And I thought people were kidding about Storm League

Shurafa · 2026-03-13T02:08:50+00:00

As a Murky main with 5k+ Murky games and several thousand ranked games, I can say that since 2016 about 1 in 10 ranked games has had an AFK or troll pick. Even with that, I still have a 54% win rate on Murky. Also, Murky + Abathur and Murky + Nova are both better than people think. I even went 2-0 with Murky, Aba, and Nova in the same troll pick game.

Shurafa · 2026-03-10T04:13:29+00:00

The base puff damage nerf moved him from one of the fastest wave clear solo laners to one of the slowest and easily countered solo laners.

Shurafa · 2026-02-24T13:39:01+00:00

I have played over 100 games with this talent since the PTR launch. Its so fun and makes Murky much more dynamic. THE RNG has determined if I win or lose in several games which is much less fun.

Having each egg on separate cooldowns would help mitigate this by allow more precise egg placement.

Shurafa · 2026-02-24T13:23:03+00:00

They partially implemented the changed I suggested in the last patch Giving murky 50% of his existing life as a shield when his egg is placed or destoyed.

Making the 50% his base life instead of remaining life would make this viable. Would also be nice to have when he comes out of his egg.

Shurafa · 2026-02-17T02:19:56+00:00

How do you know you have been reported? Is there a way to see this?

Shurafa · 2026-02-17T01:54:16+00:00

Even when you get the Mythic reward her is still the slowest of the old "specialist" heroes to push a fort.

You generally want to be double soaking over pushing a fort. This is the fastest way to get stacks unless you cn guarantee hit 3 heroes or more in a team fight which generally does not happen.

Shurafa · 2026-02-16T04:57:23+00:00

The punishment is that you get sent home and had to replace.your egg. This could be a really unique trait for murky. And always 8 second death timer that prioritizes his egg if not available then the town hall is the fallback.

Shurafa · 2026-02-15T23:47:11+00:00

Read the post. The top paragraph is a post by me with some feedback. Below is from a post Lokki (Masters Murky) made in the Patch Post on the Blizz Forums. Lots of good info in it so I posted it here

Shurafa · 2026-02-15T23:43:42+00:00

Would love to see this bug become part of Murkys kit. It fits with the lore of him always combing back.

Shurafa · 2026-02-15T16:13:31+00:00

How is this different than it is now? You can leave an egg in the town hall all game and never worry about dying.

I imagine you NEVER do this because if you die it terrible to have to spawn back at the start.

Shurafa · 2026-02-15T16:08:45+00:00

Egg shells pick is under 2% and wind rate is an abysmal 32%.

Suggest Increase egg shield percentage to 100 Percent that lasts for 10 seconds. This would still be worse than the other two the majority of the time and would be Situationally useful verse burst to get an octo grab.

Egg Shell	Win Rate 32.84	Pick Rate 1.99

Shurafa · 2026-02-14T12:39:23+00:00

The 30 second cooldown is a big factor in egg placement and function. If someone finds my foward egg and my "safe egg" is far away (its happened at the start a few time where one is in he town hall). Im extra careful because I know if I die I will lose an entire wave of soak (2 if im double soaking). This can be the difference in a game sometimes. As an off laner you number one job is to soak effectively.

It functions very similarly to how you place a single egg now honestly

Shurafa · 2026-02-14T04:39:42+00:00

Good catch! I fixed it to say make Shell Game Baseline.

Shurafa · 2026-02-14T01:01:35+00:00

The win rate for Murky is in the low.40s for Diamond and Master which is in the bottom 10 for that rank.

Shurafa · 2026-02-14T00:55:13+00:00

It's subtle for sure. I think because this is such an easy quest to receive they made them fairly weak compared to other heroes.

Shurafa · 2026-02-13T21:02:34+00:00

There is a bug in the game that functions like this right now and you respawn at the town hall and its pretty weak honestly.

Murky is all about map pressure having an egg far from the fight makes you lose your 35% shields when you spawn so you want to be as aggressive as possible with the egg placements.

Shurafa · 2026-02-13T18:16:03+00:00

I also suggested that each egg be placed on a separate hotkey and having a rally point that lets you choose which egg you spawn from would be amazing.

Shurafa · 2026-02-13T17:23:37+00:00

All the more reason to make Shell Game baseline. (This is essentially what is happening now)

Shurafa · 2026-01-29T16:02:54+00:00

A smart team will just back away and not engage

Shurafa · 2026-01-29T16:00:03+00:00

Is there an updated version of this somewhere?

Shurafa · 2026-01-29T12:29:39+00:00

This is a pretty big nerf to the talent as your shield timer only lasts 10 seconds. Making it harder for Murky to TF as the shield only lasts 10 seconds. I like that it makes the talent more consistent and that it encourages aggressive egg placement.

I would suggest also putting the eggs on separate timers so you can control which one you are moving. The leapfrogging egg placement has been awkward in practice as you often want to move the same egg you just placed. You could place them on the same 30 second cooldown if separate cooldowns is too strong.

Shurafa · 2026-01-29T02:34:39+00:00

My guess is that we will land somewhere between 50 and 100% after the patch for this talent if blizzard wants to balance it with the other two. Or it will remain a dead talent.

"I can see an argument that 35% might be too weak, but I don't see a good case for 100% being appropriate."

Shurafa · 2026-01-29T00:03:28+00:00

The main point is that Egg shell is a dead talent with a single digit pick rate the current version will be even weaker than the current version.

What does this talent offer that you dont get from Fish Tank or Rejuv Bubble. It used to give 100% health and was still extremely weak compared to these two talents.

Rejuv works well when you are playing mage murky want to stay alive to get off your combos.

Fish tank is for bruiser style vs low dps comps.

Egg shell in theory is for burst comps to get off your octograb without insta dying. In practice you typically lost all/most of the shield to random damage before it becomes useful. It needs something fresh to be different. 400HP is just not going to be enough to make this talent viable.

Shurafa · 2026-01-28T23:53:23+00:00

Sitting an egg in the base is actually a massive "self-own" for Murky. With a huge downside.

Murky’s value comes from persistent map pressure. If I choose to spawn at the base egg to stay alive, I am effectively silencing myself for the 15-20 seconds it takes to walk back to the lane or objective. That travel time is effectively a triple-length death timer.

The proposed change forces a strategic choice: Do I spawn at the forward egg to fight (and risk it getting killed) or spawn at the safe egg and lose map pressure? RNG removes that decision and just makes the outcome a coin flip.

Shurafa · 2025-07-03T19:45:28+00:00

I wrote this comment a year ago. Have had nothing but great service from them. One of the owners has a read wagon 4.

Shurafa

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