.oo6 ; Yet another MOBA?

So for a long time, since the earlier months of League of Legends official release, I was hooked on MOBA's. In fact, I spent about 4+ years playing it, but always got interrupted, or more so distracted, by playing other games. So for about 5 years I'd spend playing, then stop playing, then go back to league, then onto another game. I probably spent over 200$+ on the game on just skins alone. x.x;; "Free to play". OTL Anywaayyyyssss;; Eventually I fell out of league completely, and even though it's still on my desktop to this day, it's gathered a lot of virtual dust(meaning I don't play it anymore.) But Morde es still number 1, huehuehuehuehuehue. (old players will understand).
When I received word that Blizzard was going to make their own MOBA using their 3 franchises: World of Warcraft, Starcraft (specifically SC2), and Diablo (specifically Diablo 3), I gotta admit, I got really excited. Though over time I got distracted by FFXIV, and I had forgotten all about it until I caught up with an old friend from elementary school. He's been playing the Beta ever since the first closed beta. So I decided to join, and it was love from the tutorial and onward. I don't really plan on getting into the details and differences in this post when it comes to LoL vs. Heroes of the Storm, I just want to share my thoughts, and progression <3.

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Throughout all online games, my typical favorite, and go-to-class will always remain healers/supports. So after browsing the store for a while, I came across a ranged support, "Tyrande" who had a mixture of crowd control, and one heal skill. So I decided that I'd buy her first. Andddddddddd, she costs 10k gold, and for those of you who don't play, you get 20 gold per win, and 10 gold per lose, but you always get bonus awards for leveling up to certain levels, and you have daily quests to do which give 300 ~800 gold. But, you can see how much time I spent to get her.
To this day she's still one of my favorites that I have (out of four champions). My other favorite came as a surprise to me. She was on the weekly heroes rotation, and I decided to give her a go. She's a ranged assassin, and a stealth unit, which surprised me down the road because I ended up loving her. She's Nova, and my god she's fun to play. Each hero has their own perks to playing, and Nova and Tyrande are my favorites so far. Heroes of the Storm doesn't have a system like League where you queue up, and then pick your heroes based on what everyone else wants; in HotS you pick your hero and then queue up. Which can be a good thing, or bad thing depending on what kind of team comp you get. Sometimes when I queue as Tyrande, I get paired with 3 other supports, and it can be a huge advantage, or disadvantage based on the enemy team. Then on the other hand, when I queue as Nova, sometimes I get a team of all squishy assassins and one support. Which... lets face it, can be a win/lose situation. So you can see where this gets messy, and tricky, but games typically take 11 ~ 25 minutes long. So if you were to ask me, do I hate it, or love it, my honest answer is, the games are so short it doesn't affect me when it comes to normal games. I've yet to play any ranked/league games yet, so I'm hoping that the queue system is different! (doubt it though)

What really caught my attention a few weeks after playing is they have a different type than league has, called "Specialist". These Specialists are either Heroes that spawn creeps/minions, or have great pushing abilities. (could really just combine the two as well). Sylvanas Windrunner is a Specialist class, and her particular ability stops creeps from attacking, and stops turrets from attack as well. Zagara is also another Specialist I've played. while she can't exactly stop turrets from firing, she summons different kinds of zerglings to help her do her dirty work. both of these heroes are really fun to play, considering their strengths are in lane pushing, and turret take down(s). So now I have a second favorite class type to play as, and I think that's what makes this game, among other aspects, my preference. Alongside Specialists and Support, I do like ranged DPS, preferably mage-like classes. So those are definitely on my to-buy list >:3 Speaking of which, here's my current to-buy list. <3 Currently I'm a little over 9k gold, and Sylvanas is next in line for me to buy, so not much longer ;-;' I'm coming bb! /crawls to 10k gold. OTL

Other than that, here's my stats as of today <3 For now it's back to the ol' grind. Take care :3

If you've read this far... /pets.