Heroes of the Storm-Xul first look and gameplay!
2Xul comes to the nexus today. Is he any good? Will he fit the role of specialist and put up big siege numbers or will he slide more into a DPS role? Let's find out!
Xul is a representation of the necromancer from Diablo 2. While my main in D2 was a paladin, I also made a javazon, a necro and a druid. When I heard he was showing up, I wanted corpse explosion and bone armor. Well bone armor is pretty visible but corpse explosion was hidden in a talent. He also brings poison nova which was one of his signature moves. Xul is a bit like Sylvanas. He can build for sustain in the lane, raw siege power or help sway the flow of battles. His bone jail is awesome for setting up ganks for people like Li Ming and Nova, his skeletal mage heroic is good around cluster points and his ability to animate dead minions might be a terrifying site with Azmodan's cronies. My first game on him was meh. Our Tychus and Butcher were kind of poop. My second game resulted in a hero of the storm and no deaths overall. I think he's a tad squishy and subject to heavy dive but not as squishy as Lunara. Hitting bone shield at the right time is key. I tend to like building into the scythe but going full lane push is also fun. He comes with a Serpentor looking skin and a flying, slithery snake mount. His dance....is pretty fucking creepy.
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