Heroes of the Storm - It's like if Blizzard made Smash Bros. but not! - Games

[QUOTE=Baazul;49683415]The last patch ruined the game for now. It's as unbalanced as it never has been since release.[/QUOTE] Can you be more specific? I don't think the augments are that useful.

Two huge issues are the new character and Rehgar right now. Li Ming has way too much mana for what she is supposed to play like. The only way you will see her being oom is when the whole enemy team has been wiped. I welcome the attempted diversity with the Rehgar changes, but they have overdone them. When you go for a full shield build you can clear minion waves and camps faster than most characters, and a tank with a shield just melts other damage dealers by just simply standing next to them. His other builds are also pretty strong, but nothings beats the shield at the moment. I could talk about some other characters that profited a huge amount to the stun nerfs, but my real problems boils down to how much we lack in diversity in ranked games. You will almost [U]always[/U] see Thrall, Rehgar, Kael'thas and Zagara in ranked games. That's 4 out of 10 characters that will be in every match. It's boring. And if you try to play not so popular heroes in your team you will be quickly reminded why certain characters are always picked.

Welcome to "the meta". Get used to it and enjoy your stay.

People generally don't argue when I pick most warriors that aren't Arthas or Rexxar so I'm good when it comes to that.

So I played with some friends for the first time in months. Tank Artanis is super fun. DPS Artanis is not. The Butcher is horseshit. Murky is still da bomb.

So i started playing this today, being a sucker for all things Diablo, and i gotta say it's pretty great. I picked up Johanna 'cause Crusaders and she's pretty good, sorta reminds me of Garen, my main from LoL. I dunno if it's a good build though it's been working for me, but i've been using the traits to boost minion damage and summon a hammer with Consecrate, as well as boosting Punish damage, and getting bonus damage from Shield Glare. Not to mention always being on fire. Helps me clear out minions and Shrines on some maps and helps me melt heroes by Shield Glaring, bringing them close with Consecrate, burning them and Punishing them, then if they survive, Falling Sword them as they run. Yeah, 10/10 though, Johanna is bae.

Got dumped on the US servers the last two games. My god does this game feel shit with 250 ping. Missing skill shots for days.

Oh right, and this still happens.. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wForMSlEFUo[/media]

The camera randomly moving? I've never had that happen to me before. All the times my camera zips to a spot has been due to clicking on the minimap. It actually looks like your camera snapped to focus on Sonya or the shrine. Maybe you're managing to set and go to a camera position?

[QUOTE=Shock_Coil;49715813]The camera randomly moving? I've never had that happen to me before. All the times my camera zips to a spot has been due to clicking on the minimap. It actually looks like your camera snapped to focus on Sonya or the shrine. Maybe you're managing to set and go to a camera position?[/QUOTE] It's got to do with the middle mouse button drag. Randomly snaps back to some stupid position.

No changes to Li ming and they buffed Nova what the fuck are blizzard doing.

Buffing Nova was a good idea. She suffered hard after the re-work. Not nerfing Li Ming though is just hilarious.

[QUOTE=helifreak;49711611]Got dumped on the US servers the last two games. My god does this game feel shit with 250 ping. Missing skill shots for days.[/QUOTE] No problem here with 300 ping.

Not touching Li-Ming is understandable. She's been out for just one week, and although it's easy to see that she needs changes, exactly what changes are needed is less clear. Though they have some ideas.

[QUOTE=Liliana_L;49720609]Not touching Li-Ming is understandable. She's been out for just one week, and although it's easy to see that she needs changes, exactly what changes are needed is less clear. Though they have some ideas.[/QUOTE] This is just my amateur observation but the fact that she can throw out 4/5 spells that blow most heroes up and come out with 90% of her mana left is fucked.

I think one the biggest problems is that she isn't a high skill cap hero like she was intended to be. Her lvl 4 Ess of Johan trait makes it way to easy for you to land all of your skillshots. It also sets up your teammates to punish them from grouping as well. It can even pull heroes past their gate if they are close enough to it. The talent really needs to be moved so it can compete with another high value talent.

[QUOTE=RainbowStalin;49721416]This is just my amateur observation but the fact that she can throw out 4/5 spells that blow most heroes up and come out with 90% of her mana left is fucked.[/QUOTE] The problem with making the spells costs more is that it can potentially nullify her trait. What good is resetting the cooldowns if you have no mana to use them. I'm ok with them taking the time to figure out what the best way to change her is because an uneducated mana cost increase may gimp her completely. They might be able to increase the cooldowns on her abilities but that also runs the risk of making her no fun at all since you'd have nothing to do after bursting. [editline]11th February 2016[/editline] Also I should note that I have not gotten a chance to play as her so I'm not too sure about how mana efficient she is.

Today I learned that by double tapping the number keys, you can snap your camera to whatever lost viking is bound to that key. I think this information has rekindled a fiery passion in my loins to get them from 9 to 10.

I'm suffering from the same problem i had with League, in which i've found a character (Johanna) that i really like and am fairly decent at and now i don't really want to try anyone else.

I definitely think you should try getting every hero to level 5. It's a great way get yourself to try them all out during rotation and also nets you a good chuck of gold. Some can be more of a grind than others however (looking at you, Vikings)

Gotta love those better-than-you pissbabies in chat. It somehow got from this guy (named IGankedUreMom, hilariously) being like "why would you ever play against AI they suck you suck blah blah" to all lf us telling him off to him saying that he is on his third account, has played since alpha, made 95k last year playing HotS, telling us that we all suck and have shitty lives because we have jobs and saying that he gets loads of pussy. Pretty much as one the chat responded with something to the effect of "we're glad you're so happy in your moms basement" and he bailed into queue after that. Amazing.

[QUOTE=DeVotchKa;49729861]Gotta love those better-than-you pissbabies in chat. It somehow got from this guy (named IGankedUreMom, hilariously) being like "why would you ever play against AI they suck you suck blah blah" to all lf us telling him off to him saying that he is on his third account, has played since alpha, made 95k last year playing HotS, telling us that we all suck and have shitty lives because we have jobs and saying that he gets loads of pussy. Pretty much as one the chat responded with something to the effect of "we're glad you're so happy in your moms basement" and he bailed into queue after that. Amazing.[/QUOTE] I never understood why someone would get pissy in a bot game. It's pretty much anything goes mess around time.

Butcher is bloody bonkers, oh my god

Butcher is very easily countered by just focusing him and any form of CC, even soft CC like slows. And yet he's still very effective because many people don't know how to do such an insane thing.

[QUOTE=BoxinShrimp;49731009]Butcher is very easily countered by just focusing him and any form of CC, even soft CC like slows. And yet he's still very effective because many people don't know how to do such an insane thing.[/QUOTE] Also, if it's an option, simply walking away from him removes his sustain entirely.

Yo guys, I'm thinking of trying heroes of the storm out, but I am without my computer till Monday. So I was wondering if I could play it on my mom's laptop. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/NUArbya.png?1[/IMG] Thanks in advance!

[QUOTE=Lord of Boxes;49737199]Yo guys, I'm thinking of trying heroes of the storm out, but I am without my computer till Monday. So I was wondering if I could play it on my mom's laptop. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/NUArbya.png?1[/IMG] Thanks in advance![/QUOTE] [url]http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri[/url] Give this a shot.

[QUOTE=CaptainHijacks;49738105][url]http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/cyri[/url] Give this a shot.[/QUOTE] That website is, and always has been, fucking terrible. As for an answer, probably not.

[QUOTE=Banned?;49738245]That website is, and always has been, fucking terrible. As for an answer, probably not.[/QUOTE] It absolutely is and often is incorrect but if you use your mind and use estimations & take into consideration that games have options for graphics then you can figure out if something will run poorly or not.

It's a free game anyway so why not just try it?