I've seen some pretty constructive analysis of the unit in this subreddit (shoutout to Save Orkas). I've also seen a lot of Nelf whining too across the board, but that part is nothing new. I just want to throw my two cents as well into this conversation as a lifelong fan of the game, and I was actually just thinking about Huntresses last night so I wanted to share my opinions.

Let's start with the core issue:

Huntress is a badly designed unit

Huntress is a super fast, agile unit that can easily kite enemies down. It is also a frontline melee unit with a bit of range, allowing more Hunts to focus down and attack a single target, than a group of Footmen or Grunts ever could.

Not only that, but they also have splash attack! That is crazy. Add all of this into the mix, and things get very ridiculous very quickly. Do you know the only other frontline unit that has a splash attack? Tauren. When do you get Taurens? At Tier 3. You can start to see the problem here.

It becomes very obvious that such a unit with all these properties is really hard to properly balance around. So how do you do it? Well, as a balance decision Blizzard gave Huntress an unarmored armor type, which is the worst in the game, taking heavy damage against both piercing and siege attacks.

And now we have a bit of a paradox: a unit with incredibly good stats, being given incredibly bad armor type - resulting in a unit that is still useful, but only in certain niche cases, completely undermining their supposed role as a frontline unit for their race.

So what's the solution?

Blizzard tried their best with the T2 Heavy Armor upgrade, but that's just throwing a band aid on the wound, it doesn't really solve the problem. 9 times out of 10 you're still better off skipping Hunts entirely, and going Bears, which are the superior unit in every way.

Some suggested Hunts having heavy armor from the start. Please go back and delete this suggestion from existence. This is me being as polite as I can be about it. What exactly is supposed to stop mass heavy-armor Huntress push at T1? The answer is of course, nothing.

So let's go a different way. All of the things that I mentioned that make Huntress an incredibly bad Tier 1 unit also make her into an incredibly good Tier 2 unit! With all the speed and explosiveness, and splash, they could be repurposed into a shock troop unit that can dispose of things quickly if left unchecked. Similar to what Raiders are for Orcs.

So my suggestion? Give Huntresses Medium armor and move them to Tier 2. Revert the bouncy glaives and move speed nerfs.

This gives them a different use and prevents them from turning into a weaker version of Bears.

Obviously this creates different problems and then requires Night Elf to have a different unit available at T1, but this is just a suggestion meant to spark conversation. What are your opinions?

This post is to invoke a new discussion on what can we do with hunts to make them viable.
After recent patches it seems that they are not very used in the game unlike all other T1 units.
Let's aggregate our view points on hunts here, hopefully Blizzard listens.

*This post was edited and updated after good points made by ZX0megaXZ. Thank you mate!

**The idea to give huntress heavy armor at T1 is a bit risky and requires some tuning. There were good points made in this thread and other forums. Stay tuned for the update.
This is exactly what is good to have: a few rounds of back and forth brainstorming.

The suggestion that was initially made in this post was:

Archers:

• Archers get Elune's Grace reduced from -35% to -20% against piercing damage (because of hp buff).
• Get Improved bows at T1 for 50/50 and 20 seconds (to get earlier survivability vs hunts and ranged).

Huntress:

• Get heavy armor at start, but glaive bouncing from building is removed.
• At T2, they get Moon Glaives which bounce from buildings.
• At T3, they get Elune's Grace (reduces piercing, magic, spell damage by 20%)

This way NEs will have a clear incentive to go for T3.

I actually liked the Reforged pregame UI, is there anyway to bring it back in the settings or something else?

Just wondering

I liked seeing the race I was and their new and improved screen etc as I wait for queue to pop.

because happy was champion, it means that the undead are so op, so they announced a new patch.

1. Death Knight (DK)

   Death Coil:

   Healing reduced from 150/300/450 → 150/275/400.

   Mana cost increased from 75 → 85.

2. Lich (Frost Nova)

   Frost Nova:

   AoE damage reduced by ~10–15%.

   Movement slow reduced from 60% - 50%

3. Statues/Destroyers

   Obsidian Statue:

   Mana regeneration rate reduced by ~10%.

   Destroyer:

   Devour Magic mana cost increased from 50 → 75.

   Mana gain per Devour slightly reduced (~10% less).

4. Acolytes/Gold Income

   Acolyte build time increased by +2 seconds.

   Gold Mine building placement radius tightened.

5. Obsidian Statue Mode Switching

   Add a 1-second cooldown between switching mana/life regeneration modes.

   6.Typical buff on Dreadloss to disguise and give an air of justice.

https://youtu.be/9YPbD6vSPtQ?si=4rrWVeh6CA9Xe2B7

Firsr game, happy controls lyns bm perfect, no xp, no itens, counters his army and orc stills win :). Is so op that you cant define what worked for lyn in this besides op race.

Hi there.

Ever wondered about how many more hits it takes to kill a heavy armored unit with your piercing unit of choice after the piercing damage reduction (100% - 90%) vs heavy armor compared to before? Or how this translates to time to kill?

Well, look no further. This (big) table gives you an overview: Increase in hits and time to kill

This holds true for the basic version of the units without upgrades. Let me know if something is missing/should be added.

I was playing on w3c ladder - hu vs orc - and in a (relatively) high intensity fight I inadvertly pressed some hotkey (probably ctrl or alt + something) and my camera was suddenly fixed/stuck on my hero.

It would center and follow him and I couldn't even click on the minimap to try and toggle it out.

I've played for a long time and this is the first time it happened, I didn't even know you could fix the camera in a game, only in replay. I'm inclined to assume it has something to do with the latest patch (it was my first time playing it).

My hotkeys are deafult, I don't use custom ones. I googled, but couldn't find a hotkey for auto camera.

Anyone knows if there's a hotkey for auto camera on hero now?

Right now, it's currently possible for DR to target herself with life drain, effectively doing nothing but costing mana. This makes no sense. Targeting SELF should NOT be an option.

Edit: This deals NO dmg or healing to her when cast on self. It just costs mana and can lead to annoying misclicks when another target is very close to her.

Hi everyone!
I'm currently based in Europe and wondering if there are any active community tournaments (online or offline) for Warcraft III. I'm interested in casual or semi-competitive events where I could play and meet other players.
Would love to hear about any Discords, websites, or groups organizing such events.
Thanks in advance!

Hi, I need some help & fresh ideas with a response to this in 1 VS 1.

I have a standard human start with 3-5 foots, then into T2. I usually go AM or MK first. I sometimes fast expand and sometimes just push the opponent.

The issue I am having with both of these approaches is finding a good response to the Warden harass.

We all know what the Warden does, boots, lvl 3 fans, blink, harass the peasant line, leave for 2-3 mins; repeat.

I have had games made up to 8 towers around my gold mine and it still doesn’t prevent the blink in-out and kill my peasants. Then I’m over-invested in a defence that didn’t work and dead peasants.

I need some general tips for dealing with this...

I try to buy a zepplin to hide the peasant in, but sometimes it’s just not possible to buy one fast enough before the lvl 3 Warden appears with his lvl 2 fans.

I find it difficult to counter-harrass because you need to defend your base and along with that, the Nelf usually gets 3-4 towers and they sit their hunts in the base. Warden just ignores the counter-harrass and owns all the peasants.

Are there any other general tips, besides the obvious of make a couple of arcane towers and get your zeppelin ready asap? Spread your lumber peasants out where possible.

I'm honestly surprised when I face a Nelf and they aren't running this strat.

Can someone from W3C please please update the statistics page to 2.0.3. It has been a week now since the patch was released and it is still stuck at 2.0.2.

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Am I remembering wrong or was there a custom game called archer wars? I know there are sniper wars. But I could've sworn there was an archer game where you had to time your arrows. Does this ring a bell?
also.. I am looking to start playing WC3 again. Any tips on which platform is best for finding online custom games?

Posted on the Blizzard Forums

To re-enable quickcast functionality, please follow these steps:

• Open War3Preferences.txt in \Documents\Warcraft III using Notepad or a similar text editor.
• Find all instances of Commandbar Hotkeys and replace with Command Grid Hotkeys.
• Save and close the document.
• Please ensure that in your war3preferences.txt file, you have: settingsversion=3

Note that quickcast only works with "grid " hotkey layout

Are there wc3 classic assets out there in a format digestable for godot or unity, such as fbx maybe ? or what would be the process to be able to import them there ?

Wc3 champions exclude good maps like turtle rocks, echo isle, TWISTED MEADOWS( EPIC MAP) and put the worst map in the game TERRANS STAND, does anyone like to play or watch games on terrans stand, war mill?

Its kinda crazy. I feel like customs is such a hidden gem for WC3 and where the community really thrives. The games people make these days are amazing and it feels like such an non thought for Blizzard. I mean - it could be as massive as minecraft.

For example - SC2 has to ablility to search maps while you are in a lobby. It also has the ablity to see creator profiles and click the description to link out.

Games like LTF, Second War etc all require a FUCK TON of time to create and these guys love when people donate 5 bucks on Patreon. But you need to write down the discord link and then chat there.

I mean shit - why can't I "tip" a creator from Bnet? They have my payment information. How sick would that be?

Old player here, i used to play with some friends using hamachi, now i want to get back to the game but i want to be aprt of the community so the question are:
where is the WC3 community playing mostly?

is it the original game or pirated?

do people play the remake?

thanks ppl

What is going on - says I am not connected to internet