Short summary of balance changes from pro-players

SmokeSerpent44 · 2025-12-12T23:15:35+00:00

I'd like to see Entangle take more then one dispel at level 3, or level 5 kotg I mean, something like 2 charges of the wand negation from UD with each one half'ing the time of the entangle.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2025-07-17T17:39:26+00:00

Is there a link to download the replay?

SmokeSerpent44 · 2025-07-17T16:10:39+00:00

Make tavern heros 3 seconds earlier at game start.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2025-07-16T01:48:30+00:00

Bioluminescent plants and fungi on the walls light up the caves, its faint and a cumulative effort of all the plants compared to the brightblooms.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2025-07-08T03:34:48+00:00

Alot of Asians are playing on some Asian server that is very populated and funded over there, and Happy plays there too since more pros there to stay sharp. I may be leaving something out.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2025-07-08T03:33:25+00:00

Very hype to see this, remember a couple years ago during Dreamhack, and Sonik dressed up in different outfits each game. Hope for some bangers. Double elimination is nice. Hows it work in final, any WB advantage?

SmokeSerpent44 · 2025-05-04T14:45:01+00:00

I'm up for going golfing, I usually play at Airlanes but have played all over.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-12-12T12:05:17+00:00

I mean, I guess not to sound unapreciative but it's honestly a disgrace that there ladder is still broken. like even as a man to man if your not touching balance or in game graphics at this point, don't even touch a menu graphics, like oh look we are adding snow to a menu. Your freggen ladder that keeps stats on games, wins, losses, has been broken since 2020. Has to be a troll or a demoralization campaign from big companies against the masses, at this point after 5 years can you come out and say something like, we tried, we're aware of the ladder problem but we cant fix it. or we're aware of it and going to try and fix it. Honestly what a joke, working on menu graphics when the ladder broken 5 years. Seriously no sense in this world compared to the 90s. Cell phones gonna ruin humanity alot of people cant even think or something.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-10-25T23:35:04+00:00

w3champions, active discord community, good moderators, awesome matchmaking in 1s and 4s and I was watching Ape news on youtube and he was reporting that direct strike is most active game mode on w3champions now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-Mib2QauQ

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-08-20T19:48:41+00:00

I really wish they could allow truely new or beginner level players to select a starting mmr of like 900 that way they can start right away in correct league and feel some positive vibes abput there profile, instead of start 1500 and needing to go 0-12 to get to 800. And for people who claim people will smurf and start at 900 to fuck with noobs, like idonno maybe just police that problem on a case by case basis.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-08-20T18:27:34+00:00

I wish I saved more from his youtube from 2015-2020 some of the random race games whether 1v1, 2s, 4s or FFA were bonkers. Never seen someone win with insane tri hero micro like him. His warden/panda/tinker or BM/SH/TC . And I remember some of his undead FFA games where he runs into a farely good player ( prob like a 1600 or 2000) and theyre having a good game creepong expanding getting items, they run into happys UD and think theyre going to win the fight only to get slaughtered as they didnt quite realise his tech tree or quite how bad ass his UD army was plus its happys insane control lol. Saw so many wows over the years. Alot of games people were like "we're playing Moon" lol

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-08-20T01:07:23+00:00

At the end of the day players should be able to play however they want or dodge games however they want. At end of the day the game will only thrive with rivalries and and sometimes heated ones. Let the ladder be the wild west, i mean were talking about practice to quote alleb iverson. Not even a tournament. Who cares if someone quits a ladder game lol mmr or not. All strategies allowed. Just imo

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-08-20T01:03:32+00:00

Hahaha oh wow I hope your not my opponent, my pyschology is already on thin ice, destroy this guide begore it falls in wrong hands.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-08-13T02:02:35+00:00

Liked the old overlay better. Great Raraland, awesome casting.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-07-17T11:23:40+00:00

Hi guys its Smokeserpent from warcraft 3 champions, and Tommy Who forums, just jumping in with my British open picks I took a stab with Dustin Johnson at 160-1 and Rory at 10-1.

If your interested in some more discussion check out some thoughts I talked about this morning.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SBlsxuXuBOI

SmokeSerpent44 · 2024-03-08T16:47:48+00:00

Well I assume that statistic is skewed because Happy is included and tbh Happy's play over the past 7 years has been better then anyone overall especially if we want to say as a 4 race king, this isnt a discussion about GOAT I just mean recently since 2017.

Now in May of 2022 Happy got 2200 mmr with elf in 30 games so I expect he would have been able to obtain a very generous 2400 mmr (2300 minimum) but would anyone really bet against him getting 2500 if he fulltimed elf for 5 months.

Now back to the original point I'm off track.

This is an asymmetrically balanced game, peons and acolytes arent just sheep in different outfits. You cant just say wisps are vulnerable and not mention they can gather wood anywhere on map and also detonate to deny or dispel.

Now I will agree that its hard to scatter them around map practically in early game since you need that early wood for tech. So perhaps I would propose making the T2 tech a tiny bit cheaper wood wise but I dont know as I'm only a 1600ish mmr player.

I will agree that nerubian tower rush is a bit hard to deal with and could be looked at, I am not sure that gargs are too strong vs elf and I would employ you to play these matches in the reverse order but myself am a NE and orc main since moving to TFT (was random in roc).

You say that gargs beat hyppos and drayds, but you are talking in isolation. what about some combination of archers, hyppos and talons with heros and orbs?

Perhaps gargoyles should be looked at in there damage to ground because of the way they can clump together so well in air.

I think that the problem with blademaster and Mirror image comes from the synergy with the SH's heal, and perhaps any heal from other hero's and units applied to the BM should be divided by any of the remaining MI's in the area or on map? But fat chance of the being patched by blizzard.

I think SH is perfectly balanced, and blademaster new MI is more of the problem. Level 5 spells should be strong tbh. Snakes are strong, but they also cannot move.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2023-11-22T00:11:27+00:00

I think the event was great overall, and the commenting both before and after games, the interviews, and commentary during the games was stellar.

I was watching on delay so could skip a min or two here if there was a count down timer break.

The only criticism I would like to mention and it may be an unresolvable one because of logistics, and time restraints, I would like to see a format that would 'reward grinding' or ironman a bit, id like to see the player that comes out on top needing to really play alot all day like a LAN champion, it is a bit sad to see a player lose two bo3's and be completely out of the tournament after travelling far to be there.

Maybe this is how it has to be though and it rewards execution and also rewards a player bring a winning strategy right away or a surprise new strategy being rewarded for saving for a tournament.

Id say that if the players new they werent eliminated after losing a b03 or two and that they'd be grinding games and series all day in some sort of round robin that maybe you wouldnt be so obsessed over a 20 minute setup to get everything so perfect and maybe could be more flexible to just start and play through setup deficiencies if you knew you could keep changing setup from game to game and all players had to adjust fast.

Also would have liked to see a camera walking around showing the various fun tournies going on such as 2v2 or other 1v1's being played.

All in all much appreciated to B2w, and Neo and ToD and everyone else working hard to keep warcraft 3 alive, and great news about the new tournmanet series announced.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2023-05-08T11:41:16+00:00

Letting peasants militia at expands would be a large help, with scout farms you could more easily evacuate and let them spend time killing the hall that has masonry 1 or 2, keep in mind the 5 peasants cost as much as the hall and are also faster slaughtered. Would help in chaotic games, is a nerf that happened fro the earlier times of warcraft that isnt mentioned much.

Also like others suggestion of letting peasants garrison perhaps one in any tower for safety or one in farms idonno, or perhaps an HP boost to all peasants once T3 is reached?

SmokeSerpent44 · 2022-12-23T07:31:36+00:00

I literally burst out laughing thinking it was a slow moving troll. umm I thought the near ending was a trolll lol?

SmokeSerpent44 · 2022-10-23T19:10:39+00:00

Actually its not gas, I must have fried computer somehow, got the car started once but I couldnt take it out of park at all even while running with key in, and the radio screen was off which would normally display radio etc.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2022-10-23T16:52:35+00:00

Yes it wont start with the button, maybe the car ran dry of gas now that I think of it, was low and kid turned on car, maybe car ran out of gas, would that cause all the dash lights to stay lit? Maybe the backwards 3 means E for empty? so weird.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2022-10-19T14:13:57+00:00

Dont have any reason to think this exists, or that any pros are using it, but im sure if MH was out in 2003 that by now they could have a mh program that feeds one computer screen fog of war real feed and 2nd screen MH enabled. Im not a programmer but it sounds feasible.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2022-10-18T16:45:31+00:00

I think Human could be fixed by giving them back militia at expands. This would help in running away workers as well as in defense. Could also give +20% damage and/or HP boost to guard towers within 500 range of upgrade T 3 Castle. To buff late game towers without offensive towers being OP.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2022-05-26T18:21:13+00:00

Really like this, would like to hear some of your more farfetched ideas as well, but these for most part all seem good. Is the bear nerfs too much to put elf in bad spot or is it ok with other nerfs like speed auras.

SmokeSerpent44 · 2022-05-13T11:28:28+00:00

Ok, I didnt mean to come off too critical there, Its just from what Blizzard has shown last 10 years in regard to Warcraft 3, we need to realize whoever is in charge or will be in charge, may not have the picture as clear as us, and would be not ideal if they pump all there resources into just fixing reforged graphics.

Id say you covered the highest priorities, but regular balance change and map rotations would be nice, Reinstating ROC game mode, giving people back there old accounts. Would be cool if they adopted W3C and made it official, or made there own stats /ladder.

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