Lets compare the three new heros

Kerrigan - 5/5 - 3 dmg aoe, 2 brood guys and an awesome hero power enough said

Jim - 4/5 - triggering previously launched starships is so good, most impactful when played but hero power not as good as kerrigans

Protoss one - 1/5 - barely inpacts board with two 3/4 chargers, hero power is not that great and gotta wait most turns for the discount to work good meanwhile since ya basically didnt do much to play it ya lose a ton of tempo.

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Could be buffed to 6 manas, or summon an extra 3/4.

I think it should be buffed to discount all Protos cards. That’d immediately increase the power of all protoss decks a lot.

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I hit Legend today playing Protess Rogue. (Entered at like 8,353 I think? Not any good but meh)

The Hero Card is good. Giving Divine shields is super good. I don’t agree calling it a 1/5. Buffing it would make me sick to see Druids get more power from it.

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3 damage aoe that hits face, summons 2 minions and gives 2 minions to hand on top of the best hero power of the 3 xD

Thats a lot of value in one card lol

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Man i guess i understated how good kerrigan was earlier i did forget the face part and two to hand

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Its so blatantly busted they know what they are doing releasing it like this. Its like 2 hero cards for the price of one. Lol there is no way they didnt realize it was overtuned.

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Actualy in my deck it’s great! If I ever drop it on 5, thanks to the mini pirate that discounts 3 mana, the templars just work better as four mana minions usually and the 2 chargers are good to apply preasure or trade when needed.

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The Protoss one is so underwhelming. The least they could do is give it a mana reduction, increase the number summoned, and maybe increase the damage buff portion. Even then it’s still relatively mediocre imo. Kerrigan’s hero power + ability to easily swarm out zergs is just nasty. The payout for Protoss deck is just so slow in this day and age that the only time I’ve been able to use the good Protoss cards is when I’m playing another Protoss player.

Balance is not done on cards, it’s done on decks. A hero could be 5X better and the deck to be worse if the other cards are worse.

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The Zerg hero AND cards are better than Protoss, specially in DK with the ability to abuse Reborn/Deathrattles. Protoss mage is pretty much pigeonholed into going face due to lack of actual minions. Priest likewise is pigeonholed into board control because they can generate minions. Zerg just controls the board AND smashes your face. Sure, Mage’s Colossus is powerful, but it has a very obvious weakness against anything that generates a lot of armor.

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protoss mage is fun so is protoss priest but priest has a harder time winning but when they do its usually epic

basically protoss mage is about casting protoss spells and living long enough to get collusus out which ends game pretty much the hard part is surviving that long same with priest if u live long enough their stuff makes the game go nuts out of nowhere i mean a interceptor for 1 mana that pretty much ends the game or getting 3 colluses that cost 3 ea and do 12x2 lots of fun but with the speed of the zerg its HARD to get it going

Protoss hero isn’t that bad, it’s just that Kerrigan is just so good that will probably be played in most non-zerg decks for those classes in the future. You won’t ever see Jim Raynor or Artanis in other decks.

My 2 cents

Artanis is the most aggressive hero. Not that he’s the fastest or hardest hitting, but going with him means you’re trying to win the match via aggression. This is consistent with how protoss minions and decks tend to be about using those big minions to overwhelm (priest) or finish (colossus, templars) games

Raynor is the most defensive, but defensive via a board which isn’t always the best compared to having spells and weapons as removal etc.

Kerrigan is the all arounder. She can do a bit of everything. This I think is why zerg seems to have taken off moreso than the other two.

I just finished a game by using sing-along buddy to double kerrigan’s hero power. Like it’s not the first combo people thing of, but hey 16 damage hero power is 16 damage hero power.

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I wish Jims hero power was similar to dr boom mad genius. Summon a 4/2 token aint much these days.

What if he could discover starship pieces? Deal some damage to something on board? Do something that does something when you dont have board.

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Meanwhile I keep on playing hero power druid, that deck is stupid and hilarious. I don’t mind if we buff artanis surely this deck need a few buffs :wink:

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It’s been forever since I played SC2 (let alone SC1), but IIRC, terran in SC2 have two main strategies: bio (marines and other infantry) or mechs (tanks, starships)

Right now terran in HS have mechs, but little infantry. Ghost works with starships fine by itself without other infantry. Marine has basically no special synergies with other things or vice versa.

Like… in theory Jim’s battlecry is the most powerful if you’ve launched many starships, but that is slow and greedy. Given the same amount of time protoss and zerg would have pulled of their game plans and won.

One way I see Jim being better is if somehow the meta does a 180 and almost nobody has damage from hand, rushes, etc and must build a board and wait a turn for it to do stuff. In that situation an endless stream of taunts via hero power may be much more valuable there.

But chance of that happening even after rotation is minuscule.

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Judging by the power of each card Protoss hero should cost 5 or Zerg cost 9.

Only a complete retard to think the two should have the same 7 manas cost when the Zerg one is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar better.

It is not even close.

Who design these cards?

Zerg hero need to be massively overnerfed fast.

My guess is Blizzard takes a look at how the 3 factions are doing in the first few weeks and nerfs zerg while buffing the other two. Then again, we’ve wanted Druid nerfs for years and all they do is smack their hand with a ruler before sending them back out with a lollipop to bully the other kids again :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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