Yeah, thats what Robo gobbo does lol, well that and structures of course. At 20 you can talent it to do increased damage to heroes if you so desire, but I think some of his other talents might outshine it.
just started playing this. for the skill builds, are some more viable than others or is it flexible/strong enough that i can pick whatever that fits the matchup
As long as its consistent and not random then yeah, though pretty much everyone has one or two builds you should work for. Find out what you want to do early and stick to that. Switching around one or two here and there in response to the enemy is fine as well.
Other day I was playing with a Raynor that couldn’t make up his damn mind what to do, his skill load out was all over the place.
i played a QM on the new map and it went to 30 minutes
it probably didn’t help that the map was new but i want to believe it happened because blind pick random map
Sad story time.
I was trying to get a game on the new map, but I kept getting the old ones, so I made a custom game with ais vs ais just to play it.
And lost.
I swear, my AI was channeling its inner retardedness, and the other teams AI was working together in harmony.
Step just a bit too close to the other team? Sonya stun, into tyrande stun, into Jaina full rotation of skills = blown up brightwing.
I teleport into my team mate, do some damage, polymorph sonya whirlwinding so we can kill her? Team runs away.
I ping to take mercs, AI doesn’t respond, I start taking them and they don’t come to help until I’m almost dead.
We have 4 of their people on a sliver of health vs our 3 full health guys? Better disengage and not even kill their immortal.
Oh we have somebody pushing top lane and I pinged to defend 5 times? Lets just sit in bottom lane doing nothing instead, until the keep dies THEN lets hearth back to help.
Oh, Im teleporting onto you with a big ass shield to help? Let me dive 1 v 3 and get blown up before the teleport animation finishes.
It was like… playing a real vs AI match, only with the enemy AI actually good. I swear it was so frustrating lol.
Bought Gazlowe.
He’s fun as hell. Just tell your team this lane is yours and decimate it, they cant talk shit when you have cash money siege damage.
Yeah I tried him out and loved him. Setting up turrets, bombs, the lightning beam super attack. Yeah I don’t get why Gazlowe would be hated? He has that gravity bomb that is devastating for team fights, he has solid survivability, he can take merc camps by himself, massive seige damage.
I think because he doesn’t contribute much to team fights, and HoTS in in a place where the community loves doing deathball V deathball. He is great left to his own devices, taking mercs to pressure and stuff but unless he gets gravity bomb he isn’t doing to much in fights.
So he does really, really good at soaking XP and destroying bases but not much when the enemy rolls in and it pertubes peeps.
quick thoughts on this patch:
buffs:
tychus (aa range improved, retargetable turret is a persisting threat even if you focus tychus, less affected by changes to blind)
malfurion (other healers nerfed, less mana starved, innervate stronger late game, but loses healing ward)
raynor (retargetable banshees, less affected by changes to blind)
TLV (yep. they’re less swiss knifey and longboat raid does 80% damage, but they get bribe and giant killer now)
nerfs:
valla (hurt by changes to blind)
illidan (hurt by changes to blind)
rehgar (his damage is actually worse than malfurion’s now)
still fine:
brightwing (early game is weaker but late game feels better)
jaina (still has ice block, still top 2 assassin)
I’m going to use Gazlowe regardless, unless I am playing some tournament for money I’m playing to have fun…and Gazlowe is always that.
Played Azmodan, he is super awesome as well. The laser of doom…flee puny mortals! Then landing those long range meteors, enemies running…throwing it in anticipation of where they will be when it lands. So much fun. He’s definitely a must get, when I have enough gold.
I actually never get the quicker speed on his Q bomb, shit throws my timing off so bad lol.
He’s really good at what he does, I just got really bored of him quick since he was my only specialist for a while and I kept getting that gold quest.
Finally got my first warrior one, so it does exist. Blizzard has been nice and been giving me the 800g one a lot.
What do you take on that tier if not the q speed/dot?
Should I even bother with tiers in this game? Like people have already came up with who is top tier and not. Though if you have a good team of nothing but top tier characters would that have a better chance of winning vs a good team that has nothing but tier 4 characters?
I’d have to look honestly, haven’t touched him in a bit. I remember enjoying minion buffs while getting the stacks on Q to push lanes down, but I can’t recall exactly what I would take.
That is just a preference thing, I can see the usefulness of it for sure. Just for me it throws my internal timing off to much and I end up missing after a prediction.
The speed bomb is awesome. I always also take gluttony.
Yeah I was just wondering, the dot and wind up time seemed like the weakest of the q talents for surw
for quick match, no. quick match has it’s own wild meta due to the fact that nobody can predict what team comps will look like or what the map will be. if you’re great on a lower tier hero you’ll still win more often than not.
hero league is more about matchups and who’s stronger on specific maps. top tiers are good, but they’ll still have weaknesses and bad matchups that can be exploited by lower tiered picks.
it also helps that most people below rank1 don’t own all the top tiers (or aren’t comfortable playing them) and that you can’t trade during drafting. so you sometimes get teams like KT falstad butcher zeratul uther, still arguably a strong team but definitely has some weaknesses that can be exploited.
owning most/all of the top tiers is a good place to start for HL, but you can get by as long as you have a well rounded selection.
No because Blizzard will nerf them within a month anyway.
Yeah I would hold off buying Kael’Thas, Blizzard has announced he is getting a “rework”. Other characters to get a rework were Raynor, Vikings, BW and yeah, it is worse than a nerf.