Medivac Healing Rate Upgrade - Why removed? - Page 2

On January 11 2013 02:35 larse wrote:
Blizzard just can't change things freely like that. If Mech doesn't work, how about make all mech units biological so they can be healed by medivac? Their method is just outright nonsensical.

On January 11 2013 02:40 gedatsu wrote:

It's a beta. They are testing things.

On January 11 2013 02:35 larse wrote:
Blizzard just can't change things freely like that. If Mech doesn't work, how about make all mech units biological so they can be healed by medivac? You don't do that. Their method is just outright nonsensical.

Just make hellbat mechanical only. Medivac can still heal marauders and marines in your comp, and hellbat doesn't need to be healed. Why they just don't get it.

On January 11 2013 02:54 Killmouse wrote:

they shouldnt change the game so drastic when the launch is in 2 month, u know? time to get the balance right with small changes, to get hots release ready

if the pros always have to create new bos or have to adapt to something new after a huge new patch , they cant play the game properly and find the small(or mayb big? ) balance issues

and btw the medivac upgrade is now even more worse than in WOL cauz its in fusion core and all it does is give +25 startings energy same as in WOL

On January 11 2013 03:12 Markwerf wrote:


For fun gameplay it was a good decision though because it makes medivacs and thus drop play useful with mech promoting more active and fun gameplay. Without a use for the heal effect the dropship would simply suck too much for mech and hardly be used leading to boring mechplay. They shouldn't have gone for the medivac in the first place imo but just for the plain old medic and a separate dropship because dropplay should be good in all styles, the game should promote and reward difficult multitasking play. Now they went for the ugly fix of letting dropships 'heal' mech too

On January 10 2013 23:59 FS_SlimJim wrote:
I think it was removed because MMM against Zerg was way too imbalanced in the lategame. Think about it, a Terran should NEVER be able to go MMM against Zerg hive units and win; marines and marauders are tier1 units, but yet were keeping up with brood lord/ultralisk/infestor compositions because the medivacs kept any bio units from ever dying. I dont care about the matchup or race involved, tier1 units should get wrecked by tier3 units on a cost-efficiency basis in a straight-up fight. No exceptions.

EDIT: That being said, to keep on topic, I think the improved healing rate upgrade should be reinstated, just toned down a little bit. Also the cooldown ability seriously f***ing needs to cost energy or have a longer cooldown. Refer to other threads as to why, but it needs to happen.

On January 11 2013 00:02 KrazyTrumpet wrote:
I liked the upgrade, I just thought the numbers were too high. Would have rather seen Blizzard tone down the numbers slightly, or get rid of the increased healing per energy first.

On January 11 2013 04:23 blade55555 wrote:


This. It was way to good, but it could have just been nerfed or something instead of complete removal. It was a bit of a joke when quiet a few lings with a couple banes couldn't deal with 1 medivac cause the units refused to die if they sniped the banes :D

I can only imagine tvp

On January 11 2013 04:27 Whitewing wrote:


Well, it's useless if you're playing turtle bio and never engaging, but if you're playing bio with a constantly aggressive style and your medivacs are usually running close to empty and struggling to keep up with the healing that your drug induced coma is forcing them to deal with, then yes, this upgrade will make a big difference.

The upgrade was removed because it made drops too effective and efficient. It was killing mech in TvT, among other things. Apparently blizzard's intent with the upgrade was to use it to help hellbats tank better (go figure) but nobody cared and used it to make marine/marauder even scarier. They didn't want that so they reverted it to a less ridiculous upgrade.