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SilentByte
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States28 Posts
December 12 2012 19:52 GMT
#1
So it has been a very long time since I have even looked at SC2. I was really into SC2, but than I just left. I don't remember why. I ended up playing a lot of LoL and enjoyed it. But than my friend gave me a HotS beta key. And I fell in love with SC2 again.

I'm not good at this game by any means. But I have always wanted to be. When I first got into SC2, I started as a Terran Player. I can remember when I first looked up basic T starts. I went from sort of knowing what to do, to being able to do a decently strong attack as bio. But this was all back in Bronze League. After a bit, I became bored with T, and switched it up and started playing Protoss. Protoss was a lot of fun. I loved being able to set up a pylon and warp in stalkers at any point and kill my opponent. Even tho I enjoyed it, I went off and tried another race yet again. So now I was Zerg. I loved the ability to never have to really have anything hotkeys other than your Hatches, and units, being able to remax instantly, and have some of the best fun with lings in their base. I ended up playing Zerg the most, but still never got out of Bronze league. maybe that's why I quit SC2, I loved the game, and played a lot of it, but always sucked.

But anyways, my friend gave me a HotS beta key, and I feel back in love with the game. But I quickly ran back into the same problem I did when I played SC2. Not only did I not know what I was doing, but I wasn't sure what race I wanted to play. When I was playing SC2 before, I kept race jumping, never sticking to a race for more than a day or so. And people would always tell me, just pick a race a stick to it, but I never could and feel like I am running into that problem again. I personally like every race. So I always should do my best to decide what race to play before I do anything else.

But after that, what game would you play? WoL or HotS? And I mean this coming from a point of wanting to play this game at a high level. Would you rather just dive into HotS, and learn the game there? Or would you rather play WoL and become good there before switching over to HotS when it officially comes out? This is something I can't fully decide as of yet. I mean, you can dive deep into HotS and mess around there and come up with builds, or I could sit in WoL and learn what really does work and become a decent player there. I mean, you can look at a lot of HotS games, and see that people just seem to test random things, and mess around. But if you look at WoL, more games are normal and don't really have that screwing around that much.

Either way, I don't know. I just kind of wanted to rant more than anything, but I always want to hear what people think about the 2 games. Thanks fro reading either way

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Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
December 12 2012 20:05 GMT
#2
I switch between WoL,HotS, and BW lol.
|BW>Everything|Add me on star2 KR server TheMuTaL.675 for practice games :)|NEX clan| https://www.dotabuff.com/players/183104694
lhr0909
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
United States562 Posts
December 12 2012 20:29 GMT
#3
I think HotS is definitely more fresh to everyone, but the problem is that the units are not that stable in terms of stats (nerfs/buffs all the time right now). My only complain is that I cannot settle in a set strategy playing each matchup right now when I am playing HotS.

I think either game you choose to play, you will have to do the same thing, if you want to achieve in high level of play: you will have to somehow pick a race, and keep playing to refine mechanics. It does not matter what the build order, strategy it is, you just have to spend all your resources, keep your worker/unit production going, etc. To settle in a race saves you time honing your mechanics.
No Pain No Gain
RaXCitY
Profile Joined June 2012
United States37 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-12-12 22:26:58
December 12 2012 22:25 GMT
#4
be f-omg

Terran all the way theres a hundred
reasons why the only real RTS race that punishes you for what the game is about being reminded to make units one at a time like warcraft 3 aww yeah
Terran NO-p
ETisME
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
12680 Posts
December 13 2012 05:56 GMT
#5
I like hots better, it's more fun and so you can enjoy it more while playing
其疾如风,其徐如林,侵掠如火,不动如山,难知如阴,动如雷震。
schach
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Canada35 Posts
December 13 2012 06:49 GMT
#6
Play random? Lately I decided to switch it up with some friends and have been playing random 3s or 4s. It probably isn't helping my mechanics (they prob got worse ><) but I'm having a blast
SilentByte
Profile Blog Joined July 2011
United States28 Posts
December 13 2012 07:04 GMT
#7
I thought of playing Random, but that won't really help me learn as well as I could. it will of course help me become better, but it doesn't help you become better as well as if you were just once race practicing.
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