Raging about Ghosts - Page 2

On January 25 2012 06:47 TheButtonmen wrote:
Pewpewpewpewpew.

My poor poor broodlord

On January 25 2012 03:31 7mk wrote:
wah wah wah
youre making my race look whiny

On January 25 2012 06:47 mbr2321 wrote:


No they're not poorly designed units. They're fine. They have costs and benefits, just like every other unit. The term "poorly designed" pisses me off more than "imbalanced" does. Calling something "poorly designed" is balance whining and trying to avoid getting banned for balance whining. Especially in this context, the two terms are one in the same, so call it what it is.

Back to Ghosts. They don't have awe-inspiring speed. Chargelots, speedlings, mutas, and hellions have awe-inspiring speed. Ghosts can be classified as "not slow" at best. And how does their speed influence in any way how awesome or terrible their spells are? You would think the spells could speak for themselves. Ghosts aren't central to TvP. Cloaked Banshees to snipe HT is a tactic that, while much less popular, is no less viable.

On January 25 2012 02:18 DJWilma wrote:
This blog is exactly what it says it is, I need to rage about Ghosts for a second. Ghosts in my opinion are the most over powered unit in the game. The fact that marines are the only anti-air unit that costs minerals besides queens is one thing, but they are easily destroyed. Same deal with mauraders. As you can probably tell I do still think the game isn't balanced, but it has come a long way, and the only adjustment I think is needed is the Ghost getting a major nerfing.

I began writing this as an analytical blog comparing the skills similar to those of the ghost, but most of you already know them too well, so I will just voice my issues about the Ghosts.

I recently had an with another Protoss player over this, him believing that HTs might be considered even better than Ghosts. Here is why he was wrong in my opinion. He said for one Storm is better than EMP, because it does so much damage. Yes, an EMP will not kill the opponents army, it will just cripple the spellcasters, and cut half the health of the army as well, and it eats archons for breakfast. Now I give it that blizzard made it less op with the radius nerf. But it still makes bad players look good, and win games. Plus if your paying attention, you can micro your way out of a storm. EMP, well that shit is instantaneous!

He also argued that HTs need to be slow, because if they were any faster they could just run up, kill an army, and run away. I mean his logic makes sense, Ghosts can't run up to a protoss army and EMP the fuck out of them and run away. No. They can do one better, they can fucking do it while invisible! Make HTs the same speed as Zealots, is there any really good fucking reason to make them so stupidly slow? Yeah they can turn into archons, but if your are in battle and you are losing the fight, you lose your high templar no matter what.

If Blizzard went the way of the Infestor, and limited the abilities you can use while invisible, aka, only nukes and attack, I would be fine with that. Than he said Feedback was really good. Yeah its good against things with energy, but has anyone seen late game TvZ? Every time I hear the casters shout "OH TEH SNIPES ARE GOING DOWN!" Because a zerg army can be fucking leveled with nothing but snipes. All and all his argument was that you have to baby the High Templar, like you do for any other spellcaster, but why does the HT have to be the slowest and have no way to escape? No invisibility, no burrow, just a speed of 1.875

I'm done ranting, my main issue is just the speed of the high templar, I mean protoss is really know for being immobile, can we play have one less thing holding us back?

Much luv

DJ Wilma