The tank and healer roles are essential, but by design, less represented in any given team composition. The first reason deals with player preferences and proficiencies. Why? Two reasons, both related to drafting. This is not a problem (beyond design intent) when the playing field is even, of course when both teams do feature irregular compositions, but the playing field is seldom even in this respect. Lacking either role closes off several strategic options for your team the game loses strategic depth, and often breaks down to which team fields the greatest abilities to quickly wrench kills away – usually through raw combat mobility or long range poke which makes retaliation difficult. Here it is, then: in essence, I feel that matches where tanks or healers are absent are too different from so-called “normal” matches. But tanks and healers help reduce these outcomes drastically they create breathing room, partly due to their defensive nature and utility, and partly due to the fact that they generally have limited or otherwise very situational sustained damage outputs.Ħ paragraphs in, and I have yet to explain why this is problematic. Structures hit hard in this game, and minions die very quickly.Īctually, everything hits hard most assassins can kill each other in less than 5 seconds heroic ability combos are devastating and almost always lead to kills. Have you ever tried sieging a guarded core without a healer? Unless your team has a 3-man advantage or the help of a map objective, and assuming relatively competent players, this is generally unreasonable to pull off. Healers’ ability to undo damage contributes to safely capturing certain objectives, razing structures, closing out games, and, of course, making mistakes less impactful.
On the flip side, this crowd control also punishes poor positioning dearly… which is where healers intervene. Their access to reliable crowd control allows them to protect teammates as well. The sheer resilience of tanks – which is generally about 3 to 4 times that of your typical assassin or support hero – and general access to long-range mobility allows them to scout with relative safety to contribute to the own safety of teammates. Tanks and healers are what I might call “inhibitors” they inhibit kills. But, you may have observed that matches involving irregular team compositions were either extremely long or extremely short, or that they featured absurdly high or absurdly low kill counts. I understand that the normalized team composition statement is very bold for Heroes of the Storm because we have all experienced those matches where the above rules were all but respected. The damage taken output is normalized for a single healer to handle the kill timers are made for 3 competent damage dealers to handle no tank-switching mechanics are present, and so on.
Why? Because these dungeons are designed, and tested that way. You are allowed to twist party compositions at your own risk, if you can field 5 players willing to partake to the experiment, but the automatic group finding tool will never deviate from the established “1-1-3” norm. In World of Warcraft, dungeons are specifically designed with parties composed of 1 tank, 1 healer, and 3 damage dealers in mind. I’ll develop this point further, but I’d first like to draw a parallel with World of Warcraft’s 5-player dungeons. The premise of this discussion point is a firm belief in the following statement: Heroes of the Storm was designed to be played with team compositions that include at least one tank, and at least one healer.
I’ll try and break it down as simply as I can. This point is extremely complex to discuss because it directly criticizes one of the core aspects of the game, and cannot be separated from resulting issues. Here it is, then: Six aspects of Heroes of the Storm that need improvement. Since Blizzard has certainly delivered on the esports side of the game with HGC, I thought I'd share my thoughts on some of the game's systems. Oxygen goes over some of Heroes of the Storm's features that most need improvement.īlizzCon 2017 will be Heroes of the Storm's 4th showing at our favourite yearly event.
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