Ultralisk - Damage boost?

Since the Ultralisk is the Zerg's cannon fodder, shouldn't it do more damage than just the base 20 Damage? For example, the more inferior Thor could do up to 60 Damage per shot and it's a ranged Unit. I think they should empower the Ultralisk with an additional 10 Damage and prehaps make the Charge skill more effective?

 

First off, I'd say Zerglings are cannon fodder, and Ultralisks are late game crazy tanks. And twenty damage is just fine. Recent reports from Koreans trying out SC2 says that Ultralisks are quite the beasts in the open.

Yeah, the Thor does more base damage GtG, but the Ultralisk is faster and has more hp.

And what charge skill? The Ultralisk has no such thing.

 

Geez, give me some credit.. i meant stampede..

 

No, I am not being nitpicky about the name. There's simply no such skill to be improved in the first place. The only ability the Ultralisk has is Burrow.

 

Hold on.. wasn't there stampede? So starcraft 2 Wikia is wrong?

 

Maybe we can improve burrow. So that when it unburrows it can fly and have 2 heads for twice as much damage and drop creep like the overlord but the creep would kill everything it touches and because it does we'd have to give all the other units the ability to destroy creep.

 

The wikia does not lie.

http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Ultralisk

There's no trample.

 

I see.. i must have read it somewhere then.. i can't remember the specific source. Thanks for the info.

 

I lol'ed at this. What you have been playing, ultralisks are one of the few units the zerg have that are too expensive to fodder off.

They are meat shields yes, not cannon fodder.

Thors do more damage while being ranged, because they are ranged units, typically ranged damage is higher, not always, but more often.

 

the Ultralisk has a damage of 20 but attacks twice, so it could do 40 damage.

 

I loled at it too darkone. Zerg lategame is ultralisk tanking while 20 crack lings kill 2 nexus's in 20 secs, not the other way around.

 

Lol ultralisk fodder, oh well it happens. In sc1 you do know the ultralisk had crazy attack speed he was like a cranky *arizona* *beach*.

 

I loled also if you looked at wiki or another site you will see that although it attacks do 20 damage per hit it attacks twice like zealots so it does 40 damage versus units and 60 versus buildings.

 

So when attacking buildings it does 30 each? And what about any boosted damge from armord units like the Thor . Would it be doing 30 damge to a Thor? I mean the Thor is just a huge builing with legs and a couple guns(basicly).

 

It has a 'head attack' that deals extra damage to buildings. Thor would have to be classified as a building for armour purposes then.

I think it's fine, it was pretty much an uber tank (which is what i'm sure you meant by fodder )in starcraft but it has been improved hugely, burrow, extra siege damage, AoE damage and it can walk over units, the ultralisk will be significantly more useful.

 

Zealots still say that they do 16 damage though. The damage is just broken up into two shots, I imagine for balance reasons, otherwise armour would have no real effect against these basic of units.

 

Yes, but 1 zergling (25 minerals) do 15-20 dps fully upgraded. An ultralisk is nothing compared to that.

 

That is why they're called cracklings. They do huge amounts of damage, and are really fast, to crack the defenses a little bit, so that the other units can get in and win.

 

Aren't they called cracklings because with both speed upgrades it's like they're on crack?

 

No I don't think so. That is in interesting interpretation though. Funny actually.