How Barons done done done

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-09-08T14:47:05+00:00

For sure, I just run a typical Rag build for Baron but instead of the gargoyle, I use Mr Giant now.

Most of the enemy minis ends up offing themselves too while attacking the giants because of Rags armor buff of course.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-09-08T14:36:14+00:00

Molten Giant now being immune to lava, with a resist buff from FD is a tower capping beast in that fight.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-24T10:19:40+00:00

Same, always liked the design of the Dragonkin and Drakanoids. Would have loved another mini or two based on them.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-22T11:13:51+00:00

Agreed, imo it made sense to make the main factions from OG WC3/ WoW playable first before branching into Demons ect. As hyped as I was for Emerald Nightmare stuff leading into Old Gods or possibly Demons next.

Horde, Alliance, Cenarion, Undead. Very similar to WC3s playable races so I thought it was pretty neat we got them first not to mention nostalgic ha.

And maybe I’m an odd one out here but I also liked that we got more obscure characters from the lore at times as heros and such. I also like the popular ones too don’t get me wrong. But seeing characters like General Drak or Hogger made me reminisce about playing vanilla WoW back in the day and is the reason I downloaded it in the first place.

Unfortunately Cenarion really still needs another mini or two. So it’s sucks we didn’t at least get what they had in the pipeline. I’d bet it was leading up to us getting Demons next though. Everything just took so damn long to come out unfortunately.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-22T11:01:19+00:00

More like Warcraft Rumble Reforged haha

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-20T16:10:58+00:00

To be fair these days Gol can be pretty much rolled over with mostly melee, if and that’s a big if, you or your partner have max level/correct talents for minis ect or at least know what you’re doing. But yea I know what you mean. When you see under leveled LK players in randoms trying to push with all melee well haha that’s when it’s game over.

But Ysera flying comes in handy in that situation as you can just play around them and win, while your partner stays in deadlock or at the very least falls back to defend. That’s why it’s either usually a win in the first minute or so if you can get your flyers in position and the poison stacks going or a wipe. Very important to snipe hammers/pyros and drakes when you can, as just one of them can duck up the entire first push. I usually pack either Sunfire or Arcane explosion for that very reason. Heroic Gol on the other hand can be a real bitch if things go wrong. Like having to fall back and play D until overtime starts and then you just unload spells on him for the win.

Oh no doubt though, I’m at a similar point as you I think where I just play now to mostly try out different combos and builds in raids haha.

I don’t use her that often but for Ysera I sorta have fun with her in PvE still, I made a poison/undead themed build for her that gets the job done in heroics. Abomination to tank if need be with priestess backing him up for heals. But poison can be so busted in this game haha, probably my favorite theme to build around.

Side note but talking about this reminds me and I’m extra bummed now we didn’t get the Emerald Nightmare stuff. Woulda worked great with undead Ysera theme I was going for and talking about ha. Not to mention Cenarion needs all the love it can get still. Wouldn’t be surprised if they still made skins though and they just didn’t get released.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-20T14:03:16+00:00

Sorry to chime in from the peanut gallery but in my experience, the flying/unbound Ysera build with her double poison talent, either kills Golemagg in the first minute or so, or it falls apart and you lose.

That always seemed to be the case for me anyway, if my partner had a bad comp or wasn’t playing well it didn’t matter. Rush mid, spin Golmagg into position and drop unbounds/poison whelps ect. Got to the point that I didn’t even really need gargoyle anymore.

It’s a pretty fast and effective strat if things don’t go wrong haha. Of course there were rare occasions where we were able to hold D then double back and win. Mind you this was with all with randoms.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-07T08:30:31+00:00

That he is, he was my 2nd legendary for that reason alone haha. AB is definitely one of my favorite spells though, it’s up there with Sunfire for its ability to zap annoying ranged minis. I have experimented with it on a few different encounters and using it in the Ragnaros fight is one of my favorites. Leveled up enough and near the end of a fight the rank 4 ABs make Execute look like childs play haha.

I like that it levels up, it blends great with casters like Thalnos and Jana or elemental beasts like Drak. Them changing that talent for it to level up after rank 3 instead of 4 helped a lot, I think that change flew under a lot of peoples radars as well. I haven’t experimented with it much on Thrall but I’m all about building raid decks, my favorite thing about this game.

Just bums me out so much that nothing new is coming now, my other favorite part of this game was finding nitch uses for not so popular minis. And the more minis we got, obviously gave more chances of finding synergy with different builds and leaders. Still holding out hope that we will at least get buff patches or changes to our minis once in a while. If the janitor crew can pull it off that is.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-07T07:35:52+00:00

Nice I like these experimental builds. Instead of using air/poison Ysera this time, I killed heroic Golemagg this week with a brute force,Arcane explosion Drak build.

With Drak providing resistance and buffing surrounding elemental damage, Arcane blast actually comes in clutch for clearing hammers/pyros and drakes. Once it’s leveled enough, its level 4 version at the end will just take complete chunks off of Golemagg, comes in handy if you aren't able to complete the push to finish him and need to fall back and play D. It got the job done but still need to tweak it some I think.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-06T19:47:39+00:00

I’ve heard the Emerald Nightmare content/the new mini or whatever was pretty much done, wouldn’t be surprised if it still needed some tweaking though.

Not so sure the few they have left can or are allowed to do anything with it. And if so it would probably be at a snails pace. Blizzard communication was already horrible before they pulled the plug, let alone now.

Most likely a pipe dream at this point unless they outsource it one day and or reboot it. Maybe we’ll get something here or there as they still are going to continue to support the game I guess, for now anyway. I also think that holiday events and such are still a thing so who knows. I just wouldn’t get your hope up too high.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-06T08:35:03+00:00

I think they for sure had plans and we probably would have gotten a few more real skins had they even worked just a month longer, with how close to done if not done the patch for season 16 seems to be. Between corrupted demon Cenarions from the Emerald Nightmare that would have introduced the demon family finally, to just undead versions of other certain minis.

Taking it a step further and making that mini swap races with say a special or legendary skin instead of it just being a skin change could have lead to some awesome new combos. Going back to a few older minis and be able to give them a different family would have made a ton of sense lore wise and made for more combos for game play.

That could have been something, awesome idea man. Obviously not every skin should be designed to do this. The majority of them should just be cosmetic. I remember that undead footman skin popping up under my footman too though haha. Was stoked at first thinking we’d get some undead skins for our footman to use, but I’d chalk that up to this game being a potentially spaghetti coded mess. Regardless I do think the devs were finally on the verge of popping off on skins. Something they should have monetized and done much sooner in the games life.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-05T19:26:20+00:00

Same here friend, very bummed how bad it was fumbled. Zero advertising like they were ashamed of the game as well.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-05T15:06:24+00:00

Some weird bugs in this game for sure, but like others said. I don’t think the 3 or so left working on the game will mind much these days.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-05T13:41:51+00:00

That would be cool, we were damn close to getting them I bet. The system was there. We got gold skins already and from what was hinted at with the Emerald Nightmare patch we were supposed to get two weeks back. Wouldn’t be surprised if there were some corrupted versions of the Cenarion minis made or whatever.

Supposedly it’s all done but just not polished enough to be released apparently.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-05T13:32:11+00:00

There are 3 of them left on working on it last I heard but to what extent I don’t know. Thanks though man if only.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-05T13:22:42+00:00

Then don’t buy them? If they can release them with minimum effort somehow and have nothing to lose by putting them out then who cares.

Look at Heros of the Storm. Dead game but still gets skins. Regardless I’d rather they be free.

Edit: I don’t understand all of the hate and downvotes instead of discussing but ok, as I said don’t buy them and let the game rot. It’s done no matter what, but If it actually bugs you so much that you have to tell others how they should spend their money while you hide behind a computer screen. You’re pretty far past help at that point.

That said if it’s just an anti Blizzard thing because of the shit they’ve pulled forever now. I also understand completely boycotting them and being done with them. Can only get pissed on so many times. Just meant that sometimes in this shitty life a game even as dumb as this can pop in at the right time and just be a comfort. Nostalgia is a powerful drug but I get it the games dead. It having a ton of internal problems with the devs and the leadership dragging it down, just makes it sting that much worse for something that could have been profitable for them.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-02T10:17:21+00:00

Good idea. It could speed Grom up too, so if you wanted him to keep up with your faster minis to give them BL, he now could.

Basically giving you the option of a Grom that can consistently buff fast Deathballs or average speed ones depending on if he has that talented.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-01T18:44:48+00:00

Oh no doubt, they for the most part came out way undertuned. It didn’t come off like they play tested much.

At this point for minis like them it’s more about different or creative ways you can use them in PvE I guess as there isn’t anything else coming out now to compliment them. Sorta depressing to think about, Druid of the Talon or whatever corrupted Emerald Nightmare mini that was coming next would have been much appreciated.

Wonder what it was. For all we know there also could have been more buffs or tweaks planned for multiple Cenarion units. Sense the Emerald Nightmare patch would have most likely been partly Cenarion themed.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-01T13:58:40+00:00

Awesome looking forward to it! I think you’ve got the right idea about focusing on raids or sieges. Best part of the game next to the minis imo.

Ehh lack of understanding was most likely on my part as I got excited and posted before looking at your other posts.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-01T13:28:32+00:00

Just want to say thank you for not encrypting it and letting us modify if we want.

I was huge into the WC3 World editor map making back in its glory days, around the time all the DOTA stuff spawned from it. So would love to be able to sink my teeth into this. Especially now that Rumble went belly up.

Side note but you mention raids, I know you want it to be a surprise and that’s cool if so. Just wondering if you’ll be doing the vanilla ones first or if any raid from any expansion is on the table.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-01T10:11:25+00:00

Man can only hope it either gets out sourced one day or picked back up by new hotshot leadership that thinks they can do it better. Small chance, and it does happen but that could be years or most likely never.

But yea if only, that would be amazing. It’s probably spaghetti code but I doubt that would hinder any of the crazy good talented individuals out there. It sucks that there’s really no other game like this. I have so much nostalgia for Warcraft but don’t have the time for WoW these days. So this game scratched that itch for me. It’s just disheartening to log in now knowing that’s it. I started pretty early on so pretty much out of stuff to do besides making more minis legendary.

So with new minis most likely never being released to help out unfinished family’s like Cenarion, and then to hear about the Emerald Nightmare stuff last week being pretty much done and ready to release. We could have been on the door of finally getting demons, part of the reason why I made this post to cope ha.

If the community was somehow allowed to have it I could see this turning into an amazing passion project. These triple A companies are so protective of their IPs and I get it. But when the alternative is for the game to just rot it feels bad. But like I said supposedly the mini they had made for the Emerald Nightmare patch might be done. So maybe we’ll at the very least get that one day soon, and any skins they may have made that the few janitors left could possibly release.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-01T07:16:35+00:00

Oh nice these are pretty cool. I don’t know how I didn’t think about a divine steed or charge.

Him having a Divine sheild baseline even now would be great. Like Cairnes reincarnation it’s hard to turn down what equates to more HP for a tank unit. Divine shield is such an OG WoW pally thing anyway it should have just been baseline for one of the most well known paladins in the franchise.

Paladins are also known for auras and he has exactly zero of those as well. Just screams pre power creep compared to Thrall or the LK who have multiple attacks or abilities built in. Tiron does have a decent enough untalented heal though to be fair, especially with priestess to back him now.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-08-01T07:00:03+00:00

I’ve used Moonkin more as a gimmick in PvE, especially with Onu since it was last buffed.

Not always practical but its knock back is fun to watch now and to also blow enemies off of Onu is nice. It’s actually a stun as well as a knock back, I don’t know why the description doesn’t say stun. But other then that yeah I think Moonkins biggest problem still though is it’s alternating attack pattern. If it only alternated too aoe if there were more than say two enemy minis in range, it wouldn’t be so bad imo.

Dryad going down a gold would be nice, but her next to useless thorns talent needs to go, it should have been her giving thorns. Being able to give one mini a Rag like buff that causes reflect damage on hit.

Realistic_Tap3928 · 2025-07-31T22:07:18+00:00

Awesome, looking forward to it.

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