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

The Escape Goat

Brox is the best orc, hands down.

UrQuanLord88

also most absent character in wow

milk ducks

The Escape Goat wrote: »

Brox is the best orc, hands down.

Holy shit, we agree on something.

PMAvers

I’ll say it.

Grom sucked.

Munkus Beaver

“I am he who watches they. I am the fist of retribution. That which does quell the recalcitrant. Dare you defy the Warchief? Dare you face my merciless judgement?"

Inquisitor77

Grom was stupid but Garrosh is still the stupidest of all time. And Sylvanas is now Garrosh 2.0.

milk ducks

I 100% supported Garrosh until Blizzard character assassinated him.

kime

“A lot of new HotS posts! I wonder what exciting things happened!”

:?

MNC Dover

I watched that Warbringers video on the history of Gul’dan. You know what, I’m on his side. Sure, he’s evil and monstrous but his tribe pushed him there.

Tossing him out because he’s crippled and can’t get the Shaman stuff done? How could you focus when everyone around you is treating you like shit?

Then he’s banished for no good reason. After fighting off buzzards and shit, he makes it to magic shrine thing. Then the mystical elemental energies swirl around him filling him with hope, only to recoil away just as he was about to touch them. The elements are trolling assholes.

So here comes this dark energy that’s all like, “Yo, you wanna get some revenge man?!” Of course he takes it and gets revenge. His tribe had that coming.

Moral of the story: don’t treat people badly because they are different. Never know who’ll grow up to fuck up the world.

Knight_

kime wrote: »

“A lot of new HotS posts! I wonder what exciting things happened!”

:?

just warming up for the week of "whitemane is op af" or "whitemane sucks" posts.

Dibby

whuh-oh y'all better ban my azmo in the next tournament, wink wink nudge nudge hint hint :winky:

i don't think i'll be topping this game for a while though

i was applying crazy split-pressure keeping every wave pushed out via dunks+trait, while also still swinging around for teamfights and just fuckin' STOMPING them

azmo is such a fucking beast, goddamn.

traib

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Knight_

i'm assuming azmodan will be nerfed by the next tournament

Dibby

Knight_ wrote: »

i'm assuming azmodan will be nerfed by the next tournament

i will never stop playing my big fat crab boy

even in the post-nerf apocalypse i will still crush face with him

milk ducks

It's a PA tournament, man; Azmodan has something close to 100% popularity.

Lucid_Seraph

re: all this lore talk




(source: http://light-and-magic.tumblr.com/post/176530420942/i-do-this )

Iblis

I think when naming orcs everyone forgot Rexxar. I mean, he's just an accessory for the real character, a bear, but still.

milk ducks

Lucid_Seraph wrote: »

re: all this lore talk




(source: http://light-and-magic.tumblr.com/post/176530420942/i-do-this )

Camp Taurajo sends it's regards.

Munkus Beaver

Iblis wrote: »

I think when naming orcs everyone forgot Rexxar. I mean, he's just an accessory for the real character, a bear, but still.

He's half orc half ogre! He's his own thing!

Knight_

but also misha is the character, and she's all bear.

rexxar is just the weak point.

Brainleech

milk ducks wrote: »

I 100% supported Garrosh until Blizzard character assassinated him.

I do find it interesting the comment of Not my horde popped up again because of Sylvanas and what Blizzard is doing again

milk ducks

Brainleech wrote: »

milk ducks wrote: »

I 100% supported Garrosh until Blizzard character assassinated him.

I do find it interesting the comment of Not my horde popped up again because of Sylvanas and what Blizzard is doing again

I fucking hate the revolving door of Horde leadership throughout the past few years, but goddamn am I excited by the possibility of Saurfang potentially taking Sylvanas down.

WingedWeasel

milk ducks wrote: »

Brainleech wrote: »

milk ducks wrote: »

I 100% supported Garrosh until Blizzard character assassinated him.

I do find it interesting the comment of Not my horde popped up again because of Sylvanas and what Blizzard is doing again

I fucking hate the revolving door of Horde leadership throughout the past few years, but goddamn am I excited by the possibility of Saurfang potentially taking Sylvanas down.

Like a few others I saw a bazillion new posts and was wondering wtf was going on. Having watched the cinematic some of the stuff make more sense. I am in agreement that the revolving door is a huge negative. I'm still pretty pissed about where they are taking sylvanas. I appreciate suarfang getting attention but this fucking sucks. My wife is pretty sick of my ranting about it at this point.

MNC Dover

I mean, Sylvannas is undead or whatever, right? Don’t dead things hate on living things? I’m honestly surprised the tree has been standing this long.

WingedWeasel

MNC Dover wrote: »

I mean, Sylvannas is undead or whatever, right? Don’t dead things hate on living things? I’m honestly surprised the tree has been standing this long.

Not inherently. It literally didn't havr to be this way

Inquisitor77

As a former Horde player it's just really annoying to always be "the bad guy" for really stupid reasons. After nearly 10 years of Warcraft Hitler it would be nice to not be led by an asshole. If they want to make Sylvanas the big bad then they could've done it without dragging an entire faction through the mud with her.

milk ducks

I think they've gone out of their way at this point to not drag the entire faction through the mud, though. I feel like they've specially indicated that Sylvanas, who has increasingly been depicted as a vengeful, bloodthirsty lunatic, is almost entirely both at fault and morally / ethically wrong.

They've also pretty blatantly indicated that the Horde's going to do something about it.

Nobody

milk ducks wrote: »

I think they've gone out of their way at this point to not drag the entire faction through the mud, though. I feel like they've specially indicated that Sylvanas, who has increasingly been depicted as a vengeful, bloodthirsty lunatic, is almost entirely both at fault and morally / ethically wrong.

They've also pretty blatantly indicated that the Horde's going to do something about it.

Eh, her Warbringer cinematic did not paint the rest of the Horde in a good light and it took the release of the Saurfang one to quiet some of the complaints.

Inquisitor77

milk ducks wrote: »

I think they've gone out of their way at this point to not drag the entire faction through the mud, though. I feel like they've specially indicated that Sylvanas, who has increasingly been depicted as a vengeful, bloodthirsty lunatic, is almost entirely both at fault and morally / ethically wrong.

They've also pretty blatantly indicated that the Horde's going to do something about it.

Sylvanas didn't burn the tree by herself, though. A lot of Horde soldiers followed the order to massacre innocent people. This taints the entire Horde in the process, even if they decide to revolt after the fact.

This is exactly the same thing that happened with Garrosh. The Alliance never has to deal with shit like this because their "bad guys" aren't the nominal faction leaders. The dynamic for the Alliance is always that they are, by default, the good guys, and anything shady that happens is done under the noses of their great and righteous leaders, who if only they knew about the bad seeds would have been able to do something and stop it. The dynamic for the Horde has been that they are, by default, complicit in all the terrible shit their faction does, and anyone who opposes is an outlier (see: Cairne, Vol'jin, Baine, etc. etc. etc.). The implication here is that there is a silent majority who are more than happy to follow orders from Garrosh and Sylvanas.

It begs the question of why the Horde is always the faction that has to be on the shit end of the storyline while the Alliance gets to run around and pretend that their shit don't smell.

I needed anime to post.

because the writers write the horde as proactive while the alliance are reactive, so the horde wind up doing bad things to drive the story

Inquisitor77

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

because the writers write the horde as proactive while the alliance are reactive, so the horde wind up doing bad things to drive the story

Even assuming what you're saying is true, that's more of a description than a reason.

kime

Accept it, Horde are the baddies :P

I needed anime to post.

i mean we cannot truly know the reason, we can but know that horde players think the writers have alliance favouritism because the horde are always the bad guys, and alliance players think the writers have horde favouritism because the alliance doesn't do anything

Inquisitor77

I needed a gnome to post. wrote: »

i mean we cannot truly know the reason, we can but know that horde players think the writers have alliance favouritism because the horde are always the bad guys, and alliance players think the writers have horde favouritism because the alliance doesn't do anything

Alliance players don't give a shit because "my faction doesn't do anything!" is not a significant problem relative to to playing in a faction that is always forced to be the bad guy. So the equivalence, even assuming it's true, is not a good one.

I needed anime to post.

Haha oh man I can promise you alliance players on the forums have whined about horde favouritism for yeaaaaars

Everything's about Thrall, now everything's about Garrosh, now everything's about the Old Horde,

forty

Hey, WoW thread, I just looked at the PTR notes and Whitemane's abilities. Am I missing something or is she going to be shit-awful at healing her team if there are no enemy heroes around? Like even more extreme than Auriel?

Knight_

The level 1 talent for laser gives her decent healing without hitting enemies but generally yea.

I needed anime to post.

better make sure you have some nerds to bully then

milk ducks

The bit at the end where Tass panics is pure gold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6uovU7I_k

Korror

forty wrote: »

Hey, WoW thread, I just looked at the PTR notes and Whitemane's abilities. Am I missing something or is she going to be shit-awful at healing her team if there are no enemy heroes around? Like even more extreme than Auriel?

Not really. She can talent into a manaless basic heal at 4 and she can take a talent at 1 to turn her beam into something that can heal friends so she has options for efficient healing when there are no enemy around. She's not going to be like Auriel that can't do anything if there's nothing to attack.