Really like the direction they are going to.
Kerri needed a rework, and going for her trait is a nice touch.
Aba was already in good spot (design-wise) but they proved to me that they can make even Tyrande better. I do believe he becomes more flexible now.
Balance tweaks for weak talents and heroes, and nerfs to the strongest ones are always welcome too.
Responsiveness improvements are also a big deal, lets not forget how much it makes the game better just because its on Thrall and Chen

MotherFox

United States1529 Posts

August 19 2015 04:49 GMT

#23

There are a lot of monks misusing their ults out there, including myself. I think I only hit about 50% of my divine palm opportunities tonight, and I have yet to see a SSS in a real game go well for the opposing monk. [I have not been taking SSS in any of my games]

Hider

Denmark9441 Posts

August 19 2015 07:45 GMT

#24

On August 19 2015 04:40 MotherFox wrote:
I just realized that it takes 20 matches to get placed in hero league. I'm surprised its this many--- isn't sc2 still just 5?

I guess they need more to make sure it's not just lousy allies/lucky opponents?

Well 5 matches and you can get into diamond I think.

But variance in Heroes of the Storm is much higher due to to being reliant on teammates, so you need a larger dataset to accurately asses your skill in Heroes.

Slayer92

29 Posts

August 19 2015 09:24 GMT

#25

All of sudden gazlowes in all of my HL games, must be MMR related. Also nice to get a free diablo, would've been nice to get 7k coins if you already had him though.
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/18596063116
+ Show Spoiler +

I went in at rank 30.
- started playing a few weeks ago
- was at 50% w:l

I won 12/20 of my games.
I am placed at rank 50.

Looks promising.

lestye

United States4209 Posts

August 19 2015 11:26 GMT

#26

On August 19 2015 18:24 Slayer92 wrote:
All of sudden gazlowes in all of my HL games, must be MMR related. Also nice to get a free diablo, would've been nice to get 7k coins if you already had him though.
http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/18596063116
+ Show Spoiler +

I went in at rank 30.
- started playing a few weeks ago
- was at 50% w:l

I won 12/20 of my games.
I am placed at rank 50.

Looks promising.

I'm not a fan of that. The Diablo promotion was months and months after WoW/Hearthstone promotion. And its a hero in several of the bundles, including the one they extensively promoted to buy access to the game.

It would have been nice if i was bonus gold instead.

ETisME

12740 Posts

August 19 2015 11:44 GMT

#27

can't believe the asia server is still not patched but the patch note etc are all up on the launcher (and somehow the demon Tyreal skin is up but not with the new sanctification.

MotherFox

United States1529 Posts

August 19 2015 12:07 GMT

#28

Does anyone know if rank 50-40 are still gimmes? [ie- you can't de-rank at those ranks]

Crownlol

United States3726 Posts

August 19 2015 13:04 GMT

#29

Man, I'd really wanted to enjoy this patch.

So far, I've absolutely hated playing both my mains.

KT is just a complete shadow of his former self. Probably low tier at best. The new CC bot role just doesn't fit him.

Nazeebo is in a much better state than KT, but I found myself missing Sprint in every single game I played him more than once. Taking backdoor ability away from Naz makes him explicitly a worse version of Zagara.

However, it was fun playing Thrall again. Leoric still seems super strong, and Khara is very very good.

FueledUpAndReadyToGo

Netherlands30548 Posts

August 19 2015 13:12 GMT

#30

Wow Sergeant Hammer buffed so hard :O. 2 second siege sounds amazing.

Tyreal gets omniknight ultra now

. Good thing since the old version was terrible.

Why the nerf on Tassadars oracle?? I liked the racing archon build.

Just as I bought Leoric he gets nerfed

. Same thing happened to me with Brightwing. I wish they would refund gold like they do with card changes in hearthstone.

Slayer92

29 Posts

August 19 2015 13:16 GMT

#31

Kael is still retardedly strong, his damage just isn't pants on the head retarded anymore. I don't know how anyone could've thought that massive range+living bomb on top of the already good damage was balanced.

Heyoka

Katowice25012 Posts

August 19 2015 13:23 GMT

#32

We did a little thingie on the patch from Xingua here also we're doing a bracket contest for MSI MGA next weekend where the grand prize is an MSI PC here. It's single elim so you don't have THAT many choices for this sort of thing.

JUST, YOU KNOW, A HEADS UP.

FeyFey

Germany10114 Posts

August 19 2015 13:59 GMT

#33

might mean we see hammer again as the poke heh, with Kael not being a ranged nuke thrower. Kerrigan is fun with her Mana talents. Can Waveclear with Skills without worrying about Mana now.

xDaunt

United States17988 Posts

August 19 2015 14:08 GMT

#34

Yeah, there's nothing wrong with Kael. He can still carry with Living Bomb/Chain Bomb builds. You're just doing it wrong if you spec for Flamestrike now.

Ramiz1989

12124 Posts

August 19 2015 14:10 GMT

#35

On August 19 2015 22:12 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote:
Just as I bought Leoric he gets nerfed

. Same thing happened to me with Brightwing. I wish they would refund gold like they do with card changes in hearthstone.

But Leoric is nerfed the right way, he isn't destroyed with nerfs, just his trait is weaker that was too good to begin with. I am playing quite a bit of Leoric and I'm happy to see these nerfs.

deth2munkies

United States4051 Posts

August 19 2015 14:38 GMT

#36

This ranked reset has made me not want to play Hero league until they put bans in. Leoric and Sylvanas are both completely broken on certain maps and random lowbies can't handle Illidan with The Hunt because they're always out of fucking position.

MotherFox

United States1529 Posts

August 19 2015 14:47 GMT

#37

I don't like having half my hero league screen taken up by team league--- something I'm unlikely to enter now since most of my RL friends have gotten bored with & moved on from heroes.

FreeZEternal

Korea (South)3396 Posts

August 19 2015 14:52 GMT

#38

Team League last night, we were raping until lvl 13 when KT took chain bomb. Basically KT and the monk in his team carried their team to victory. It was frustrating as hell. He's not a nuker like before but imho he is stronger than before.

MotherFox

United States1529 Posts

August 19 2015 15:25 GMT

#39

On August 19 2015 10:53 deth2munkies wrote:
What the fuck Tyreal. Sanctification is now really, really powerful.

to quote kendrick, I'm lovvvving it!