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Targe
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
United Kingdom14103 Posts
April 23 2013 09:59 GMT
#361
On April 23 2013 09:33 Vlare wrote:
Oh god... All this wait for a patch and we get this. Disappointed doesn't even begin to describe my feelings. Hope they fix Protoss while they fix zerg.


But... balance isn't bad right now. :/

I'm glad the changes aren't too drastic, but I'm curious as to the oracle speed increase.
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Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9172 Posts
April 23 2013 09:59 GMT
#362
Oracles are already really good, I have nfi why they'd need a speed buff.
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Rabiator
Profile Joined March 2010
Germany3948 Posts
April 23 2013 10:19 GMT
#363
On April 23 2013 15:00 convention wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 23 2013 14:48 Rabiator wrote:
Both changes get a big and fat thumbs down from me ...

- Oracle is fast and powerful enough so that a greater movement speed seems to be a bit too much to keep the units safe. There needs to be RISK involved in everything and a skilled player can use an Oracle to bind more than its own resources worth of enemy units already. More movement speed would make this worse.

- Burrow has always been a great thing to use, but apart from making it free - which I am absolutely against - I dont think players will bother getting it, because there isnt much point in using it due to two reasons: a) the game is designed around massive armies and "nifty ambushes" are not useful and b) the game is designed around massive economy and replacement of units, so burrowing units to keep them safe during battle is a waste of time.

So oracles should be risky while terran drops are no longer risky?

Also, if most players aren't going to get burrow because of how useless it will be, then why not give it a slight buff? If I see it in 2% of the allins, then it was worth the buff because otherwise I would never see it at all.

Did I say anything about the Medivac speed boosts being good? I think they are TERRIBLE for the exact same reasons given under Oracle. Just because one race has a stupidly overpowered speed unit doesnt mean every other race should get one too ....

USE YOUR COMMON SENSE please next time ...


On April 23 2013 15:35 kubiks wrote:
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On April 23 2013 14:48 GTPGlitch wrote:
p.s. To be frank that's wrong because if terran was the cost efficient race it wouldn't be M4 and M4VG in the non-mirrors and lategame units would actually be used. Also, zerg have 3 different ways to make free units, and the other races have a grand total of zero, as well as the vast majority of zerg units being much cheaper and equal or less supply than midgame counterparts from the other races


Terran got no free units ? What is your definition of "free units" ? Because I count 3 : mules (it's a unit that can be spawned for enregy), raven turrets and pdd....

MULE and PDD do not attack
TURRET is a building - which means it is immobile - and thus technically "not a unit". Sure it can fight, but unlike the Infested Terran it requires free space on the building grid and is far harder to use compared to anything Zerg has.


On April 23 2013 15:41 NEEDZMOAR wrote:
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On April 23 2013 15:35 kubiks wrote:
On April 23 2013 14:48 GTPGlitch wrote:
p.s. To be frank that's wrong because if terran was the cost efficient race it wouldn't be M4 and M4VG in the non-mirrors and lategame units would actually be used. Also, zerg have 3 different ways to make free units, and the other races have a grand total of zero, as well as the vast majority of zerg units being much cheaper and equal or less supply than midgame counterparts from the other races


Terran got no free units ? What is your definition of "free units" ? Because I count 3 : mules (it's a unit that can be spawned for enregy), raven turrets and pdd....



Theres no such thing as a free unit however there are units you spend resources on and they gain cost efficiency over time... oh wait.. thats every unit...

Wow ... we are lying to ourselves, eh?

A unit is something that has HIT POINTS, MOVES and ATTACKS. Broodlings spawned by a Broodlord do not cost resources and thus are FREE UNITS. Sure they require the resource "time", but the most annoying part of them is that they BLOCK THE PATH of ground units trying to reach the Broodlord. It is the same for the other "free units" from Zerg which cost neither minerals nor gas.


On April 23 2013 15:55 Liquid`Ret wrote:
wtf is a burrow change. I think blizzard maybe only watches GSL/GSTL because everywhere else terran is raping the shit out of everything, and in Korea the only thing that sometimes works is the same old 2/2 muta ling bane timing lol, and even there terran is dominating overall.

Lucifron, Happy, ForGG, Dayshi, Heromarine are all amazing players who deserve to win almost every teamleague and tournament they enter over everybody else. If you watch any of the popular terran streams (Demuslim/Byun/Polt) you simply don't see them lose.

wtf is a burrow change seriously

Obviously they try to fix one broken thing (speedvacs) by adding another broken thing (speedOracles).
If you cant say what you're meaning, you can never mean what you're saying.
Bahajinbo
Profile Joined May 2012
Germany488 Posts
April 23 2013 10:21 GMT
#364
I like the fact that they don't overdo the changes.
Oracles can be buffed, but what about slight widow mines & speed medivacs nerfs? They are the worst thing at the moment. Besides that, the balance is pretty okay right now.
dirtydurb82
Profile Joined December 2012
United States178 Posts
April 23 2013 10:24 GMT
#365
I like the three changes. I think burrow should be an integral part of Zerg Strats, from Bronze to GM, so I like this.
"The only way to grow E-Sports is to tell the truth." -Richard Lewis
Xahhk
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada540 Posts
April 23 2013 10:28 GMT
#366
Hallucinated oracles scouts next patch will be great. I think people should use them right NOW instead of phoenixes because it's pretty common to send only 1 or 2 oracles to bases as opposed to 1 phoenix which is always a tell that it's fake.
Tosster
Profile Joined August 2011
Poland299 Posts
April 23 2013 10:30 GMT
#367
Aaaand Terrans are like: MOMMMA, SUPRISINGLY THEY'RE NOT NERFING US, BUT LETS CRY ANYWAY ABOUT ORACLUUUSSS ;( ;( ;(.
Wertheron
Profile Joined October 2011
France439 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-23 10:44:32
April 23 2013 10:41 GMT
#368
Happy for ZvZ.

Currently transition into infest is too difficult.

If you have the same economy and want to transition into infestor against muta, you have to paid (let's say for 4 infest):
150g+150g+400g (for 4 infest)=700g, it's 7 muta.
You have to defend against an opponent with +7 muta during 180 sc sec (90s for bat roach, 40 sec for mid Pathogen Glands -when you start produce infest, and infestor production).

That's really difficult if the guy want to pressure hard
It happens for other transition too, so ZvZ become just a muta fest where you can have mutavsmuta during 1h :p
BillGates
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
471 Posts
April 23 2013 10:50 GMT
#369
Good potential changes, though I would have liked to see Void Rays being nerfed slightly. Maybe remove the bonus damage against armored.
NKB
Profile Joined February 2012
United Kingdom608 Posts
April 23 2013 10:54 GMT
#370
I like how blizzard are only doing and thinking about small changes at the moment, lets see how all pans out.
Some times you just gotta wish...
TheBloodyDwarf
Profile Blog Joined March 2012
Finland7524 Posts
April 23 2013 10:57 GMT
#371
One spore/cannon/turret or windowmine defends your mineral line agaisnt oracle. Makes it only bit easier..
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Iyerbeth
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
England2410 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-23 11:03:00
April 23 2013 11:02 GMT
#372
I really don't get the burrow change. It kinda made sense for getting slightly faster burrow after you start your lair, but they want to see earlier zerg burrow aggresion? Blizzard is really sat there looking at these games thinking "if only there was more roach ling all in"??

These proposed changes make me sad, but at least they want to do something about zvz, even if I think their proposal is bad.
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scypio
Profile Joined December 2011
Poland2127 Posts
April 23 2013 11:05 GMT
#373
On April 23 2013 15:55 Liquid`Ret wrote:
wtf is a burrow change. I think blizzard maybe only watches GSL/GSTL because everywhere else terran is raping the shit out of everything, and in Korea the only thing that sometimes works is the same old 2/2 muta ling bane timing lol, and even there terran is dominating overall.

Lucifron, Happy, ForGG, Dayshi, Heromarine are all amazing players who deserve to win almost every teamleague and tournament they enter over everybody else. If you watch any of the popular terran streams (Demuslim/Byun/Polt) you simply don't see them lose.

wtf is a burrow change seriously


Perhaps they do not meet the top zergs on the ladder. The good ones who compete online do not seem to be that worried with balance after all...
Nerchio wins GO4SC2 #281 (7th April) with Liquid Snute as runner-up
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Liquid TLO, won ZOTAC EU #152 (14th April)
Liquid Snute won ZOTAC EU #153 (21st April) with Nerchio as the runner-up.
sYz wins GO4SC2 #285 (21th April) with TomikuS as runner-up

This does not look all that bad to me
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Tosster
Profile Joined August 2011
Poland299 Posts
April 23 2013 11:15 GMT
#374
On April 23 2013 19:50 BillGates wrote:
Good potential changes, though I would have liked to see Void Rays being nerfed slightly. Maybe remove the bonus damage against armored.

Wtf, they would be useless...
Snowbear
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)1925 Posts
April 23 2013 11:16 GMT
#375
On April 23 2013 20:05 scypio wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 23 2013 15:55 Liquid`Ret wrote:
wtf is a burrow change. I think blizzard maybe only watches GSL/GSTL because everywhere else terran is raping the shit out of everything, and in Korea the only thing that sometimes works is the same old 2/2 muta ling bane timing lol, and even there terran is dominating overall.

Lucifron, Happy, ForGG, Dayshi, Heromarine are all amazing players who deserve to win almost every teamleague and tournament they enter over everybody else. If you watch any of the popular terran streams (Demuslim/Byun/Polt) you simply don't see them lose.

wtf is a burrow change seriously


Perhaps they do not meet the top zergs on the ladder. The good ones who compete online do not seem to be that worried with balance after all...
Nerchio wins GO4SC2 #281 (7th April) with Liquid Snute as runner-up
Hyun won ZOTAC NA #97 (13th April)
Liquid TLO, won ZOTAC EU #152 (14th April)
Liquid Snute won ZOTAC EU #153 (21st April) with Nerchio as the runner-up.
sYz wins GO4SC2 #285 (21th April) with TomikuS as runner-up

This does not look all that bad to me


The problem is that the "lazy" zergs feel offended and they want their easy wol times back. You got to work for your win now as zerg, and I'm actually liking that, sorry. Widow mines finally make zergs micro too, so tvz is now micro vs micro, which is awesome.

And to ret:
- Demuslim didn't even qualify for WCS NA, so yes, he is losing.
- Polt was dominating in wol, and he is now dominating in hots. He is just good. Same for byun.
kubiks
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
France1328 Posts
April 23 2013 11:17 GMT
#376
Damn I'm really wondering if the time warp ability isn't a bit too powerfull. It's basically a big forcefield with bigger AoE, and 30s is loooong.
Anyway wp parting, didn't saw the all-in coming
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Liquid`Ret
Profile Blog Joined October 2002
Netherlands4514 Posts
April 23 2013 11:18 GMT
#377
On April 23 2013 20:16 Snowbear wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 23 2013 20:05 scypio wrote:
On April 23 2013 15:55 Liquid`Ret wrote:
wtf is a burrow change. I think blizzard maybe only watches GSL/GSTL because everywhere else terran is raping the shit out of everything, and in Korea the only thing that sometimes works is the same old 2/2 muta ling bane timing lol, and even there terran is dominating overall.

Lucifron, Happy, ForGG, Dayshi, Heromarine are all amazing players who deserve to win almost every teamleague and tournament they enter over everybody else. If you watch any of the popular terran streams (Demuslim/Byun/Polt) you simply don't see them lose.

wtf is a burrow change seriously


Perhaps they do not meet the top zergs on the ladder. The good ones who compete online do not seem to be that worried with balance after all...
Nerchio wins GO4SC2 #281 (7th April) with Liquid Snute as runner-up
Hyun won ZOTAC NA #97 (13th April)
Liquid TLO, won ZOTAC EU #152 (14th April)
Liquid Snute won ZOTAC EU #153 (21st April) with Nerchio as the runner-up.
sYz wins GO4SC2 #285 (21th April) with TomikuS as runner-up

This does not look all that bad to me


The problem is that the "lazy" zergs feel offended and they want their easy wol times back. You got to work for your win now as zerg, and I'm actually liking that, sorry. Widow mines finally make zergs micro too, so tvz is now micro vs micro, which is awesome.

And to ret:
- Demuslim didn't even qualify for WCS NA, so yes, he is losing.
- Polt was dominating in wol, and he is now dominating in hots. He is just good. Same for byun.


he effing beat JD 2-0 and barely lost to revival, lol.
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Rainmansc
Profile Joined August 2011
Netherlands216 Posts
April 23 2013 11:19 GMT
#378
I dont understand how they are not thinking about fixing hellbath drops =o
Snowbear
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Korea (South)1925 Posts
April 23 2013 11:21 GMT
#379
On April 23 2013 20:19 Rainmansc wrote:
I dont understand how they are not thinking about fixing hellbath drops =o


Hellbats shouldn't be able to get healed imo
AxionSteel
Profile Joined January 2011
United States7754 Posts
April 23 2013 11:21 GMT
#380
On April 23 2013 15:55 Liquid`Ret wrote:
.

Lucifron, Happy, ForGG, Dayshi, Heromarine are all amazing players


Yep, they definitely are. Especially the first 3.

Nice whining

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