Leoric is okay, he might get used in an off tank position. He has good synergy with ranged assassins.
Glad I never bought a Diablo skin… Waited out for that amazing Archangel skin.
Still thinks he is worse after his remake. But meh, he was the character I told myself I would dedicated myself to, before I got into the beta. Still going strong!
Leoric is gdlk.
I’ll fite you
you get classic RTS controls while playing the vikings.
if you don’t have them set already, set the control group 1-4 hotkeys to F1-F4. control group 4 selects all three vikings, 1-3 selects each of the individual ones.
ctrl+clicking any viking selects all three of them
shift+clicking any viking selects both your current viking and that one (use to control two vikings while your third is recalling, retreating, channeling objectives, etc.)
left click+drag creates a box, releasing left click will select all vikings in the box.
unless your micro is amazing you will typically want to let a viking a-move through a lane and then turn your attention to another viking, while also checking the map frequently to make sure none of your vikings are in danger. in teamfights, controlling all three and focusing the same target will usually suffice.
the vikings’ mount works like hammer’s, no channel time but it has a limited duration and a long cooldown. all vikings share the same cooldown, and it is your oh fuck button. once you move into team fighting phase, the mount can be used to both outrun assassins or catch fleeing targets.
olaf gets 130 hp per level, baleog gets 100, and erik gets 70. for comparison, sylvanas gets 130 hp per level, muradin gets 240, and murky gets 60.
sgt hammer is a nightmare for the vikings. it’s impossible to even approach hammer without losing tons of erik’s health in the process and attempting any sort of trade with her at early levels will go bad very quickly, and then she’s able to just siege with little resistance. if enemy team drafts hammer against TLV you more or less must ask for help from the team and rotate vikings around to not be laned against her.
good zera and nova players are rough, since erik is so squishy he is essentially half an assassin (and thus, a constant easy target for those two), and since they are stealth they are harder to watch for when you are relying on the minimap to track enemy movements.
on the other hand, you completely stomp murky in lane. multiple vikings can easily stop pufferfish and then bully/kill murky if he ever gets in slime/melee range.
most lanes are auto-lose if you split, but you want to prevent the lane from being a complete wash. send two vikings to the same lane if you have to. three vikings in one lane is ok, as you only really need TLV to soak during objectives when your team has to pull out of their lanes (send erik to the closest lane and leave olaf or baleog parked in the current one, and either send the last viking in to help with objective, splitpush, or run to the last lane)
if you don’t split it’s a matter of goading the enemy into attacking olaf and making favorable trades (since olaf has innate health regen, any damage he takes is basically nil as long as he doesn’t actually die). you want to avoid lanes against KT and jaina because baleog/erik tend to clump up and it’s hard to make a good trade when you eat a two-man blizzard or flamestrike, and they can easily burst down any of the two squishier vikings.
if your micro is good you can bully with erik autoattacks, much like you would with raynor (except raynor does more damage and is safer. but you can’t have it all, i guess).
He can recall and dance in ghost form. People are basically baiting enemy teams that want to jump on him as soon as he will spawn, so smart Leorics are just running them around an area doing nothing then recalling once the respawn timer is almost up.
I have no idea what to do with Diabro and ETC since their heavy nerfs really, I keep trying different builds but like Raynor it just feels messy. They can’t really tank anymore since they melt fast, but also don’t deal enough burst damage to really sway things, so I end up just wading in and out of combat like a crappy assassin and burn my CDs.
Enjoying this game much more than DOTA 2. A match doesn’t get dragged out for too long and matches that snowball feels really good to be a part of.
I’m thinking of getting Tyrande because of her combination of support and attack abilities. Support is presented well in this game, but I prefer supports that be a damage dealer too.
Also, I have a Zeratul code in case anyone is interested.
Sure, although shooting me a PM is hard as fuck with the forum shift. Can add me on Blizz tomorrow though since I can’t recall my number.
Haven’t tried him yet but I’m a Protoss fanboy.
What’s your ID?
AYOMerc#1257
Oh and anyone can add me. Play HS as well, and D3 rarely.
Zeratul is awesome, favorite assassin I’ve tried out. I’ll get him in the future once I finish getting all the specialists. Speaking of which, just got Abathur. I think I’ve found my absolute favorite. He gets to do so much, effect so many areas, so many aspects of the game. Amazing design and every second playing was absolute bliss.
He looks fun, and I’m a big Protoss fanboy so yeah I’d love to give him a shot.
Got the Leoric bundle cause I was bored and the sales this week aren’t anything I want. Playing just one game I notice why most Leorics play stupid, his kit kinda makes it seem like you can get away with turning dat brain off.
I don’t know if they know that he still counts for a full kill. Oh well, he’s pretty damn fun to just beat down people with.
I would only get Zeratul and KT with caution with the new patch coming when the Monk comes in about 2 weeks. With Blizzard’s track record, good chance they get nerfed.
Zeratul is probably gonna dodge the nerf bat. People still aren’t going to him as a KT counterpick outside of master tier, and he remains unpopular despite how game winning void prison can be.
KT is def getting nerfed tho, and then there isn’t even any real need to nerf zer anymore. maybe even buff shadow assault lol.
a lot more TLV players (what’s left of them anyway) are trying out the play again ult instead of longboat and it’s actually pretty effective
Eventually everyone gets nerfed and buffed, such is the life of a moba. Otherwise why even get champs lol.
KT is a glass Cannon, dude dies to LiLi if he is out of position. Zeratul I dunno. They should just take it easy on bans until the cast grows.
With the lost vikings I like play again much better than long boat, summoning dead vikings to spot of summoner and healing all is so useful. Also it is a lot more interesting IMO than longboat.
Monk and new map trailer is out. Monk looks cool, map seems eh to me.
Twitter HoTS confirmed that Rexxar then Artanis are after the Monk which should cover us for a bit.
anyone rank 1? i was close but after they went live, it’s been impossible for me, dropped all the way back to 20! i hear you can’t do it unless you partner with friends, but i normally just solo quuee
Damn, I was hoping they’d give rexxar a completely controllable beast like the Lost Vikings, but thats cool
Im excited for Monk and the new D3 map, definitely feels D3 like with them dropping elite affixes on the battlefield
They could have done better with the new D3 map.
Just seems like a repurposed Battlefield of Eternity, all reused assets.
So many more locations they could have used.
Yeah, but its a cool tile set, and I don’t mind getting more maps sharing tile sets if it means we get them faster