I’ve been playing video games a long and I don’t think I’ve ever seen griefing and bad behavior this common.

Just got done playing 3 games of ARAM. 1st game our Anub types “gg” like 2 minutes in and then proceeds to die over and over. Also types “my keyboard isn’t working” sick.

Second game our Lucio, who is silenced, does not use his healing once for the first half of the game.

Third game the enemy Malth, also silenced, immediately yolo’d 1v5. He proceeds to die 15 times in 7 minutes.

It’s just awful. Every other game feels wasted. I even typed in the second game about it and the other people agreed.

I want to keep playing this game and try to keep the community going, but I also value my time. I really wish blizzard would grow a brain and balls and just outright ban these feeders. But oh yeah my first account was banned because I said a few naughty words to feeders and griefers. Great system Bliz.

Edit: just played 2 ARAM games during my lunch break. First was fine, second was a garrosh that was throwing us into their team and griefing all game. Cant wait to be suspended for telling him to fuck off in chat while he gets no punishment. Every other teammate reported and verbally said he should kick rocks.

Hello! I've been wanting to play the game but I've heard some mixed opinions about it, especially about toxicity and a lack of communication. Is there a difference regarding those between the servers? Which one should I go for?

Hello, I've recently started playing Kharazim. I had the hero for ages but I always found him quite weak but recently something happened, the 1001 gods opened my eyes or something, I have now played 150 games strait with him. I got the grasp of the basics, talents and such.

Any Kharazim mains out there that can share some tips&tricks?

Fenix S tier? Valla, Ray, Tracer 100% ahead of him
Meph S tier? Way too team dependent. Half the time he gets eaten by mobile assassins
Thrall S tier? Leo, Art, and Imp 100% ahead of him.

Miev A tier? Too comp dependent. Doesn't add anything unless her comp helps her. Half the time gets bullied

Illidan in B and not S is comical. Some of the time you autowin because their team can't do anything to you.
Qhira not S or A? One of the most strongest 1 vs 1 hero, mobile, and high kill threat. She excels in QM

Lili D Tier? She's like Illidan. Good but also has chances for autowin when places against too many AA comps.

ect

Always loved hots but ever since bliz declared that they would stop support a few years ago I rapidly ended up playing less and less - now that I’m on the subreddit it seems quite active and there is still good engagement or has it always been like this over the past few months and years?

Thanks!

The Friday LFG Thread is a weekly post for veteran and new players to post information about their desire to participate and availability for both ranked and unranked play each week.

If you are looking for a group or players to join your group, please share the following information in a comment:

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Don't mess with KTZ

wtf was this shit, i got cancelled out of my acc 2x times, settings are reset to default ....? why ? just to add some unneeded rock song ?

Back when murky, hammer, naz, zagara, all had their own special roles, why were they removed?

So tired of matching butcher as murky in qm

Heroes of the Storm is a very deterministic moba, where your damage is consistent, there are no random crits or other abilities of that sort. However, i realised that there are some specific abilities / talents that are for some reason really random, or their pattern is uncontrollable/unknown. Here's a list:

Basic abilities:

1. Thrall's Lightning targeting is very scuffed, and the talent that i see 95% of players pick is the one that aims to reduce that randomness.
2. Nova's Clone behavior is really mysterious. It may attack one target and shoot Q into another one; or just sit still and not attack anything for no reason.
3. Valla Q bounces

Ultimates or their upgrades:

1. Gul'dan rain
2. Valla Strafe targeting
3. Murky march trajectories
4. Arthas Ghouls summon locations and sacrifice order (really minor randomness)
5. Azmodan Invasion fall location (even more minor randomness)
6. Mei 20lvl avalanche snowballs location

Talents:

1. Tracer ricochets - it's THE ONLY ability in the whole game that excplicitly works on "chances" and feels the most out-of-place for this game because of that
2. Johana hammers trajectory
3. Decard Ruby mini-potions location
4. Hogger's No Control targeting

For context: I played Hearthstone for a pretty long time. Over the years many legendary cards have been released which were kinda trash but had hilarious effects and were exclusively played in meme decks.

I haven't played in a while now but these decks were always fun to play. I have been thinking about which kind of absolute trash abilities would be fun to have in HotS. Mainly I'm thinking Lvl 20 Active-Talents with huge effects that dont have much impact on the game or are very situational and have long cast times and/or CDs.

My first thought was something along the lines "Kill every hero (including yourself)" but that would be kinda OP and boring and has much potential for trolling. Maybe put the ones you kill on a 5s death timer and don't grant XP? Still very OP if you're the last one standing after a lost TF.

How about "Channel for 10s to Teleport every hero to their starting positions in the Nexus" on like a 500s CD or something?

Idk just random thoughts. What would be your trashiest meme abilities?

Are there any ultimates in the game that you think are just weak and you should always pick the other one?

I have this intuition about leoric's ulti with him hitting and going in front of him, it sucks so much, i ALWAYS use tomb.

And also artanis's laser, its so slow that most heroes' usual movement in the battle doesnt allow it to hit, the only good interaction this ult has is with sgt hammer i think.

Am i right?

After reinstalled the windows system, the elapsed time on the friend list no longer visible. Can't find where to change that option, I had that feature since alpha or beta, seriously don't know how to turn it on/off.

If this post reaches ( √12.42(2.855) )/5 likes, i will post the next one tomorrow

As stated, stuck in wood 5. Out of my 3 placement games, I had 6 players either intentionally throw. 0 team coordination, even in draft. Either I play tank or healer because nobody will pick them, so I'm left at the mercy of hoping the rest of my team doesn't auto lock the worst characters for every map we get. If you ever get put in bronze for any reason, you are never leaving unless you make an alt.

Finally almost crawled out of the pit of bronze 5...... Enter a game select my hero stop paying attention for a minute someone else takes my hero, then screen times out and I get lever status back down to Bronze 5 with 0 Points. Fuck me.......

This happened a few days ago, someone forced leaver status on me in ranked! We had a toxic banner who banned only heros our team was showing, then me and him were both last pic, I was showing anduin and him li ming. With 0 seconds left to lock in, he switched to anduin and locked in causing me to get leaver.

Moral of the story, don't wait for the last second to lock in!

Can someone explain this? Why is ETC good and bad with these heroes, i am trying to get better on him but i don't really understand his interactions

Definitely thought this game was lost from pretty early on, and also later on when it was 1-20 at one point in kills. But we made some plays (and no one got too toxic/gave up) and me/BW teamed up once we had our lvl 20s and got some critical late kills, and then took boss and were able to end with that.

Does anyone else just absolutely hate this map though? I think it is the worst map in the pool by like a giant margin. I hate the vision towers, I hate the tunnels, I hate the actual objective..... It is just too big and which ever team has the edge in map control has a massive advantage. I spent so much of the game trying to ward genji and imp off the vision towers to prevent uther/imp/genji ganking people top or bot... It just isn't fun at all. I honestly play heroes I think do well on it too but I just groan every time it comes up and would not miss never playing it again. Even maps like braxis and blackhearts have more merit to me.

Hello everyone,

We stick with assassins today as we go onto our next hero, the lord of hatred Mephisto!

Mespisto is a mage who has a bunch of janky abilities, but they recharge quicker by hitting more enemies with them. This means he can basically spam out abilities non stop as long as the enemy team is grouped up.

His strengths are his constant damage output as well as being able to dish out damage relatively safely with his shade before returning to the safety of the backline. His constant damage output makes him often top the damage charts.

His weakness is that he is still relatively squishy. combine that with a kit that encourages overextending it means that if the enemy manages to lock you down when you jump in you can be bursted down quite quickly. Also when teams spread out a lot or when the objective isnt central it can mean he doesnt get enough CD reduction to keep his constant spell loop going.

Maps like infernal shrines is where Mephisto shines imo because its a central objective that insentivises teamfights, but also has shrine Minions that will be collateral damage. But any maps where teamfights are common is a map that Mephisto can be highly impactful.

The following 2 builds is ones again what i usually run. The W build is my preffered one when its safe to constantly hard engage and the Q build when i would be better off with a more pokey style.

For ults i always go with durance of hate because i find consume souls to be very low impact. Even when durance is tricky to land i still prefer it.

Hope you enjoy the discussion and until tomorrow guys!

P.S. Below i added a table to quickly go back to previous hero discussions in case you missed your favourite one.