Nerfed Infestor Trick - A Guide to Burrowed Casting - Page…

PLEASE NOTE: A lot of people are concerned about how strong this is, and if this needs to be fixed. However as it turns out, this is a pretty much useless trick in for use in any serious game. For Fungal Growth, well the infestor is revealed for 1 second while burrowed- casting Fungal. This means that since you could always be able to move Infestors while Burrowed, you could simply Unburrow, Fungal, then Re-Burrow... it's basically equivalent to casting while Burrowed because of the 1 second reveal. Only difference is that this way guarantees fungal going off (but only if they don't have detection), while if you try to unburrow and fungal then it may die before casting. And while you wait for infestors to move you cannot click/press anything else if you wanna cast something while Burrowed. In most every case you can just cast Fungal normally with just the same effectiveness as Burrowed casting, while being faster/easier to execute.

That just leaves Neural Parasite. Sad part is, Neural Parasite really blows now due to the stealth change that made it last only about 15 game seconds. And combined with the heavy time/gas/energy cost, along with how fragile/easy they are to kill (which if they did would make the entire investment backfire on you), and readily available Detectors nullifying it completely, it's really not even seriously worth getting in almost any situation. For evidence how awful it is, well if you've seen the + Show Spoiler [Razer KotB] +
(note, he says 12 because I so incorrectly posted that so long ago when writing up the stealth changes. It lasts 15 in-game seconds, I verified this now. I'm very ashamed that I said the wrong number but nevertheless it's really damn short)

The 15 second change alone makes NP awful/a waste of resources, but let let me remind everyone anyways just how much gas and time is required for casting Neural Parasite while Burrowed:

After Lair 150 100 80,
Research Burrow 100 100 100,
Build Infestation Pit 150 100 80,
Build Infestors 100 150 50 each, and you want several Infestors for Neural Parasite,
Research Neural Parasite 150 150 110,
After each 50 Infestor finishes, wait another 64 for 50 more Energy, as Neural Parasite costs 100 Energy.
Now you can finally use a spell that only lasts 12, after which they get their unit/s back and then what? You look like an idiot for going NP. Oh yeah, and all they need is Detection anyway, which terran can easily just Scan and Protosses are almost guaranteed to have observers by then anyway.

For Protoss, well infestors are already a dangerous investment for zerg to get as Feedback from HTs counter them so well, which they can certainly have well in time for Neural Parasite (no research required, only 50 energy, similar tech requirements, HTs useful for Storm as well and even archons have their uses). As for Detection, well 98% of Protosses will have cannons @ natural well ahead of any Infestors, and before/when they move out, most players will have Observers, completely nullifying this trick.

Point being, it's a cute, but mostly worthless trick, and I regret wasting my time on this guide.