Will there be renewed life because of the Microsoft acquisition?
>>583339They will be adding Minecraft's Steve, some guy from Gears of War, and Halo himself
>>583374>HaloWe discused master chief in previous thread>GoWcover mechanics when hugging map geometry similar to Lucio?>MinecraftI have no clue what his mechanic could/should be.
I doubt it, Microsoft will likely want to see the more successful established titles being developed (WOW, Overwatch, Diablo). Depending on how and if actiblizz titles get integrated into game pass I could see something like all heroes being accessible through it.I am hoping we get a new hero sometime, but it would probably have to be a pet project for devs.
>>583474I'd like to point out their AoE2 treatment but gotta admit that one was carried by fan scene hard.
This lil' nigga is fun to play, very easy to be a nuisance and top hero damage tooIf only my teammates would understand that they have to give me time to build two pylons before going balls deep
>>583899Probius is my favorite and I feel like he got some healthy changes during the last few years. Coming back and picking him up again was fun. Always liked him though. But yeah, it feels bad to play him with deep dive comps/during long chases, especially if you're the one holding the team together and they effectively stop your damage by going for unreasonable chases.
I'm starting to have too much fun as Deathwing. When does my reality check come?
>>584292The first time you play him in ranked and get countered by a Greymane and/or Kharazim who know what they are doing
>>583339Have they fixed snowballing yet?Whoever wins the first clash is pretty much going to win the match.
>>584292
>>584355>Whoever wins the first clash is pretty much going to win the match.Never been the case. You can spend the entire match losing, but still win with a single end-game fight and push to core.
>>584355Have you fixed talking about shit you don't know anything about yet?
>>584355It's almost like you don't play the game that is known for rubberbanding.
>It's a "Nazeebo picks Vile Infection at 130 stacks" episode>It's a "Ragnaros writes Nazeebo stacks then hammers a whole wave before he can poison them" episode
>>585322Rag attracts BR players because that's their WoW server; it's only natural
>>584355>Whoever wins the first clash is pretty much going to win the match.countless times I've had our team lose like 3 guys at the start and then the enemy team just sits in mid chipping away about half of the tower while the guys who died just go to their lanes and soak back all that exp and maybe even morealthough rarely I've had the enemy team get teamwiped mid at start and then we just proceed to wipe the floor with them
>>585770>>584355Pretty much the earliest time you can tell "Okay, now we're in some serious shit" is if you lose a keep (not a fort, a keep, know the difference) and are nowhere near taking one of theirsNothing that happens before hardly matters, except in the sense of gaining a lead that allows that moment
>>585937>sense of gaining a lead that allows that momentYeah, I think early game confidence can be quite important. Believing in your comp, your tank, your healer to do their jobs enables you to make more aggressive plays.
This has been most fun i had in month at least, too bad we lacked PvE to end it before they caught up at 20.
>>5869825 healers aram loses more than it wins but damn if it isn't fun, I think getting a monk is the tie breaker
>>586990Khara/uther/alex instead of angeltits, WM and malf would have been enough. Then again it was ARAM, you don't get full roster to draft from.If we ever get brawls back we need healer version of Mage Wars.
highly unlikely. Dota 2 is the only real rival to league and even it isnt nearly as popular as league. It will be really difficult for microsoft to overthrow a moba giant, but maybe riot will fuck up so badly that ms just may give it a shot.
>120s queue time in the evening as a healeryeah I'm pretty sure they will pull the plug this year
>>587199Do people play QM? I thought it was only ARAM and ranked. Also maybe a healer quest went out or something.
>>587199US?
/ourguy/
How do i stop my QM orph addiction? Its just too much fun to destroy retards that are completely incapable of avoiding my attacks, and i cant stop
>>587943You probably don't, a ton of decent level/mmr quickmatches are full of one tricks for a good reason - you win a lot that way.
your friendly neighborhood QM gazlowe spammer checking in, I'd hate to see this game die>ni-- i mean hogger was the last new hero tho
>>587479>implying wow exp Alex is gonna get anywhere near Hots Alex quality
>>587943She's the best mage so you don't. Slept on for a while too for some reason.
>>583339>Will there be renewed life because of the Microsoft acquisition?BHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>589096if there would be any cross promotion between actiblizz titles and game pass it would be pretty nice to have all heroes free on there, the infrastructure is already somewhat there since there's an 'internet-cafe' flag that makes all heroes free.but even that seems far fetched.
>>588231Kind of difficult to use maybe? Her best skillshot is quite narrow, and she relies on that to position herself
>>589235IDK if you're trolling or have a strange definition of best. Q is great for repositioning and puts out decent damage if you can keep it up but E is the big daddy damage spell. IMO she's the best because she combines three things no other mage does except Li-Ming (who I'll talk about momentarily).First off, she has mobility, which is absolutely critical to be blind picked or picked into certain enemy heroes. Jaina is a great example of what happens when you lack this; a melee ass can jump you and ruin you (even with ice block Jaina is pretty fucked). Notably, W and Q are both mobility skills and Q is extremely versatile allowing chasing or kiting.Second, she has big dick damage on her E. Doing poke damage generally isn't sufficient in HotS given the high level of healing, so you need to be able to either one-shot or get someone low enough to jump on and kill prior to their being healed, which her E can do easily, particularly when comboed with W.Finally, she has the capability to constantly fight via her passive healing and overall low mana usage. Notably, she doesn't have to take a talent or two just to keep casting spells.Some mages like Kael and KT are good in particular comps but can get shredded by their lack of mobility as aforementioned. Some like Gul'dan can constantly fight but will just never chunk/kill someone during skirmishes. The only thing Orphea is really lacking is CC, which is fine if it's elsewhere on the team.Li-Ming is in a similar boat but I feel her mobility is significantly worse, she has more issues with sustain, but notably lacks a reliable nuke. Her W is simply too easy to cock-block, whereas Orphea E can't be tanked.Also if you don't go 223XX33 you're trolling. I prefer Eternal Feast and Abyssal Symbiosis but Crushing Jaws and Determination are viable depending on comps. In particular the first talent is so ridiculous IMO; E is just so strong with it and if you finish the quest it's so fucking hard to lose.
anyone up for tl eu ?
>>589286>t. Clearly never tried insatiable+abyssal symbiosis>and an eternal feast shitter
>>589286>Jaina is a great example of what happens when you lack this; a melee ass can jump you and ruin you (even with ice block Jaina is pretty fucked)Umm, sweetie just position correctly
>>589322it's extremely hard to just chomp down on remotely competent players, i'm sure you can qm stomp with that build but that's itas for ults; same kind of idea; crushing jaws is just never going to land unless they're already cc'd in which case you do more damage with eternal feast also eternal feast can get ridiculous during some sieges, combos, and has a shorter cool down to bootthere's a reason it has a higher winrate; plat+ it is a 12% increase over crushing jaws>>589358>just cuck yourself out of your best spell and spam blizzard insteadnah i'm good
>play QM>pick anything squishy = get hunted down by ilidan/butcher/gm>pick melee = you are now team's tank
>>589286>IDK if you're trolling or have a strange definition of best. Q is great for repositioningAnd that's why it's Orphea's best skill: no matter how good Chomp is, or how useful the slow on Dread is, so much of Orphea's playstyle and ability to survive is tied to Waltz (both mobility and constant orb generation) that it makes it her "best" skill... Or if you don't agree with that definition of "best", then her most fundamental; miss Waltz when you're trying to duel, or otherwise need to reposition, you're probably dead in seconds
>>589903Pick tankPick a healer with CC and defend yourself
>>590010>miss Waltz when you're trying to duel,as a mage you're retarded if you're dueling>otherwise need to reposition, you're probably dead in secondsonly if W is on CD as wellQ is good for just putting damage on anyone diving as you kite but the overwhelming majority of your important damage is going to come from massive E hitsit's like calling Jaina's Q her best spelllike yeah it's good because it does damage and applies chill, but cone of cold is what kills people and just about any spell that did damage and applied chill would be jsut as goodOrphea's Q is good because it does damage and gives her mobility, but even if it only did damage Orphea would still be great, perhaps just not by such a wide margin but I suspect still the best
Today in ARAM:Man switches off of healer despite being only one with access to heals because nobody picked tank. No tank options were given to either team.
>>590041>Today in ARAM:No one cares about ARAM and no one should expect any balance or effort from anyone while playing it
>>590013What is the point of QM if you absolutely have to pick tank or few of the healers with CC to have a good time?
>>590117why are you ocmplaining then?If your definition of "good time" is "having a comp that works without the squishies being insta-killed", then either pick whatever you feel is needed to make QM work like you want it to, or accept that if you still pick whatever you want, you might be matched into a QM clownfiesta, and if you're picking a squishy then it's gonne be you who gets murdered; after all, healer and tank are on perma-boost precisely because no one picks them in QM, so you should be prepared for thatOr pick Li Ming with max range orb build and glass cannon and try to shot people from behind terrain
>>590117>>590169another solution: Play ranked without caring about rankJust hammer the pick button and first pick your favorite character, the rest of the party will bitch at you but in most cases they will try to fillI'd tell you to go unranked with that shit, but that mode is dead
>>590169>QM clownfiestaI accepted that long ago. I just pick whichever hero I want to play or practice and click play. Don't care about the matchups and try to make the most of it by adapting to the situation. It's also a fast mode which is great. By the time you ban and pick heroes in ranked I'm already 5 min into the QM.
>>590372>ranked I'm already 5 min into the QM.God I wish this was me. I normally can play 2 QM matches in the time it takes for 1 ranked because of the queue.
>>590395>>590372I'm EU lower silver, I never wait that long for Storm League... Usually around 30 seconds, rarely around 120 or higher
I can't believe hots is fucking dead.post em>captcha: GAYGT
>It's a "let's jsut watch Hammer demolish everything up to and including our keep in the first 7 minutes" episodeFirst time in my life I actually smashed my keyboard in frustrationBest play was Mal'Ganis hard engaging hammer with claws, me dashing in to punch her, Mal'Ganis fucking off with sleep and leaving me to die; keep fell 10 seconds later
>>590515>it's a "butch and nazbo decide to have 2v5 fight in bot just before the level 20 objective" episode
>>590469>JainaAh, a man of taste
>>590408Damn; Storm league for me NA plat is like 20 minutes queue when I play at off times, down to ~5 at more normal times
>>583339Hopefully no.
>its an ARAM is one-sided as fuck episode
>>590947>panda pussy highestA committed man.
>>59156910 minute is matches are always strange affairs. They're not rewarding to win, and they're certainly not fun to lose.>>591577I really can't play her anymore, the frustration I feel from my team not macroing ruins my bullypanda fun.
>>591577It's not pussy, it's cunny!
>its an episode of 2 griefers who lost their last match and now they throw my game too to spite the other
>>590169>orb buildlol, lmao even
>>592184not him but while orb builds and li ming in general are bad, it's qm so lmao is expected
>>592552I'm him and that was exactly what I meant, if it's a clownfiesta going full distance artillery and try to never get spotted and jsut throw shit into the mix is your best bet
>>592055I used to do that on the account that was perma'dIf anyone got me particularly angry, I would immediately queue again hoping to match with them again, and if I did, I would throw the game (again) to teach them a(nother) lessonGriefers are really the scum of the Earth
Win rate plummeted because I'm obstinate in playing meme shield build
>its a varian goes twinblades against 3 bruisers and gets pummeled into the ground all game episode
>>593750Could have been worseCould have been a Colossus episode
>>593759I miss when colossus was good>solo their whole team because they drafted no cc
kel thuzard is a nigger
How do I deal with Artanis. I'm seeing him everywhere. I know that his lane clearing isn't the best but it doesn't matter when it comes to teamfights. He baits people and he is one of the best duelists and can be quite annoying to take down when randoms can't coordinate hard cc against him.
>>594021Right click him.His bark is meaner than his bite, and any solid attack-based ranged assassins can actually bust him down pretty quickly, unlike proper tanks who self-heal like madmen. Obviously if he's getting disgusting swaps constantly it's pretty rough but in teamfights he tends to have a tough time surviving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fxx3TGAeJJw&ab_channel=videogamer60
>tfw my first silence everI've been calling people faggots on hots for years and it finally happened.
>>595176The intern's got a big backlog; he's got to manage SC:R and SC2 as well, not just HotS.
>Got four QM games with an enemy Cho'Gall>In a rowI am unironically seething
based amelia
>>595519>people in chat saying they love the gameThen why is it dead you FUCKS
>>596199checked1)AFAIK this is year old stream2)game is not dead
>>597148>Streamed live on Apr 30, 2022https://youtu.be/3V5reLfPsek?t=5027
>>597184Oho, danke.
>>590469
>its a sonya dives 1v4+ 10seconds before objective episode
>>597761>plot twist sonya quadra
>game runs completely fine, playing against bots>suddenly, this skin appears on a teammate>game completely stops when he enters my view, crashes, cant play match>later, check uther skins in collection>game freezes up and crashes before they all load>reinstall game with battle.net, still happenswhat the fuck is going on with uther in particular, this doesnt happen with any other heroes
>>598402skill issue
How come this game isn't more popular when it focuses on the fun parts of moba matches (fighting)?
>>599180no "le epic 90,000 damage carry!" because exp is split, the team aspect of it makes you truly a team and you either succeed as a team or fail as a team so shitters will will make the game unfun, retards that don't know teamwork will will make the game unfun, idiots that only care about their individual performance will will make the game unfun, micromanaging players who actually should play a solo rts will make the game unfun, afk players will will make the game unfun
>>593843Racist.
>>599347That's true but this applies to any moba really except that it's much harder to solo carry if your team is behind or your teammates offer no help whatsoever.However what this game has over other moba games is the fact that it cuts to the chase much faster than others by eliminating the need for farming gold for items and moves the adaptability of items over to the heroes themselves so you very rarely get those incredibly long and drawn out matches where the losing team turtles to 50-60 mins.This game does the best job at is not wasting the players' time by making creeps/mercs capable of dealing worthwhile siege damage, forcing the teams to fight over objectives and overall designing the game such that matches don't last for longer than they have to.Also the heroes in this game are the most fun of all the mobas I've played, by far.
For me it's the most fun because you don't have the retarded 8 seconds of CC from one ability and get off-screen one shot in DotA, you don't have the autistic last-hit/farming phase you have in either DotA or LoL, and you don't have the literal slave-tier heroes that exist in LoL.You get a lot of interesting fights with all your abilities (or near it) right from the start of the game, the games end before they get boring, and almost all of the autism is removed from the genre. My biggest complaint is that a few of the maps play DRAMATICALLY different from the others, and I think it should be a bit more consistent (although some variance is good). Obviously the Blackheart Bay and Skeleton Mines being removed helps but I think Cursed Towers is also pretty painful at times with the stack bottom and shove strat, and the way the reworked Gardens of Terror works isn't my cup of tea either. Hanamura I quite like but I think there's a solid argument that it's too far from the others as well.
ms purchase means death
anyone wanna hop on hots?
>tfw lickin every motherfucker birthday
Does anyone want to play the video game?
>Last CCL season liveendgame
for old times' sake, bets.
>>602090All on Blue because Stitches is a nigger
>>602090300 on muradin jumping into the team and instantly melting, twiceblue still gonna win though
>>602090>CM winning>everlol
>still talking about esportswew lad
>>602414What's the issue? You don't like seeing the same combination of 20 meta heroes played over, and over again?
>>602414if you dont like esports so much why dont you hop on hots and play some casual games with your friends from 4chins
LOOK AT ME GUYS. I PLAY SYLV AND HANZO AND KILL EVERYONE FROM A DISTANCE WOOOW IM SO PRO DID I FORGET TO MENTION IM ALSO A MING MAIN????I ALSO HAVE LIKE 5 ALTS AND THEY'RE ALL IN MASTER HAHAHAHA
>>602986>I PLAY SYLV AND HANZO AND KILL EVERYONE FROM A DISTANCE WOOOW IM SO PROUm, what's the problem sweaty?
>>597929>mfwhttps://rule34.xxx/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=1850958
>>602090I thought this game's esports scene completely died.
>>601196shoo shoo blizz jew
>>605095It's still going. There's probably at least 4 major leagues (CCL being the most biggest) and quite a few minor leagues.
>>605090>You can cum once every 24 hours.WTF cum rations? Mommy Alexstraza won't like this...
Hello everyone, didn't really know this was a thing. I'm am obsessive hots player that likes to heal
>>606451ranked or qm?
>>606487I do both, i'm one of the perma plats but I'm not that terrible; just dont do non heal roles well
>>606532fellow perma plat here I'm curious; what healers do you like?I always see people pick anduin, bw, stukov, and rehgar but feel like alex, lucio, and morales are better picks than some of those oftentimes
>>606540I like anduin, morales, and tyrande
>>606541my xp sorted
>>606451I used to obsessively heal, but stopped after I got frustrated from my teams not soaking-- so now I obsessively collect my cummy essence as Dehaka.
>>606670I have that same frustration; i will admit that I do tilt sometimes and just go soak the lanes instead of heal :(
>>606671You should try out the community leagues. I'm sure you'll find it a better experience than storm league.
>>606685I am out of the loop, what is that?
>>606715please tell me ;_;I have no friends
>>606715>>606862They're leagues organised by communities. You can join a team or act as a free agent. If you lookup the CCL discord, you'll find in their announcement page for the smaller leagues where you can sign up.A healer like you would probably be in high demand.
>>606898omg are you for real? people to play with?should I just google 'CCL HotS'?please say yes ><
>>606911Yep. You have CCL, Heroes Lounge, Nexomania etc. I've paired up with a few people from there and helped coach one or two players.
>>606982>>606982aren't those for like... pros?
>>606994Yes, and no.If you're interested this is the way you can get to the pros, but below that there's a decent size pool of non-professional teams.
>>606995To be completely freaking honest... I just want someone to healslut forBut I will settle for good friends to play with :3
>>607004Do play EU or US? I play both. I can play a few games with you tomorrow or Saturday if you like.
>>607032I play NA, but I'd be willing to consider EU
>>583339I hope not. I like my dead game. I never have to learn new characters or how they are countered, I can take a month long break come back and still know everything relevant. It's great.
>>607004tits or gtfo
How dead is ranked these days as a goldshitter?
>>608824not as dead as this thread
>>608898there are dozens of us, dozens!
>Team picks Anub into Lunara, Artanis and Arthas.>me last pick: You don't expect me to heal this?>OMG WHY U CUE JUST TO THROW U R REASON I AM GOLDMental gymnastic of these people. I sometimes think that we are shitsink of MOBA playerbase but thanfully DOTA general exist to remind me there are no greener pastures.
>>609173Maybe if you played with your friends here you'd have a better time
>>609173Just say "if you pick bad I throw" at the start of every match.
>>609184>frens
>>609196Every anon is just a fren you haven't met yet
>>607004>>607036"/join /vg/"And advertise you're a healslut so we can know who you are.I'll play some qm or aram with you.
If anyone needs another anon to rarely play with on the NA server just add me! I play QM exclusively unless you are fine with me first timing other game modes
>>609306
>>609387I already posted azmodan tits what else do you need?
>>609280Sorry I am an idiot, join /vg/ ?oh is that a channel in game?
>>609476I am around if anyone wants to play, doesn't have to be part of the kink (or it can). I take games seriously when we aren't fooling around
Turns out EU isn't so laggy for me (at least today), so if people want to play there I am also able to do that!
>>610756I'm on right now if you want to play. Just joined /vg/
>miraculously survive in alterac pass for 38 minutes>enemy tychus is dead so we group to go bot boss>our chromie just decides to turn off her brain and aa some minions in the middle lane>keep pinging her to come here but won't listen>eventually they get boss and she then goes 1v5 running past them
>>610783It really do be like that.
>like the panda girl mass heal playstyle>hate the character looks herselffuck
>>611036I wish there were an older version of li-li; don't like kids in my moba
>>593442wut
>>610781Were you on EU? Sry I spent the evening on NA with some ppl
did they fixed Yrel clunky ass play style yet?
>>611498You're not wrong about the clunk but you can get used to it, she's ridiculously strong in the right hands.
>>611523I guess I don't understand what's clunky; but I am a shitter
>>611353I was. Didn't even know that EU chat and US chat were different.
>>611530She IS clunky, but she's retard-strength if you manage to master it.
>Tome of The Spider Queen>steam roll opposite team with two consecutive spider queen waves, claim all forts and keeps>push to core>Malf disconnects>valla runs off>core is half, opposite team respawns>wipe with core at 48%>opposite team hands gets a spider hand-in that achives nothing>clown team fight top, opposite team looses three>ping core>valla keeps pinging boss>ignore and push core>winI don't understand why there are so many people who believe you need a boss to push core
>>612106same senpai, wish I had come answer for you
>>612106Hey man the game's only been out for 6 years, you cant expect people to know whats up
how the fuck do you play mephisto? his shock ring feels weird to use,you want to be near the enemy as a squishy mage to deal damage
>>613801playing Mephisto is more about the 'when' than the 'how', you want to shade in when your team is either covering your original location engaging into fleeing enemies and not into the whole enemy team out of the blue since you can get bursted down.Take movespeed or slow on 7.>t. aram mephisto enjoyer
>time to play some heroes>2 losses>2wins>altF4
>>611048You should still yiff in hell
>>612893Yeah same thing with jungling during curse. It's not like that map has been there since begining.
>>614882>qm Towers of Doom>level 1 player Alexstrasza never leaves mid and just hits minions>loose>alt4>>614886I'd tap that
>>614886i wasn't trying to imply i wanted anything sexual, just i like your pic version of her better than the kid one
>>611498explain exactly what you mean by "clunky"
>>616133Different anon.Righteous hammer is for some reasson on W when similar abilities are played on Q. All of her abilities have wind up time some you spend lot of time maneuvering around mid combat before it goes off. Combined with D and number keys it's lot of time like playing piano with really stiff keys. I played other piano characters but goat is for some reasson, be it delay, animation or timing, handling her feels really off.
>>616302different anonI always felt kinda the opposite, her slow swing timer makes her feel kind of like a metronome to me.>*bonk*>wind-up ability>ability>*bonk*>D-ability>etc
it is way too hard to get new heroes.. these chests I get every 3 levels or whatever don't give heroes, gold comes in slow, and the only other thing is some currency that you primarily acquire with irl money
>>616898did you get a megabundle yet? every 25 player levels you get 100 gems, you can spend those on a one-time bundle of a lot of heroes.
>>616898Are you doing your quests? It's pretty easy to get them and only requires a few games a day to earn any hero.
>>617035Aha, megabundle. Didn't see that. thanks. are all the heroes in megabundle or just the cheap ones?
>>617278It's a mix, you got some expensive ones there I think (10k), I suggest you get the one you like the most heroes in rather than the 'best value' one.
>>617290yeah I just wanted Xul so we're cool
>lunara>big poison balloon pop build>thornwood vine instead of HaHaHaHa>freestacking poison just pop dudes for all their health from max range>people cant decide whether to fight or run awayhttps://youtu.be/k3rItpwaowA?t=52been doin this shit for like at least a solid year, even with the bonus damage nerf from 200% to 175%, its still ludicrous how quick i kill motherfuckers
>>614886where's my humanization tag at
SweetLemons#11713add me brosim a newfriend but im an old dotard so im just messing around with some of the warcraft heroes
Im playing whitemane RIGHT NOW
>Play azmodan>Quest ping sounds when you hit your dunk ballfeels so fucking great for some reason
>>619806>tfw farming quests on nova clones and rexxar bearsNothing personnel
>>619833>>619806that sound gets me killed for being too greedy on ana quite a bit lol
>Like abathur playstyle>i am a total brainlet and not touch him outside of practice mode for fear if doing awfulmeh
>>620498can't be any worse than the rest of the abathur players.
anyone on eu ?
>>622711nope
>>622711NA here
>>622711Yep
I want Areios to heal my loneliness
>>622914i can only heal your HP bar
>>622914Get your simp nonsense outta here and start watching Fans insteadhttps://m.twitch.tv/fanhots
>>622907Add Prezakias#21382>>622897>>622900NA vros are welcome to join too,my connection is third worldy to join NA
Abathur/Murky should never be in a free rotation.T.Rankedfag
>>623112you actually get ranked games?
>>623204yeah silver memes
>friend of a friend joins the stack>he can't play for shit
I used to play as a 5 stack, but one of my group was banned for 37 years due to racism. Now we don't play at all.Though I do miss playing as Alarak.
EU anons are antisocial af
>>623431I'd be up forplay a few games with you, but I'm done for now after having some very shit games
>>623434i can carry to diamond with artanEZ but i meme with variety picks atmsure thing lets have some fun fren
>>623449are you EU or not, hard to tell on /vm/HealsIvt#1988
>>623450yeah EU
>>623449Nah, another night my dude did you post your tag above? I sent you a friend request>>623450I'll send you one as well
>>623460>prezakias#21382
Nice to see anons playing together, now I regret being a leaguefag lately
>>623495i wish i was addicted to HoTS instead,i feel nothing playing league
Play Alexstrasza
>>623894There are 2 type of healer players and both are basically NTR from theme to game mechanics. No wonder there are so many healer deviants & coomers. You are either bullied without mercy and fed ugly bastard cocks or you are spending your matches cucking your enemies out of their kills.Not sure if it's based or cringe.
>>623911i will heal you out of spite!
>>623894I do!>>623911what did anon meant? i dont get it
>>623911I think it depends on the healer in aram I have something like a 80% winrate with my CBT LiLi build.[T3131133,LiLi]
>>624042When it goes good as in you outheal enemy dmg, remove their CC and or CC them you feel like a BVLL treading on their will as you please.When it goes bad, your teammates getting put down and violated, as you heplesly bite your lip seeing it happen unable to turn it around, you are plazing role of CVCK.
>>624238thats kind of hot when you explain it that way not gonna lie
>tfw i try to play illidan but suckIts an odd feeling
>>624042is there more to this image
>>624270yeah but its nsfw
>>624273That's why I askMay I have a source
>>624286Just search alexstrasza on pixiv its on the first page third row,provided you have a pixiv account to see the NSFW
>>624293Found it, I'm a bit disappointed.
>>624505>>624293porn is weird to me
>>624505what did you expected exactly?
>>624577More. That's what.
>>625309More like what?
I guess it wasnt meant to be.
>>625561No meat?
>>625561butcher is iffy on 2 lane maps unless you have some giga-oneshot/cc comp
>>625390More detail.
Does Uther call his bulge "The Hammer of Justice"
>>626053Does it also have 10 sec CD?
>queued quickmeme Greymane into Deathwing>curse bullet him on CD
>>626327same with Tychus and minigun >DING DING DING DING DING
>level 18>13k anna healingWhat can you do against such reckless incompetence of other players
>>626102kek
A friend and I just went back into the game after a 2y break. He's around lv 1200 and was consistently ranked mid plat and I'm around 800 and was consistently high diamond but we keep getting matched with extremely low level players (200 at most but usually below 50). Now, we initially didn't mind because we just got back and all, but it's been a few dozen games and it's not really changing.Are we gonna be stuck in lowbie queues for a while still or are there just not enough mid level players left or do we just have to play more?
>>627041Your QM MMR has been wiped back to the baseline so you'll probably be playing with the idiots for a little while until your MMR goes back -- how soon really depends on how many games you win.If you and your friend pick the right heroes a two stack is pretty OP.
i cant win today
>>628620at least you're living up to your in game name anon
i wish i liked alexstrasza, but i'll stick to my medic game
>>628957what do you like morales over alex? i havent played morales yet (Might soon as i purchased the support bundle)
>>628984alex relies too much on people standing in your goo, and enemies not disrupting your goomomo lets me be a healbot and that's what I like
I feel forced 50 is about to show up its ugly head any moment now.
>>629080You can beat the forced 50 if you aim to be the most impactful player possible. Play the macro and known when to show up for fights. Jaina is the right hero to do that.
>>628992Isnt lucio and lili also like that? also its a circle not goo!
>>629172Lucio is more like, everyone around me BE HEALEDLili is, everyone around me GOOD LUCKmoralis is, YOU OVER THERE BE HEALED (everyone else good luck)
>>629172Not really, with Lili and Lucio you are the circle and your kit encourages you foe more aggressive plays.Lili trait requires her to take damage for CD reduction and Lucio in the competitive pro-scene (CCL) is used for scouting.
>>629182>moralis is, YOU OVER THERE BE HEALED (everyone else good luck)Literally alex Q and R,not the dragon one,the other one
>>629208okay fine she gives me chest envy, are you happy?
>>629215Oh,Sorry
>>629217; :
>>629182>Lili is, everyone around me GOOD LUCKShe has five different healing tools. Her Q, her W, her R, cleanse and mistweave. That's a far greater potential than Morales's
playing lili makes my wrists hurt from mashing Q
So,anyone up for some games on NA? this is my tag >>609306>>609306>>609306
>>629233Don't bother pressing it up and down except when you're not fighting. Just hold it down.
>>629241Would, but I'm out tonight.
>>629245another day then dont worry anon
>>629241you sound as much of a female as I am, sorry but I want to play with tanks :<
>>629322I play tanks
>>629328oh.well im HealsIvt#1988
>>629332i will add you in a few,playing with someone else at the moment anon
>>629343okie dokie, i am getting pretty tired so dont be upset if i dont accept immediately
>>629346go sleep anon,being tired isnt good!
>>629349I am in the tub so I will be konked out within an hour
>>629350what does konked mean anon?
>>629410asleep lol
>>629569sleep well anon!
Won 4, Lost 2. Not bad at all tonight boys.
>>629589woo! fellow momo player!
>>629594I play a lot of characters my man.
>>629598well i am trash, so i only play a few lol
>Do basic diablo things,just play casually>"Wow diablo you good!"Do people really not play engage tanks in this game? CC wins games
>>629602i am too skittish to engage :<
>>629603i have heard randoms say that particular sentence over and over as if playing diablo is a rare occurrence or something
>>629737maybe you are better than you think :)
>>629872No i aint
Diablo heroes > Nexus heroes > Overwatch heroes > Starcraft heroes > Warcraft heroes
>>630325Warcraft Heroes = Diablo Heroes = Starcraft Heroes = Lost Vikings >>>>>> shit > maggots that eat the shit >>>>>>>>> /b/ >>>>>>>>>> Nexus Heroes > overmeme heroes
>>629598Redheads like that make my penis feel things
>>630337winnerabathur = one of the maggots eating shitand Mei Ana and Dva are like the only overshit heroes I don't hate to see
>entire team focuses me>still can't kill me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jFwWFUNQI>1:23:12HOTS MENTIONED!
>>631854the duality of man
low MMR QM is fucking wild
No need for a living game unless your a grind cuck. I can find my horrable qm team mates easy.
>>632353What? Are you saying you play against AI for fun lol?
>>629598mommy springfield
>league>nazeebo pick>25 mins of eating cock>nova pick>12 mins swift defeatNo. Hero picks are not equally viable.On the other note playing, accidentally, with VPN on is surprisingly not awful.
>>632722They're not, that's why you see the sameish 20 hero pool in the pro-scene.
>>632722lol, love that pic
mei is thicc
>>634505yep
>havent played in over a year>still have all the heroesthey didnt even bother to give it a lousy cross promotion item with diablo immortal even though call of duty even got one sad times
Giving Alextrasza so many children she has no choice but to become a full time soccer mom!
Am I imagining things? I swore they added McCree as a hero. Can't find him on the roster. Am I thinking of his ex-girlfriend or something?
>>634572Maybe you saw some fanmade hero concept, there was also a raynor 76 skin for the overwatch cosplay skin drop.If we're getting another hero and it's a firearm wielding one it better be this motherfucker.
>>629232And her most common and powerful heal tools might as well be RNG selection for how much control you have over who gets it.
>>629602People are cowards or have terrible judgement and no object permanence. Its a fundamental fact that in ASSFAGs with randos the team that commits more to an engagement wins but nobody wants to be the one actually leading the charge. You gotta drag them kicking and screaming into the fight.
>>634906>ASSFAGsnever heard that one, what's it mean?
>>634940Aeon ofStrifeStyledFortressAssaultGameGoingOn TwoSidesASSFAGGOTS though ASSFAG is good enough. A better descriptor than MOBA.
>>584355PLAYTHEFUCKINGOBJECTIVEFAGGOTAlso learn2farm effectivelyAlso learn2 teamfight effectivelyJust get fucking good
>>634949LOL never heard that
>>595176>>595256I'd love to the guy in charge of the reports, and just dismiss all the people getting called faggots and bitching to me about itReal life threats and saying 'ima kill you nigger' go a littlle too far, but other than that, call that man a nigger for not playing right and I'll just laugh and delete your report.
>>601196It's the ugliest skin too fucking hell Blizzard gotta be fags.
>>590469>>590947
>>634968
I still play a few drunk games almost every weekend, but this game feels like the outcome is decided in draft unless you have exceptionally good or bad players on either side.Curse you, fate, for running this game into the comatose ground.
>>634978i get completely shitfaced at least one night a week and play, at least it's fun :3
>>634979Same, but lately Ive tried to indulge people hogging the dps spots and dropped 2 leagues already. Its quite maddening, even if you give them the heroes they want the muck it all up ...
>>635004i probably going to drink myself stupid tonight
>>634978ah yes the classic 51%
>>634978>>635142>le 51% face
>>635142>>635208I am still amazed how well the match making works, at least in the middle of the playerbase
>>635004another explanation might be that you yourself are bad at playing anything else but dps. So if you try to play tank or heal you mess up and your team loses. But I guess it is unthinkable that part of the blame falls on you..? Because, strangely enough, from what people tell me, "the others" are allways to blame. I guess the same goes for you. I allways wonder how it came to be that I never speak to one of "the others" but allways with the perfect players. Not even once have I spoken to a player who wasn't perfect.Which btw explains this: >>635142 If everyone is perfect, we all should have (close to) 50%
any anons still use the /vg/ channel in hots itself?
>>635313i do on NA
>>635253Yeah, its effective at balancing you down. As there's always going to be bigger fish than you.>>635256This is important, I think most players don't feedback to themselves on their mistakes. I'm quite brutal myself and will gladly admit if I clowned. From that I've improved a lot from last season.
>>623431If you play ANY multplayer game with text chat on, you bring it on yourself
So what prime evil do you wanna see next? Duriel? Andariel?
>>634514>Finally got a duo buddy>he plays chogall with a friend while i pocked him with alexits bonkers and feels nice,watching its entire HP bar just get refilled with my R probably makes the enemy team seethe and alex starts pumping free heals once you get that flower talent
>>634902its called POSITIONING BABY
>>635466that is a cute art :3
Would people be interested if I create a pastebin for future threads?
>>635463I'd like to see anybody besides another overwatch character at this point.
>>635809i would rather have map updates than a new hero
>>635806yeah do itmaybe I might help youor maybe I won't
>>635806you could update the old one, wont take muchhttps://pastebin.com/bmfVe3utmainly the part about 'dead game' should be adjusted... downwards.and in the hero acquisition section megabundles are back.
i hate zuljin niggers SO FUCKING MUCH its unreal
>>636576this anon got AXED
>>636585axed to OBLIVION
>>636576hate valla more, at least zuljin has weaknesses ... garrosh zj teams are brutal though
>>636614yesI do hate (may Allah forgive me for uttering this) v*lla more
>>636413if you play this shitpick i am leaving the game
I always forgot just how good muradin can be. Put one some fitting music and fight it out, feels fucking goodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZG_jipaWM-k
How painful would a (solo/EU) mid plat -> masters grind be in Anno Domini MMXXII?I've peaked low diamond, always wanted to give ranked one last send-off before the game goes truly goes terminal.>>637357https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcre1b57t7wFun tidbit, album cover art is by Samwise.
>>637269I wouldn't call him a shitpick. He's very much a meta dps.
>>583339no
>>637716I imagine it wouldn't be much worse than NA and that was a fucking exercise in futility even at high diamond. People still don't know how to play the fucking game and blame anything but themselves for it.
>>637825Yep. Got into a fight last night about Blackheart Bay and why collecting the coins matters more than araming. Christ, its the one serious PvE map given how strong the obj is and people cannot grasp it.
>>637716The pain will be worst at the start of your journey. While everyone cries about "the idiots I have to play with", it gets slightly better the higher you go. But you should be ready to fill any role and you need to be able to stay calm if things get ugly. You will often enough encounter people who are very stubborn and you need to be ready deal with that in a productive way. I was part of a group that grinded someone to EU Grandmaster#1 a few years back when you could still boost with low level accounts. I encountered people of all levels during that time and those that could realy get any account out of bronce to master+ were those that could adept and that never tilted. And while the game changed, this fact never did.
>>637357literaly did exactly thisbased anon
>tfw 5 game winstreak with SonyaDamn shes easy to be an asshole with.
junker queen hero when
>>639295when the game is alive again. also known as never ever.
Not a bad week so far boys. Enjoy your matches.
>pick murky>one-shot creepwaves>die>grab enemies>die>run around like an idiot>die>hit level 20>solokill enemy tanks and mages>die>win gameI play with my friends very rarely and was forced to play a good character to carry them so glazlowe is fun too.
>>583339The confused design of this game will never not be funny to me.Like they design things to make teamwork and individual performance less important, but only make it more important.Like how you getting money from killing creeps and shit also gives it to your allies (and you). Meaning both you and your allies rely on each-other actually collecting this.
>>640630>Like they design things to make teamwork and individual performance less important, but only make it more important.maybe I'm not reading you right but in what way is hots designed to make teamwork less important? individual performance is important but in the context of a team, you can't get fed on a carry and 1v9 even if your team is afk.second point is also unclear, in what way is a resource being collective confusing?
>>640646The devs design goal was to make it not suffer from the problems games like LoL or DotA 2 does.For example, not being good at farming and last hitting>it's ok, since you get money from your allies!Except now your poor farming affects your allies diectly.The designer at Blizzard have been terrible for a long time.
>>640654I don't think that's confused, those are the two ends of the spectrum - mechanics that cater to individual performance and mechanics that cater to teamplay.I'm not saying everyone gathers XP properly in hots ('pls soak!!1' is often written in games) but at least here someone else can cover for a teammate that refuses to clear lanes / soak, you can't really farm for a carry in league (not familiar with dota enough to comment). In hots as long as they're contributing elsewhere (ganking, jungling) and not straight up AFK you'll come out less behind than you would if a carry in league wouldn't farm well or worse - feed.The whole farming/team xp thing is mechanically sound design in my mind, at the same time I acknowledge those design decisions are contributing factors to why hots didn't get popular.
>>640660farming in dota is incredibly complex and is something every player on the map has to work together to do
>>640660>I don't think that's confusedModern Blizzard design is always confused.They do X because they want Y result, but end up getting the opposite of what they want.Be it Diablo, Overwatch HotS or whatever.I don't know why either. If it's the same incomptent leads that never go away or they just hire clueless designers.
>>640717blizzard being bad at game design is a core reason why their games have been so popular for the last 20 yearsthey have never had any clue what they are doing
>>640630>>640654The way that you describe the game makes me think you don't really understand what you're talking about.Like by money do you mean exp?
>>637357Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3XZ0PBfXoc
What's this? hots(not)g back in business?
>>641932Yes, a bump every 4 days.
Disgusting.
>Sky Temple>save our out of position and alone 25hp Lunara from a four man assrape with a 4D gigabrain Junkrat mine + traps>she turns around and goes back in>dies to a single autoattack>pings me and types 'KYS'Honestly not sure what to make of it
>>643517>lunara playershouldve let them die
>>643552After that I did, and so they died 10 more times.
How is KTZ fair
vallatrannies need to hang from trees
>>643831Take solace in the fact that most players cannot hit skill shots.
Why was removing tower ammo good?
>>644127If towers stay as a persistent threat they have more value throughout the game, than becoming useless stumps. Having limited ammo never made sense to me.
>>644141but they still regained ammo over time it's not like they used it all and then had none for the rest of the game.
>>644127it warped the gameplay around draining ammo, you didn't really care about laning or trading damage you just tried to sneak into a lane and drain ammo.It also impacted who people played, summoners and other heroes that could drain ammo would be high priority.
>>644144I wouldn't really say it warped your play style around it since it was just part of laning back then. Going out of your way to waste tower ammo without capitalizing on it was usually not worth it since it regenerated fast enough. "Summoners" back then were just laners and part of every laner's kit was some way to reduce tower ammo faster. You didn't need a laner to win since hots has always centered around teamfight and objectives but a good laner could certainly do alot for your team if played correctly, but again, not necessary. With the removal of tower ammo those former laners have mostly just become weak dps characters that are almost never worth picking. Without the option to properly push a lane or split push as effectively as you used to be able to the objective and teamfights have become even more important that they already were. It seems like removing tower ammo needlessly took away a dimension of playing the game and fucked up alot of characters just to make teamfights more important when they were already really important.
>>644150From watching the competitive matches I don't agree with your analysis. I've seen games won based on macro and I've seen games won on the fights.And on the solo laners, if they were 'never worth picking'. We wouldn't see them as a guarantee pick position. Go through the CCL archive, and you'll seriously struggle to find matches where Blaze, Dehaka or Yrel are not being picked. Hell, you could argue the splitpush meta has returned hard after the Hammer buffs.
>>644153hammer is so fucking gaywhen they're on my team they're literal potato gorilla nigger single-digit iq retardsand when they're on the enemy team they have top in every fucking stat
>>644153When I talk about characters who are no longer worth picking after tower ammo removal I'm talking about characters like zagara, asmodan, gazlowe, and other characters whose primary function was laning. There are plenty of characters who are good at laning like blaze, dehaka, gul'dan, but they generally aren't specifically laners, they're just characters who happen to also be good at laning ontop of their primary function in teamfights. Being able to lane is still important but the purpose of laning has largely shifted towards just farming xp while using it as a method of actually pushing the core is no longer viable without significant support from the team/the objective/camps.
lfm anon qms eu
IT'S TIMEcaptcha KYSJN
>>645141>KYSJN>kys juden>>645142
>>645144>>645143>>645141:o magical
>>645141>>645143>>645144
That /vg/ qm group a few nights ago was pretty good
>Yes, of course I start siege camps at the one minute mark. How could you tell?
>>645167>>>645142 I don't get it.
Can someone make a gif of this?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfMqL0ki2LE
>>645754If someone doesn't do it sooner I'll make it tomorrow.
Time for celebration, took me a while but was hella fun! Had to drag them crying and screaming to victory on the 1000th game, but at least its a win. Feels fucking goodcaptcha GG08G
>>645754
>>646189
>>646189cute!
>>646189literally me in the last /vg/ team game causing seethe
This game is so fucking fun but nobody believes me because its a moba
>>646242i believe you :3
Doin the Light's work
>we'll never see Orphea ever again, anywhere, everAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHFUCKBLIZZARDAAAAAAAAAAA
Is this game worth getting into? I have 4200 hours in Dota but I quit because I got sick and tired of more than half the games I play being stomps. I could tolerate that if the games were at least over quickly but waiting 30+ minutes to lose a game I know I'm going to lose was destroying my soul. Does hots have the same problem?
>>646929In my short experience 20+ minutes is when there are tide shifts during match. This game is designed to keep you in action. Somehow blizzard made good moba and it's their least popular game for some reason.Mind you I have never played ranked due to inconsistent internet so can't really tell you how pro scene is
>>646939i agree with most of what you said, somehow the game is my favorite moba
>>646929I think this is inherent of "MOBA" games. I quit them all at 29 and never looked back. Worst waste of time of my life
>>646929Yes, I think HOTS is worth getting into. With the number of hours you have in Dota, understanding HOTS will be stupidly easy. In the most extreme examples of stomps, a match can last from 7 to 16 minutes. However, in HOTS you could be losing for the entire game, but in a single team fight you could turn the game around and run for core -- Blizzard has placed some very strong catchup mechanics.
>>646929Most of the time, you can tell you're going to lose around 18 minutes, but even then a solid 25-35% of the time you can turn it around with 1 good gank. That late in the game, being up 1 character for 45+ seconds, and communicating decently can give you enough gusto to even things up or complete an objective on the map that will give you severe advantage for at least another minute. Theres also plenty of times when the enemy is already attacking your core, and instead of finish the job, or retreat smartly, they'll fuck around a bit too much, get wiped by your team respawning, and give you enough time to rush all the way into them and down their shit before they respawn. Happens frequently enough for it to always be an option in games that aren't 100% one-sided snowballs.
>>583339Blizzard could snatch up this game to do whatever the fuck they wanted with. It could be the fortnite of mobas. It's easy, fast, and simple. But I don't think they will do anything and it's just gonna die on permanent maintenance mode.
>>647541The art team for HotS was grabbed by Riot in its entirety, wouldnt be the same at any rate, unless they get some new talent lol
>>647787art team of hon went to league
>>647787>The art team for HotS was grabbed by Riot in its entiretyDo you have proof of that? I have a friend I'd like to doompost to.
for what it's worth, I've updated the faqhttps://pastebin.com/pphksCm3
>>648162spotted a typohttps://pastebin.com/eLAp2EeH
