It depends on what's your opponent is going for. I always have trouble going against zerg players though.

Recently I used a build order, which apparently was supposed to be the general BO that every protoss users use, but seems like I'm ending in losing streaks. Gah.

9 Pylon
12 Gateway
13 Gas / Gateway
15 Cybernetics
so on and so forth...

Somehow I felt like having to wait till 9 probes for Pylon, isn't a bit tad too slow?

hmmm..his units are almost same with me..which is about 70 to 68 for me (supply units count)

yea..i watched every replay i lost..

learn from mistakes..but i never stop mistakes lol

most of ur units are T1 and cost 2 supply each...
when he's up to the thor tech backed by MMM ball...
does he have steam? cause that's such a high dps boost...

maybe u should have do a timing push when ur charge and +1 is done instead of waiting for +2 with T1 units?

Just lost 2 games to Terran players...  once again its the MM ball ... .haihz. MM Ball + Medivac and 2 siege tanks = gg for me.

For some reason i never won against terran players. 

When u try to get close, u get pounded by marauders, when ure far away siege tanks eat you up. I had around 10 zealots and 8 stalkers, and 2 carriers, his MM ball comes and destroys everything lol. He stimpacked his marines to destroy my carriers ( which happened REALLY fast ), and chewed everything else with Marauders. DAMN i hate marauders SOOO much.      Think i should have gotten high templars instead of carriers. Bad investment there...

Instead of 2 carriers i couldve gotten 2 highs and 2 darks...  use the dark to flank them, and chargelots to tank... psi to finish them off or sumthing.
But then again, i have bad apm. 

Is high templar good against  Marauders? If I'm not mistaken, the psi storm damaged is significantly reduced by the Marauders' armors.

I should try practicing using HTs now. Out of the many games I played, I don't even remember using them more than twice.

But that's because most vids I watch doesn't utilize HTs that much. So it somewhat got neglected.

usually ppl will have air support with colossus la unless noob and if use zerg and din go for air unit sure die against colossus liao.. once protoss out that unit lose liao la.. dunno how to play

I think people should post their replay when they want to ask for advise. The thing is in RTS every situation are different. Sometimes you lose because your opponent outplayed you using game mechanics alone. Your build order can be wrong because you followed gosu's replay blindly without understanding the reasoning behind it. You might lose because you got supply blocked but you think  his army composition beat yours. There's a lot of tactical decision involved in Starcraft, its not as simple as building unit composition A to counter unit composition B.

People shouldn't be ashamed to post their losing replays. No matter where you're at, there's always people better than you. To me thats what makes this game fun. You'll always learn something new everyday, the journey never stops. The analogy i can give is when i play Civilizations i just cant stop. One more turn, one more turn. When i achieved my goals, my thought is "ok thats it, i've won". Then only i realized that achieving my goals is not the fun part but the process to achieve my goals is.

Yeah, hate it when I scout badly and realized there's one bunker and rax with reactor inside my base, lol.

hi, i wanna ask is stalker or phoenix better against air? I compare and see stalker damage more than phoenix and shoot faster.  stalker oso cheaper. So shud i use stalker instead of pheonix? Cuz i only go for ground unit and uprgade ground stuff only. WIll be watse to upgrade just because i use phoenix.

ok. assuming 1 vs 1, what do you guys build vs zergling rush and MMM rush?

i tried 4 gateway spam zealots and stalkers, seems to work pretty well 1 on 1.

I am starting to lose confidence when I had a losing streak to Terran with MM. They do not have medics not medivacs. It was a pure marines and marauders, like 10 marines, 5 marauders and it got me down repeatedly by different players and they claimed to be from bronze league. Are there no better secure way to counter this? Build order isn't my issue I guess. All they do is block while they sped up for marauders with stimpack. Gather 10 marines, 5 marauders then they're off to kick my a**. I had 8 spiders 4 zealots or around there most of the time, but they pawned me real bad. Even if I was able to sweep them out while warping a few more out, they next attack will definitely put me down which is like a minute or two ahead from the first attack. This time, with medivacs and medics.

BTW if you build your gateways like RtP|DEV's pic, you can block entrance using a single zealot.

If you can rush stalkers to defend behind your wall, you can make a single zealot + sentries to dps+FF when your zealot's shields are up. In fact, you'll have more since the zealot can be started when your core is warping in.

If you wall off completely, it just means you can't expand later without breaking your pylon or making a warp prism.

I don't know if you misread me or just don't know. If you build the gateways like in the pic without the in between pylon, a zealot and probe can cross between the gateways. A stalker can't. Try it.

Why don't you try it out? Make the gateways adjacent and diagonal to each other like in the pic posted earlier without the pylon in between. Then test move your units.

Or if you look at the pic, see the arrow pointing from the probe?

lol why do you need to seal your base so tightly?

What do you go after sealing your base

Against Terran you should go 10 pylon 10 gateway. Core and gas asap after gateway is up and queue your stalker quickly. This will keep you safe against early reaper rush.

You can queue 1 zealot when your core is warping in. By the time the core is up, zealot should be done and stalker can be made asap.

10gate can make a stalker 20t faster than 13 gate, and is only 35 minerals behind at the 2:30 mark. Gas is also faster with 10gate if assimilator is always timed with core. 10gate is also faster tech.

10gate's 1st stalker (chrono'ed) comes out at 3:50
11gate's 1st stalker (chrono'ed) is at 4:10

terran 10rax turbo reaper is at 3:23.
So yes, 20t is very important.

Also 1 zealot is very important vs early marauder. Having Stalker + Zealot allows your stalkers to hit Marus while your Zealot tanks. Remember: Marus win vs Stalkers straight up. Also, Zealots have a higher dps than Stalkers so if Marus just ignore your Zealot, they die even faster.
EDIT to add:
Maru ball will of course be creamed by VRs/immortals, but with gateway units, just make a balance of zealots and stalkers. The thing is, zealots do more dps than Stalkers but a Stalker light army will be kited to death. A Stalker heavy army will be eaten alive by Maru's higher dps.

12gate is superior, a tiny bit. Like I said, 35 minerals (lol) at the 2:30 mark. Whether this gap widens or closes depends on chronoboost strategy.

Zealot is almost always a must vs Marus. Reason again and again is Stalkers suck vs Marus. You say Stalkers have 10hp more than Zealots but do you know they take bonus damage from Marus? Marus will obliterate any pure Stalker army. Stalker's only use is to take pot shots at Marus when they're kiting Zealots. That's what I said in earlier, read it again.

The reaper strat used in the IEM especially by Morrow is NOT a turbo reaper strat typical in TvP. It's a delayed reaper build where you go for more reapers instead of faster reapers.
Delayed reapers suck vs protoss as Stalkers > Reapers.

Just to add numbers:

Marus do 10 dmg (+10 to armored)

9 hits to kill a Stalker
16 hits to kill a Zealot

VRs and Immortals are not answers to a Maru timing push. There's no reason a Terran pushes with only Marus well into stargate/robotics tech. They can also push in the timing window before your immortal/VR is up, when you've just invested a ton of mins/gas on tech and have a lesser army.

The numbers I gave above already accounted for armor and shields.
Sentry shield is rather useless vs large hits like those from Marus. They are great vs Marines and lings though.

I'm not sure if you've seen a 2/3 Maru push/harass. Essentially only 2/3 Marus knocking at your door. If you have 1 zealot/2 stalkers, you'll have an easy time against this as opposed to a pure 3 stalker composition. Marus eat Stalkers for breakfast.

Stalkers do crap dps btw. Zealots do more dps to armored units than even Stalkers with their +2 bonus. Don't believe me? Take the unit's damage multiplied by the inverse of their attack speed. Stalkers are about the most crap damagers in the game, with exception to sentries.

build wise, i am in the same school ar nexous...
getting a zealot before a stalker (by the time ur zealot is done, ur core is just done)...
after all i experienced the marauder opening a few times on beta to be vary of it...
even if he go reaper and zealot is bad against it (with 2-3 probes off mining), it would buy me some time for my stalker to come out...

nt only PvT, on PvP having some zealots is still better (i tried a pure stalker compo and got owned by stalkers backed with some zealots)

how many zealots to stalkers?
based on my gut instinct and my resources LOL

same to me..no charge no zealots,
normally I used 1 sentry 2 stalker def in the base while I speed build obs to scout their base