#20 - Into the Nexus: “Title”

• Garrett • Kyle 

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Intro:  Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!

News

Patch Notes

Art

• Dance, victory, and taunt animations have been added to a number of Heroes.
• Cloth physics have been added to a number of characters.
• Facial Animations have been added for the following Heroes:

• Nova
• Chen

• The following Hero Skins and Skin Variations have received visual improvements:

• Blood Elf Tyrande and all variations
• Roller Derby Nova and all variations
• Shan’do Illidan and all variations
• Spectre Nova and all variations

General Gameplay

• Core

• Health Regeneration has been removed from the Core, but Shield regeneration is unchanged.

• Siege Giants

• Health regeneration when Siege Giants are out of combat for 8 or more seconds has been removed.

Garden of Terror

This Battleground has received significant updates.

• Upon collecting 100 Seeds, the Fertile Soil (located near the Core) will automatically grow into a Garden Terror after 15 seconds.
• Once the Garden Terror has spawned, a 1 minute countdown timer will begin. Right click the Garden Terror to take control of it before the timer expires.

• If no player takes control of the Garden Terror within 1 minute, it will reset to its Fertile Soil state, and the team will lose the ability to unleash the Garden Terror.
• 100 Seeds will be automatically consumed whether or not a player takes control of the Garden Terror.

• Infested Servants

• Experience reward increased from 30 (+1.5 per minute) to 60 (+2 per minute)

• Garden Terror

• Experience reward increased from 175 (+5 per minute) to 350 (+12 per minute)

• This specific change refers to the neutral Garden Terror found in the Gardens during the Night sequence.

• Spore Queen’s Curse (Q)

• Radius increased from 2.5 to 3
• The curse is now a persistent effect which continues to pulse once per second for 3 seconds.

• Garden Terror Overgrowth (W)

• Health increased from 960 (+55 per minute) to 1250 (+80 per minute)

• New Ability: Sprint (E)

• Increases the Garden Terror’s Movement Speed by 30% for 3 seconds

Haunted Mines

This Battleground has received significant updates.

• The underground mines have been reduced in size and received layout changes, which will allow the mines to be cleared more quickly.=
• Skull collection has changed:

• The underground mines now contain 35 Skeletons, each of which drop 2 Skulls upon death.
• The Grave Golem in the underground mines now drops 30 skulls.

• Mercenary Camp count reduced from 5 to 3.

• Merc Camps include two Siege Giant Camps and one Knight Camp.
• Mercenaries captured by a team now only attack down the lane opposite from that team's Grave Golem.

http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/battlegrounds/haunted-mines/@2.5480,11.2500,3z,underground

General Talents

Cleanse

• Cast range increased from 7 to 10

Healing Ward

• Heal amount increased from 2% to 3% per tick

Promote

• Health gain increased from 200% to 300%

Seasoned Marksman

• No longer requires last hits to gain stacks
• Now only requires the player be in proximity when enemy Minions or Heroes are killed
• One stack is earned per Minion kill, and two stacks per enemy Hero kill
• Six stacks permanently add +1 to Basic Attack damage

Storm Shield

• Target search radius increased from 5 to 8

Links

• http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/15787795

Chen Week

Why the fuck is Chen 15,000 gold? (also he’s still only $10)

Chen Stormstout, Legendary Brewmaster, has been added to Heroes of the Storm.

• Abilities:

• Flying Kick (Q)

• Kick through target enemy.

• Keg Smash (W)

• Drench enemies in a nearby area with Brew, slowing them.

• Breath of Fire (E)

• Breathe fire in target direction, dealing damage and igniting Brew-soaked enemies.

• Trait:

• Fortifying Brew (D)

• Instead of Mana, power your Abilities by drinking Brew. Gain a Shield while drinking.

• Heroic Abilities:

• Wandering Keg (R)

• Jump in the barrel and knock enemies around, dealing damage.

• Storm, Earth, Fire (R)​

• Split into three spirits and gain new Abilities.

Links

• http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/15708392
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YfHA77lEw8&feature=youtu.be&list=PL9WtwA1r0_Ta0inrWJFt6bhB4tFgyMCga
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg10A_kCpbk

More Masters Skins

• Zeratul
• Tyrael
• Tychus
• Raynor
• Nova
• Brightwing

Links

• http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/14833863/in-development-master-skins-9-5-2014
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsI6GgXg0UQ

Blizzcon Virtual Ticket

Heroes of the Storm Exhibition Match

Heroes of the Storm Digital Gift Confirmed

Links

• http://us.battle.net/blizzcon/en/blog/15663730/attend-blizzcon%C2%AE-from-anywhere-with-the-virtual-ticket-9-4-2014

Heroes Fire Guides

Example made by SchAmToo.

Really cool write up tools.

Includes heros countered and threats with using this build.

Links

• http://www.heroesfire.com/hots/guide/its-pronounced-dibb-lz-90

Patreon Mention: Patreon.com/ITN

Strategy

Tyrande

Abathur Killer

Turn in Stopper

Emails

Shawn O.

I do NOT want to be able to randomly join games in progress. What I think would be awesome is to be able to suggest a friend to join. For instance, you could just be like hey, our Zagara left the game and Kyle just logged on. You could send an invite to Kyle to say hey, want to come help me finish this game as Zagara so that we can join a new game together? I think that would be amazing. I honestly am not sure if it is possible to implement this system but it would be an awesome possible solution to leavers. My worries is that you could disconnect from a game and someone else would just take your place.

I can't wait until they get custom games back in so we can see real team comps with a certain map in mind. Also I can't wait to just have more characters so we can have more characters for each role.

Just wanted to say thanks for the show, I'm a patreon for both TAC and Into the Nexus.

Mike

ITNer's, been listening to Starcast / ITN for over a year now, first time emailer.  I saw a great use of Swift Storm being used more like a Manner MULE.  Gazlowe looked absolutely ridiculous riding up and down next to our nexus doing nothing but taunting us as we tried to stop the onslaught of mercs and his teammates destroying our nexus.  I tried a few times to engage him but my attempts were completely impotent as I couldn't even dismount him.  He may as well have been raining MULEs on my Hive as an endless wave of Marines destroys everything I worked so hard to build..  Keep up the good work,

MIke

Spazz_wesson: Hey guys!. the load screen for haunted mines has a team comp of tyreal, nova, diablo, arthas, kerrigan. what do u think of that as an actual comp?

Outro

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