StarCraft II 5.0.17 PTR Patch Notes

What’s in this update

Developer’s Note: Following the release of the last major patch, we have been collecting and closely reviewing your feedback. Our intention was to try something new, particularly with workers, and needed time to let the meta develop in order to ensure the most accurate feedback was being considered. Based on that feedback, for patch 5.0.17 we are rolling back most balance changes to the live release of StarCraft 2 from patch 5.0.16 to 5.0.15. This will be on PTR for the next few days while we bug test, before we push to live.

Economy

• Worker Start Count increased from 8 to 12.
• Default Large Mineral patch resource count increased from 1,600 to 1,800.
• Default Small Mineral patch resource count decreased from 1,100 to 900.
• Default Vespene Geyser resource count increased from 2,000 to 2,250.
• Total Default Gas per base increased from 4,500 to 5,000.

Terran

Command Center

• Cost increased from 300 to 400.
• Supplies increased from 13 to 15.

Widow Mine

• Attack launch delay increased from 0.85 seconds to 1.07 seconds.

Reaper

• Build time reduced from 34 seconds to 32 seconds.

Ghost

• Health increased from 100 to 125.
• Attack damage changed from 15 to 10 (+10 vs Light).
• Attack range reduced from 7 to 6.
• Movement speed increased from 3.85 to 3.94.
• Steady Targeting:
• Damage reduced from 170 to 130 (+40 vs Psionic).
• Energy cost reduced from 75 to 50.
• Cancels upon taking damage.

Protoss

Nexus

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