Heroes of the Storm - Blizzard MOBA

So couple of days ago I noticed that I suddenly owned diablo despite never having bought him (I've never even owned 7000 gold before). Does anyone know how this happened? I think it coincided with the patch but I'm not sure.

It has something to do with you playing Diablo 3. That's the extent of what I remember regarding that.

Yup, if you have Diablo III on your account and you logged in during the right time period, you got him free in Heroes.

Huh, how far back was this "right time period"? Did I own Diablo all this time without noticing?

edited 25th Aug '15 4:20:46 PM by Druplesnubb

Fairly recent, I think.

Hah. I guess people weren't joking that Blizzard games, particularly Warcraft, houses some of the most toxic communities. So many people in the official forum come to complain because they can't handle losing, and then takes 'competitive attitude' to "Stop Having Fun" Guys level Up To Eleven. And then claiming that it's because they're alpha male and 'destined to lead and be successful'.

Bunch of overrated know-it-all craps...

Mute all and never look back. People who parrot twitch memes don't deserve an ounce of acknowledgement.

Well it's the FORUMS. It's rarer to see such people who cries "Quick Match is for casual trashes" etc in an actual game chat. But in forums, it's daily food, shits we see everyday. Also including people saying "LOOK AT MY STATS AND MMR AT HOTSLOG! I AM BETTER THAN U LOSER"

Seriously, though, how much do you depend on Hotslog to judge a player's value?

So... 'Ignore Post' and never look back?

edited 6th Sep '15 9:15:33 PM by ChrisX

I haven't run into many jerks in-game, thankfully. I think I've just been incredibly lucky.

I don't meet them often either. Sometimes I met them, yes, but not in a 75% rate that some whiners boasted in the forums.

edited 6th Sep '15 9:14:22 PM by ChrisX

Well, it's always the awful people that are the loudest and that proclaim themselves to be the most numerous.

It's like how The Hashtag That Won't Be Named only has < 400 members at this point, but they're still out there, ruining lives.

lolo what kind of loser nerd even reads forums anyways

....oh.

Apparently I got a mount from hitting level 70 in Diablo 3 this season.

I kinda wish it was a mount in WOW instead.

Sorry I'm late, you needed me for something?

I say "that was the worst game ever" so much that it has almost no meaning, but that was the worst game ever.

Over half an hour and level 26-27 in a bot match. Neither stealth assassin came to team fights. The dragon knight only fought heroes. Our Nova used Precision Strike to clear minions and merc camps. Our Anub'arak ignored the over-extending Azmodan that I pinged twice, five feet away, to clear minions. I'm pinging the enemy Johanna I'm dueling as we slowly, slowly run back from our keep all the way back to the top shrine, I disengage before her whole team shows up, nobody even attempted to help me.

edited 8th Sep '15 9:13:32 AM by Rotpar

Well, excuse me for mingling in a place full of childish brats like the HOTS official forum in Battle.net, but something piqued my interest.

What's so special about these two characters in WoW: Milhouse Manastorm and Hogger? Seriously, many wishlist seems to want them in, and Milhouse... I'm seeing as an official joke/hilarious character, and Hogger... being a normal Giant Mook that happens to have Butcher's phrase ("Fresh Meat!"), and some stupid trolls foolishly think that Butcher is just a Hogger knockoff (Clearly they never know the terror of the Butcher in the old Diablo games).

But seriously though, what's so special or memetic about Milhouse and Hogger?

Hogger used to be the first (or among the first) elite mob encountered by Human players before Cataclysm. For a little while, Blizzard kept track of just how many people died to Hogger - this fact, when revealed, afforded Hogger some memetic significance.

Eventually, forming raids of naked level 1 characters to try and take down Hogger was a popular pastime.

As for Millhouse, he's a gnome mage with an... inflated... self-worth. He does, however, use some wonderful lines when casting his spells ("Ice, ice baby!" when casting frostbolt, for example). Players set him free from the Arcatraz, and intergalactic prison where he was incarcerated alongside some truly heinous and powerful beings. Most agree he was kept locked up because of how annoying he would be to have roaming around.

I believe Millhouse died post-Cataclysm, when he was devoured by a rock worm in the Stonecore, but someone with a better grasp on the lore might be able to confirm or correct me on that.

Millhouse actually survived that thing, you can fight him in the Brawler's Guild. Hogger's popularity comes from the fact that he was the first elite npc a lot of players encountered, making him far harder than anything before him. This earned him a place World Of Warcraft's first Memetic Badass, but as a Horde player I was never really in on the joke.

edited 11th Sep '15 2:22:46 AM by Druplesnubb

That explains it. Back when I played WoW TBC in local servers, I used a Tauren, so I never encountered Hogger.

And Millhouse... well, does he even count as a total Joke Character or Lethal Joke Character? Because, uh... he doesn't have a slot in the Character Pages...

Both of them are important enough to be in the initial run of Hearthstone legendaries, so...

As far as them being heroes go, Hogger I'd be fine with as their Gnoll representative (hell, you cannot tell me he's more notable than Stitches). Millhouse? There's already two Warcraft mages and I'm sure there's another one that's best representative of Arcane magic, and as far as gnomes go there are much better choices.

Hm... Willfred Fizzlebang as a hero, with one of his Heroics being to summon a hostile-to-all Jaraxxus (...huh? Oh, yeah, I meant JARAXXUS, EREDAR LORD OF THE BURNING LEGION. Gotta say his name right.) That might not be a bad idea. Gul'dan obviously takes priority as far as Warlock heroes goes, though.

Those two tropes apply mostly to playable characters; Millhouse and Hogger were only ever NPCs in World of Warcraft. They are, however, some of the most memetically well-known minor characters.

edited 11th Sep '15 5:01:02 AM by Fighteer

Memetic, as everyone above me says. Their appeal is all memetic.

Clearly, Hogger would need a trait that does something for him based on hero kills.

I'm still waiting for Blizzard to break and put in Leeroy Jenkins. It's only a matter of time.

Also you are not prepared.

Blizzcon Opening Week - October 28 to November 1

The schedule is up for the Hearthstone, World of Warcraft Arena, Heroes of the Storm, and Starcraft II Opening Week matches, which will sort out the initial pool of competitors into the final brackets to be played at Blizzcon.