Patch notes - february 2, 2016

[ErothTV]

HotS PATCH NOTES - Feb 2, 2016

Seems like a copy + paste of the PTR, but ;-)

[Nerraw]

[Sir Andy]

I told myself I wouldn't play the game again until the Gazlowe rework.

Hope it comes before this event ends.

[Nerraw]

I told myself I wouldn't play the game again until the Gazlowe rework.

Hope it comes before this event ends.

I wouldn't hold my breath to be honest. It'll happen in a bigger patch, and the next big one will be Xul in exactly a month.

[Hotmail]

"Killstreak Flames have been removed to improve clarity during gameplay"

I wonder what the actual reason is...?

[apepi]

Yeah, im calling it now, Li-Ming is OP, does way too much damage.

[Xyonai]

Yeah, im calling it now, Li-Ming is OP, does way too much damage.

In contrast: She can't take hits worth shit. So it seems like she's filled in Nova's old spot of 'Super burst with the toughness of a paper towel'

[mrinvisable2]

Li Ming teleport build is strong she can 1 shot u before u do to her meaningful dmg

[Sir Andy]

I wouldn't hold my breath to be honest. It'll happen in a bigger patch, and the next big one will be Xul in exactly a month.

Figured as much.

Oh well. You still suck, Blizzard.

[apepi]

Yeah, been playing Nova Snipe build here. It does not feel worth it. I don't care how good nova you are, you can easily miss a snipe that is not even your fault. Thrall goes and ults your sniped target? Your fucked. Lets not even speak about the fact that you can not do any damaging objectives in the game. You become useless.

[Raetary]

guys, just saw those 2 in the lunar festival vid.

[apepi]

Zeratul seems pretty strong. Abathur symbiote build is actually fun now.

[Jester Joe]

"Killstreak Flames have been removed to improve clarity during gameplay"

I wonder what the actual reason is...?

It's silly, should have a toggle at least.

Yeah, im calling it now, Li-Ming is OP, does way too much damage.

She does a huge amount of damage, yeah, but she can't do much against Illidan/Greymane/Lunara/Zeratul (If they get the jump on you of course) unless you wanna skip the better ult, and even then, you'll have to run.

[Nikkaszal]

It's silly, should have a toggle at least.



She does a huge amount of damage, yeah, but she can't do much against Illidan/Greymane/Lunara/Zeratul (If they get the jump on you of course) unless you wanna skip the better ult, and even then, you'll have to run.

Teleport build shits all over melee esp in late game

They're not jumping me - I'm jumping THEM

Butcher is problematic with LttS as he outheals your damage and you can't kite his Brand, but Illidan, Zeratul and Greymane all get dumped on with a Teleport build. Calamity does significant damage, and a 25% HP shield with every Teleport (should get three in quickly with Aether Walker and Illusionist) means they can't burst you down before you murder them.

[ellieg]

Played a few games against li ming. Shes squishy but her orb thing does so much damage at max range. Takes out half my health as falstad. I guess I need to learn to play against her but that teleport is strong too.

[Zelendria]

From what I've seen from a couple of matches.

Rehgar seems way more fun than before. I don't tend to play healers much, but the few times I did play him I found him really boring.
Nova. I'm a douche, saw Anti Armor Shells, and without even thinking took it realizing that I was only playing her to try the new Snipe, and it was in the same L7 tree.
Li Ming. Fun, but I've only tried the orb build.
Illidan. One of the matches had him in it and that boost to damage seems to have really helped.

[Frozen Death Knight]

It may be a bit early to tell how good Li Ming is, but she's currently at 52.7% winrate on hotslogs, so she's up there among the top. Her damage is nuts, though. Had a Li Ming on my team who did really well compared to the opponent's. I did around 88k damage as Greymane in a 33 minute game while our Li Ming was hitting about 150k. Bear in mind that we also had a Rehgar with Bloodlust and Nova.

[Jester Joe]

Teleport build shits all over melee esp in late game

They're not jumping me - I'm jumping THEM

Butcher is problematic with LttS as he outheals your damage and you can't kite his Brand, but Illidan, Zeratul and Greymane all get dumped on with a Teleport build. Calamity does significant damage, and a 25% HP shield with every Teleport (should get three in quickly with Aether Walker and Illusionist) means they can't burst you down before you murder them.

Haven't tried teleport builds yet honestly, I would think though the issue with that would be you can't blow up range as well, and unless they have a team of all melee.

But then again, I'm probably horribly wrong.

[ellieg]

Anyone know a link that isn't from the battle.net site? I cant get that site at work and it sucks every patch day. I really wanna know the changes.

Edit: NVM, found it down this page.
https://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthe...bruary_2_2016/

[Nikkaszal]

Haven't tried teleport builds yet honestly, I would think though the issue with that would be you can't blow up range as well, and unless they have a team of all melee.

But then again, I'm probably horribly wrong.

It sacrifices hard bursty poke for much more survivability and sustained damage. Your spells still hurt ranged characters, but with a Teleport build you get much more out of it if you're close enough to Tele onto their face.

Vs a ranged it's more careful - you wanna hang back and get some poke in, and then time your Teleport in with someone on the other team about to die. If you manage to jump on the tank as he goes down, your trait allows you to then bounce straight off him onto the backline. Get another kill there and your rampage is secured - Dominance at 4 is fucking wild.