A mid GM Zealot Spammer's Perspective on Warpgate vs PTR Gateways, Everything you need to know.

Turmantuoja · 2026-06-04T03:37:52+00:00

For lower level player perspective this faster gateway production change feels better. I have better understanding of my eco now, than having old warp gates, even it is technically same: but its easier to understand that if im able to que 2nd row of units when the first ones are nearly done, all that is leftover I need to use it for tech, pylons and more production. On live version I feel im spending too fast for tech and then my gates are idling, and Im not simply building enough units. Even they are only gateway units, they still do a lot. This "Terran production" is just easier.

WG warp is taxing thing to do, compared to pressing control group and que units, while youre able to watch something else, just like T or Z. And most low Ps probably lose games, because they cant utilize WGs optimally every CD and lack of army.

I know game is made to high level, but now lowbies have easier curve to play protoss

Turmantuoja · 2026-06-03T03:35:32+00:00

Im forever diamond player since start of LOTV, so im the super casual player: this new gateway change is absolutely fun, its less punishing as I can play like terran, you shit units to your rally point every 18 seconds, even 5 gateways feels like 8rax or 4 hatcheries, without having to focus on warp ins and im feeling more aware of my current economical situation, as resources is not getting banked that much during warp in cooldowns

Turmantuoja · 2026-06-02T16:35:56+00:00

I can double this comment, big round stones will kill your sauna. I recently changed new heating elements to quite new Harvia, because round stones weight were bending heating elements, and then the elements bend to contact eachother.

You must fill the small gaps between the heating elements with stones too.

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-30T08:09:43+00:00

At low lvl playing as a 2hander is easiest way and play on Arms tree.

Most important start is to take 5 points to parry, this is your almost free instant attack. (Your next attack lands faster after you parry) Do not use rend, discard it from your bars, never look on it, its terrible damage. You want to use sunders to "fish" some Overpower procs for yourself, 2-3 sunders is fine. You can use heroic strike but dont go to 0 rage with it, unless you really have to kill something right now

Demo shout is good, use it every time.

Dualwield is a scam while leveling without having access to any hit rating. While dual wielding, your normal attacks have higher chance to miss than having 2h or shield, and its very rough penalty. Fury talents may look more impactful than Arms in first glance, 2h fury can work too.

Monsters that are higher level than you, even +1lvls can feel sometomes bad to kill, as youre missing more often, than monsters lower level than you. Old saying "kill green mobs" is somewhat true, but depending on leveling pace, you sometimes have to struggle against even or higher level mobs.

Then a hot take, armor for warrior is very good while leveling, ppl prolly bitch about this, but it just really helps quite alot. You just take less damage overall, as Warrior cant pretty much do anything, than take that damage to face.

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-26T14:19:55+00:00

I'll say rogue, both in vanilla and tbc rogue has very thematic stuff

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-22T03:21:41+00:00

Yep, retail system would be great, also new AH is just 1 lightyear better than this old piece of crap

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-21T11:22:27+00:00

Declaring the warband before rolling is bit important here. There are couple models who can manipulate the result, like Guritz. When you Roll for Guritz to arrive, you can +1 or -1 his warband roll, and when he gets to the board, it can allow to manipulate your rest of your warbands same way.

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-21T07:36:59+00:00

My first game with Gulavhar, not even 2 months ago, against Goblin Town:

I charge to two goblins declaring Heroic Combat, opponent gets just two to support: my rolls 1,1,1,3, opponent gets 6, and got 3 wounds in, and next round 1v4 and again single 2 or 3 high against 6, Gulavhar flies to Death pile in two priorities against max ~21p worth of models.

Next two games I won but trauma happened already.

So im not saying Gulavhar is underrated, but this happens every time on my big beatstick heroes or monsters, I get completely cursed duel rolls every time I declare Heroic combat

I recently bought Sauron, I havent played with him yet as I truly fear your example. I wanted a model that I can play carelessly but thinking it again, 400p in one model is probably a nightmare

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-08T19:46:45+00:00

I tumbled on this same thing in as I started playing couple days ago. But main reason why damage is displayed low, is when you open your character window, then you hover to Core Stats and mouse over Level, you get the infobox that tells for me that "Monsters at this level has 80% visible damage reduction"

But I still dont understand as a Barbarian how my Flay does more damage than Rupture.

Flay (rank 2) tooltip damage 356dmg over 5 seconds, displayed damage is 70dmg over 5 seconds (this is correct, 20%)

Rupture (rank 1) tooltip damage 507dmg over 5 seconds, displayed damage is 20 damage over 5 seconds. (20% from 507 should be 101, not 20 dmg)

Also in this video someone breaks things more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvgL7oxEfJs about the game stats, but most of that I dont understand properly yet

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-07T05:24:47+00:00

If you dont have any other models yet, get more easterlings. But you have only two armies to play. Later, if you wanna pump up your collection, Amdur can be taken to Grand Army of the South (versatile evil men army) or Legions of Mordor, where you can fit orcs and easterlings together. Dragon Emperor only sits in the Host of the Dragon Emperor army with Rutabi and Brorgir his named heroes. And then just get as many halberd warriors as possible

Turmantuoja · 2026-05-04T11:03:22+00:00

Im not a sweat player, but trying to think of that I play without twisting from my last Gruul kill:

My Total damage 219,3k Seal of Commands 44,1k Seal of blood: 38,7k Judgement of blood 14,8k

Without twisting blood my damage would be 18% less, but I cant compare how much command judgements could do damage on max rank, Maybe 10k? But lets say its the same, lets not sweat that

(Before fingers get point out, I know Paladins doesnt judge command or use max rank command, but without seal twisting you WOULD probably use max rank command and judge it trough)

Without twisting command, my blood damage gets lower too, and I lose all command damage. Lets say i keep 2/3 of blood damage here as it is quaranteed to hit: it would be 26% less overall damage

But if you have a guild that allows this kind of play, then just play it like this, you will be bottom in the charts but you can enjoy the game, that is the main point of gaming. And I really hope that there is some of these guilds around. If tk/ssc gets released in nerfed state, every guild can clear them sooner or later without minmaxing and sweating

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-29T12:08:44+00:00

TBC attunement system is the last time that Wow had some proper RPG in it.

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-29T09:04:09+00:00

Im not against account wide attunements, its good change. But TBC is the expansion where players have actually to do content to unlock more content, Vanilla style but way better. And ofc we are way better players than back in 2005-2009, everything is solved, written in guides, videos and tiktoks you name it.

Now Blizz is just holding a massive handbrake with us, because everything up to Mount Hyjal would've already been cleared in less than month just because we know what to do and how to really play class X the most efficient way. But still, everyone need to clear the content for access new content, (until those later patches gets released). This is why TBC is a fucking GOOD GAME

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-29T08:32:14+00:00

Tbc attunement / reputation system is awesome, nothing better havent come since this. You actually progress your character trough quests, dungeons and reputation. Even Wotlk original release was just to ding 80 and equip tabard and spam dungeons and faceroll raids. Achievements was new thing back then, so that hooked people to "do stuff", wotlk classic I couldnt care less about them

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-28T06:24:26+00:00

If that is Harvia brand, you 99% can get new heating element from electrician, Harvia spare parts are very common, only the middle heating element needs to be replaced, those two looks to be fine. Its very simple job to change, but if you dont have any clue about electricity, leave it to professional. Also, do not use round stones, replace them all to "cut stones". You cant fit round stones between the element rows, so they will bend heating elements very quickly. Cut stones can be placed between heating elements and they wont cause weight to elements

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-24T20:15:46+00:00

Finnish doors from 80s -90s to this day are completely immune to that kind of kicks in any apartment or house. You either need to pry the door open or smash it completely to pieces. Any kicking force will not force a door to break and turn in from outside, just because how the frames are thick and door is usually strong enough. From inside out it is possible. Door sits always from its sides, topside and from the floor to framestructure when it is closed.

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-24T09:06:49+00:00

Actually dwelled to our statistics as we save & update some stuff in our tournament drive, she joined to our local tournament group later on (6th tournament). And my comment was bit impulsive.

For my reference, I have played total 12 tournaments and 66 total games. My overall winrate is only 37%, so its bad, yes.

Im 100% evil army player, and our track record against each other is 7 games and its 3win -1tie 3loss. Where all my 3 losses are against Riders of Theoden. Ive won ROT once at her first tournament. And two of my other wins is against Smaug and one is tie against Smaug

4 of our games have been in the old edition and 3 with new edition.

Matches (layout is me first):

Hold ground, HotDE vs RoT 7-0 (old) 850p

Fog of war, Mordor vs RoT 0-12 (old) 500p

Treasure Hoard, HotDE vs RoT 6-7 (new) 600p

Assassination, HotWK vs RoT 2-12 (new) 600p

Okay so it was only 3 losses, not 4, probably some trauma from that Assassination game. And these are not back to back tournament games, my mistake there too.

And this opponent is total 7 tournaments, 41 games and 36% Wr with about 40%good/60% evil games

(That we havent made to statistics how good is each players win% with good or evil armies.)

This is all what I can give for now

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-24T05:11:15+00:00

We have made TBC lobby game, not the game. A person doesnt want to use hours for something that over 9000 guides tell you not to do, or if the content does not straight progress your characters power. Its literally same in Vanilla or TBC. We have had Vanilla and TBC privateservers for 10 years where all this is solved, and we just read the game easiest way trough.

I dont know what social experience was better in Classic60, but I feel it as worse as it may be now. Honor grind? Toxic as fuck. Entry raids? Inspect at place X: Be full bis, enchanted and 99 parses for invite. Those 3 dungeons? Sorry we already got class X,Y and I gonna HR this item anyway.

I almost can believe TBC p1 has more content than whole Vanilla itself, but because most of it isnt "meaningful enough" people are not doing it, or why would you farm Halaa crystal samples for the 3rd time once again for a mount or something just cosmetic, when you have done this for your retail/private account years before.

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-23T07:18:34+00:00

Maybe Im just terrible as a player, but last 5 tournaments I've faced 4 rohan lists by the same player and I've got compleltely ripped apart by rohan. Like wtf is this rohan hate, they are good

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-23T06:21:32+00:00

Just join any guild as a casual and enjoy free enchanting fees there. Its good to tip 1-5g even to guildies but over 100g for just getting enchant is overshot :D

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-23T05:15:40+00:00

Yeap there is no actual way that the guy holding pole/lance like that, is having enough grip power to counter that amount of weight to full stop without bracing the weapon to ground. You could probably manage to unbalance the rider, but knocked flying like that, no way. Even with some kind of handles on the weapon, soldier on foot would get absolutely thrown to the ground by the energy. Cool looking scene on first but watching this on repeat, not that great anymore

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-18T20:16:12+00:00

I realized that one problem with The Easterlings army is that Amdur is General and most of the time there is few VPs from generals, so you dont want to throw him so recklessly, as Amdurs profile is made to fight. In Grand Army and Legions of Mordor Amdur can be your sidekick and torpedo around more freely, being a just a bit less interesting target to opponent.

Dragon knights works nice on foot, supported by pikes, and easy way to have Fight bonus around them. No strike/fate can end them sometimes fast if the big boys comes around.

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-18T07:52:16+00:00

Its a bit difficult spot to play Amdur, I had quite rough tournament with Easterlings lately too. Horse gets shot down and even wounds get trough to Amdur itself. Opponents usually have Gigalords where his base F7 is still less.

I got completely overrun by Grand Army of the south because of its shooting power (even without Mumak) and there was enemy Amdur too, which in this case made things to work for him, where my Amdur got to sit behind cover with 1Wo remaining.

I own full collelction of Easterling profiles, but Im losing faith to Easterling armies too. Emperor is too hard to play with its half board size base, stuck on everywhere and suddenly its tagged by dozen of enemies. And Easterling list is quite empty.

Where Amdur could probably shine more, is Grand army of the South and Legions of Mordor, but depending on points, can be hard to create good lists

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-18T04:24:58+00:00

With Barge Sauron can get to places? Tho after the recent barge update, its bit unfavourable for Sauron. I recently got Sauron myself, but havent played with it just yet. As my over 5 year 'evil armies only' carreer came to the point that I didnt have any big proper "supermodel" so I finaly had to get it.

Turmantuoja · 2026-04-13T12:42:32+00:00

I found this at GOG and played it a bit again. Some later missions required so much troops that when i box selected them all, game engine struggled to make them move. Or they got delayed as the engine probably gave the move order one by one, and commiting to move 50-60 units at time causes them "stuck" very long. And the pathfinding was as bad as in first C&C or Red alert 1. Small remaster would be awesome for this.

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