Official Star Craft 2 Beta Thread

[KungKras]

The_vagabond7 said:
The problem with the new pheonix is that it doesn't even have to use the attack command to attack. Which means they require zero micro to use to devastate any air units. You can just hit Shift move and click all over the screen, go get a soda and when you come back the skies will be clear. Any air unit that they have equal to greater range than will be completely incapable of fighting them at all. At the very least they need to have you need to use the attack command so that it will require some kind of micro like the corsairs of old. I really don't see this staying in the final build.

That's not true.

The new phoenixes requires micro. Not as skill-based as the animation canceling from Brood War, but you still need to contantly maintain a perfect distance from the mutalisks. If you shift move, what if the Zerg places his mutalisks where you ordered your phoenixes to go? It's impossible to predict where his mutas will be, so shift move is not an option.

Blizzard added micro^^