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Whitewing
Profile Joined October 2010
United States7483 Posts
October 25 2011 23:24 GMT
#641
Protoss needs an upgrade advantage to be competitive for the most part. This is a step in making that easier, so they don't get rolled so easily. Still, a fast upgrade style for zerg or terran is really freaking hard to deal with as toss.
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NguN
Profile Joined August 2009
Australia1322 Posts
October 25 2011 23:25 GMT
#642
Finally... a EMP nerf. I've been waiting for this since like Patch 1.3
Whitewing
Profile Joined October 2010
United States7483 Posts
October 25 2011 23:25 GMT
#643
On October 26 2011 08:24 Callynn wrote:
This is so Blizzcon biased. DB even said that if a change as small as increasing immortal range +1 fixed 1/1/1, they need to be careful and next they do this? This is a pretty huge buff to protoss, also indirectly a nerf to zerg and directly to terran. I guess we have to trust they know what they are doing.


Dustin Browder said immediately after that he doesn't buy that argument that +1 range fixed 1/1/1. Try to listen to the whole conversation.
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nitdkim
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
1264 Posts
October 25 2011 23:26 GMT
#644
I'm not sure I like the weapons/armor upgrade cost reduction. Shield is an okay move but I think this will just promote more 2base +2attack timing attacks from protoss and not much more.
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Kingqway
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States155 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-25 23:26:39
October 25 2011 23:26 GMT
#645
I understand the EMP nerf, but I personally think the protoss skill ceiling should be raised in addition to these buffs in order to make them less one-sided (obviously this is kind of a pointless suggestion since I wouldn't know how to do that). People complain about a-move all the time, but its really just bad game design on the protoss side. Shield is a completely understandable cost reduction though. It costed so much for so little.

I guess I won't really say anything until the patch gets released, but I personally find it still difficult to get wins off of heavy zealot-archon-templar builds even when I have ghosts, since archons are doing a lot of damage, and if you miss 1 or 2 templar with EMP, storm still deals enormous damage to biocentric armies (microing out of it or not).
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DooMDash
Profile Joined May 2010
United States1015 Posts
October 25 2011 23:26 GMT
#646
AS a terran : EMP nerf, ok. shield cost reduction for toss, ok.


armor and attack cost reduction for toss.... wtf?
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Malinor
Profile Joined November 2008
Germany4758 Posts
October 25 2011 23:26 GMT
#647
These seem like really good changes. Still think that Snipe is a bit too good, but nerfing EMP is also a very nice thing.
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J.E.G.
Profile Joined May 2010
United States389 Posts
October 25 2011 23:27 GMT
#648
So if you open ffe->stargate play->6 gate or something along those lines does it make more sense to get shield then weapon upgrade now? Who knows how to do the math on this?
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Whitewing
Profile Joined October 2010
United States7483 Posts
October 25 2011 23:27 GMT
#649
On October 26 2011 08:26 nitdkim wrote:
I'm not sure I like the weapons/armor upgrade cost reduction. Shield is an okay move but I think this will just promote more 2base +2attack timing attacks from protoss and not much more.


Yeah, having 50/50 more available for you will really make that timing attack so much better.
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astroorion
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1022 Posts
October 25 2011 23:28 GMT
#650
I think the upgrade changes are good, it will allow protoss to get a fair amount of upgrades without spending all their gas since they have such gas heavy units
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robopork
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States511 Posts
October 25 2011 23:28 GMT
#651
@ everything being mentioned about protoss getting faster upgrades than the other races: allocating all of our cb to upgrades and not probes means our economy develops more slowly than the other races- it is, as many things in sc2, an issue of opportunity cost. Furthermore, this won't affect the speed with which the upgrades come, since we could already prioritize our gas/cb towards them if we wanted, it just affects how much teching can go on at the same time as the upgrades. Overall a very smart yet moderate buff pvt. I doubt it's going to change much in pvz since most players don't double forge in that match up.

The emp nerf is not as moderate but it's suuuuppppeeeeer okay with me :D
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Profile Joined January 2007
United States1293 Posts
October 25 2011 23:28 GMT
#652
Thank god, EMP is so annoying.
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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
October 25 2011 23:28 GMT
#653
On October 26 2011 06:54 Aesop wrote:
Reducing the upgrade cost isn't really an huge buff that will suddenly make all Protoss players upgrade more. Sure, Protoss get a discount of 375/375 in total and shields get more attractive, but it has no effect on your upgrading speed - the time is still the same and if you were basing your strategy on upgrades, you were getting those anyway and a small discount won't change that.

It just allows you to add a few extra units along the way (think 3 zealots and an archon), which is a subtle, suitable buff.

Just wanted to quote this- I had some qualms at first when thinking about ZvP easy upgrades against me but I think Aesop cleared up my concerns pretty damn well!
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zeehar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)3804 Posts
October 25 2011 23:29 GMT
#654
people, it's not like the upgrades got any faster. they got cheaper by a miniscule amount (except level 3 upgrades)
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reptile
Profile Joined July 2010
United States210 Posts
October 25 2011 23:29 GMT
#655
I don't see why Protoss deserves cheaper upgrades when there upgrades are already the fastest, don't take away mining time, and apply to all of their ground units, when Zerg loses a drone and has to decide between melee and range...
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Delay559
Profile Joined January 2011
France89 Posts
October 25 2011 23:29 GMT
#656
YES finally upgrades decreased in cost... 400/400 for shield was extremely expensive T_T
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Lordwar
Profile Joined August 2011
Finland243 Posts
October 25 2011 23:30 GMT
#657
Finally high templar is able to hit enemy with storm/feedback before getting EMP'd
Kuja
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States1759 Posts
October 25 2011 23:30 GMT
#658
Thank god, i hated EMP
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Belha
Profile Joined December 2010
Italy2850 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-25 23:32:03
October 25 2011 23:31 GMT
#659
As a P player i love the EMP change, it is totally fair.

However, the upgrade changes i'm pretty sure that will not change the lower P win rates at higher levels.

P needs a "core" buff, not a "side" buff.

Roach ling or MM stills rape gateway units, not even talking about the efficiency difference.
P still mine less, with expensive units that take more time to build, and that are needed to counter lower tier, cheaper units. Other races core units are faster and allow retreats aganist P, or better harass/ counterattacks. And so.
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Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-25 23:32:48
October 25 2011 23:31 GMT
#660
On October 26 2011 08:29 reptile wrote:
I don't see why Protoss deserves cheaper upgrades when there upgrades are already the fastest, don't take away mining time, and apply to all of their ground units, when Zerg loses a drone and has to decide between melee and range...

Let's face facts here man. Protoss hasn't been doing to well- shit for more than a few months my ZvP win rate was disgusting. I'm perfectly okay with them trying out new ways to make Protoss a little stronger. Hell, anything to make it more interesting than 2-3 base turtle until I have 160 supply

It isn't Protoss players fault- their race needs a buff. Hopefully they get that 'core' buff as well although I kinda feel like the EMP nerf, immortal range buff and upgrades cost reduction are a hell of a windfall.
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