Heroes of the Storm Catch-All

People just haven’t found a counter to her yet. I think she’s really good because she is a direct counter to the current meta of 4-1 lanes. Heroes that can duel her and assassinate her should be good against her. Such as Dual blades Varian, Zeratul, or Butcher. Supports such as bright wing and Uther can help cc her. However, the team needs to be well rounded for those heroes to work.

She’s great against mages because they can’t run and mobile heroes like genji and Hanzo.

Chimalli wrote:

People just haven’t found a counter to her yet.

I agree, but by the same token, people haven't worked out how to play as her yet either, and her win rate is still ridiculous.

Big surprise Maiev was nerfed

Developer Comment: Maiev has arrived in the Nexus and seems to be obliterating her foes (as she should) but is slightly deadlier than we intended. The Warden’s survivability is currently too high, which allows her to get tons of resets on Fan of Knives while ignoring enemy threats. To address this, we’re removing her armor gain from Vault of the Wardens, while slightly lowering her damage output so that she has to stick around in the fight a little longer to take down her opponents. After these changes, we’ll continue to keep an eye on Maiev to be sure that she has enough survivability to perform her melee Assassin role, without it feeling like her enemies have little-to-no options for counterplay

Yeah she had it coming

It's probably not far enough but I'd rather see small incremental nerfs than just sending her to the basement. Good that they acted so quickly.

Repeated nerfs are demoralizing. It feels better to get hit hard once and then incrementally get nudged back up into a balanced spot. The trick is to nerf a character hard enough to be sure it'll be enough, but not so much that nobody plays them. That could lead to overcompensating in the other direction.

I'm beginning to wonder if they will ever fix the bug that sticks a daily quest in the queue that you can't progress in.

I've had the same "Complete 3 vs AI games" daily quest on my main screen in this game since April of last year. A quick perusal of their forums tells me this is a fairly common problem, it's on their known issues list, but there's zero news about any fix for it.

Pretty big bummer for all the folks, myself included, that just only get two daily quests for all this time. Kinda kills the gold income.

That is a bummer, Thin J, I hadn't heard of that one. I didn't even know that quest existed too. I guess the only thing you can do if you wanted to maximise gold income is clear them every day as they come in (apart from the one you can't, of course). This time around I'm finding gold fairly worthless anyway. There are so many heroes in the game now that I can't possibly play most of them at a level I'm happy with. I own about 60 of the 77 heroes and realistically I'm only going to be good at 7 or 8 of them, so I don't need to buy any more. And if I'm really curious about a new hero they go free to play 3 weeks after release anyway. Now, all of that isn't to say your problem isn't a problem- it's a bug after all (and you'd think an easy one to fix), but I do wonder if the hero release schedule might start to slow down a bit now that there are so many options.

I'm pretty sure they said they were slowing down. At least I remember something about that from a couple months ago. Maybe at Blizzcon?

Of course that announcement is undercut by the fact that they haven't seemed to slow down at all. Maybe we're just seeing what was left in the old pipeline.

Hey all I had to do was grumble about that daily quest bug apparently. It seems to have gotten fixed and my next three AI games cleared it out.

Bonus.

I jumped in for a quickmatch yesterday for the first time in months. I played Lili, we won, and I got MVP. While I has chatting the whole time, I didn't hear anyone else use voice chat at all. I was hoping that voice chat would change the experience and help teams actually play like teams. Have y'all observed people using voice chat? In Ranked?

I have only had one “bad” experience with voice chat so far. It has been overwhelmingly positive or neutral.

May is the first month since 2015 that there hasn't been a new hero added to the game. The roster is pretty stacked right now. Thinking of diving back in this weekend, I've been away for a couple of months. Anyone still playing who can comment on the meta right now?

There's going to be an Alterac Valley map in Heroes of the Storm, and a Draenei hero, finally.

The map looks really cool, the hero I could do without I would have preferred a different Draenei class since we already have Uther as a Paladin.

Chimalli wrote:

The map looks really cool, the hero I could do without I would have preferred a different Draenei class since we already have Uther as a Paladin.

It's difficult because, unless I'm mistaken all the wow classes are represented already, so they were always going to double up eventually.

Go Horde!

kergguz wrote:
Chimalli wrote:

The map looks really cool, the hero I could do without I would have preferred a different Draenei class since we already have Uther as a Paladin.

It's difficult because, unless I'm mistaken all the wow classes are represented already, so they were always going to double up eventually.

I may be mistaken but, who is the Priest and who is Hunter?

Also,

Stele wrote:

Go Horde!

I'm pretty sure Tyrande is a Priest. Despite the very wrong weapon.

Rexxar is the Hunter.

I guess I can see that.

Priest is the one class where there isn't a 1:1 representation. As Vargen says, Tyrande sort of fits but she's more of a hybrid. There's been rumours about Anduin for a long time but so far no sign.

Vargen wrote:

I'm pretty sure Tyrande is a Priest. Despite the very wrong weapon.

Rexxar is the Hunter.

Zul'jin might also be one.

NathanialG wrote:
Vargen wrote:

I'm pretty sure Tyrande is a Priest. Despite the very wrong weapon.

Rexxar is the Hunter.

Zul'jin might also be one.

Except not a very good one. No pet

If wow ever did a beserker class then he'd fit right in. I guess fury warrior is closest.

kergguz wrote:

May is the first month since 2015 that there hasn't been a new hero added to the game. The roster is pretty stacked right now. Thinking of diving back in this weekend, I've been away for a couple of months. Anyone still playing who can comment on the meta right now?

I don't follow the meta that heavily but what I notice in ranked with the support nerfs there's a lot less double support and more single strong team healer (malf stukov Lucio)

Feel like there's more front line in general, see a lot of two warriors or warrior melee assassin.

Anybody still playing? I jumped on yesterday and did all the Warcraft quests.

Got a stimpack from a loot chest so I'm trying out a bunch of the free heroes, several new ones since the last time I played. This game is still quite fun.

Got MVP the first time I played Maiev and leveled to 3 or 4. Have enjoyed Fenix and Kel'Thuzad for several matches each.

Got Garrosh from the WoW chest from one of the quests. Need to try him.

Had Lucio from a while back and finally played a few games. Running while shooting is so different.

Still want to try Probius sometime today while he (she? it?) is free.

Got new skin drops for both Valla and Sylvanas, two of my favorites, so had a few games with them as well.

Last time I played was about February. To be honest I'm glad I got out of the habit because when I'm playing it I really binge on it to unhealthy levels. I can't deny it's fun though, I think it's a very good moba, just.... too good for me.

Stele wrote:

Anybody still playing? I jumped on yesterday and did all the Warcraft quests.

Got a stimpack from a loot chest so I'm trying out a bunch of the free heroes, several new ones since the last time I played. This game is still quite fun.

Got MVP the first time I played Maiev and leveled to 3 or 4. Have enjoyed Fenix and Kel'Thuzad for several matches each.

Got Garrosh from the WoW chest from one of the quests. Need to try him.

Had Lucio from a while back and finally played a few games. Running while shooting is so different.

Still want to try Probius sometime today while he (she? it?) is free.

Got new skin drops for both Valla and Sylvanas, two of my favorites, so had a few games with them as well.

Yea, I play still. I am generally on during the day. I like to play the draft modes mostly because I like to at least have an attempt to balance the team out or try some crazier team comps out.

I'm still playing, slowly accumulating heroes, I think I have almost all the Supports now. However, I'm not playing anything more than comp stomps.

Natus wrote:

I'm still playing, slowly accumulating heroes, I think I have almost all the Supports now. However, I'm not playing anything more than comp stomps.

That's still my preferred way to play. Can try new heroes or ones I'm rusty with and just avoid all the drama that comes with pvp.

I’d say about 90% of the community doesn’t bother me. But there’s generally one person every 4 or so games that will be that guy. The problem is they start issues with everyone else and some people get roped into it. I just mute everyone involved and enjoy my time.

If I ever saw calls of 'noob team' in chat, I would reply "aw man, sorry your mmr was so bad you had to get grouped with us".

I know, I know, I should probably just be quiet, but as soon as I saw someone else use that line it was always my go to retort.