I really hate the direction everything is going. I mean what is that? A medallion on every hero that removes cc with a 5 min cd? Why? What’s next? Are you gonna implement Flash, and wards into the game as your next little experiment? If you can even call it an experiment. exp globes are still in the game, and don’t quote me on it but it looks like the majority of tower changes stayed as well. So really, you may as well just call these things for what they are.
Gosh… I mean, I really can see you add something as stupid as baseline wards into the game now. Every time it just seems like it gets worse and worse so really, nothing is stopping them from going full idiotic.
We’re also still stuck with a slow hero release schedule. A full year of Mei, how exciting…
How can someone who expects the worst still be let down. No wonder the player base has been swirling down the toilet.
Oh yeah, and let’s not forget what you did to Gazlowe. You turned him into a bruiser… I guess? I mean you guys just hate Turret heroes, because man are his turrets complete trash. Not that Gazlowe is trash now, he looks better. But if you played him to enjoy a turret build… well, you’re not gonna enjoy him at all.
Hopefully this means Probius will be made the designated turret hero then.
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Overreaction and slippery slope
I’ll agree on the slow hero releases part
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Is it an overreaction? I can already see how this will go. The damn medallion is never gonna leave, just like the rest. It’s just something that doesn’t need to exist. I hated the other changes, but man this one really takes the cake. This has to be the single worst change they’ve made since nerfing all the healers in the game.
Seriously, that’s the balancing team in a nutshell. Don’t know how to fix a problem? Ah well, tear it down and hopefully patch things up from the bits and pieces.
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I don’t have a problem with the medallion but the forum does for the most part. If players survived everyone’s movement speed being increased while skillshots didn’t get faster, we can survive a hotkey button like this
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That’s just the thing… people claim they don’t want these changes, they go full tangent about how they are unnecessary, and how much it will hinder their enjoyment of the game. And it’s not just some small handful, it’s a decent number of people who make these claims on the forums, and the reddit. (Especially the reddit)
Yeah, maybe one bad change a player hates won’t make them leave, but another, then another… and another! You keep stacking on mechanics that people go into uproar about not wanting and you will be shaving off your playerbase little by little. A person can only handle so much disappointment before they just snap and go do something else.
This is just another one of those things to add to the list. Another little bit of proof that Blizzard cannot read the room or chooses to remain ignorant.
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So, just spam in forums or reddit and cry that medallion is bad, then they will delete it.
And yes, if you haven’t played before 2018, then i can say that Hots had “wards” before.
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That doesn’t work with blizzard. When they make changes, rarely do they go back on them. They cannot ever admit they are wrong. or at least… it’s rare when they do. We still have all the others, so I cannot expect this to be any different. perhaps it will be tweaked… but really how much tweaking can you do to something like this? Make the cd longer? Make it only usable once? Even then, even if they can use it once, that’s still too much.
And yeah, Heroes did have wards… kinda. But they were talents, and only SOME could have access to them. What I meant by that comment is that like this medallion, it’ll be a new hotkey that everyone will have access too.
And if you don’t believe me just wait. We will get wards and Flash soon enough. It’s gonna happen. Because blizz can’t leave things well enough alone.
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Weather says hello to you. And tower damage buffs and targeting system.
Because this is what game needs. Kinda feels bad when youre playing ‘fat’ tanks and just getting CCed for entire teamfights.
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If you’re a tank getting cc’d… so what? You’re a tank! You just saved your team by blocking their cc. You are the meatshield, that is your job.
And yeah, they tweaked those things, but majority of it is still there. I seriously cannot see this medallion going away. They are gonna be ruthlessly stubborn and not remove it no matter how much the player base demands they do.
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Why are you willfully ignoring the last anomaly they implemented (weather)? It’s completely removed and it didn’t take that long for them to do so.
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I’m not ignoring it. I said “rarely” Which, yeah, that one, out of all the others definitely counts as rarely. And you can’t even compare something as silly, and stupid as weather, to something like the medallion. The weather I think everyone knew was never going to stay. It made things into a fiesta. So why even bring it up?
The medallion is less clowny, but it hurts the games mechanics in a way that are enough to be extremely frustrating in how it works. because unlike weather, it’s a consistent element that the player can hold on too, to completely just ruin your attempts at shutting them down.
It’s just going to be ridiculous on already hard to kill heroes. Samuro? You already can’t kill him. Yes, give him a way to go immune to cc. Even Genji, very annoying. Illidan? Like, the list goes on.
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There have been like, 3 anomalies?, 2 of them heavily tweaked (most of the tower changes basically got reverted), one of them removed completely. “Rarely” is still a pretty gross overstatement in my book.
I agree, I don’t think I’m going to like the medallion. I’m almost certain it will get tweaked in some way, and the only way it won’t get tweaked being if they just remove it completely. But I trust them to do what they think is best, because they’ve actually done a pretty good job handling the other anomalies, no matter how much you try to blow it out of proportion.
Also genji is one of the lowest winrates in the game and illidan could use some love, there are really some better examples to be scared of right now. (sam, like you said, tracer, Srgt Hammer is the biggest worry for me). But the bigger worry is that it invalidates tank plays late game. Also qhira gets messed up, but that makes me happy.
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I don’t think I’m overreacting at all. Everyone always says I am. but, man. I’ve been here playing Heroes since the alpha. And let me just say… I’ve seen some stuff. I’ve seen some really, really stupid decisions that to this day leave a bitter taste in my mouth.
I don’t know if you’ve been around as long as me, but I’ll just say that I can’t possibly trust them on anything. Watching them try to balance this game is like going to a circus. It’s a mess, it can be funny at times but when you leave you feel almost dirty about having witnessed it.
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I’ve also been around since alpha, I don’t really trust them when it comes to hero reworks because they’ve killed way too many of my fun heroes. I’m still reeling from how they massacred my Seraph’s Hymn Cassia, again. Decoy nova, gathering power falstad? I miss a lot of things.
Hero releases are scary, because they can be like Rehgar, or thrall, or ming or KT. They’ve gotten a lot better about them though. I hate to be the one to say this but balance isn’t easy. Every game is a circus balance wise once you get into it. It’s how Metas work in general. If you don’t enjoy the circus find a different one, there are thousands.
But Anomalies? At the end of the day they haven’t really messed up with them in my book. Big stress on end of the day because weather really was just ugh.
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I have been enjoying Yugioh Duel Links, and it’s shown me that… no, no you don’t have to have such a horrible balance department. But that aside, the problem with anomalies is that. yeah, sure, they fix them. Eventually… maybe several months after its release.
That’s still several months of just pure, joyless tedium. The fact anomalies go live into every single mode, forcing everyone to play anomalies in their horrible, unbalanced state, is the main problem with them. Like, they go into ranked, ahaha. Who puts an experiment into your ranked mode!? Only blizzard…
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The medallion is on a 5 min cd and only gives cc immunity for 1 sec
Maybe give the new stuff a chance insteed of blowing new game ideas to pieces befoere it even touch live server.
Give the medallion a few weeks and then you can come back and complain as much you want about it lol.
Its like everytime blizzard make new stuff in this game it gets … down by the playerbase before it even reach live server.
Get a grip and stop complaining about stuff you have not even tried out yourself yet. I bet you have not done a single game on ptr with the new change yet and just comes here to complain about the medallion cause it sounds op in your head to give everyone 1 sec cc immunity on a 5 sec cd.
Dont worry blizzard will remove the medallion from the game if it breaks the game too much but comming here and complain about something that is still on the ptr is seriously the lowest i have seen in months.
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I guess you haven’t been here long. Most of the reddit and forum is ablaze with people hating on it, just like me. Surely you can look right now and find 2-3 others who are just as like minded.
Stop coming to blizzards defense every time their is a critique. I don’t have to have played with it to know how it’s going to effect the game. I’ve played the game long enough to know exactly how bad this medallion will turn out. It’ll be just as bad as the other anomalies on release. Every time they came out, I complained, and every time they got tweaked, or removed. I can see an awful decision a mile away. I’m not blind, I’m not stupid.
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It grants Unstoppable. You can’t use it while stunned.
They didn’t. Neither did weather. It’s a shame, because I thought both anomalies were fun.
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Well, too bad. Want fun? Go ask for the old brawls back. Weather would have been okay as an optional event. But put into ranked? Get out of here…
Ad yes, it does grant unstoppable. It doesn’t matter if it can’t be used while stunned. Just pop before you get stunned and guess what, you won’t be stunned. Honestly, it being able to make you completely immune to being stunned is the problem. if it cleansed you from already being stunned… well, not that big of a deal. Most stuns don’t last a super long time. But just making a stun moot? That is a problem and there will be players and heroes that will misuse this.
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