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Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:39:28
May 19 2011 14:28 GMT
#1
I don't know how other people feel about this, but when I play Terran, it always seems as if there aren't many spells I can use that are still viable in higher level games.

With Zerg, you have burrow tactics, fungal growth, contaminate, etc. that are all viably strategies.

With Protoss, it's even more evident, as well placed forcefields can lead to the masses of TL screaming about imbalance. Add on top of that storm and whatever other spells that Protoss may have.

With Terran, it seems as if EMP is like the only skill that can actually be used. Sure, there are other spells such as Heat Seeker Missle or 250mm Strike Cannon. But in all honesty, those are all terrible spells that no one ever uses. All Terrans do these days are make marauders and lol.

There's a pretty simple solution to all of Terran's problems.

Bring back the lockdown.

User was temp banned for this post
God Bless
Blackk
Profile Joined November 2010
South Africa226 Posts
May 19 2011 14:29 GMT
#2
And the science vessel while they're at it.
hah.
Discerpo
Profile Joined July 2010
263 Posts
May 19 2011 14:30 GMT
#3
Do you not include Stimpack or Siege Mode as a spell?

I can't see how you can include Burrow as a spell if they aren't.

Atlare
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Australia893 Posts
May 19 2011 14:31 GMT
#4
QXC has being showing how amazing snipe is against units like infestors and Brood Lords in TvZ which is kinda cool, Don't forget we have PDD which pretty much shuts Stalkers down for a while (or vikings in TvT if you can spare the gas) which I find pretty useful.
Its less a matter of how many we have but where they are located, eg. Battlecruisers are t3, Ghosts are reasonably expensive, Thors are thors (thats a reason if I want it to be) and the Raven has 3 spells all in all which are all cool but mostly niche.
Considering learning BW
ATTILAtheFUN
Profile Joined February 2011
United States14 Posts
May 19 2011 14:31 GMT
#5
stim and siege count if burrow counts
Tor
Profile Joined March 2008
Canada231 Posts
May 19 2011 14:32 GMT
#6
Lockdown would be so op with current ghosts and smart cast. Probably best to just make hunter seeker missile more interesting and useful
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
May 19 2011 14:32 GMT
#7
On May 19 2011 23:30 Discerpo wrote:
Do you not include Stimpack or Siege Mode as a spell?

I can't see how you can include Burrow as a spell if they aren't.


siege yes stim no but eh pdd is awesome so is heal
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Cosmos
Profile Joined March 2010
Belgium1077 Posts
May 19 2011 14:32 GMT
#8
I think that with EMP, raven's spells, stimpack all game long, tanks which need siege and all sort of micro you need to provide during a game I would be desperate if I had to make even more spells. I would even prefer if they add "spells" to other races, like remove the auto charge and add a button for it or things like that. But only my personal opinion^^
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enemy2010
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Germany1972 Posts
May 19 2011 14:32 GMT
#9
Stim, Concussive Shell, Healing ability from the medivac, EMP, (cloak), (siege mode), PDD, seeker missile
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Kerm
Profile Joined April 2010
France467 Posts
May 19 2011 14:33 GMT
#10
Snipe ? Point Defense drone ? Nuke ?
All those have been seen in high level matches.

So i'd disagree with your point.
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ATTILAtheFUN
Profile Joined February 2011
United States14 Posts
May 19 2011 14:33 GMT
#11
stim siege snipe pdd auto turret strike cannons
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19188 Posts
May 19 2011 14:34 GMT
#12
Protoss - storm and forcefield
Zerg - burrow, fungal growth, neural parasite, contaminate
Terran - stim, EMP, nuke, 250mm strike cannons, siege mode, PDD, auto turret, cloak, cloak

I think Roffles is lost and confused.
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AKspartan
Profile Joined January 2011
United States126 Posts
May 19 2011 14:34 GMT
#13
The topic of adding new spells to the game is always an interesting one but no I don't think Terran is lacking with regards to spells relative to the other races. If anything Zerg is the race most lacking in spellcasters, but then again the infestor is the most versatile and arguably the most powerful spellcaster in the game at the moment.
MrCon
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
France29748 Posts
May 19 2011 14:34 GMT
#14
Bring back the lockdown haha :D Well played.
MyNameIsAlex
Profile Joined March 2011
Greece827 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:35:43
May 19 2011 14:34 GMT
#15
burrow has to be the same as siege mode, stim pack can also be considered a spell and a huge one too since it makes your army almost 50% more effective.

you also got cloak for banshees & ghosts, snipe, emp (nukes are so gimmicky its meh).


and the best of all: the HEALBUS. Heal is huge. Combined with drop it makes bio so much more cost efficient than it is without it.

also PDD!!! Give me a break this is almost a dark swarm there!
Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:37:10
May 19 2011 14:34 GMT
#16
I like watermelons.

And useful spells.
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adun12345
Profile Joined May 2011
United States198 Posts
May 19 2011 14:34 GMT
#17
Also, medivac healing. Terran has some very good "spells" - stim, healing, EMP, PDD - but they aren't concentrated on a single spellcaster unit (in the same way that GS and FF are for the Protoss). Maybe Terran is lacking in spellcasters (though I'd say that both the ghost and raven have good spells), but Terran players certainly aren't lacking in good spells in general.
Noocta
Profile Joined June 2010
France12578 Posts
May 19 2011 14:35 GMT
#18
You have this feeling because Raven are not as used as Science Vessel were.
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dezi
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany1536 Posts
May 19 2011 14:35 GMT
#19
Would exchange HSM for Irradiate everytime ^^
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Adebisi
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Canada1637 Posts
May 19 2011 14:36 GMT
#20
Using Lockdown on Collosus.....

A man can dream.....
Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:37:05
May 19 2011 14:36 GMT
#21
Heal - No skill
Stim - No skill
Cloak - No skill
Smartcasting - No skill
Marauders - lolololololololol

Lockdown colossi plz
God Bless
Zeon0
Profile Joined September 2010
Austria2995 Posts
May 19 2011 14:37 GMT
#22
rofl @ Zerg has more spells than Terran^^
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tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19188 Posts
May 19 2011 14:37 GMT
#23
Marauders are not a spell.
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Deadlyfish
Profile Joined August 2010
Denmark1980 Posts
May 19 2011 14:37 GMT
#24
On May 19 2011 23:35 dezi wrote:
Would exchange HSM for Irradiate everytime ^^



Would exchange HSM for any other spell-

250mm is a disadvantage to the thor

But terrans really do have a lot of spells, they are just very different spells, and some of the are a little bit gimmicky. But overall i don't see a problem.
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phil.ipp
Profile Joined May 2010
Austria1067 Posts
May 19 2011 14:37 GMT
#25
stimpack and emp are the micro spells, all the other spells are not that time sensitive like storm, feedback, forcefield, blink

the most time on ladder its like

feedback raven or some medivacs, cast guardian shield, cast good forcefields, cast good storms, blink into better position, micro your collosie

and for terran its like press T and A (attack), then click, s(stop), click, s, click, s
and most of the time he doesnt even need EMP, cause the protoss fucks up on some of his 1 million tasks he has to do at the start of the battle
antilyon
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Brazil2546 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:43:02
May 19 2011 14:39 GMT
#26
As a terran player, i say, terran is fine dude.
I would change the reaper speed upgrade being able to research before factory and raise up a tiny little bit the speed of HSM, but other than that?Tottaly fine.

On May 19 2011 23:37 phil.ipp wrote:
stimpack and emp are the micro spells, all the other spells are not that time sensitive like storm, feedback, forcefield, blink

the most time on ladder its like

feedback raven or some medivacs, cast guardian shield, cast good forcefields, cast good storms, blink into better position, micro your collosie

and for terran its like press T and A (attack), then click, s(stop), click, s, click, s
and most of the time he doesnt even need EMP, cause the protoss fucks up on some of his 1 million tasks he has to do at the start of the battle


I'll translate for you what most people understando from what you wrote:
"OMG TERRAN 2 EZ, MY RACE IS WAY HARDER 2 PLAY, IMA BETTER THAN YOU, EVEN WHEN I LOSE D00D"
WniO
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2706 Posts
May 19 2011 14:39 GMT
#27
well terran has a ton of little spells if you look at stuff like scvs can heal ANY building or mech. siege mode, concussive shells, stim. etc etc.
ReaperX
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Hong Kong1758 Posts
May 19 2011 14:39 GMT
#28
someone tell me if he's being serious or not?
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Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
May 19 2011 14:40 GMT
#29
On May 19 2011 23:36 Adebisi wrote:
Using Lockdown on Collosus.....

A man can dream.....

It was called strike cannon
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Shikyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Finland33997 Posts
May 19 2011 14:40 GMT
#30
I'd say that this reeks of a hacked TL account. That or he's gone insane.
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BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50604 Posts
May 19 2011 14:41 GMT
#31
lol roffles....lol.
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blazingblue16
Profile Joined February 2011
Canada41 Posts
May 19 2011 14:41 GMT
#32
stim , snipe (kills brood-lords) , turrets , pdd, cloak, nukes. How is contaminate viable? HSM is good if you run up to them and suicide, one raven for a ball of things taking 100 damage? It's like a flying baneling.

dezi
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Germany1536 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:42:08
May 19 2011 14:41 GMT
#33
On May 19 2011 23:37 Deadlyfish wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:35 dezi wrote:
Would exchange HSM for Irradiate everytime ^^



Would exchange HSM for any other spell-

True ^^
Maybe T will get changes instead of new units in HotS (already got a bunch of units). Mh, what about Mines dropped by the Raven instead of those turrets or ... gosh i want Vultures ^^

Uhm Roffles got banned? Forgot the [D]?
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red4ce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States7313 Posts
May 19 2011 14:43 GMT
#34
Wow, didn't expect roffles to make this kind of a post.
brachester
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
Australia1786 Posts
May 19 2011 14:43 GMT
#35
how is this guy quality poster by any mean????
I hate all this singing
ManTrain
Profile Joined April 2011
Denmark126 Posts
May 19 2011 14:44 GMT
#36
Why did he get temp banned for this? i dont understand
bITt.mAN
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Switzerland3693 Posts
May 19 2011 14:44 GMT
#37
On May 19 2011 23:40 Shikyo wrote:
I'd say that this reeks of a hacked TL account. That or he's gone insane.


Too much SC2 fourm moderating, I tell you. I bet this is the result of some horrible nightmare he had, where all he had wa ghosts, his base was getting raped by collosi, and the only thing he could think of was to use lockdown...

And then there was no lockdown
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BurningSera
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Ireland19621 Posts
May 19 2011 14:44 GMT
#38
On May 19 2011 23:40 Shikyo wrote:
I'd say that this reeks of a hacked TL account. That or he's gone insane.


i agree with you there lol roffles's thread???
is 2017, stop being lame, fuck's sakes. 'Can't wait for the rise of the cakes and humanity's last stand tbqh.'
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50604 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:45:00
May 19 2011 14:44 GMT
#39
On May 19 2011 23:43 brachester wrote:
how is this guy quality poster by any mean????


LOLOLOLOLOL

this thread is so golden.
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Masq
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada1792 Posts
May 19 2011 14:45 GMT
#40
personally, i wish for raven to heal mechanical units -_-
Welmu
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Finland3295 Posts
May 19 2011 14:46 GMT
#41
This doesn't sound like roffless =/
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Minecraft
Profile Joined January 2011
25 Posts
May 19 2011 14:46 GMT
#42
Wow, how does the op have a star? He's clearly a terrible poster.
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
May 19 2011 14:46 GMT
#43
On May 19 2011 23:43 red4ce wrote:
Wow, didn't expect roffles to make this kind of a post.

i think he might be hacked
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lambchops
Profile Joined April 2011
United States63 Posts
May 19 2011 14:46 GMT
#44
On May 19 2011 23:45 Masq wrote:
personally, i wish for raven to heal mechanical units -_-



scvs? those can heal mechanical units
tofucake
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Hyrule19188 Posts
May 19 2011 14:46 GMT
#45
It's not Roffles.

Roffles was banned.

It's clearly someone else.
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Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
May 19 2011 14:47 GMT
#46
no way this the real roffles
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Hypemeup
Profile Joined February 2011
Sweden2783 Posts
May 19 2011 14:47 GMT
#47
On May 19 2011 23:37 phil.ipp wrote:
stimpack and emp are the micro spells, all the other spells are not that time sensitive like storm, feedback, forcefield, blink

the most time on ladder its like

feedback raven or some medivacs, cast guardian shield, cast good forcefields, cast good storms, blink into better position, micro your collosie

and for terran its like press T and A (attack), then click, s(stop), click, s, click, s
and most of the time he doesnt even need EMP, cause the protoss fucks up on some of his 1 million tasks he has to do at the start of the battle



Yeah obviously the race you play is far harder than the other races, not seen this before :D
Phantom
Profile Joined September 2004
Canada2151 Posts
May 19 2011 14:47 GMT
#48
On May 19 2011 23:44 Rkr wrote:
Why did he get temp banned for this? i dont understand


Well, he did ask for the return of lockdowns...and in return he got lockdowned...

I am disappointed along with a few others on this board that HSM has seen very little play thus far in any leagues. It's not that it's not viable, but it's not worth getting when compared to other units. If you wanted AOE damage you go to the Siege Tank, if you wanted mineral line harassment you do drops.
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Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
May 19 2011 14:47 GMT
#49
On May 19 2011 23:44 bITt.mAN wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:40 Shikyo wrote:
I'd say that this reeks of a hacked TL account. That or he's gone insane.


Too much SC2 fourm moderating, I tell you. I bet this is the result of some horrible nightmare he had, where all he had wa ghosts, his base was getting raped by collosi, and the only thing he could think of was to use lockdown...

And then there was no lockdown

SC2 makes me

Why can't I lock down those colossi?
God Bless
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50604 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:50:40
May 19 2011 14:47 GMT
#50
looks like baller is back with a bang.


On May 19 2011 23:47 Roffles wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:44 bITt.mAN wrote:
On May 19 2011 23:40 Shikyo wrote:
I'd say that this reeks of a hacked TL account. That or he's gone insane.


Too much SC2 fourm moderating, I tell you. I bet this is the result of some horrible nightmare he had, where all he had wa ghosts, his base was getting raped by collosi, and the only thing he could think of was to use lockdown...

And then there was no lockdown

SC2 makes me

Why can't I lock down those colossi?


because you got lockdown.

this is why I love teamliquid.

Edit:6666
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locant
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia45 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:51:30
May 19 2011 14:49 GMT
#51
i do agree that the one thing that sucks playing terran is the lack of a Area spell, i mean toss have ht and zerg have infestors which rip bio to shreads and yet somehow we are the "op" race.

edit: that being said I dont have any other real complaints as i think the game is pretty balanced as it is, just the whole area spells get to me.
lurked
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada918 Posts
May 19 2011 14:50 GMT
#52
Well, I don't know... I was under the exact opposite impression... I mean, I think Terran is lucky that almost all of their spells are really, really good.

So, no... Lockdown would be extremely sick and would break the current balance, if it was added to terran's war arsenal if there wasn't anything to compensate for the other 2 races.
Magic is "just" magic until I get my hands on the source code.
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
May 19 2011 14:52 GMT
#53
On May 19 2011 23:49 locant wrote:
i do agree that the one thing that sucks playing terran is the lack of a Area spell, i mean toss have ht and zerg have infestors which rip bio to shreads and yet somehow we are the "op" race.

edit: that being said I dont have any other real complaints as i think the game is pretty balanced as it is, just the whole area spells get to me.

i consider storm emp and fungal the racial AoE
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Acritter
Profile Joined August 2010
Syria7637 Posts
May 19 2011 14:52 GMT
#54
Perhaps this mystery will never be solved.
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lurked
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada918 Posts
May 19 2011 14:53 GMT
#55
On May 19 2011 23:49 locant wrote:
i do agree that the one thing that sucks playing terran is the lack of a Area spell, i mean toss have ht and zerg have infestors which rip bio to shreads and yet somehow we are the "op" race.

edit: that being said I dont have any other real complaints as i think the game is pretty balanced as it is, just the whole area spells get to me.


Hmm... EMP? Siege tanks? Heat Seeking Missile? Nuke? Lacking area spells compared to the other races? Yeah, I think I see your point here.... or not...?
Magic is "just" magic until I get my hands on the source code.
Techno
Profile Joined June 2010
1900 Posts
May 19 2011 14:53 GMT
#56
On May 19 2011 23:50 lurked wrote:
Well, I don't know... I was under the exact opposite impression... I mean, I think Terran is lucky that almost all of their spells are really, really good.

Ya mean EMP?
Hell, its awesome to LOSE to nukes!
Megaliskuu
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States5123 Posts
May 19 2011 14:54 GMT
#57
On May 19 2011 23:46 Minecraft wrote:
Wow, how does the op have a star? He's clearly a terrible poster.


Seriously I'm tired of his tastless posting, its really hurting the community .
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Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
May 19 2011 14:54 GMT
#58
I do think that the raven isn't a worthy successor to the science vessel.

Reactored vikings and/or medivacs are so useful that its rarely worth it to slap a techlab on your starport. Even then, the raven feels slow, flimsy and kinda gimmicky. PDD feels like the only "good" ability but even that one only makes a big difference in timing pushes.

Ghosts on the other hand are incredible units. So much better than their BW counterparts.
Arkless
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada1547 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:55:14
May 19 2011 14:54 GMT
#59
Not including passives like charge or concuss

T Spells/ useable Abilities
Stim, seige, snipe, emp, cloak, nuke, 250mm cannon, auto turret, PDD, HSM, banshee cloak, yamato,mule, scan total= 13

P Spells/ useable abilities
Blink, forcefield, guardian shield, hallucinate, feedback, psi storm, make archon??(we'll count this one) warp in, graviton beam, vortex, recall, total=11 (am I missing something?)

Z Spells/ useable abilities
Burrow,inject larvae, transfuse, creep tumour, fungal, infested terran, neural parasite, changeling, corrupt, contaminate total=10

As u can see, simple math shows terran leading in spells......

Edit: as I was writing this the ops ban rolled over lol
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OopsOopsBaby
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
Singapore3425 Posts
May 19 2011 14:55 GMT
#60
i love this thread.
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Dezire
Profile Joined December 2010
Netherlands640 Posts
May 19 2011 14:56 GMT
#61
stim / HSM / PDD / EMP / Snipe, wth thats more than i have as toss ._.
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lurked
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada918 Posts
May 19 2011 14:56 GMT
#62
On May 19 2011 23:53 Techno wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:50 lurked wrote:
Well, I don't know... I was under the exact opposite impression... I mean, I think Terran is lucky that almost all of their spells are really, really good.

Ya mean EMP?


Nope, I mean EMP, Stim pack, Siege tanks, PDD, Heat Seeking Turrets, Cloak for both banshees and ghosts, Healing from medivac, Snipe, Nuke, Scan, Mule, Supply drop, Yamato gun, 250mm stike cannon...

Want me to name other terran's spells?
Magic is "just" magic until I get my hands on the source code.
Wyk
Profile Joined March 2011
314 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 14:58:26
May 19 2011 14:56 GMT
#63
On May 19 2011 23:37 phil.ipp wrote:
stimpack and emp are the micro spells, all the other spells are not that time sensitive like storm, feedback, forcefield, blink

the most time on ladder its like

feedback raven or some medivacs, cast guardian shield, cast good forcefields, cast good storms, blink into better position, micro your collosie

and for terran its like press T and A (attack), then click, s(stop), click, s, click, s
and most of the time he doesnt even need EMP, cause the protoss fucks up on some of his 1 million tasks he has to do at the start of the battle

Damn man you are micro king 2011.
Please teach me how to micro colossus, cast storms and blink into better position(like blob up in terran army).

The main thing is that spells can change the outcome of a battle, even if your army is smaller/weaker than your opponent's.
locant
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia45 Posts
May 19 2011 14:56 GMT
#64
On May 19 2011 23:53 lurked wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:49 locant wrote:
i do agree that the one thing that sucks playing terran is the lack of a Area spell, i mean toss have ht and zerg have infestors which rip bio to shreads and yet somehow we are the "op" race.

edit: that being said I dont have any other real complaints as i think the game is pretty balanced as it is, just the whole area spells get to me.


Hmm... EMP? Siege tanks? Heat Seeking Missile? Nuke? Lacking area spells compared to the other races? Yeah, I think I see your point here.... or not...?


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emp only does actual damage to protoss units, and even that is small compared to fungal and storm. Tanks if you havnt noticed arnt a spell and can only be in a fixed location anyway. Heat seekers you just run from and do tiny damage anyway, if you have eyes you can avoid a nuke so yea i think terran are at a massive disadvantage when it comes to area spells.
Olsson
Profile Joined April 2011
Sweden931 Posts
May 19 2011 14:57 GMT
#65
When you mean spells you mean like abilities. Well I believe Thorzain did an amazing display of like 18 marauders with 3 medivacs against about 22 stalkers, 7 zealots, 2 colussus and they won with minor micro just by activating Stimpack.

Also Thor 250mm strike cannons are nerfed now but seriously if used they do a ton of damage. If you get one out early and baby sit that long enough to get the shot of you can do so much damage on the opponents army. It does like 10 times more damage than a fungal.

Besides Terrans have the Repair and Medivac heal ability which no other race has, and it does a ton of difference.
Naniwa <3
Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
May 19 2011 14:57 GMT
#66
On May 19 2011 23:57 Olsson wrote:
When you mean spells you mean like abilities. Well I believe Thorzain did an amazing display of like 18 marauders with 3 medivacs against about 22 stalkers, 7 zealots, 2 colussus and they won with minor micro just by activating Stimpack.

Also Thor 250mm strike cannons are nerfed now but seriously if used they do a ton of damage. If you get one out early and baby sit that long enough to get the shot of you can do so much damage on the opponents army. It does like 10 times more damage than a fungal.

Besides Terrans have the Repair and Medivac heal ability which no other race has, and it does a ton of difference.

Oh yeah, I forgot about repair and medivacs.

Heal - No skill
Repair - lol skill
Mass repair - Even more lol
God Bless
Bagi
Profile Joined August 2010
Germany6799 Posts
May 19 2011 14:58 GMT
#67
On May 19 2011 23:57 Olsson wrote:


Also Thor 250mm strike cannons are nerfed now but seriously if used they do a ton of damage. If you get one out early and baby sit that long enough to get the shot of you can do so much damage on the opponents army. It does like 10 times more damage than a fungal.

It does no more DPS than a thor attacking normally.
locant
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia45 Posts
May 19 2011 14:58 GMT
#68
On May 19 2011 23:56 lurked wrote:
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On May 19 2011 23:53 Techno wrote:
On May 19 2011 23:50 lurked wrote:
Well, I don't know... I was under the exact opposite impression... I mean, I think Terran is lucky that almost all of their spells are really, really good.

Ya mean EMP?


Nope, I mean EMP, Stim pack, Siege tanks, PDD, Heat Seeking Turrets, Cloak for both banshees and ghosts, Healing from medivac, Snipe, Nuke, Scan, Mule, Supply drop, Yamato gun, 250mm stike cannon...

Want me to name other terran's spells?

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how many of those are area and out of them how many do damage and are even viable to begin with? EMP and thats really it.
Mordiford
Profile Joined April 2011
4448 Posts
May 19 2011 14:59 GMT
#69
On May 19 2011 23:34 tofucake wrote:
Protoss - storm and forcefield
Zerg - burrow, fungal growth, neural parasite, contaminate
Terran - stim, EMP, nuke, 250mm strike cannons, siege mode, PDD, auto turret, cloak, cloak

I think Roffles is lost and confused.


I think you missed over half the spells... on every race but Terran...

I don't agree with the OP, but your post is inaccurate.
thoradycus
Profile Joined August 2010
Malaysia3262 Posts
May 19 2011 14:59 GMT
#70
On May 19 2011 23:56 Dezire wrote:
stim / HSM / PDD / EMP / Snipe, wth thats more than i have as toss ._.

Hsm is near useless, and snipe is situational, though.
Blasterion
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
China10272 Posts
May 19 2011 15:00 GMT
#71
On May 19 2011 23:54 Arkless wrote:
Not including passives like charge or concuss

T Spells/ useable Abilities
Stim, seige, snipe, emp, cloak, nuke, 250mm cannon, auto turret, PDD, HSM, banshee cloak, yamato,mule, scan total= 13

P Spells/ useable abilities
Blink, forcefield, guardian shield, hallucinate, feedback, psi storm, make archon??(we'll count this one) warp in, graviton beam, vortex, recall, total=11 (am I missing something?)

Z Spells/ useable abilities
Burrow,inject larvae, transfuse, creep tumour, fungal, infested terran, neural parasite, changeling, corrupt, contaminate total=10

As u can see, simple math shows terran leading in spells......

Edit: as I was writing this the ops ban rolled over lol

You missed Viking modes also if u count injects etc then u didn't count Supply drop
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lurked
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada918 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 15:02:20
May 19 2011 15:01 GMT
#72
On May 19 2011 23:56 locant wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:53 lurked wrote:
On May 19 2011 23:49 locant wrote:
i do agree that the one thing that sucks playing terran is the lack of a Area spell, i mean toss have ht and zerg have infestors which rip bio to shreads and yet somehow we are the "op" race.

edit: that being said I dont have any other real complaints as i think the game is pretty balanced as it is, just the whole area spells get to me.


Hmm... EMP? Siege tanks? Heat Seeking Missile? Nuke? Lacking area spells compared to the other races? Yeah, I think I see your point here.... or not...?


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emp only does actual damage to protoss units, and even that is small compared to fungal and storm. Tanks if you havnt noticed arnt a spell and can only be in a fixed location anyway. Heat seekers you just run from and do tiny damage anyway, if you have eyes you can avoid a nuke so yea i think terran are at a massive disadvantage when it comes to area spells.


Yeah, and storms can be avoided, colossi's dmg too... What else do Protoss have for AOE?

Oh, right... Nothing...

And Zerg's have Fungal(Only spell that cannot be avoided at all, and were you have to suffer the entire DoT), + banelings.

And of course, siege tanks isn,t a direct AoE spell where you chose where it deals damage, but it's still a spell, that allows you to deal tons of AoE...

Terrans have a really comparable(if not the best) AoE dmg potential of all the races if played well, but you say they are at a massive disadvantage because, like all other AoE except fungal, they can be avoided if the target isn't too bad?

I don't understand why you say that is a massive disadvantage as AoE abilities?
Magic is "just" magic until I get my hands on the source code.
locant
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia45 Posts
May 19 2011 15:02 GMT
#73
On May 20 2011 00:00 Blasterion wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:54 Arkless wrote:
Not including passives like charge or concuss

T Spells/ useable Abilities
Stim, seige, snipe, emp, cloak, nuke, 250mm cannon, auto turret, PDD, HSM, banshee cloak, yamato,mule, scan total= 13

P Spells/ useable abilities
Blink, forcefield, guardian shield, hallucinate, feedback, psi storm, make archon??(we'll count this one) warp in, graviton beam, vortex, recall, total=11 (am I missing something?)

Z Spells/ useable abilities
Burrow,inject larvae, transfuse, creep tumour, fungal, infested terran, neural parasite, changeling, corrupt, contaminate total=10

As u can see, simple math shows terran leading in spells......

Edit: as I was writing this the ops ban rolled over lol

You missed Viking modes also if u count injects etc then u didn't count Supply drop

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And zelot charge in a way
TeWy
Profile Joined December 2009
France714 Posts
May 19 2011 15:02 GMT
#74
HSM and now 250mm cannons are absolutely worthless.

I can't understand Blizzard decision to tweak the bunker buildtime all the time while nerfing into uselesness such aesthetically amazing spells.
Scriptix
Profile Joined December 2010
United States145 Posts
May 19 2011 15:02 GMT
#75
+ Show Spoiler +
On May 19 2011 23:34 tofucake wrote:
Protoss - storm and forcefield
Zerg - burrow, fungal growth, neural parasite, contaminate
Terran - stim, EMP, nuke, 250mm strike cannons, siege mode, PDD, auto turret, cloak, cloak

I think Roffles is lost and confused.



You said it before I could >.>
Roffles *
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Pitcairn19291 Posts
May 19 2011 15:02 GMT
#76
Also, Blizzard nerfed the only good thing Terran had.

Free bunkers. lolololol
God Bless
BLinD-RawR
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
ALLEYCAT BLUES50604 Posts
May 19 2011 15:03 GMT
#77
On May 20 2011 00:02 Roffles wrote:
Also, Blizzard nerfed the only good thing Terran had.

Free bunkers. lolololol


I wantz it back!!!!

I want my bunker bank.
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Falcon_NL
Profile Joined September 2010
Netherlands236 Posts
May 19 2011 15:06 GMT
#78
I think salvage should return 110% of the minerals.
and its a BLACK HOLE !! OH MY GOD BLACK HOOOOLEEE - Tobi Wan
locant
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia45 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 15:07:56
May 19 2011 15:06 GMT
#79
On May 20 2011 00:01 lurked wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 19 2011 23:56 locant wrote:
On May 19 2011 23:53 lurked wrote:
On May 19 2011 23:49 locant wrote:
i do agree that the one thing that sucks playing terran is the lack of a Area spell, i mean toss have ht and zerg have infestors which rip bio to shreads and yet somehow we are the "op" race.

edit: that being said I dont have any other real complaints as i think the game is pretty balanced as it is, just the whole area spells get to me.


Hmm... EMP? Siege tanks? Heat Seeking Missile? Nuke? Lacking area spells compared to the other races? Yeah, I think I see your point here.... or not...?


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emp only does actual damage to protoss units, and even that is small compared to fungal and storm. Tanks if you havnt noticed arnt a spell and can only be in a fixed location anyway. Heat seekers you just run from and do tiny damage anyway, if you have eyes you can avoid a nuke so yea i think terran are at a massive disadvantage when it comes to area spells.


Yeah, and storms can be avoided, colossi's dmg too... What else do Protoss have for AOE?

Oh, right... Nothing...

And Zerg's have Fungal(Only spell that cannot be avoided at all, and were you have to suffer the entire DoT), + banelings.

And of course, siege tanks isn,t a direct AoE spell where you chose where it deals damage, but it's still a spell, that allows you to deal tons of AoE...

Terrans have a really comparable(if not the best) AoE dmg potential of all the races if played well, but you say they are at a massive disadvantage because, like all other AoE except fungal, they can be avoided if the target isn't too bad?

I don't understand why you say that is a massive disadvantage as AoE abilities?

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I suppose i should clarify the main point im trying to get across.

I agree that if used correctly tanks and such can do massive damage, the only thing im concerned about is the actual ability to have a unit use an area of effect spell that can do serious hurt in the same way fungal and storm do. That being said toss and zerg dont have tanks so it all evens out.

I guess im just frustrated that we can get so easily crushed by ff and storm as i love using bio
Neos
Profile Joined June 2009
United States400 Posts
May 19 2011 15:07 GMT
#80
I think that when the bunker just gets killed, you should get all your minerals back.
locant
Profile Joined April 2011
Australia45 Posts
May 19 2011 15:08 GMT
#81
On May 20 2011 00:07 Neos wrote:
I think that when the bunker just gets killed, you should get all your minerals back.




we need interest on it as well
thoradycus
Profile Joined August 2010
Malaysia3262 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-19 15:09:21
May 19 2011 15:09 GMT
#82
supply drop should give 20 supply.
Weird thread

I like how this thread is not closed yet the OP is temp banned,lol.
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