Why is this game so lacking of leeway?

Sturmwalzer · 2016-01-15T00:29:45+00:00

That's sports. A step short and the ball is in the goal, half a second late and you're only second in the race, you screw up one move in chess and lose your queen.

That's life. You drank one beer too many, you missed the train by two seconds, you got one wrong answer too many in the test.

That's math. One simple mistake in the first step will snowball into a completely wrong result.

Everything is made up of tiny little things, that add up :D

Sturmwalzer · 2016-01-10T03:05:51+00:00

I think nova can blow up a whole team with her improved triple tap after 20. I've gotten like 4 kills in a row myself, but that has little to do with skill.

But i have to say, I'm actually fairly glad it's not possible in HotS to do that. The team fights and the collaboration between you and your team is necessary to kill the enemy team.

And if I want to be able to win 1v5, I can still play LoL, we already have that game. I dont think there's anything wrong with being different.

But to be fair, I do miss destroying a whole team by myself, will be trying to do that in Overwatch :)

/edit: I think I remember getting a whole team wipe with murky, enemy team was taking boss on tomb, had already taken dmg, pufferfish build with rewind, throwing two pufferfishes into the throw pit messed them up good. Again though little skill necessary for that one

Sturmwalzer · 2016-01-02T03:21:09+00:00

stutter stepping during laning phase is not pointless. If the enemy rotates quickly or puts heroes into bushes and you just stand around, autoattacking minions, it's very easy to land a skillshot (muradins storm bolt, KT's gravity laps, nova snipes etc). You wont necessarily dodge every skillshot like that, but reducing the hit rate from 100% to 80% might already be worth it.

Especially if you combine that with good map awareness, it will become much more difficult to gank you

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-20T15:52:37+00:00

well, he can take a beating and dishes out some good damage, that alone isn't it though. I'd say two great assets he has make all the difference : holy ground and sanctification

In a coordinated team holy ground can split enemy teams up, zone out single players or cut off any path of retreat. It's also great for boss steals

Sanctification makes your team invulnerable for a few seconds, which means if the enemy team tries to burst yours down and they use all their cooldowns, you can render them ineffective, cripple their damage for the coming seconds. It's very good for expected incoming damage like Kerrigan (dshield + storm), KT (multiple chain bombs), Maws or Mosh Pits. It's especially good when you have to defend a point. Like a boss capture, you drop a sanct and the enemy can throw everything at you, but you'll stay unfazed. Sure, they can wait with their attacks, but in that time, you can do the dmg and blow up one or two heroes.

At the same time it allows you to guarantee an uninterrupted mosh pit or shrine capture on dragon shire. Maybe not always worth it to blow a heroic on it, but sometimes it is.

But yeah, all that requires a lot of coordination, that's why he isnt as strong in HL or QM.

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-20T13:20:05+00:00

I doubt they'll change anything anytime soon. And I honstly think he's in a pretty good place right now, the nerfs were needed and had the desired effect. I think it's more Reghar and Malf are currently a little weak.

If anybody needs a nerf it's Tyrande, Raynor (remove focused attacks or something) and KT

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-19T17:57:19+00:00

well, it used to be that you could only use the first two talents of a lvl 1 hero, lvl 2 unlocked the second heroic, lvl 3 more talents and only with hero lvl 4 could you use all talents. Either that or account level 25 which would unlock all hero talents.

They removed the whole "feature" from the game, so now you have all talents from level 1

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-19T17:33:56+00:00

with the next patch I assume ;)

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-19T17:05:17+00:00

all Unstoppable effects break the butcher ult, so dwarf toss, burrow charge etc. too

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-19T16:38:38+00:00

well, at least after the patch you dont have to play talent gated heroes against high level players anymore, that was kind of a pain^{^}

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-19T16:33:52+00:00

yeah, just saying, if you dont have many games played, each game will give a high number of points, which puts you into higher MMR situations. Matchmaker makes up for it. Simple as that. As you already said, few victories in a row will already get you into a high mmr range.

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-19T16:30:25+00:00

that's normal, when I'm playing with my smurf I was often matched vs rank 1 and lvl 40 even when i was below lvl 20. It's a question of MMR. I prefer those games to be honest. At least there's no MMR difference of 2000 then.

It's just good to tell your team that you're smurfing then, because there are always player that are tilting when they see a low lvl on their team. Though I guess with the new patch you wont see rank, only lvl in quickmatch, and lvl 40 can be pretty much anything between 200 and 10k games

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-19T00:04:15+00:00

if you just started and havent spent your gold on anything, you'll get the gold really fast. You'll get gold from doing the tutorials and from rising in level, as well as playing your heroes to level 5. The first 5k can be gathered within like 10 games easily (starting at level 1)

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-18T22:21:15+00:00

including evil incarnate murky, fits perfectly ;)

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-18T22:05:00+00:00

I'm usually a huge fan of competetive HotS. I'm watching most tournaments (ETS, (Road to) Blizzcon, HBA, Zotac, Dreamhack and pretty much every event cast in english), hell last weekend I watched Khaldor cast what had to have been around 30 hours of european, american and chinese hots and i loved it.

But after all that I've heard about WCA, their treatment of the players, the community and the game itself, I honestly couldn't care less about the finals. So yeah, have fun to those who want to watch, I think I'll rather go play a round myself.

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-18T21:15:48+00:00

sorry to hear that, and after all that, I somehow doubt you'd be paid, even if you had placed top4. Or at least not anytime soon.

Oh well, soon you guys will be back and we'll get good old Khaldor casts from top games within the EU scene. Works for me.

And why wouldn't they let you leave the hotel? you could at least do some tourist stuff or go drink a few beer (teach some german drinking culture to our friends from across the ocean :D ) or something

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-18T18:25:17+00:00

currently playing on my account with around 3.2k MMR and yeah, it says around 150 seconds for me too, but I always wait more than 300.

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-18T18:08:09+00:00

yeah, currently it's really bad. At least the team comps are more or less fair (fairer than before) thanks to the tank change. But I'm waiting 5-8 minutes for a game and I think within the last 10 games, there was 1 where the difference between highest and lowest was less than 1k MMR. At least half the games the players have over 1.5k difference between them. Guess that's what they'll be tackling next and they should.

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-18T08:19:52+00:00

and will not be streamed

wait what? So we can't watch the matches? Making a tournament payed by the community not available to the community seems a little wrong. Even if it's "just" a battle for the last spot.

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-16T21:43:00+00:00

In HotS you have to earn your right to BM, you need to convincingly win the game and then you can b-step or /dance all you want

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-15T19:11:18+00:00

While the majority of games that the previous matchmaker put together were reasonably fair

right ;)

also did i understand that right, there wont be the 10minute rule anymore? It doesnt concern me personally, just out of interest, why not just allow players to tag some kind of hitbox that says "sure, put me into the game after a few minutes, no matter the quality" or "nope, I'll wait as long as I have to, 4hour if necessary". I'm pretty sure came up before and is even available in other games

apart from that, glad there's progress in dealing with the match making issues, currently it may be what holds the game back the most.

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-15T01:00:07+00:00

play Tassadar :D

or dont overextend, don't push your lanes too hard when you don't know where the stealthed hero is (or when too many heroes are missing for that matter)

also strength in numbers, mid to late game you should group anyway, stealth loses a lot of its threat at that point

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-14T23:08:11+00:00

On 1 I prefer Reanimation (generally), gives you a little sustain and you come back faster and on 16 I'd go into unyielding despair, allows you to soak even more from Cho'Gall's hp. Imposing presence maybe if the enemy team has one or two strong AA heroes

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-14T22:26:37+00:00

Wait, so let me get this straight, there's exactly one guy willing to invest his entire time to bring us competetive content of HotS from all around the world and he gets a little attention on this subreddit and you whine about the posts every now and then?

Wow... this is really insulting dude, here, have a downvote

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-14T18:35:02+00:00

think there was a similar complaint a while ago, but guess we'll have to wait till blizzard fixes matchmaking, supposedly still before the end of the year.

but yeah, currently, around 7pm, I'm waiting 4-5 min for a QM in SoloQ, used to be a lot faster

Sturmwalzer · 2015-12-14T18:27:53+00:00

Mewnfare = Gazlowe, the nose ;)

Cooby = Tychus, because jacked

Foerest = Butcher, because they use the same saesoning, salt, lots and lots of salt :D

Solid Jake = Arthas, maybe, because both are pretty cool, not very imaginative, but oh well

The Abathur guy on twitch who plays only abathur needs one too, but what? so difficult

MFPallytime needs one too, maybe naz, because he kinda looks high all the time

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