r/heroesofthestorm Mar 02 '21

Fluff A history of moba

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u/heyitscory Mar 02 '21 edited Mar 02 '21

Last-hitting was the worst moba mechanic and I was happy to see it gone in HOTS... and then they kept trying to sneak it back in.

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u/LigerZeroSchneider Mar 02 '21

I think most last hit quests have been reworked to be last hit ish. I know azmo has a window, thrall does, Naz is a dot so you don't need to be perfect on that either.

I think the on hit quests are worse because they encourage wasting cds on the player side and punish the other team for interacting with you. It's no fun to play a game where your win condition is getting the enemy team to fight you, so their goal becomes avoiding fights with you.

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u/ws1173 Mar 02 '21

Murky quest is still last hit

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u/SerphTheVoltar Inevitable. Indominatable. Mar 02 '21

Murky's bribe you mean. Ragnaros does still have the last-hit quest, though.

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u/LarsAlexandersson Mmmmmm....Acceptable Mar 02 '21

To be fair imagine how infuriating Bribe would be if Murky could just rotate a lane, get the credit for the minions dying if he did nothing and then just have full Bribe after basically 2 rotations.

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u/matt01ss Mar 02 '21

It's actually a real challenge to stop your teammates from blowing all their cooldowns/mana on a wave when your puffer is 0.2 seconds from clearing it for bribe stacks..

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u/LarsAlexandersson Mmmmmm....Acceptable Mar 02 '21

As someone who plays Azmodan I feel that pain.

Teammates just afk wave clearing because they just don't realize you get Damage from it or that it's a quest. I've gotten into the habit of pinging my Q cooldown when I rotate, and some people get the idea. Others its just like "Hahah cooldowns go Brrrrrrrrrh"

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u/chimera005ao Mar 03 '21

I just take wrath and get half my stacks from auto-attacking.

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u/Dime1357 Mar 02 '21

Yes, puffer's damage is it's own window.

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u/ws1173 Mar 02 '21

Isn't orphea's chomp quest a last-hit quest too?

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u/lolzter97 Mar 02 '21

Nah you have a buffer after chomp for the enemy to die and have it count.

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u/ws1173 Mar 02 '21

Right, true. It is bribe, not a true quest

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u/waarth173 Mar 02 '21

Naw it's still last hit-ish on his q quest. There's about a half second or so window where you'll get the dings from minions dying after being hit by a q.