She is not EASY to be good, but really good novas can be so good.
Basically, if the nova player is more skilled than the other player, she shines. If the other player and nova are equals, she struggles. So you will eventually hit a wall with her. I feel Zeratul is the superior hero, of course, but Nova has her place.
Even with her changes coming totally getting on sale Bright wing. She is adorable.
nova plays a different game from the one everyone else is playing
jaina and KT go into fights and they want to aoe people at the chokepoint, they want to make ridiculous outplays and win teamfights and then take objectives and win.
nova has no aoe until 10 and 20 and her potential for outplays in a teamfight is not really there. instead she wants to take objectives first, make picks and apply huge kill pressure, and create/leverage advantages for her team. she uses level advantages and objectives as a means to take teamfights, not the other way around.
unfortunately deathballing is what’s popular and moving as five only forces the other team to move as five to meet your five. making picks is difficult when every potential target is constantly escorted by their entire team. it’s the complete opposite of what nova wants.
Well when everyone levels at the same time, someone split pushing and gaining all that juicy solo XP isn’t really a thing anymore. Especially when pushing that solo lane means losing out on whatever big map objective that will auto push 3-4 towers for you. So of course everyone is just gonna roll around the map in a big pack all the time, why wouldn’t you?
Can’t stress this enough, team shared XP made things harder for new players, not easier.
What? Making it so people don’t need to worry about team hate for stealing kills makes things harder for new players? Making the laning setups less hostile and less rigid so that you don’t have a single person solo soaking a lane to get ahead a requirement makes things harder for new players? Allowing a new player to play a support that feels they can contribute instead of gargling the other players balls for the entire game is harder for new players?
Is that a joke?
I really dont see how xp sharing makes it harder for new players. Will really only make it harder to transition to another moba since HOTS plays really different from the other mobas.
I heard they are considering adding ban to hero league eventually, I hope not. Would be very disappointing to not be able to play the hero I want to play. It seems like a fun killer.
“this game is nothing like dota2” - IGN 6.5/10
Have they talked about having portraits of your team on the side? Sometimes in group fights I can’t find my targets or they are too bunched up to cast a spell on them.
I don’t think they like the screen clutter that portraits bring, though I think it needs it even if its just optional
I think they will because of the tournaments, people use Hero League as tourny practice. I would not be totally against it as it would make things interesting.
What is the benefit of this though? I think it does more harm than good. I get that there is strategy to it, but there is also strategy to defeating your opponent at their strongest. It also makes it a big negative to focus on mastering one character, cause if he/she is banned all that expertise is useless. Means the players playing the characters will be displaying much lower skill level, since they have to learn many heroes.
Oh in case anyone is interested, Murky apparently got price drop to 7000 gold.
You play to win in tournaments and ranked, as the pool of heroes grow it wouldn’t be to much of an issue anyways, you shouldn’t be using just one champ due to meta or familiarity like that.
It also creates interesting team dynamics and forces the group as a whole to come up with a variety of strategies to take into a tournament setting.
Picked up Brightwing, probably get Murky now that his gold price dropped. Love that little dude.
Yeah one of the things I was told early on as this is my first Moba is master multiple characters.
Word is gazlowe is really good on the new map
Yeah I just did that, he is pretty solid on the new map because of how it is built if you go turret build.
Not surprising, he can lay down turrets to cluster the enemy or cut off escape routes along with his explosion. Then once he hits level 10 get the suck in bomb to threaten the boss area for massive fucking up.
Robogoblin to kill the boss fast and split pish too is supposed to be good
I always forget robo gobbo does increased damage to non hero units. Yeah all around he seems solid there.
Love Brightwing, although I have no idea what he/she used to do which was godlike but yeah. Fun support.
Gazlowe is free this week can’t wait to try him out. Used Tyrande today for my daily, she is a lot of fun. I like supports that can fight also…and the hunter’s mark is awesome, as well as both of her heroics.
I also spent all my gold today. Sylvanas, Zagara, Sgt Hammer. I’m going to have to find some cheaper heroes I like if I am going to get to Hero League in any reasonable amount of time.