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Heart of the Swarm Balance Changes #5 06/10/2012:

Blizzard have posted their next set of balance changes for the Heart of the Swarm Beta focusing primarily on the widow mine, the oracle and the mothership core. They do not anticipate any downtime and any matches played after 8:45 AM AEST will feature the new changes.

Originally Posted by Cloaken

Terran

Widow Mine

• This unit has a new missile ability called Unstable Payload.
• Unstable Payload is an auto-cast ability that initiates once the Widow Mine is burrowed. It cannot be turned off unless the unit is unburrowed.
• This ability launches a missile at a target within 5 range, then starts to rearm another missile.
• Unstable Payload does 160 damage to a single target and 40 splash damage.
• The missile auto-acquires cloaked units.
• The missile auto-acquires temporary units like Hallucinations, Infested Terrans, and Locusts.
• It takes 40 seconds to rearm the missile. The cost is free for now.
• The build time of this unit has increased to 40 seconds.

Protoss

Oracle

• The Phase Shield ability has been removed
• This unit has a new ability called Void Siphon.
• The Oracle channels a beam at an enemy structure that deals 3 damage and drains 3 minerals every second until canceled.
• The range is 7.
• The damage/drain effect ticks when you cast the ability and every sequential second following.
• Void Siphon costs 50 energy to cast.

Mothership Core

• This unit’s Purify ability has changed.
• When a player casts Purify on their Nexus, it grants the Nexus the ability to attack, no longer requiring the Core to attach itself.
• The Nexus weapon has a range of 13 and a damage of 20.
• Purify now lasts for 60 seconds and still costs 100 energy.
• The scale of this unit has been lowered to 0.8.
• This unit has had its shield/health lowered to 60/130.
• This unit now costs 2 supply.

Source: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6794980782

Learn More:

Thoughts on Balance Update #5
The Beta: What to expect
Heart of the Swarm Preview