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We need more Blizzard-universe skins, and less Nexus skins

...at least for a while.

I know that, notably, the Mecha-universe skins and all are very popular and beloved. And that's okay. I'm not saying they should forever stop making those, but lately we've been having a huge imbalance in favor of Nexus skins, and less Blizzard skins. Star Princess, Mecha, Xeno, Toy, Wrestling, High School, and so on.

 

The reason most of us got into Heroes of the Storm in the first place was to see Thrall go full shaman on Tyrael's ass or a murloc smack the Lord of Terror in the face. The very trailer of this game is a perfect illustration of this.

 

So please give us more:

1) cross-universe skins: eg. what would a Warcraft character look like in Starcraft?

Existing examples: Medic Uther, Protoss Li-Ming, Amazon Nova, Vrykul Leoric.

Skin ideas:

• Mephistolisk

• Abathur as a naga

• Val'kyr Auriel / alternate version

• Mo'arg Tychus

• Purifier Azmodan

• Iron Horde Zarya

• Orc Sonya

• Drust Zagara

• Blood Elf Li-Ming / effects and spells

2) alternate-fate skins: eg. what if a Diablo character had taken a different path (within Diablo)?

Existing examples: Valla as an Angel, Fel-corrupted Thrall, Sentinel Lunara, Malfurion Illidan and Illidan Malfurion.

Skin ideas:

• Man'ari Yrel

• Falstad as a Troll Batrider

• Angel Mephisto

• Firedruid Lunara

• High Priestess Maiev

 

Fun fact: back during the original game's development, they had even done concept art for Wildhammer Uther and Zerg Nova.

 

In short, we need more Blizzard skins.

That's the stuff we are all familiar with. And, this is subjective, but to me it's also the coolest part of the game. What if Uther had been raised as a Death Knight? What if Greymane was a half-Zerg Terran? What if Hanzo had Protoss weaponry? What if Nazeebo was a Troll Witch Doctor?

We love our Blizzard franchises, so it'd be nice to see more of them, and mixing them together was also such a cool concept.

 

Again, I'm not saying they should never do Nexus-universe skins again. But we've had a bit too much of those lately. So please, enough with the Xenocybernetic, Evangelion and Star Princess stuff for a while, give us some Blizzard skins instead.

^{The Alterac event from last year was pretty awesome in that aspect; with Orc Johanna, Goblin Junkrat...}

 

 

^{PS: also I know Valla, Li-Ming and Nova sell well but dangit stop giving skins to heroes that already have dozens of them just for a while- heroes that have never gotten any other skin since they were released should be prioritized.}

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