Wings of Liberty Balance Update -- December 4, 2012
While we agree that Infestors are being used too abundantly in many games, we are aiming to address this concern carefully to ensure that we don’t completely discourage the use of Infestors.
Generally speaking, we want to slightly reduce Fungal Growth in all three matchups, and we feel reducing the casting range would help us achieve this goal. We anticipate that the reduction in health for Infested Terran eggs will be most noticeable in the PvZ matchup when Psi Storm is used. The Raven change helps Terran players in late game TvZ scenarios and has the potential to introduce new Terran late game strategies.
On December 4, after a brief maintenance period in each region, the following balance changes will take effect globally:
- Terran
- Upgrade requirement removed for Raven seeker missile.
- Zerg
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Infested Terran eggs health down from 100 to 70
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Fungal Growth range down from 9 to 8
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Again, to be clear, these changes will take effect after a short maintenance in each region is complete, and neither a patch nor any other special action will be required to experience them in-game.
Our plan is to apply this balance update and monitor the effects of these changes. The extensive testing and quality of feedback we’ve received on the last two balance maps have allowed us to make this call. Please keep in mind that our goal with this patch is to make small changes that nudge balance in the right direction. With Heart of the Swarm launching in March, we will have more time to address balance concerns further if necessary.
Thank you for helping us playtest and sharing your feedback on the last two balance maps.
Zerg: don't nerf the infested terran health. Keep the change in HoTs where they don't benefit from upgrades, but with that much less health they're almost unviable now in most situations. The change in fungal I don't see mattering much. It will matter more in HoTs where fungal is a projectile again. I think enough has been done to those after that.
Terran: I like the idea of removing the research requirement for seeker missile. Another suggestion. Decrease the energy cost and decrease the damage a little bit, and increase the range a bit. That way they can use it more often without being too OP and might help serve as an answer to BroodLord Infestor.
Toss: I think you're fine where you are honestly. The new units coming in HoTS need some tweaking but I think will answer most people's concerns with protoss' weaknesses in Wings of LIberty.
This is all coming from a zerg player. So granted I don't know toss and terran as well other than what I see in pro games, but I think these changes might help. Not sure how they'd factor in with HoTS new units, so might be better to hold off and see what happens after that before doing any more changes.
They only think about 1v1, kinda sad =(
how could Twinkies be going extinct!!!!!!
So deal with it Zerg a little bit of a nerf. If you don't think so then why would they have taken the Warhound out of the HoTS beta. It was all terrans were using. Same with infestors. They had become so staple in the metagame that people were producing 20-40 a game for the casting capabilities alone.
macro is more important than anything..