Well, that certainly makes an opening Reaper harass easier.

It was only a matter of time. They made it pretty much useless when they changed it to hit only one unit for an instant kill.

Didn't Blizzard make Supply Depots necessary to build Barracks to counteract early Reaper harass?

yeah, but it didnt counteract too much, hence why the upgrade was made to require factory, now it no longer requires Tech Reactor, there is no upgrade since the speed buff which auto upgrades it, and HELLBATS, got a major buff, so expect Early Reaper to Hellbat/Tank as the new strong strat for terran.

Every T will open with a reaper. My overlord will be safer at least. Went from an iffy harass, to a solid scouter.

Hellbats are already stupid and OP, so I have no idea why they got this incredible buff. Anyone that still goes bio is a fucking moron.

Rest of the list is the usual dumb shit so no comment but Seekers look to have been fixed, only took 3 years!

Do anyone find that they've gone to far from what the races are actually identified as?
I mean playing SC1 you get a good picture on how the races should be, that changed a bit in WoL multiplayer but here they are really changing a ton of stuff without reusing some old concept, units and such which is sad.
In the zergs case there is no reason to develop a new unit to take the role of the older one with the difference being small only to avoid reusing older units such as the Lurker, even applies when it comes to spells, no SC1 spell that was removed in SC2 has ever made a comeback, the cloud of the Viper could become Dark swarm.
Other spells being Plague and Spawn Broodlings which also are out of SC2 and would be effective, Think of a Thor being Broodlinged.

The Protoss loosing a number of spells and units such as Dragoon (has a reason, no more production of them because of infested Aiur), Reaver (replaced by Colossus, still strange that two were sealed beneath Aiur, would have been helpful defending the warpgate to Shakuras, besides suddenly existing in SC2), Dark Archon (don't see why it was removed), Arbiter (replaced by Mothership and in Hots there's also a Mothership core, although when Arbiters were available you could have several ones which was effective, use Arbiter spells several times, cloaking larger armies and so on, unlike when you now are limited to one Mothership as it removes the effectiveness of having several Arbiters able to recall on several places at the same time).
For Spells we lost the Disruptor Web which makes everything under it unable to attack including bunkered units, Maelstorm, Mind Control and Stasis field.

The Terrans in this case (multiplayer), they lost the Firebat (still don't know why it actually was removed could have kept existing at least in WoL even if the Helion existed), Medic Removed (Medivac but still why, they would have been usefull in early game at least), Goliath (think about it, like cheap fast built mini Thors, got a lot more effective with the WoL upgrades, no reason to remove it, also works like a mech Marine pretty much considering it's better, Thor and Viking pretty much together replaced this unit, then Thor being replaced by the Warhound and now I don't know if it's out of HoTs), Vulture (replaced by Helions as a harass unit because they are a lot more effective at that but they don't lay mines, don't know why they wouldn't be available in multiplayer at least in WoL), Science Vessel (replaced by Raven and seems like a good choice for Battles as it's more useful, EMP is moved to Ghost, not much left for usefulness for it), Dropship (replaced by Medivac because it's a lot more effective and gives an additional role to it as a support unit as well), Wraith (Compared to SC2 air units it's pretty useless does hve cloak though but is weak against ground and decent against air, doesn't seem wrong it was removed although it would have been interesting seeing both Banshees and Wraiths together), Valkyrie (from EUD and the Viking is better than it, in WoL the Viking even had a AoE upgrade as well as a range upgrade).
Spells from SC1 that were removed are Lockdown (very handy spell though the Ghost has EMP instead of it), Optical Flare (blinding a unit, medic ability maybe the Dropship could've had it or the Raven allowing blinding Overseers think it would have been good to keep), Restoration (medic ability which removes conditions such as parasite, blind, such things that replaces the rank text to mention the condition of the unit while it's affected), Irradiate (a good spell against organic units as it kills them and organic units around it gets damaged as well, would be a good counter against mass Mutalisks and you wouldn't need the AoE Viking upgrade anyway), Defense field Matrix is now only self targeted on the BC and not something you can apply on other units, EMP is moved to Ghost.

If this comment is too inappropriate I could remove it as I did take up a lot of things.

Yeah this bugs me too. I have no idea now how to classify the strategy a race has.
In SC1 it was clear cut and they had a character:
- Zerg: Cheap masss units overwhelm the enemy. They are evil and feared for their relentlessness and neverending stream of units.
- Protoss: High cost classy units easy to maintain in mass battles - the noob race*. Proud, technologically advanced and dedicated PSI warriors.
- Terran: Flexibility is key. Make managing and strategy harder - the expert race*. Crafty race which always seems inferior, but uses inventions and tricks to stay in the game.


* Obviously only applies to low-level play or $$ maps.

lols...

Might just transition to Terran so I can reaper harass into tank-drops Zerg fools...

Reapers no longer have the damage to harass. I see them as only scouts now.

tanks shut down any sort of roach all in now though. My muta ling is way more effective now though; every T feels obligated to get more tanks now.