Warpgates felt like a must have for any true Protoss player, the ability to warp-in units at a moments notice was sick. Cheap to get the upgrade, few seconds to convert the gateways and voila... ready for some warpin Warp-gates are balanced out because you really need a lot of warpgates to really get effective use out of them, since you can't queue up troops and just let 4 gates produce 30 units over time.

I have a feeling that in beta and even at the launch of Starcraft 2, hidden pylon rushing to warpgates will be a highly used strategy. So if you face a Protoss player, always scout your base when you can.

Stalkers felt week last BlizzCon, they seem a bit stronger with more identity this time around. Felt like they did the dragoons more justice.

Disruptors (aka the old Nullifier) are great to have early on too, I used Force Field a lot, both defensively and offensively - blocking in probes so they couldn't run away from getting killed and they hit air too!

I tried Colossi rushing in a few games, but they are so expensive and high up the tech tree that I really don't think that currently it's a feasible strat. Definitely not the same as old school Reaver rushing

Did not get a chance to try out the Protoss air game, but I did built a Mothership and a couple of Carriers. The Mothership felt lil weak to me, both in use and ability to attack, Carriers felt strange, I believe they automatically came with 8 interceptors and their only upgrade was to shoot out interceptors out faster :p

As a Protoss player I didn't play T or Z that much, but from the little that I did play them I felt that the Terran bionic play felt really strong, also drops with a fast tank + couple of Hellions could cause a lot of havoc The Zerg early game was ok, their mid-game felt strange... the balance devs even mentioned to me that the Zerg mid-late game needs the most work. Banelings could be detonated underground now for a nice "live" mine field effect, Roachs regen faster when burrowed, you needed Lair for Hydras.

All the maps we played on were noob friendly ie: all main bases had easy to defend ramps, hopefully Blizzard starts making some no-ramp maps as well.

The only time I needed to get a 2nd expansion was when I basically had already won the game, I bet that changes as balance continues to tighten the game up.

Unit selection I felt needed to be much tighter, by that I mean that the area that is selectable on certain units was too much. Example: You start off with 6 miners, I tried to select them individually to mine seperate patches and ended up constantly selecting more then one cause the selection was so sticky. This isn't that big an issue because of the new bad ass smooth as a babies butt pathing in SC2.

Not a game issue, but the keyboards we played on had keys that were way too flat and close together for Starcraft, like Tasteless's competitive Starcraft keyboard article, the best keyboards for RTS games I think are ones with big sturdy keys that you can memories by feel. There was a lot of times I hit the wrong button constantly.

I'll end the biggest post I've ever written on Starfeeder with some photos of the Post-BlizzCon after party at the Hilton lobby

Hanging with Chris Metzen himself! The model for Jim Raynor...


Karune


Bashiok

Artosis and I rocking Handsome Nerd t-shirts

Slasher(Gosu eSports reporter) and Bodi(World of Ming)

Bunny - Warcraft 3 commentator

Me and Tasteless getting our e-thug on...

Gootecks, a top Street Fighter 4 player and blogger.

Group shot!

BlizzCon 09, defs the best so far... met a lot of great people again, made new friends and connections, and played a lot of Starcraft 2

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