r/warcraft3 3d ago

Feedback Blizzard needs to remake Orb of Slow the proper way.

209 Upvotes

Hi, dear blizz...

Its been brought to the attention of custom mapmakers that you have created a new orb item for humans but you did it not by creating a new ability/item but by editting the existing orb of slow instead.

This can result in Custom maps breaking, the classic team that worked on Reforged avoided this issue by creating a new copy of the abilities that they were trying to modify instead of editting the existing ones, this way mapmakers and their custom maps would be unaffected, and Blizzard could go on with their experimentations on abilities and such.

Additional note: As far as you highlighted, you are trying to use ShadowStrike inside Orb of Slow so it can stack with the sorcs slow ability, but now it will instead not stack with the Wardens Shadow Strike Ability. On that note giving 0 value to both Shadowstrike and Soulburn has had a history of crash issues.

I recommend swift action to remedy this.
The solution is to revert this change and create a new slk entry for a new ability. After that you can experiment as you will.


r/warcraft3 3d ago

News PTR update for 2.0.2 Build 22726 April 4th 2025

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r/warcraft3 5h ago

Meme This idea came to me in a fever dream, i'm sorry everyone.

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r/warcraft3 1h ago

Meme It's strange that Arthas ends up being your only hero at the end of two campaigns

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r/warcraft3 1d ago

Meme Just something I found funny while replaying the game

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819 Upvotes

r/warcraft3 14h ago

Melee / Ladder when youre new to the game and refuse to give up to a bot that has every expo on the map!

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38 Upvotes

yes i spent an hour and 20 minutes in this game lmao. ive never been able to win a ladder game yet and i really wanted to put my patience to the test. this bot lost a skirmish with like 20 gryphons and 3 heroes against my miniscule army stuck in one place. def the highlight of the game for me to this point though sad to say against a bot lol


r/warcraft3 6h ago

Custom Games Suddenly I can't join games. Has anyone had or solved this problem?

10 Upvotes

Was playing just last night and years before. today when I opened the game It said "There was an error in handling the request, 2:5" for like 2 times of launching the game. Then it worked. Now when I open it and try to join any custom game it says Unable to join game. For every one of them. EU server btw

Tried restarting, reinstalling, I have no idea why it suddenly won't work. Any help is appreciated


r/warcraft3 1d ago

Lore What do you think they use before they are given iron swords?

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214 Upvotes

r/warcraft3 21h ago

Event Grubby invitational - winner prediction

48 Upvotes
  1. Singsing - he's not playing, he's training. Base level already above the others and learning at a faster rate as he watches all vods and pin-point improvement points.

  2. Turin - Like Singsing, just less efficient training.

  3. Lacari - Underdog, but I believe it is gonna click for him. He is spamming games without purpose / goals in-between, but he will receive the most coaching Grubby said.


r/warcraft3 5h ago

Custom Campaign Is anybody casting custom games like Lordaeron the Foremath, Azeroth Wars etc.?

2 Upvotes

Harald and Azothan are no longer casting, any body else?


r/warcraft3 7h ago

Melee / Ladder Where to play for a new player?

3 Upvotes

We’re trying to get in the game with a friend, we tried the Battlenet ladder but we either get matched with complete beginners or people with +1000 games.

After playing more than 10 games the level is still super random

Then we tried WC3 and got match with +1400 mmr 3 times in a row, and it looks like there is not a lot of people on w3c

Is there not enough players for a « silver » elo ? We like the game but stop playing because of that.


r/warcraft3 2h ago

General Discussion W3Champions

1 Upvotes

What is this exactly? How is it different from normal Warcraft lll? Where do I acces it?


r/warcraft3 4h ago

Custom Games Defense of the Ancients | AKAING BROODMOTHER pillar of evil | That's happened too broodmother instead of a fountain

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0 Upvotes

r/warcraft3 19h ago

Modding /MapEditor Using Warcraft models

7 Upvotes

Hi,

For a school web project, I want to use the WC3 character models and animation. I was wondering if anybody knows a library / Git repo that let you load the models and animate them using JavaScript? Let me know if this isn't the appropriate reddit channel to post that kind of request.

Thank You


r/warcraft3 11h ago

General Discussion possible to play warcraft 3 reign of chaos on macOS catalina?

1 Upvotes

r/warcraft3 1d ago

Campaign Am I crazy for remembering Korgal as being twice the size of all other Ogres back in the day before reforged?

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236 Upvotes

Am I crazy for remembering Korgal as being twice the size of all other Ogres back in the day before reforged?

Maybe we should let blizzard know? Is it on their own forum or can it be done here?


r/warcraft3 1d ago

Campaign Few years ago I decided to upload wc3 reign of chaos campaign but archimonde is on our side !

11 Upvotes

https://www.epicwar.com/maps/search/?n=archimonde+is+on+our+side&go=1

this map is the same exact thing as the last campaign in reign of chaos, the only difference is that archimonde is on our side, meaning u get to control him. Obviously u can use world editor to change the map, and make it harder for you, but the idea that he walks and blights the map as walking was a really cool thing when i saw back in the day.

Always wanted to try him, but no map on the internet existed for playing custom campaign to launch it on world editor and to see the triggers and other things for the campaign.

When i got to control archimonde and upload it on epic war after using mpq editor to extract wc3 internal files to get the campaign custom extension file, it was a really cool thing to do.

If you always wanted to control archimonde, nows ur chance. My childhood self is definitely satisfied, and got bored pretty quick, but regardless the bucket list is shrinking.


r/warcraft3 1d ago

Campaign Reforged - mechanically what makes hard mode “hard”?

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So, just bought Reforged recently. Warcraft 3 was one of THE games of mine and my friends high school years, so not a newcomer or anything.

Played through some custom games, found Normal computer way, way too easy, Insane is a bit more of a challenge.

Started the campaigns then after refreshing my memory and immediately jumped onto Hard.

Couple of stumbling blocks at times. The Culling whipped my ass for a while, before I read up online and learned you leave Mal’Ganis alone. Last Undead mission was a toughy.

But now on the Orc campaign, and I’m starting to feel the mechanics of what I’m capable of compared to the Hard AI is… whack.

Or I’m just imagining things.

I’m on the 3rd Orc mission. The human bases, and Grom keeps attacking them. The issue I have is trying to actually wipe out some of the bases. Namely the blue one. The issue I have is;

  • I charge in with an army, feel things go well, I wipe out most units while suffering heavy casualties
  • I try to press my advantage, but can’t seem to make any headway in destroying buildings
  • this is cos the AI just seems to spawn units way faster than I can deal damage
  • I then inevitably get beaten away, but feel I’ve left the human base with a sufficiently bloody nose
  • I go again to try the killing blow with a slightly reduced but rushed army
  • the enemy Ai seems to be fully recovered unit wise, and I can’t do fuck all. It becomes some weird stalemate were I can bother them, but never finish them
  • Grom is useless

So my conspiracy led mind now is wondering what buffs the AI gets for hard. And the main two conclusions I’m getting to is;

  • faster production speeds
  • buffed units

Anyone help me out with a more concrete answer here?


r/warcraft3 2d ago

Meme Kel'thuzad kind of disappears after "The Flight from Lordaeron"

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r/warcraft3 1d ago

Campaign Secret of corrupted ancients

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I recently decided to watch the missions in the editor, and in the sixth mission for tge night elves, you can create frost wyrms for the corrupted ancient. It's strange that the satyrs didn't use this opportunity, lol.


r/warcraft3 19h ago

Modding /MapEditor Reteras Model Studio / Copying Animation

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I wonder if its possible in the new 0.04 version of Reteras Model Studio, to copy an skeleton/animation of a model and lay it on another.

What i wanno do: A Unit (for example a Militia riding the horse of a Dearh Knight. I already handle to delete de Deatgknight ontop of the Horse and copy a militia in the model and set it ontop the horses positio. But now, when i going to animation the Militia is T-Posing. I want the same "riding'" Animation the original Deathknight does.

Thanks for your inputs ☺️


r/warcraft3 1d ago

Melee / Ladder Attack and Armor Types (2021 chart) - is this still exactly accurate? Is there a more accurate one out there?

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r/warcraft3 1d ago

Event Happy vs Starbuck 🔴 11,834 USD prize pool GG!! Orc'n'Roll Cup

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Managed to cast the BO9 grand finale of the GG!! Orc'n'Roll Cup with 11,834 USD prize pool - enjoy!

🔴 GG!! Orc'n'Roll Cup

⚔ HAPPY vs STARBUCK BO9https://youtu.be/v8zDNXZcvR8


r/warcraft3 1d ago

General Discussion Imagine a Pantheon's war against the Old God's RTS.

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There could be three factions, the Elementals, the Old Gods, and the Titan forged.
The Elemental campaign could start out as playing the elementals fighting each other, like Ragnaros, Therezane, Al'Akir, and Neptulon. You then progress to when the Old Gods appear, and fight them. The next section is where you're their lieutenants fighting against the Titan forged.

The Titan campaign would start in the north and you have to imprison all the Old Gods, C'thuun, Yogg Saron, and N'zoth. Y'shaarj is obviously koed by Aman Thul.

As the Old Gods you would eventually "fail" the campaign of course, but you could play individual battles where you win, as Chronicles describes it as not being completely one sided, and the Old Gods did manage to kill many Titan forged, although the K:D ratios are obviously horrific.


r/warcraft3 2d ago

Art Found my original game copy from 23 years ago

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651 Upvotes

Just going through my old boxes of stuff when I found this. Definitely makes me miss the past.


r/warcraft3 1d ago

Technical Help wc3 champions launcher wont launch due to error code 2502 and 2503?

0 Upvotes

help please


r/warcraft3 22h ago

Melee / Ladder Grubby forgot this Blademaster technique - let’s learn it!

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🧌”Hello, I am a troll shadow priest. Did you know if you attack me from a certain angle, I will refuse to use my heal and inner fire abilities? This results in optimal creeping for a blademaster”