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[@terq8370]

When you deal about 20% of Muradin health in one single skill with 3.5s cd this becomes illegal.

[@Label07]

Yep, Tass broke atm

[@mindurownbusiness463]

When you suddenly see 8% dmg and then tower changes. You know blizz hired some1 from riot.

[@manniefaces]

@@Label07 and yet so many are struggling with him and complaining he is bad. I lulz at them.

[@azurblueknights]

@@manniefaces My biggest complaint is that Storm and Wall are stupidly short-range compared to his Q. Its sometimes really jarring to be poking at the enemy with Q, then realize that you have to get a hell of a lot closer if you want to hit them with Storm or try and block them with Wall. It means if you expect to get any use at all from Storm, you have to go for Psionic Echo at level 7, but doing so makes you miss out on more Q. It becomes this weird little thing were Storm might as well not even be a part of his kit, as its damage isn't anything special, its extremely short range, and its easy to just walk out of or ignore. Hell, he doesn't even have an actual Storm range increase talent any more.

[@Scooper396]

@@azurblueknights the lvl 1 storm talent increases its range, but again, you miss out on more q damage.

[@ducky2379]

I wish the wall looked different with the dark nexus skin :(

[@SheTheOneOfDreams]

Maybe it will look different , remember this is from pbe

[@ducky2379]

The Dreamer pbe? Do you mean ptr? I’m pretty sure this is from the actual release. Even if this was from the ptr they’re usually looking to balance things before the official release, not make last minute skin changes.

[@tomasdiethelm6553]

Mecha Tass remains the superior skin

[@basbas192]

That shared spell power with Lucio is crazy. It even increase his healing. This is so good.

[@spencerlamirand4064]

Good eye

[@TheYoungWolfI]

As a protoss fan, I am once again happy with HotS these days.

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Robocopp 33 high templar were NEVER EVER healers or defensive casters of any type (not TECHNICALLY true, but 99% true) Here are their abilities in starcraft: Hallucination: create a fake copy of target unit Feedback: drain all energy from target unit, convert it to damage, and deal that damage to target (basically, instagib spellcaster) Psionic storm: pretty much how it works in HotS: damage over short time, large AoE (much stronger in starcraft tho, when everything is a minion wave) Archon: sacrifices 2 high templar to morph into an archon So they're pretty much made to be insane spell damage assassins. They've never been auto attackers or had laser beams though. For the longest time, they didn't even HAVE an auto attack. Archon is perfectly accurate: incredibly tanky, AoE auto attacks. In lore, archons basically do psi storm auto attacks. Nerfed a little bit for gameplay reasons

[@tomasdiethelm6553]

@@zaxtonhong3958 hallucinations were moved to sentries in SC2, so high templars were actually pure damage casters, and sentries were more like the defensive ones (clones to soak fire, force fields, shield)

[@ChiefLibrarianLothric]

@@zaxtonhong3958 but you know. Tassadar is must be special, because he destroyed Overmind... Make sense, right.

[@TheYoungWolfI]

@Robocopp 33 Yes Tassadar feels more like a high templar than before. If you're ever interested in a space epic story, in my opinion way better than Warcraft's stories (Arthas falling to the Scourge is a photocopy of Kerrigan falling to the Swarm, but Kerrigan is Game of Thrones level badass), I highly recommend grabbing StarCraft Remastered on Battlenet/the Blizzard app. It's more than worth the $15

[@zaxtonhong3958]

Lord General Argarus You get to control tassadar in sc1. He had normal HT abilities. At no point in starcraft would you think of tassadar as "the shields guy"

[@SpudLord_PhD]

My favorite build still was the Hyper Car build for Tassadar that you created. I miss that.

[@googiegress]

The build is not really dead, as long as we remember it.

[@SpudLord_PhD]

@@googiegress So true

[@garrettjohnsen]

I haven’t played HoTs in a loooong time. I don’t even remember too much. BUT I do remember that sweet racecar build!!

[@harz632]

THe objective tower aggro issue is really snowbally, if you are behind having such an objective is less impactful as you aren't safe to push with it, if you are ahead you can actually have a beefy tank take tower aggro to keep the objective alive for longer making it worth more then before, this should be changed as it makes combacks harder and more risky to do even if you manage to outplay the opponents.

[@Lucius1246]

Keep the content coming pally!

[@TheArchanjel]

Been a while since I've watched a Pally vid. I see you're still kickin' ass and making entertaining videos. Good work, Pally!

[@jareypoohbears]

I love how now people can't just senselessly dive towers without any actual consequence. Now its a lot higher risk which it should be for a kill.

[@AnRaksha]

I noticed oracle was not revealing creep tumors, but it does reveal stealthed heroes. That a glitch?

[@shadowless2960]

"We were able to just chill and sit still" IS THAT A FUCKING PUN

[@tommysuter4053]

The towers kept focusing the Dragonknight as soon as it entered the range. It did not matter if a player was hit or not.

[@VArsovski10]

Nah, pretty sure he burnt Li Ming a bit and procced

[@Krigzulv]

@@VArsovski10 towers and structures always focused the dragon knight, even before this patch

[@tazzioboca]

It would be super dumb if they didn't focus objectives. Even AI controlled, such as punishers and eternals.

[@SLiV9]

But note that now players can take priority away from the Dragonknight, e.g. at 19:01 Thrall goes from full health to less than 25% even though the Dragonknight is standing next to the fort.

[@ikkiville]

@@Krigzulv "Always" isn't quite true, the Tower's focus priority has changed a few times, but rarely was it mentioned in the patch notes. Blizzard seems to like doing undocumented changes. Which I think is BS.

[@shaneaghan7013]

Mate you've made me want to get into HOTS again! ty for your videos so good!

[@ducky2379]

12:20 heheh "chill"

[@TheNotSoIrishGamer]

I'm so glad you tried this build out, this is how tassadar should be played. Before Tassadar, as one of the most influential protoss in starcraft history, felt super underwhelming to me, but now with this huge abilities feels like the amazing mage eh should have always been.

[@frankiebooks]

Yes perfect timing Thanks pally!!

[@JamesEDonaldson]

Tass comes out Me: Man I love his shield build Changes Me: They weaker, but I love putting permanent shields on everything on the map Changes Me: These temp shields are kinda useless, hard to support but will still do it Changes Me: Regen shields are the only way to go, but least they more usefull Changes Me: Where the shields!?

[@3rdworldvictimyouvebeenlie817]

Underrated af :D :D :D

[@orppranator5230]

These are exactly my thoughts over the years!

[@xPandamon]

I wish they didn't ruin auto attack build. That lvl 1 talent is just awful. Instead of a second useless tether they should've given him 100% more auto attack damage on completion, not only would he deal actual damage to his main target, it would make the one tether left much more useful.. It's just badly designed I think.

[@aaronolson6736]

I feel like the idea of it being AoE chain could be built into. Beam is only a 10% slow, so maybe each tether can increases the damage and slow

[@xPandamon]

@@aaronolson6736 Yeah, it needs something else. Right now that build is neither good for damage nor cc. The tethers just seem kinda pointless since there isn't any real benefit from them (unlike before, when the increased beam slow transferred to the tether if I'm not mistaken)

[@Braxtonkai]

Had my longest game of hots ever because of these changes, (my) mostly melee team vs a team with mass wave clear. Pushing a wave into tower range, but could never get close enough to press the keep or the enemies defending it almost an hour.

[@mindurownbusiness463]

Tower changes need some looking into. right now the rule set is retarded. I was playing Gazlowe on VF, I put my turrets on the belt when I was in the bottom lane. I was pushing bottom lane my turrets hit guys standing on the obj in the middle, the towers on the bottom lane targeted me while I had a whole way on minions with me. Ate 4 shots and almost died.

[@xRiizo]

I actually like that the objective doesn't soak the tower anymore. It means people can't snowball as hard. Like when they push with punisher and just tower dive and destroy your team, you have no way to defend against that since they're already ahead.

[@arthuremo112]

As a former Hots player, i dont know how to feel about this rework. They decided that Tass is not going to be a support anymore?

[@JasonJoestar]

He's so strong now. Maybe too strong. I do insane hero damage... like triple other assassins..

[@IMaxMastersI]

Nice, what's the build?

[@Facepalm9]

Your refusal to use your wall in a lot of different scenarios was making me rage hardcore.

[@NinjaDimes]

It was his first game on tass since the changes went live... its normal Pally isn't going to be 100% on point with all his skills yet, even if wall is reworked from the ult

[@cheesejuice_]

wow this game looks so fun Why I keep playing this old piece of League still

[@kamuishr3]

So... Tass went from support to dps caster... Ok...

[@whenthewingedhussarsarrive6061]

Well it looks like the towers don't even auto focus on player based objectives... Weird (19:00 for those interested) Edit: Wait did the keep prioritize the valla at 19:41 instead of the obj? Pls tell me this is not supposed to work that way

[@Soladat]

towers only focus player based obj if its attacking another player iirc

[@FengshenNL]

"Allied Heroes of the structures who are being attacked by enemy Heroes will cause the structure to focus the offender *until the offender is dead or leaves tower range* ." Source: patch notes. Aside from that, the tower *does* seem to focus objective passively, even when player controlled, as long as no "offender" of the above rule is present. See the difference between the beam when it's passively targeting and when it's actively targeting an offender (white/dim vs. red/bright)

[@Ballacha]

using blackhole to line up your Q is the way to go. melting doulbe/triple frontlines all day.

[@DakkaBert]

I had a really fun game using black hole to bowl the enemy team into electric fence

[@Zora147]

Does Archon make you unstoppable? 12:44 That ring of frost definitely hit. Archon increases Tass' hit box size visually but maybe not internally, the game still goes off non-Archon's hit box. Maybe a bug or intentional.

[@sherlockinsomniac]

HOTS has been my favorite game since beta. Ive quit playing since last august, but im super happy to still see it alive and well. Ill come back one day

[@jellevaneijk9397]

it's not alive and well, last patch ruined it.

[@ducky2379]

I think the biggest mistake with the new tower changes is that they don't reaggro to minions/mercs/other pve after some time that you stop damaging a hero (I suggest 3-5 seconds). You have to completely leave fort range for that to happen. It feels really awkward as the tank when you accidentally hit someone behind the building during a push, and you have to retreat behind your team for it to stop attacking you.

[@ikkiville]

You can also become an invalid target through stasis/stopped or invulnerable, or have someone on your team pull aggro for you. It will just take time for teams to coordinated with the changes.

[@firstnamelastname5310]

the squishier thing you mention kind of annoys me, because his shield wasn't super substantial without the globe quest, and his panic button was useful but they both had such long cooldowns for basic abilities that you really couldnt count on them. Especially if the enemy team was smart and didnt go to burn all the high damage stuff quick, its like waiting for the medivh shield or divine shield to really go for a big kill. Force wall was a useful ult, if you could use it properly, often times my experience with a friendly tass was that the wall did nothing, or saved an enemy, if you didn't have a team to make use of tass' support he would become some pretty severe dead weight because his damage output was rather paltry especially without archon. Still loved the video and hope you have a great day.

[@Dave-fr8tk]

Played a match earlier, went with movement speed on q for chase and escape , otherwise same build, it is monstrous !

[@xMrDonutx]

Rewatching all of these videos kuz theyre just S tier HOTS content and I always find myself instinctually going for my mouse to choose talents when he levels up lol

[@melonman6522]

The towers changes are kinda BS, got an AoE that hits a hero when you are trying to wave clear? Oh well, oh, your basic attack has an AoE effect and you hit a hero when you were smacking a structure? Sucks to be you. Oh look, you are in range of a structure and hit a hero who is on the opposite side of you from a structure, too bad, still get shot at even if the wording on the change specifically states it's supposed to only be for heroes near the structure.

[@MattiBerlinStrength]

is the game still playable and worth it? ... got the feeling matchmaking is worse and get only pros in quick match :( love dat blizz universe moba.

[@yargolocus4853]

Excellent video. I'm proud of you as a tass main, adapting to new character the he is now

[@drasleon4626]

Agree with your stance on towers not focusing AI objectives, it feels so weird that the objective does nothing for you more than being a catapult.

[@felipemiranda2788]

5:42 - OHHHH LUUCIOOOOO HAAAAARRHHHGHHH hahahahahahaha goddamn it Pally you're funny as fuck dude

[@panagiotisstefanidis7964]

i believe that Tassadar's rework is successful....But we still wait a new hero BLIZZARD!!!

[@jellevaneijk9397]

this patch was the worst thing that blizzard ever did to the game, removing funding didn't hurt this game half as much as this ridiculous patch that changed the game into league of legends but without gold.

[@melgasmenow102]

Rip , my old Friend Tass...

[@PapaBear816]

Ohh Tas is getting nerfed soon enough

[@bradenbradshaw3587]

OneBigBugga Idk man, he feels like a worse falstad and has a garbage winrate, they need to buff his health pretty badly

[@mattmccloskey8102]

Does anyone else think Tassadar screams and yells too damn much? He always did but it almost seems like he's even more vocal than before.

[@drywalleater13628]

I've experienced way longer game times too but especially in brawl games :/

[@angussharington2374]

I like the purple lights :o

[@sympathism]

Had a lot of success with the W + wall build. The W > Q combo, next to having superior range, does so much damage since you get an extra storm, and the damage / mana return on storm is really good. It becomes really menacing having the slow and cooldown reduction on wall.

[@spontaksback]

12:56 literally their medivh was on fire the entire game Jesus

[@spontaksback]

Yuukoosu I haven’t played hots in months but I’m a zera and kerrigan main

[@JD-qo7hm]

Yeah, played against a lot of Tassadars lately. That Q fuckin chunks. I hate it.

[@thovinh5386]

And then there will be super broken objective like the one on Battlefield Of Eternity which can hit tower super hard, the team that got the obj can tank the hit for it and let it two shot towers.

[@jakethornhoffer3612]

If I had a nickle for every time Tassadar's been reworked.

[@rynjp]

Auto attack build absolutely sucks compared to Q. Not even close imo.

[@azure5584]

17:22 You don't really have to make sure to stop moving to trigger it, it's bugged because the Spell Armor still lingers for like 0.5 or 1s after you've moved, so it's working better than intended.

[@ShaggyDerp]

Hey pally, you think Hammer will be OP with the new nexus changes?? Cause he can seige out of range?? Love your hots vids, hope you will continue to make them!!

[@VArsovski10]

Your siege damage came from the Dragon (at least a large portion of it). Regardless, Q seems like a fuckton of damage tbh

[@dietzness]

12:56 This is the weirdest thing. You'd think the ray is already out.

[@trigunvash10110]

surprisingly the psionic storm build was very good when I used it-- it allowed me to be persistent and it built well with black hole 10 and 20

[@Psykroids]

Don't mind me. Continuing the protest to free Pally from Blizzard's clutches.

[@azervakmonocasco4092]

Tass will get massive nerfs, especially to q build. That much damage in 1 ability is just outrageous at this point. Like what is even the point of playing valla when tou can get a character that accomplishes more with less risk

[@Draeckon]

You mean like Hanzo? Seriously, ever since he came into the game, I hardly see Valla anymore. The only thing she does better than him is lane clear, and he also has much better ways of getting away and playing from a longer range.

[@baisansebastian3358]

Are you even being serious? His Q is slow,thin,and a suicide ticket against any ranged assassins or bruisers. Also,Valla is an autoattacker,Tassadar is a mage. Compare Tassadar to mages,and name me a single Mage that Tassadar does better compared to. Because there are not any.

[@Aqualightnin]

this Q is the easiest thing in the game to dodge, its half the side of li mings base orb, and slower. it wont get nerfed, it straight up needs a speed buff haha.

[@baisansebastian3358]

@@Draeckon stop comparing auto attackers to casters lmao. Valla is still devastating if played properly.

[@mindurownbusiness463]

@@baisansebastian3358 He went of on a tangent. He is comparing hanzo to valla while we are talking about mages lol. Tass is like chrome now.

[@smugron1101]

2:47 I still play him in the front lines but i stay back in the early game.after getting my shield generation and archon powerspike i go to the frontlines.because the sheilds never end.he doesnt have the same amount of escape but he is more durable.Which is something i like but i definitely do miss his old e.We have oracle instead now which is basically the same but at the cost of not removing harmful effects and not making you undamageable it gives you a lot of map vision(more than the pre rework oracle does),it gives you health regen so you can egt back into the action faster and it gives you magic shield which will make a pyroblast undeadly unless you are under 7% health.I like the rework actually.More damage and self shielding at te cost of escape and lifesteal.i do miss the getting 500-700 health per aa the shield gave you in archon form but you get so many shields that,if the old tassadar and this one had a duel,the new one would win.and also,yes i did like his old swiss army knife playstyle but him now being more about damage and self sustain makes me like him more than the old one cause of the fact when i hit my powerspikes the only person stopping me is a valeera,illidan or chromie since they are broekn af

[@sneakysneez]

PALLYYYYYYYYYY USE THE GOD DAMN WAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL

[@dstyer6128]

Nerf hammer is gonna hit new Tass really really hard. lol.

[@Mert6630]

how did he manage to get that circle under the hero can anyone help?

[@RebelboyM]

That was fast. Just as fast as Lucio!!!

[@merced175]

Can we talk about how shit the new AI system is?!?!

[@nickpokorny388]

I love the Q build! So much fun.

[@tnin4u]

Despite taking Archon at 10 the lvl 20 Black Hole talent wasn't blanked out. Bug?

[@ikkiville]

Yes it is a current bug effecting all Heroes

[@TheLasViegas]

Lol my friend is the valla, he is alright.

[@trippytofu]

haven’t played since the patch since i’ve been working but it seems like the towers defend more like LoL, which i like. it always seemed too easy to dive people under tower in hots.

[@kevinnmmhmm]

thanks for continuing to make content for HoTS. it's still a fun game that I keep coming back to. keep it up man!

[@florianpaul2201]

So they changed the game to be a little bit more like league of legends ... after the game is practically dead ...

[@ZC.Andrew]

Dead?? Lol wut?? There are millions of active players and new heroes still being added. It will never have as many as LOL but that doesn't make it dead hahaha.

[@TheFeri]

SOOOO, my fav character is finally good? I maybe just download this again

[@Vodhr]

Personaly not a fan of the rework. Edit: Also, agree in the idea that Pushing objectives should be the maim focus of the Keeps and Forts. Thematicaly, it just makes sense that you would have the giant monster/mech should be there to draw away the main focus and allow the players to act more freely under its massive size. Especialy since they are objectives that you need to gain control over, and are temporary boosts to pushing potential. Edit 2: Also, DAMN that Medivh Polymorph save was Sexy AF!

[@mindurownbusiness463]

@Yuukoosu Well played, that was clutch.

[@Bhaadi]

Pally mentioned that the Force Wall didn't stop spells, which got me thinking that what if the skill actually counted as terrain for all purposes? Like Diablo/Auriel wall slams (actually idk if it already works with these), Qhira hook, Lucio wall ride, Hanzo W and so on? Thoughts?

[@ZC.Andrew]

That would make for some very interesting interactions

[@shadowofgaladriel7170]

my rpt dosent work ? why can i play?

[@niklasbagge1607]

You should collab with icy veins to update their tassadar build guide page! :)

[@DeidarasLilStudent]

Yea they're gona need some changes to the tower shots when it comes to vehicles....

[@joemo2215]

Hey Pally, just stopping by to let you know not to pick the AA quest at level 1! It's garbage, you know that glitch you found in PTR? They fixed it, now it just gets you murdered if someone is standing 5 inches away. It's brutal.

[@IMaxMastersI]

Why not the AA quest?

[@CrimsonA1]

Regular comp: we have to cooperate to win game! When Pally in game: Get me to core so I can win game!!

[@ccdencc]

very entertaining. subbed 👍

[@josefplacek4200]

I had 30+min games quite often now... some even 50+

[@daywalker3735]

Damn he looks so fun now!

[@matthewlouther3132]

That would-be kill on muradin that was stoped by the uther was hilarious

[@adriangt154]

Me playing with tass: 10 deaths 30K hero dmg 2 kills

[@crystalgolemcolossus]

Look how they massacred my boy

[@ZenBearV13]

I will always have a special place in my heart for OG Tassadar, but this new version is fantastic! He feels as inexorable as the heat death of the universe. He needs to get a Thanos voiceline: "I am inevitable."

[@ksiadzmateusz9550]

why you not use a wall to stop them

[@Dolwerflamingo]

is dis ded gaym? I want 2 try

[@spontaksback]

19:30 the keep was doing an additional 10% of the dk’s max health per hit

[@MaxRenke]

locked camera omegaLUL

[@manniefaces]

You do more dmg than the minions, you should absolutely be aggro. That it is harder making it feel not right is silly.

[@ardabaser1349]

I think Tassadar was perfectly fine the way he was. I like characters who don't really damage nor heal that much but instead have a lot of quality of life improvements attached to them like medihv or the old Tassadar and I really don't like it when the devs changes these characters so they fit into one of these two stereotypes.

[@captainsternn7684]

How do you unlock that skin?

[@tomfrank6828]

1st

[@scottstorchfan]

Old tass was way more fun. The swiss army knife!

[@mattgarrett2583]

9:20 you say you only got targeted because you went in solo. The towers went out of their way to focus you the second you walked into range even when you did no damage to a hero.

[@ikkiville]

If you are in the DK you have targeting priority with towers unless another Hero activates the Tower with the new "Call for Help" system. Right now the order is (based on distance) 0. "Call for Help" ('0' because it overrides the list until reset) 1. Objective 2. Minions/Mercs/Summons 3. Heroes

[@MrScanko]

need nerf

[@azure5584]

3:32 I don't disagree, but I prefer the (W) build far more.

[@jsloany787]

Dear god, I have been waiting for more heroes.

[@RobinLundqvist]

i have had lots of fun after the changes but just playing falstad lol