This map never worked - Hots / Heroes of the storm

Who remembers the map haunted mines? its a funny thought to me that there are people playing heroes of the storm currently, that have never played this map, perhaps didn't even know it existed despite playing a huge role in the history of the game.
So what is haunted mines, and what happened to it, lets answer those questions.

0:00 Intro
0:16 What is Haunted Mines
1:17 Why was it removed
2:10 Map rework
2:48 Good news
3:15 Conclusion

[Yee-Dev]

Haunted Mines was my favorite map, it felt so unique compared to all the other maps and MOBAs.

[TheSaguache]

I'm a fan of HM and when it got pulled I was sad about the loss.

[timparks]

This was by far my favorite map. I get why it was pulled, but it was awesome how easy it was to pull a surprise upset on this map by having a laner not go in the mines and just wreck defenses and get a solo win.

[lChronosl]

I miss the mines, you could be very smart and/or very silly with the two floors shenanigans.
Also the bugs were funny.

[ued_general]

I remember the haunted mines all to well. Really learned the game on this map. Like the importance of when to ignore the objective and when to get mercenaries. I think it's to bad they removed it. I found it really fun and just thought it needed a little more love.

[DedPoo]

They should remove hanamura. Such a horrible map

[AleksanderFimreite]

Was my favorite map. I cry every time I log in. =(

[thoughtgaming]

I absolutely LOVED this map. I wish theyd bring it back and fix it up.

[DarkSaber]

What they could do is rework it. Keep it a two lane map but make the middle (the mines) a bigger map where the boss randomly appears and players fight over it to defeat the boss first. On the above map could be a few more camps and maybe add some turret camps or something that debuffs enemy players within a certain radius. And while the boss appears, the buildings become invulnerable to player damage, so this will force players to fight for the boss while the minions fight each other (wave clear and bruiser/siege camps become important during this). To make things interesting this map could have three layers of forts and keeps before reaching the core (or just make it a 3 lane map). They could easily rework this map to make it playable and more fun.

[PsyCoCinematics]

Was one of my fav maps, if not favorite. Liked Grave Keeper's call outs in the match, still hope to be on his side when playing on Towers of Doom. Nice thing on the map, if you had a global ability like Nova's Precision Strike, you could help clear the mine and get a cheeky ultimate off on someone outside the mine if they were on in view of a teammate. Could also hop into the mines in one entrance and pop out another one, like PacMan jumping across screen. Could also teleport into the mine to break lock on of enemy abilities too, which cut both ways hah

[mehndarehi]

It was my favorite map! I was about as upset about losing that map as I was when they reworded gazlow. 😪

[Sultschiem]

Loved the map.... liked to play the specialists, who did always well with killing the mobs

[walvens]

I never followed any sort of high rank play, and HM was EASILY my favorite map in the game - it was thematically brilliant and just very funny
I took a break between 2016 and 2019, so the fact that they got reworked *is* news to me, but it very much does make sense

[joseangelmarinromero]

i was a fan of that scenary. I hope return.

[Ramsesamonra]

*I think they always bring it back for HALLOWEEN*

[llynellyn]

Haunted Mines was my fav map back in the day, awesome design, sadly Sylvanas was flat out broken on it. The funny thing is after her last rework this map would be fine now if they wanted to reintroduce it. It's worth noting that OG Hanamura was a far more problematic map than HM ever was, but Blizz actually bothered to fix that.

[UkitakethDivision]

I wish they reworked it to be an ARAM map. It could work really well as a single-lane double layer map with single mercenary camp underground. Alternatively, Blizzard could make just an underground portion of the map an ARAM map.

[hafu]

Want it back ofc. And more maps added in the future.

[Zarcasi]

I stil remember that map, like when the dragon night can talk by himself every time someone summon him and he died, when hanamura has a boss (and work like the towers of doom) and when the gardens has the same mechanic of HM and the snoball was so cruel that you could summon 2 terrors in a row

[Tyranidus]

I remember Haunted Mines, I earned my Alpha A profile picture. PEPRITCH FARM REMEMBERS.