Community Update - January 12th - Page 4

Ok, most issues are identified in this update, which is a new high for this balance team.

Hydralisks are too strong period because they have a free combat shields they aren't supposed to have, same thing happened with banelings that killed bio play.

You cannot give units free combat shields. +10 hp is a big deal, imagine if marines were given this upgrade for free. It changes the entire balance of the game. This is why currently every single game TvZ is vs a guy making 50 hydras and remaxing on 50 pure hydras because it's too good not to make.

Also, stalkers will be fixed soon? I hope so.

But the main thing here is...Blizzard still does not "get it" about the raven nerfs. Adding auto-turret back to the raven is a terrible idea, it's one of the main reasons mass raven was becoming problematic in the first place.

Terran has no late game scaling unit because seeker was nerfed and so was PDD. Every race had a late game scaling unit: Zerg infestors/vipers/swarmhosts, Protoss tempest/carrier,high templar, disruptors/collosus, anything with splash, and Terran had....ONLY THE RAVEN SEEKER MISSILE/PDD/AUTO-TURRET accumulation.

By severely nerfing and killing seeker missile and removing point defense drone, blizzard has REMOVED TERRAN LATEGAME FROM THE GAME. Every race has to have a hyper scaling late game "carry" unit if the game is to be fair.

IF the raven was to be severely nerfed as it was that's fine - if it's done across the board. Nerf viper/infestor/sh, nerf high templar, carriers, etc.

What happened is an absolute travesty because it makes one race near unplayable as time goes on in a game, which is objectively unfair and not balanced.

Every Terran player agrees the raven was hard nerfed and needs to be reverted in some manner, but not the auto-turret. The current seeker is just bad and a hard nerf. Bring back the seeker that killed things. No one cares if a unit turns red. The other races get parasitic bomb - KILLS THINGS. Psi storm - KILLS. Terran HAD seeker that KILLED now we've lost that source of late game splash that scales with time and energy.

Currently, Terran lategame revolves around massing as many vikings as humanly possible and praying you hit an emp/snipes onto your opponent's hyper scaling energy units because you aren't allowed to mass your own.

The old raven seeker needs to come back. Arguably PDD as well.

Also, for those of you here or elsewhere that don't understand what a "hyper scaling unit is" you can see this in MOBA games champions/heroes.

There are hyper scaling carries that scale up in damage with critical strike items/damage as the game goes on. But some champions in MOBA games do not scale nearly as much or at all, and stay near flat static values and have to "win the game early."

That is perfectly fine, for a MOBA champion / game where there's asymettrical balance and many other factors. For an RTS game, every race has to have fair options as a game time goes longer. What we currently have are Zerg and Protoss that contain "hyper scaling carries" in the form of energy units previously mentioned - high templar, vipers, infestors, swarmhosts, carriers, tempest, meaning the more of them you make, the better your army is getting.

As a Terran player, making more vikings isn't making my army stronger - it's getting weaker and weaker as we both reach 200/200 supply because a 2 supply viking does not have the "hyper scaling" that a 2 supply raven with seeker/PDD/auto turrets had. Or that a 2 supply high templar has with storm, etc.

Bring back the raven and Terran lategame.