You don't know how glad I am for a fellow Protoss like yourself to have such a pedigree of education and writing capability. Although you make bring up some good points on the meta-game, Crazerk, you aren't acknolweding that Tom is merely instigating discussion, as opposed to deducing any conclusion.
I've personally have been struggling internally with the Protoss race recently. Never have I had so many "What do I do against this?" trains of thoughts going. Not one to point towards balance as an excuse, I continued to look for answers amongst Protoss players I believe are stronger than myself. One by one they fell, and even those lucky ones (ST_Ace) that did not fall, only managed to scrap by because of the weakness and mistakes of his opponent.
Examples of some of the questions I currently have:
How do I secure a third against Zerg on XNC?
How do I poke/attack a Zerg's 3rd on XNC without them trading for my natural?
How do I fight a Zerg death ball? (Infestor+Hydra+Broodlord)
How do I fight a Terran death ball with +50 supply on you because he doesn't need SCVs anymore? (MMM+Thor+10 Ghosts)
How can I consistently be able to punish a Terran player that does greedy builds such as depot/rax/orbital/CC on a map like Shakuras whereas if we attempted to 15 Nexus we end up being 4-5 rax marine/scv'd or killed by a ghost rush off 2 orbitals.
I am not concluding Protoss is UP by any means, merely that I have never felt so clueless playing Protoss in a very long time and nobody is able to provide me with any answers. =(
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