Infested Terran trick. By using mousewheel - Page 10

On February 06 2012 16:48 Cyro wrote:


The ghost cost change was a terran buff, not a nerf

On February 07 2012 02:06 Dephy wrote:

this isnt macro, since it just changes wheel from scroll to left click.

On February 06 2012 13:57 EchelonTee wrote:
wow, that's fast.... yeah, if I played zerg I would use this.

On February 07 2012 02:36 Doodsmack wrote:
Really hope Blizzard nerfs this soon.

On February 07 2012 02:43 RoKetha wrote:
In my opinion, this highlights issues with Snipe as a spell, not with the mouse wheel input. If a player is able to instantly wipe out extremely expensive units while taking no damage just by being able to click really fast, and there's essentially nothing the other player can do to prevent this, then that represents an issue with the game mechanics. I mean, you can already sort of do this if you use vision ahead of time to queue up these snipes and the enemy doesn't have the ability to change the battle situation quickly enough (or lacks detection). It takes a couple extra seconds, but wiping out that huge chunk of expensive units is absolutely worth the time.

In other words, if Snipe was only balanced around thinking players couldn't do something as brainless as clicking on one target really fast, then Blizzard absolutely failed in their design of the spell. I can get up to 11.5 clicks per second if I use a specific grip, so I'd say it would have been inevitable for someone to eventually start doing something close to this in tournaments anyway.

I wouldn't really say this is a big deal with infested terrans as you are usually better off queuing the egg spam anyway (which makes it simultaneous) so that you have time to synch up the actions of your other army groups as the eggs hatch (since you usually want to wait for the eggs to hatch or your real units will be targeted first). It's only useful for getting back to other tasks slightly more quickly or for panic eggs off a doomed infestor.