That was the the thing that broke him imo. They wanted him more active in team fight engagements (which I agree with) but they tied it to his healing mechanics (emphatic disagree). Why? Well, tying his team fight participation to his healing mechanics means he needs awkward positioning (Whitemane players, I see you! She still bae tho <3). That and you get to watch your teammates die haplessly as you derp around like “can I get a moonfire when I need it?”. They’ve nerfed tranquility more times than I can remember. Twilight Dream is situational as a Talent counter otherwise WHY DON’T YOU HAVE STUKOV, BRIGHTY, Sylvanas, OR ALARAK!? Like, for real. Why would you waste an AoE heal for a silence that you could have picked better otherwise??
I was too, at first! I loved his no-mana, slippery, hyper mobile, self-healing, pest hero that he was. I’ve told so many people that the person that got me to rethink Illidan when it mattered was Severage. I cannot describe in enough detail how much I miss having him around. He made me realize “so… spamming abilities is actually BAD!?” and it made complete SENSE for it to be that way.
He used to be all about mobility, escape, positioning, and capitalizing on debuffed (Executioner procced in my case) heroes and spanking them for not being in a deathball (that would still get spanked if your team capitalized on having an Illidan).
She used to be a lot of fun back in the day! She had some similar talents that Illidan did but she was more of a dive, setup/CC, WRECK EVERYTHING if you played her the way I did. I loved having her with an Illidan and either a Jaina, Muradin, Uther, or Arthas namely.
Nova used to be incredibly amazing! I’d often get matched against a Nova and it was almost always a 50/50 chance of an AoE build or that silly rewind build. The build I loved was full buff (Ambush Snipe [had a hidden mechanic that combo’d with crippling shot], Gathering Storm) and debuff (Crippling Shot, Decoy [because it applied talented abilities but less %damage). So if you were Volsong, you’d go Hotshots/Anti-Armor Shells and poke a hero 1-2 times, they’d NEVER take you seriously, then you’d drop your decoy in between you and the target, open with Pinningshot, Ambush Snipe had a hidden .5 sec or so window to still buff snipe so you’d follow up with that, AA would hit… If they survived, between your decoy and your AA, they’d just be dead. 90% of the time it looked like you one shot them and I think THAT is why they nerfed my beloved Nova so bad after the AoE and Rewind nerfs.
At one point, I was honestly confident with my skill level but I was a sucker for making friends so I’d often get punished by matchmaker for being in a group. I think after the Artifacts finally got removed, my first month was nothing but MMR drops because people wanted to group all the time and we couldn’t mesh on mindset. We’d get rofl’stomped by streamer premades all day if we did lol.
I’ll have to look into this. I know that I’m still catching up and that there is a lot of information I’m not privy to so I’m trying to be fair to the devs and everyone with their concerns. I can only really comment on how much the game has changed and offer criticism as to why really. I just hope people value my input and see why it concerns me ya know?
I fully endorse this! In fact, I’ve campaigned for a Wild Turkey endorsement while I was in my last band. Oh how glorious it would have been to put Chen to shame while unleashing Metal to the masses lol… XD
I’m glad! It’s important to realize when a game is NOT worth sacrificing your well being. No matter of taunting or being called a “casual” will EVER change my mindset on this. It is more cancerous than anything else in this or any other game and that’s the truth.