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The downside? There is one, unfortunately, related to the RPG hero progression on your account. While they are not mandatory in most team compositions for HotS, you can’t argue how the level of fun they bring to gameplay. Specialists range from siege technology to commanders and leaders, and each one is specialized in ways you’ve likely never seen anything close to in other MOBAs. They can be split apart and utilized in different lanes, but they really shine together, and one of their Heroic abilities lets them resurrect their fallen Vikings, making it much harder to get rid of them. Specialists generally offer complex gameplay elements that require a tactical mind and great map awareness to best utilize.

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Warriors come in both spellpower and melee editions, but Specialists are just as their name implies. Your team composition is terrible until it resembles a bad fanfic.īlizzard also mixes up the formula with the introduction of “Specialist” type characters in addition to the more familiar Warrior, Assassin, and Support archetypes. Despite this, the nature of each summon is so impressive and serves specific utility functions, that most players won’t consider the skills to be related in the slightest. For instance, there are several heroes who utilize a “Summon” power from Arthas’ Sindragosa, Kael’thas’ Ashes of A’lar, and Raynor’s Hyperion. Crystal clear visuals go a long way towards giving each hero a personality, even if you aren’t familiar with the game they originally come from. The roster stretches to the four corners of the Blizzard realms of lore, featuring majorly recognizable fighters like Azmodan the Lord of Sin, to the truly obscure with the stars of the SNES title “The Lost Vikings.” As of right now, the characters are all definitely different, even if a few of the heroic powers feel like carbon copies of each other. Like a Rainbow! Blizzard has been pretty good at releasing a variety of different characters since the game was first announced and made playable. With triple A levels of funding backing constant development, more often than not these players were hooked for the long haul, building up a healthy community for launch. Even if the game isn’t genre changing, this marketing machine has ensured millions of players would know about it, and countless thousands would take the time to jump in to give HotS a whirl. However, Heroes of the Storm has the Blizzard Marketing Machine backing it. While it is true that other MOBAs have had winning formulas and failed, it was typically a matter of not enough people at once discovering why they would be interested in the formula. If the popularity of the beta is any sign, HotS has found a winning formula that brings in the hordes without stepping on League’s toes directly. The lack of equipment builds (and ability/trait builds instead), teams leveling in unison, and the host of different maps combined with familiar characters from the Blizzard Multiverse combine to make something entirely unique from what League fans are hooked to. Games that exist simply to dethrone another only go the way of the Dodo. It stands out on its own merits, without trying to crush the competition. Despite how many detractors it has, there’s no denying that it is a popular game. While this usually revolves around hate for World of Warcraft, now that Blizzard is stepping into the MOBA arena, they find themselves on the reverse side of the fence as League of Legends leads the pack by quite a length. Every game has to be a “killer” of whatever is standing at the head of the pack. Which brings me to one of the biggest things I detest about the MOBA community, and the online gaming community in general. There’s enough of a lure for those inexperienced in the MOBA genre that HotS doesn’t need to rely on stealing from its competition’s playerbase to survive. In essence, Heroes of the Storm will stand the test of time because it doesn’t feel like its directly competing to steal the playerbase from other MOBAs. Heroes of the Storm is a stand-out MOBA, and not be reinventing the wheel like SMITE, but instead by locking in the standard MOBA formula with enough freshness to not feel like another copy pasta game.

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There’s been a nice steady series of changes, new characters filtering in, and since I have started, there have been a slew of new maps and challenges added as well! Blizzard has been finding ways to tie the other games together, in incentives to play them that awards players in Heroes of the Storm, which is interesting, not game changing, but interesting. As someone who has been a purveyor of many different MOBAs, some of whom have unfortunately but recently fallen, I do not feel like that is going to be the case with HOTS, and not just because of the backing of Blizzard. I have had the fortune to play Heroes of the Storm since the Technical Alpha, all the way through launch.










Hots long queue times