

These talents do more than simply add damage to an ability, but may also add new effects, changing an abilities behavior and even utility. With the removal of items, players diversify their playstyle's by choosing special passive -and sometimes active- talents which are available every few levels. In Heroes of the Storm players share experience earned with their entire team. Regardless of the map, these objectives are crucial to ensuring a team's victory, forcing teamfights on a regular basis. These objectives range from collecting doubloons used to bribe a ghost pirate ship into bombarding the enemy's base, or capturing shrines in order to become an imposing Dragon Knight capable of punting enemies afar and leveling entire towers with a few swings of his axe.

Heroes of the Storm offers several highly thematic maps, each with their own main objective teams will want to compete over.

Based on the player's choice, Heroes of the Storm will attempt to match players with other teamate's whose heroes compliment the team's composition. Unlike other MOBA's, HoTS forgoes items and traditional ability progression, in favor of passive augmentations to their abilities which players can choose from at set level intervals.īefore each match, players will select a hero from one of four archetypes available. Heroes of the Storm is a fast-paced MOBA from Blizzard Entertainment which pits heroes (and villains) from each of the studio's iconic universes against each other in several objective oriented maps.
