-august-10-2015-8-10-2015"]PTR Patch Notes[/URL] Some awesome news for people that own D3.[/QUOTE] Fuck yeah, Raynor buffs. Sgt. Hammer too. [editline]11th August 2015[/editline] They nerfed Leoric? From what I've heard in this thread he's shit, or was that just people not knowing how to play him?

[QUOTE=helifreak;48435168]I have D3 and don't have Nova. I think you mean Valla.[/QUOTE] You're absolutely right, I always confuse those two.

[QUOTE=Hammernipples;48435547]Fuck yeah, Raynor buffs. Sgt. Hammer too. [editline]11th August 2015[/editline] They nerfed Leoric? From what I've heard in this thread he's shit, or was that just people not knowing how to play him?[/QUOTE] He is far from shit but after the patch that could be a different story.

I'm quite surprised that they are not applying nerfs to Zeratul. The seasoned marksman changes even buff him slightly. Overall the patch won't do enough. So many lackluster characters don't get any improvements.

I didn't like Leoric even before the patch. To be honest, he's neat looking and has some useful skills, but I have actually never seen a Leoric doing good enough to be really noted as a good hero. The other guys can do the job just much better, seeing as he has no real hard cc except for his tomb, which can fuck you up aswell if you're to quick or something. I'd always prefer Johanna or E.T.C above him.

[QUOTE=Camper99;48435788]I didn't like Leoric even before the patch. To be honest, he's neat looking and has some useful skills, but I have actually never seen a Leoric doing good enough to be really noted as a good hero. The other guys can do the job just much better, seeing as he has no real hard cc except for his tomb, which can fuck you up aswell if you're to quick or something. I'd always prefer Johanna or E.T.C above him.[/QUOTE] You shouldn't base the value of a hero from the people you see in quick match. He's strong when it comes to clearing lanes, high damage against siege(until next patch), and able to slow. The death timer is what puts him ahead of some the off tanks like Arthas, Sonya, and ETC. Tomb just seems lackluster compared to march based on how many team wipes I've initiated with it. Now Johanna and Muradin are your top tank picks which he works well with but can't replace. From a stat stand point he has been at the very top on HOTSLOGS for at least 3 weeks.

[QUOTE=kestner;48434757][URL="http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/19818499/heroes-of-the-storm-ptr-patch-notes-august-10-2015-8-10-2015"]PTR Patch Notes[/URL] Some awesome news for people that own D3.[/QUOTE] Considering it only takes a few hours to hit 70 at the start of a season, this'll be easy.

Leoric is fucking shit. Only in very certain conditions is he really good but otherwise useless! I wasted my 15k gold on him.

[QUOTE=mark6789;48441766]Leoric is fucking shit. Only in very certain conditions is he really good but otherwise useless! I wasted my 15k gold on him.[/QUOTE] I think you're confusing, "I'm bad with him," with, "He's bad." He currently has the highest win rate across all skill levels. Even if you filter to just master tier he is still highest. Maybe you're just picking him as your teams solo warrior? He's not the best in that situation due to lack of cc but even then it works out fine against a lot of comps. What is your typical build? Which heroic do you take?

[QUOTE=Sparrowsluck;48441845]I think you're confusing, [B]"I'm bad with him," with, "He's bad."[/B] He currently has the highest win rate across all skill levels. Even if you filter to just master tier he is still highest. Maybe you're just picking him as your teams solo warrior? He's not the best in that situation due to lack of cc but even then it works out fine against a lot of comps. What is your typical build? Which heroic do you take?[/QUOTE] Exactly, For a tank he is extremely hard to play correctly. [editline]11th August 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Seiteki;48441544]Considering it only takes a few hours to hit 70 at the start of a season, this'll be easy.[/QUOTE] Compared to the Heartstone mount this is a walk in the park.

Alot of the Leorics you meet in soloq thinks he's Murkys father.

[QUOTE=kestner;48442100]Exactly, For a tank he is extremely hard to play correctly. [editline]11th August 2015[/editline] Compared to the Heartstone mount this is a walk in the park.[/QUOTE] Yeah jesus man I just got the hearthstone mount now after playing off and on for a couple months. Hearthstone sucks for new players.

spent an entire game as nova sniping a murky. It was great, it was like a safari hunt

As soon as Rexxar comes out, the only mount he's allowed to use is the hearthstone card.

[QUOTE=ryfry99;48443086]Yeah jesus man I just got the hearthstone mount now after playing off and on for a couple months. Hearthstone sucks for new players.[/QUOTE] I played it some when it first released, which I was hoping I could easily get it because of that but I only had like 20ish wins. I still haven't got around to getting that fucking mount.

After a second game with 2 specialists, 2 supports and 1 assassin (last game vs 2 assassins, 2 warriors (if you can call a Sonya warrior) and 1 support) I think Quick Match being the only game mode you can choose before level 30 is the definitely the worst part in Heroes of the Storm and I'm seriously considering uninstalling the game. I'm definitely having a short break to see if they fix the problem (or until I can start Facehuntering in 2 games). Let's compare Heroes of the Storm with League of Legends. There's Ranked Match at level 30 where you can ban overpowered champions, see what your enemy is picking and you can communicate with your team for the optimal team. For newbies there's "Blind Pick" that's enormously better than HotS's QM, you can't ban or see enemy picks but still can see what your team is picking and talk with them. Hell, even ARAM (all random all mid) that's completely random fun with zero competitive play offers better interaction than QM since you get to reroll your random champ once in a while to better suit your team composition. I repeat, the "stupid fun" play mode of LoL with "random" in it's name, that's even less competitive than "Blind pick" allows more strategy in team building than this games primary game for the first 100 games. Or in my games first 200 games since I played until lvl 28 until I realized I was in US server for some reason and it wasn't my pc that caused the unresponsive game play, it was the 250+ ping so I had to change to EU server (by the way you can transfer your account to another server in LoL without losing levels). (Could just be that I'm ranting because every high damage hero in their team (Nova, Kael & Sonya) decided to play "let's focus all our ults and everything we got do deny Li Li turning those 40+ gems for the whole game instead of winning earlier". Our team is pushing top so I'd imagine Nova would help in team fight but no, let's instead deny the support for turning in the gems and later on waste both Nova and Kael ult on Li Li without even getting the kill".)

Then form or join a party of 4 other guys and you have your heroselect and communication, it's no rocket science.

[QUOTE=Camper99;48464485]Then form or join a party of 4 other guys and you have your heroselect and communication, it's no rocket science.[/QUOTE] I'll quote myself from page 36: "Hey, let's invite a random team mate to get that sweet +50% exp bonus" Dude 1 waits for a minute and invites Dude 2. Dude 2 waits for a minute and invites dude 3. Dude 3 waits for 2 minutes before clicking ready and then leaves before we find a match. Dude 2 asks "why take so long?". When the game finally starts, Dude 2 is disconnected for the whole game and Dude 4 or 5 disconnects, reconnects, disconnects... Try living in a country that has smaller population than a single Russian city (St. Petersburg is about as big as Finland and 500km from my location, Moscow has more people than 2 Finlands) and listen to endless CYKA BLYAT CHEEKI BREEKI and then see if communication is as simple as you say.

So you're basically blaming the game for being bad because you live in a too small country and you cannot find enough people who are reliable enough to play the game? how's that the games fault.