Welllll...good changes to Static Defense, good change to Thor, somewhat baffling change to Banshees (were they not already good enough?), okay change to HTs (Storm w/ smartcasting was somewhat overpowered at lower levels of play, with smartcasting allowing even poor players to instantly blanket an entire army with Storm; I think, though, that a damage buff would be helpful to offset this nerf), and I'm ambivalent about the Roach change. As not a Zerg player myself, I don't know how useful the above-ground regen actually was in practice; but I do hate to see such a unique feature depart.

Hapahauli

United States9305 Posts

March 30 2010 19:19 GMT

#107

Good to see terran get a solid option against mutalisks, and nice to see static D get buffs all around. Although, I'm very surprised at the HT nerf... it's not like they were overpowered...

silver_fox

Canada243 Posts

March 30 2010 19:19 GMT

#108

cmon stop complaining bout banshee buff, 10 hp isn't going to make a huge difference.

Rice

United States1332 Posts

March 30 2010 19:20 GMT

#109

what is the point of going t3 as zerg if they are just going to nerf everything about t3, ultras are already questionable, broodlords got a 20% dps nerf. Organic carapace nerf... why even tech to hive? This just encourages even less choices by the zerg and after all these interviews saying they want to increase zerg army diversity i'm starting to wonder how they plan on doing that.

onmach

United States1241 Posts

March 30 2010 19:20 GMT

#110

Wow, I can't believe they nerfed organic carapace. That was the only reason I got roaches in the first place late game. Without those, they are nearly useless. This must be a ploy to get people to use ultras, but I think they'll just use hydras instead.

However the spine crawler change is very interesting. Not as good against roaches, but better against everything else. Still only 2 shots lings though.

squ1d

United States178 Posts

March 30 2010 19:20 GMT

#111

Here's how blizzard makes patch decisions:

That's the only way it makes sense to nerf Protoss even more, and at the same time buff banshees.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

March 30 2010 19:20 GMT

#112

thor
+ Anti-Air damage has been decreased from 10+6 light to 8+4 light.
+ Anti-Air attack now deals splash damage in a 0.5 radius.

so instead of 64 damage to a single target at 9 range, it now does 48 damage at 9 range in a splash radius.

so essentially 2-3 thors can shutdown any amount of mutas now.

MorroW

Sweden3522 Posts

March 30 2010 19:21 GMT

#113

awesome patch! liked every single thing about it

im afraid banshees r growing too strong tho

Glider

United States1353 Posts

March 30 2010 19:21 GMT

#114

I can only guess blizzard has stats of over all % of races win and units involved . I only hope that they only look at the stats across the gold and plat divisions. It is such a bad idea If they take lower lvl player's games into balance consideration. I can see how at lower levels , T dies to storms, since it's easier to cast than to counter/dodge. but at high level, T can counter with ghost emp/snipe etc, and players move and dodge much better. Anyway it doesn't make sense to me why templars is nerfed so much...

StriverzG

United States115 Posts

March 30 2010 19:21 GMT

#115

On March 31 2010 04:19 kilika wrote:
cmon stop complaining bout banshee buff, 10 hp isn't going to make a huge difference.

It's a big difference when you have a group of banshees.
HT nerf will def help Terrans in late game.

CharlieMurphy

United States22895 Posts

March 30 2010 19:22 GMT

#116

On March 31 2010 04:21 MorroW wrote:
awesome patch! liked every single thing about it

I hope you are joking

FarbrorAbavna

Sweden4856 Posts

March 30 2010 19:23 GMT

#117

AMagadd, they changed something again! Oh noes now game is bad than it was before(I don't really know this coz havent played the new patch yet, but how can I be wrong about something)!!!

/irony

Slunk

Germany768 Posts

March 30 2010 19:23 GMT

#118

Awful patch.
1) Banshee deals the most fucking damage in the game allready, you dont need to buff it.
2) This roach upgrade is a total waste now. Like who has even the time to burrow roaches during the battle?

Karas

United States230 Posts

March 30 2010 19:24 GMT

#119

I agree with most of the changes.

As a P player I can understand blizzard not wanting psi storm to be the only toss weapon in the arsenal against mid/late game terran. Now with the nerf toss may need a buff elsewhere to compensate, but that remains to be seen.

The static defense buff was a good one, especially for the spine crawler. Though I wonder if they went a little overboard with the turret. It went from doing 10 dmg per attack against muta in SCI to doing 24 dmg in SCII (does anyone know if its attack speed is the same?) That seems like a large increase in power.

The thor change seems solid. It should be better against muta and carriers now (I'm curious to see how well the splash damage affects interceptors).

The banshee buff seems a bit strange, no one is complaining about the weakness of that unit right now.

WiljushkA

Serbia1416 Posts

March 30 2010 19:24 GMT

#120

really surprised how many people are whining about the storm nerf, it was hugely imbalanced against terrans. terran isnt even my main race and i could consistently beat much more skilled players just as long as i survived until storm tech. only problem is its a bit weak against zerg now, but even in sc1 we didnt use every unit in every matchup.