Heroes of the Storm 2.0 - Page 8

On April 27 2017 02:25 Talaris wrote:


yeah, I wonder if just reducing her enormeous hp pool would have been better. She could still gank then but not so often before returning to base or escape so easily, esp when 1v2 vs 2 heroes.

Then again, she still got more hp than anubarak, so perhaps shes better fit for a brawling 1v1 style and using her insta-stealth+combo as a surprise now (?). Would have love to see a small heal somewhere though if thats the supposed direction.

But her old gank-kill style seems to be dead now, yeah - I wont miss it though, as bush+1s unreveable stealth + 7 range was too much a reminiscent of beta Nova.

On April 27 2017 11:01 FeyFey wrote:
there is nothing to compensate for if you remove the ability to punish someone out of position with a stealth assasin. They just become unuseable or aren't stealth assassins anymore (Nova). Just give the easiest victims talents to survive on their power talent level (we had spell shield for that when Nova was around). To solve the QM problem. (I just want Nova to be made useful again)
And stop protecting stupid people. If they go alone near a bush after the enemy Valeera is missing for a minute. Then they will go near a bush after the whole enemy team is missing as well. You can't protect them, just let them die and have them vanish into the 0 mmr region, where they can be with each other.

I also think, Valeera is still more then fine. Can't slack on your job now and get behind in exp though.

The game wants me to play Tyrande anyway. I got 13 skins for her. And Roller Derby Nova 5 times x.x

On April 27 2017 03:58 MotherFox wrote:

Yup, that was exactly the problem--- that she was too similar to old nova. I do think they nerfed what they needed to(cold blood was too much, and her burst damage needed to come down), but like nova I think she needed something to compensate her for that reduction in burst.

On April 27 2017 21:26 karazax wrote:

I think they should consider giving Nova an anti-shield ability like Varian's shattering throw.

On April 27 2017 20:44 Ghostcom wrote:
So which of Genji's ults do you prefer? The invul frames from x-strike (and the damage) has so far performed better for me - but maybe I'm just not using the other correctly.

On April 27 2017 22:57 karazax wrote:
Here is today's stream of Rich learning Genji.

His current favorite build is (1.2) (4.1) (7.2) (10.1) (13.2or1) (16.3) (20.1)

On April 28 2017 00:01 MotherFox wrote:


Is 1.2 agile dismount? I'm a little surprised at that choice--- I don't frequently engage when mounted as genji since I poke with shurikens so much.

On April 28 2017 06:05 Ghostcom wrote:


I just tried it out for the evenings games. The extra length (and reduced cooldown when used mounted) was really nice and allowed for some very aggressive moves. Tho, I am still not convinced it is superior to the movespeed after trait from 1.3.

On April 28 2017 07:50 MotherFox wrote:


I tried out 1.3 but I was getting a little frustrated with it being finicky. Whenever I jumped over terrain but tried to jump a corner it felt like it didn't kick in. I may need to test the tolerances of it tonight to see if ti was just my technique at issue.

In the end I've settled on 1.1 because you get speed right after you jump in, which is when you need to be the most mobile anyway. Though, I guess it isn't good for escaping.

On April 28 2017 08:20 Ghostcom wrote:


You jump in with e? I mainly use e for disengage and then when people drop to 30% I'll go in with it, but something will die soon after giving me the refund to disengage with.

On April 27 2017 03:32 Ansinjunger wrote:
Gazlowe's turret placement is all screwed up now. Test it in try mode with cooldowns off, and not only can you not place them under Gazlowe, but you can't in the nearest hexes either.

On April 27 2017 23:59 MotherFox wrote:


I've been preferring the x-strike one. It has more burst damage, and you can do more jukes with it in a pinch if that's what you need.

It's so hard to assess builds in QM, you know? I've been winning most of my games with genji regardless of build and getting MVP about half the time, so it's hard to tell whether he is good, I'm lucky, or an influx of newplayers is messing up matchmaking. I do think the hero might be an MVP magnet since he can so safely engage for kills and disengage immediately. Usually high kill-participation paired with low death means mvp.