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I wish 2.0 didn't take my Azmodunk carpet mount away.

[QUOTE=Talishmar;52242102]What exactly is the way to be useful as Abathur? Symbiote build and Ultimate Evolution with Artanis is the only thing that remotely seems to work, as he dives in a lot and when duplicated can immediately start dealing great damage. However doing anyhing else seems troublesome. Monstrosity can become quite good, but where exactly should I keep it? It can't capture objectives or push much alone, and definitely[/QUOTE] When I play him, I build to buff Symbiote's spike burst and shield, and grab Monstrosity, then just sit near the outer fort for a lane and use Symbiote and Toxic Nests to push the lane until it's close enough that the minions can soak fort shots while I smack it with Monstrosity.

Playing nothing but Leoric every game

I have a question. Basically, on last week I was around level 10 or something and, after logging in yesterday, I found out my level was boosted to [I]120[/I]. Is this a bug or something? Should I report this? It's annoying me because, as expected, given my level is so high right now I can't unlock loot anymore

[QUOTE=EliaMoroes;52243866]I have a question. Basically, on last week I was around level 10 or something and, after logging in yesterday, I found out my level was boosted to [I]120[/I]. Is this a bug or something? Should I report this? It's annoying me because, as expected, given my level is so high right now I can't unlock loot anymore[/QUOTE] How long have you been playing the game for? This patch they changed the portrait level display to be relevant border color + full level, rather than border color representing your 100th/200th/300th etc level and last two digits of it. Your player level is your combined hero level so if you suddenly find that number not matching or your heroes are now higher level than you remember them being, contact support. However, it shouldn't affect your loot chest gain too much as your hero level XP requirement increases until level 12 where it's 1.2m xp a level. So playing a new hero is going to be much easier loot gain than playing your usual heroes all the time.

[QUOTE=Talishmar;52242102]What exactly is the way to be useful as Abathur? Symbiote build and Ultimate Evolution with Artanis is the only thing that remotely seems to work, as he dives in a lot and when duplicated can immediately start dealing great damage. However doing anyhing else seems troublesome. Monstrosity can become quite good, but where exactly should I keep it? It can't capture objectives or push much alone, and definitely[/QUOTE] There are quite a few ways. You can build for symbiote and just babysit melee heroes like varian, ili, sonya, tracer if the player ain't shit with her. You can always build for your locust and try to soak exp with your body but that can be impossible if the enemy team is too good. On some maps where you can predict enemy movement (braxis, hanamura) you can build for your toxic nests. Personally symbiote build with illidan or rexar's misha is the strongest in my opinion.

Is skin/mount combos enough to make Fashion of the Storm a thing? [img]http://i.imgur.com/4wJQJ7A.png[/img] [editline]19th May 2017[/editline] Valeera fucking lives: [vid]https://my.mixtape.moe/bcfhdj.webm[/vid]

blizzard really needs to fix the queue system, if someone leaves during draft why should i have to wait for another 7 minutes to find a game in team league?

[QUOTE=Mingebox;52248191]Is skin/mount combos enough to make Fashion of the Storm a thing? [img]http://i.imgur.com/4wJQJ7A.png[/img] [/QUOTE] You gotta match the spray and banner too! New Alarak is making me feel so much pressure now that I'm panicking and making misplays and losing all my sweet sweet sadism. Damn you rite of Rak'Shir.

I keep shooting at Genjis with disintegration beam and die in literally less than a second >:C. It feels weird coming from overwatch and having things like Genji deflecting beam weapons successfully or defense matrix not actually deleting projectiles and having to be applied over a hero.

[QUOTE=ColdAsRice;52249751]I keep shooting at Genjis with disintegration beam and die in literally less than a second >:C. It feels weird coming from overwatch and having things like Genji deflecting beam weapons successfully or defense matrix not actually deleting projectiles and having to be applied over a hero.[/QUOTE] I reflexively try to attack a deflecting genji from behind every time

How do you even play Alarak? I can't seem to do any damage.

[QUOTE=One Ear Ninja;52249949]How do you even play Alarak? I can't seem to do any damage.[/QUOTE] Zap people, pull them towards you, then smack 'em with Discord Strike.

[QUOTE=One Ear Ninja;52249949]How do you even play Alarak? I can't seem to do any damage.[/QUOTE] He used to be about trying to balance his Sadism trait, certain talents would subtract from it but you were able to mitigate it in other tiers. You use his Telekinesis to throw yourself or enemies out of position or into your Q. Spam E to keep yourself topped up, take both ults and cackle maniacally. Now you just stack that Sadism, run away when you might die and two shot squishies.

Genji is stupidly easy to play and win with that it hurts whenever I pick him

I am actually really enjoying HoTS. Even though I suck online still and spend most of my time on bots to learn the characters I have unlocked. I really liked playing as Samuro while he was on the f2p rotation but am not so sure I want to buy him just yet. Mostly because I have D.va to think about. :v:

Sometimes I want to watch the Legion cinematic of Varian getting disintegrated by Gul'dan over and over.

[QUOTE=Mingebox;52250979]Sometimes I want to watch the Legion cinematic of Varian getting disintegrated by Gul'dan over and over.[/QUOTE] As a Gul'dan player I share this sentiment. I fucking love Gul'dan while we're on the topic, he's like Emperor Palpatine but green and angrier. It's great.

i fucking hate it, none of the people i play with wanna play unranked draft and just play QM, and every single game in QM is guaranteed to have 1-2 stealth heroes, which is the most obnoxious fucking shit to deal with and i refuse to take "b-but theyre not stealthed they shimmer!" as an excuse.

[QUOTE=Furnost;52252203]i fucking hate it, none of the people i play with wanna play unranked draft and just play QM, and every single game in QM is guaranteed to have 1-2 stealth heroes, which is the most obnoxious fucking shit to deal with and i refuse to take "b-but theyre not stealthed they shimmer!" as an excuse.[/QUOTE] Honestly once you get used to looking for it, it's easy to see. But some tips for QM is take heroes that have Burning Rage(Mostly tanks), makes stealth heroes, especially valeera, hate themselves.

Valeera and Zeratul are good and annoying but at least Nova's bottom tier trash. I remember back before her 3 reworks when she was disgusting

the issue is i play morales so im way more focused on healing people than looking out for stealth. 0 escape and ways to fight back means every QM game im basically locked out the whole match from being able to do anything when im constantly fucked by stealth

[QUOTE=Furnost;52252361]the issue is i play morales so im way more focused on healing people than looking out for stealth. 0 escape and ways to fight back means every QM game im basically locked out the whole match from being able to do anything when im constantly fucked by stealth[/QUOTE] Whenever I'm against stealthed champions as Morales I pick out the level 1 Scouting Drone talent. It seriously can fuck up any stealthed hero when used properly. I definitely suggest trying it out if you haven't been! You drop one if you're sticking to an area, you drop one when you don't feel safe. You drop one if you know a stealth might be around but you can't spot 'em. It's a godsend talent for those like me who've never been able to actually spot stealth naturally.

[QUOTE=Silversoda;52252737]Whenever I'm against stealthed champions as Morales I pick out the level 1 Scouting Drone talent. It seriously can fuck up any stealthed hero when used properly. I definitely suggest trying it out if you haven't been![/QUOTE] looking at morales level 1 talents and it seems to be the best talent overall every matchup. vision is so good whether you're up vs stealths or not. the only real difference being that you might want the drone closer to yourself if you're scared of stealth.

[QUOTE=Crimor;52252300]Honestly once you get used to looking for it, it's easy to see. But some tips for QM is take heroes that have Burning Rage(Mostly tanks), makes stealth heroes, especially valeera, hate themselves.[/QUOTE] It's one thing to see the stealthy motherfucker, it's the other to even be able to detect it [sp]fucking Li Li[/sp]. A good stealth player will also make sure you have no chance to notice him, preferably avoiding your vision until he is close enough and/or attacking when a teamfight begins so that's a thing, and too often your team won't do jack shit even if you ping his position.

[QUOTE=Furnost;52252203]i fucking hate it, none of the people i play with wanna play unranked draft and just play QM, and every single game in QM is guaranteed to have 1-2 stealth heroes, which is the most obnoxious fucking shit to deal with and i refuse to take "b-but theyre not stealthed they shimmer!" as an excuse.[/QUOTE] I don't mind stealths, I just like drifting and feeling like I'm a bit in control of the game. Matching vs D.Va's and there's no hard CC on my team makes me cry. This could have been prevented in the draft!

[QUOTE=Crimor;52252300]Honestly once you get used to looking for it, it's easy to see. But some tips for QM is take heroes that have Burning Rage(Mostly tanks), makes stealth heroes, especially valeera, hate themselves.[/QUOTE] Why did I never even think of this talent like this. Woah. I have thousands of games behind me, but such a simple idea of using dot aoe around tank to spot invisibles never occured to me.

[QUOTE=creec;52253087]Why did I never even think of this talent like this. Woah. I have thousands of games behind me, but such a simple idea of using dot aoe around tank to spot invisibles never occured to me.[/QUOTE] It's a single talent that takes away almost half of Valeeras kit :v:

[QUOTE=Silversoda;52252737]Whenever I'm against stealthed champions as Morales I pick out the level 1 Scouting Drone talent. It seriously can fuck up any stealthed hero when used properly. I definitely suggest trying it out if you haven't been! You drop one if you're sticking to an area, you drop one when you don't feel safe. You drop one if you know a stealth might be around but you can't spot 'em. It's a godsend talent for those like me who've never been able to actually spot stealth naturally.[/QUOTE] fuck that thing does that? doesnt say that anywhere in the description, and i normally just stick to builds on some sites since im prone to fucking builds up/not good at making a build in general

I've been playing D.va almost exclusively and she's a blast. Almost every game I get MVP and I always feel super useful, especially on objective oriented maps that make you stay in one place. I've been looking up some opinions on her and they're rather mixed, but it's hard for me to see why. Maybe it's because I've only played QM and I'm playing against bad people? Either way I'd be interested in what y'all think about her. [QUOTE=Furnost;52254395]fuck that thing does that? doesnt say that anywhere in the description, and i normally just stick to builds on some sites since im prone to fucking builds up/not good at making a build in general[/QUOTE] I actually do the same thing, I usually just steal builds off Icyveins. It wasn't until I got fucked up real bad vs. Morales taking that talent when I realized what the drone did.