I’m missing the Reaver already also…

If the stalkers hits air and can blink, in a way, they are an upgraded dragoon, don’t worry. Just that the ‘tough’ part of the dragoon is not taken out for the immortal, and the ‘versatile’ bit was reserved for the stalker with a penaulty of less hit point. Blink is great for macro-ing, and going through narrow chokes.

Blizz WILL balance the stalker as it is the Protoss primary Ground-To-Air attacker. (Terran = Marine, Zerg = Hydralisk, Protoss was Dragoon) So don’t worry, the Stalkers or immortals will end up hitting air, I strongly feel.

To me, for the Protoss the greatest lost is still the Reaver, and the reaver only. As some of you have rightfully stated, so far, there is yet to be a unit that does more then 100 damage + splash for the Protoss, which is somehow a huge leverage in fighting against swarms of marines and zergs.

“Mothership for crying out loud, was said to have no air attack….” & “IMMORTAL have heavy shield against Heavy fire, but can’t hit air… (talk about niche, so basically you don’t need much of them. Since when will Terrans only bring out seige tanks.)”

No way. If you’ve read the description of the Mothership, it states that the unit was used for outer space exploration of new worlds during Aiur’s golden age. The Protoss aren’t dumb enough not to put Anti-air weapons on the Mothership. And IMMORTALS aren’t just for siege tanks alone. If you’ve read Karune’s previous interviews, IMMORTALS TOTALLY OWN ARMORED UNITS. That includes cobras, mech-mode vikings, siege tanks, Thors, Colossi, Stalkers, Ultralisks, Lurkers, Desalisks, Catalisks, Planetary Fortresses, Phase cannons, sunken colonies and other what-nots that are armored. Making them very useful in mid-game land skirmishes.

In SC2 we may be seeing a lot of Zealot/Stalkers and with their upgrades that will be a very mobile quick response force with Charge and Blink. Throw in a few temps and its pretty much the good ole, Zealot/Goon/Temp build.

Blizzard seems firm with the Terrans, heavy machines, Long Range bombings, but in general somewhat specific, tanks for long range, firebat for short, and really needs ‘each other’ to be a full army.

But when it comes to the Protoss.. it used to be “Expensive but Strong” units, and most units have some sort of stand alone ability, like the dragoon, archon, etc. But so far, the Protoss seems rather handicapped and ‘over specific’ like the Terrans, like IMMORTAL have heavy shield against Heavy fire, but can’t hit air… (talk about niche, so basically you don’t need much of them. Since when will Terrans only bring out seige tanks.) Colossus has lasers but cannot hit air. Mothership for crying out loud, was said to have no air attack…. I do wonder what happened to the protoss, with all these Terran like weakness introduced.

As far as the Colossus goes, it might turn out not to be a unit you deploy against the Terrans. I would like to see how it preforms against the Zerg; if it turns out that two or three Colossi can shred a swarm of Hydralisks into so much goo on the battlefield without even trying, the whole dynamic of the unit changes.

Also agree on colossus not completely replacing reaver, as of now, it’s a unit that fights well in general vs. ground units, but isn’t really an “anti-swarm” unit that the reaver was, or an artillery unit that the reaver was. (Colossus and high templar may cover all the role,s but not completely.)