HOTS Patch notes [9/14/2012] - Page 39

On September 15 2012 06:15 S_SienZ wrote:
Any Terrans interested in forming a group and just play WoL TvT all day long when HotS comes out?

At this rate Flash will be playing P when HotS is out.

Terran

Warhound
This unit has been removed from the game.

On September 15 2012 06:22 obsid wrote:
My guess is the next patch will be something like this (This is a blind guess, we will see!):

Void rays lose the +20% to massive. Voidrays attack goes from 6/8 + 4/8 vs armored to 6/8 + 5/10 vs armored. (makes voidrays 10% better vs armored, but no change to non-armored and loses the bonus vs massive). This would better distinguish void ray's from tempests.

Tempest attack goes from 30+20 vs massive to 30+30 vs massive. (I think it will need a little be more umph vs massive to really hold that role well).

Phase Shield's duration reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds (5 seconds is going to get chained together for a long time with multiple oracles).

Tank siege mode damage goes from 35+15 vs armored to 35+20 vs armored in siege mode. (Lots of anti-tank stuff added in Hots and so far tank has gotten nothing, give it a 5 extra damage boost in siege mode vs armored units would help keep it viable)

On September 15 2012 06:21 anotherone wrote:

Count me in.

On September 15 2012 06:29 jake1138 wrote:
Someone mentioned that the Oracle's entomb ability is stupid (the shields-over-mineral thing). I am inclined to agree. Most of the time you'll have to use your workers to destroy the things. Then you have to put them all back to work. It is too disruptive given how easy the ability is to use and how difficult it is to defend against it.

I'd rather see an ability to freeze some workers in place. Like an AoE stasis field that only affects workers. That way it's still easy to use but you have to get a little closer to the workers to use it and thus it can be more easily defended against. Also, your workers go right back to doing what they were doing before it happened so there is no micro necessary from the victim to recover from it.

Also make it so the units don't take damage while in stasis so you can't statis and storm. You'd have to wait for the stasis to expire to storm. This would give the victim some time to defend it. An interesting side-effect is that you could freeze the SCV's that Terran sends at you in all-ins. That would be fun! :-)

On September 15 2012 06:26 Scila wrote:
Entomb is still a silly ability. As long as it is "click to harass" it will never be a "skillful" strategy to pull off.

On September 15 2012 06:23 MCDayC wrote:
Pretty sure tank has gotten a small buff to how much it gets from upgrades.