“At the heart of each mothership is a huge khaydarin crystal infused with an incredible amount of psionic energy.”

Surely the Protoss are more than capable of developing some devastating weapon which can utilize the full potential of that crystal…

>Nydus worm… a unit would have been fun, but nw bliz just decided to play it safe… very sad.

>Medivac.. something there tells me it is awkward. I can’t exactly nail it, but it doesn’t give that ‘DxMN! that’s cool’ feeling at all. In fact, it feels marginally forced and stupid…

>DT… as unified and organized as the protoss, I don’t want two DT. If u make one the other’s upgrade, then I will still find it alright.

>Mothership… another disappointment, I dont want to see the carrier’s role overlapped. Should have gave it a unique role, like a huge support fortress that acts as a shield battery, recharging Protoss shields during combat, and gives some kind of an advantage to toss troops, give it the planet cracker… that was the ONLY attack that fitted the mothership… make that attack a building buster, so people will panic when a mothership approaches base…

so far… most of blizz’s decisions.. I came to.. slightly grief. Thor.. Phoenix.. Mothership.. -sigh-

Also, I don’t understand why people would want both Dark Templars to pop out randomly, it would add another layer of unnecessary confusion with the game, the same feeling I got from the Gas Mechanic. I can see the randomness being used in a much more suiting and practical fashion, such as decals on Terran armor and ships, or slight mutations in Zerg units.

Medivacs, I never even realized they were originally planned to be made from bunkers, but I can see why the change was made. But with the change, is there even any point in having the Medivac, like it stated? So high up on the tech tree, most Terran players would have moved out of Medic/Marine by then. Bringing back the infantry medic and giving her jetpacks seems to defeat the Reaper’s unique ability. Honestly, I think giving the Nighthawk a deployable healer would be best. Second on my list of solutions is letting the Reapers go alone and keep the medic on the ground with the rest of the infantry. The Reaper, being fairly low on the tech tree, won’t have very much opposition when it comes to escaping (except maybe from Stalkers). It could be an effective Terran strategy to put a medic or two on some high ground for injured Reapers to use.

On the Nydus Worm, how high up on the tech will it be? If it’s essentially going to be like Protoss Recall (which was almost a game-ending gambit, to me), it has to be in a spot where you can’t abuse it too early into the game.

Should the other races get hero units? No. The hero concept matches the protoss race perfectly. It’s all about expensive powerful units (in sc1, 1 zealot cost = 4 zergling cost). Thus the next evolution of protoss unit would have to an all powerful unit, the Mothership.

The essence of starcraft is being able to balance different races w/ their unit types of units. Blizzard pulled this off very nicely in sc1.

Zerg = macro race
Protoss = micro race
Terran = middle ground

Each race is it’s own type of game, sc brings puts the micro vs the macro vs the middle ground.

From this perspective, it looks like the hero unit fits. However it will probably upset the people who like to play the protoss as macro.

>On Nydus Worms
From what i hear of the build at blizcon, nydus worms were pretty much impossible to stop (not like recall which just grabs a clump of units, nydus worms put a maxed army in your main!). Perhaps a revert back to the old moving burrowed unit would be more appropriate for testing in beta.

Also, just imagine what boxer could do with a medic which is also a dropship! I can’t really talk being, a dirty Toss player, but personally i love the medivac.