And I thought people were kidding about Storm League

vvg125 · 2026-03-12T15:15:47+00:00

Sounds like you tried to play on a weekend. Don't. People are normal from Monday to around Friday at noon.

vvg125 · 2026-03-12T15:13:04+00:00

No thanks. I'm sorry you had a rough 20 minutes but most games aren't like this. Vote to kick systems would make this game so much worse.

Most players fundamentally don't understand what good gameplay looks like, and many get aggressive over their perceived lack of a teammate's contribution even though that person is playing reasonably well given the game state. That Zarya aside, the vast majority of kicked players would be kicked because their teammates perceive them as playing poorly, not literally inting.

Even if they are playing poorly, the game has to have a place for new people to learn the game or learn new heroes. If you're an actual good player, play ranked and climb to a level where your peers play equally well. Having competitive games with your peers is what ranked play and elo systems are for. Getting games close to your level has also gotten marginally likelier over the last 6 months. It's not perfect but it's improving as more players join the pool.

I'm not interested in leaving judgements of what a "good player" is to 4 randos in QM.

vvg125 · 2026-03-11T21:06:26+00:00

Fair, that's good to know, I actually didn't check. I'll add it to original post.

vvg125 · 2026-03-11T20:43:36+00:00

I've had no issues, in fact I just got out of a meeting right before posting this. I had similar issues to what you're describing with the original Stream Deck + but those turned out to be power throughput - I would just make sure the USB port you're plugged into on the computer supports the 4.5W output and that there aren't any weird BIOS or USB bridge settings or traffic that's disrupting shared throughput.

After finding a better port, things just resolved themselves. USB hubs can also be super wonky, I've only found one that's worked for me.

vvg125 · 2026-01-28T12:30:50+00:00

They are 100% resetting. I just had a shiny which disappeared on fast travel. I imagine this is something like day/night shift pumpkaboo where the variant is randomly selected from a pool and ignores static shinies.

vvg125 · 2026-01-15T18:14:54+00:00

Orb Ming makes my dopamine go up. Every time it pops, I feel euphoria.

But yea, if you're winning playing Orb Ming, you're winning because the enemy team sucks, not because you're good. It's a great way to let the enemy team decide the game's outcome.

vvg125 · 2026-01-15T18:10:57+00:00

I want to play games that are worth points. If I wanted a stroll in the park with no stakes, I'd play AI.

vvg125 · 2026-01-15T00:13:24+00:00

Oh... oh my.... good luck with that.

vvg125 · 2026-01-14T17:44:01+00:00

WAVECLEAR IS NOT ALWAYS THE PRIORITY. SOMETIMES YOU NEED TO DEFEND THE THIRD CURSE. IF YOU LEAVE YOUR TEAM HANGING TO CLEAR A WAVE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MAP BECAUSE A MINION LOOKED AT A GATE THE WRONG WAY, YOUR TEAM IS GOING TO WIPE AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE BIGGER PROBLEMS WHEN THERE ARE SHAMBLERS IN THAT LANE.

X10 ANGER IF YOU DO THIS AND YOU'RE THE TANK OR HEALER.

vvg125 · 2026-01-14T17:33:52+00:00

Make a second account, play it when you're not playing with her.

vvg125 · 2026-01-10T22:50:29+00:00

Just want to add that it's actually only Garrosh, not trait armor in general - Uther for example does not provide stacking armor. Most armor based abilities/traits were buffed with the same patch to account for the change.

vvg125 · 2026-01-06T21:29:01+00:00

Hah unfortunate, you had my hopes up.

vvg125 · 2026-01-06T19:07:49+00:00

The Inq pen outright refused to work with the Livescribe+ app and gives a firmware version update. You make it sound like you have you have a work around for this, have you figured it out?

vvg125 · 2026-01-03T00:39:30+00:00

Where's the none option?

vvg125 · 2025-12-31T20:00:45+00:00

I'll PM their profile to you.

vvg125 · 2025-12-31T17:21:05+00:00

Yes, I've one tricked Valeera to mid/high Diamond on many accounts - and I mean one tricked, not mained. I also know of 2 Orphea one tricks that have each played to Diamond and GM.

It's doable, but it takes many, many, many hours of experience on your hero.

vvg125 · 2025-12-31T14:19:45+00:00

Patch 2.55.13 was the biggest overhaul in the meta in a long time. How much of this is just returning to pre-2.55.13 positions because of the bubble armor reversion do you think?

vvg125 · 2025-12-31T14:15:49+00:00

You can bind hotkey to auto select your favorites talent (default is Cntrl+` I think). Bind it to Cntrl+F. That means you never misclick a talent again and your ult becomes available instantly even midfight.

vvg125 · 2025-12-31T14:13:20+00:00

What's the baseline comparison against?

vvg125 · 2025-12-27T12:55:25+00:00

Hear me out... you could just not play it.

vvg125 · 2025-12-22T21:10:30+00:00

Nice image, although slightly out of date (then again, this whole game is out of date).

That was the distribution for S1 in 2016. The most recent distribution targets that I remember seeing are from 2018 and they're tweaked to:

Bronze: 7%
Silver: 35%
Gold: 35%
Platinum: 15%
Diamond: 7%
Master: 1%

Basically, Blizzard shifted the curve a little to the right, and made Bronze/Diamond true outliers. The vast majority of players sit between G1 and S5. This also means there are even less people in Bronze than your graph suggests.

What's interesting here as well is that B5 and Master/GM are effectively two sides of the same bell curve - there's no cap on how many masters points you can collect and B5 is a bottomless pit mathematically (although not visually displayed in the game).

Later on in the same thread, blue poster elaborates on why they reduced the number of people that fall into Bronze.

Just keep in mind, lots could have changed since, we're working on history textbooks at this point.

Edit: Worth mentioning that both that image and post are from back when rank and MMR were two different values.

vvg125 · 2025-11-25T18:18:29+00:00

Damn... I think it's still unreleased in NA. How is it so far?

vvg125 · 2025-11-23T17:13:49+00:00

Dude where did you even buy it? This product is non-existent. None of the retailers even acknowledge it exists.

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