Warcraft III Extended Edition 1.0 news

After a long time, Warcraft III Extended Edition is getting an update - and a pretty big one. The main changes in version 1.0 are a new system for picking factions, some new content and 2 new maps. It also includes balance changes and bugfixes.

• At game start, each player choses a faction from the list of factions. The factions in the list depend on the chosen vanilla faction.
• Possible choices are:
  • Human:
    • Alliance - the vanilla Human faction.
    • High Elves - a faction centered around the High Elves of Quel'Thalas.
  • Orc:
    • Thrall's Horde - the vanilla Orc faction.
    • Fel & Dark Horde - a mix of units and heroes from the Fel Horde in Outland and Rend Blackhand's Dark Horde.
  • Undead:
    • Scourge - the vanilla Undead faction.
    • Forsaken - Sylvanas Windrunner's Forsaken, inspiration taken from The Frozen Throne's Undead campaign and WoW storyline.
  • Night Elf:
    • Sentinels - the vanilla Night Elf faction.
    • Watchers - similar to Sentinels, but with a greater focus on Huntresses and melee combat.
    • Ilidan's Naga - a faction inspired by the Naga faction from The Frozen Throne's Human campaign.

• New Maps:
  • Gnoll Wood
  • Copper Canyon
• High Elves:
  • Silvermoon Ranger's Scout ability replaced with Summon Wolf Companion ability. This ability summons a Wolf Companion unit, which lasts for 70 seconds. The Wolf Companion gians new abilities and more hitpoints and attack damage with each level.
  • Sword Mastery bonus damage is now 2 instead of 1.75 times the normal damage.
  • Orb of Slow now costs 400 gold instead of 550.
• Fel & Dark Horde:
  • Black Drakes are now trained in the new Black Dragon Roost building.
  • Black Drakes now cost 6 food instead of 5.
  • Fel Orc Warlocks' Lightning shield ability replaced with Raise Skeletal Orcs ability, which summons 2 Skeletal Orcs from a corpse. Skeletal Orcs last for 45 seconds.
  • Added the Ogre Magi as a trainable unit in the Spirit Lodge. They can initially cast the Eye of Kilrog ability and can learn Feedback and Arcane Lightning.
  • Gul'dan's Shadow Orb now costs 500 gold and gives +5 Attack, +100 mana and bonus hitpoint regeneration.
  • Added the Troll Reflexes upgrade in the Barracks. This updrage increases and the attack and movement speed of all Troll units by 10%.
  • Reduced the hitpoints of Fel Orc Peons from 320 to 300.
  • Fel Orc Grunts now cost 235 gold onstead of 200.
• Forsaken:
  • Fallen Rangers and Spectres can now learn the Shadow Meld ability.
  • Spectres start with 0 mana and can now be reanimated into Fallen Rangers by using their new Reanimate ability, which costs 200 mana.
  • Spectres now cost 2 food instead of 1.
  • Noble Sacrifice now revives 3 friendly units instaed of 2.
  • Mind Poison now stops the target unit from casting spells and deals 15 damage per second for 15 seconds.
  • Replaced the Disease Cloud ability on Meat Wagons with the Forsaken Plague Cloud ability, which deals 4 damage per second to enemy non-undead units for 120 seconds.
  • Stonemaul Ogres now have 1100 hitpoints and have been given the Taunt ability.
  • Stonemaul Ogres's Crushing Blow ability must now be unlocked with an upgrade available in the Slaughterhouse.
• Sentinels:
  • Feathermoon Captains' Spy ability renamed to Scout Ahead.
  • Feathermoon Captains' Scout Ahead ability now requires the Tree of Ages.
• Watchers:
  • Huntresses have 3 more attack, 75 more attack range and 100 more hitpoints compared to Sentinels' Huntresses.
  • Maiev's Elite now cost 4 food.
  • Maiev's Elite hitpoints reduced from 750 to 700.
  • Maiev's Elites' Blink now requires the Tree of Eternity.
  • Maiev's Elites' Backstab ability now costs 125 mana.
• Ilidan's Naga:
  • Mur'gul Reavers' attack reduced to 16-19. Their attack cooldown time has been reduced from 1.60 to 1.40.
  • Mur'gul Reavers cost increased from 120 to 130.
  • High Priestesses no longer have the Resistant Skin ability.
  • Healing Waters ability cooldown increased from 2 to 3 seconds.
  • Summon Sea Elemental ability now costs 200 mana.
  • Coral Beds have been given the Replenish Life ability, which restores the hitpoints of a target friendly unit.
  • Tentacle Guardian had it's attack range reduced from 350 to 325.
• And many more minor balance changes and tooltip changes that I forgot to mention.

• Some hotkeys may not work.
• There might be typos and inaccuracies in tooltips.
• Some features might be over or underpowered. Balancing the game will require feedback from players.

• The Hive Workshop.
• Jiuce_F.
• Ujimasa Hojo.
• Sellenisko.
• Sin'Dorei300.
• Blizzard Entertainment.
• And all others whose names I either forgot or couldn't find.

Names are listed in no particular order.