#48 - Into the Nexus: “Title”
• Garrett • Kyle
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Intro: Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!
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Heroes of the Dorm Finals on ESPN2
Overall pretty awesome.
The production
Ratings (All stats via SportsTVRatings.com)
Media Response
Heroic Launch Detected
Open beta May 19th.
Official Launch June 2nd.
We will not be performing any further wipes, so any current progress or purchases you’ve made thus far during closed beta will carry through to open beta as well as post-launch. If we determine later down the line that our progression system needs to be modified, progress will not be wiped, but will be assigned to the appropriate Hero and/or Player level.
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Trikslyr Talks Sylvanas
Zentaragi : Sylvanus's ability to silence towers and minions for eternity is far too strong. Instead of per basic have it on a 45sec to 1 min cd because she has so much push power as it is, that being able to solo towers with ease is a bit to unfair.
Trikslyr : We'll be having more information about Sylvanas in our next Patch Preview. But, currently, Sylvanas is in a really solid spot win-rate wise.
Possession is the only major aspect of her kit that is under the microscope, as it isn't as strong as Wailing Arrow.
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Patron Thanks
Strategy
Lessons From the Heroes of the Dorm
Heroes of the Dorm Epic Eight : Washington vs. Berkeley
The face off to watch.
Amazing skills on display with great map mechanics.
Game 1 : Tomb of the Spider
Berkeley : Willing to do nothing when theres nothing to do.
Game 2 : Cursed Hollow
Washington’s Special Line Up
Jaina - Envenom
Sylvanas - Envenom, Blood for Blood
Zagara - Envenom
Brightwing - Envenom
Azmodan - Blood for Blood
Vs. Valla, Illidan, Tassadar, Rehgar and E.T.C.
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Other Notes
Wishlist
Necromancer - Diablo Support
From Richard
The most requested Diablo hero is probably the necromancer. We also need a Diablo support so combining these is good for everyone. Every support in the game so far is some kind of divine character. It would be nice to have a darker themed support.
Trait – Clay Golem
The necromancer controls a golem created from the earth. This golem is tethered to its master and attacks his enemies.
Q – Life Tap
The necromancer curses an enemy to allow his allies to siphon off life essence.
W – Poison Dagger
Throw a poisoned dagger to damage and weaken enemies.
E – Bone Spirit
Summon a vengeful spirit to seek out an enemy. The spirit requires a sacrifice.
R – Heroics
Skeletal Magi
Summon a skeletal mage after killing an enemy hero.
Revive
Revive the corpse of an allied hero to fight until they return.
Notable Talents
Level 1
o Potent Venom – increases the damage of Poison Dagger
§ Damage route
o Curse Mastery – Increases Life Tap to 30% and extends the range
§ Healing route
Level 4
o Blood Golem – the golems attacks return 15% of damage dealt as life
§ Replaces vampiric assault, but makes the golem look cool.
Level 7
o Grudge – Bone Spirit travels one second longer and deals more damage
Level 13
o Golem Mastery – Increases the radius that the golem is tethered
Level 16
o Bone Armor – Use to absorb a set amount of damage
o Tapped Out – Life Tap also slows the enemy
o Sensory Poison – Poison Dagger slightly reduces the affected enemies vision radius for the poison’s duration
Level 20
o Skeleton Mastery – Gives Skeletal Magi elemental effects
§ Fire does moderate burst damage and then a small damage over time
§ Cold slows the enemy
§ Lightning does high burst damage
§ Poison applies a long damage over time
o Good as New! – Revived players have increased damage and life.
Emails (or Tweets)
@DdayDrasin
Talk about the importance of bans in competitive Heroes.
@Prime_Xenophile
They haven't announced much new stuff lately, how about some wild speculation?
Mention Kael’thas
Image datamined from the official website.
Abilities data mined last year.
Kael’thas model was shown at PAX 2014.
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Outro
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