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You failed to please the Rooster

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Too hard to figure out apparently. Bad game design!
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Huge buff to Sonya base Whirlwind in the balance patch today (+30% damage,+60% healing vs. heroes). Clearly, this means you should stop pedaling in your spare time, Alan, and reinstall Heroes.

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Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes, well, a 5-man party of pro players queues into your QM Auto Select game.

We went 8-31 in 16:51. They got catas top before 10:00. They could have gotten the Punisher in mid around 12:00 and gone for the win but they decided to get 20 first. I personally went 0/9/3.

iDream pretty much deleted me at will. :? My Valeera and I got iDream real low once with my Peekaboo but juke city is a real place.

Apart from an early couple of deaths in middle, the real misplay from me came just before 10. They pushed down our gate and towers in bot. I tried soaking under the fort with four players not showing on the map. They ganked me under the fort. They got to a 3 level lead after that so we never had a chance for an even team fight.

I pretty consistently failed to time my shifts correctly. I got two canceled by the ally dying before I could reach them, and I prematurely abandoned a few allies thereafter to their fates.

Wraith only whiffed one or two swaps on me. Need moar jukes.

The grenades from Nox were basically as bad as the Artanis swaps.

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I did wind two of my allies to safety during one 4v3!

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In the end, it was a moral victory because I didn't spend the most time dead of players on my team. :D

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http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/205 ... -2-27-2017

I was actually worried I was going to need to learn Varian. They took away his stun; now I don't need to worry about that any more!

Lucio is still pretty OP. FP/Ban worthy, imho. I think I'll pick him up now at 10k.

I personally don't see much Tychus. Now with his regular AA range reverted back to the old tiny range, I guess I won't be seeing him at all.

Murky still seems like a highly contested bruiser even after the nerf.

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Time to construct additional pylons!

https://www.destructoid.com/the-newest- ... 2228.phtml

SC probe hero incoming! He's a specialist with a mage-like kit, but you have to construct pylons to get the most out of your abilities.

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They increased the free hero rotation to 14 from 10.

QM composition changes:
We’re limiting the number of stealth characters you can have on a team to 1. This includes Nova, Samuro, Valeera, and Zeratul.
When creating Quick Match games, Warriors are now categorized as either Bruisers or Tanks. All existing Warrior Heroes will be considered Tanks, with the exceptions of Sonya and Zarya. Varian will also be considered a Bruiser, even though he is not part of the Warrior class.
We’re splitting out Tassadar and Tyrande from the rest of the “Healer” support pool. They’re going into a category with Medivh, Zarya, and Abathur as heroes that provide “sustain” to a team, without being a typical solo-support. These roles will be mirrored in games where they are the only “sustain” Heroes, but can also be placed onto teams with healers.
There's a max limit of 2 Tanks per team in QM. QM tries to match a team with one or more Tanks against another team with one or more Tanks.

Never a better time to spam Sonya and Tyrande in QM. :D

I've been Auto Selecting my favorites in QM recently, even though QM queue times are super short nowadays. It's a weird psychological thing that just makes the game feel more fun to me. Not sure why.

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LOOT BAWKZEZ!
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Loot Box patch also adds Attack Move Target Point.
If enabled, attack move (default: A + Left-Click) concentrates on the closest enemy to the target point.
This is a big deal for me, because my AAs aren't always on point. I basically always draft support or warrior, though, so it won't be a huge swing in my winrate like if I played Valla or something.

Patch drops next week, I guess, and includes the new Overwatch map.

Uther rework makes a weak Beacon of Light and a weak Righteous Defense baseline, then puts a super-buffed Beacon into his 16 tier. He loses W build and piano build.

Is Genji the monk you always wanted but never got, Dave?

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Jonathan wrote:Is Genji the monk you always wanted but never got, Dave?
His kit does look pretty fun. Next overwatch hero I think would be fun to play is probably Bastion... his kit would be OP in AI! :P
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20 heroes for free!

Mega Bundles will be available following the launch of Heroes of the Storm 2.0 in your region, lasting until May 22, 2017. All players who log in to Heroes of the Storm during that timeframe will automatically receive 100 Gems, which can be used to permanently unlock one (1) Mega Bundle of their choosing.

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New roles:

Mage
Marksman
Ganker
Bruiser
Siege
Utility
Support
Tank

This reflects some of the official text in the hero descriptions. Presumably a change to Daily Quests is coming...

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Uh oh, can't spam AI for the OW rewards.

http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/207 ... -4-25-2017

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I WILL STILL SPAM AI WHILE AFK!

I have 390k gold to reroll with! I have no desire for any cosmetics yet. But need those OVERWATCH loot boxes! Lol
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Opened 5 veteran loot chests, pretty much only got Genji and he plays kinda meh.

Edit: Genji's kit is pretty well put together, I just suck at aiming, deflecting, jumping, dashing, and generally not dying so....

Picked up the Tank/Bruiser pack after debating picking the assassin pack. Went though each Hero to pick a random stupid skin I probably unlocked and select a non-horse mount. Still haven't figured out how to spray.
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Haha I have no idea how to spray.

I only had 3 veteran chests. I got the nightmare girl Diablo, though, so I'm happy. I forged some master skins because who needs to be good at a hero any more? I picked up Support mega-bundle for the medic and monk. I just can't play mages.

I paid gems for the demon Zarya. Probably going to forge the new spiky Uther unless I loot it in my Uther chest.
Edit: spent all my shards on red spiky Uther. Looks great on the flame judgement charger from the WOW promo.

Spammed new Uther in QM. I like Holy Shock a lot (Genjis hate it), but it only works well if there is no four man lane. W build is probably the most general.

I'll Tassadar your Genji and our foes will fear our impotent damage.

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I am clearly the target audience for loot boxes, but not to the point of buying for HotS. I did buy some OW boxes a few events ago but have enough of the cosmetic currency to not bother anymore.

I do like the reroll using gold option tho! Picked up a few heroes that way.
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Ha, my gold has not gone up at all because I keep rerolling chests. Fine for now, but after I buy D.Va I'll be broke.
Heroes 2.0 has brought in so many players that our matchmaking process is having difficulty making games fast enough to keep up.
Ha ha, good problems to have, I guess?

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