Gotta be honest here, I am a bit sad about the mercenary nerf and concerned to why we don't see any nerfs to 7 vs king (????). I wish you would've given players more time to adjust to mercenaries being stronger. Income sending should never outlast saving. Income sending should be a last resort when you're desperate, not an optimal "strategy". I was really happy to finally see a balance state, where income sending was essentially not viable anymore, which reminded me, and others, of the wc3 LTD we all know and love (<3). Income sending is something that people do whenever they don't have a better plan and/or have been put (or put themself) into a very uncomfortable situation, where the enemy starts saving onto you with a weak wave in range, but the enemy has all the upcoming waves covered very well and is probably also ahead. So in other words: a desperation play! Why exactly is it that you want this to be a good play? I've had games on 1.72 where people tried to simply income send their way through, so we got to freely push and gather up amounts of myth that no value can hold if sent on the correct wave. THAT WAS AMAZING! No more braindead "we have good lategame rolls -> income send" nonsense. Couldn't you have given it more time?All people had to realise was that they cannot expect to hold pretty much all waves based on value and maybe a couple towers that are good at that wave. With the mercenaries in 1.72 you had to finally OPTIMIZE heavily against certain waves in order to be a holder, and yes, that made you weak on others. That's how it's supposed to be! I am not a fan of giving people the chance to hold every wave, takes a lot of depth out of the game. Not to mention that, with income sending, you give the enemy all the time in the world to pick the correct level to send... It should be obvious that this is something that is not supposed to work out if the enemy picks the correct wave to send. You can somewhat control when your enemy has to send, due to applying pressure. That's what this game is all about, pressure. If you income send, you concede pressure. Conceding pressure should not be rewarded