It’s interesting you bring up that dissociation. I’ve seen recommendations to actually create a “persona” or character like an actor would for competing. The best example I know of is football/baseball player Bo Jackson from back in the day. He was apparently a really sweet guy off the field, but on the field he was a…

Wow haha.

Good advice, especially #1. If you can help direct people like that (or by being funny, like with the Jaina line), they’ll be more willing to help vs. the sarcasm or outright hostility.

Absolutely. There’s only one consistent thing between matches: you. If things are consistently going poorly for someone and they honestly want to get better, they have to look at their own play (or better, find others to look at it and be open to criticism since we can be very blind to our own faults).

That’s a fantastic point about it always escalating. I’ve never seen a single person jump in and give it back to the person diffuse the situation. The mute button can be awesome. I have a pretty short tolerance before I mute someone - if they’re gg’ing a few minutes into the match or just start spewing crap out before…

I agree with a lot of this. Thanks for posting! And this part: ““oh, well maybe they had lag. or a new kb. or some excuse”

Aw, that sucks. I’ve only played a little bit of Smite, but haven’t gotten that. It’s definitely one of the reasons I got into HoTS is I didn’t encounter any toxic behavior for several dozen games - it surprised the hell out of me haha.

“the designers seem to shy away from fixing problem cards unless absolutely necessary... when this is a digital game that makes it extremely easy to change cards.”

Don’t have him, but I’ve been enjoying having him on my team, especially since QM likes to throw nova+zeratul together. Flare and his boars shuts them down nicely. Speaking of the boars, when they have the lvl 20 talent... auto-rooting the entire enemy team can be pretty harsh.

Good luck! All I know is having 1 Rexxar on each team + my gargantuan +other melee characters = I have no idea what’s happening in a team fight haha.

I didn’t have any for a very long time, or they were very rare. Lately I’ve been getting more and more, though.

Yesterday, I wouldn’t have cared about this.

Thrall is an assassin.

Yeah, very plain. Even the boars. Hopefully he’ll be fun though!

HoTS only has 4 classes/categories though. HoTS warrior usually means beefy with some crowd control. If he had more damage and less health he would’ve been an assassin *shrug*

From Reddit it’s a seperate reduced rez timer if Misha dies and is worth .25 of a kill. If Rexxar dies, Misha dies with him. I’m curious how squishy he is though without her.

I’m actually not sure if the damage stacks (I looked for an answer and couldn’t find one). The circles don’t do much damage, so they might! The big thing from it is it also applies a 2 second stun - and if all the heroes are clustered around each other, since the circles appear under them, they can create a much…

Normally, you can pretty easily move out of it unless it’s set up or you’re in a really chaotic situation. But since he’s dancing, he’s stuck in his animation. Diablo’s ult that he used there is map wide - it places the circles under the entire enemy team wherever they are at the time.

That Tyrael explosion, though. Haha.

Kharazim got a sweet reveal talent, though!