[eCKo`Switch]

Heart of the Swarm Balance Update 6 - 12/10/12

Blizzard has taken the beta down for a short period to add the next set of balance changes. This update mainly contains changes to protoss, with some major alterations to the tempest, oracle, and purify ability of the mothership core. Sneaky buffs to vipers and spore crawlers in store for Zerg; and small nerf to the widow mine, along with a major name buff to the new hellion mode for Terran.

Protoss

Mothership Core
When Purify is cast on a player’s Nexus, it now also grants detection to 13 range. Energize has been removed.
Oracle
The cost of Entomb has been lowered from 100 to 75, while the duration has been increased from 50 to 60 seconds.Revelation has been changed to the following:
This ability will now also work on buildings, granting 3 vision around every unit it hits. The duration has been increased from 45 seconds to 60 seconds, and the cost has been increased from 50 to 75. This ability will no longer grant detection. This ability will not affect cloaked targets, even if you have detection of them at the time. The button arrangement for this unit has been adjusted to list Void Siphon first and Entomb last.
Tempest
This unit’s native bonus damage to massive units has been removed.This unit no longer requires a Fleet Beacon.We have added a new weapon upgrade called Quantic Reactor at the Fleet Beacon which will grant Tempest attacks +35 damage to massive units.
Quantic Reactor costs 200/200.The cost of this unit has been changed from 300/300 to 300/200.The supply cost for this unit has changed from 6 to 4. The scale of this unit has been lowered from 1 to 0.9.
Sentry
Hallucination no longer requires research.

Zerg

Viper
Viper acceleration has been increased from 2.125 to 3. The radius of Blinding Cloud has increased from 1.5 to 2.
Spore Crawler
This unit no longer requires an Evolution Chamber.

Terran

Widow Mine
The setup time for this unit has been increased from 2 seconds to 3 seconds.
Battle Hellion
This unit has been renamed to “Hellbat.”

Source: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6863526811

Quick Comments

nirvAnA:

"...along with a major name buff" hahaha