I’ll be honest here, both this and the previous patches seem to herald the erradication of protoss from the game!
Exagerations aside, if u stack: slower forge upgrades, a nerf to warp prism pick up range, an increase in warp prism’s cost, a nerf to charge, a buff to ghosts, a buff to stimpack and a buff to zerg scouting; you are gutting A LOT of protoss unit combinations!!!
Not only that, but you are weakening protoss early game and mid game, while keeping zergs lategame untouched ! Also, protoss already struggle with terran 2 base pushes ( which are getting buffed ), how are we supposed to win?
You are taking a race that has, for a long time, been a weak contender in games that go into lategame and neutering its early/midgame … what are protoss players supposed to do?
In my opinion, if you are gonna take that much away from protoss, we ( protoss players ) , should receive a buff on other areas of the game ! As it stands, a sequence of such strong nerfs may alianate around 1/3 of the sc2 players (the protoss mains)!
In the current state of affairs, a nerf to charge is basically the nail in the coffin of the protoss race … think about it ! Surely there is a way to boost terran without nerfing protoss even further. I’m sure there many players who are who are MUCH more skilled than me that will agree chargelots are a key unit in most compositions and across all protoss match ups.
If you are deadset on nerfing charge, maybe you could make it so that the impact attack (the +8 being removed), is partially increased with each attack upgrade and make it peak at +8 when u hit tear the 3 weapon upgrade? Just an idea … this would lessen the impact of the nerf as the game progresses and allow the protoss army to scale with upgrades
Also, protoss could definitively use some help in the later stage of the game because atm transitioning into air is usually hard enough ! So much so that we’re the only race without a strong transition with: no carriers (no good carriers), weak void rays ( most of the time) and oracles that seem to be made out of paper, and melt " for no real reason "!