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What is the role of the widow mine-

1. Deal with swarms of melee units

2. Punish high workers of other races with relatively low commitment

3. Punishing multiprong

4. Map control etc

What are the pros of the current widowmine- it satisfies all its requirements

Cons: perhaps a bit too effective against air units like Oracle and muta and maybe even phx

Minor consideration: everyone hates gitting gud, widow mine is peak skill issue, like colossus or storm or whatever (M3+ complaints hold more water of course)

The core issue of widow mines is- how to enable points 1,2,3 while reducing some of the cons

Proposed tweak: nerf the widow mine range a bit(maybe 1 range) while slightly increas

I'm a d3 terran(bio preference). These are my views on the patch as of now:

1. Maps are quite big. Traditionally that's not terran favoured

2. I'm not very fond of the new cyclone... I felt the tech lab cyclone/tank choice gave some flavour to mech. Nobody is really massing them when I play. I've been forced to make them in tvt, I'm not sure if I'm supposed to not make hellions at al except vs cheese. If some higher MMR terran could tell me that would be cool. I think they shut down roach cheeses fairly hard. I would prefer if they didn't do that, the banshee is for example an excellent counter- takes long to build but does good dps. All in all an sg buff I suppose

3. TvZ is pretty much t

I noticed several players say they are hard stuck plat. I think that can be fixed, hopefully other players better than me can comment regarding more matchups and races

First step is learn this build order(6- hellion lib 2cc bio). Why? Because it's the only one I can comment on, as it's the only build order I have played from gold 1 till now (peak 3460). I first reached d3 with sub 100 APM as well, so yes, you can play bio and reach d3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0dh2YwtHRc

Since I'm pretty sure most people won't click the link this build can be broken down into :

RFE->barracks scout->6 reactored hellions-> liberator from sp and start stim->make cc in the wall(before second depot in