Hmm. So do I care enough about my rank to start ranking now? I dunno. The stress of raising that number sometimes really makes me hate this game. I'm happier in QM where even if I lose, I don't feel like I've lost anything. In HL/TL when I de-rank I feel like I've actually lost something in addition to the match itself.
The biggest changes to Arthas are going to be on talent synergies. He's getting new Deathcoil talents that are going to make it insane. There's one that increases it's range and reduces it's cooldown by 2 seconds - on the same talent. Death Coil is also being changed so that it always heals when cast on enemies, and the Immortal Coil talent is changing so that it doubles the healing effect of DC when you hit an enemy with it. So while you can still self-cast it, there's never a reason to do so because you can get the same (or better) healing by shooting an enemy.
They're also adding new talents to his E to make it ridiculous. One new talent makes it so a target is rooted after they have 3 stacks of the snare effect. He is also getting an Imposing Presence effect added to his E as a new talent. It stacks up to 40% slow as they continue to stand in the debuff.
In the new league structure you won't be able to queue HL with friends more than 5 tiers away. (There's bronze to master, each of which has 5 tiers in it). This means no smurf climbing.
Oh, and you get season prizes based on the highest rank you achieve, not what you had at the end of the season. This means there's no incentive to NOT play just because you've achieved a high rank. Oh and seasons will be something like 8-12 weeks long.
I'm sure there will be a post uploaded with a full breakdown after this stream is over.
I actually quit watching. I love Grubby, but his presentation of info is pretty scattered and disorganized, and he keeps stopping to read the twitch comments and thank people for subscribing to his channel. I'll just wait for the info to be distilled. There is way too much fluff in this stream.
He started talking about Chromie, and then he stopped and moved to talking about leagues and reworks and then he promised to talk about Medivh and get back to more Chromie. He needs to just pick a topic, exhaust all info on that topic, and then move on to another topic, rather than this scattershot approach where he says 3 things about something and then hops to a new topic withe a promise to return later.
There's gonna be rewards for ranked play, and in particular, a mount for being rank 40 or better in team league (and also the same mount for being 20 or better in HL). So we need to get some team league going ASAP for those unlikely to hit rank 20 in HL.
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Do those rewards count for people who are already ranked in TL? My current TL rating is 20. I want a free mount please.
Yeah, you're totally set. The only weirdness is that they are deeply ambiguous as to whether they count your current rank at the end or your highest rank ever. in the future, it will definitely be your highest rank ever, but they've not clearly said how it'll work for the preseason.
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Do those rewards count for people who are already ranked in TL? My current TL rating is 20. I want a free mount please.
Yeah, you're totally set. The only weirdness is that they are deeply ambiguous as to whether they count your current rank at the end or your highest rank ever. in the future, it will definitely be your highest rank ever, but they've not clearly said how it'll work for the preseason.
Heh, I just realized I can't actually play HL right now, due to the level 5 requirements. Got a ton of characters sitting at 4 I should try pushing over the hump sometime.
Maybe it's time for a stimpack? kappa
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The biggest changes to Arthas are going to be on talent synergies. He's getting new Deathcoil talents that are going to make it insane. There's one that increases it's range and reduces it's cooldown by 2 seconds - on the same talent. Death Coil is also being changed so that it always heals when cast on enemies, and the Immortal Coil talent is changing so that it doubles the healing effect of DC when you hit an enemy with it. So while you can still self-cast it, there's never a reason to do so because you can get the same (or better) healing by shooting an enemy.
They're also adding new talents to his E to make it ridiculous. One new talent makes it so a target is rooted after they have 3 stacks of the snare effect. He is also getting an Imposing Presence effect added to his E as a new talent. It stacks up to 40% slow as they continue to stand in the debuff.
I like the idea of Quest talents on Chromie, because... well, she's often a quest-giver.
(Where the talents don't do anything until you hit a specific milestone, like say hit with a ability a certain number of times, and then QUEST COMPLETE.)
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The biggest changes to Arthas are going to be on talent synergies. He's getting new Deathcoil talents that are going to make it insane. There's one that increases it's range and reduces it's cooldown by 2 seconds - on the same talent. Death Coil is also being changed so that it always heals when cast on enemies, and the Immortal Coil talent is changing so that it doubles the healing effect of DC when you hit an enemy with it. So while you can still self-cast it, there's never a reason to do so because you can get the same (or better) healing by shooting an enemy.
They're also adding new talents to his E to make it ridiculous. One new talent makes it so a target is rooted after they have 3 stacks of the snare effect. He is also getting an Imposing Presence effect added to his E as a new talent. It stacks up to 40% slow as they continue to stand in the debuff.
YO I FUCKING CALLED IT!!! God that makes it so much better.
Oh man I can't wait to try New Arthas. He sounds kinda nuts!
So yep, Specialist for Medivh. He seemed to have too many weird abilities to just be an assassin.
Really hoping they do something for fixing how dominated the game is by assassins soon. I don't necessarily want to go back to the double warrior double support dark times, but I'd like something.
Guess I have 2 mounts and 4000g to look forward to, and hopefully I don't throw my S1 placements and end up in garbagetown. I've had bad hero league luck recently.
Heh, I just realized I can't actually play HL right now, due to the level 5 requirements. Got a ton of characters sitting at 4 I should try pushing over the hump sometime.
I'd recommend holding off well beyond that... You'll want more experience before you HL.
Poly-Bomb is going to be HILARIOUS in QM solo queue
I want it to keep track of and report how many times it bounces each time it's cast. How long can a game of Volleymorph last in solo QM, do you suppose?
[D] Timewalker
You've traveled into the future, and as such, will learn your talents 1 level earlier than your teammates!
[Q] Sand Blast (20 mana, 3 sec CD)
After 1 second, fire a missile that deals damage to the first enemy Hero hit.
[W] Dragon's Breath (70 mana, 14 sec CD)
Fire a blast into the air that lands after 1.5 seconds, dealing damage to enemies in an area. Enemies cannot see where the blast will land.
[E] Time Trap (50 mana, 18 sec CD)
Place a Time Trap that arms and Stealths after 2 seconds. The first enemy Hero to touch it will be put into Stasis for 2 seconds. Only 1 trap can exist at once.
[R] Slowing Sands (4 mana/sec, 5 sec CD)
Place a sand vortex that greatly slows enemies inside it. The longer it is active the more it slows, up to 50% after 5 seconds.
[R] Temporal Loop (60 mana, 70 sec CD)
Choose an enemy Hero. After 3 seconds, they will teleport back to the location where you cast Temporal Loop on them.
[W] Dragon's Breath (70 mana, 14 sec CD)
Fire a blast into the air that lands after 1.5 seconds, dealing damage to enemies in an area. Enemies cannot see where the blast will land.
Also wow, listening to this interview with Khaldor and Dustin Browder and people have 6 month silences? That seems like it requires an extreme level of dedication to flaming.
Edit: Hrm, that'd be... 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 8 days, 16 days, a month, 2 months, 4 months, 8 months. 8 or 9 silences. Yeesh. I do think eternally doubling silences can be mean for a game designed to be played for years and years as even 3 bad days in 3 years can be almost a week silence, but that many silences in only a year and change is pretty crazy.
Hero reworks
The following heroes are getting reworks:
Arthas
Completely new talents - He will now have a strong Death Coil build.
He will gain a talent that provides him with an anti-magic spell shield
He will also have a quest talent for hitting enemy heroes with Frostmourn
Conjurer's pursuit will now max out at 25 globes. When that number is reached, Arthas will gain a bonus 100 mana
Force of Will protects allies from damage. Does not make them immune to CC. <-- Referring to Medivh, not sure why it was lumped in with Arthas
Anub'Arak
More tanky, will now be appropriate as a solo tank
Falstad
Some informations provided from Grubby's stream:
Overdrive removed.
Power Throw removed and is now incorporated into Secret Weapon talent.
Hammer Time removed
Season Marksman is now a quest that stacks and can be activated to increase attack speed.
Epic mount nerfed to 25 seconds cooldown.
Some of the talents have been moved around E.g. Static Shield moved to level 4 talent.
Also wow, listening to this interview with Khaldor and Dustin Browder and people have 6 month silences? That seems like it requires an extreme level of dedication to flaming.
Edit: Hrm, that'd be... 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 8 days, 16 days, a month, 2 months, 4 months, 8 months. 8 or 9 silences. Yeesh. I do think eternally doubling silences can be mean for a game designed to be played for years and years as even 3 bad days in 3 years can be almost a week silence, but that many silences in only a year and change is pretty crazy.
It's likely a lot of those people reverted to ping spam once they were silenced, leading to consecutive penalties over and over again. Which Blizz then prevented them from doing altogether. Which is kind of ironic because good players ping plenty, they just don't spam shit just to be obnoxious. At this point I feel like the ping limit is a little too high...
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Nope! It was gonna be so, but they decided not to after bad feedback from community members.
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They're also adding new talents to his E to make it ridiculous. One new talent makes it so a target is rooted after they have 3 stacks of the snare effect. He is also getting an Imposing Presence effect added to his E as a new talent. It stacks up to 40% slow as they continue to stand in the debuff.
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Oh, and you get season prizes based on the highest rank you achieve, not what you had at the end of the season. This means there's no incentive to NOT play just because you've achieved a high rank. Oh and seasons will be something like 8-12 weeks long.
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I hate the "watch a stream" era we are in even more than the "watch a YouTube vid" we have had for some years now.
I actually quit watching. I love Grubby, but his presentation of info is pretty scattered and disorganized, and he keeps stopping to read the twitch comments and thank people for subscribing to his channel. I'll just wait for the info to be distilled. There is way too much fluff in this stream.
Medivh's crow form sounds ridiculous. So does his teleport.
Also, apparently they are including an unranked Draft Mode. Yay!
Yeah, you're totally set. The only weirdness is that they are deeply ambiguous as to whether they count your current rank at the end or your highest rank ever. in the future, it will definitely be your highest rank ever, but they've not clearly said how it'll work for the preseason.
Highest rank ever from what I read.
Why do you wave the shinies in front of me, Blizz? WHY!?!?! I can't resist!
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Oddly excited over Medivh's abilities.
Clearly we were on the right track theory-wise.
I love that Blizz still wants to explore that space.
(Where the talents don't do anything until you hit a specific milestone, like say hit with a ability a certain number of times, and then QUEST COMPLETE.)
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YO I FUCKING CALLED IT!!! God that makes it so much better.
Oh man I can't wait to try New Arthas. He sounds kinda nuts!
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Really hoping they do something for fixing how dominated the game is by assassins soon. I don't necessarily want to go back to the double warrior double support dark times, but I'd like something.
Guess I have 2 mounts and 4000g to look forward to, and hopefully I don't throw my S1 placements and end up in garbagetown. I've had bad hero league luck recently.
I'd recommend holding off well beyond that... You'll want more experience before you HL.
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I want it to keep track of and report how many times it bounces each time it's cast. How long can a game of Volleymorph last in solo QM, do you suppose?
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Yeah I'm gonna like Chromie, man....
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Edit: Hrm, that'd be... 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, 8 days, 16 days, a month, 2 months, 4 months, 8 months. 8 or 9 silences. Yeesh. I do think eternally doubling silences can be mean for a game designed to be played for years and years as even 3 bad days in 3 years can be almost a week silence, but that many silences in only a year and change is pretty crazy.
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It's likely a lot of those people reverted to ping spam once they were silenced, leading to consecutive penalties over and over again. Which Blizz then prevented them from doing altogether. Which is kind of ironic because good players ping plenty, they just don't spam shit just to be obnoxious. At this point I feel like the ping limit is a little too high...
However I am way more interested in the arthas and anub changes. Was it mentioned when those changes would happen?
Edit: exceedingly disappointed about them not allowing 3 and 4 person groups to queue for HL however.
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Loving the hit with Frostmourne quest.