While I expect many who play SL will be pleased, how long can it take to ban Valla and Jo, this is absolutely dreadful for people in organized or competitive league play. We often have to change picks or bans based on what was seen in the first few selections, so having 15 seconds to change draft strategies will be stressful.
I wonder if it would be possible to have this only apply to SL, and not Customs?
Absolutely agree with you, it was already hard to make the right decisions during draft when playing competitively, and this just makes it even worse.
I feel like AFK bans in draft modes has been a moderate problem in hots. People who regularly afk bans should be āde-prioritizedā from being auto selected as a Ban-picker for future draft modes.
Also for ARAM and draft picks, it would be nice if the HotS app did a windows/iOS notification in case someone has the window alt-tabbed once their pick timer starts.
Having it not apply to custom would be a good idea.
Oh Janitor!
Absolutely agree. We need an option to choose how long our draft timers are.
Customizable draft timers for customs would be ace!
I was playing Rivals and was pleasantly delighted how much shorter and simpler draft bans where. Though I can definitely see how in tournament play that would be kind of annoying as you canāt really discuss too much.
But then again, Iāve never been a fan of the ban phase in draft. I feel like if the game is balanced, you shouldnāt need it. Banning heroes because theyāre overpowered is one thing, but banning it because someone is good at something feels a bit like poor sportsmanship.
Iām just out of a ranked match and 10 seconds is too fast with a group of randoms, 15 seconds would have been the sweet spot IMO.
*Also, where is the Blizz robot? No patch note thread posted yet, but itās up on Reddit.
They have shortened the timer for both picks and bans.
Although I have heard reports from friends in Discord that Tournament draft is back to the longer timers.
So, uh, Janitor. About those Artanis buffs?
They seems to have reverted it in custom games. Whoever it was, love you, and thank you! <3
So Iāve managed to play 2 ranked games, and have been dropped from five drafts due to people not picking in time. Iām one of those who wanted lower pick/bans, but this might be too fast for some people.
*Edit:, Silenced players can now play Ranked and can type in chat, what is the purpose of this?
One of many players Iāve seen silenced in ranked, but can still type and play ranked.
I feel like itās way too fast in Storm League now.
Have had over 10 games not start because people donāt pick, and they get booted.
Also feels like thereās no time to think about who to pick when the other team chooses a Hero and itās now your turn.
25 was too long, but 15 is too short.
Maybe reduce the time on the initial ban, and increase the selection timer to 20 seconds.
āVoiceā silence is separate from āchatā silence. When the game added its own team comms, it also added reports for those with matching silence penalties. Since āmostā players probably donāt use in-game voice, people arenāt aware that it is a separate report/penalty that doesnāt affect Storm League.
Thatās why the icon for the silence there is a mic in the silence.
The interaction isnāt ānewā, but the prevalence of players with the penalty is rather odd.
The person banning is always the person on the team with the highest rank.
Should make the timers even shorter for ranked. People canāt seem to figure out how much time is wasted just struggling to choose a hero. Itās not hard, just click a button.
Thatās what I expected would happen 
(In general, not specifically to you)
Most people donāt have the attention span.
Im sure this player have been reported for talking trash on voice comp and now can only speak in party voice comp. Which force him to party up with people who want to sacrifice thier hearing for people like him.
Thats why they will stay in lower leagues. While those who care about team comps and would spend the time to pick a proper hero climbs out. If people really are at this point where letting others think what they want to pick is now considered bad then they are the problem.
Your team comp should not suffer because of bad picks because some inpatient player cant hold himself together for 30 sec.
I agree its a bad change. Saving me 2 minutes from a 25 minute game is pointless. I play maybe 4 ranked games a week and want each one to be truly about strategy anf thought not spammy bs.
Also in long sessions those draft timers are my rr break.
Custom Games already has parameters to change how the game work e.g. tournament like and so on, why not just add a setting instead?