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Small patch for a new hero release with 2.0 coming at the end of the month. Was hoping maybe Uther rework would be included.
Patch Notes
New Hero: Cassia + Show Spoiler + After shattering the Worldstone, the young Amazon Cassia had changed. She had seen hatred, terror, and destruction firsthand. If the Askari were to survive the coming darkness, they needed an army. She would begin their training immediately.
Trait
Avoidance When moving unmounted, Cassia gains 65 Physical Armor against Heroic Basic Attacks, reducing the damage taken by 65%.
Basic Abilities
Lightning Fury (Q) Hurl a javelin that damages the first enemy hit, and splits into two lightning bolts that deal damage to enemies in their paths. Blinding Light (W) After 0.5 seconds, Blind enemies in the target area for 2 seconds. Passive: Cassia deals 15% increased damage to Blinded targets. Fend (E) Charge at an enemy and on arrival channel for 1.5 seconds, damaging enemies in front of Cassia every 0.25 seconds. Deals 50% reduced damage to non-Heroes.
Heroic Abilities
Ball Lightning (R) Throw a ball of lightning at an enemy Hero that bounces up to 6 times between nearby enemy Heroes and Cassia, damaging enemies hit. Valkyrie (R) Summon a Valkyrie that rushes to Cassia after 0.75 seconds, pulling and damaging the first enemy Hero hit and stunning them for 0.5 seconds at the end of her rush. The Valkyrie knocks back all other enemy Heroes in her way.
User Interface + Show Spoiler +Score and Stats Screen- Varian will now display Damage Taken stats in the Score and Stats screens.
- Abathur will now display Healing Done in the Score and Stats screens.
Art + Show Spoiler + The base and third variations of Nova's Novazon skin have received visual updates.
Shop + Show Spoiler + New Bundles Pirate Queen Cassia Bundle - Available until 4/18 Teamwork Bundle - Available until 4/25 Ultimate Teamwork Bundle - Available until 4/25 Removed Bundles Stars of War Bundle Ultimate Stars of War Bundle
New Hero
Cassia has been added to the in-game Shop
New Skins
Pirate Queen Cassia Master Cassia
The Butcher + Show Spoiler + Abilities
Fresh Meat (Trait) Hold ALT and click the Fresh Meat Ability icon to notify allies of The Butcher's current number of Meat stacks.
E.T.C. + Show Spoiler + Stats
Health reduced from 2428 to 2100 Health Regeneration reduced from 5.06 to 4.37
Abilities
Rockstar (Trait) Redesigned: Instead of increasing nearby allies' Basic Attack speeds, Rockstar now grants E.T.C. 20 Armor for 2 seconds when he uses a Basic or Heroic Ability. This effect does not stack with itself.
Talents
Level 1 Guitar Hero (E) Healing gained from Basic Attacks increased from 35% to 40%. No longer increases Attack Speed. Level 7 Echo Pedal (Passive) Damage reduced from 29 to 15. Damage bonus against Minions and Mercenaries increased from 75% to 250%. Level 16 Show Stopper (Q) Armor reduced from 25 to 15.
Developer Comment: These changes to E.T.C. are a continuation of our attempt to align Warriors with a “big picture” role, so that we can continue to see a variety of them regardless of who’s really strong at the moment. Alongside a lot of specialization, we need a couple generalist Warriors, and we think E.T.C. (as well as Muradin) should fill that role. They should always be a safe pick for your team because they fit into every team composition or battleground, but may be outperformed by the specialized Warriors in their ideal situations. We found that having Attack Speed on his Trait pointed him toward Basic Attack teams and maps like Battlefield of Eternity, where sustained damage was important. Instead, we’ve decided to add general Armor, but wanted to make sure that it still had that fun “bard” style gameplay where playing optimally includes spreading out abilities. We’ve updated Show Stopper to provide less Armor, because stacking Armor makes every point more and more valuable. Lastly, we’ve reduced Echo Pedal’s damage against non-Minions and Mercenaries so that it’s the obvious pick when you need wave clear, but Hammer-On and Pinball Wizard are better during a team fight.
Bug Fixes + Show Spoiler + Battlegrounds
Towers of Doom – The Headless Horseman boss Mercenary will no longer have his Basic Attack damage reduced by Armor. Warhead Junction – Fixed an issue that caused queued commands to be cleared after casting a Nuke.
Heroes
Probius - Fixed an issue that caused the Turbo Charged talent to grant too much movement speed during Worker Rush. Varian – The sound effect associated with the Iron Forge Banner will no longer play globally. Raynor – Fixed an issue with the Relentless Leader talent causing it to fail to grant the passive cooldown reduction. Rexxar – Misha will now have a reduced death timer in Arena mode Heroes Brawls. Valeera & Abathur – Fixed an issue that caused Heroes affected by Abathur’s Symbiote to fail to trigger Valeera’s Assassinate talent. Valla – Fixed a rare issue that could cause Valla’s Hatred stacks to drop to 0 while firing Basic Attacks. The Lost Vikings – Fixed an issue that caused focus to be taken away from the currently selected Viking if a Viking enters the Garden Terror. Diablo – Fixed an issue that caused Devastating Charge damage to show as damage dealt to Diablo on the Death Recap screen.
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I'm getting a crew together to play lili, johanna, Cassia, Auriel Artanis.
I want all the blinds
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Will they ever fix Varian's QM MM categorization? They call Varian, multi class tank / assassin. Though none of his builds are really assassin like. He goes between tank and bruiser. Both of which provide better front line, than the single Ragnaros on my team just now.
Even had a match last week where the enemy team had both Sonya and Varian, and the only melee hero my team had was Zera.
Need to differentiate the warriors further. Tanks, Off Tanks, Bruisers. Taunt Varian being a tank, other Varian's being Bruisers. Would have to limit the heroic selection, depending on opposing comp.
Hate when its Varian vs Varian in QM where their the only front line for either team. And I get the dumb ass, who takes duel wielding heroic. ...i've reported several varian's for that.
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They said they were working on further differentiating roles, but no time line. I don't know that you can report someone for picking a heroic you don't like and expect that to have any effect though, especially in QM.
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You report people for taking an ult you disagree with? I'm afraid I'm going to have to report you for that.
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On April 05 2017 04:58 Immersion_ wrote: You report people for taking an ult you disagree with? I'm afraid I'm going to have to report you for that.
QM put those Varian in my games expecting them to tank or at least be front line. But because of this laughable multiclass experiment , they threw away 20 percent of their health on a single talent choice.
They should simply restrict available talents, in certain situations. If the opposing team has an ETC, 3 assassins and support. And the ally team has a Varian, 3 assassins and support. Only allow taunt to be played. Why let some troll sabotage the entire game?
Vice versa as well, if the QM intended for Varian to go dmg. Don't allow them to take to take taunt.
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I would say because QM is a potential shit show to begin with, and applying talent choices for players is not fun but that is me.
I see your point, don't get me wrong but your solution is not ideal. QM is gonna be QM no matter how you cut it.
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can always play ranked to avoid those unbalanced comps and potatoes. Oh wait ! xD
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A possible solution would be to let QM varian pre-select tank or assassin when they queue and lock them from picking the other ult at 10, then make opposing comps accordingly. Needs to be done before they queue so they can play what they want which is kind of the point of QM.
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What do you guys think about new ETC?
I feel completely useless
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There is at least one bug with crowd surfer causing power slide not to give armor. I have read unconfirmed reports that armor isn't working on power slide in other situations too and that prog rock wasn't healing allies. Haven't played him since the update though myself, but his win rate has tanked so far.
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I'd wait on playing ETC until big fixes, yeah.
But reading the patch notes, I'm glad the Butcher has been buffed to finally playable!
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On April 05 2017 03:50 Cyanocyst wrote: Will they ever fix Varian's QM MM categorization? They call Varian, multi class tank / assassin. Though none of his builds are really assassin like. He goes between tank and bruiser. Both of which provide better front line, than the single Ragnaros on my team just now.
Even had a match last week where the enemy team had both Sonya and Varian, and the only melee hero my team had was Zera.
Need to differentiate the warriors further. Tanks, Off Tanks, Bruisers. Taunt Varian being a tank, other Varian's being Bruisers. Would have to limit the heroic selection, depending on opposing comp.
Hate when its Varian vs Varian in QM where their the only front line for either team. And I get the dumb ass, who takes duel wielding heroic. ...i've reported several varian's for that. You are the reason the silence system dont work. Congratulations
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On April 07 2017 06:35 Foxxan wrote:Show nested quote +On April 05 2017 03:50 Cyanocyst wrote: Will they ever fix Varian's QM MM categorization? They call Varian, multi class tank / assassin. Though none of his builds are really assassin like. He goes between tank and bruiser. Both of which provide better front line, than the single Ragnaros on my team just now.
Even had a match last week where the enemy team had both Sonya and Varian, and the only melee hero my team had was Zera.
Need to differentiate the warriors further. Tanks, Off Tanks, Bruisers. Taunt Varian being a tank, other Varian's being Bruisers. Would have to limit the heroic selection, depending on opposing comp.
Hate when its Varian vs Varian in QM where their the only front line for either team. And I get the dumb ass, who takes duel wielding heroic. ...i've reported several varian's for that. You are the reason the silence system dont work. Congratulations
pretty sure his activity has nothing to do with the silence system.
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I think he means that people reporting for things that aren't legitimate gets people unfairly silenced at times.
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On April 08 2017 01:30 MotherFox wrote:Show nested quote +On April 07 2017 06:35 Foxxan wrote:On April 05 2017 03:50 Cyanocyst wrote: Will they ever fix Varian's QM MM categorization? They call Varian, multi class tank / assassin. Though none of his builds are really assassin like. He goes between tank and bruiser. Both of which provide better front line, than the single Ragnaros on my team just now.
Even had a match last week where the enemy team had both Sonya and Varian, and the only melee hero my team had was Zera.
Need to differentiate the warriors further. Tanks, Off Tanks, Bruisers. Taunt Varian being a tank, other Varian's being Bruisers. Would have to limit the heroic selection, depending on opposing comp.
Hate when its Varian vs Varian in QM where their the only front line for either team. And I get the dumb ass, who takes duel wielding heroic. ...i've reported several varian's for that. You are the reason the silence system dont work. Congratulations pretty sure his activity has nothing to do with the silence system.
It's hard to make an efficient reporting system when a lot of people throw reports every which way whenever they lose a game. Reporting someone because they didn't pick a hero you wanted them to pick in ranked shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they didn't go taunt on Varian in QM shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they had a bad game and died more times than you did shouldn't happen -- but it does, and forces Blizzard to 'tune' the reporting system with that in mind, making it far less sensitive and accurate.
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On April 08 2017 04:59 Salazarz wrote:Show nested quote +On April 08 2017 01:30 MotherFox wrote:On April 07 2017 06:35 Foxxan wrote:On April 05 2017 03:50 Cyanocyst wrote: Will they ever fix Varian's QM MM categorization? They call Varian, multi class tank / assassin. Though none of his builds are really assassin like. He goes between tank and bruiser. Both of which provide better front line, than the single Ragnaros on my team just now.
Even had a match last week where the enemy team had both Sonya and Varian, and the only melee hero my team had was Zera.
Need to differentiate the warriors further. Tanks, Off Tanks, Bruisers. Taunt Varian being a tank, other Varian's being Bruisers. Would have to limit the heroic selection, depending on opposing comp.
Hate when its Varian vs Varian in QM where their the only front line for either team. And I get the dumb ass, who takes duel wielding heroic. ...i've reported several varian's for that. You are the reason the silence system dont work. Congratulations pretty sure his activity has nothing to do with the silence system. It's hard to make an efficient reporting system when a lot of people throw reports every which way whenever they lose a game. Reporting someone because they didn't pick a hero you wanted them to pick in ranked shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they didn't go taunt on Varian in QM shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they had a bad game and died more times than you did shouldn't happen -- but it does, and forces Blizzard to 'tune' the reporting system with that in mind, making it far less sensitive and accurate.
I was with you right up until "reporting someone because they had a bad game and died more times than you did shouldn't happen". I sort of agree everyone can have a bad game, though some people seemingly not learning from their mistakes and then dying to the same shit again and again 10+ times or just not caring and straight up feeding, all seems like valid reporting reasons to me. At least if it's a competitive game. If you don't care, don't play competitive. If you're actually trying and having a bad time of it, I won't report you, personally.
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On April 08 2017 04:59 Salazarz wrote:Show nested quote +On April 08 2017 01:30 MotherFox wrote:On April 07 2017 06:35 Foxxan wrote:On April 05 2017 03:50 Cyanocyst wrote: Will they ever fix Varian's QM MM categorization? They call Varian, multi class tank / assassin. Though none of his builds are really assassin like. He goes between tank and bruiser. Both of which provide better front line, than the single Ragnaros on my team just now.
Even had a match last week where the enemy team had both Sonya and Varian, and the only melee hero my team had was Zera.
Need to differentiate the warriors further. Tanks, Off Tanks, Bruisers. Taunt Varian being a tank, other Varian's being Bruisers. Would have to limit the heroic selection, depending on opposing comp.
Hate when its Varian vs Varian in QM where their the only front line for either team. And I get the dumb ass, who takes duel wielding heroic. ...i've reported several varian's for that. You are the reason the silence system dont work. Congratulations pretty sure his activity has nothing to do with the silence system. It's hard to make an efficient reporting system when a lot of people throw reports every which way whenever they lose a game. Reporting someone because they didn't pick a hero you wanted them to pick in ranked shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they didn't go taunt on Varian in QM shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they had a bad game and died more times than you did shouldn't happen -- but it does, and forces Blizzard to 'tune' the reporting system with that in mind, making it far less sensitive and accurate.
it would be pretty easy to put in controls for individuals who mis-use reporting. the built-in categories for reporting are a safeguard against this too. (and bliz has said in the past that they do this)
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On April 08 2017 04:59 Salazarz wrote:Show nested quote +On April 08 2017 01:30 MotherFox wrote:On April 07 2017 06:35 Foxxan wrote:On April 05 2017 03:50 Cyanocyst wrote: Will they ever fix Varian's QM MM categorization? They call Varian, multi class tank / assassin. Though none of his builds are really assassin like. He goes between tank and bruiser. Both of which provide better front line, than the single Ragnaros on my team just now.
Even had a match last week where the enemy team had both Sonya and Varian, and the only melee hero my team had was Zera.
Need to differentiate the warriors further. Tanks, Off Tanks, Bruisers. Taunt Varian being a tank, other Varian's being Bruisers. Would have to limit the heroic selection, depending on opposing comp.
Hate when its Varian vs Varian in QM where their the only front line for either team. And I get the dumb ass, who takes duel wielding heroic. ...i've reported several varian's for that. You are the reason the silence system dont work. Congratulations pretty sure his activity has nothing to do with the silence system. It's hard to make an efficient reporting system when a lot of people throw reports every which way whenever they lose a game. Reporting someone because they didn't pick a hero you wanted them to pick in ranked shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they didn't go taunt on Varian in QM shouldn't happen, reporting someone because they had a bad game and died more times than you did shouldn't happen -- but it does, and forces Blizzard to 'tune' the reporting system with that in mind, making it far less sensitive and accurate. Part of the problem there is that I can literally fire out 20 reports in 10 seconds.
Make it harder to report people, limit the amount of reports, and remove this auto silencing. Unless somebody is racist/sexist or whatever, just mute people. I've been reported (and silenced) with my allied chat disabled and literally the only line I said was "Uther isn't a good supp vs lunara + guldan". Response: "stfu toxic. report" BING Silenced.
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I just auto mute everyone unless in Team Speak, pings are more then sufficient, SC2 has taught me to rely only on the mini map, most people have absolutely nothing good to say anyways so might as well just deny any toxic right from the get go.
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