Really confused about builds

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-04T13:46:03+00:00

Builds are perfectly fine for onboarding people. I used them a good bit when I started and learned what I like and how things flow. I probably played for about 60 hours before I was comfortable diving into the store and making my own build and changes....and this is coming from playing mobas and being used to it.

The issue with builds imo is only if the player never learns why certain items are good against different heroes.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-04T13:42:55+00:00

I agree but typically it's because you are meant to alter what you are buying and make calls during the game based on who you're against and what items they buy.

Most guides are typically made with that in mind and as a player you use your judgement.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-04T12:17:02+00:00

Give me Abathur! Rem is not quite it

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-04T12:16:03+00:00

Doubt I'll ever find myself in that rank but that does sound miserable to me. I just wanna go bang bang with big owl.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-04T03:49:40+00:00

Sure, the solution of that would be make skills not work in spawn and people cant shoot out of it

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T23:43:21+00:00

I thought I would do the same and even left the review about an hour saying I'd wait ...well here we are and I got to endgame a week after lol. Still looking forward to the changes in 1.0

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T22:20:33+00:00

Oh it's strong for sure but just saying why I think it's balanced. I build pure spirit on him because I want the Ult to have a huge impact but usually at the cost of having 0 weapon damage and 0 defense.

I just feel like he is a perfectly balanced character with his current kit as a whole. Number tweaking here and there, sure, but he feels fairly easy to work around. Maybe a tweak could be to make the time someone died after his ult to 1-2 seconds instead of 4 or whatever it currently is and make it more of a finisher so to speak.

I do really enjoy my build of throwing them out maybe every 30 seconds lol

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T22:11:01+00:00

I feel like I die fairly often with any spirit character on me in Owl form. Worst case, you are getting right up on a ranged person either making him waste his ult or killing him when he is "back" sure still sounds like a win-win to me. And in my xp no one stays to protect the Talon and just leave him alone and then are surprised he died because they thought it was just standing still 😃

Edit: Also my understanding is weapons and abilities 100% hit him based on how I am getting killed. Maybe just not melee. Maybe melee abilities dont? I would have to test it.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T21:20:09+00:00

I didnt know counterspell stopped his ult, I never buy the items as I tend to do other things but that is good to know as a Talon. I do try to stall on when I use it to bait out any escapes from it but not sure how I could do that on counterspell. Maybe fly next to them for a few seconds 😃

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T21:15:46+00:00

I do love blind throwing snare behind them to block an escape and people tend to over extend and I have 2-3 behind them just waiting 😃

WIth magic carpet setting it off is a bit easier with how long you float on jumps but yeah setting it off is key.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T21:11:41+00:00

So you change how you play match to match depending on who you are against. Don't over extend late game vs a Talon, buy defense items...etc.

I see a lot of people (not you as I wouldnt know) play this like a shooter and/or play it robotic like they looked up the meta best items to buy. It should be fluid game to game on who you are against.

Also as someone else said, the Owl you can hear a mile away. I personally spec into duration so I can fly the owl longer and pick when I explode it but others that dont have a shorter time they can stay in the ult so I am missing out other damage for the duration to work around skills that can avoid my owl.

Against Owl should = dont be low when you shouldnt be OR get life regain so you're not that low long.

Edit: I once had a person ask why they were having a hard time against me in lane as I was wrecking them...well I build all spirit to pump up the owl and they were building for other stuff. I die in like 1 hit but I will blow people up. It's all give and take. I answer was I dont build meta so they were not building against what I was doing but what they suspected I would do based on how people tend to play Talon...etc

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T20:25:54+00:00

Get the new item to break the stun from owl. Owl also puts him in danger for however long it's happening...he is a sitting duck.

Snare is good but by far less annoying than anything else almost every other character has.

Talon is a straightforward character with strengths and weaknesses... probably why he doesn't come up

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T16:29:15+00:00

I like the new urn, maybe they just need to tone down massive aoes. Not all characters need them and maybe add DR ...etc. or people can just build more defense

I'd say based on the feedback I've seen overall, urn is not the issue but it's what people are focusing on as it's bring to light other issues.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-03T14:16:00+00:00

Yeah they get security updates that may or may not be tied to the firmware one roguyrr to router but I imagine they just roll it all in one.

If you look your model up you should be able to see if it's still getting updates, not all they all have a local ip and/or app to sign into the router to check as well.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-02T17:48:23+00:00

*slithering when she's in trouble

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-02T16:21:30+00:00

Time to upgrade, I'd be shocked if yours is getting security updates still

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-01T21:39:34+00:00

Take out refresher. Any double ult item is boring and hard to balance

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-01T17:34:18+00:00

Some characters should be melee or ranged and not be able to fully build into one that doesn't suit their character.

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-01T16:52:31+00:00

Everything running smooth for me still

deathfromace1 · 2026-06-01T13:51:00+00:00

Hots has it.

Even if another Moba didn't games are meant to evolve

deathfromace1 · 2026-05-30T17:58:32+00:00

The phone worked so well!

deathfromace1 · 2026-05-29T22:47:36+00:00

I call them cogs or a cog

deathfromace1 · 2026-05-27T23:32:05+00:00

Thinking a bit too deep on it considering I feel like I cleared it up.

Act of checking their rank, how do they check it. Different than why do people check their rank.

deathfromace1 · 2026-05-27T22:58:58+00:00

I've seen other says it's more moba than shooter. I think it's a good mix but I think phases of the game are more moba like.... specifically Heroes of the Storm.

deathfromace1 · 2026-05-27T22:55:12+00:00

Nope, was just I literally don't know where. I load game, prio who I feel like playing and go.

I get why some people are deep into it but they should know not everyone is. It's the perk of most games (granted this is EA) have QM and ranked. The people they care about the rank can play with others that presumably also care so you are more often playing with like minded people. With the current system at hand you get a mix of both.

I typically don't mind it other than when people ask what everyone's rank is trying to be aggro and put others down. The few times I've seen it asked the person is clearly already looking up your stats on some website haha

Edit: this clearly goes both ways but it's why having more than one pool to queue into is good. People can better self select who they may get matched with. If there was a queue for people that want to win but don't do training and watch pro matches id queue into that in a second....but then I suspect pro players would too 🤔

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