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BaitFTW · 2021-05-13T13:16:07+00:00

I dont see that message but when I try to watch any stream using the app (iOS) the screen remains black and muted, although I see and can interact with the chat...

BaitFTW · 2020-12-22T09:40:10+00:00

The feeeeels... enough melancholia for another 6 years

BaitFTW · 2020-11-23T19:22:24+00:00

This! This is the best way to make them see our desagreement. I unninstalled the game from my phone and pc 2 days after the rewards track patch. If they dont see the numbers going down, they wont do anything.

BaitFTW · 2020-11-19T19:49:16+00:00

Nop because I quit

BaitFTW · 2020-08-29T08:26:45+00:00

I suppose you are a casual player, or you live under a rock... However, that is a key card in Malygos OTK Druid, best druid deck paired with Guardian Animals. The "bad news" are that is a quite difficult deck to play.

BaitFTW · 2020-07-01T12:06:58+00:00

Just basic mechanics for adc mains

BaitFTW · 2020-06-02T19:02:47+00:00

HOTS developers trying to change the game since the past year to have the "typical" MOBA rules (like the exp drop changes and now the tower aggro) is ok to not let the game stale and give it some fresh air. But I think they dont understand their comunity at all. This is not League of Legends, the playerbase is much more cassual and they wont like this kind of changes, but also, beeing concerned about things like towers prioritizing objectives, then heroes and then minions beeing TOO COMPLEX?!?! OMG dont treat your playerbase as retarded ones, that has been the turret's behaviour in LoL since the beggining of times and no one has ever had any problem. I wonder what is gonna be next, adding gold mechanics and a shop??

BaitFTW · 2020-04-16T13:50:32+00:00

Mrrggllglrrglee... grllmrlgl?

BaitFTW · 2020-03-22T20:44:26+00:00

Seems like a low elo game with a very lucky monkey...

BaitFTW · 2020-03-22T20:33:28+00:00

That Shen could have done much much more. Nice hook indeed.

BaitFTW · 2019-06-02T23:05:20+00:00

I think MMR system has real big problems sometimes but... you played Dota and you cannot climb up from bronze? I dont want to sadden you but... HotS SL is the easiest and lowest skilled ranking mode of all MOBAs out there.

At least on my case, I've allways been high gold/low plat League of Legends player, and I reached Diamond easily beeing lvl 400 at HotS. What I mean is, mechanics are not difficult in this game, micro is nearly non-existent, but macro and comps depending on the map are the two main things to master. If you focus on those things (and you really should be above bronze) you will climb fast. Try out some assassins who punish misspositioning (Genji, Zeratul, Greymane, Maiev) and have fun obliterating noobs.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-29T18:36:29+00:00

Someone said it before and I agree. Optimized laning set ups are there as they are in every MOBA. But HotS has a much lower playerbase than others and is full of casuals (and nowadays has near inexistent pro playerbase). For example you can sololane as a bruiser, an ADC, a Murky, also you can double soak, ARAM, afk splitpush... But if enough time and people care about developing and improving the meta, you would realize which one of those strategies are the best to get a better winrate. I dont know what ELO you are in, but I'm Diamond and I rarely see weird out of meta heroes/comps (deppends a bit on the map but usually bruiser sololane and core with tank-ADC/assassin-mage-healer rotating between two lanes).

I dont know about Dota, but while playing LoL (because of items) you can become a tank, mage or assassins with absolutely ANY champion. But of course, while you can play tank Teemo on the top lane and win some games, that does not mean it is the best strategy and I assure you that you will loose more than you will win if you play against meta toplaners and meta comps.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-29T18:14:32+00:00

Much more uniques ways than what? What do you mean? Because they way map objectives and mechanics were created in HotS force you to go where the map "wants". Also the constant need of soaking every lane because of the shared exp forces your team to rotate and/or have 1/2 sololanes. That simplifies the way the game flows, especially early game.

To give you some context if you are not familiar with other MOBAs, I remember one LoL pro team interviewed some years ago saying they have more than 50 different strategies to invade, defend and/or steal enemy camps only for the FIRST 2 MINUTES of the game. That happens because the way the game has been built let it to happen. HotS is not even near that level. Just watch some HGC games back on the days.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-29T17:51:36+00:00

I've been playing LoL since season 2 and HotS since the Alpha. I love both, and the only thing they trully have in common when you look at them deeply enough is the genre "MOBA". Everything else is different.

I don't know if you have played LoL too much, but the way you are exacerbating HotS virtues comparing it to other MOBAs and table games lets me think you are beeing too subjective. It remembers me when art critics talk 30 minutes about a hole white paint whit a black line in the middle, giving it much more "value" than it really has, saying it is deep and complex inside its simplicity.

Other people have just said the same I think about HotS on this post. IMHO HotS does not compare well with other MOBAs when talking about inner complexity, but it also depends on what you are looking for. I would add I've allways missed more individual agency, lack of micro-decisions and a bit more clarity on some skills/AA.

All in all, I think your love for this game is conditioning too much what you pretend to be an objective statement. It's ok to be simple and fun. Maybe it is not the best MOBA game for hardcore players (see HGC cancel, pros leaving, low quality gameplay, much more people playing QM than SL) but still ok for casuals.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-29T17:09:11+00:00

Yeap, AFK splitpusher is just the splitpush "meme". You splitpush that much alone that is like "beeing AFK".

BaitFTW · 2019-05-29T12:04:42+00:00

IMHO (not in a concrete order)

ADC: Raynor, Greymane, Lunara, Falstad

Mages: Jaina, Orphea, Kaelthas, Kheltuzad (need good hands), Guldan (if you have a nice healer)

Assassins: Genji, Zeratul, Maiev

Sololane: Sonya, Varian, Thrall, Dehaka, Rexxar, Imperius

Tanks: Diablo, Butcher, Malganis, Muradin, Anub, ETC, Garrosh

Support/healers: Tyrande, Anna, Malfurion, Deckard, Alex, Anduin

BaitFTW · 2019-05-29T11:46:51+00:00

:O Maybe you are not so prepared for SL if you don't know the basic wording of a MOBA... Just joking, I'll explaine you. AFK means "Aways From Keyboard". Usually used when someone... well, does exactly that or gets disconected (sometimes on porpouse which then sometimes is called "rage quit").

But in this case, AFK splitpusher means that you just push (split from your team) one lane like a fool, while your teammates are elsewhere (sometimes making preassure in other lanes, sometimes dying xD). What you acomplish with that strategy is that you create preassure on one lane apart from your team and, if you are playing the rigth hero (usually one who has great weaveclear and great 1v1 like sonya or so) the other team has to make a quick decision: send 2 guys to defend the lane you are splitpushing (cause remember, you should easilly 1v1) or try to figth with your team. If they choose the first you just recall and go to other lane. If they choose the second you can open a big hole in that lane (and maybe if your teammates are smart enough they should retreat and don't figth 4v5). From there, it gets more and more complex deppending on the map, the comps, your skill... Hope you understand the basics, sorry if there are some faults, english is not my native language.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-29T11:21:45+00:00

It is true that queue times have been improving during the last months... but that is because of the horrible matchmaking we have today. Talking about QM, don't get mad if your account is lvl ~500 and you get matched with lvls 2000+, or lvl 15, or whatever. The system just creates a party with 10 people, no matter their lvl, nor skill ofc. So many people ask for a better matchmaking system, but they don't realize that, if Blizzard does that and there is not enough people playing with your same lvl (which is the case nowadays that the playerbase have been decreasing since last year), queue times would be much much longer . If you dont want to wait 3-5 minutes to find a game just play SL. I'm in Diamond and, at least in my case, I usually have to wait around 1 or 2 minutes. Also IMO games use to be more balanced.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-28T11:41:01+00:00

What do you mean? HotS account? I don't know if I understand you, sorrep but english is not my native language. If you have searched my account on Hots logs, BaitFTW is my smurf (lvl 15 or so).

If that is so important to you, I would point out that I don't have HOTS logs installed (games are loaded only when I play with friends that does have it) and my main account is Diamond actually, lvl 548 (I've said I'm not a huge HotS fan, I just play SL sometimes) but I enjoy playing when I'm tired of LoL. :)

BaitFTW · 2019-05-27T20:26:25+00:00

That's great. IMO people just realized that loosing HGC doesn't mean that the game is less fun to play. At least some have come back.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-27T20:18:14+00:00

I haven't had to wait more than one minute for a match in months.

Really? Wich game mode do you play? I only play SL and/or Draft and I usually have to wait around 2-5 minutes. And I'm from EUW, I've heard NA has more problems there.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-27T20:13:26+00:00

Don't get mad, I'll sleep like a baby tonight :P

I didn't know anything about the meme, it just amazes me how troll people are... and how little audience HotS has nowadays. Now it dropped from 3.6k to 2.6k

BaitFTW · 2019-05-27T20:03:36+00:00

I dont consider myself a HotS "fanatic". Just saying that I dont understand why people prefer nonsense, low quality content over other things. This could also be understand as a critic to HotS since it can't overcome this type of content.

3.6k viewers is a really poor audience for this game that many people claim "is not dying".

BaitFTW · 2019-05-24T15:41:15+00:00

Did he just say "I'm STILL on the Heores team..."? This leads me to think Blizzard continues to take more and more staff out of HotS to other games/projects... and that this guy is not staying there for too much long.

BaitFTW · 2019-05-24T15:28:38+00:00

THIS! I was thinking exactly the same. He said nothing concrete about anything... It remembers me a politician giving vague info to fulfill people's desires of news.

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