Tempest Suggestion

General Discussion
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I think we can all agree the Tempest is a pos. The unit is expensive, doesn’t do it’s job very well and unfortunately, is pretty much the only option vs late game mass BCs that hover around ledges.

To that end, I think it’s time we buff the Tempest.

Damage changed from 30(+3) and 22(+2) damage to Massive to 30(+3) and 40(+2) bonus damage to Massive.

This is a major buff to the Tempest but let’s look at what this actually counters.

Battlecruisers
Thors
Archons
Carriers
Tempests
Colossus (lol)
Broodlords
Ultralisks

Thors already get mauled by Disruptors and increased damage vs them won’t matter too much, outside of making Stargate viable vs Thor based compositions again instead of forcing Protoss to go mass Disruptor to deal with them.

BCs already lose early game in TvP to blink stalkers or even cannons+shield batteries, this buff only matters late game.

Carriers kinda sorta need better counters in PvP so that’s another positive.
Colossus don;t get made in PvP so no biggie.
Tempests countering Tempests is expected.

Nobody makes Broodlords anymore now that their range is bad so not really an issue for ZvP
And Ultralisks are already one of the easiest ways to throw a game in sc2 and the unit needs to get some buffs anyhow so making it suck even more won;t change anything until it’s buffed accordingly.

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So… it does do it’s job well.

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BCs beat Tempests late game, so no, they do not do their job well.

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I feel like the strength of the tempest is in its ability to snipe. A nuke deals crazy damage but requires a huge warm-up time. I think the Tempest could benefit from the same idea – each shot doing ridiculously high damage, but needing a long time to charge up. Maybe cut charge time to three times as long, but deal four times the damage? Or something along those lines; the exact numbers can be crunched later.

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The +massive damage on the actual Tempest does not affect Thors, Archons nor Ultralisks, it is air-to-air (and Colossi) only. I suggest you to remove those 3 units from your list.

The Tempest’s air-to-ground attack is 40 (+4 par upgrade) damage. But you cited only the values of the air-to-air upgrade so I presumed you want to buff only this attack.