[A] Starbow - Page 388

New Building - Obelisk (looks like this: http://wiki.teamliquid.net/starcraft2/Obelisk )
Cost - 100/50
Build time - 30 seconds
Requires - Gateway
Does not require a Powerfield to build.
Size - 2x2
Stats - 100hp 100Shield 100 max energy
Abilities : Chrono Boost, Rift, Recharge Shields

Chronoboost- 20% boost for 45 seconds, same energy cost ( a buff over the current chrono boost, 9production*seconds vs 7.5production*seconds, also has its drawbacks due to long duration)

Rift - Same as it is now - except that because its no longer on the nexus, it has the added option of being used aggressively, sort of like warp-in reinforcements.

Recharge Shields - target unit or structure, 5range --- 5energy -> 25 shields -- autocastable, 1 second cooldown - self explanatory. can be defensive or used aggressively.

Right now Medics start with it. When that got implemented, a long time ago, Marines were the only core bio unit. That is not the case anymore. The spell is arguably broken in the early game in combination with Marauders. I still prefer the spell to stay in the game for two reasons:
1) It helps to give an advantage to a Terran player who goes Bio + Tanks + Air units, compared to Terran who goes only pure mech.
2) If I remove it, the Medic has no other spell at all. Which just feels lame. And thus another spell must be invented or recreated from BW.

My suggestion is to just let it have an upgrade at the tech lab. Costs 100/100 BT 110 or 140 seconds.
Then we can tweak stats if needed.

I genereally do not like to remove or add stuff at this point. But PF does arguably have a bad impact on the gameplay.
It makes smaller harassment and attacks very hard. Two solutions:

1) Reduce the duration and cooldown of the activation. Maybe 15 seconds duration, 60 seconds cooldown, instead of 30 seconds duration and two minutes cooldown. Becomes more crucial to use it at the right time. Easier to harass PF now?
2) Remove it.

The dilemma: No Zerg units have speed bonus on creep. Which means that the normal fast Reaper becomes very strong vs Zerg. Thus the current Reaper is quite slow. And useless.

Potential solutions:
1) Give it speed ca 3.25. (Zerglings have speed 2.83, Stalker 2.65) Not insanely fast Reapers at least.
2) Just let Zerglings benefit from speed bonus on Creep.

Right now, both of those spells only affect friendly units. Since there is no team color on the spells, it will sooner or later be confusing in mirror matches, if those spells see play.

Solution:
- Make them affect both friendly and enemy units within the area.

I do think they will be better for the game than the Dragoon. Leads to more variation.

The Stalker currently costs the same amound of resources as a Dragoon, but have 40 less total life, and worse damage.
There has been a lot of talk about this in the in game chat. But arguably does the Stalker need a small dmg boost vs medium units. (Vultures, Banshee, Hydralisks, Mutalisks)

Suggestion:
- Stalker 12 dmg vs armored, 14 vs light, 16 vs medium. (They currently have 12 vs armored, 14 vs light and medium)
- Vulture 90 life instead of 80. (So the same amount of Stalker shots is required to kill a Vulture)

This would make Stalker a better damage support unit in PvZ, where they currently seem very weak.
This would also help to make Stalkers have a more distinct role in TvP. Better at cleaing up Vultures compared to Immortals.

Zealot - Tank dmg, absorb fire
Stalker - Clean up Vultures, Mines, Banshees
Immortal - Deal the damage vs Tanks, Goliaths

Reavers, Storm and Archons deal the same amount of damage to everything. Just as in BW. But since the tech tree is different in Starbow, I think there needs to be some variation here, so we encourage different units for different situations.

Suggestion:

- Archon dmg changed FROM 30 vs all, TO 20 vs armored, 25 vs medium, 30 vs light.
- Psi storm dmg changed FROM 112 dmg over 6 seconds, TO ca 60-75 vs light, 90 vs medium, 120 vs armored over 6 sec
- Reaver dmg changed FROM 100 vs all, to 60 vs armored, 80 vs light, 100 vs medium
- Immortal dmg remains strong vs armored targets.

The values are just a suggestion. The point is to make the units/spells in the same tech tree not overlap, and not be super strong vs everything.

Not sure what to do with this one. It just feels very different in the SC2 engine. Any suggestions of small tweaks that can be made?

The problem is that the spell is super easy to execute, and gives a huuuge advantage to the army, which allows it to A-move into well.. anything. In BW was it hard to get Dark Swarm off and time so the army attacked together with it.

Dmg increased from 20 vs all, 15 vs light, 25 vs armored, TO 30 vs all, 25 vs light, 35 vs armored. Larger splash area.

This was introduced as a way to give mobility and harassment potential to Terran, at a time in Starbow when that was considered hard to do. Especially Protoss could very easily defend vs Terran harassment due to Warp in and Blink. Which required Terran to be "quicker" as well. That is no longer the case, since Blink Stalkers are weaker, and Warp tech higher up in the tech tree.

The question is if this shall be kept or not.