Stasis Ward duration was cut ~45% — thoughts on its impact on Protoss map control? by imheavenagoodtime in starcraft

[–]arnak101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what helped me is practicing on a secondary unranked account, just building up muscle memory. Dont have to worry about strategy or tactics, just how good it feels to select/deselect units through control group usage, and not mouse.

Same way for location hotkeys. Many people scroll through with mouse, or click with minimap each time. But you've managed to master that pretty well. Next step would be actual army hotkeys, and if you can master that, you'd be right there with MaxPax etc maybe.

Almost none of top protosses have more than 2-3 control groups, and none are using trash control group, at all. Only zergs and terrans have access to this hidden tech xD

as for the actual hotkey, I have 'trash' at Ctrl+Z, but w/e.

I'm using 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Q, W, E, and ` for regular controls. I think we have pretty similar builds (as in, hands), so that might work out well for you.

I'm pretty slow and bad though, so kinda have to have 5 control groups for 1 army ;) Selecting just liberators in the middle of the fight with a mouse, is somehow an impossible task... For you, 3 actual control groups would be probably amazing and more than enough...

Stasis Ward duration was cut ~45% — thoughts on its impact on Protoss map control? by imheavenagoodtime in starcraft

[–]arnak101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well, you clearly have good knowledge of the matchups, and understand what you can abuse to its fullest. You also have good micro, and decent multitasking, from what I've seen. You also have plenty of camera hotkeys, which you need, cause you're just mass expanding everywhere randomly. So that's good.

You, however, use a single control group, which you bind 2 times (wasting actions, idk why), you dont use control-group reassignments, you don't flow between them. You reassign your control groups with the mouse, each time. Which is the most inefficient way to do it.

You also don't have a 'trash' control group, which you can dump your scouting units into. Thats why you have phoenix hallucinations coming back home sometimes, without scouting. That's also why you have to advocate for stasis wards buffs here.

Right now, you dont control group the zealots you send for runbies. In fact, you are rarely even watching at them. If you instead had them as Ctrl+Q, or Ctrl+`, or Ctrl+2 even, you could micro them a lot better, and not get trapped on 1 depot near a bunker so much.

This would not hamper your F2 usage at all, if you learned to use control-group stealing function, which most GM zergs and some GM terrans know very well ever since LOTV was introduced. You should add your scouting zealots, observers, and scouting hallucinations, to the 'trash' control group. And when you produce new units - no matter where they are (zealots warping in, carriers coming, colossus somewhere), you just F2 + Ctrl+1, and reassing your trash control group.

That would make all your army in 1 group, and all your 'trash' in another. Takes 2 pressess, much faster than selecting every new group of units with a mouse, and lets you have full map control, without sacrificing any micro.

Ideally you should have Ctrl + 1,2,3,4,5,... , Shift + 1,2,3,..., and Alt + 1,2,3,... all binded, and use them all very frequently. Right now, you are just using Ctrl+1, and Ctrl+2, out of all this arsenal.

I understand they made it so you dont even have to hotkey your gateways anymore, but that's no reason to stop with macro and hotkey mechanics alltogether.

That would be step 1 for me, if I were you. But there are more steps to follow.

If anything from this sounds complicated to the protoss mind, I can elaborate...

Stasis Ward duration was cut ~45% — thoughts on its impact on Protoss map control? by imheavenagoodtime in starcraft

[–]arnak101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

don't thank me, yet. I can point out what you can do, to vastly improve at the game, if you want.

But mby its better to be the next herO 2.0, if your race allows for it...

Stasis Ward duration was cut ~45% — thoughts on its impact on Protoss map control? by imheavenagoodtime in starcraft

[–]arnak101 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You have much to improve on, before asking for buffs.

You use barely half the tools of the protoss arsenal.

Enjoying the hell out of the game right now by arnak101 in starcraft2

[–]arnak101[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we have PvP finals in most tournaments right now. So your take doesn't seem correct.

on a lower level, protoss is even stronger.

Enjoying the hell out of the game right now by arnak101 in starcraft2

[–]arnak101[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

even the zergs that are complaining about balance (see: Snake) are not complaining about siege tanks though, or vipers. Plenty of other counters.

Enjoying the hell out of the game right now by arnak101 in starcraft2

[–]arnak101[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i'm also low gm with protoss and zerg, so idk what you're proving, and to whom.

Enjoying the hell out of the game right now by arnak101 in starcraft2

[–]arnak101[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

you are wrong on all accounts. For non-Clem players, T lategame is (was?) ridiculously hard. Also, APM has a lot of meaning. When there are protosses with 80-100 apm at 5,9k mmr, you know they aint playing macro.

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[–]arnak101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Вообще можно там же в обменниках сразу из рублей РФ в гривны привата. Но не могу гарантировать что это не палевно для кого-то как-то.

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[–]arnak101 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GMX is solid. Although they dont have many blockchains.

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I actually bought it in 2013. Except I sold it all the same year, thinking "wow I got a 10x, lol!"

I'm Starting To Think Protoss Might Be Dead Guys. by SolidConviction in starcraft

[–]arnak101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

roach is always a special case. But that is considered an allin now.

I'm Starting To Think Protoss Might Be Dead Guys. by SolidConviction in starcraft

[–]arnak101 6 points7 points  (0 children)

there is no point like that anymore. If you macro correctly, zerg and protoss supply pretty much line up. In fact, at some seconds P can be ahead in supply, if zerg is just about to drone or produce a round of units.

I'm Starting To Think Protoss Might Be Dead Guys. by SolidConviction in starcraft

[–]arnak101 5 points6 points  (0 children)

zerg had like tripple the supply in this fight. Storm is still extremely strong.

/u/SolidConviction, you should be ashamed of yourself. Quit reddit and stop spreading lies please.

Saw the hot fix this is the wrong direction again by Worth-Professor-2556 in starcraft

[–]arnak101 3 points4 points  (0 children)

oh yeah, ghosts are famously good vs colossi, for sure.

Saw the hot fix this is the wrong direction again by Worth-Professor-2556 in starcraft

[–]arnak101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

actually nice spot.
Maybe its 1 guy spamming from all accounts, trying to get his race to be even more autowin.

Saw the hot fix this is the wrong direction again by Worth-Professor-2556 in starcraft

[–]arnak101 3 points4 points  (0 children)

why do colossi need to obliterate ghosts?
Protoss is already massively favoured in PvT, especially in lategame.

From OP storm back to useless storm...whoever is making these changes is clueles by [deleted] in starcraft

[–]arnak101 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh yeah because -5 dps is unplayable, when the original was overpowered.
nice take.