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I can fully understand why bronze players are so frustrated because when I was playing my HOTS beta placements my first 3 games were against people, probably, Silver in WoL. I was scouting them like a madman because I was convinced they had to be doing something shifty. They didn't have the...

Sadly Photon Overcharge has kind of screwed up early game TvP

As of right now it doesn't appear to be heading in that direction. As of right now HOTS is much more skirmish based and less 3base 200/200 slamming which, I agree, made latter WoL very unattractive to watch. Terran is back to having early-game pressure-expand builds instead of mandatory...

There is plenty different in HOTS that will shake up the professional scene in really all phases of the game. Probably the least changed is early game Zerg but all others are mostly shaken up. -edit- And for anyone reading this thread there are really only two people on this forum that...

I guess I'll take a moment to invite everyone on the forums into our small but knowledgeable group of people who rabidly follow all things SC2. For the most part we can help you out and guide you on various things if you are looking to get more competitive in the multi player scene. Blizzard...

This is the competitive gaming subforum. Single player talk doesn't really have a purpose here. If you wish to discuss the SP I suggest making a thread over at regular Other Gaming.

Glad to see the newly invigorated NonY is giving the single player all he's got

Yeah I hope that is what TvZ has in store for us in HOTS. I love the fast paced bio style of Terran in TvZ and mines allow Terran the luxury of being safe in the mid game without tanks. If this is what it takes to be a top Zerg now against a top Terran I don't see the future of foreigner zergs...

Boobs?? ON THE INTERNET??? Alert Al Gore immediately

Ret used them sparsely and Snute used them a bit more (but worse)

Yep because foreigner Terrans did oh so wonderful this tournament

Glad I'm a Terran hipster and I was hyping YoDa up for years

For the people running MP10 Keeps2 I was having much better XP/Legos per hour doing it on MP8 using the hybrid Rend/WW build. Basically swap out your fury generator (frenzy, bash, etc...) with Rend /w Lacerate. When you enter the game swap your gear to get IK 5/5 bonus (not mandatory, but...

I think the playoff bracket was made by some form of seeding. At least the quarterfinals were the top 4 from the group stage. From there the #2 from the group got matched up with a #3 from another group. I'm not 100% certain how that happened. It looks like the top finishers at #2 were...

I know IEM is only one tournament for a new game but it is unreal how racially diverse the bracket ended up. No mirrors until the semi is pretty crazy for a tournament.

Yeah the single barrel. I've never actually tried out the small batch.

I got my GF a magic bullet and it works really well. She had the same one Springbok did but I found that really hard to clean since the blades are fixed in the cup. So eventually it started to smell and it was hard to get shit at the bottom. Magic Bullet has a better system where you screw...

MVP is looking too big to stop. I really respect Mana as a player but MVP just ripped him limb from limb. It was pretty crazy to watch.

ESL usually releases their replays, right? I really want these MVP reps

I love 4Roses because it is 100 proof so it gives much more of a burn in the gut and a great throat feel. At least for my personal taste. 4Roses is my favorite bourbon but a bit expensive for my everyday drink.

I want to have MVP's babies so badly it is unreal

And here are some more profiles this time filtered by highest DPS unbuffed. Obviously that isn't the end-all metric since sheet DPS is very misleading for a WW barb (hence their OH is much higher DPS) but the stats and theory behind the OH remain the same...

Illusion plays slow and Vibe plays at 400 APM and then shits his pants anytime he has to multitask

I think the people here who don't know how to gear barbs are, in fact, the ones shitting on the weapon. Like I said it isn't perfect. If it was a dagger it would be a bit better but here are some random profiles from some of the top people on D3Progress. In fact a ton of them are using MW in...

Very good point. Infestor/BL was out of style in Korea because it is exploitable by extraordinarily high APM Terrans so it went back to classic muta/ling. Outside of Korea (and even foreigner Zerg could beat Korean Terran with Inf/BL) it was nothing but Inf/BL blobs (in both matchups) and the...

Surprised the TL best of calls 2012 the golden era of SC2. I couldn't disagree more. 2012 was the year of the Infestor and the Queen and it lead to some of the most mind numbingly boring games possible with nothing but 200/200 ball slams at the end. It was an abysmal year compared to others.

I'm glad Blizz is taking a wait and see approach to the medivac boosters. Like I said I think that all races will simply have to have some sort of flying anti-air to deal with it. Dream kind of picked apart MVP (was so far behind it didn't matter) with speed vacs but if MVP just had a Viking...

Funny how everyone was saying the foreigners will do well at HOTS in the early times of the expansion and it appears like they'll only get 4/12 of the available playoff spots for IEM despite Koreans being 10/24 total spots. Also king of hype and zero results Grubby gets stomped again despite...

God Koreans with afterburners are fucking nuts

Since I could actually sit infront of the AH I think I may have overstated the value by a ton. There is a similar weapon to yours (288 STR, 174 VIT, 90 CD, Socket under 800 DPS) for sale for 50M. A few similar comps are there in the 50M range as well (spear, 247 STR, 118 VIT, 99% CD, Socket --...

His has vitality. Bul Kathos could roll either socket or vitality. It is 135 more STR than Bul Kathos can even roll.

Worthless? You're fucking nuts. That is a ridiculous offhand. I'd have to assume well over 100M you may even be talking in the 500M range. If only that LOH was a LS roll you'd have something retardedly expensive. May want to cross it to d2jsp since they may know about items like that a bit...

Most of the answers are pretty canned and generic but the top comment right now is asking about the 3base cap and Browder admits they're aware of it and may discuss it. But don't expect anything until LoV. I'd love it if they made the economy more complicated than it is right now. Think it...

I'd say the importance of map awareness and map dominance are two criminally underplayed essentials in Starcraft. I watch a ton of coaching streams between QXC, Idra and everyone in between and I almost never hear them talk about map vision and map awareness. It is always "Do X build order...

IDK if you have really, really solid RTS fundamentals and I mean not just "probes, pylons, hotkeys" I mean knowing exactly how to scout, when to scout, knowing timings, knowing proper expanding, knowing when you're ahead and defend, knowing when you're behind and attack, having killer instinct...

Would getting trauma to the liver really knock you unconscious for hours?

When I said tip top I meant basically the best you can get without having to quit your dayjob and playing 10 hours a day

That chick in the video doing rhythm guitar is so fucking annoying to watch

I disagree heavily with randomly generated maps. If that happened you'd never see awesome map unique strategies. If you watch the Proleague you can tell they are custom tailoring their play to the map and it is cool to see. The simple solution is simply to rotate maps more often and get rid...