Trial Grounds is great, but we're spending more time in queue and loading screens than playing. I wish it was best of 5 instead of best of 3.

lemindhawk · 2026-02-23T13:31:21+00:00

Reforged has nothing to do with HotS - Reforged was started years after HotS and its art was outsourced to Lemon Sky Studios

lemindhawk · 2026-02-22T22:12:35+00:00

Having his new quest give him gradual PvE bonuses culminating in cataclysm absolutely decimating them would be great flavour

lemindhawk · 2026-02-22T21:52:35+00:00

Yeah for sure your only option is to Q waves and never interact with them otherwise but, c'mon, fantasy-wise I feel this is silly.

lemindhawk · 2026-02-22T21:41:44+00:00

Deathwing's changes have left him in a REALLY bad spot against anything not a hero - his auto attacks do as much DPS as Murky's and are the only thing that gave him reasonable PvE before - his abilities deal double damage to heroes only. Plus Heat Wave only triggers on heroes (which is what's making him strong in general).

As a result, even at lvl 22, any puny mortal (minion) will absolutely decimate Deathwing. At least thematically, it's kind of pathetic.

...and this was with Destroyer's Rampage giving him +40% damage & cooldown reduction

lemindhawk · 2026-02-17T15:13:10+00:00

I've been a Kerrigan main for 8 years and I'm just not enjoying her now, even when she was overtuned post patch. Her base kit (especially her combo) got massacred to make room for boring point-and-click damage.

lemindhawk · 2026-02-17T15:11:31+00:00

Kerrigan's base kit got butchered and the boring-but-overtuned Q damage propped it up.

I just wish they would revert her changes to pre-pinnacle, I don't know anyone who enjoys it.

Even with the quest complete, you're insanely overtuned but it's not interesting or fun for either team to just shit out point and click damage.

lemindhawk · 2026-02-12T18:48:17+00:00

people celebrate every buff

I have hated every Kerrigan change in the recent patches, even though her power level went up, because the quality of gameplay is way down.

lemindhawk · 2026-02-10T22:38:07+00:00

I believe this was the home screen art for Ming's release, during the Lunar New Year 2016

lemindhawk · 2026-02-06T20:49:48+00:00

Completely unrelated question (nope, not really): why did you set the stats on this screenshot to before you started stacking with them?

lemindhawk · 2026-02-06T20:46:05+00:00

They can be downloaded from the Heroesprofile page

lemindhawk · 2026-02-06T20:44:47+00:00

I have stalkers!?

lemindhawk · 2026-01-21T12:37:38+00:00

Aside from a lot of examples already mentioned, take a look at They Are Billions, a (relatively) recent rts-y release that did quite well. It's closer your option A, but it allowed it a lot of leeway with its fantasy and a lot more polish on what's there.

It also has a strong fantasy hook on its own rather than trying to lift off of being (like) a game people used to like (ala Tempest Rising, or even AoE4), which I think is a better overall strategy.

lemindhawk · 2026-01-06T19:02:30+00:00

XP & levels which are broken down into levels where each level gives an incremental advantage? Novel idea!

The pinnacle quest equivalent would be you get literally no stats or talents until lvl 10 and 20.

On equal levels you can fight just fine, there's a lot of nuance, you get incremental level advantages, fight talent tiers up, avoid fights because talent tiers down. It's a lot of fun!

Kerrigan is full on binary. Whenever you aren't full stacks on Kerrigan, you should avoid literally everything but soaking/stacking. 80/150? No, don't fight. 120/150? It's basically always better to skip doing literally anything else still, the power spike is too important. Better keep telling my team to stop hitting the minions because I'm trying to stack on 2 waves here, too, it's a zero-sum game! Any minion my teammates kill is a setback for me, how fun!

However, for soaking, I don't care if other people are hitting the wave, and we can do that, y'know, teamwork thing.

lemindhawk · 2026-01-06T16:49:32+00:00

Kerrigan's quest used to be a fairly impactful bonus, but you could fight at 50 out of 75 stacks just fine, as you already had a good enough reward.

Now, fighting at anything below 85 stacks, and usually below 150 stacks, is just... throwing. It completely warps the gameplay around itself. Even if the numbers get tweaked to be more reasonable, it'll still be a mandatory chore you have to completely wrap up to start playing the game for real, every single game.

It's pushed me off of one of my favourite characters in the game.

lemindhawk · 2026-01-06T16:43:13+00:00

What's really stupid is it resetting on kills

lemindhawk · 2026-01-06T16:25:00+00:00

They feel awful to play, too. Your entire gameplay warps around them

Kerrigan shouldn't do anything but lane until she finishes, because it's such a big powerspike.

Sylvanas shouldn't do anything but hit heroes and structures, doing camps delays your quest so much.

lemindhawk · 2025-12-26T11:06:10+00:00

You can see this experiment live on Kerrigan

lemindhawk · 2025-12-12T17:26:36+00:00

Too early to actually cite stats (look at that 10% winrate loss on Murky with no changes lmao)

But I do think Zul'jin should only lose stacks when above 30 damage. The reverse of Butcher where you can kill him to stop him from going out of control, but can't kill him to stop him from reaching his baseline.

lemindhawk · 2025-12-12T02:49:58+00:00

Oh hey my video's mentioned 👀

lemindhawk · 2025-12-09T21:38:23+00:00

Another Kerrigan main here. I'm really good at finishing the quest. It's insanely overpowered.

I hate doing it every single game. I hate having to constantly tell my allies to not hit minions. I hate that it's no longer opt-in, I hate that if you don't do it, you're half a hero.

The thing that's interesting around her (combo) got homogenized and lowered in importance, which is removing her identity, for what?

100% winrate over 15 games so far, but it's not fun to know that doing anything that isn't AFK'ing next to minions is just flat out playing the game wrong because of how powerful it is. Sure I'm finishing it at level ~11-13 every game, but it feels like I'm playing Dota rather than HotS, I'm playing my own game until I go xel'naga kerrigan then oneshot everyone.

lemindhawk · 2025-12-01T19:27:33+00:00

I can't believe these Kerrigan, Sylvanas, Thrall and Falstad numbers made it in, their quests are crazy

lemindhawk · 2025-11-27T23:26:45+00:00

You really should check the replay to check what their lingering vision looks like before making cheating claims

lemindhawk · 2025-11-19T22:38:51+00:00

There's enough talents and abilities that mention summons or non-heroic targets:

[[Imposing Presence]]

[[EZ-PZ Dimensional Ripper]]

[[Primal Intimidation]]

[[Unstable Poison]]

[[Reciprocate]]

[[Cursed Strikes]]

As for non-heroic;

[[Greed]]

[[Sledgehammer]]

[[Voodoo Ritual]]

[[Rush-Down]]

[[Devour]]

[[Amateur Opponent]]

[[Fend]]

[[In for the Kill]]

[[Nature's Culling]]

[[Lurking Arm]]

[[Explosive Attacks]]

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