Interviews and answers about balance are always good and I hope Blizzard will make efforts to communicate more regulary.

That would prevent things like this to happen (David Kim being booed at HoTS launch)

Breight

New Zealand6 Posts

March 14 2013 23:52 GMT

#104

Definitely made a small restoration of my faith in Blizzards balancing team

Callynn

Netherlands917 Posts

March 14 2013 23:53 GMT

#105

Rats, made a long post then accidentally shut down my browser.

Anyway, since it's page 6 and not many people will be reading this anyway: My vision to fix the Ultralisk problem (burrow charge unoriginal and buggy) is to change the way from which the problem (versus mech) is approached.

Cushion Slime: Reduces the damage the Ultralisk takes by 15 from attacks that deal more than 25 damage for 4 seconds. 60 second cooldown.

This will solve the approach problem to thors and tanks without ruining mech, because 6 seconds is a short timing window that needs to be applied tactically to work. Walling with Hellbats will still buy good players the time they need to cut through Ultralisks, forcing the Zerg player to go for a well planned multi-angled attack to make it work.

Tuczniak

1561 Posts

March 15 2013 00:14 GMT

#106

Good interview.
Nothing about medivac as majority of people pinpointed it as next nerf.

Glenn313

United States475 Posts

March 15 2013 00:29 GMT

#107

Thanks for the information.

Drake

Germany6146 Posts

March 15 2013 00:29 GMT

#108

On March 15 2013 09:14 Tuczniak wrote:
Good interview.
Nothing about medivac as majority of people pinpointed it as next nerf.

cause tehy already said all about medivac (seems imba will be changed not yet enough data)

Protosnake

France295 Posts

March 15 2013 00:41 GMT

#109

It's nice to have more communication, but how can they not see the problem with void rays

c0sm0naut

United States1229 Posts

March 15 2013 01:00 GMT

#110

No mention of the medivac
maybe he does actually play random, wow! (thus, would know, medivac is far from the main thing terran needs changed right now, mine is the only problem.)

Belha

Italy2850 Posts

March 15 2013 01:11 GMT

#111

Thx for the interveiw, really interesting.

Too bad they are not adressing the obvious speedvac issue at highest PvT levels. Will be fixed eventually.

KDot2

United States1213 Posts

March 15 2013 01:22 GMT

#112

On March 15 2013 07:14 johnny123 wrote:
the biggest mistake blizzard could make to sc2 is to think the right answer to everything is to nerf.
thats the approach they took with WOL and it became stagnant as fuk as more and more strategyies got eliminated thanks to each nerf.

-Queen buffed as a way to nerf hellion run bys? all early game terran aggression dead.
-Infestor buff in wol to do more damage+ faster rate of damage fungal from 8 to 4 seconds resulted in chain fungals being so strong, eliminating void ray usage.
-ghost snipe nerfed to 1 use , when the approach could have been different. Such as 45 damage to everything, - 15 to massive.
-Blue flame nerf killed MECH TvP according to goody.
-Thorzains thor abuse resulted in thors recieving back thier energy bar as a nerf to thors which removed them from the TvP matchup.

The list goes on and on

If you people keep asking for nerfs, you gonna destroy this game. Becareful what you wish for.

Widow mine nerfed? guess what, All you gonna see is WOL style terran, no new units
Medicvac speed nerf? Ask anybody if they can tell the difference between WOL and HOTS if that was to happen

I dont disagree with you totally but its pretty obvious you play terran

I think WoL was terribly broken but that doesnt mean the widow mine and medivac arent too strong right now.... from zerg perspective its terribly hard to play against terran right now

Uni1987

Netherlands642 Posts

March 15 2013 01:23 GMT

#113

On March 15 2013 08:43 BabyMozart wrote:
I want to see a david kim vs idra showmatch :D

Wow, this is a great fucking idea.. A showmatch with David Kim with a random pro player. This would be something I would pay to watch for. David plays each race versus different players. Lets get this shit hyped up!

Balance right?

RusHXceL

United States1004 Posts

March 15 2013 01:25 GMT

#114

so he wasn't a bronze league after I saw him wear a t-shirt with a bronze pic

emc

United States3088 Posts

March 15 2013 01:39 GMT

#115

I'd prefer buffs over nerfs.

buff oracle, but also buff hydra either +1 range or more HP like +10 and combine it with grooved spines and make the upgrade 200/200 or something.

if they would buff ultra, don't add charge, just give it more HP like +50 so it has more time to close the distance, combine the HP with armor upgrade.

I think it would be cool if mines were cheaper and costed 1 supply but only had 2 range, making them only effective if you step directly over them, but I'm not DK, GM with all 3 races to know what the best course of action is, but definitely don't nerf stuff.

tomatriedes

New Zealand5356 Posts

March 15 2013 01:44 GMT

#116

So many people bad at reading and then accuse him of lying. They never said he was GM in Korea and it's entirely believable that he could be low GM in NA. Not every player in NA GM is pro.

Defacer

Canada5052 Posts

March 15 2013 01:48 GMT

#117

On March 15 2013 08:53 Callynn wrote:
Rats, made a long post then accidentally shut down my browser.

Anyway, since it's page 6 and not many people will be reading this anyway: My vision to fix the Ultralisk problem (burrow charge unoriginal and buggy) is to change the way from which the problem (versus mech) is approached.

Cushion Slime: Reduces the damage the Ultralisk takes by 15 from attacks that deal more than 25 damage for 4 seconds. 60 second cooldown.

This will solve the approach problem to thors and tanks without ruining mech, because 6 seconds is a short timing window that needs to be applied tactically to work. Walling with Hellbats will still buy good players the time they need to cut through Ultralisks, forcing the Zerg player to go for a well planned multi-angled attack to make it work.

Meh ... I'm always wary of this kind of stat-fucking to balance a game, where something deals/receives more/less damage from one type of thing versus another. It makes the design of game overall less intuitive, and hurts the game's legibility.

At the very least, the effect or characteristic should be easy to represent visually or through FX.

Spore crawler randomly doing extra damage to bio? < lazy design.
Spore crawler spitting acid, which has a more dramatic, obvious burning or singe effect on bio units? < better design.

paralleluniverse

4065 Posts

March 15 2013 01:49 GMT

#118

On March 15 2013 08:27 Godwrath wrote:
And low GM is really really far away from top GM's. The gap in MMR is close to silver to masters from a top GM and a bottom GM