Potential scoop for the next hero

General Discussion
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No way, hyenas are the best.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dn5jPu1XUAAT-Wt.jpg

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And scary:
https://media.londolozi.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/10224834/hyenas-lion-king.jpg

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Hogger is coming?! :scream:
grab your lv 1 gnomes!

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What do you mean moose (namely mine) are the cutest

https://imgflip.com/i/4j7gat

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Im actually amoosed you made such a typo, but dont worry, i corrected it.

https://www.awsfzoo.com/media/IMG_2691.jpg

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There is already a thread for this kind of thing.

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Melee assassins aren’t popular unless they’re op

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Since gnolls are basically anthromorphic dogs there are other possible things it could be.

  • A legendary Greymane skin. Instead of human form, it uses a crossbow and its lunge turns it into a more rabid melee form, possibly with a chain ball. From competitive point of view this would be bad as it makes discerning the form difficult, but maybe they had a solution for that.
  • A legendary skin for other heroes that have a fitting move set. We already have heroes like Junkrat have a goblin skin so it is not too far fetched that some character could be given a gnoll skin.
  • The hero is not a gnoll, but rather just something that could be mistaken as one. For example Diablo II/IV Druid which is permanently in werewolf form. Gnoll skin would be an easy Warcraft themed skin for such a hero.
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Hyenas are cats.

But the rest of the post makes sense and I agree.

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Are they hyenas? I only ever seen them in Warcraft III where they pretty much looked to have a dog like face, and dog like tail, and… Oh well if they are meant to be anything else I would blame the low poly graphics of early 2000 lol.
http://classic.battle.net/war3/neutral/gnolls.shtml

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Um actually, ~puts on nerd glasses~

Hyenas are neither cats nor dogs but belong to their own family, Hyaenidae. They are actually a form of convergent evolution. They look like dogs, but act like cats, but are neither.

This has been your useless fact of the hour.

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They are part of the subfamily feliforma.

That’s close enough for me.

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That’s what I meant.
Carnivores (Carnivora) basically have two big groups:

  • Caniformia (dogs, bears, weasels)
  • Feliformia (cats, hyenas, civets)
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We’re all eukaryotes in the end.

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We are all prokaryotes which have diet on prokaryotes.

Back to the topic: a gnoll would be good as a new hero. He should have a really different aesthetic.

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Not narcissistic people, they’re so self centered they are me-karotes.

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If folks be doubting, they need to listen :sound:

cackles

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64

Oh, you.

How did you datamine this?

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Same way I always do - compare new versions of the game to old versions of the game, and see what was added.

The primary tool I use for this is WinMerge from extracted game files using CascView(although lately I’ve swapped to CascExplorer), and then just a general familiarity with how data and galaxyscript work

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Interesting, yet confusing.

I’ll stick to biology.

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