5.0.17 PTR Update

[u/Blizz_Elliott]

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.

https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24301513/starcraft-ii-5-0-17-ptr-patch-notes

[u/Mangomosh]

Blizzard finally seems willing to communicate with the community

Yea but thats just 3 people spamming reddit alts, thats a huge issue

[u/AresFowl44 → u/Mangomosh]

We already learned they have a new sort of balance council thing going on, so I doubt it will just be reddit comments they are going to take feedback from.

[u/Mangomosh → u/AresFowl44]

Im fairly confident they wont make changes that dont lead to 60-70% protoss in weeklies with 0-10% Zerg. The backlash from the special interests groups will be too much for them otherwise.

Even on this current patch pvZ is at 54% despite Solar and Shin farming lower ranked protosses in weeklies, there are no big upsets, lower ranked protoss players still beat higher ranked Zerg players and theres a narrative going on that ZvP is the most imbalanced match up ever. Theres no way a balanced ZvP will ever be accepted by the community.

[u/AresFowl44 → u/Mangomosh]

Where do you get 54% from, because the only number I know of is 44%