Also, Chromie’s voice actor is Karen Strassman aka Nanako from Persona 4 and boy is that distracting to me.
I’ve noticed a recent trend where I pick Uther and my team responds by signing up for the soup line
I dig new Anub and his dumb new builds and now he’s tankier, so no complaints from me. Not digging the quality of life change to Diablo’s charge, which is good for follow ups, but losing the initial stun is D:
is anub beetle build viable? because I just want to play the beetle build omg
The entire time I’ve played this game, the beetle build has been the only thing that’s viable.
Now you can do a beetle build, or a hybrid beetle build! (Ok, his anti-mage build seems actually doable, but I don’t know that I’d do that in a solo-tank situation).
man I really must have been playing anub wrong then! I had much more success with burrow builds or CC-heavy builds in general because before the rework anub never felt tanky enough for me to use the beetles, and the long-ish cooldown of E made me not want to use too many abilities so I could save them for when I actually got hit with things
but I was bad at playing warrior heroes before so maybe things have changed!
Historically, the secret to his tankiness has been to go full on beetle build w/ healing beetles, locust swarm ect. and just try to sustain through the damage. Generally, between shielding and other things, you used to be able to heal yourself for 20,000-ish damage in a average 20 minute game. (For comparison, Dehaka is in the 25,000 range, but that’s all health of c)
The beetle build is still viable, it’s just that his other options are up to snuff now.
Meanwhile, if you were drafting into a mage team, Arthas is the anit-mage tank. I mean, once he hits 20. In the interim, he’ll still be a good solo tank.
I’ve lost against him as a solo tank, but I’m really not sold on it. He has like 3,000 less health than characters I would consider ‘real’ tanks.
an update on my lost vikings:
I still only win when I play them and no one else what is happening
because no one in this game understands how/when to soak or why it’s the single most influential factor on whether you will win or lose
On that note, Chromie is super cool when you’re up a level but hugely disappointing when you’re not because that makes the difference between one-shotting squishy characters, and them walking away from you because of your cooldowns/your team because her ranges are so long.
I thought there were US East servers
Why am I getting put on West servers
The ping, my god, the ping
there used to be a US east server
blizzard had issues with it and eventually just killed it entirely
i actually think it’s affected my play. ping is pretty damn important for stuff like dodging skillshots
it’s most noticeable when playing murky, where your bubble timing is of the utmost importance
real talk tho can we please get a 5-stack and play team league with comms?
Best match was putting me on the West servers for some reason, where my ping sits at 90-100ms. I forced to the Central servers and got waaay smoother gameplay with occasional spikes to ~80.
down for this after I move next week! gotta get settled in and everything but I am ready to try team league!
I’ve never tried it 
I have two IRL friends who play and want to TL so we really only need a handful more if we’re going to stick with it.
my body is ready
dumb question: are you guys trying to do TL for the season bonuses are you doing it for real
I’m interested and intrigued, but I would probably end up trolling everyone by picking heroes I can’t play (this is most of them)
I don’t think I’ll get another 17 TL games in, no