EPT1. As valla against a single target should I use my w or does my auto attacks do more damage?
2. As Jaina what can I do against heroes such as illadin and nova when they seem to be focusing me and using invisibility/mobility to pounce on me?
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Godzgift
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1. As valla against a single target should I use my w or does my auto attacks do more damage? 2. As Jaina what can I do against heroes such as illadin and nova when they seem to be focusing me and using invisibility/mobility to pounce on me? | ||
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karazax
United States3737 Posts
On July 22 2015 18:48 Godzgift wrote: Couple of simple/potentially stupid questions 1. As valla against a single target should I use my w or does my auto attacks do more damage? You should time your w and other abilities in between your auto attacks so they supplement rather than replace them. Also be sure to learn how to stutter step/kite Stutter Step/kiting tutorial: + Show Spoiler + On July 22 2015 18:48 Godzgift wrote: 2. As Jaina what can I do against heroes such as illadin and nova when they seem to be focusing me and using invisibility/mobility to pounce on me? There is a good Jaina guide here You need to master her combo to maximize your damage. Depends on the level you are both at, but Jaina has limited mobility so positioning is key. Don't over extend. If it's early game and they are giving you problems, you are going to avoid pushing your lane too far where you can't retreat back to your towers if you don't have team support and you should lane with at least one other person. If you are at full health Nova can't kill you in one rotation without hitting with her ultimates which can be avoided. Of course she will do enough dmg to make you retreat if you don't get a heal. Don't roam or lane while injured if she is giving you problems or you will have no chance to respond. Learn how to spot the shimmer of her cloak when she moves invisible and how to tell which nova is the decoy. Ideally play some nova when she is free to play to get a feel for her strengths and weaknesses. If you don't see Nova on the mini map and she isn't dead, then assume she is hunting you. She has no wave clear or merc hunting abilities. Learn to predict which side of the lane she is likely to come from and shade the other side which means you will have a better chance of spotting her cloaked before she attacks. If you catch nova while she is cloaked she will usually die. During team fights it's partially going to be up to your team to keep other dps off of you and/or keep you healed. Again positioning is key so you are always behind your tanks. Occasionally you will hide in bushes to flank and cast your combo, but you need to move back to safety as soon as you cast, and with practice you can do the whole combo almost instantly. Iceblock is also a nice talent for team fights at 13 and bolt of the storm for escapes at 20. Because Jaina does almost all her damage from her abilities, evasion doesn't help Illidan until he gets Sixth Sense at level 13. Frostbite's slow makes it hard to stick on you. If you land the combo and Illidan doesn't have any defensive cool downs or heals he will probably die. A lot of survivability counts on team mates to help protect you and if you are playing with equally inexperienced team mates then that won't always happen. With quick matches you sometimes won't have a tank or healer, and if you do they may not know what they are doing. Just stick with team mates as best you can, stay in the back in between casts and if you are injured and not fighting over an objective or in a position where you are likely to be healed then you should probably retreat and heal and coming back rather than continue to fight. Lots of new players will have a great team fight win, then keep pushing while out of mana and below half health with no chance of ending the game before the enemy respawns. Know when to retreat, use V to ping the map and tell your team mates if possible and if they ignore you, don't die with them if it isn't a game over if you don't win it fight. This video also has some good tips on positioning: + Show Spoiler + Even though this video is about Kael'Thas who has more range than Jaina, many of the concepts do apply as another caster who has high dmg and low mobility. The main difference positioning wise being that Jaina does sometimes flank thru bushes and has to get closer to land her abilities. You still want to stay behind your tank or out of sight before you cast and make sure you have a reasonable retreat path to safety after you cast. | ||
Valiver
Caldeum1976 Posts
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HewTheTitan
Canada331 Posts
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Valiver
Caldeum1976 Posts
On July 23 2015 06:20 HewTheTitan wrote: I'm not sure where to look for event replay packs. Can anybody direct me? You won't be able to get replay packs for this game yet. Right now every time Blizzard releases a patch or hotfix all replays break and are unusable, which is basically every few days. You'll have to watch VODs for events. Here's the VODs from this last weekend's July NA Open. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9WtwA1r0_TYnyF9LiFO-EQgl9RTQsMXh | ||
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karazax
United States3737 Posts
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Wuster
1974 Posts
I could hit enter to start typing a message (with a random player defaulted), but when I tried to hit enter to send it... it would just cycle me to another player. I had to go to keyboard and hit 'restore defaults' to get things to work again, but was wondering if anyone has encountered this and had a more permanent solution. | ||
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Garbels
Austria653 Posts
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Wuster
1974 Posts
I'm playing in fullscreen-windowed mode so I do alt-tab a lot. | ||
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[Phantom]
Mexico2170 Posts
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Godzgift
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Mnemic
Botswana80 Posts
On July 23 2015 06:20 HewTheTitan wrote: I'm not sure where to look for event replay packs. Can anybody direct me? gosugamers VOD archive is ok. http://www.gosugamers.net/heroesofthestorm/vods | ||
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Immersion_
United Kingdom794 Posts
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[Phantom]
Mexico2170 Posts
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Wuster
1974 Posts
That said, I haven't played Illidan since the unstoppable changes so maybe his build/playstyle has changed to adapt. | ||
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Immersion_
United Kingdom794 Posts
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Sewi
Germany1697 Posts
I recently sarted playing The Lost Vikings in Hero League enyoing them a lot. Still can't find the answer to one question bothering me... If you want to soak XP from a lane (with Eric) and have the two remaining Vikings on one lane or object together, is there a way to controll 1 and 2 at once? Like binding controll groups in Starcraft or something? I actually think I would be better controlling the Vikings by selecting them with my Mouse and bind them to Numbers as needed in different situations. Maybe it's just my Starcraft background and I have to get used to it. Or is there a way to change this in the settings? | ||
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Garbels
Austria653 Posts
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Sewi
Germany1697 Posts
On August 06 2015 20:34 Garbels wrote: There was a way but it got removed some time ago. Do you know why they removed it? Where players getting to good with vikings? | ||
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Garbels
Austria653 Posts
I don't think it was balance but I can only speculate. | ||
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