General:

- Towers use fortified armour now, but base armour is reduced drastically
- all heroes require ~ 20% more experience to level up from level 3 onwards
- tier 2 / tier 3 hall experience bonus for heroes lowered to 10%/20% from 15/30%
- increased all main hall teching times by 20% except for Orc
- tree hitpoints doubled
- new upkeep system: low - medium - high upkeep
* low upkeep kicks in at 30 supply, consuming 20% of the collected Gold
* medium upkeep kicks in at 60 supply, consuming 40% of the collected Gold
* high upkeep kicks in at 90 upkeep now, consuming 60% of the collected Gold
* max Food level increased to 110


Neutral:

- lowered Drunken brawler crit rate to 2x damage and 10/15/20% chance, lowered evasion to 5/10/15%
- Panda Breath of Fire damage to 50/90/130 from 50/100/150. Ignition damage raised to 10/20/30 from 7/14/21. Mana cost increased to 90 from 70
- Firelord Incinerate passive again
- Increased Pit Lord armour by 1
- new neutral Hero: Ogre Geomancer, a tanky spellcaster hero with earth/fire based spells.
1) Earth shock: cancels channeling abilities, deals initial damage and damage over time, slows movement and attackspeed.
2) Molten Boulder: target an area to throw a ball of magma towards it. All nearby units are burned and the boulder explodes at the target location, dealing damage to all units
3) Stone Skin: auto cast skill, the targeted units receives less damage from attacks
4) Elemental fury: channeling area spell, erupts boulders from the ground that explode into smaller ones, dealing damage to all units beneath.
- Beast Master Bear summon manacost to 100 from 125

Human:

- removed bloodelf references, replaced Priest with Cleric, Sorceress with Sorceror and Spellbreaker with
Conjurer (new unit):
1) Glyph of Wisdom: summons a longlasting glyph that detects stealthed units and provides sight of the area
2) Molten Armour: lowers the amount of spells/magic damage taken by 15%, grants a 1.5x damage critical strike chance of 10%
3) Word of Power: Auto cast that applies a long-lasting silence on enemy units

- replaced Bloodmage with Elementalist: Flamestrike, Banish, Siphon Mana, Summon Fire Elemental (new ultimate, melee blocker ultimate with immolation, similar to Infernal)
- increased Storm Bolt manacost to 90 from 75
- Storm Bolt duration to 4s (2s hero) from 5s(3s)
- lowered bash chance to 15%/25%/35% from 20%/30%/40%
- lowered Avatar bonus health to 300 from 500
- increased Holy Light manacost to 75 from 65
- reworked Divine Shield: now can shield any allied unit for 4/6/8s. Cooldown increased to 12s.
- increased Devotion aura armour bonus to 2/3.5/5 from 1.5/3/4.5
- increased footmen damage to 13-14 from 12-13
- lowered Siege Tank hitpoints to 50 from 700, lowered base armour to 1 from 2. lowered armour bonus to +1 instead of +2
- lowered Riflemen health to 520 from 535
- new tech: Mithrilcore shells, increase the damage dealt to medium armour for Riflemen by 50% for the duration of the ability (10s)
- lowered Knight health to 800 from 835
- lowered Guard Tower health to 400 from 500, 1 fortified armour instead of 5 heavy armour, halved attackspeed but doubled the damage done per arrow
- lowered militia duration to 35s from 45s
- lowered farm hitpoints to 350 from 500
- lowered Siege Tank armour to 1 from 2, increased cost to XXX
- new hero: Windwarrior, agility hero based off Gryphon Rider. Abilities:
1) Mighty Gust - pushes back all units in front of the Windwarrior, lowering their movementspeed and chance to hit
2) Thunderhammers: throws a magical hammer on attacking that splits up into a thunderbolt upon hitting the target. Deals additional damage to nearby surrounding enemy units
3) Skywrath Aura - A protective shield that has a chance to cast a lightning bolt when an affected unit is attacked.
4) (placeholder) Reincarnation - revives the hero

Orc:

- lowered Blademaster critical strike damage to 1.5x/2.25x/3x instead of 2x/3x/4x more damage
- lowered Blademaster windwalk duration to 10s/15s/20s from 20s/35s/50s, transition time to 1s from 0.6s, increased mana cost to 100
- Mirror Image now creates 2/2/2 illusions. At level 2 and 3 they deal 25%/50% of the Blademasters damage to enemy units. Mana cost lowered to 100 from 125, cooldown increased to 15s from 3s
- increased Far Seer spirit wolf hiptoints to 230 from 200, changed armourtype to medium from heavy
- lowered Chainlightning Manacost to 110 from 120
- lowered healing wave to heal 120/195/270 instead of 135/215/330, increased cooldown to 11s from 9s
- lowered Hex duration to 3/4/5 from 4/5/6s for heroes
- lowered serpent ward manacost to 25 from 30, lowered cooldown to 5s from 6.5s
- New hero: Warchief, exceptional at leading Orcish troops into battle. Abilities:
1) Path of Honour; debuff duration for all nearby units is decreased
2) Mighty Throw: throws a hammer at the target, dealing damage and slowing attackspeed and movementspeed
3) Windfury: increases attackspeed and damage significantly for a period of time
4) Blood for Blood: nearby units give back damage when attacked
- Raider + 1 armour
- Grunts receive a new tech: Pounding Axes, gives them a chance to deal bonus damage and smash the attacked unit's armour. Deals damage over time and lowers their armour by 2.
- troll headhunter hitpoints from 350 to 380 (berserkers remain unchanged)
- troll headhunters profit from the venomous spears upgrade
- Tauren Totem available at tier 2; Spirit Walkers moved to Totem. Tauren Warriors require tier 3 still
- Ancestral Spirit manacost to 200 from 250
- lowered purge manacost to 60 from 75
- lowered liquid fire damage bonus to 4 from 8
- new unit: Troll Voodoo Priest, anti magic caster. Can use Voodoo Charm which makes units more resistant against magic. Can also learn Spirit Ward and Big Bad Curse.
- lowered Guard Tower health to 400 from 500, 1 fortified armour instead of 5 heavy armour; halved attackspeed but doubled the damage done per arrow, improved defenses increase the tower attackspeed by 25%, give 2 bonus armour and +200 hitpoints instead of changing armour to fortified
- new hero: Spirit Hunter (ranged Int hero)

Nightelf:

- Druid of the Claw form armour medium (from heavy)
- Archer hitpoints to 270 (from 245)
- Dryad Hitpoints to 465 (from 435), cost to 170g/60l

Bloodelf:

- Carpenter lumber gathering rate doubled (2 per hit instead of 1)
- farms provide 15 food now, removed food bonus from Energy Core
New base defense mechanics:
* Renamed Energy Core to Sentry Core, now has 800 hitpoints / 3 heavy armour
- constantly generates and stores energy and distributes it to Arcane Patrollers nearby
- Arcane Patrollers can be trained from the Sentry core. The Patrollers permanently consume energy that has to be recharged. Whenever a Patroller runs out of power, the Patroller shuts down and can no longer move or attack. To activate it again it needs to be recharged with a Power Core (Item that can be bought in the Shop). Alternatively it's possible to build a Sentry Core next to it to recharge the Patroller.

- Reworked Winged Serpent, renamed to Dragonhawk Rider. Can use Arcane Slivers on attack that deal area damage and add 25% received damage from magic and spells to the affected units.
- renamed Vindicator to Spellbreaker, added Spellsteal and Feedback to it.
- Sunstrider requires Sun's Pride Monastery now
- lowered Windweaver and Defender hitpoints


Fel Orc:

- New gameplay mechanic : Fountain of Blood:

The fountain of Blood is now a vital part of the Fel Orc race. He costs 200g now and can be built after an Altar of Chaos. When finished, it feeds on Fel Orc units causing damage and killing enemy units. The stored power can be used to heal Fel Orc units. Furthermore, the Chaos transformation takes place on the fountain, you can order your units to drink from the Fountain and make them gain demonic strength, resulting in chaos damage and the unit becoming a demon (damageable by holy light and/or healed by Death Coil).


- Renamed Mainhalls to Hellfire Outpost, Hellfire Fortification, Hellfire Citadel
- Renamed Mosher to Berserker, lowered Hitpoints to 600 from 850, increased damage to 15-27
- lowered Marauder hitpoints to 460 (from 550), tweaked damage, increased base speed to 320
- renamed Rogue Shaman to Earthbreaker, new abilities (initiate - adept - master)
1) Ruined Earthfury - autocast, applies a debuff to enemy units, lowering their damage and attackspeed
2) Noxious Cyclone - summons a slowly moving Cyclone that damages all enemy units in range by 1% of their base hitpoints and slow them by 60%. Also deals considerable damage to buildings
3) Tainted Elemental Wrath - applies a damage buff to your own units, granting melee units splash damage
- Necrolyte new abilities (initiate - adept - master)
1) Unholy Power - adds bonus armour to the unit and adds the "Demon" classification
2) Death Pact - can heal "demon" classified units or damage living ones
3) Unholy Army - summons skeletal Orcs from corpses
- Slayer Cultist require Hellfire Fortification; new ability:
1) Demonic Shock: Dispels buffs and deals damage to summons; if target is an enemy it is silenced and takes damage
- Shredder requires Hellfire Citadel
- Taskmaster role now "heavy melee" tier 3 unit. Increased damage to 27-34, attackspeed 1.9

- Reworked Heroes:
- Enforcer:
1) Ensnare - snare a target to the ground
2) Killing Command - increases damage for all surrounding units at the cost of armour
3) The Great Hunt - increases movementspeed. Affected units can feast off enemy units, restoring health with each attack
4) ???

- War Chief, renamed to Blademaster:
1) Fierce Leap - leaps into combat, knocking enemy units away and deals damage to them.
2) Amok - slashes through enemy units surrounding the blademaster, dealing damage and lowering their armour
3) Frenzy - upon attacking, the blademaster can enter a frenzy state, increasing his attackspeed significantly
4) Demonic Infusion - transforms the Blademaster into a demonic form with more hitpoints and chaos damage

- Bladewind Fayde, renamed to Cultist Fayde:

1) Crippling Arrows - attacks slow enemy units and lower their damage
2) Shield of Despair - applies a shield that reflects damage
3) Shadow Walk - ???
4) Shroud of the Occult - shields all nearby units, making them immune to magic damage and spells

Warlock: New model, new abilities:
1) Fel Flames - cone shaped area damage spell.
2) Drain Life - continually drains hitpoints from a target enemy.
3) Life Tap - sacrifices life to regain mana.
4) Rain of Destruction - channels destructive forces. Summons Chaos Meteors from the sky that damage and slow everything on the map

Hello everyone,

as usual the buglist. I've already done a quickfix on two missing icons and a spell that wasn't checked by teching.

Bugs that will be fixed in 0.5c :

1) Taskmaster 'Battle Position' ability after upgrade will be casted on ANY units, including neutral (and enemy units). The basic, non upgrade ability however is not affected. For now it's advised to simply not upgrade the ability. the +2 armour bonus from the upgrade isn't THAT important anyways. ;)
2) Bloodelf Pyromancers Warmth and Ignite share the same base ability. This will lead to a crash whenever they try to autocast ignite once they have Warmth. Will be fixed in the next version. Until then just make sure that you only put ignite on autocast. This CAN happen, but it does not have to.
3) Clicking Ambassador Workshop causes game to crash. Will be fixed, it's caused by a faulty unit left in the construction menu. No workaround except for not building/clicking on it
4) Tauren buildable in tier 2. Not intentional and will require t3 instead.
5) Forest Elder and Stone Skin abilities can be upgraded to max level immediately.Will be fixed

Update: 0.5c released. Bugs above are fixed.

Oh well,

it's gone quiet around here.

Originally, I've had planned to release 0.4 seperately with some design changes and new units for Bloodelves and Fel Orcs before introducing Naga in 0.5. However, there was a lack of ideas for replacing some "underused" abilities/heroes/units, and some unfitting stuff which didn't play out too well gameplay wise. So, the whole design progress was halted, and it took some time to get some ideas for new features to imrpove the overall game (afterall, it's still an early alpha.)

So, the thing is up running again and I'm here to give you some news about the upcoming 0.4 release of TBC.

First thing: Both Fel Orcs and Bloodelves receive some (more or less) general overhaul regarding their unit pools. Also,
there are various new upgrades which replace some old upgrades to work more in line like I originally intended them to work.

Point 1: Base defense mechanics.

As you know every race uses its own form of early base defense. Humans have militia, Undead have ghouls/early towers, nightelves got their punching trees and Orcs have their burrows. And well... Bloodelves have nothing apart from building early towers. At least nothing until now!



For a small investment in gold and lumber you can activate a mana shield ability for your workers, making them immune against damage taken from enemy attacks. At least as long as they have mana ;)

Point 2: Pyromancers

The second larger revamp revolves around the Pyromancer. In the current build 0.3 his abilities are pretty standard and do not really fit a magician adept at using flames. However, this will change with 0.4! The Pyromancer receives a new kit which better reflects his role as main spellcaster (just like human sorceresses and nightelf druid of the claw for example).

Now he'll be able to use different abilities:

Firebolt (autocast) - deal bonus splash damage with auto attacks while draining mana with each attack.
Sunstrike - the Pyromancer channels magical flames around an enemy unit, dealing damage and making it unable to move or attack.
Warmth (autocast) - Warmth increases a friendly unit's mana regeneration significantly.

Sunstrike and Warmth require Adept/Master training of course.

So, here's how that stuff looks like ingame:


Point 3: Fel Orc Heroes

Oh boy, here we go... Fel Orc heroes. Overall the Fel Orc heroes already had a unique touch in certain areas, but in others they simply lacked originality. That's why I decided to revamp the heroes. Some more, others less. This topic isn't 100% finished, so there might be changes in the near future. But for now, this is the state of the art:

The Wicked Blademaster is gone. But don't be sad, he got a better replacement:

The Black Valkyrie:



This new hero is a mobile, ranged assassin utilizing fel magic to cripple enemy units. She's very good when combined with Mosher armies earlygame, as her cripple helps out a lot in reaching and killing those pesky archer units that usually slaughter them. Also, because of being a ranged hero it's easier to kill off enemy units in general.

The former Kodo Beastmaster has been reworked also. He is now known as Warchief . So, What does that mean?

instead of being the usual one-trick-pony, he now is a true battle leader for all Fel Orcs. He can send them into battle with 'Killing Command', has 'Battle Drums' to put all allies in a bloodfrenzy like he used to. He also still has Barbed Skin to protect himself from damage. His ultimate is now 'The Hand of the Warchief', which summons two Ravagers into combat. They deal very high amounts of damage and are immune to spells.

The former Outrider is now known as 'Enforcer'. Apart from some changes to the way his ultimate works there are no changes to him.

There are plenty of other, more subtle changes to the existing races which I'll cover in a videocast in the nearer future.

Also, the Naga are still being worked on, I'm currently working on the unit compositions for each tier building and tweaking hero abilities aswell as fixing bugs. Stay tuned, as soon as I think the Naga are ready enough to show off something, I'll create a small gameplay video.

For now, these screens will have to be enough for you:



Greetings
DarcReaver

A fun match on Gnoll Wood.

Bugfixes

- fixed Fel Stalker not being classified as undead/demon
- Vindicator and Winged Serpent now have correct mana shields (they were switched)
- fixed error with pillage aura description
- fixed pillage aura resource stealing not working properly
- fixed a buggy trigger that caused the game to lag under certain circumstances

Graphics:
- Priestess of the Sun now larger
- Arcane Blast uses an own unique FX now
- applied new missile for Slayer Cultists
- Chaos invoked units now appear less red
- lowered Fel Orc unit size slightly
- Human Spellbreakers, Priests and Sorceresses use their High Elf skin versions now

Game Design:

- new unit: Duskblade Crusader: magically talented Swordsman. Can initially use Nether Blade, which adds bonus attack damage. Can also learn Spell Steal and Anti Magic Shell.
- new Item: Staff of Void, summons a Voidwalker. 3 Charges, costs 150g.
- changed Wand of Mana stealing: Now has 4 charges, costs 140g in t1
- removed Replenishment potion from Bloodelf shop
- Slayer cultists are now available with Dimension Portal instead of Demon Gate
- Changed Wicked Blademaster main attribute to Strength and stats to 25/14/19 (from 19/15/22
- removed Unholy Army from Eredar Warlock, replaced with Dimension Portal. Spawns a Bloodfiend every 7 seconds
- reworked Curse of Sargeras - now applies 40% movement slow and -3 armour to enemy units
- removed taunt from Kodo Beastmaster, and replaced with War Stomp: lowers enemy moving and attackspeed while dealing damage to surrounding units
- removed Endless Rage from Moshers & Axethrower

Balance

Bloodelf

- Restauration now heals over 3s (from 5s) and damages enemy undead units over 3s, too (from instant nuke), lowered mana cost to 60
- lowered Windweaver cost to 155g/15w (from 185g/15w), lowered buildtime to 27s (from 29s)
- lowered Defender cost to 175g/30w (from 215g/30w)
- increased Vindicator health to 820 (from 770)
- lowered Pyromancer HP to 290 (from 315), increased cost to 145/30 (from 135/30)
- lowered sunseeker gold cost to 145 (from 170)
- Lowered Arcane Splittering miss chance to 33% (from 50%)
- lowered Vindicator base Armour to 2 (from 4)
- increased Winged Serpent lvl to 5 (from 4)
- lowered dmg of Farstrider slightly, changed basic attackspeed slightly
- arcane arrows now deal 10/18/26 bonus damage (from 10/15/20)
- changed Arcane Blast damage to 60/120/180 (from 100/125/150), increased ultimate version damage to 90/180/270 (from 120/180/240), lowered mana cost to 85 (from 95)
- Increased Winged Serpent level to 5 (from 4)
- lowered Winged serpent's attackspeed to 2.35 (from 2.15)
- changed armourtype of Sentry Towers to 5 heavy armour (from 1 fortified), lowered cost to 100g/30w (from 120g/40w)

Fel Orc

- lowered defiled Healing scroll gold cost to 150 (from 200)
- increased slam damage by 20%, lowered cooldown to 10s (from 13s)
- lowered Ensnare mana cost to 45 (from 75), reduced cooldown to 7s (from 12/10/8)
- increased battle drums mana cost to 90 (from 75)
- Marauder base armour 2 (from 1)
- lowered Bloodthirst lifesteal to 20% (from 30%)
- lowered Black crossbow damage output
- lowered slayer cultist Hitpoints to 560, lowered starting armour to 0 (from 1)
- increased mosher cost to 170g (from 160)

Tier 1:

Dark Portal

Upgrades to: Dimension Gate, Demon Gate
Upgrades available: Backpack, Chaos Rising
Trains: Fel Peon, Hellbourne

Main building. Fel Peons can return Gold and Lumber to it. Also trains Hellbourne demons.


Moshpit

Upgrades available: Endless Rage, Fiendish Hounds
Trains: Mosher, Marauder, Slayer Cultist

Basic troop production building. Fel Peons can return lumber here.


Pig Farm

Produces food. Fel Peons can return lumber here.


Armoury

Upgrades available: Steel Weapons, Steel Armour, Chaotic Attack, Chaotic Carapace, Defensive Measures

Upgrades weapons and armour for Fel orc units and buildings. Requirement for some upgrades and abilities.


Fel Tower

upgrades to: Fel Guard Tower

Basic defensive building. Uses crippling magic to reduce enemy unit's attack- and movementspeed.

Fel Tower

upgrades to: Fel Guard Tower

Advanced defensive building. Uses crippling magic to reduce enemy unit's attack- and movementspeed and attacks land and air units.


Altar

Units available: Bloodknight, Farstrider, Priestess of the Sun, Arcane Mage

Trains and revives heroes.



Treasure Vault

Buildable shop. Contains various items depending on your tech level.

Bugfixes

Balance

Bloodelf

- new Item: Void Staff, enables the hero to summon a Voidwraith. Voidwraiths have 380hp and deal 17-21 damage. 150g, 3 Charges.
- new unit: Duskblade Crusader: magically enhanced Swordsman. Can cast netherblade, which deals donus damage on attacks. Can also learn Anti magic shell and spellsteal.
- Vindicator and Winged Serpent now have correct mana shields (they were switched)
- Priestess of the Sun now larger
- lowered Windweaver cost to 175g/15w (from 185g/15w), lowered buildtime to 27s (from 29s), increased armour to 3 (from 1)
- lowered Defender cost to 195g/30w (from 215g/30w), increased hitpoints to 540 (from 520)
- lowered Sunstrider gold cost to 195g (from 215g)
- increased Winged Serpent health to 675hp (from 575)
- lowered Pyromancer HP to 290 (from 315), increased cost to 165/30 (fro 155/30)
- Restauration now heals over 3s (from 5s) and damages enemy undead units over 3s, too (from instant nuke), lowered mana cost to 60
- changed Arcane Blast damage to 60/120/180 (from 100/125/150), increased ulti damage to 90/180/270 (from 120/180/240), lowered mana cost to 85 (from 95)
- Increased Winged Serpent level to 5 (from 4)
- lowered Vindicator base Armour to 2 (from 4)
- lowered dmg of Farstrider
- lowered sunseeker gold cost to 145 (from 170)
- Lowered Arcane Splittering miss chance to 33% (from 50%)
- increased Winged Serpent lvl to 5 (from 4)
- lowered Winged serpent's attackspeed to 2.35 (from 2.15)
- lowered Polymorph casting range to 600/800 (pre/after lvl 6)
- removed armourtype change from defensive training, reduced cost to 125g/100w (from 200g/125w)

Fel Orcs

- lowered defiled Healing scroll gold cost to 150 (from 200)
- Changed Wicked Blademaster stats to 25/14/19 (from 19/15/22
- removed Unholy Army from Eredar Warlock, replaced with Dimension Portal. Spawns a Bloodfiend every 7 seconds
- reworked Curse of Sargeras - now applies 40% movement slow and -3 armour to enemy units
- changed armourtype of Sentry Towers to 5 heavy armour (from 1 fortified), lowered cost to 100g/30w (from 120g/40w)
- increased slam damage by 20%, lowered cooldown to 10s (from 13s)
- lowered Ensnare mana cost to 55 (from 75), reduced cooldown to 7s (from 12/10/8)
- Marauder base armour 2 (from 1)
- lowered Bloodthirst lifesteal to 20% (from 30%)
- removed Endless Rage from Moshers & Axethrowers
- lowered black crossbow damage output
- lowered slayer cultist Hitpoints to 560, lowered starting armour to 0 (from 1)
- increased mosher cost to 170g (from 160)
- lowered Hellbourne hitpoints to 1450 (from 1500), lowered Hellbourne base armour to 3 (from 5), cost now 345g/110w (from 325g/80w)
- removed silence effect from Demonic Purge
- Increased Battle Drum's mana cost to 105 (from 75)
- Lowered Black Dragon splash damage by 20% and reduced splash damage radius slightly, increased ignited ground to match splash damage radius

o.3:


Maps:

Eversong Woods:

- Replaced Goblin Laboratories with Mana/Health Fountains (50/50 chance),
- added new critter type
- introduced a new creep type/Mercenary unit (which one is a secret, test it out yourself )
- replaced Golem spot with new creep types, they have a chance to drop lvl 4 charged & lvl2 charged items

Bloodwater Oasis:

- removed some trees to make attacking the first expansions easier
- removed some unnecessary/weird placed torches

Forgotten Pools:

- unfortunately I had to remove the map due to severe bugs.


Bugfixes & Graphics:

- new color for mapselection, now a bright yellow tone
- fixed missing icons on several maps
- fixedmissing Orc Bunker model on Gnoll Wood, Thunder Lake, Slalom, Eversong Wods, Devils Cauldron, Sunken Temple and Forgotten Pools
- updated Triggers for better performance
- added missing 2nd charge on Defiled Healscroll
- fixed a bug resulting in Sunstriders getting a wrong armourtype after using Suppression Fire
- fixed static HP of Dimension & Demon Gate - now properly get 400 bonus hitpoints per upgrade
- fixed a bug which caused Whistling Bows to selfdamage the Windweaver on weapon upgrade
- fixed missing cooldown on mana scrolls
- added demonic blood to Chaos Slayer Cultist
- reworked some tooltips
- new icons for Arcane Splittering, Multi Shot abilities, Spell Resistance
- new FX for Battle Positions, Arcane Splittering and Winged Serpent basic attacks
- fixed Windweaver cost after Defensive Training has been researched
- replaced Mosher Axethrower model Upgrade
- adjusted Cultist Circle model, looks now more ... evil ^^


Balance:

Bloodelf

- removed speed build from Bloodelves - using more than 1 Worker will have no effect on building speed anymore
- Bloodknight Prayer mana drain incrased to 7 mana (from 5), heals every 2.2s (from 2.0s)
- Increased Defender Hitpoints to 520 (from 505)
- Increased Vindicator Hitpoints to 770 (from 720)
- lowered Avenger's Shield cost t0 75g/75w (from 50g/100w), lowered research time to 32s (from 40s)
- Increased Avenger's Shield armourbonus to 3 (from 2)
- lowered Defensive Training cost to 200g/120w (from 200g/200w)
- lowered Whistling Bows' attackspeed bonus to 15% (from 20%)
- lowered Windweaver damage to 17-21 (from 17-23), lowered attackdamage scaling slightly
- changed Enchanted armour lumbercost to 75/200/325 (from 100/200/300)
- Arcane Glaives now cost 100g/125w (from 150g/100w)
- lowered Arcane Blast manacost to 95 (from 110)
- increased banish time to 12-15-18/16-22-28 (before ulti/after ulti)
- lowered Polymorph mana cost to 70 (from 85)
- lowered Suppression Fire range bonus to 120 (from 150) - total 720 range now
- lowered Marksmanship bonus agility to 7 (from 10), lowered critical damage to 1.5 (from 2)
- Added new unit: Pyromancer; trainable in Sanctuary of the Sun, requires tier 2. Initially can autocast Firebolts, which deal splash magic damage on hit. Can also learn Feedback and Flamestrike.
- Reworked Sunseeker: replaced feedback with phoenix morph. Can be transformed in a Phoenix with a magic attack. The Phoenix burns so intensively that he burns himself. When dying he transforms back in a Phoenix egg and will respawn after a short period of time.
- lowered Duskblade Summoner cost to 155g/20w (from 185g/30g)
- Arcane Splittering now useable on ground and air units (from air units only)

Fel Orcs

- reworked Orc Base defenses: Moved Crippling ability from mainhall to Fel Towers.
- New Building: Fel Tower, replaces the Fel Guard Towers. Has no initial attack but can slow enemy unit's movement/attackspeed. Can be upgraded to a Fel Guard Tower.
- New Upgrade: Fel Guard Tower, enables the Fel Tower to attack enemy units. Cost : 120g/40w, requires an Armoury
- Outrider: replaced Shock wave ability with "Savage Hound". This ability summons a Fel Hound/Fel Stalker/Fel Beast with 350/475/600 hitpoints and 15-18/20-27/28-37 pierce damage. The Summon has 300 range. Costs 75 mana, has 20s cooldown and lasts for 50s. Several Hounds may be summoned at the same time.
- Hellbourne got no splash damage anymore
- increased animate Dead skill recharge to 15s (from 2s), reduced duration to 40s (from 45s). Revives one corpse (from 2), lowered Manacost to 150 (from 175)
- iowered healingtime of Defiled Healing to 30s (from 45s)
- increased Mosher HP to 655 (from 600), lowered buildtime to 27s (from 29s)
- increased Swifter HP to 485 (from 435)
- lowered Marauder Buildtime to 27s (from 29s)
- increased Marauder speed to 360 (from 350)
- lowered Mosher damage to 17-21 (from 20-24)
- Chaos Marauder and Chaos Mosher now consume 4 food (from 3)
- Increased Outrider speed to 360 (from 320), increased Marauder chaos damage to 19 (from 17)
- lowered armoury cost to 160g/30w (from 160g/40w)
- normalized Fel Orc t2 building costs
- lowered Moshpit Lumbercost to 45w (from 50)
- lowered Slayer Cultist damage/chaos damage to 26/26 (from 28/30)
- renamed Bunker to Treasure Vault to avoid confusion for new players. It's no Defensive building afterall

The current TBC mappool consists of 14 maps:

1v1
- Eversong Woods
- Bloodwater Oasis
- Secret Valley
- Echo Isles

2v2
- Devil's Cauldron (2v2)
- Twisted Meadows (2v2)
- Sunken Temple (2v2)
- Turtle Rock (2v2)

3v3
- Bloodstone Mesa
- Forgotten Pools
- Gnollwood
- Thunderlake
- Timbermaw Hold

4v4
- Slalom

Harassment Build: (useful vs. Nightelf, Human, Undead Fiend players and ranged unit builds in general)

Aim is to quickly engage your enemy in combat with hit and run tactics while teching up yourself to finish off your weakened opponent. Marauders are particularely useful for this task because of their high resilience to pierce attacks and their normal/chaos damage (after chaos invocation). This enables you to efficiently raid enemy camps even very early in the game.


Buildorder:

- send start peons in goldmine

- train

- build

- train

- build

- build near trees

- build

- send peons to chop lumber

- train

- train

- build

- train

- build tech up, after that get units suiting your strategy.

- if necessary, build more for harvesting lumber. Don't forget that you can store lumber in Moshpits and Pig Farms, too!

Tactic:

- use marauders + Outrider ensnare to quickly kill archers, riflemen and workers with focus + surrounds

- buy a sacrificial skull to create Blight near the enemy base, so you can regenerate while attacking. This is especially useful when raiding nightelf camps

- If your enemy towers up you already have an advantage. Use it by teching up to t3 quickly or to build an expansion on t2

- if your enemy also fasttechs make sure you get either or tech ensnare for your Marauders - it's autocast and useful for killing enemy air units

When to use

- if your enemy is not in his base, use Chaos Invocation to quickly raid buildings, especially after the Outrider has his aura - you get ressources for raiding buildings.

- if your enemy fields larger amounts of non-archer units, like Footmen, Grunts, Huntresses, basically every unit which has no armourtype "medium", use Chaos Invocation to increase your damage output. Chaos Invocation grants attackspeed, bonus damage and bonus life regeneration. You should keep in mind that the unit cannot be transformed back and will not profit from armoury techs anymore.

- You should not try to engage larger amounts of Huntresses with Marauders. Their medium armour makes them weak against the bouncing attacks and their damage output is pretty low compared to hunts. You should switch to building Moshers and upgrading them into Axe Throwers instead


Possible 2nd Heroes

- if you're playing against Orcs, Bloodelves or Human:

The Wicked Blademaster excels at nuking units, and prevents them from running away. The combination of Ensnare + Slam + focus fire will kill every unit in a matter of seconds.
Warlocks add some nice AoE damage potencial, and Rotten Ancestors are very good for pushing in t2. Also you can use them for parallel creeping easily.

- if playing against undead, Nightelves:

Nightelves and undeads lack stun spells, so Battle Drums are especially useful. This increases your damage potential massively since it will not be interrupted, unless your enemy uses neutral heroes with stun and Silences.
Also, the Wicked Blademaster can be useful for nuking down units like Talons, Fiends and Ghouls.


Further unit options for mid and lategame:

- if you're playing against Orcs, Bloodelves or Human:



Orcs, Bloodelves and Human can be taken on by using Warlocks, Black Dragons and Hellbournes. Clever usage of Demonic Purge will silence enemy spellcasters, Hellbournes are the weapon of choice against Riflemen, footmen, Windweavers, Raiders and Headhunters. Additionally, you can also use Shamans to improve your melee warrior performance.

- if playing against undead, Nightelves:

Use and you can win easily. Slayer Cultists have extremely high damage output and can dominate Dryads, Hunts, chimairas, Destroyers and kill low hp units quickly, which makes them perfect for fighting those races.

Have fun using it :)
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