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Too effective against zerg... all zerg units are biological... I mean come on...

and have to notice it they are weak against Siege tanks/colossi when tanks/colossi tanked by someunits...

They need more hp and splash dmg i think they are expensive and so weak ...whats the blizzard point for that make protoss pathethic on land wars ?

weak against Ultralisk... BULL!@#$!!!!

i think their attack should go through multiple enemies since it is lightning. Makes them more effective right?

I miss battery :(

Protos for life :-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-):-)

if the Dark Balls are returning with their perm mindcontrol the infestor should get perm mindcontrol as well.

"Build Phoenixes and use Gravition beam to lift them out of fight momentaraly."
Well,thats the thing im going to do -_-

is ti just NEXUS

I dont like the new attack animation i liked the archon more in SC1 with the two-hand lighting shot,it showed his power.

They shouldn't be massive

"Build Phoenix fighters and use Graviton Beam to lift them out of the fight momentarily." - N/A massive unit!

how are they powerful only against mutas?
they can tear an MMM ball (without stims)

and they deal bonus damage against every single zerg unit...

,,The Protoss are loath to sacrifice their loyal warriors, but those who make this final commitment are forever honored in the memories of their people.'' Yeah like 'do you remamber billy he killed 2 zerglings with 2 storms and then he fused with this other guy from schakuras who killed a roach, we realy need to make a statue of them.

i always make 4 DT %!@@ his SCV or drone or probe,s and make 2 archon in his base 2 finish it off :)

Dont you think roaches and marauders could be put weak against Archons ? They are both biological, come in big pack and do +vs armored. If you exclude hit and run tactics (thanks FF) I think Archons can be in some way cost effective against these. Or am I wrong ?

BTW terrans in 1v1 are imbalanced......

Archons are alternative attack group...i personally use them only if i stay out of mana with high templars or if they go raven while i have dark templars killing scv
u can save units with low hp if u fuse em into an archon and pressing cancel will restore em to original form buying some time....I can agree with my fellla saying that they got trully low armor they are slow and got a weak splash attack but still making 5 of them and use them against any organic enemy gives u a result (even a slight one)

I make Archons because they look cool and in mass numbers they do deadly damage. I also find that when im playing against a mate in the same room. They loose confidence in the game after seeing a lot of Archons coming towards them and its GG and i win. So the larger the force of archons the better the chance of winning. But beware... they can be all wiped out with a single Collosus if used corectly. :D Yours,
CreepingMyst.... "cos i can" :P

there only reason to make archons is if your HT's lose energy during the battle and you need that little bit extra but to me it feels like my beautifuls high templars have been wasted

Why can't you make Dark Archon's, on Sc2?

They should have a bigger area of effect to their attacks.

They should have at least 3.5 range.

Blizzard please, give them a buff, give them a range of 4, and shield armor 1 or 2...or at least make it an upgrade

what about an extra research to make at Templar archives: +1 armor to archon shield? Or +1 range to archon. That would do it. Or +1extra shield to archon for the first +armor:shield upgrade. (compared to colossus research +3 range...)

I agree with most of these comments: archon should have one armor on shield from the start and longer range. These are supposed to be THE best of prototss but about anything kan kill them. Especially marines since they are range and has no bonus against anything. I can't think of any situation where Archons would be the best choice of army. At most things zealots would be more effective (and thay have larger hp and start with armor 1 on hp). The only positive with archons is that their shield can reg. and that they *might* counter mutalisks but if the zergplayer is any good the muttas will just ignore him and fly away: they'are best at harassment not army-kicking. Archon might work against zerglings but then again, zealots would too. They're splash is too small to be noticed, or it might be that their damage is too small to be noticed.. Gotta try them largescale some time just to make sure. 1armor and larger range OR splash would do it. I mean, this unit probably was balanced when the game was released but since there has been a lot of changes, for example roaches have had their range increased (3->4), which makes some difference against archons.
Just take 30sec and compare archon with colossus:
Colossus: 200/150hp
Damage: 15->21 splash
Resources: 300/200
Range: 9 (if you go colossi without this upgrade they wouldnt be worth to call colossi..)
Archon: 10/350hp
Range: 2
Damage: 25+10 -> 34+13 splash
Resources: 100/300 or 250/250
They cost about the same (only gas instead of minerals: gas is more valuable since it's more difficult to get and have a very finite collection rate) or archon is slightly more expensive.
Now think how fast a colossus dies. A single colossus against zerglings for example. Not long, not long at all. An archon have the same amount of life as a colossus but 10hp more and one less armor for 190hp. I admit, against zerglings only, archon would be the best choice since it's damage will likely oneshot zerglings(35->47). However against any kind of ranged units, like marines, stalkers, roaches, hydras and even marauder Colossus would be preferalbe, yes even against maruders: they slow so much the archon won't even get close and since it has range 2..
So: archons are most preferable against melee only (i.e. zerglings and zealots). Then, against what units do they actually receive less damage from? Siege tanks, maruders, hellions, ultralisk, reaper, immortal, stalker. Against ST archons would die quickly and hardly: they are too slow and ST have a very long range (13) in siegemode, though they would do more damage in tank mode since the archon will absorb the splash any way (yes, they do, I've counted). Now, zealots are slightly faster, ST deal less damage to zealots too and they can charge in, very effectively dealing ST own splash on their own. Against maruders: about the same I guess even though I would prefer zealots. Hellions: kicks both zealots and archons due to their fast speed and can therfore kite any melee unit (archons are kind of melee), besides archons deal lower damage to hellions. And totally 4 zealots (about same resources) deal a lot more damage than one archon: 4*2*8 compared with 35. Against approximately anything zealots or colossus is better than archons, the only exception would be air but then you have stalkers..
Suggested changes: damage to kill marines instant not only zerglings OR longer range OR larger splash. And if it is not against sc policy: initional armor on shield.
Init armor on shield: Seriously. Compare with battlecruisers or thors who starts at 2 resp 1 which lasts for all the life. 1 armor on 10hp... whats the deal? => They're not made to absorb damage unless it is from ST where armor dont matter much and theyre not meant to deal damage against anyone except zerglings and eventually zealots. This is the best of protoss, a lot of tech to get there, OK not so many buildings but a lot of gas. Yay. Colossus is so overpowered in comparison, they even deal full damage to all types, not only bio (it is very cool though i admit: "+ against bio", very cool I like it). Pls make archon comparable to colossus/carrier in some balanced way. The three advanced tech trees I think should be different (as it is) but equal. Now I guess Robotics is the very best without any concurrent (except for early phoenix): Immortals are Insanely good, colossus have unbelievable range and some very nice splash and the observer is just the only moving detector a protoss can dream for => robotic is really the only way to go if not air.
At last I admit I'm no proplayer but that doesn't mean I don't understand the math. I'm only at gold but I like experimenting so it's just as good. I'll try one mass archon against zerg in the future, see where theory meet reality.