Patch 7 Notes

[ArcherofAiur]

I think they're all good changes. While I don't like psi storm (as a terran player) I'm curious why they nerfed it, since it's rarely used.

Blizzard is nerfing Protoss out of habit.

[TWD]

I like the way they decided to buff spine crawlers. They can deal a lot of damage if you have a lot of them. Could make their ability to uproot useful with creep tumors. Zerg air vs Terran is worthless now though, which sucks because it's one of the best ways to take on some of those wallins.
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[DemolitionSquid]

Irony they buff the base defenses just as we start debating if they need a buff.

[Triceron]

Static D buffs, nice!

[Nicol Bolas]

Spine Crawler
+ Damage has been increased from 20+10 armored to 25+5 armored.
+ Attack period decreased from 2.2 to 1.6.

This is a 37.5% damage output increase vs. Roaches. (or other armored).

Vs. non-armored, this is a 71.8% increase in damage output. So pretty non-trivial. Certainly, they'll stand up a lot better against Zealots. So really, going Roaches vs. Protoss isn't that important in the early game anymore.

[Hamshank]

This is a 37.5% damage output increase vs. Roaches. (or other armored).

Vs. non-armored, this is a 71.8% increase in damage output. So pretty non-trivial. Certainly, they'll stand up a lot better against Zealots. So really, going Roaches vs. Protoss isn't that important in the early game anymore.

I guess it's the only thing they could buff early game.
I wonder how this will change Zerg strat. once people catch on.

[n00bonicPlague]

Hmm nice buffs for us Terrans

[Islandsnake]

Haha and theres the roach nerf I was expecting lol

Hmmm going to have to do things a bit different now. This really throws PvZ off


And makes ZvZ more hydra/roach based - which is good

[Nicol Bolas]

And makes ZvZ more hydra/roach based - which is good

How do you figure? What it does is make turtling more effective, thus allowing for Lair-tech builds to actually work. Infestors, Hydras, and Mutalisks are now that much more available.

Organic Carapace almost never played a role in ZvZ. Not unless someone was suicide-fast-teching to Hive.

[Islandsnake]

What are you taking about I get hive tech roaches in almost every ZvZ I play o.0 Hell during the MLG showmatch series there was hive roaches in both ZvZs If I remember right

Its really not that hard to do, and its not alot of gas its not like roaches are gas heavy - and I dont think mutas are going to be used even now - you need a standing ground army or you'll just get ran over. We'll see though

I think for the most part we'll see hydra heavy armys with roach meat, mutas get raped by hydras and cant kill roaches fast. Infestors might work, though there a bit fragile for my taste