Here’s mine:
Top tier: Towers of Doom, Haunted Mines, Braxis Holdout
Mid tier: Warhead Junction, Hanamura Temple, Battlefield of Eternity, Volskaya Foundry, Infernal Shrines
Low tier: Tomb of the Spider Queen, Cursed Hollow, Dragon Shire, Blackheart’s Bay
Bottom tier: Alterac Pass, Sky Temple, Garden of Terror
I would’ve definitely put Garden of Terror in higher tiers if it wasn’t reworked.
Rank yours.
Remember this is ranking most favorites to least favorites. Not best to worst gameplay wise.
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Towers of Doom is the only map I approve in this meme game.
The rest is just a meme joke meant to satisfy the playerbase with ADHD.
I guess I could put “tomb of the spiders” as a second ranking. This particular map eliminates the “kills dont matter” issue in this game. You dying while carrying gems is VERY BAD. Tho players in general are used to run it down mindlessly in hots, and tend to not care either way. Its a deep rooted culture into this game sadly.
I love ToD mechanics, especially not having a conventional core. There are lots of ways to damage the core.
I like Braxxis and Dragon Shire because you have to hold two points at once to ever unlock the objective. You can rarely do it alone, so it forces cooperation.
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Not sure if this is legit and wouldn’t change but:
- ToD
- DS
- AP
- CH
- VI
- BoE
- IS
- BHB
- WHJ
- BH
- GoT
- TotSQ
- HT
- ST
- HM
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eddit: nvm, hanamura temple…
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Hanamura Temple (it was renamed to this after tis rework).
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Just looking for these battlegrounds Towers of Doom is the best & Blackheart’s Bay is worst here.
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Top: Infernal, Tomb, Dragon Shire, Cursed H.
Middle: Garden, Battlefield.
Low: Alterac, sky temple, Volskaya, Haunted mines
Bottom: Towers, BHB, Hanamura, Warhead, Braxis. (These are the maps I don’t feel like playing HoTS anymore after one game).
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Just gonna share the maps I dislike the most.
Hanamura, battlefield of eternity.
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I won’t rank the maps for I believe they are good, BUT there are some exceptions in my appreciation, which I would rather talk about :
I pretty much hate Towers of Doom for being a map with direct-to-core damage from objective AND boss. While the concept still offers minimum map control with the possibility of pushing on lanes to forts (becoming keeps later on), this is still a pretty much out-of-control environment in a general way, compared to “regular” maps.
For the same reason I hate the Bay of BlackHeart “pay-to-win” map. Turn in coins, and one fort vanishes, not to mention all the fortifications and healing fountain around it. It is a keep? Does not matter, it will be reduced to dust as well. However, this concept is not as disastrous as the ToD map, for winning with conventional pushing to the core is still possible and gets even decisive in most cases.
Most positively speaking, I too miss the Haunted Mines map (though I also wish for a rework of it), I love the Hanamura map (although that one is no favourite in players’s hearts… but I have to admit I never knew the first version of it, which was apparently problematic) and, quite wierdly, I loved the first version of Warhead Junction… but love even more the new one.
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Battlefield of Eternity and Hanamura Temple are my favorites, mostly because people don’t immediately start flaming me when I hover Artanis.
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- Towers of Doom
- Battlefield of eternity
- Hanamura temple
- Volskaya Foundry
- Braxis holdout
The 4 and 5 occassionally switch out for other maps. My least favorite is cursed hollow
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Top: Braxis Holdout, Dragon Shire, Tomb of the Spider Queen
Mid: Warhead Junction (old), Sky Temple, Infernal Shrines, Cursed Hollow, Battlefield of Eternity, Alterac Pass
Low: Warhead Junction (new), Volskaya Foundry, Garden of Terror, Blackheart’s Bay, Haunted Mines
Bottom: Hanamura Temple
So bad I want to dodge: Towers of Doom
Not too different from the OP’s list, but with a few noticeable changes. The best maps IMO require teamwork for the objective and/or put a high price on death, promoting defensive play. ToD would be a cool brawl mode, but since it operates on a points system (first to 40 wins) and has no core it breaks the MOBA paradigm and doesn’t belong in the main rotation.
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Top: Blackheart’s bay, Cursed Hollow, Warhead Junction (not sure after this rework), Towers of Doom.
Mid: Sky Temple, Volskaya Foundry, Dragon Shire, Hounted Mines, Atlerac Pass, Infernal Shrines, Tomb of the Spider Queen
Low: Battlefield of Eternity, Braxis Holdout, Garden of Terror, Hanamura Temple (H.T. was Top before the rework).
Dragonshire makes me happiest to see. Tomb of spider queen the saddest.
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