Who was your favorite caster from the last game?

Just for the sake of clarity, we'll call a caster someone who didn't have an attack, or only a very weak one, but someone who made up for it with strong spells.
Example:
High Templar
Science Vessel
Defiler, etc.

There are some who walk the line of being a caster, and not quite, such as the Ghost, but we'll catigorize him and others like him as casters, just for the sake of arguement.

Who did you think was most useful? Least? Most fun to use?

I always liked the Science vessel, especially vs. the Zerg. Nothing is funnier than irradiating a clump of Overlords at the back of thier base, and knocking thier supply down by 80. Acctually happend once.

 

high Templar baby the psy storm and the hallucination oh ya the best

 

Defilers!

Its fun to cast darkswarm near enemy defences than rush in lurkers and hydras to annihilate their army and any stationary defences they have while taking limited damage from return fire.

Plague was fun just to cause extra damage in any battle situation or when my defiler finds any buildings or units when I decide to have one scout for expansions.

 

Does the medic count as a caster? Becasue in that case I'd go with her.
Heal...no need to explain that.
Blind can be usefull in certain situations, and Restore too.
second would be...
Science Vessel!
EMP and devense matrix have saved me countless times.

Can you tell I like Terran?
But the high Templar and Defiler and bloody useful too... Out of the other races those are my favorite.

 

High Templar were one of the best units. Psi storm... well, you know why. Hallucination was underused but awesome for distractions, and it was great to be able to create one of the most powerful units right on the battlefield with summon archon.

Dark Archons were just as awesome. Feedback really screws up BCs, science vessels, HTs, and the like; maelstrom was great against zerg. If you maelstrom a group of hydras and psi storm them, you pretty much screwed up that attack force for good. Plus, mind control. Stealing upgrades, stealing units, and of course building a new race from the ground up.

Arbiters. IMO the best caster. Stasis field half your opponent's army, destroy the other half, wait for the field to wear off, and kill them all. Recall in an enemy base is a great and probably better substitute for shuttles. And cloaking field's just all-around useful.

 

DA's for me love those things feedback is great if your having trouble with enemy casters just feedback them and there done, mealstom is very very useful and as wick said a great combo with psi storm, but mind control is great espescially agaisnt drops mind control the transport and you did three things all at the same time, 1, got a new transport 2, got more combat units and finally kick that attacks ass

 

I liked the arbitor. It's cloak and recall abilities made it one of the strongest units in the game.

 

yeah dark archon rocked, you could reveal cloaked units, drain mana and take over enemy units, you could create more civalizations: 400 cracklings, 25 carriers with a total of 200 interceptors, and 150 marines with 50 medics
i once took over a dropship with 8 marines

 

High Templar He's so cool. I love the psi-storm ability.

 

id have to say defiler

 

I <3 Defilers. Cast a Plague, then bring in maxed out 'lings. It'll destroy any ground force, PERIOD

 

not true, it won't work at all against archons

 

darkone has a point, with their high shields, archons aren't heavily affected my plague, only 9 damage is done. However, it works nicely on everything else. Mix in dark swarm, and your cracklings would be immune to any ranged units that army had created for its defence.

 

I would have to say dark arcons. usually i didn't really use em that much in combat. I waited to capture an enemy builder and them control all 3 races.... but feedback was pretty good.

 

MC'ing a worker was one of the hardest things to do. You were usually better off just MCing a BC, Carrier, or a transport.

 

Man, I completely forgot about the Arbiter (probably becasue I never use Protoss.)
Static Field is just amazing!
It is such a useful ability. Speaking of hallucination, btw, using an arbiter to cloak your army, and then creating hallucinations of your arbiter...thats a nice trick.

Then again disruption web is also useful...
Blizzard does too good a job at making everything about their games rock.
*sigh* keep up the fantastic work Blizzard.

 

Arbiters were very useful. I also loved the Defilers. Plague was almost too strong, It's very difficult to repair 12 battlecruisers, each with 250 health missing.

 

Thats why the defiler doesn't have an attack. By your ideas, the high templar is too strong because storm could kill most zerg units with a single hit. Also, plague can't kill units, only weaken them for others to kill.

 

I didn't say that it was a bad thing, I love plague, unless I've been hit with it. I meant "Too strong" as more along the lines of "too cool", or "too funny", but it could be pretty easily misinterpreted.

My mistake for not making that more clear.

 

Dark Archons were the best, i just mind control something of the Zerg and i already know i win