What are your thoughts on the most annoying/obnoxious AoE abilities in the game?
Some examples:
Do you think they could/should be changed? Are they ok where they are currently?
I just had to look at it to say it.
Hands down most annoying zerg ability. I can usually deal with anything but the sheer size, volume, effect, and quick recast those vipers are capable of just makes you strike your keyboard in a very sdgklrdejfgderjgt ergz sense.
Parasitic bomb. If Parasitic Bomb casted on unit, you (usually) can say it goodbye. And its not even one-shot; your unit still alive, but you know what you canāt save it from this. Specially annoying if vipers manage to cast it on all detectors at once. And vipers usually live just enough to cast it in the worst moment possible.
Ravens and their rockets come close second, but bigger range of targets means they prone to cast it on target which can at least survive it (and you have chance to dodge it).
I hate psi storm, especially from greenbryds, it can kill a huge army of my inf banshees or any fragile and bio comp depending on the commander.
Same with seeker missile, I hate ravens more than greenbryds. If my army is huge is hard to tell where the affected unit is. The worst part is that when they cast it and I go to murder them, they retreat and throw another one. If Iām going air with fragile units they are even worse than psi storm.
Parasitic bomb is another annoying skill that can destroy a flying army, again if you have crowded units itās hard to find the infected unit that will damage the rest. The thing is I donāt hate this so much bc if I see vipers will be during the match I avoid going air anyways.
But my absolute most hated skill is fungal growth from Amonās infestors. It freeze my ground army, it completely counter my almost perfect inf diamondbacks only army and I can do nothing.
So my hate ranking would be:
1)Fungal Growth.
2)Seeker Missiles.
3)Psi Storm.
4)Parasitic Bomb.
Do you think they could/should be changed? Are they ok where they are currently?
Despite hating them and considering brutal is overall easy I donāt think they should be changed. Iād like to see more enemy comps as monk announced instead and defilers for once!
Irradiate. No competition.
Then disabling cloud, would be nice if te AI just got old fashioned blinding cloud instead, keep the imba cloud Abathur specific.
Annoyance is one thing, many annoying things can be countered one way or another. But there are things that just literally can not be countered unless, i donāt know, you have WCS level micro and multitask:
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Irradiate, especially since I like to play zerg
Seeker Missile is my #1 disliked solely due to how many Ravens harass you if you have cloaked units. Iād much prefer Terran be given a generous supply of Scans instead for general map detection and save the Ravens for Attack waves and Initially spawned units like other spellcasters. After that Iād lean toward Disabling Cloud.
As much as I hate them, I have to admit the extra difficulty they add is a bonus. The sheer amount of how some of them get cast though, Iād say need a small delay.
Disabling cloud is annoying because it also slowed your units down, thus making it out is extremely difficult and annoying.
Most of abilities listed here are supposed to annoy/interfere/ruin your day, as they are given to primary caster units. But irradiate comes from support caster, unfairily screws only bio-commanders and is undefendable (AND you donāt get much from it when you have it, as itās useless to annoy AI and you just canāt spam it on entire wave, which would obliterate it). Also, Raven turrets when cast not in combat but just when flying through your base so they can get to that one creep tumor they want to detect, even if it does nothing.
Iām only ever annoyed by blinding cloud, really. Fungal isnāt big enough (or spammed enough) to shut down my whole army, but that cloudā¦Iāve had entire Raynor bioballs ripped up by a few ultras and vipers. I agree that it should match the vs version, let Ab have the āevolvedā, op version.
Cloud is the most annoying for sure.
Although that is another reason I think dragoons are superior because they are big for their supply cost. 20 dragoons disabled by 3 clouds? No problem I have another 40 that are still shooting just brutally push forward, summon more behind their army and no care.
But it is bad news for raynor indeed, considered that his only practical counter against cloud is spider minesā¦
Nukes are still annoying for me. I heard they actually toned that due to previous complaints, so in a sick way, I wouldāve liked to seen them at their peak.
Theyāre definitely preventable, but you need to look all around for the dot, and take out the Ghost, which takes you away from whatever else you were doing.
I realise they arent AoE, but i still want to mention Chokers on Dead of Night. (Since they basicly stun Tychus āentireā army).
I dont mind hero units getting choked, but itās just silly how it has infinite duration (aka hi Tychus +1, RIP Tychus +1).
I know its easily played around and i never lost because of it, it is just my number 1 frustration playing in CoOp (from Amons side that is).
I canāt believe nobody mentioned the Chokers on Dead of Night yet.
Well, honestly I completely forgot about it but now that you mentioned it should be my real #1 hated skill. Choked unit is dead unit unless rescued.
But I remembered another even worse than Choker, and itās the flying fish aka Slain Elemental from CoA. That can kill a whole army not just a few units like Choker.
My original #1 hated fungal growth wonāt kill instantly at least.
Honor mentions:
Blightbringer from ME that will parasite cloud whatever that flies, rip my overlords for vision and
Erradicators that if it wasnāt for Apo+Aleks it would destroy my whole army. Novaās version from her chapters are so easy even on brutal in comparison.
And the hybrid from P&P that can stasis our armies + cast tons of black enemy units.
Well, after release of Tychus they actually made that every Choker can choke only 1 heroic unit and not all the party at least.
That Erradicator which do damage in a line and not in circle deals insane damage vs ground which almost can not not be evaded. So i never go there with ground units unless they are expendable.
I like those, isnce they give a semblant of challenge to the game.
The most annoying āenemyā ability is the lag, keeping you from playing!
Lol, I bet I can guess which ally commander you hate most and which of his units rofl.
On DoN, whenever my ally has Hero unit(s), I make sure I can assist with taking down Chokers. I had an ally lose Tychus to the first Choker, shouted out a āffs!ā, and just quit.
If Iām the one with a hero unit, I make sure I have a backup plan. It was painful to have Zagara caught, but forgetting to call down Hunter Killers prior to that ![:disappointed_relieved:](https://d212vo0owly06i.cloudfront.net/en/sc2/images/emoji/twitter/disappointed_relieved.png?v=6" ":disappointed_relieved:")