Un nerf de l'Adepte à prévoir suite à sa trop grande efficacité en PvZ et PvT

Blizzard annonce, par l'intermédiaire d'un message sur les forums US, un nerf de l'Adepte. Blizzard estime en effet que l'unité Protoss est un peu trop forte contre les Zerg et Terran. Deux choix s'offrent aux développeurs, à savoir augmenter le cooldown du Transfert Psi de 11 à 14 secondes, soit de réduire les points de vie de 80 à 70.

Les WCS Austin étant très proches, la société hésite toutefois à apporter un tel changement pour l'instant et demande l'avis de la communauté à ce sujet. Les choses peuvent donc évoluer et nous aurons ainsi peut-être déjà un patch mardi prochain... ou pas.

La prochaine carte de test devrait apporter d'autres modifications, notamment pour les Thor, Disloqueur, Tempête et Corbeau. 

Adept Strength

We believe that Adepts might be too strong in both the PvZ and PvT matchups, and we are considering toning them down. Based on feedback we have been seeing in the community, we are considering one of two changes:

• Reduce Adept utility and harass by increasing the cooldown time of Psionic Transfer from 11 to 14 seconds.

  Or

• Reduce the Adept’s core combat stats by reducing their hit points from 80 to 70.

However, WCS Austin is coming up very soon and there is some concern that patching this close to the tournament could disrupt pro player practice. Therefore, we would like to put out a patch this Tuesday if it seems like we need to make changes right away. If not, then we will roll the changes into our test matchmaking system for more detailed testing. Let us know your thoughts and feedback about the proposed changes.

Test Matchmaking

Next week we are also planning on enabling the test matchmaking system with some other proposed changes. We would like to focus on the Adept strength this week so we will have more details about the test changes next week when they are enabled. But they will consist of the areas mentioned in our previous community post, such as the Thor, Void Ray, Tempest, and Raven Auto Turret. We will also explore a bit of moving some power from the Adept to the Zealot, which has seen a bit less usage in Protoss main armies than we would like.