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[Heroes of the Storm] YOU SHALL RIDE ETERNAL, SHINY AND CHROMIE!

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  • Lucid_SeraphLucid_Seraph TealDeer MarylandRegistered User regular
    I think most people aren't giving them money for the plot :P

    of course

    but I'm calling for a boycott

    everyone should quit wow and starcraft and just play hots

    hots forever

    no plot, just the simple purity of mans punching each other into eternity

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  • So It GoesSo It Goes We keep moving...Registered User regular
    Sorry blizzard is now in my blood

    Like an infection you see

    No cure

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  • UrQuanLord88UrQuanLord88 Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    so you're saying that you're corrupted???
    classic blizzard

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    ughhhhhhhh just read abathur's page on the starcraft wiki and now I want to vomit

    please stop giving blizzard money for anything that involves a plot

    What's wrong with Abathur's story?

    Or do you just mean that Abathur's wiki page exposed you to the storyline of HOTS (the other HOTS)?

  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Also, fucking seriously Blizzard, how do you have 2 games with the same fucking acronym?

    Which is this game not called Heroes of the Nexus?

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    A while ago they joked that Legacy of the Void would be called "Herald of the Stars."

  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Also, fucking seriously Blizzard, how do you have 2 games with the same fucking acronym?

    Which is this game not called Heroes of the Nexus?

    Storm of the Nexus...

  • UrQuanLord88UrQuanLord88 Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
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    Upcoming Blizzard movie

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    ughhhhhhhh just read abathur's page on the starcraft wiki and now I want to vomit

    please stop giving blizzard money for anything that involves a plot

    What's wrong with Abathur's story?

    Or do you just mean that Abathur's wiki page exposed you to the storyline of HOTS (the other HOTS)?

    mostly the latter, yes

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
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    Oh lookit that! New ability artwork for Falstad, Tyrone, and RehGOD.

    This was all shown off for Heroes of the Dorm (which I guess has already started???), apparently.

    Edit: Oh well, here we go, found an Imgur album for all the new shit: http://imgur.com/a/u39dd

    And Brightwing: http://imgur.com/ZX1nsLI

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    Holy fuck nevermind all that new art crap, this is way better

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxxu2MqtPM

    Fuck me dude, I think this is Carbot's best one yet.

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Wait a minute, I just looked in the shop cause I'm at 12k gold...

    There's now an Eternal Conflict bundle with Tyrael, Diablo, their swapped roles skins, and Tyrael's Charger. Okay, that makes sense.
    But also Kerrigan and Succubae Kerrigan for some reason?! Yeah, just stick a Starcraft character with a Warcraft skin into a clearly Diablo-themed bundle.

    And then the Ultimate version of the bundle adds Butcher and Valla, but still with Kerrigan.

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  • Tim is on the InternetTim is on the Internet On the Internet Edmonton, ABRegistered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    Holy fuck nevermind all that new art crap, this is way better

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxxu2MqtPM

    Fuck me dude, I think this is Carbot's best one yet.

    His Gall kind of ruins it for me.

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  • Steel AngelSteel Angel Registered User regular
    Wait a minute, I just looked in the shop cause I'm at 12k gold...

    There's now an Eternal Conflict bundle with Tyrael, Diablo, their swapped roles skins, and Tyrael's Charger. Okay, that makes sense.
    But also Kerrigan and Succubae Kerrigan for some reason?! Yeah, just stick a Starcraft character with a Warcraft skin into a clearly Diablo-themed bundle.

    And then the Ultimate version of the bundle adds Butcher and Valla, but still with Kerrigan.

    Succubi were very common ranged enemies in Diablo 1's final stratum and may have inspired the design of the WoW succubus. And I guess they were also enemies in Diablo 3 past a point where I stopped playing.

    Big Dookie wrote: »
    I found that tilting it doesn't work very well, and once I started jerking it, I got much better results.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    Holy fuck nevermind all that new art crap, this is way better

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxxu2MqtPM

    Fuck me dude, I think this is Carbot's best one yet.

    His Gall kind of ruins it for me.

    What's wrong with his Gall?

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  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    Wait a minute, I just looked in the shop cause I'm at 12k gold...

    There's now an Eternal Conflict bundle with Tyrael, Diablo, their swapped roles skins, and Tyrael's Charger. Okay, that makes sense.
    But also Kerrigan and Succubae Kerrigan for some reason?! Yeah, just stick a Starcraft character with a Warcraft skin into a clearly Diablo-themed bundle.

    And then the Ultimate version of the bundle adds Butcher and Valla, but still with Kerrigan.

    Succubi were very common ranged enemies in Diablo 1's final stratum and may have inspired the design of the WoW succubus. And I guess they were also enemies in Diablo 3 past a point where I stopped playing.

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  • Lucid_SeraphLucid_Seraph TealDeer MarylandRegistered User regular
    Dammit now I want a squeaky bicycle mount in addition to a stick horse mount.

    Blizzard come on, you gave us Azmodunks, why not stick horse and squeaky bike.

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  • Tim is on the InternetTim is on the Internet On the Internet Edmonton, ABRegistered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    Dibby wrote: »
    Holy fuck nevermind all that new art crap, this is way better

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxxu2MqtPM

    Fuck me dude, I think this is Carbot's best one yet.

    His Gall kind of ruins it for me.

    What's wrong with his Gall?

    He has two eyes!

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  • The Escape GoatThe Escape Goat incorrigible ruminant they/themRegistered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    Dibby wrote: »
    Holy fuck nevermind all that new art crap, this is way better

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxxu2MqtPM

    Fuck me dude, I think this is Carbot's best one yet.

    His Gall kind of ruins it for me.

    What's wrong with his Gall?

    He has two eyes!

    He put on some glasses to increase Shadowflame's range.

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  • PMAversPMAvers Registered User regular
    Oh god, I can't stop laughing about the Punisher going off the top ropes onto Cho'Gall.

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  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    Holy fuck nevermind all that new art crap, this is way better

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxxu2MqtPM

    Fuck me dude, I think this is Carbot's best one yet.

    Dude, wow. The
    John Cena

    thing had me absolutely dying.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    milk ducks wrote: »
    Dibby wrote: »
    Holy fuck nevermind all that new art crap, this is way better

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gwxxu2MqtPM

    Fuck me dude, I think this is Carbot's best one yet.

    Dude, wow. The
    John Cena

    thing had me absolutely dying.

    Yknow, you'd think it would've been overdone at this point.

    NOPE

    NOT ONE BIT

    STILL THE BEST

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
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    HOLY JEEZ. This game. This game. Note the Core health up there. We came back from a deficit of 1-28. ONE TO TWENTY EIGHT. The enemy team grabbed the Boss when we had 5 health left on our Core, bringing us down to 1. From that point forward... I dunno what happened, but whatever it was, it was magical. We suddenly got all our collective shits together and started winning. We captured two Forts and grabbed three Altars. We didn't drop a single Altar from that point on. Boss respawned. Enemy team, very expectedly, postures for it. We're there, we engage, we kill off one or two and send the rest packing. Altars spawn RIGHT as the teamfight ends.

    It's a Triple.

    We're already positioned near the enemy altar. All we have to do is grab one Altar to win. Just one! As does the enemy team. Core health is 1-3 at this point. We kill Brightwing and Uther top. Our Abby goes bottom. Their Jaina intercepts him. I fly in bottom, Gust off Jaina and chunk her. She Ice Blocks.

    And... We win! Someone grabbed an Altar while that was happening. My hands are still shaking, man.

    The best part of that game, though, was all the compliments I got about my Gusts. :winky:

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    I wish I was good at falstad because top tier gusts are rediculous and really fun.

    Was hoping magestad would make me able to play him but no, still real bad.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    I had a Falstad game where I tried out Hinterland Blast today too. First time since the buff.

    It's... not bad? Especially with Overdrive. It does pretty good damage. But fuck me the cooldown is just way too high to be usable.

    Gusterino til I die, then.

    Edit: Also fun fact I learned from Reddit: Epic Mount hides your landing circle. Yet another reason to always take it :+1:

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  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    Gerdamherd of Team Liquid: "Heroes is basically the MOBA of 40 year olds."
    [Skip to 1:03:30 if you want to hear it in context.]

    https://youtu.be/SVCrd5DNkGw?t=1h3m30s

    He was making the point that you need a team to do everything and it is somehow related to younger players not being able to work together or something, haha. Bakery even follows up and says Xul is really good partially because he gives the team a giant KILL THIS TARGET icon.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Part of me actually finds something charming about Blizzard using the same 15-year-old icons for their games.

    (sweet christ, Warcraft 3 is 15 years old)

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited March 2016
    Part of me actually finds something charming about Blizzard using the same 15-year-old icons for their games.

    (sweet christ, Warcraft 3 is 15 years old)

    I'm actually kinda bummed out they've been redoing the icons. I loved the old wc3/wow icons that have been kicking around for over a decade. Especially on the old warcraft heroes like Uther/Tyrande/Muradin/Malf, those icons are older than dirt and they're great! I also like the weird ones like Falstad's barrel roll being moonkin form and Li Li's blinding wind being death and decay.

    But I guess time marches on.

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    Gerdamherd of Team Liquid: "Heroes is basically the MOBA of 40 year olds."
    [Skip to 1:03:30 if you want to hear it in context.]

    https://youtu.be/SVCrd5DNkGw?t=1h3m30s

    He was making the point that you need a team to do everything and it is somehow related to younger players not being able to work together or something, haha. Bakery even follows up and says Xul is really good partially because he gives the team a giant KILL THIS TARGET icon.

    Man I wish all my teammates were 40. Maybe then I wouldn't get so many shit birds in HL.

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  • Liquid GhostLiquid Ghost DO YOU HEAR THE VOICES, TOO?! Registered User regular
    gonna main muradin for real just because i can pretend i've been hit by rita's staff and turned into a giant bearded kaiju whenever i activate avatar

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Win 3 Games quest.

    On Saturday night.

    OMG I'm at 1 and 6 now I think with over half the losses due to completely shit teammates.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    shryke wrote: »
    Win 3 Games quest.

    On Saturday night.

    OMG I'm at 1 and 6 now I think with over half the losses due to completely shit teammates.

    Win 3 always causes terrible games. It's like that daily was created via a monkey's paw wish.

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  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
    edited March 2016
    Had this game earlier on Battlefield of Eternity, while I was in duo queue with Rynox. It was an absolute stomp in our favor; by the second Immortal phase, about 11 or 12 minutes in, we had taken both of their Keeps and were damaging their Core.

    Rynox and I died while attacking their Core, but the Immortal was still on it and his girlfriend had just come home, so he was like, "gg, man. I gotta take off". And that was cool, because we had it in the bag. The only problem was that the entire rest of our team began to chase Raynor all over creation instead of attacking the enemy Core.

    When the Immortal dies, it has 6% health.

    Enemy team has an Abathur who took Mule, so it begins to slowly regenerate back to full.

    We are like 12 minutes in at this point.

    The game proceeds to drag out for another twenty fucking minutes, while we struggle to stay afloat 4v5, first dealing with Rynox's hero just chilling back in the Fountain, and then with the bot that replaced him feeding ravenously.

    Enemy team is pushing our Core when he jumps back on Vent. He's like, "omg dude, did the game get thrown after I left?" and at this point I'm like legitimately salty, because I figure there's no way out of this - we turned a 12 minute win into a 32 minute nightmare.

    Rynox jumps back in the game and we go fucking BEAST MODE. End up immediately turning the enemy team away, winning the next Immortal phase easily, and pushing Core for the win.

    The point of my story is, don't ever fucking assume the game is over until the Core is dead. Because, who knows, maybe the rest of your team is dumb as a box of hair, and would rather chase a kill than finish.

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    shryke wrote: »
    Win 3 Games quest.

    On Saturday night.

    OMG I'm at 1 and 6 now I think with over half the losses due to completely shit teammates.

    Win 3 always causes terrible games. It's like that daily was created via a monkey's paw wish.

    1 and 8 now. The last one because my team was too fucking stupid to listen to me when I yelled at them to stop the Azmondan/Abathur cheese strat. But nope, they wouldn't and he 100%->0% our core in less then a minute.

  • StericaSterica Yes Registered User, Moderator mod
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Part of me actually finds something charming about Blizzard using the same 15-year-old icons for their games.

    (sweet christ, Warcraft 3 is 15 years old)

    I'm actually kinda bummed out they've been redoing the icons. I loved the old wc3/wow icons that have been kicking around for over a decade. Especially on the old warcraft heroes like Uther/Tyrande/Muradin/Malf, those icons are older than dirt and they're great! I also like the weird ones like Falstad's barrel roll being moonkin form and Li Li's blinding wind being death and decay.

    But I guess time marches on.
    The Moonkin Form icon wasn't even for Moonkin originally. I know some parrots used it beforehand, and it might have been used in Warcraft 3 but I can't remember.

    Li Li has a lot of old stuff. The Water Dragon icon is a naga!

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  • shrykeshryke Member of the Beast Registered User regular
    I like the direction they are going with most of these. They are frequently just updated version of old icons.

    So It Goes
  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    The nice thing about low-rank HL games is that you get hilarious stories. For example, my latest game involved someone last-picking Thrall even though we didn't have a support. This, of course, led to everyone being salty as fuck. However, I refused to let this drag me down - while I may be an asshole in real life, I try to be more positive in my digital life, because really, it's all I have left.

    So, as soon as we spawn, I try to be encouraging.
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    Which goes over about as well as I expected...
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    But I refuse to be brought down! Because I am on Xul and Xul is OP!
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    And lo and behold, 43 seconds in, Xul shows why he is OP with not just one-
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    -but TWO kills! (with a little help from m'boy Stitches)
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    Which gives us a +5 morale modifier for the rest of the game!
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    To keep with the positivity, I take the time to shout out to Nova for laning mid while I hearth.
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    5 minutes in, we have a level lead and easily get the first spiders, so I keep pushing the good vibes. Li-Ming is still on the fence. =(
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    25 minutes in, we've managed to win most of the team fights and maintained the lead in the game, and Li-Ming finally comes around!
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    After an arduous 35-minute battle, we manage to eke out a win!
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    End game stats for posterity.
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    The moral of this story is FUCKING ALWAYS BE POSITIVE YOU DUMB BITCHES AND MAYBE GOOD THINGS WILL HAPPEN.

    Honestly, Xul's E is just dumb. I wasn't able to stay in melee range for long without a healer, but was able to set up so many kills for Nova and Li-Ming just by hitting E, smacking them a few times, and walking away. Stitches also did some mad work with the hook. Also, once we hit 20 they basically didn't have a healer because of Mortal Wound - this skill seriously needs to be nerfed, because I killed at least three Ancestrals with it, not to mention all the Chain Heals on their warriors.

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Knight_ wrote: »
    Part of me actually finds something charming about Blizzard using the same 15-year-old icons for their games.

    (sweet christ, Warcraft 3 is 15 years old)

    I'm actually kinda bummed out they've been redoing the icons. I loved the old wc3/wow icons that have been kicking around for over a decade. Especially on the old warcraft heroes like Uther/Tyrande/Muradin/Malf, those icons are older than dirt and they're great! I also like the weird ones like Falstad's barrel roll being moonkin form and Li Li's blinding wind being death and decay.

    But I guess time marches on.
    The Moonkin Form icon wasn't even for Moonkin originally. I know some parrots used it beforehand, and it might have been used in Warcraft 3 but I can't remember.

    Li Li has a lot of old stuff. The Water Dragon icon is a naga!

    Hah you're right, I totally forgot about that. I had a Hyacinth Macaw with that icon! Let it never be said Blizzard doesn't get their moneys worth from their icon art.

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  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
    Heroes of the Dorm, AKA "Bush league All Stars" now streaming

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