General Discussion October 6th Patch - Page 5

On October 14 2015 15:06 SC2John wrote:
I decided to give Stitches a second chance after chatting with some people about his current state in the game. The line of reasoning was that if Hungry for More and Devour buffs take care of all his survival problems, then there was no need to take talents that were typically used to make Stitches be tankier and or more disruptive. In that case, I decided to merge the Slam Build with Hungry for More.

Hungry for More
Putrid Ground
Toxic Gas
Putrid Bile
Mega Smash
Pulverize
Hardened Shield

The result is that Stitches can wave clear pretty reliably by level 7 and he ends up doing a lot more damage during team fights. This is obviously not a build that emphasizes hooks, but I've always been a believer in well-rounded strategies that don't rely solely on a single gimmick. I think that this build allows Stitches to be a solid solo tank as well as provide a lot of disruption and AoE damage to the enemy team. Is Stitches as good as Leoric or Johanna then? No, probably not, but this build works a lot better than the original ones that I was using and actually makes Stitches feel viable.

On October 15 2015 01:12 Wuster wrote:
Don't forget that Stitches baseline hp scaling went up.

It's interesting, pre-buff his HP starting and scaling was better than Johanna's, but his kit didn't allow him to mitigate damage at all and of course Iron Skin is much easier to apply than Devour (and Iron Skin used to have a shorter cooldown).

Well the answer seems to be, just give Stitches more hp, lots more. Will be interesting to see if putting more talents towards Slam is the way to go or if it's still about making yourself a giant meat wall.

Anyways, I have been unable to game for the past week, so I'm just posting to play vicarious =\.

On October 15 2015 02:16 xDaunt wrote:

Stitches is a bitch to kill late game. John, Valiver, and I were in a game last night where we won a 4v5 at level 24 (other team was 23 or 24) because the enemy team hooked and focused on Johns's Stitches. They dumped all of their damage on Stitches and still couldn't kill him, even though we didn't have a healer. We killed four of them outright and eventually killed the fifth right before polishing off the core. We took zero losses. It was impressive to see.

On October 15 2015 06:54 karazax wrote:
•End of game surveys will now have more descriptive text.

Heroes and Talents
•Fixed an issue that allowed Illidan to cast The Hunt with a reduced cooldown.
•Olaf’s Large and In Charge ability no longer allows him to charge unintended targets.

On October 15 2015 07:12 Valiver wrote:

Hopefully we'll get better questions than just "How was that game?"

Glad they fixed the Hunt bug fairly quickly, but is the Olaf bug there the one that allows him to kill the Gem turn-ins on Tomb of the Spider Queen?

On October 15 2015 06:54 karazax wrote:
hotfix patch released today:

Bug Fixes
General

•Leoric’s Reanimation talent will now gain stacks from Health Globes gathered by allied heroes.

On October 15 2015 19:16 Leolio wrote:


That WASN'T the case already ? As in someone walks to MY lane, touches MY globe and I don't get the bonus ? Wow I'm stunned (2,5 secs).

Thanks for sharing.

On October 16 2015 16:30 Thezzy wrote:
I wonder how Archon would do with Stim Drone though.
Saw that somewhere and said Archon melted all the things.

On October 15 2015 20:33 Ramiz1989 wrote:

It was the case, it was just bugged from the latest(Medic) patch. Which might be the reason why Leoric's win rate went down by ~6,7% while only his Skeletal Swing was nerfed a bit.