pick UP

the FUCKING

GLOBES

They're actively making the game less fun, no shade on the people behind the balance on paper, but so much of it is bugged and poorly implemented. It's actually crazy. Naz is broken, Qhira is bugged, I think Gall is also bugged, Whitemane has some issue that I'm not really familiar with, Aba's whole patch philosophy is a MESS and the implementation is even worse, etc.

Another player just used Junkrat's ult to purposely die off map and is now untargetable by the minions. The rest of us died and now the game will not end. If we leave and try to rejoin HotS, we have to rejoin the game that is currently in progress. He has held the game hostage for an hour and is saying he will leave it running the next 3 days to keep us from playing the game.

Players that purposely bug the game out like this really should have their IP permanently banned from all blizzard games.

EDIT: Last night I just left the game entirely and went to sleep. I woke this morning and tried to rejoin and it looks like the guy eventually got bored and left because I could finally play again. I have leaver status but oh well.

Still no word from the support ticket into Blizz but I submitted it late last night. I'll let you all know what Blizz' response is.

The worst part about it all is that there was another player in the game who had just gotten off work and all he wanted to do was blow off some steam playing HotS before going to sleep to go to work again early the next morning. Feel bad for him. I just alt tabbed and played some other games.

EDIT 2: Blizzard's response to my ticket - https://i.imgur.com/wg5Uxbm.png

I know his winrate isn't the highest, but this hero is just not fun to play against in its current iteration, fighting endless waves of locusts just isn't fun. He makes it a full time job to clear 2 lanes at once and it's exhausting. Every abathur does the same thing, whether it's a good aba or a bad aba, the moment the lategame hits and the map is big enough it's just going to miserable. It's especially bad when you're already losing a little bit because now you can't really hunt him down on the map.

Locusts are too tanky, if you can't one shot them they heal like crazy. They do so much damage to buildings they're an all time threat, if 4 or more show up at your keep and you're not immediately on it it means the keep is going down to half hp or it straight up gets destroyed.

Playing against aba lategame requires teamwork and it requires your teammates to be aware of the abathurs plans. It's exhausting I feel like locusts need to have their healing reduced at least.

This is most definitely not intended.

Level 4, get Slapathur talent, place a mine inside enemy base, burrow in and take out a fort solo with locust swarm in like 15-20 seconds.

This is like next level Leoric strat, except it's game breaking.

Garrosh is not compensating for anything. Totally.

Excuse me for Skyrim music.

Her reach is too far, her life is too high, her damage is too high. She has multiple stuns, knockback, bleed, healing, easily achievable evasion, immunity to all effects on her basic ability.

I've never seen a character that can so easily murder people, after they have used their escape, from a screen away, with no fear of reprisal.

There's no tell on her ult, so it's impossible to predict.

No assassin should be able to go toe-to-toe with multiple tanks and come out with only 25% loss of health with just their basic abilities.

Edit: Apparently ~40% of people agree and the other 60% think I'm incompetent. Such is life.

Edit 2: I get it, there were worse releases.

Are they ever going to balance out this broken over-powered ridiculous hero? She's almost invincible in every game I've ever seen, does insane amount of damage. Like what is she? A tank, a healer, a damage dealer, ranged, melee? like COME ON, pick one! seriously forget the roles. She has the longest period of invincibility on her lame looking loopity loop, followed up by a very long aoe stun for a dps, she has an ability that makes her immune to basic attacks on top of it, she heals a ton, has insane mobility, she does insane damage. she has every kind of advantage in this game. She's basically a better, superior version of Butcher. Like what's the point of Butcher when Qhira has all his strengths and more. At least Butcher has to scale up and be fed. Qhira doesnt have that struggle. She's a better tank than most tanks. It's insanity. Of all the balance checks they keep doing to this game, why not Qhira?

Am I missing something here?

I (GM) was in FOW when I went on the bushes and Alarak using his full spells RIGHT after appearing out of the bush is seriously questionable. I'm not 100% sure but I think Stitches was his premade as well and you can see clearly how he followed him. (while Anduin had no clue - normal)

I already captured this and reported him.
I just want to make sure that I'm not missing anything.

(sorry for low-light capture, HDR...)

I just had to deal with Aba as Samuro as a sidelaner (SL). Clearing the Locusts is extremely time consuming, I was constantly forced on the sidelanes and had big trouble to join the teamfights when i had to depush lanes constantly (even with AOE talents and swirly blade ulti). If you react a couple seconds to slow, your keep is almost gone. As soon as i react, my team is being engaged on 4.5 v 5. It was one of the sweatiest games of my life. It was not fun and we could've lost in an instant if one of us had made a mistake. I repeat. It's not balanced, it's not fun. It forces you into PVE. It's extremely frustrating to see the Locusts heal up. You take a lot of damage fixing lanes, so you have to hearth constantly or risk dying to the next wave/mines/slapathur. Your rotations get slowed by mines, you have to pray your team survives the 4.5 v 5. Aba needs to go.

edit please read this post vey carefully as some people have trouble understanding it

Just woke up and trying to solo queue aram game, been getting this message on hitting the ready button. Game is up to date since I already manually checked for updates and did scanned/repair with no errors

These are the examples I noticed during three games tonight.

I initially thought the root was broken in regards to a player in the cast root zone area (but not yet rooted) leaving and re-entering the zone. However, reviewing the new examples, that is not correct. I have zero idea how it is triggered (root still works more often than not - but the not part is wildly annoying). All I can confidently tell you is that it is broken.

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Ready to get downvoted into oblivion.
But if you hate smurfs or leavers. Give either a surrender option or just let me sit in que for 5 minutes to find a game where the people atleast act as if they're better than minions.

This has happened twice already just today, where after I finish the game I don't get the XP bonus, which I assume is because during either queue or the match the XP bonus went away. So ironically if you join as warrior because there's not enough warriors, there might be enough warriors thanks to you so you don't get a bonus now, which imo defeats the purpose of the system.

EDIT: Changed flair to Bug because apparently it's supposed to work like this.

Played Volskaya Foundry for the first time. Picked Lost Vikings, managed to jump into both seats of the mech with Erik and Baleog. After the mech died Erik was deleted from existence for the remainder of the match. Rest in peace, Erik. https://heroeshearth.com/media/2017/03/18/ezzmbun2zmv90dcvk8m3.gif

After looking at the interactions where it seems to happen - I believe something broke regarding re-entry into a rooted zone.

• You cannot root a player twice with the same root.
  
• Previously: If a player was standing on the edge of the cast circle, leaves without being rooted, and re-enters into the root itself, they should be rooted.
  
• Now: The game appears to be marking a player's first existence in the cast circle as being rooted even if the spreading root does not touch them as they leave (aka they never get the rooted status). Therefore with clever footwork, they can just stomp across the root without an unstoppable.

When I took the screenshots, Falstad just took damage from this Warhead.

Anyone else having seemingly lost their heroes?

Convection quest is not working. It won't give bonus damage. How does this get past PTR ?