Ok first off I haven't done PvP yet. I suck way too much :[
I've been trying to get decent with Protoss (one of my friends plays Terran and the other plays Zerg when we do 3v3) and god damn it I can't get a good macro or build order yet. I'm a turtle. I build and build defenses and then take forever getting good units out.
Zealots suck. They ssssssuuuucccckkkk
They are not worth it IMO to work on in the beginning. And the Stalkers can potentially be good but you have to make 2 other buildings after the Gateway and research Blink and research defenses/attack before they're little more than glass pistols.
One strategy we've been doing in 3v3 is that I'll play defense for most of it--while the Terran guy works on heavy-hitting ground units, the Zerg guy spams out shitloads and shitloads of zerglings and sends them out to keep the enemy on their toes--and I set up fuckloads and fuckloads of photon cannons until eventually amassing a huge air force (usu void rays with a few carriers).
That works p well for 3v3 but it doesn't work at all in anything else. And I know that, versus someone with a brain, my photon cannon strategy wouldn't work b/c they'd all just be trying to take out my pylons first.
Is it worth it to try to make Colossi? I like them hugely and they're so powerful but you have to jump through so many hoops.
Dark Templar are great but their effectiveness is squat if even one enemy unit has detection.
I always want to get down Warp Prisms and Warp Gates but they never seem to work right for me ... I must be doing something wrong.
I've been looking and looking and I can't get a straight answer on protoss strats here does anyone have some pointers??
wanna play a couple of practice matches?