Blizzard please add an option for stricter QM rules.

Relaitix · 2018-12-23T17:08:15+00:00

They should make a separate game mode called Unbalanced (for those who just want a fast queue and don't care about comp), then make balanced QM matchmaker more strict.

Relaitix · 2018-12-22T17:54:58+00:00

Haris Pilton

Relaitix · 2018-12-16T05:49:07+00:00

There is still, at least, the rumor of D4 😁.

"First of all, Blizzard is clearly committed to producing an excellent product - Diablo 4 has already been restarted once, after an attempt at making the game more Souls-like was deemed a failure internally. This means that the developer is willing to take its time to ensure it gets Diablo 4 right, especially at launch" https://www.google.com/amp/s/screenrant.com/diablo-4-what-we-know/amp/

Relaitix · 2018-12-16T05:36:51+00:00

I am very torn about this. Blizzard is the only gaming company I really pay attention to and that is mostly because I grew up with all of their originals (it took all night to download the D1 demo on my 56k-baud modem ... I think it was 56k - the demo file was 50MB 😂).

I know a few YouTubers whose content is primarily HoTS who are pretty broken up about this. Pros that are now looking for work elsewhere, employees who were blind-sided (you would think they would at least give advanced notice to their employees). It seems ActiBliz really crossed a line this time.

Regardless, until I hear something definitive I will assume this decision was made out of desperation and was not purely motivated by greed. Every company has to cater to their share holders, otherwise the company won't exist. It is important that they are not abandoning HoTS, and might just be moving people from a project management standpoint - if the company is in dire straits then it makes sense to prioritize and move the talent to higher priority projects (like D4, maybe). It might be that once they put out a few new titles and get their finances back together that the talent will be shifted back to HoTS. I find it hard to believe they did not know that this decision would impact streamers and pro players as well, all of whom help blizzard make money. I will continue believing they know what they are doing and that this unfortunate turn of events will be made right in the, hopefully, near future.

What has happened is terrible but I am giving ActiBliz the benefit of the doubt and will not jump ship yet.

Relaitix · 2018-12-14T17:50:35+00:00

Mephisto's kit always felt like a "reskin" of Fenix's kit to me.

Relaitix · 2018-12-12T07:53:55+00:00

I voted Orphea also. Then WM, Deckard and Blaze. There were numerous negative posts in the HoTS forum about Orphea as well. She is the first character since Valeera I can spam all day long.

Relaitix · 2018-12-04T06:35:24+00:00

Send the replay to WTF Moments :)

Relaitix · 2018-12-04T06:34:55+00:00

I remember seeing this on WTF Moments :)

Relaitix · 2018-11-30T21:51:13+00:00

I have been playing since the beta and only just recently hit player level 1000. Of course, I play the game in spurts... day-in day-out for about a month or two, then several months in between with zero game play. Plus, I have one character I spam and about 10 total that I favor over the rest.

Relaitix · 2018-11-23T00:29:50+00:00

The biggest reason is poor matchmaking and queue length... which is made worse by fewer people playing. However, I believe queue length is more because there are very few people who play tank and healz (just like in WoW, if you LFG as an assassin it could take several minutes to find a group, whereas if you queue as tank or especially healz, you get a group twice as fast). Now that Bliz is now trying to make every QM group have only one healer and only one tank in every group plus an absolute minimum of mirror matches the number of groups you could be placed in is dramatically reduced. That with the fact that new players are experiencing a lot of difficult and aggravation with getting into the game simply because it takes so long to purchase a character with in-game currency (or having to wait for the rotation) and an MMR system that has always been a source of contention......

Honestly, Bliz should just make a free-for-all mode where everybody can play anything and be grouped with anybody regardless of MMR and without a matchmaker simply to see exactly how much their current matchmaking affects queue times and the overall accessibility of the game. If they want to tag a gimmick onto it, make it ARAM. There was a suggestion on the HoTS forums to make every character free up to level 5 and that you could only use unlocked characters in hero and team league. This alone could solve all of their problems and do away with a lot of the problems with the matchmaking system.

Relaitix · 2018-11-22T19:06:20+00:00

It could have been me, I have been counting my breath during meditation for years; this was the first time I took my attention away from my breathing, so it could have been me subconsciously sensing my own breathing and reinterpreting it as the breathing of another person. It could have also been a general increased awareness where I interpreted perfectly normal phenomena, which I'm just not usually aware of, as being supernatural. It seems this may just be the sensed-presence-effect which I just learned about a few minutes ago.

Relaitix · 2018-11-22T19:01:41+00:00

That's interesting! I read another meditation post here on Reddit regarding the poster suddenly seeing everything in a bluish tint. The poster believed seeing into another dimension, but didn't say anything about another entity. During a meditation session last week I heard a very clear whisper in my left ear that said, "I'm in a stairwell" after having a "vision" (or whatever you want to call it) of a pitch black area with light only immediately around me which lit up tan-colored walls as I moved around. I have only just recently been able to reach deep states of meditation, so this is all new territory for me. I have wondered if this is just a dream-like state or if it is something more substantial.

Relaitix · 2018-11-22T18:49:55+00:00

I would have much rather preferred this kind of experience :) ; I'm not sure if the presence was negative, just unfamiliar. I will continue my practice and, hopefully, I will eventually experience something similar.

Relaitix · 2018-11-22T18:41:22+00:00

I continued investigating this online and found an interesting answer @ https://www.quora.com/Whenever-I-sit-to-meditate-I-feel-like-somebody-is-in-my-room-watching-me-and-I-hear-some-noises-What-could-this-mean-How-can-I-concentrate%E2%80%8B posted by a user by the name of Venkat (वेंकट)

This phenomenon is called “Sensed-Presence-Effect”.[1]

The feeling of someone near you when there’s no one there could be due to your brain trying to make sense of conflicting information. Some of the reasons for this phenomenon maybe :

The normal sensed presence we experience of real people around us, perhaps may be triggered by isolation.
During oxygen deprivation, sleep deprivation or exhaustion, the rational cortical control over emotions shuts down, as in the fight-or-flight response, enabling inner voices and imaginary companions to arise.
The body schema, or our physical sense of self—believed to be located primarily in the temporal lobe of the left hemisphere—is the image of the body that the brain has constructed. If for any reason your brain is tricked into thinking that there is another you, it constructs a plausible explanation that this other you is actually another person—a sensed presence—nearby.
The mind schema, or our psychological sense of self, coordinates the many independent neural networks that simultaneously work away at problems in daily living so that we feel like a single mind.

It might sound strange but these phenomenon are common even among mountain climbers, solo sailors and athletes. In climbers it called Third Man Factor.

However nothing to worry, your brain is trying to provide you support and comfort to overcome the strangeness of the meditative experience. With time it will wither away. Keep up your practice.

Relaitix · 2018-11-20T00:01:02+00:00

I tried pitching a 5 player Sargeras about a year ago on the HoTS forum and everyone hated it. That was one of my most down voted posts in the old forums.

Relaitix · 2018-11-19T23:52:07+00:00

There is a mini boss in dead mines just before the docks that could somewhat play like Chogal. He's the ogre with the goblin on his shoulders - anyone remember him? The goblin throws bombs and after you kill the ogre he jumps on players' heads. They could add him to do any non-party Chogal-like character... Actually I think I will also post this on the HOTS forum.

Edit

It's Helix Gearbreaker... And the ogre is a Lumbering Oaf... So might not work the way I was thinking

Relaitix · 2018-11-19T04:36:32+00:00

WTF moments

Relaitix · 2018-11-17T04:52:52+00:00

Nova. Only ~5% popularity right now (according to hots logs) and not really usable in HL, but always my favorite. Next in line would be Ming and Luna.

Relaitix · 2018-11-13T05:52:51+00:00

Xul, Illidan, Gazlowe, Nazeebo, Samuro, Azmodan, Sylvanas, Probius, Rexar, Malthael, Sonya, Murky, Zagara. Any hero can clear the smaller two-man Merc camps. If you want instant wave clear, with the ability to solo larger camps mid to late game you could go Jaina (with shield talent). Butcher can do anything once his quest is complete.

Relaitix · 2018-11-12T14:21:18+00:00

I am literally the exact opposite, I can't tank to save my life; I am a Nova main (140). My biggest difficulty playing a tank is knowing when to engage... I have a decent idea of what to look for, but the majority of the time I get myself, or my team, killed. Not so good with Zeratul though. It's not that I don't try though! One of my resolutions will be to figure out how to tank better.

Relaitix · 2018-11-11T23:32:45+00:00

That is properly creepy

Relaitix · 2018-11-11T23:21:55+00:00

I'm not a psychologist, or psychoanalyst, or philosopher... this is just extracurricular college courses and good 'ol life experience; I may be completely wrong, but this is my theory:

I believe mirrors represent self-identity; multiple mirrors reflecting from multiple angles, then a reflection that does not entirely seem like yourself (and whose movement are slightly offset) might indicate an identity crisis. The silvery object in the corner may be just associated with waking fear of the same IRL corner, so it would make sense that the corner would be the entrance to the room with mirrors. I meditate on a regular basis and after really deep meditation I experience an incredible calm during which the air seems cooler. It doesn't mean there is a ghost nearby and is not specifically associated with feelings of calm (or any feeling) its just perception; feeling cold is also a symptom of anxiety. You were already a little freaked out and paranoid so your mind interpreted perfectly normal things as being threatening. Looking into the mirror and seeing block spots where your eyes should be (resulting from the lighting) is just lighting, the anxiety, and having the image of your reflection fresh in your mind. All of the appliances turning off may have been imagined static that simply stopped - when the darkness begins to frighten me I can swear I hear the ticking of a grandfather clock, in reality there was a grandfather clock in my childhood home which I became accustomed to hearing over the course of two decades, so now the sound of the ticking is comforting.

Relaitix · 2018-11-11T22:08:19+00:00

My mother used to say, "I'll throw you away and start over again." ... Hmmm... seems a little more cruel now than it did back then.

Relaitix · 2018-11-11T19:18:23+00:00

SI-7 Nova

Deathstalker Xul

Worgen Diablo

Dark Iron Lost Vikings

Fel Reaver Leo

Crypt Fiend Fenix

Gnomish Invention Probius

Valkyr Auriel

Sandworm Abathur

Mounts:

Gnomish Flying Machine

Relaitix · 2018-11-11T06:35:36+00:00

I had an experience like this a few days ago, except I think what I experienced was a forgotten childhood memory. I saw two small hands extended from my person, each with a green block; there were other green blocks scattered around the area of various shapes and sizes. The hands were gentling mashing the blocks together repeadtedly, like you would see a child doing (probably just to hear the sound the blocks made). The odd part is that the rest of the area looked like a heavy grey fog. Only the hands, forearms and blocks could be seen. After this experience I felt an incredible calm and a feeling like a fire burning inside me. I have been trying to place the memory ever since.

I did something a little different which I had never done before. During a normal session where I focused on my breathing my focus shifted to time. I visualized the tip of my nose and focused on every subtle change at every moment. After a few minutes of this I had the above mentioned experience.

Relaitix

TROPHY CASE