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[Heroes of the Storm 2.0] my memes have transcended dreams

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  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    Genji is weird in that he thrives in either really coordinated or really uncoordinated environments. They've nerfed him enough that unless you have a massive micro skill advantage you can no longer trade as safely into other heroes. So a lot of his value is tied up in threatening low-HP heroes or following up on tank engage targets.

    Like, if you take Genji into a game without wide skill differentials, outside of Masters/GM I'm fairly convinced that you would see more value from just taking raw assassin DPS instead.

  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    Sure, he's extremely frustrating to play against because if you're an assassin, there isn't a ton you can do to alter the matchup. It's mostly on your tanks and supports to save you, and if they do it wrong you die. Which also sucks for the tanks and supports because he puts a lot of mental pressure on them to land abilities on a tiny extremely fast moving hitbox and if they don't, their assassin dies. and if he ganks the offlane properly can basically make it impossible for heroes not named yrel, blaze, or leoric to survive.

    he's obviously harder to play which drags his winrate down and most people would be better with generic carry #4, but I understand the ban, especially if you're operating with a non-standard solo laner.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Yay I finally won all three of my weekly brawls games! not a loss this week!

    Still I only have two overwatch characters {Tracer and Genji} yet it's been support or specialist as my others so that daily still sits waiting

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  • SmrtnikSmrtnik job boli zub Registered User regular
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Yay I finally won all three of my weekly brawls games! not a loss this week!

    Still I only have two overwatch characters {Tracer and Genji} yet it's been support or specialist as my others so that daily still sits waiting

    If you are just trying to finish up quests there is always one of the draft modes (which count as quest progression to all quests even if not playing the thing there quest said) or vs. AI which is so simple you can (and should) win with a character you never touched.

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  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    Smrtnik wrote: »
    Brainleech wrote: »
    Yay I finally won all three of my weekly brawls games! not a loss this week!

    Still I only have two overwatch characters {Tracer and Genji} yet it's been support or specialist as my others so that daily still sits waiting

    If you are just trying to finish up quests there is always one of the draft modes (which count as quest progression to all quests even if not playing the thing there quest said) or vs. AI which is so simple you can (and should) win with a character you never touched.

    I do that to learn about certain specs or with characters I just have no idea about
    As I have learned the hard way with the randomness of the brawl how some play

  • tyrantula22tyrantula22 Registered User regular
    Just had a crazy comeback game on ToD (playing HL). We were losing early, and finally started making a comeback around 14ish core health. We take a lead shortly after but end up losing it. It comes down to 8-5 core health, we're down. Forts are even (3-3) and both top shrines come up. We end up wiping all of them, and take both shrines, but right before the last shrine finishes we lost our bottom fort to minions (and I think some mercs we didn't get a chance to clear). So now it's 5-1 and pretty much all the mercs are cleared already. We take their top and our bottom, giving us a fort lead. As the next shrine (single mid) is about to start the boss is popping up just a few seconds or so before it. We end up dropping three of them out in the open near boss and take it just after they take the shrine which hits us first, but luckily they only had their top fort back for 4 damage, dropping us to 1 and they lose to boss. Was so close, haha. Also we had a 12 death tracer which was almost more deaths than the rest of the team combined. So yeah, silver gonna silver, but at least I won!

    and now I get to see if I can win a promotion game after that. Side note, this is the first time I've played enough HL to actually deal with a promotion (or demotion) game.
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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Put Saurfang in hots please ok thanks blizzard peace out nine thousand

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    Put Saurfang in hots please ok thanks blizzard peace out nine thousand

    only if he's Deathbringer Saurfang

    we don't need Just Another Orc (especially another gatdang warrior)

    but an orc deathknight would be cool

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    Put Saurfang in hots please ok thanks blizzard peace out nine thousand

    only if he's Deathbringer Saurfang

    we don't need Just Another Orc (especially another gatdang warrior)

    but an orc deathknight would be cool

    There’s thrall, Gary, and sam. Am I missing an orc? There aren’t that many.

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  • tyrantula22tyrantula22 Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    Dibby wrote: »
    Put Saurfang in hots please ok thanks blizzard peace out nine thousand

    only if he's Deathbringer Saurfang

    we don't need Just Another Orc (especially another gatdang warrior)

    but an orc deathknight would be cool

    There’s thrall, Gary, and sam. Am I missing an orc? There aren’t that many.

    you missed Rehgar. I think that's it though. Unless we count Johanna's orc skin.
    Edit: and Guldan.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    Dibby wrote: »
    Put Saurfang in hots please ok thanks blizzard peace out nine thousand

    only if he's Deathbringer Saurfang

    we don't need Just Another Orc (especially another gatdang warrior)

    but an orc deathknight would be cool

    There’s thrall, Gary, and sam. Am I missing an orc? There aren’t that many.

    you missed Rehgar. I think that's it though. Unless we count Johanna's orc skin.

    excuse you please don't forget my boy Gul'Daniel


    edit: insofar as the whole "Warrior" archetype goes, though:

    muradin, varian, garrosh, sonya (YEAH YEAH i know she's the D3 barb but she's basically a WoW Warrior in the same way that johanna is basically a WoW Paladin)

    we've only got one death knight, and arthas is basically just a frost dk. deathbringer saurfang would be cool cause he'd be a full on blood dk :+1:

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  • tyrantula22tyrantula22 Registered User regular
    The update I know everyone was waiting for. First promotion match, was a success! Steamrolled over them basically. Sadly I'm still only silver 4 now instead of 5, haha.

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  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    So the Saurfang video confirms that Sylvanas is the new Garrosh.

  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I 100% forgot about gul’dan and rhegar.

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  • Inquisitor77Inquisitor77 2 x Penny Arcade Fight Club Champion A fixed point in space and timeRegistered User regular
    Saurfang's ult would be "Disapproving Glare" where he looks at you like a disappointed father and you are rooted and silenced in shame.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Holy shit guys, did you know Ragnaros has a skin where he's like this big, hulking raid boss looking guy? Such a strange change from his normal, little Rag form.

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  • SupagoatSupagoat Registered User regular
    I've been kicking ass lately with Genji. I dunno, somehow I clicked with him and I'm just mopping up.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Heroes does not have Grom Hellscream, the greatest orc who ever lived.

    All they have are a bunch of lesser Orcs that cannot match his ferocity in battle.

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  • SupagoatSupagoat Registered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    >be last pick garrosh and obliterate their fucking souls
    This is in DIAMOND!!

    I don't know how this even happened

    Maybe they figured their 1337 diamond skills would be enough to make Garrosh a non-factor

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Warsong clan 4 lyfe!

  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    wait wait wait hold on folks

    ...

    are there two saurfangs?

    i just, uh, thought about that. cause saurfang became a deathknight in Wrath (deathbringer saurfang) and we killed'd him but now there's this other saurfang guy? i guess this is daddy saurfang and dk saurfang was lil' son saurfang?

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Yes, there are two Saurfangs.

    The Saurfang that is getting all the press right now is the real Saurfang. This is the Saurfang that (used to) stand at the gates of Orgrimmar and murder Alliance as they tried to come into the city. This is the badass Saurfang that has endured from the beginning. He has always been a side character for most of the game, but after 14 years, he's finally entering the main stage as a major player. A lot of people think Blizzard is positioning him to become the new Warchief of the Horde, and return Horde leadership to the Orcs -- which is how it should be.

    The other Saurfang is commonly referred to as Saurfang the Lesser, and he is the one who was turned into a Death Knight during the Icecrown expansion. And since he's the son of a side character, that basically makes Saurfang the Lesser a nobody. He was a raid boss and had 2 seconds of fame and now he's nothing.

    Smrtnik
  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
    >2018
    >Not knowing the difference between Varok and Dranosh Saurfang

    FOR SHAME, DIBBY.
    FOR SHAME.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    milk ducks wrote: »
    >2018
    >Not knowing the difference between Varok and Dranosh Saurfang

    FOR SHAME, DIBBY.
    FOR SHAME.

    i haven't played WoW since MoP dude

    my first introduction to "saurfang" was deathbringer saurfang in ICC

    i literally did not know who daddy saurfang was/is

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  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    Saurfang Jr was introduced in TBC during Horde Nagrand questing.

    Saurfang Sr was used for the War in the Sands event and is the one who lectured Garrosh periodically in Bornean Tundra during WotLK.

  • NobodyNobody Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    Saurfang Jr was introduced in a side quest in Nagrand in TBC.

    Saurfang Sr was also used in the Scarab event in Vanilla, and lectured Garrosh periodically in Borean Tundra’s main Horde hub.

    He also shows up to collect the body of his son after you defeat Deathbringer Saurfang in ICC (he’s there from the beginning for Horde and shows up at the end for Alliance).

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  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
    Varok is also Brox's brother.

    Smrtnik
  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Saurfang is the second coolest orc. Behind Grom.

    If you have any questions about the official Lucas Approved Orc Hierarchy™ just ask.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    Nobody wrote: »
    Saurfang Jr was introduced in a side quest in Nagrand in TBC.

    Saurfang Sr was also used in the Scarab event in Vanilla, and lectured Garrosh periodically in Borean Tundra’s main Horde hub.

    He also shows up to collect the body of his son after you defeat Deathbringer Saurfang in ICC (he’s there from the beginning for Horde and shows up at the end for Alliance).

    i don't read quest text or pay attention to npc chatter or w/e

    milk ducks wrote: »
    Varok is also Brox's brother.

    who?????

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Saurfang isn’t a Hearthstone card so he doesn’t exist.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    MNC Dover wrote: »
    Saurfang isn’t a Hearthstone card so he doesn’t exist.

    THANK YOU DOVER. thank you

    but you know who DOES exist in hearthstone??

    https://hearthstone.gamepedia.com/Deathbringer_Saurfang

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  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Yeah, but hearthstone is a bad card game.

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  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
    Dibby wrote: »
    who?????

    Broxigar the Red, dude.
    Literally the most bad-ass orc in the history of Warcraft.

    FOR SHAME

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    edited August 2018
    milk ducks wrote: »
    Dibby wrote: »
    who?????

    Broxigar the Red, dude.
    Literally the most bad-ass orc in the history of Warcraft.

    FOR SHAME

    Dibby wrote: »
    i don't read quest text

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Yeah, but hearthstone is a bad card game.

    It’s still 100% of my WoW lore. Well, I guess HotS contributes too.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    Dover all you need to know is that Grom Hellscream is the #1 Orc and Duck's opinion is wrong. Broxigar ain't nothing.

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  • DibbyDibby I'll do my best! Registered User regular
    Yeah, but hearthstone is a bad card game.

    please don't spread fake news

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  • Knight_Knight_ Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    the only reason i care about saurfang was because he would just ww spam anyone who tried to invade org and would kill the fuck out of them and it was really funny.

    i miss old org :/

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  • milk ducksmilk ducks High Mucky Muck Big Tits TownRegistered User regular
    Broxigar is perhaps the first mortal to ever strike a blow against Sargaeras. He is a beast of almost unimaginable proportions.

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