[Dingobloo]

Hot on the heels of the Battle.net World Championships, Blizzard have released a Starcraft 2 custom map designed to test a variety of candidate balance changes. They also hinted that this would not be all of the changes, merely those that are currently ready for testing so stay tuned for updates to the map in the near future. The changes largely target other races units in an effort to alter their relationship with the infestor and the infestor/broodlord composition and can be found below:

Fungal Growth no longer affects Psionic units.

By making Psionic units immune to Fungal Growth, Infestors will need to be better protected by supporting units and will become somewhat more vulnerable to High Templar and Ghosts.

Raven Seeker Missile no longer requires an upgrade.

We’ve been discussing the design of the Seeker Missile for a while, and want to see it reach its potential. However, we don’t want to go overboard with the Raven. This change, if we settle on it, is something that will promote slightly more Raven usage, but shouldn’t completely rework the Terran late game.

Bunker:

Unchanged.

The map is published on Battle.net under the name: Antiga Shipyard (1.5.3 Balance).

Learn More:

Call to Action: Balance Testing
Psionic on Liquipedia
Raven on Liquipedia

[MooZfY]

Originally Posted by Dingobloo

Raven Seeker Missile no longer requires an upgrade.

LOL this I can have fun

[ToRSpartaz]

Dayum this shall be fun will change the dynamic up so much!

[syfSoundwave]

The fact that this is on an Antiga featuring close spawns and gold bases almost completely invalidates this.

Quick Comments

mGGDaedalus:

Glad I'm not the only one realising this

[rezyn8]

A buff for Terran...what? It will never make it through. But Raven change sounds freaking awesome!

[TADivinity]

I love that they chose arguably the most terran favoured map which obviously skews results in favour of Zerg.

Also: Holy shit speed-prisms will never die

[mGGDaedalus]

Raven change seems good, don't think it will make a huge difference though. The not affecting psi thing is dumb. Reason being there are too many units affected by this change, they will probably need to only have it affect "some" psi units. At which point the parameters of the spell just get too convoluted and it goes against their philosophy of everything being obvious for spectatorship/e-sports etc etc.

[rezyn8]

Mass ghost armies FTW!

[ETL.noTTuh]

zerg now needs buff

[Kiom]

Was there meant to be a bunker change before adding this map? Or did Blizzard just feel the need to put that in the descrip?

[AxS.Sorathez]

An interesting consequence of the infestor change is that it seems like you can't detect DTs with Fungal anymore.

Quick Comments

	ROCCAT_Savior:	LOL. Well no way it's getting patched in its current form then XD
	Dingobloo:	I kind of wish the real change was "fungal does not reveal cloak"
	TidaL:	Never knew it did. LOL

[ToRDjvillian]

So how will the fungal nerf effect opponents infestors? And by invulnerable is it damage only, movement only or what I assume means both?

[TidaL]

Probably see less infestors against toss now

Ravens will be scary. FULL STOP

Overall it will be interesting how gameplay will be affected on the test map.

[JDGaga]

Hope raven buff passes, will probs make for some cool new builds and a better lategame

[mGGVISION]

The problem is that ravens are still a fairly difficult tech route... and it takes so long for enough energy to cast seeker missile

[x5.RunaMoK]

cant wait to play around with this