Beta for me. I mained Nova and Nazeebo then… back when they were fun to play.
I don’t know when I actually played Heroes of the Storm because I apparently was already level 1 by the time I got back to Heroes of the Storm during the Heroes of the Storm 2.0 Promotion, D.Va and Genji, at first I wasn’t so into it, until I really tried to play more of it, but I do remember before I got back to it during HotS 2.0 opening about Tyrande with the old Shadowstalk.
So I probably played before Tyrande was reworked.
A friend of mine IRL introduced me to the game around the time Yrel was added. I completely wrote it off as another generic MOBA that wasn’t for me, but then I played it firsthand, and I realized how wrong I was.
I started between the releases of Stukov and Garrosh. (I do not miss Garry’s pull on Q at all).
A little while later we got the one and only Kel’Thu-FREAKING-zad. He sealed my interest in HotS, and led to me digging into WC lore.
One more from open beta…
Aaaaaad there is proof the game is still play from high % old players. Proof iswe care,love the game vs these " dead topics"…
Late 2015, shortly after Artanis was released. He was about all I played for a good half-year.
I miss old super-bruiser Arty…
Man I was basing my start date around my oldest replay which was the Zagara patch. It would make a TON of sense if HotSlogs is only showing from around then on because I coulda swore I was around BEFORE Zagara actually launched.
Since Varian was new.
From Alpha
I’ve been going off and on since the beta. Other games have hopped in for me to play like Overwatch, Hearthstone and StarCraft II, and I’ve had times where I took long breaks from HOTS to cool off from the difficulty of winning.
And I played last night some. Sometimes just QM, some brawling, then some TL maybe. More so on the QM than TL until I lose horribly in QM and learn my lesson. I don’t even worry about the quests sometimes. Assassin? Nah I feel like playing support or specialist now.
More rambling! I have somewhere around 70,000 gold and mayb 6 heroes I never bought, as they don’t suit my liking. Anyways I may get on here now.