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General Warcraft 3 tips
Written by: Christian Svensson
Published: 05-05-01 19:39 |
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Here follows some general tips, regarding all of the races. Tips that may help you be a better WaCraft III gamer...
At the start of each game it's very good to know what you are going to do. If you want to rush, you have to prepare for it and build the buildings you need first. Maybe you decide to expand, do so quickly, and remember that your opponents can catch you when you least expect it, before you have the chance of building up troops. Also, let your ally/allies know what your up to (if you have any).
Let summons take the beating when you enter any combat with creeps. If you summon up a Wolf, Treant or a Water Elemental and then let your summon enter the combat first, the summon will take all the damage, and you won't hurt your own troops. If you do this you will save a lot of money, when you don't have to spend it on new troops.
The Hit-and-Run tactic can be a very effective part to win. It works by running in with a small force (maybe just the heroes), then attacking the opponents base. Before or when the enemy arrives, you get the hell outta there. The point of this tactic is to disrupt the enemy by forcing them to run back, or use a scroll of Town portal (which costs 350 gold). This can be very annoying and disrupting to the enemies. You can also get a small gruop of units, which are great at destroying buildings (seige damage) and run in with.
Think about what you upgrade, first off, what units are currently training? Secondly, which units do you want to use? Don't bother upgrading unit armor and weapons which you're not going to use. If you don't spend the money on unecessary things, you can spend them on better stuff, like frisbees.
Creeping is a very important part in WarCraft III, unless you're rushing or have another plan to win. Each level may make quite a difference when facing other heroes. Often it's also good with multiple heroes instead of one really strong. Since the Heroes need less experience at low levels, you will have aquired more levels with 2 Heroes, than with only 1, and will therefore have more abilities.
Control group important buildings (#+ctrl) such as your unit producing building, so you can train new units while you're out creeping, or quickly go back to the base. Then, you don't need to scroll the screen up to the base. It's also often a good idea to set a rally point to your Hero, then your units will walk directly to the place where they probably are needed.
Chase down opponents if they're retreating, don't let them go easily, even if you may think of healing and rebuilding your troops. Use Hero and unit abilities to stun or slow the running units and then take them down. Some skills that work well for this is: Esnare (Wolf Rider), Storm Bolt (Mountain King), Ethereal Form (Blood Mage), check out more abilities that slow down enemy units. But remember; if you play teamplay, there may be other players who comes to aid and surround you, then the hunter, becomes the hunted.
Sometimes it's not good to mass a specific type of unit. Variation to your army can be very effective, especially when you have abilities that are used automaticly (since it can be hard to use all abilities in the heat of battle). Most spellcasters do only use 2 food, having 2 spellcasters will then take only 4 in food cap (im teh math genious). Lets say you have 2 Shamans, with full mana(400), they can cast berserk 10 times each(bererk cost 40 mana), giving 20 of your units berserk (further proof that i'm teh math genious). When 20 of your units has been improved with 40 % attack speed and 20 % movement speed, your armys strenght will increase greatly. But there's other spellcasters with great abilities, theres many good combinations to use with your own force...
Buying the orb at the player built shop is something i almost always do. Each race has it's own special orb. Each orb can be bought when the third tier at the town hall is built. Human race can purchase Orb of Fire. The Orcs can obtain the Orb of Lightning. The Undead shop sells the cursed Orb of Corruption. And, finally, the Night Elves can posess the Orb of Venom. Here's more detailed Information about the Mysterious Orbs. |
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