Is HotS honestly worth getting back into?
I used to play it a ton and really liked the game, but I went on vacation (about a year ago?) and stopped playing since then.
The newest hero when I stopped was Leoric (so all these have come out since I stopped: Kharazim, Rexxar, Lt Morales, Artanis, Cho'Gall, Lunara, Greymane, Li Ming, Xul, Dehaka, Tracer, Chromie, and Medivh).
I played a bunch of Specialist, mainly Murky, Gazlowe, and Abathur.. but I played Johanna in ranked.

Here is what I own:

From what I can tell the games a lot better than it was a year ago.

It's still a MOBA though...so there's that.

Game has improved since last summer.

Still obviously a lot of work to be done. But if you were ever gonna try it out again there is probably no better time than the week of a complete matchmaking ranked system overhaul.

That's the highest you can get after 10 matches.
Every Rank 1-6 gets into Diamond.

Yeah I figured. Seemed like a lot of swings in the other ranks though.

Had a friend who was rank 8 go 5:5 and wound up Plat 5, and another friend who was rank 13 went 8:2 and ended up Plat 1.

So there was def some loosening for most people.

I'm not a huge fan of the 2 month season length. I think 3 or 4 would be more ideal. I mean, short seasons make sense if the game has a quick to reach 'end game' - like Diablo 3 has (where people are farming end game content within 72 hours of a seasonal reset). I feel like HotS doesn't really have a 'end game' unless you are Grand Master. I get the same enjoyment out of a good game last week as I did a year ago when I first started. It doesn't fade over time.

It took me over 6 hours to do 10 games today. So if the average Joe can only play 3 hours or so a night, even if he played every day of the 2 months for 3+ hours he'd probably only get in 300 ranked games. Considering it takes like 5 wins in a row to rank up someone would need, what, over 55% win rate for those 300 games just to move up 1 tier (ie Platinum 5 to Diamond 5). Most players have around 51-53% win rate, so I don't think in 2 months many players will break out and climb to another rank tier without a serious lucky win streak.

But I guess it's a preference thing. They're just testing. We'll see how it feels after the 2 months are up.

This post was edited by TheDutchMan1443 on Jun 15 2016 04:03am

They have to fix so much BS.

Garden being a stupid 24min map.
You need a Vote Kick feature but it's vote Demotion to kick noobs into ranks they belong.
Reconnect.
MMR decay. Idiots coming back after 9 months believing their skills are still rank 1.
Dodge without being punished with QMs. Friend has to do 5 QMs after a Dodge.

Blacklisting not avoid.

People want to show their skills but in HOTS one retard ruins the game and the "comebacks" are total BS. They need to reduce the rip timers if you lost a keep/fort late game.

this

I think most people want 3 months so it will probably change.

The win streak is real today. 8:1

90 points away from my Diamond 1 promotion game

Jesus - DouknowWG has 24 wins in his first 26 games.

This post was edited by TheDutchMan1443 on Jun 15 2016 05:15pm

o shit ur higher ranked than me and daneski and seiqooq

holy

ur a god