Dec 5 2012, 09:56 AM, updated 13y ago
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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. Additionally, we anticipate that the reduction in health for Infested Terran eggs will be most noticeable in the PvZ matchup when Psi Storm is used, and feel that 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
Raven seeker missile upgrade removed.
Zerg
Infested Terran eggs health down from 100 to 70
Fungal Growth range down from 9 to 8
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, however, please keep in mind that our goal with this patch is not to make sudden changes which could have a major impact on play, but to 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.
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. Additionally, we anticipate that the reduction in health for Infested Terran eggs will be most noticeable in the PvZ matchup when Psi Storm is used, and feel that 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
Raven seeker missile upgrade removed.
Zerg
Infested Terran eggs health down from 100 to 70
Fungal Growth range down from 9 to 8
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, however, please keep in mind that our goal with this patch is not to make sudden changes which could have a major impact on play, but to 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.
It's already live on NA. SEA should follow soon.
Infested terran egg nerf means more psi storm over my infested terran eggs. I'd rather have the protoss waste their high templar energy on my infested terrans than over my infestors, roaches and broodlords.
Fungal growth change, according to what I've read will be somewhat huge. Ghosts and Collosus now outrange infestors in this regard. Ghosts will be useful again in TvZ.
We'll see a lot more ravens as harass units now, throwing their HSMs on mineral lines. The 1-1-1 just got deadlier.
Overall a good patch, I think. TvP and TvZ got a little bit more interesting.
So, any thoughts?
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