hardest to learn, but easiest to do well with.

terran definitely pulls ahead at high levels of play, in terms of difficulty.

At high levels of play:
Protoss: Build Order & Decision Making
Zerg: Macro
Terran: Micro

Each race has its own challenges. From a purely mechanical standpoint, Terran is probably the most demanding.

serious though ... nobody cares when bad players have a hard time using infestors




All you need to do in plat league is make roaches and collect ladder points ............ hair splitting game balance couldn't be less important to you when you're struggling to make drones and overlords

i see what u did there

i disagree, zerg macro at high levels is mindless and purely second nature, you don't really think about it because all of our hatcheries are on demand and we can make whatever we want from that single hotkey.

and contrary to popular belief, splitting marines is quite simple, the hard part about terran is minding all your different production structures to maintain a high level of production

you all should stop trying to simplify things by labeling each race as X and each situation requiring reaction Y

the truth is every game is unique and every player can make a different decision in any game based off of earlier decisions by either player and because of this we can see unique perspectives for nearly any situation in this game

thats one of the perks for real time strategy games being played by human beings that aren't perfect

it's no necessarily labeling, just an acknowledgement from unbiased players that infestors are too cost effective in the hands of a player that has proper mechanics and half-decent control. even if zerg trades an engagement but keeps the infestors alive, the energy will regenerate and it's not uncommong to see 15+ infestors wandering the map in a zvt, 10+ in zvz, and the late game zvp is entirely infestors/corruptor/broods, just because of how effective they are (when compared to roaches).

i feel like instead of removing pathogen glands, a better fix would be to reduce the rate that infestors recovery energy, which would hinder their cost-effectiveness post-engagement, and create an actual decision when it comes to picking infestor numbers and when to toss out fungals willy-nilly.

This post was edited by nerobellum on Nov 8 2012 08:17pm

All casters currently regenerate energy at the same rate.

casters shouldn't be baselined with energy recovery/upgrades, though. all 3 perform specifically different functions and are used accordingly.

before, my justification for infestor cost-effectiveness was the fact that they're bigger than tanks, if blizz wanted to baseline caster mechanics, they'd baseline size (infestors), armor type (ghosts) and spawn energy (templar) as well.

I think a simpler way to do it would be to increase the energy cost and/or decrease the max mana pool of the infestor. I don't think decreasing the energy regeneration will have a huge impact as usually infestors sit until they've been maxed on energy for quite some time.