WarCraft III: The Frozen Throne

[Ted the Bellhop]

If anyone is interested, I've been selected for the 10,000 player WarCraft 3 Expansion beta. It's awesome, dunno if any of you here play it at all, but I'm really excited for it.

[Perl]

can u still sign up for that and how?

[Ted the Bellhop]

no, registering was only available for aabout 10 days. :-(

[VibrioCholera]

I probably won't get the beta.

[Setsuna]

Is the pandarian cool?
Or he's not in the beta...?

[Weatherlight]

A simple breakdown of what kicks ass would be nice.

Damn my being late for EVE. MEH!

[Ted the Bellhop]

Okay, a basic outline of what's new:
Each faction can build an item shop, with race specific items, but allies can buy stuff from your shop, & vice versa
Almost every old unit/building/upgrade is cheaper
I haven't seen the pandaran brewmaster yet, but I've heard you can buy him at a tavern as a neutral hero

Humans
-Blood mage has a spell called Flame Strike that does hella damage and kills buildings almost instantly. It's a level 1 spell. His lvl 6 spell sacrifices any unit into a 1250 HP phoenix whos HP decays as it burns itself out. It does a lot of damage like 60-70 something normal damage
-Dragon Hawks can easily be teched, buitl at arcane sanctum, 22-27 normal damage (not upgradable) and they have a skill like corsair's from starcraft that clouds towers so they can't fire. They, too, are currently overpowered
-humans get a unit everyone is happy with, a spell stealer, he removes positive buffs (bloodlust, inner fire, etc.) from an enemy and grants it to a friendly unit, these are not overpowered, and I assume they'll be in the final

Undead (they kinda got jipped, but once they work out all the imbalances, it'll be all good)
-Crypt Lord hero has a glorified storm bolt ability called Impale that does 100 dmg per level of spell and stuns for like 4 seconds. Haven't seen its lvl 6 spell yet
-Undead also get some units I haven't used yet, but i think they absorb magic or something along those lines.

Orc
-Shadow Hunter has some interesting spells, first being Hex (polymorph that works even on heros, but for a shorter duration than the sorceress spell), Healing Bolt (works like chain lightning that heals allies), his level 6 spell makes every friendly unit around him, but not him, invulnerable for like 30 seconds, very useful in taking out base defenses.
-headhunters can now be upgraded to berserkers, and a research grants them the ability to be temporarily Berserk and they do 50% more dmg and take 50% more dmg, so it's useful if they're just supporters of a melee army
-Troll Batriders set fire to buildings, and they can kamikaze to do 500 damage to any air unit within radius.

Night Elf
-Warden is WAAAAYYYY overpowered right now. lvl 3 Blink (Teleport spell) has no cooldown, no mana cost, so in combination with her other spell (fan of knives) she can teleport in a base, kill the peons instantly, teleport out, and repeat this forever. Players have suggested adding at least a 2 second cooldown, but I don't think that'll be enough.
-Stone Giants, heavy armor with a passive upgrade that reduces damage by 20 (with a minimum damage of 3), 1400 HP, and 34-61 normal damage (64-73 siege damage if they pick up a tree), and they're immune to possess and polymorph I think. WAY overpowered.

[Setsuna]

Sounds like it's coming along pretty well...
But still...
No Pandarian yet?

[Weatherlight]

Sounds good, are their any new terrains?

What about buildings/upgrades?

[Ted the Bellhop]

No pandaren that i've seen, there's rumors of people unlocking it.

The new terrain is jungle, and something else.
a new unit you can buy is a transport ship! I love this thing! 1500 HP and you can hero rush with it on the new Island map (yes, island map)

Each faction's new building is a race specific item shop, haven't really explored them much yet, though, but they got some useful items like potions and orbs and scrolls.

[Setsuna]

What do you mean by a transport ship?
Water or Air?

[Ted the Bellhop]

water

and so as not to make this spam,

http://www.blizzard.com/war3x/features.shtml

http://www.battle.net/war3/ladder/w3...ddericons.aspx

http://www.battle.net/war3/basics/ar...pontypes.shtml