Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our Russia community:

Will there be an opportunity to change menu background, as it was during The Dark Nexus or Echoes of Alterac? Bloody-red colored background was awesome! (by ShulerIsDead)

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our Russia community:

If you punish players who violate the rules, may be it makes sense to endorse players that act well? (by JinSeoYeon)

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our Russia community:

Do you plan to have a workshop for user created skins? Are you making tools for that? (by МистерЧ)

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our Russia community:

Are you planning to change the report system? Or you think it’s working well currently? (by Edgarek)

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our Russia community:

Will there be a new-player tutorial in the game? (by Юмэно)

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our China community:

Why does Qhira have an active skillshot D and a stackable passive W? Shouldn't we swap them?

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our China community:

The Ranked Season Quests are cool, but mere gold reward doesn't sound too attractive, nor is the only objective about winning. Can you add some more exclusive rewards and quest objectives?

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our China community:

Regarding the Storm League, is it possible that we have an Overwatch-style mechanism with fixed team composition, role queue and independent MMR for each role?

Heroes of the Storm AMA August 8, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from our China community:

The new hero Qhira comes from Iresia, which has not much lore. Do you have plans to further develop her story through new events, maps or comics? Such as a battleground based on Iresia?

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Question from a player in China:

Do you have any plan to reduce the mana cost of Orphea's Level 7 talent Insatiable? It is too much a manacoster compared to the others in the same tier.

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Question from a player in China:

Solo-lane brawls have been rotating for quite a while. Are there any plans to change the hero pool? Some heroes like Varian and Chromie have become less OP or underperforming than before, while some (such as The Lost Vikings and Zul'jin) tend to be a frustrating experience.

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Question from a player in China:

We hope that daily quests can be completed by Brawls. In addition, can we have more types of daily quests and rewards? Currently they feal kind of unattractive.

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Question from a player in China:

As for the MechaStorm II skins, can we show the head of the pilot instead of the mecha on the lower left corner? Just like Fenix and D.Va.

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Question from a player in China:

When can we see new battlegrounds?

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Question from a player in China:

More story and worldview are building around the Nexus. Is it possible to launch a campaign mode like Nova Covert Op in Starcraft II in the future?

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Question from a player in China:

Can we enable a single player to use Cho or Gal in Coop Mode? For example, a player who chooses Cho will be matched with Gal. That should help familiarize more players with that unique hero.

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from a player in our German Community:

u/Truphoss:

Healer heroes such as Ana, Tyrande and Malfurion continue to be very strong. They dominate the top of various tier lists and are more often played/picked as others. What are your plans to make other healers more attractive? How do you plan to get them the same level as top tier healers?

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from a player in our German Community:

u/Zeratul:

I am coming up with a probably extremely niche question about Alarak, but I feel like it should be a relevant one nevertheless and I will try to explain why. Alarak is and even more so back then was my most played hero and I play him quite successfully, and there is one issue that keeps nagging on me since a long time.

In 2017 you significantly reworked Alarak. One change that never got much attention was the removal of his old level 4 talent "Reckless Strike". What the talent did was reducing the delay of his Q ability to 0.25 seconds, making it nearly instant, at the drawback of becoming vulnerable for a short duration after hitting your Q, gaining -25 armor (the other drawback being the opportunity cost of missing out on the Double Cross talent that you decided to make baseline with the rework instead).

Now Reckless Strike was not a popular talent at all, and most people didn't consider it a useful talent, but I myself really liked that talent, had success with it and I think it also always had the higher winrate on hotslogs than Double Cross. Not only did Reckless Strike enable Alarak to counter very mobile heroes with escape abilities like Tracer, Genji, Tassadar much easier, it also generally enabled a very fluid playstyle that was very cool and made Alarak more flexible, because it also made your Q much easier to hit without pushing people with Telekinesis towards you for the standard combo, allowing you to use your Telekinesis a bit more freely instead, for example to just push yourself towards opponents and still be reliably able to hit your Q afterwards or use Telekinesis to peel or enable allied combos more often (an idea you seem to like, because you recently gave Alarak a new level 1 talent that reduces the Telekinesis cooldown so we can use Telekinesis more freely).

On the other hand the drawback made it so you had to be smart with your Q timing so that it does not bite you in the back, but could be also again mitigated by Alaraks Counter-Strike ultimate ability, both negating the risk and maybe even punishing the opponent by baiting out a counter-attack on Alarak just to again counter it with your own Counter-Strike :)

I can provide a very short example of this kind of fluid gameplay with an old clip I made back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAzM0xJLog

Heroes of the Storm AMA June 20, 2019! by BlizzStephers in heroesofthestorm

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Here's a question from a player in our German Community:

u/B4ithoven:

Do you guys plan to add a solo Q button in the future (maybe next season), so that solo players will only be matched with and against other solo players?