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WITCHCRAFT posted:My goal when I first started playing was to unlock every hero without paying real life money. It took years, but I did it. And I had fun doing it the whole time. I'll keep playing at the same leisurely pace, taking months long breaks when I get bored or some other game has me really obsessed. I will only quit HotS when the playerbase dries up.  And I'm still missing 12 characters.
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Abathur in half a dozen matches in a row this morning. Remembering why I stopped playing HotS a few months ago.
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Jul 14, 2022 15:13
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Mind over Matter posted:Abathur in half a dozen matches in a row this morning. Remembering why I stopped playing HotS a few months ago. Quick match is literally more of a gamble than ARAM at this point.
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Jul 14, 2022 15:39
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RIP HOTS 
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Jul 14, 2022 15:47
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lol it's a good game I stopped after people started funneling into ARAM and taking THAT too seriously. Complaining about the "draft" in ARAM lmao no thanks! Bring back the Stiches brawl where you hook people over the pool in the middle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK9gLkXe0xw&t=10s
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Jul 14, 2022 16:26
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FungiCap posted:Quick match is literally more of a gamble than ARAM at this point. It is, but it's still more fun for me. I just don't enjoy ARAM at all.
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Jul 14, 2022 17:29
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QM always just needed a lightweight draft at the start of the match (not minutes long, give everyone a slot and 10 seconds) to stop nonsense situations with lineups one side can’t touch, but ‘it’s the fun mode!’ reigned supreme, and playing Ranked meant longer-than-match-itself queue times.
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Jul 15, 2022 10:33
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FINALLY strangled in the crib.
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Jul 15, 2022 17:45
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Shockeh posted:QM always just needed a lightweight draft at the start of the match (not minutes long, give everyone a slot and 10 seconds) to stop nonsense situations with lineups one side can’t touch, but ‘it’s the fun mode!’ reigned supreme, and playing Ranked meant longer-than-match-itself queue times. The entire point of quickmatch is its the “play the exact hero you want to play” mode. Yeah, that results in unbalanced lineups, but you get to play the exact hero you wanted to play. Why the gently caress would I queue into QM when I want to play Murky and my team makes me draft as healer (or be the guy that “fucks over the team” by ignoring comp)?
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Elysium posted:The entire point of quickmatch is its the “play the exact hero you want to play” mode. Yeah, that results in unbalanced lineups, but you get to play the exact hero you wanted to play. Why the gently caress would I queue into QM when I want to play Murky and my team makes me draft as healer (or be the guy that “fucks over the team” by ignoring comp)? If I were to do it, I'd just give people the opportunity to reselect at the beginning of a game. The core balance issue with HOTS was that it encouraged teams to consider composition - either it needed to allow people to do that or change the balance to be like LoL where comp wasn't that important. The reason Brawl works is that it gives folks the ability to consider comp but doesn't force them into an elaborate selection process. That's what QM should have done.
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Jul 16, 2022 04:39
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QM is fine and these suggestions of a mini draft or changing a hero aren’t awful but they wouldn’t make it better. You get a 75% chance at a workable comp in my experience for a queue time that’s drastically faster than ranked and you get to play what you want.
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Jul 16, 2022 12:58
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I have enough people yelling at me for my picks when I play ARAM, keep quick match free of this nonsense.
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Jul 16, 2022 13:20
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Yeah I could never play ranked because of the draft. It was too anxiety inducing. Plus most of the time I simply just wanted to play Murky or Garrosh
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Jul 16, 2022 13:53
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Hefty posted:i pretty much exclusively play murky at this point for exactly this reason. i would love to play a version where everyone takes it exactly as seriously as i do (not at all). It's fun to reply with 'Mrgllll glrrm gl!' if anyone yells at your Murkying.
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Jul 16, 2022 14:38
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I get that folks don't particularly like having to think about composition - the Team Fortress and the Tribes series have had the same issue. It's difficult to build a game that is balanced around team play while also ensuring that every role is equally interchangeable. The HOTS folks initially hoped to balance heroes within their own class, but the QM automation struggled to balance all the various elements and come up with competitive matches. They ended up flattening the character diversity and increasing the number of tags, but it never really fixed the fundamental issue that people don't like being pushed into assuming a role. I'd expect that one of the takeaways from HOTS is that devs are going avoid balancing games like that.
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Jul 16, 2022 16:56
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Macaluso posted:Yeah I could never play ranked because of the draft. It was too anxiety inducing. Plus most of the time I simply just wanted to play Murky or Garrosh My solution to this was to queue for ranked and play Murky there.
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Jul 16, 2022 21:21
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Something like 80% of games played were quick match. I liked QM, I never had that many complaints about QM except every game with an Abathur in it is terrible.
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Jul 16, 2022 21:30
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abathur? more like abaturd
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Jul 16, 2022 23:58
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Woo. Got disconnected in the middle of a match. Couldn't get back in for an hour because battle.net login servers were down. Now I get to be in leaver's queue. What fun.
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Jul 19, 2022 17:44
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I am sorry to inform you the game is no longer supported and you will be forgotten in the leavers queue for all time
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Jul 22, 2022 13:56
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I like when they have a survey question at the end of a match and it asks you how effective you think the reporting system is. Is anyone going to even look at that feedback now?
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Elephunk posted:I am sorry to inform you the game is no longer supported and you will be forgotten in the leavers queue for all time I actually got out of it pretty fast (other than a long queue) because it matched me to a good non-leaver team. Thankfully. Machai posted:I like when they have a survey question at the end of a match and it asks you how effective you think the reporting system is. Is anyone going to even look at that feedback now? Yeah, I've thought about that too. Information into the void, I guess.
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Jul 22, 2022 17:37
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Machai posted:I like when they have a survey question at the end of a match and it asks you how effective you think the reporting system is. Is anyone going to even look at that feedback now? Bold to assume anyone ever did.
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Jul 22, 2022 17:48
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I can only assume that actually reading user reports on a Blizzard game will lead to a quick end of any sort of compassion for the human race.
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Jul 22, 2022 19:46
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 Maybe everyone should just be fine with the game dying. (Blizzard's Zombie has been puppeted by Acti long enough, and Acti have basically hosed every IP they own.)
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Jul 25, 2022 06:42
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Valla could definitely use some nerfs, but the game's still fun overall to me.
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Jul 25, 2022 18:12
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No. She is perfect.
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Jul 25, 2022 20:37
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valla is p. fuckin fragile so while she can dish out some utterly ridiculous damage she also explodes if you frown at her hard enough
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Kith posted:valla is p. fuckin fragile so while she can dish out some utterly ridiculous damage she also explodes if you frown at her hard enough Her current puncturing arrow build feels a lot safer than the rest of her kit but still lets you do ridiculous damage to your target. It requires you to always cast it on a hero every time it's off cooldown (and after you get the dash refresh, casting it twice on a hero every cooldown) to get the stacks. it can be tiresome and is very weak early game. Once you get those stacks though, she has some of the hardest poke/burst damage in the game. It is short range and she is fragile, but if you catch someone out of position and quickly land both Q hits on them, you can immediately walk away to safety and let them die from the homing/chain hits that finish the job. It feels a lot safer than her other builds, and does less overall damage on the charts. But it bags you kills that matter and you put yourself in a lot less danger than her other builds do. It also has the benefit that all endless stacking quests do. When you land a hit and get a stack, it goes DING. Making it go DING DING and my number go up releases the good brain chemicals, so I keep doing the same thing DING DING all match, Raynor and Tychus work the same way
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There is no reason for ANY Hero to 100% someone unavoidably without using their Ult. If the counter play is ‘Don’t be in range of Q’ you hosed up. But as I said, it’s been a long time since the Blizzard that made these games actually existed, so, who cares.
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Shockeh posted:There is no reason for ANY Hero to 100% someone unavoidably without using their Ult. If the counter play is ‘Don’t be in range of Q’ you hosed up. Focus her and kill her in early game so she can’t get stacks is the counter.
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Jul 27, 2022 13:23
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More justification for the people who say the game is over at level 10 and sit in spawn emoting
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ninjewtsu posted:More justification for the people who say the game is over at level 10 and sit in spawn emoting I'll never understand why these kind of people insist on playing versus real people when they could just play versus the AI and get the kind of "easy curbstomp without any real resistance from the enemy team" experience that they're looking for. W.T. Fits fucked around with this message at 16:40 on Jul 27, 2022 |
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W.T. Fits posted:I'll never understand why these kind of people insist on playing versus real people when they could just play versus the AI and get the kind of "easy curbstomp with any real resistance from the enemy team" experience that they're looking for. Their experience hinges on a human on the other side plausibly feeling bad to gloat over as far as I can tell. I wish there was a shadowban queue with realistic chat bots for them to go be miserable in.
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loving DVA and Guldan in every game these days. Guldan seems annoyingly braindead to me to get stupid amounts of damage with but whatever at least you can kill him. DVA is one of my most hated characters in this game. Disrupts the gently caress out of you whenever you start a fight, massive body so you can't get to her healer, and on top of all that has 3 loving HEALTH BARS you have to chew through before you can hope to kill her. I truly don't understand why anyone would play any other tank. Maybe she doesn't get a ton of hero kills, but she's is perhaps the single hardest hero to actually finish in the game. Every team fight against her you have to reset when her stupid self-destruct goes off. It's just feel-bad all the way down.
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guldan succ build is probably the easiest build to play in the entire game and has been for some time. press button for easy damage and massive sustain. if you start getting focused you can throw skillshots and walk away. d.va is arguably one of the strongest bruisers ever designed, almost unkillable if played properly. she's basically a tanky murky that carries around the egg instead of hiding it. i'd say she's up there with dehaka as one of the best bruisers
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Hadn't played in quite some time, but logged on and its still fun to have a smoke or drink and just play ARAM. It can be fun even if you get crushed (unless you're a healer or tank), just pew pew and get those satisfying casino noises kith mentioned. The more heroes you are familiar with the more fun aram is, and the more you play aram the more heroes you become familiar with. Plus it's a more interesting way to get every character gold (lvl 15), less tiresome than doing them one at a time IMO (might depend on sobriety level).
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A friendly reminder ..but if you're like me, you don't care.
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I did the revamped Uldaman in WoW today and The Lost
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Kalko posted:I did the revamped Uldaman in WoW today and The Lost God I know. I've been running that dungeon and it makes me feel the drat same. I think they even have the same VAs from HotS, or at least it sounds like it to me.
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