Here’s a summary of the Heroes of the Storm panel!
- A lot of people are getting invites now
- Closed beta starts on january 13th
- Draft mode is coming soon
- Works like standard MOBAs
- No duplicate heroes
- Battleground known before heroes are selected
- All ranked modes will use draft
- Coinflip to start picking
- Picking order goes
- team 1 picks 1 hero
- team 2 picks 2 heroes
- team 1 picks 2 heroes
- team 2 picks 2 heroes
- team 1 picks 2 heroes
- team 2 picks 1 hero
- No hero bans
- To keep games shorter
- To keep amount of heroes you need to own low
- Ranked play
- 5-man premades will be high-end ranked
- Two ranked leagues, one for groups under 5 (Hero league) and the other for 5-man premades (Team League)
- Ranking system based on Hearthstone
- Win to get points, losing loses you points
- 50 ranks, 50 to 1 (top)
- MMR affects point gain, playing against better opponents gives more points
- Season based
- Like HS, you gain points for the next season based on rank
- Personal skill rating used for MMR, carries over from season to season
- Hero league fills team based on skill rating
- Will try to match you based on premade size. A 3-man premade will be matched against another 3-man premade
- Will only use person skill ranking
- Player level 30 needed to queue in hero league
- Team league requires you to make a team with a team name, akin to Arena
- Up to 9 players on each team
- Can join 3 teams per account
- Uses team skill rating, not personal
- Must be hero level 40 to queue for team league
- Tons of stats available for teams
- On the subject of leavers
- Stripping people of game rewards didn’t motivate people to stay
- Leavers will get flagged if they leave too often
- Flagged leavers will be matched with other flagged leavers
- Flag will be removed if you play enough games without leaving
- Might not be final implementation
- New heroes
- Jaina
- Ice mage, looks a lot like War3
- Water Elemental – Ultimate
- Frost ring
- Blizzard
- Thrall
- Bursty DPS
- chain lightning
- Sylvanas announced
- Curses, can shut down enemy minions and towers
- Ultimate, mind control
- The Lost Vikings
- Fans demanded them every time they talked to blizzard
- 3 heroes at once
- Can be controlled at the same time or seperately
- Each hero can complete objectives by himself
- Very difficult character
- Ultimate is a ship
- Jaina
- New Battlegrounds
- Sky temple
- Capture the 3 temples
- Fight temple guardians to capture them
- They shoot beams of death at your enemies
- A desesrt in the sky, lots of water and trees as well
- It’s all about the magic
- Egyptian themed buildings, mercs and minions
- Tomb of the spider queen
- Collect gems to summon queen
- Underworld
- Diablo stage
- Heaven, good vs evil
- Half map angelic, half diabolic
- Sky temple