This looks like masteries done right. You can spec heavily into elite units, or into the calldowns, giving you different play style options.
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Nothing as specific as mandate per supply, but basically every unit you have generates mandate.
And his Imperial Witnesses speed up the process when they hover over your units they’re in indoctrination mode.
Basically, always have a Witness hovering over your supply lines.
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I did that last night, never got more mandate.
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Yeah I was doing a test, the numbers said 0 (other player had dropped if that bugged it)
Sorry for stiupid question but does your coop works? We cannot play coop as one of the partners is alwais kisked and the other gets some texture problems. Any idea?
You gain a certain amount of Mandate over time which allows you to get calldowns and on later levels improve said calldowns based on your Mandate level. Your Watchers or whatever they are called don’t give you more Mandate because you aren’t level 5 yet. That having been said, it’s still owrth it to move one over your mineral line because you get 20% extra speed out of them.
Either this is incorrect, or this only is a 2% Royal Guard cost reduction.
If it’s a 2%, holy crap. This is without a doubt the WORST Mastery I’ve seen ever.
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Pretty sure the 0 is supposed to be before the decimal point (someone posted a screenshot in another thread, let me see if I can find it).
20% mining speed or movement speed? movement speed is irrelevant once saturated.
When you get to lvl 5, your elite units will generate additional mandate, and your troopers/workers will generate a bunch but only when they are near a deployed blimp.
Meanwhile I’m here on full masteries generating 100 Mandate/30sec wondering what everyone here is going on about. Thug life.
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And why would that be?
Workers get to the mineral lines faster, but mining speed itself stays the same. There’s not much net gain, but functions similarly to Stetmann’s drones in a speed field.
You might be able to avoid having a worker or two on the line, depending on the math for a 20% move speed boost. But that would be counter productive to Mandate generation.
There is some gain, though whether it’s enough to make a difference, everybody has to judge for themselves. It was nice with my Tychus when my Mengsk ally put his Propaganda Blimp over my mineral line.
This would be assuming a 50% movement speed buff, so Mengsk would give about half that theoretically.
Personally I don’t think it’s worth it for the minerals, but each to their own. Easy Mandate generation has an argument to be made though.
I take whatever, whenever. He wants to put a Blimp over me I welcome it, even if I have to listen to propaganda.
Yeah, not like I would tell anyone off for doing it for me.
All that said, because of some quirks with Vespene it might actually be far more worthwhile there. Can’t recall any tests for a speed increase there though.
It’s not worth it because by the time you get starport out to make witnesses, your mineral lines would have been long saturated because Mengsk produces workers faster and cheaper than comms that aren’t Zagara and most other commanders would have been saturated too (granted that they expand and saturate ASAP).
Boosting the speed of workers in a saturated mineral line gives zero resource gain, because the speed at which they extract the resource is the same - so you simply get more workers waiting for their turn to get the resource because they return to the minerals faster.
So once your ally is saturated, putting a witness over your ally’s mineral line is a waste of your resources at zero gain because ally’s units don’t generate mandate.
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