Karune gives some big updates.

[DemolitionSquid]

full of people just making crap up

Well we ARE a Blizzard fan site

[unentschieden]

No, no it wasn't. The DP's cloak was known as "Null Shield."

I swear this thread is full of people just making crap up

Maybe. At this point we can only speculate what ability went where with the Protoss. I´m curious if the obelisk now requires pylon power. Nevertheless the concept of a caster-building fits the protoss.

[Nicol Bolas]

Anyone feel that the protoss might have too much crowd control now? I mean how many different abilties do you need for incapacitating a unit. Force field, phase shift, temportal rift, black hole, Anti-gravity.

Well, it's all about how it does it. Anti-Gravity isn't going to help you plug a choke point; Phase Shift isn't going to do it either. Nor is temporal rift (depending on what it does). Force Field is.

So, what is the state of all the Protoss spellcasters?

* Disruptor: Phase Shift (takes out one unit in some fashion), Force Field (units cannot move through this area), possibly that chain-lightning thing.

* High Templar: Psi Storm, Temporal Rift (needs details as to what exactly it does).

* Obelisk: Shield Regeneration, Energy transfer, possibly the Probe ability?

* Mothership: ???

[Blazur]

Well, it's all about how it does it. Anti-Gravity isn't going to help you plug a choke point; Phase Shift isn't going to do it either. Nor is temporal rift (depending on what it does). Force Field is.

So, what is the state of all the Protoss spellcasters?

* Disruptor: Phase Shift (takes out one unit in some fashion), Force Field (units cannot move through this area), possibly that chain-lightning thing.

* High Templar: Psi Storm, Temporal Rift (needs details as to what exactly it does).

* Obelisk: Shield Regeneration, Energy transfer, possibly the Probe ability?

* Mothership: ???

Sounds about right, although HT also has hallucination. Or was it the disruptor?

For the Mothership, last we heard it had the following.

Cloaking Field(Passive): cloaks nearby ground units and structures
Vortex: creates a gravity vortex that incapacitates units in the target area
Wormhole Transit: allows the Mothership to instantly travel to Protoss building

No idea what has replaced Vortex, if anything (hopefully). The Protoss spellcasters have had their abilities changed/shifted so many times that its dizzying. Finding it hard to keep track these days...

[Nicol Bolas]

Sounds about right, although HT also has hallucination. Or was it the disruptor?

The Disruptor has Hallucination; I'd forgotten about that. So it looks like the chain-lighting thing is gone.

Not that it'll be missed.

[MattII]

I'd just like to point to all-and-sundry, that the 'Chain Lightning' (Molecular Displacement) ability has been gone since February.

[loath42]

I like the new changes, good to see that Colossi are back to power. Just hope that with all the changes to Obelisk (dark pylon) that photon charge (think thats the name of the protoss "macro mechanic") has been cut.

[n00bonicPlague]

I have yet to find it, but in the original post about Phase Shift Karune didn't specifically say it removed units from the game. I was just using that to keep the explanation simple. He really said something along the lines of "the unit can neither attack nor be attacked, but it can still move around". We even asked him a second time to be sure. I'll just have to sift through some blue to find it.

Naturally though, it could've changed by now

[Zigurd]

What does the Temporal rift do ???

[Pandonetho]

Um, I still don't know how giving the Dark Pylon a name change and making it so it must be built within pylon power is going to reduce spam. Well, with regards to Proton Charge anyway. Unless that's a "problem" that they're still working on.