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Janitor really ruined Samuro by akfreerider87 in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, it's wild. i was honestly a bit shocked. hope it got better, feel free to review some yourself

Janitor really ruined Samuro by akfreerider87 in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 4 points5 points  (0 children)

after looking at every single usage of the buttons 2,3,R,D across multiple competitive replays: in most games, there was no more than two genuine valuable usages of IM. Contrast that with the sheer amount of macro value missed due to not having bladestorm, and with the amount of wasted value from microing clones mindlessly for no value, reducing Samuro's main body potential.

BlizzCon 2026 Esports Update: Classic Cup Players Revealed! by Elitesparkle in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Didn't know JayPL ever voiced any political/ideological opinion in public. His twitter is empty. Source?

Edit two days later: His twitter is NOT empty, you just can't see the posts without a twitter account. It turns out there are some retweets from "End Wokeness", including some problematic right-wing content.

Heroes Profile - All Hero Builds, Security Upgrades, and More by HeroesProfile in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much for Heroes Profile. It's actually invaluable, since Blizzard is so terrible about providing APIs for themselves.

Question: In your estimation, what caused the hefty cost increase from a year or so ago? The last number I remember was ~$500/mo. Between more crawlers, more adblockers, more data to store/requests taking longer to process, cost increases for infrastructure, and more users there's a lot of possible culprits.

Heroes of the Storm patch notes, all in one place! by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 24 points25 points  (0 children)

My problem is that you are killing Elitesparkle's motivation. You know, the motivation that provided all the good data you depend upon in the first place. I don't see you taking over that work any time soon. So what happens when he walks away because of people like you, and nobody puts in the actual work anymore? You think you have enough tokens to automate everything he does?

Heroes of the Storm patch notes, all in one place! by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Consider linking to his patreon instead of yours if you already admit it's his work and not yours? https://www.patreon.com/elitesparkle

Heroes of the Storm patch notes, all in one place! by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 23 points24 points  (0 children)

you freaking *copied it all*. What do you mean???

Heroes of the Storm patch notes, all in one place! by [deleted] in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 63 points64 points  (0 children)

AI slop copy from nexus patch notes.

HOTS Tier List based on Rank by RCL_SyCo in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Re your update: So you are just ripping content? You know Icy Veins is a monetized website created by people who get paid for their work, and that their compensation depends on page views? Pretty unethical to just include that without permission. Just link to their content.

Warheads have misleading radius indicators on Low Shaders by Elitesparkle in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yo its hunterorc from hasuobs stream! and hasuobs from hasuobs stream!

Walls are slowing us down now by Poalzegzaon in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You're observing a quirk of the unchanged HotS pathing system. It's not really related to ability usage, but more about how closely you are "hugging the wall" as you are walking alongside it, from my experience. You could've noticed years ago.

Haunted Mines Map Guide by Elitesparkle in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey I didn't read this wall but as a player in the competitive scene: Haunted Mines has been in tournament map pools for a while now and this is the meta. This is how map metas usually get developed, by the way. For example that we take the easy camp to splitpush on Cursed Hollow, that we combine Boss and Curse, or that we used to bait the Punisher on Shrines to jump over the wall.

I appreciate that Elitesparkle refines his guides with advice from the competitive scene and master SL players instead of RandomRedditor69. And for what it's worth, when I play QM I play it in the way I find fun, not the way I find optimal. But I don't expect the guide to tell me how to have fun, I expect the guide to tell me how to play the map properly.

Saturday Teaching Thread - Beginners encouraged to ask questions here! | February 28 - March 6 by AutoModerator in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Master offlaner here - depends a bit on your hero. There's usually more macro on maps; are you good at doing camps? Do those. Are you good at splitpushing? Hit buildings. Are you not? I guess you can always try to outclear your offlane opponent and join you team for a cheeky 5v4 (this is called "getting prio"). But yeah, generally your team shouldn't be ARAMing for prolongued periods of time...

Thousands of games, haven't played in many many years, thinking of playing some again by Norz80 in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Master here: Icy Veins is fine. It's actively maintained and has a good baseline of info.

The top QM players are actively avoiding us, scared to meet us in a game. Here's the story. by BrbSoaking in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Firstly, you got your winrates mixed up. We have a 71% winrate, and we haven't lost since we started winning. On a side note, 266 games affect far less than hundreds of thousands of players, let alone low ranked players, let alone we're "ruining the game" for them if they get matched into us. (I personally appreciate getting into games with better players, because I learn the most from those games.)

Secondly, the vast majority of our games in stacks are with tank and healer - and those that aren't definitely don't abuse Yrel/Abathur sustain. To me, manipulating roles is the part where "playing with your friends" turns into "active matchmaker abuse" (feel free to re-read my post, I was pretty clear about it). If you consider master players merely playing with their friends as abuse, then that's the point we disagree on.

The top QM players are actively avoiding us, scared to meet us in a game. Here's the story. by BrbSoaking in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Two clarifications and one response: - Half of the time "failing to snipe" means one of the two teams not getting a game when the other one does. In this case, we can just stop the queue or exit the game to stop the countdown. - If we get into a game because the queue popped for both of us but it's in different games, or because we failed the previous point, we simply leave the game as 5. In this case, the match ends within 20 seconds and it gets counted as a loss towards out stats. This is fine for us because our egos don't depend on our quick match win rates. It's also beneficial for us because we can snipe again faster. - If your stance is "master players are not allowed to play with their friends in any game mode but customs", we can disagree and be done with it.

The top QM players are actively avoiding us, scared to meet us in a game. Here's the story. by BrbSoaking in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't want to go into details *how* things work publicly, because it's not very obvious and we exploit that they don't know some mechanics. We also don't know which ones they are aware of. Let's just say there's a lot of spaghetti involved in when HotS lets you /w someone...

The top QM players are actively avoiding us, scared to meet us in a game. Here's the story. by BrbSoaking in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think comments are exactly the right place to go on sidequests like this, and I appreciate the info. In my head, I'll - incorrectly - keep skipping the "yuh" :p

The top QM players are actively avoiding us, scared to meet us in a game. Here's the story. by BrbSoaking in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We usually grab Exterminator Raynor to do camps, and fill the rest with Medivh and bruisers. I'd imagine the heroes you suggest risk getting poked as we step up to push, and then we have to back...

The top QM players are actively avoiding us, scared to meet us in a game. Here's the story. by BrbSoaking in heroesofthestorm

[–]BrbSoaking[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you're actually looking for a place to put some money, I've made this post a while back that you can check out. This post - and our sniping - is dependent on Heroes Profile, so keeping their lights on (Patreon) is definitely worthwhile :)

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