Sgt. Hammer build
Sgt. Hammer build used in HGC and other Heroes of the Storm eSports events by the top pro gamers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Sgt. Hammer build used in HGC and other Heroes of the Storm eSports events by the top pro gamers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
I have added the transcript of the Heroes of the Storm Developer Q&A Part 4 which took place on March 19, 2014. Hope you have fun finding out details straight from the developers: Dustin Browder, Matt Cooper and Richard Khoo.
Tychus: I was told this suit would be my prison. Suits me just fine. I have been called a lot of things, a renegade. An outlaw. Guilty as charged. Makes life exciting. You never know who or — err what — will be on your side. So when the Nexus team called it, there was only one thing to say: “Hell, it’s about time!”
Kevin: What is up guys? My name is Kevin Johnson, and we are here at Blizzard Entertainment for our fourth live Dev Q&A. What you just saw was the Tychus trailer from our #TychusWeek focus last week. Welcome to Blizzard. We are very excited for our fourth show with you today. We are going to be talking about the talent system in Heroes of the Storm. Where it came from, where it is now and possibly where it is headed in the future.
Dustin Browder Shares Thoughts on Team Leveling and XP in Heroes of the Storm
When we first set out to make Heroes of the Storm, we had an idea of how the game should play. We imagined Support characters as pure healers moving to help their allies. We imagined Siege characters (now called Specialists) charging into battle, and clearing away enemy armies and fortifications with ease to make way for friendly forces. We imagined heroes claiming objectives like the Dragon Knight, or collecting Doubloons to gain the power of characters like the undead pirate, Blackheart.
When we first started, we had individual hero leveling like many games in the genre. We liked how it forced players to split up into different locations, and coming together was a cost and a risk. We also liked how individual experience rewarded players for doing well, and really encouraged players to do their best; knowing that they were falling behind if they started to give away too many victories.
We made a large number of tweaks to this system to make Support and Siege heroes work with individual leveling, and everything worked. –but then we ran into Abathur. Here was a hero who never went into battle at all. He hid back in base, and attacked the enemy from afar. This helped inspire us to consider the possibility of more extreme heroes in the future. What if we had more heroes who supported the team in strange ways?
We were also running into trouble where players didn’t want to leave a battle in order to engage with a map objective or help an ally. Moving to capture a Dragon Shrine was a very risky move if it cost you experience and you fell behind in levels. Players were too fearful to move away from enemy minions to actually engage with the various locations and characters on our Battlegrounds. When we played, we noticed that the players that were actually doing the most to help their team by fighting over Battleground objectives were often several levels behind.
Moving from one part of the Battleground to another to heal an ally or kill an enemy was also risky. If you did it too often you would find yourself behind in levels. With individual leveling, all players had to stay in a lane next to a battle most of the time.
This was not the freeform strategic experience we were hoping for.
We started to experiment with team leveling. In this new system, many elements (like killing towns) give map-wide experience to the whole team, even if there is nobody near the town when it is destroyed. Enemy minions give experience so long as someone is nearby to collect the experience. If you have two heroes near an enemy minion when it dies you do not collect double experience. As long as you have a single hero next to a battle you are collecting the maximum experience from that battle for your team.
Team leveling solved a lot of problems for our game. Characters like Abathur just worked. All of our Battlegrounds were suddenly alive with possibility. Players had the freedom to go where they wanted to go, when they wanted to go there, with the knowledge that their allies were helping them by collecting the experience that minions created. At any given time one to three players on each team could be anywhere they wanted to be. They were free to roam to help their team, kill enemies, or complete map objectives with full knowledge that their allies were still getting maximum experience from the Battleground.
Teams that try to send all five players to one location can continue to do so, but at a severe cost. If the other team is split up, the team that is all-in at one location will find itself falling behind in levels.
In the end, this was what it was all about. Creating an environment where it was easy to cross lanes to help one another, or kill an enemy. We want an environment where you can all run to a Cursed Hollow tribute, or everyone can do a mad-dash for a Dragon Shrine, secure in the knowledge that your allies have your back.
I hope that helps people understand what we are doing, and why. As always, your feedback for our Alpha is greatly appreciated, and has already helped us make Heroes of the Storm a better game.
Blizzard has unveiled today two new skins for Tyrael and Valla. Demonic Tyrael and Angelic Valla. Gorgeoulicious!!!
Both skins are currently available in the latest Heroes of the Storm Technical Alpha build 2.5.0.29562. Check out our video below.
Spyrian posted the new weekly free-to-play Hero rotation for the week of March 25 through April 1. I added in parenthesis below their role.
We’re currently in the process of updating the free-to-play hero rotation with a set of six fresh heroes, who will stand ready to start smashing towers at a moment’s notice once Heroes is back online. We’ll bring in a new set of free-to-play heroes every Tuesday, and you can check out your free heroes for this week below.
In addition to refreshing the hero rotation, today’s update also brings a number balance changes to Heroes of the Storm. Find out what’s changed in our Balance Update thread.
This post will be updated each week during the Tech Alpha whenever we refresh the free hero rotation, and you can expect the next set of free heroes on Tuesday, April 1 (and no, that’s not an April Fool’s joke!) Make sure to do some brawling with this week’s roster before they rotate out of the pool!
If you’d like to see hero rotations from previous weeks, we’ll be posting them as replies to this thread.
If you thought that last week’s #TychusWeek was a one-time thing, you were wrong. It seems Blizzard Entertainment is planning to release a weekly spotlight video of each hero, and that’s kinda awesome upon itself considering there are 23 heroes in Tech Alpha, and many more yet to be revealed.
This week the spotlight falls upon Tyrael, in celebration of the release date of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls.
Blizzard Entertainment has released a new Weekly Hero Rotation along with balance fixes across several Heroes.
We’ve brought the Heroes of the Storm Technical Alpha down today in order to refresh the weekly free hero rotation and make the balance changes listed below. Thank you for all the great feedback you’ve provided during alpha testing thus far. We hope you’ll try out these changes in-game and share your input with us soon!
Mercenaries
Knights
General
Abathur
Gazlowe
Raynor
Sgt. Hammer
Uther
Witch Doctor
Malfurion build used in HGC and other Heroes of the Storm eSports events by the top pro gamers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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Tychus build used in HGC and other Heroes of the Storm eSports events by the top pro gamers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Valla build used in HGC and other Heroes of the Storm eSports events by the top pro gamers in the United States, Europe and Asia.
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