#389 - Into the Nexus: “Killed Queen”
• Garrett • Kyle • NotParadox or Guest
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The Queen is dead, all hail King Nazeebo! Garrett is in dire straits. His main is nerfed. Kyle has the solution though, a wacky match special Nazeebo build to share. The community also has ideas about how to help out the Broodmother. They also celebrated CCL Season 3 ending up on the launcher. Finally, the dudes take a look at the Mood Meter. Emails and more! Special thanks to all the patrons over at Patreon.com/itn who make this show possible!
Intro: Welcome to Into the Nexus! The Heroes of the Storm podcast!
Patreon Mention: Patreon.com/ITN
Thanks to our Patreon producers Declan H, Chris K, Shawn B, & Mike R!
Patron Thanks Doc for keeping track
News
Fixing Zagara
- I share Phantom’s fandom of disliked Heroes being OP for a time
- Zag's Q went from OK to OP to great, her Q talents went from OK to OP to garbage.
- Calls the Volatile Acid change boring and weak.
- Calls Baneling Massacre a talent that actively makes Q worse.
- Suggestions
- Halve Baneling damage to structures. Reduce their base damage a little more.
- Tie more of Nydus’s CD reduction to hitting heroes
- Buff Infested Drop (add a slow and consider increasing its speed or radius)
- Multiple talent suggestions in here too.
A Zagara Analysis on Team Liquid
Down 18% to 3rd lowest win-rate hero
Bottom 10 on HOTSlogs | SL - Most recent patch
Heroes CCL on the Launcher
And Reddit shouted out ITN
Links
The Nazeebo Update has a lot hidden in it
Nazeebo
Developer Comment: It's been a hot minute since we touched the Naz man. We like that he's a late-game PvE powerhouse, but we feel there's room for him to have more PvP impact early on. We're adjusting both his Spider and Toad builds to have more of a unique identity and to make them a little more consistent. We're also dumping a pile of jungle spices on his 20s to make them more competitive with the ever-popular Vile Infection.
Corpse Spiders [Q]
Cooldown decreased from 9 to 8 seconds.
Mana cost reduced from 50 to 40.
Level 1 - Widowmakers [Q]
New functionality: Enemies hit by Corpse Spiders’ jar are Slowed by 30% for 1.5 seconds.
Reward: After attacking Heroes 100 times, Corpse Spiders deal 30% more damage and last for an additional second.
Level 1 - Pandemic [E]
Additional functionality: After Hitting 80 Heroes with Plague of Toads, it reduces the damage Heroes deal by 5%, stacking up to 25%.
Sill has: Quest: After hitting 40 Heroes with Plague of Toads, it spawns 2 additional toads.
Level 4 - Blood Ritual [Trait]
Additional functionality: Passive: Takedowns grant 5 stacks of Voodoo Ritual.
Level 7 - Spirit of Arachyr [Q]
New functionality: Corpse Spiders spawns an additional spider.
If Corpse Spiders’ jar hits only one target, spawn an additional spider.
Level 13 - Guardian Toads [E]
Stack duration increased from 1.5 to 2 seconds.
Max duration increased from 4 to 6 seconds.
Level 13 - Superstition [Passive]
Additional functionality: Heroic Basic Attacks that cancel the Spell Armor effect spawn a Corpse Spider to attack the Hero.
Level 16 - Spider Colony [Q]
Additional functionality: Corpse Spider Attacks against Heroes also reduce the cooldown of Corpse Spiders by .125 seconds.
Level 20 - Humongoid [R1]
Additional functionality: Gargantuan Stomps’ area is increased by 25% and its Slow amount is increased to 50%.
Level 20 - Annihilating Spirit [R2]
Additional functionality: Heroes hit by Ravenous Spirit have their healing received reduced by 50% for 1 second.
Level 20 - Fury of the Storm [Passive]
Removed.
Level 20 - (New) Bad Medicine [Active]
Consume 5 Stacks of Voodoo Ritual to become Unstoppable, gain 20% Movement Speed, and 50 Armor for 2 seconds. 30 second cooldown.
Mochrie’s Mood Meter
“The Mood Meter is a really effective tool to help teammates communicate their state of being with one another in an easy and mutually understood way.
Highly recommend y’all use it with your teams and even just when tryharding. Knowing each other's emotional state is huge.
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Emails
The Persian Gamer
I’m in diamond 2-3 and the meta seems super dive heavy but I wanna play morales more since buffs my win rate is 65% but my buddy and I getting dove hard every game even if I’m deckard or whitemane what’s a good anti dive comp? Feel like the best option is tychus with me on morales since they have to focus him or me and either way is a win. Feel free to shorten this Garrett
Thanks for hard work and keep it up
DocB
“Is it sexy, is it broken?”
Ana lvl 20
Deadeye:
Increase Eye of Horus healing and damage by 4% for every hero hit. This bonus resets after all shots have been fired.
Additional functionality:
Sleep Dart and Biotic Grenade can be used and have global range while Eye of Horus is activated. Upon activation of Eye of Horus, Sleep Dart and Biotic Grenade cooldowns are reset.
Outro
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Personal Stuff
Garrett
- Follow Garrett @GarrettArt
- NOMOONart.com to hire Garrett for graphic design and video editing
- The Angry Chicken: A Hearthstone Podcast
- R2-T2
Kyle
- Twitch.tv/kylefergusson
- Kylefergusson.com