#43 - Into the Nexus: “Title”

• Garrett • Kyle 

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

F2P Murky Week

Tyrael last week

Kristen’s Pracaticing Illidan, so i got to play lots of abathur.

Thanks to everyone who voted for Into the Nexus

We got third place as the Favorite Heroes of the Storm Community Show in 2014 for Blizzard/Twitch.tv’s Stream Awards.

Links

• http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/18313045/and-the-winners-are-%E2%80%A6-3-18-2015

Reddit GiveAway Results! Congrats!

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News

Reminder, you can go to ITNcast.reddit.com to submit stories or upvote submissions for the next episode.

Sylvanas and Tomb of the Spider Queen Next Week!

Trikslyr Post on the official forums this week saying:

“First, let's talk about Sylvanas. She will be coming out next week, alongside the new Battleground: Tomb of the Spider Queen. We're looking at the beginning of the week, but this timeframe may shift if any issues arise, and we'll be sure to let you know if that happens.”

Spider Queen Load Screen Art

Trikslyr also said: “we want to increase our communications about what's occurring internally. We have two blogs coming out this week to help with that task. For the first blog, we've altered our past series, Developer Insights, to become more of a "Heads up" type of article. We'd like to let you in on some of the changes we plan to make, and what you can expect from the next patch. It won't detail all of the changes we’ll be making, but will include some of the highlights we think you'll find interesting...”

“Our second blog, mentioned above, is a new series that we’re planning to revisit every couple of weeks. These blogs will focus on some of the topics that consistently surface around the community.”

The first one will debut tomorrow, and it'll focus on tighter matchmaking, performance improvements, and toxicity. Make sure to keep providing feedback so that we can continue to address topics that are important to the Heroes community.

Links

• https://twitter.com/BlizzHeroes/status/578273004892762112
• http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/forum/topic/16648684962?page=18#new-post

Developer Insights with Matthew Cooper

Abathur

• Jan. 13 talent update caused a win percentage drop for Abathur that was more than the team wanted.
• Incoming Heroic Changes

• Ultimate Evolution 

• no plans to bring back the ability to copy your teammate’s Heroic
• we do believe we’ve found a happy medium by increasing the power level of the Ultimate Evolution and decreasing the overall time you’ll control the clone.

• Monstrosity

• the duration is permanent.
• We feel like this offers Abathur more opportunities to build up stacks and possibly even bring it to team fights.
• The cooldown of the ability will not start until after the Monstrosity is killed, so the opposing team can create a window in which they won’t need to deal with the split pushing capabilities of the Heroic.

• Aside from his Heroics, we’re also altering a few of his Toxic Nest talents. We think they are much more appealing now and hope you'll agree.

Double-Support Meta

• We believe playing double Support should be a strategic option for players, but we want to make sure the composition does have appropriate downsides. For now, know that we have a number of new heroes incoming that could help shake up the playstyle.

Uther

• Eternal Devotion is looking problematic. Since Uther can’t be CC’d when he is a ghost it leads to situations where ghost Uther is more effective than live Uther. “...such as landing a strong Divine Storm or denying objectives.”
• Incoming talent rework for Uther.
• “Uther’s ghost will lose all of his base abilities, and now showcase a different heal on a lower cooldown. The role of that ghost will be to continue supporting your team with heals, after dying, rather than being the powerhouse it currently is.”

Murky

• In the next release, we have made some quality of life changes to the little murloc that should help him out, but we don’t expect this to raise his win rate drastically. We are cautious about making major buffs to Murky, as too much could put him a stronger state than we intend. We will monitor how our changes affect Murky’s play and will likely make further buffs...

Stitches

• They’re happy with the changes that affected Hook-and-Gorge last patch. They’re seeing Putrid Bile chosen more often and less first-pick Stitches.
• They’re looking at reducing Stitches’ overall damage and “tankiness”.

Diablo

• Internally they’re testing various talent changes.

The Lost Vikings

• Overall the team is happy with how Vikings are working out. No major changes planned.
• Longboat has an “extremely” high pick-rate over Play Again. Also does too much damage. Minor nerf incoming.

Links

• http://us.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/18278126/developer-insights-a-look-into-the-next-patch-3-18-2015

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Patron Thanks

• Mark
• Jason P
• Simon H

New Patreon Goal! Garrett and Kyle Cast Heroes! (In Suits!)

$1,000 per month

Once a month we will select one of the most popular Heroes replays and cast it! Garrett will say things, Kyle will say sillier things! All in an informative and high-energy setting. Suits shall be worn! Bows shall be tied!

Strategy

Jelako

I've started to use Blood for Blood on a few different Heroes. Could you go over the talent, which heroes have the talent, what happens when you have 2-5 Heroes and all take and use it simultaneously and if it synergizes with shrink?

Blood for Blood

Cooldown: 60 seconds

Activate to steal 15% of target enemy's Max Health and slow its Movement Speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

Heroes with Blood for Blood:

Anub’arak

Azmodan

Illidan

Kerrigan

Murky

Rehgar

Thrall

Tyrael

Valla

Bad Heroes against Blood for Blood:

Since it steals a flat 15% you should target a tank with a high-health since you will get more health in return.

Diablo

Stitches

Tyrael

Arthas

How Heroes of the Storm modifiers Stack by ZoeyZolotavo

Damage modifiers on the same entity are added together and then applied.

• For example, Sonya's Berserk (+40%) and Shrink Ray (-50%) are resolved to -10% and then applied to her damage. BA*(1.0+0.4-0.5) = BA*0.9.

• Example 2: Hunter's Mark (+25%) and Searing Arrow (+40%). BA*(1.0+.25+0.4) = BA*1.69.

Attack speed modifiers are added together and then applied.

Some speed modifiers are added together.

• Example : Town Hall Slow (-40%) and Sprint (+75%) are added to make your speed 135%.

Some speed modifers multiply your speed after other modifiers are added together.

• Example : Town Hall Slow (-40%) and Sprint (+75%) are added to make your speed 135%, then multiplied by Hunter's Prey (+25%), making your speed (135*1.25) around 169%.

Healing modifiers appear to be applied separately. 

• For example: Amplified Healing (+30%) and Rehgar's Healing Surge (+25%) increase the healing done to (1.0*1.3*1.25) 162.5%.

Some effects don't stack

• Hunter's Mark (+25%) doesn't stack with another Hunter's Mark.
• Hunter's Mark doesn't stack with Brightwing's Critterize (+25%).
• The speed boost from Brightwing's Pixie Dust doesn't stack with mounts.
• Sprint doesnt stack with mounts.
• Raynor's Revolution Overdrive (+10+%) doesnt stack with mounts.
• Town Hall Slow (-40%) doesn't stack with Pinning Shot (-30%).
• Brightwing's Sticky Flare (-30%), Stick Powder (-50%) and Town Hall Slow (-40%) don't stack.
• It seems debuffs don't stack. Slows don't seem to stack with one another. If you have Town Hall Slow, Shrink Ray and Pinning Shot, all the debuffs will be applied but it will just use whichever is the most effective at any give moment.

Ability Power modifiers are added together and then applied.

• For example: Snipe and Ambush Snipe (+20%) and Gathering Power (+20%) is calculated like this: SnipeDamage*(1.0+0.2+0.2) = SnipeDamage*1.4.
• Example 2: Snipe, Ambush Snipe (+20%), Gathering Power (+20%), Overdrive (+25%) and Shrink Ray (-50%) is calculated like this: SnipeDamage*(1.0+0.2+0.2+0.25-0.5) = SnipeDamage*1.15.

http://www.reddit.com/r/heroesofthestorm/comments/2mh7kp/how_heroes_of_the_storm_modifiers_stack/

http://www.heroesnexus.com/talents/998-blood-for-blood#related:heroes

Landon

My questions is about hunter's mark. Does the additional damage that an enemy takes from hunters mark end up counting towards tyrande's damage output or does it count towards your teammates output that are hitting her target while the mark is on?

Wishlist

Thousands_of_Retiree

Hey guys, tell me what you think! Firebats are awesome units flavor wise and I feel like one would be very fun to play, don't know if I should change him from warrior to specialist, but there are no Starcraft warriors yet so…

http://www.reddit.com/r/ITNcast/comments/2z2xeg/firebat_hero_concept_talents_included/

Gui Montag (Pronounced Guy Montag)

Character from the Bonus Enslavers Campaign after Brood War

• Firebat
• Melee Warrior
• Does not have mana bar, instead has fuel
• HP-900
• Fuel-150
• Speed 100%
• Basic attack range- 2
• Basic attack fire rate- 4/s
• Basic attack damage- 10+3/s for 5 seconds

Trait- Perdition Flamethrowers Basic attacks and abilities deal DOT, basic attacks deal splash damage (equal among all targets). Activate trait to refuel, must stand still, recharges 25 fuel/second refueling.

• Q ability- Need a light? Cooldown -6 seconds

• Cost- 10 fuel/ second Furnace aims his flamethrowers akimbo style and ires in both directions while standing still, activate to channel for a minimum of 3 seconds, maximum of 10, deals 18 damage/s and standard DOT. use move keys to change direction of flamethrowers.

• W ability- Scorched earth!

• 20 second cooldown, 25 fuel cost Furnace fires his flamethrowers in a circle around his feet, dealing 80 damage and leaving a circle of DOT that persists for 5 seconds.

• E ability- What's cookin? Medium range skillshot, furnace aims his flamethrowers behind him and charges, dealing 50 damage and leaving a DOT trail, enemy heroes hit are stunned, collision ends charge.

R1

• Pyromania Long range skillshot, 60 second cooldown, costs 100 fuel. Charges and increases in range, size and damage for longer channel, similar to gazlowe's lazer. Fires a massive burst of fire that leaves a DOT trail.

R2

• Fuel splash 30 second cooldown costs all remaining fuel Deals damage in a circle around furnace, leaves DOT trail that remains for 20 seconds, damage and radius increases by amount of fuel used.

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Firebat

Emails

Jonas from Sweden

Like you I'm a huge Blizzard fan, and I have experienced my share of bitter defeats in multiplayer gaming. I've never been a sore loser on an angry gamer, but since getting into the Heroes of the Storm beta and getting into some Quick Matches, I've experienced some of the most intense and infuriating frustration I've ever felt. I've literally been close to throwing my mouse into a wall and breaking my keyboard in half, and that's really not something I'd be prone to do otherwise.

I get into a fight with one or more enemy heroes. I quickly realize I'm gonna lose the fight so I decide to flee well before my health gets dangerously low. I then get slowed or stunned or some crap and I can barely move or do anything, and in just a couple of seconds, I'm dead.

Losing is fine, big deal, I still get xp, but it's that feeling of loss of control of my hero that really gets to me. It's a deeply frustrating sense of detachment in a similar way as having a glitchy mouse or a laggy internet connection. If I had full control over my character and still got killed, then so be it, but that sense that there not a damn thing I can do about it once I get stunned or slowed or whatever is for some reason infinitely annoying to me.

Because of this I find myself playing a lot of co-op games instead. I would prefer the challenge and excitement of an actual multiplayer battle, but it's just too damn frustrating a lot of the time.

Is this something you can relate to?

Of course different heroes have different abilities and talents to deal with this sort of stuff, so maybe you have some tips on heroes that are extra good at getting out of fights and avoid getting stunned?

Thanks for a great show, I've been listening to you two guys since SC2 was in beta!

Skelephant

I was invited into the Heroes of the Storm Beta a couple of days ago, and I am enjoying it thus far.  One thing that has stuck out to me has been the music in the game.  I have come to expect good music from Blizzard, and they have not disappointed with HotS.  I love the main theme, the Cursed Hollow theme, the battle start music, and many of the other tracks in the game.

 What are your favorite themes?  

What themes from other games would you like to see in the game?

Thanks for the great podcast!

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