Arthas Auto Attack Terror | Heroes of the Storm (Hots) Lich King Gameplay 

Anyone else excited by the trend of patches coming to HOTS recently?

The level 16 frostmourne hungers talent is crazy powerful in the right matchup because the damage stacking from your quest doesn't cap out and having a second empowered attack means you double your stack generation. Definitely seemed like a rough match for poor aa Arthas but good gameplay all the same

My unwavering enthusiasm for the return of pally HotS videos and the potential return of HotS itself continues.

1.6K views in just 1 hr! Is pally an influencer??

here we go! I've used all 3 builds you've described so far. this is my favorite variation. 3 blinds? oof Edit: great game though! I would typically take this build into heavy frontline: tank + bruiser style or if they had dps that didn't have a lot of cc (especially blinds). also my internet was kind of crappy for a while. this one I could just kind of click and pray and it work out sometimes. haha. If Triple A-rthas wasn't the best would depend more on my team then theirs. For this comp I def would have gone deathcoil for more poke. but you knew that. (even commented in the vid) If my team wanted to go in. The root was for general cc and really locking stuff down. Sindy v army was also very burst v sustained damage team. (and of course the map.) but takes a lot of limit testing. I would say in general I went army in the coil build and sindy in the other two. (mostly cause I liked the visual more.) 3 great games with my most used character pally. bravo.

Pally, i know it might take another 3 years, but I'd(and im easily sure others) would love deep dives into future heroes spotlighting different builds. Happy Thanksgiving!

Anyone else have Kel'thuzad's proper name (in Pally's voice*) play through their heads every time they see him in a match? Bliz needs to pay Pally to be an announcer option in the game.

YOURE BACK TO PLAYING HOTS! Unfortunately, i stopped playing HOTS due to work =\

Even with taking Frostmourne Hungers at level 1 it usually makes more sense to take the Q healing talent as you can have infinite mana while healing yourself constantly. This is especially true if they have hard to melee champions which is most of the time.

my go to arthas is similar eternal hunger, great mana sustain allows you to spam self Q for healing, and gives you sizable damage over the game deathlord, lets you poke early game but the best part is the reduced cooldown immortal coil, works well with poking but 50% more healing is always great either ult, they both have good situations to use them frost strike, lower cd and a sizable slow makes locking down enemies easier, and you can stack quicker frostmourne feeds, massive mana gain and you can severely punish people who get outpositioned. embrace death is good but i rarely pick that over FF usually antimagic shell, it would have been great against a KT but an ult upgrade is never a bad choice you get to have good sustain and damage, and your W and E are powerful abilities without a single upgrade, they really dont need anything to be great at restricting movement

Now i have something to watch at bus 🙏thank you !!love this

I remember playing Q + army of the dead. Arthas gets so hard to kill.

Rhime tends to even out the health bar spikes a little but then you lose the quest on your D which loses a lot of potential dps. YMMV

Auto attack build requires anxiety meds.

Thanks for video!!! super good that you play in our super cool game!!!!

GG, rough match-up for the build. Dragon may have helped engage but you probably needed the health. Recommend devoloping OCD regarding frostmourne and ghouls. If you aren't sacc'ing ghouls non-stop you're missing healing. Frostmourne being on CD means less mana, a lot less with this build, as well as damage output. Even baseline it's a good chunk of damage for better than free. The quest for it also doesn't cap on damage. You were hitting for over 450 with it at lvl20 and you only had ~16 stacks.

AA builds are so much fun. They let you be more concerned with your positioning and macro during a fight rather than forcing you to move in a specific way to land skill shots.

A variation of this is my favorite way to play Arthas. Makes him feel like a tanky brawler with nice CC and actually decent dmg

I always go this build on Arthas. You have so much kill pressure and against tanks/auto attackers you’re an unbeatable duelist. If you don’t get focused hard you’ll heal yourself very quickly

For your level 16 talent there is an important distinction between two charges of your “frostmourne hungers” and it affecting your next two attacks. You don’t get to aa reset twice. You don’t get to space them out if you want to. Edit: nvm he realized.

Tough match to have aa arthas. Gotta be my favorite build though because you are always a moment from death but never truly die (kinda poetic for a lich king). The longer you are brave for in a fight the harder you become to kill because of that e effect if you stay on them. Sometimes with this build there is nothing wrong with going to hit the tank until it dies because you will out sustain them if they don’t have enough cc. The biggest downside to this build is learning to deal with the stress of always being close to dying but never actually doing so lol. Keep calm and smackin on

Love these multi look at a hero content videos.

It's really funny how the first game was great for AA Arthas and we went E build, the second game was perfect for E build and we went Q build, and the third game is arguably a decent Q game and we went AA

Frostmourn feeds doesn't give a 2nd charge, just empowers 2 autos. Having a second charge would let you tap your trait twice for insane burst. I.E. auto, trait, auto, trait getting 2 auto resets in a very short window.

Thhe opposing team needed Johana and Artanis for the ultimate blind challenge

pally "I'm fine." me: "....are you???" pally "... no I'm not."

My personal fave of the ARthas build, Ive loved these videos

He has needed more sustain for a while now. I find it difficult to be main tank with Arthas.

Good old rune tap+army of the dead. Giving enemy teams aneurysms since the game's release.

That last engagement was clutch! Great game!

Personally I love his Death coil build. It lets you both do fairly good chip damage as well as great self heal. How ever due to the lack of coil talents I know I went hungers for sustain and basically just so long I can hit something, I on paper would never have to back

Thank you for the video. It seemed like you were having difficulty getting in enough auto attacks to get much health from rune tap. When you did hit the attacks they did a lot of damage though.

Def my favourite Arthas build to play, but with the death coil talents at 4 and 7. Just gives a nice mix of consistent self-heal and poke, with hard-hitting melee and mana regain.

is it even necessary to go trait build with rune tap? the talents don't interact in any way aside from lower cooldown on D giving you slightly more auto resets sometimes. You'd already have max attack speed on your second trait hit though. And blinds don't destroy you completely

Is there a group of regulars running around who like to queue together? I've been getting back into Hots (bad) but I'm getting like 10+ minute queues...I've heard it's better with squads but all the chill people I used to play with don't log on anymore.

Why not anti-magic shell at 20 vs the KT combo?

Pally you should commentate HotS tournaments. :)

32 seconds new record

low key such intense fights lol

imo Q build is the best build for arthas, sustain and poke. i think it's just by default good obv the others deal more damage tho.

Mai is very balanced i love her

It doesn’t have.2 charges but attacks 2 times with crit

This Imperius SUCCCKKKEDDDDD

Hey folks, i haven't played HoTS for a long time, what about the situation? Any life sign with Microsoft ? Worth to come back ?

Believe, believe, believe!

You need to focus more on stacking the D talent, pally

New Hero Requests: Belial, Diablo druid character, Orisa, Brigette, and Zenyatta

Should have gone spell imune at 20

Here I am, watching the last of these games. I am going to miss seeing more HoTs, but the game is slowly dying more, and more each day. Maybe I can catch up with Pally playing more League, or he could possibly try playing something else. Like Smite, or even Predecessor.

Nice game

Why try so hard so get that reset basic in trail in early game? In late game sure is understandable but in early isn't better do just stack your trail? Especially match like this

New video!

Too early in the video to cuss😂😂 is that a rule for you on these HotS games?

People still play this shit?

There's been a long while since I last watched you Pally. You are so freaking good on your job, dude! Amazing!

Lets go more HOTS content! Getting back into HOTS and loving all your old videos while I catch up on the A-Z series.

Hedging on a revive following the Microsoft acquisition Pally? ;)

Love the HotS content. Keep it up❤❤❤

Gonna be that guy in the comments, but lvl 16 talent Frostmourne Feeds isnt the same as "Trait gets an extra charge", mainly because of three reasons: -You cant space out or save the 2nd empowered Auto Attack as its own cooldown -You get back both "uses" on the same cooldown -Most importantly, the 2nd empowered AA doesnt reset your AA timer, preventing Arthas for dealing burst damage too suddenly.

Arthas is one of muh faves. I prefer this type of build because the damage can steam roll when the stars align and the death coil lets you choose being heal or finishing off low heath targets, but if the enemy comp looks sketchy, I go full tank and let the team know so they might build/play around that idea early. Ults depend on the map, or what your feelin' at the time.

This is the best ARAM build

Incredibly engaging.

That KTZ was quality

GG, rough match-up for the build. Dragon may have helped engage but you probably needed the health. Recommend devoloping OCD regarding frostmourne and ghouls. If you aren't sacc'ing ghouls non-stop you're missing healing. Frostmourne being on CD means less mana, a lot less with this build, as well as damage output. Even baseline it's a good chunk of damage for better than free. The quest for it also doesn't cap on damage. You were hitting for over 450 with it at lvl20 and you only had ~16 stacks.

Bruh, I love this content streak! Is this going to be the template for every hero like A-Z? Coz that's gonna be a FUCKTON of videos HAHA

I feel like Icebound Fortitude is such a required talent pick at 7 if you are going to be tanking as Arthas. Great video. Bring back A-Z

I enjoy the AA Arthas, but you are so slow, and as soon as you get CCd you can't do anything. Even when you do get into melee it seems like the enemy team often has enough damage to blow you up - and of course you have no escapes!

Fun game, I love Stack-Attack Arthas. You need to spam your R more when you have ghouls out there.

Fave build. Worst matchup against it.

Watched this live on Twitch but still enjoy watching it again.

Glad to see you doing more HOTS content. This is heavy melee focus build. I have it save on my Arthas and pick between this and a build focused on his ranged root once I see the enemy team comp.

Kel'against TOS thuzad

This is my fav arthas build but rarely works for me

Want that HOTS action

Pains to see nobody goes after kt...

This game needs to come out on steam asap

This is the arthas gameplay i wanted, so much fun

Really like these quick fire deep dive series:) hope to see more 🎉

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