Question in the title.Its seems like the only xenos who give a damn about plasma are qeen,drone,hivelord, burrower and carrier.Others xenos plasma regen is so high (even when you just run on weeds and dont rest on them) and skills сonsume so litle ammount of plasma what you can just delete their plasma bar and allmost nothing will change.Even when you spam your skills like a madman your are still simply cannot run out of plasma because your cooldowns are just way slower than your plasma regen.
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Yes and then remove cooldowns and then let facehuggers jump through walls -audible xenocoin deposit-
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It’s just a rate limiter on builders so you don’t get the GREAT WALL. Otherwise if it’s not a resource you usually are managing between using your abilities, then you are using them correctly and there’s not really anything to worry about.
Autoclicker sentinels can run it pretty low too but that’s whatever; close ya mouths
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I think it serves a use in requiring backliners to have weeds.
Wiki says lurkers eat 10 plasma to pounce and invisible, and 50 to cripple strike, with 400 cap.
70/400 is ~5 solo marines they can combo to death without having to recharge.
Spitter lists 50 to spit, 50 to empower, and 50 to acid spray, of a 600 cap. High regen and low capacity keeps an otherwise robust caste around infrastructure.
Its also a big cap on how much melting a xeno can do. Boilers can only melt 2 cades at a time, which is good, cause their acid is bonkers.
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yeah for most xenos plasma is pretty much useless. You only need it for occasional structures filling and maybe sometimes you can run out of plasma fighting away from weeds for a very long time, but that’s it.
Every time when i see stuff like this i wonder how much time should pass until managers understand what they need to add limit on sticky resin per xeno or just a general limit))
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Sticky resin is usually a noob trap thats just a waste of time (build more walls)
Even if you capped sticky resin itd just turn into weed node spam instead
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Plasma as a resource was kinda outsourced by just making cooldowns lengthy. Plasma is incredibly nothingburger for any caste as long as they’re on weeds excluding builder caste.
The result is the more questionable design of lurker/sentinel/spitter having plasma solely to limit their off-weed potential, which doesn’t really fix anything as all three castes are typically more limited by their unbuffed health regeneration rather than their plasma based abilities.
Builders legit have it the worst right now as any extensive construction practically requires recovery pheromones and a plasma mule to even be accomplished, it’s not fun and often builder caste players just quit the evo entirely especially due to how brute trivializes hive construction atm.
I’m not even sure why carrier and burrower have such an incredibly garbage plasma eco, backline trapping is typically done pre Marine drop so that isn’t even a valid argument so it just adds to the frustration of playing those two castes
For the rest, idk, crusher is largely on weeds anyhow, same with praetorian and boiler so they rarely if ever hit the mark where they run out of plasma. Crusher having plasma to begin with is kinda questionable really as the caste is already dissuaded from overextending by having the shittiest movement speed out of any T3
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Boiler has a very expensive acid melt, with the upside of being very fast / strong.
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When two hivelords, three drones, a carrier, and seven lessers work together, friendship always wins!!!
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Boiler gets two melts after globbing, honestly if you want to limit how powerful the acid melt is just put a cooldown on it. It’s not even that boiler has any situations where they could be super overpowered by melting 600 objects at once due to them often being pressured into retreating rather than their plasma running out.
You misunderstood something, it was me alone in hive for ah hour. It helped hive sustaining the unga push somehow.
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OT nade/weed killer user have entered the stage. Drone 253 says “Why do I hear boss music?”
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The power of Ingwe; Ingwe always wins!!!
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Go @Ingwe!
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I’m gonna be real on that, ironically enough acid runner is better in melting cades than boiler due to how cheap their corrosive melt is, but must acid runners are stingy due to them wanting to use the big boom ( They’ll die before even setting it off )
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