I Have a Problem or Two: HoTS

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I have a problem or two regarding HoTS but let me take the time to hear about your issues.
For now, relax and have a brew. This round is on me.

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No commercials/ads for the game.
No new Hero yet while I have like 20 Heroes I really want.
Barely any communication from the devs.
Not enough restrictions in SL to fight Smurfs, and ppl picking Heroes they never played as before.
Not new-player friendly enough.
Almost no Medivh skins (I have so many ideas).

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Biggest gripes I have with game are things that could be solved with more players. I truly believe that if this game was supported and well advertised it would do fantastic. It is a solid game at its core.

But my gripes that are NOT related to population.

  • minimum level requirement on an individual hero basis for ranked. I really don’t want anymore Genji instalocks when they have never played the character.
  • some sort of anti-smurfing. As it stands, there is no real punishment for getting banned. Just make a new account. Anti-smurfing would also make ranked more
 Consistent, for lack of a better term.
  • some of the hero choices have been baffling. I played WoW a lot, so I know who all the characters are, but are Yrel, Whitemane and Hogger really nessecary? Nothing against those characters, the kits are cool, and I play Whitemane a lot, but I think that those hero slots would have been better for more iconic characters.
  • Some reworks confuse me. Why were Valla, Anduin, and Raynor reworked?
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Yes they are :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Whitemane is a crucial part of the well known Scarlet Crusade and also one of the Four Horsemen. Also she reoeesents Disc Priests.
Yrel has her own expansion. Our only Draenei Hero so far and she is a unique Pala.
Hogger is the doom of the allience. Iconic and memey. Also our only gnoll Hero, representing a WoW/WC race.

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  • Still wish that Hots would a similar shop like Dota 2 with user-custom skins, so we would get more content, even though Hots is in maintence mode, because I am quite sure that there are enough creative community member who would create at least some skins.
  • Seasonal Rank reset like in Hearthstone
  • And the things Karabars or Pesky mentioned.
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That’s my only issue really. Everything else would fall into place if they just did something so that people knew their game existed.

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Not new friendly enough? It’s the easiest moba out of the main 3 at base, no outside guides.

Now if you’re talking about pro guides and e-sports helping people learn then yeah sure hots loses by far. At its base tho hots is simple. Too macro focused. But simple

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My biggest gripe is tht the AUS / NZ population is too low. :frowning:

I am forever stuck in QM because 30 min queues to SL is uncool.

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My simple minded fellow forum regular.
What I meant by “new player friendly” is not mechanical simplicity, but accessibility with a fresh account.
It’s easy to get Heroes
 for us, veterans, but not easy enough for new players. Imo, they should be able to get their 1 chosen fav and a Bundle of Starters: Sonya, Mura, Jaina/Valla, Lili for free.
So they can start playing without grind.

(And this should be implemented with the more strict SL rules, so Smurfing is still harder.)

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I think the ‘shop’ in HotS is too lax and community friendly. Maybe i think that way cuz i have all the heroes and every skin/mount that i wanned. But back up a few years i used to actually spend money to get a particualr skin/mount or even hero that i really wanned.

It’s a Free to Play game, maybe i don’t speak for everyone in the community but i wouldn’t mind if they locked some skins/mounts or heroes behind a few bucks. Every MobA game is doing it, including DotA and LoL.
I get so much shards and gold today i have around 100k gold and shards enough to get whichever new skin/mount i want. They’re just laying there unused. Sometimes i wish i could gift those resources to friends/buddies instead of them just sitting there unused.

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The game is indeed too free. Cosmetics should make money for the game, don’t just give everything out.

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Don’t talk nonsense. This is a team-dependent game that, among other things, requires a high level of interaction between players. So no, this moba is not simple at all.

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Teamwork is different than individual skill needed. As an individual you have less individual power compared to LoL. You’re not expected to micro 1 v 1 as much in lanes. You’re not expected to know how to fight other heroes without teammates. You stick with your team most of the time.

This was labeled the beginner’s moba for a reason. In order of difficulty: HOTS < LoL < DOTA

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This is misleading. Hots isn’t the easiest moba that’s a wrong statement, but Hots is just easier to learn than those other mobas you mentioned, but when you know the basics it’s actually hardest.

True, but it’s not because LoL or Dota 2 is harder, but it’s binded to solo hero experience while in Hots you have shared experience. It’s just easier to fail with certain heroes, if you don’t know how to get exp in LoL or Dota 2 and it also can be denied by last-hitting your own minions. Sure the last part is quite challenging in Dota, but still it doesn’t mean it’s harder than Hots in general. In addition you lose progress in Dota 2, when you die, because don’t only give enemys experience, but also lose gold. This games are just more punishing than Hots, but they aren’t harder.

Hots difficulty comes from constant rotations and teamfights and that’s harder than to learn how to farm and repeat, because first is more dynamic while the other latter is just repeatitive.

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My only problem is that the company that runs this game does not care enough about its product. If it did, you’d see all other issues magically solved or at least being worked on. After the lawsuit that happened my respect simply disappeared.

you’d be surprized with the amount of better changes that could have been implemented in their games as a whole if they were a consumer-respecting company.

if i were to nitpick issues i’d say that they have missed several great opportunities for this game like advertizing or a more thought out E-sport. perhaps expanding the game from other areas like maps or gamemodes as a BONUS for this game, and lowering a few prices. thats all that came to my mind.

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That’s a very constructive post. As someone who switched to Smite recently, HotS is DEFINITELY the most new player friendly MOBA out there 
 Since Pokemon seems tragically Pay2Win .

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Raynor have been big rework along with Azmodan back in 2018, Valla have big rework back in 2016, Anduin had never got big rework until recent patches which Anduin finally got big rework along with 4 other heroes.

Yrel is from Warlord of Draenor expansion, only can reappeared during Mag’har Orc allied race quests, I viewed her that being only Draenei hero in the game, beside of that race Zul’jin is only Troll hero in the game.

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How dare you.

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No more issues for me. I stopped playing cause they refused to fix the in game issues.

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  • Very slow updates on new heroes (You have to wait at least 5 months for a new hero, now it’s been longer than that).
  • Newer skins barely having any visual effects, only changing the model.
  • I don’t think we’re getting new events either. Last event was Craftwars which was in the last september.
  • Haunted Mines is still out of the rotation.

This tbh

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