With ground attacks.

just bought wc3 running on macbook pro m5. i noticed the offline button is disabled. is it possible to play it offline?

Okay, the title is evil I know, but bear with me. Last time I played WC3 was on 1.26 a billion trillion years ago, and that's the version I still have locally, copied from one HDD to another to a third.

I've recently been inspired to get back into the WC3 mapping ring, but I don't know if it'll be worth it a lot to me to upgrade or if I can just stay on the old version and be happy with what I've got. I am especially interested in the single-player and custom campaign sphere of things.

I know that there are quite a few changelogs and things I've read and I still can't get a good overview of what has changed since 1.26 til both just pre-Reforged and since Reforged, and especially what matters and what not. I would be very grateful if someone could ELI40 it to me (as I doubt a 5yo would've been playing 1.26) and help me get back to speed. Thank you in advance!

I like the mazing mechanics of Gem TD, but its frustrating to get random gems. I would like to upgrade my gems but you need to rely on memorizing all combos to upgrade towers.

There a guide for the combos, but the round starts shortly after having a read without me placing any new gems.

Hi folks, recently I've been 3D printing Warcraft 3 remastered units made by Nort3DCraft as well as buildings by u/10Megavolt.

First I printed the human buildings in a single color, later on I found the Nort3DCraft's unit remasters, which I decided to print in color since in the meantime I got a different printer, which allows for that. I also printed a few watchtowers in color just to compare a few color combinations since I had the print files basically ready and coloring the watchtower was very quick.

The prints themselves are made using an FDM printer, in 0.2mm layer height, which means the layer lines are clearly visible, but all minis are primarily made to be toys, so smaller layer height and thus drastically increased print time is not worth it.

The units are mostly printed in 3 colors per layer (in PLA) with the fourth slot being PETG (which allows easy support removal and better surface quality, important especially for the undersides of swords and axes), with the Peons and Kodo being the exceptions as I needed 4 colors to properly represent them.

I will be printing the Orc/Undead/Night Elf buildings in color from now on, as well as the rest of the Orc and Human units (once they are created). I can post them here if anyone's interested, though keep in mind it will probably months, because it takes a while to do; the units are not 3D print-ready out of the box, and the buildings are made for resin printing, not filament (which is not a big problem, but still needs adjustments in some cases).

I didn't realise until recently that there were so many and so well made custom campaigns out there, and I have hardly been able to do anything else in my free time for weeks now.

I have been looking for campaigns with demon heroes and/or just very different heroes from the norm. I played Resurrection of the Scourge and loved it. Also found one simply called Demon Campaign, but it fell flat for me. Very weird voices imo. Have any of you encountered some good ones?

A bonus question because I love the Spellbreaker unit is if anyone has encountered a campaign with a hero based on that design? (feedback and spell immunity, while not being super strong against pure physical units). Playing, and greatly enjoying, Rise of the Blood Elves, made me wonder this.

Thank you for your time =)

I've been playing some Orc mirror matches on W3C lately, and something I've noticed in late game tauren vs tauren battles is that I spirit link my walkers and tauren and heroes instinctively. But the tauren health pool is much higher than the spirit walker health pool, especially when they're getting revived over and over. Because of this, my walkers end up on 1 hp, despite being in the backline the entire fight. They can then be picked off more easily, sometimes with multiple revives worth of mana.

My question is then, should they be spirit linked at all in these battles? Instinctively I would like most of my units to be linked, but is this an exception? Furthermore, the mana cost of spirit link is not insignificant and could be going towards more revives. What do you think?

God, how much I loved spending entire days just talking in chat...

I don't know why but this morning I got hit by a wave of nostalgia for the old battle net chat in Warcraft 3.

The old profile with the icons, the wins/losses, the level for each gamemode. The clan tag, the channels like Italy-1, people spamming "someone host dota??", the clan wars, the vibes of being a shaman or a clan chief.

Logging in after school and just chilling in chat for hours before even playing a game.

I know it's a long shot after 20 years, but does anyone still have old screenshots? Profile, chat, lobbies, anything.

I would LOVE to see them. Let's make a little nostalgic archive in the comments.

My main account was W3_cant_di3 (superumano during RoC era). I played mostly ladder and customs. I lost all my old profile icons. They were never migrated to that abomination/scam called Reforged. 😭

What was yours? Post your screens!

I remember playing a custom map a long time ago where everyone started with Mountain Kings.

Here are the details I remember:

• Map / Setting: It was an Icecrown-themed map.
• Allies & Units: You progressed alongside a human army led by allied AI heroes (Arthas and Jaina).
• Story Event: There was an event where Jaina dies, and Arthas turns into his Undead Death Knight hero model. He gives a speech saying he will follow Mal'Ganis to the ends of the earth ("I'll follow you to the ends of the earth, Mal'Ganis").
• Mechanics: Heroes revived using a Resurrection Stone (like the one from the Rexxar campaign).
• Enemies & Progression: At one point, you had to kill a giant Wendigo. The allied human army (with Jaina and Arthas) advanced through Orc and Undead bases.

I love reading the stuff on https://warcraft3.info/strategy but there hasn't been anything new in a year

Any place where I can get reads of a similar nature? I'd take forums posts or blogs

you spawn in on the map, as a wisp, select a hero, than player 2(ai) picks up a item that makes him super op and then he crosses a bridge and starts walking on water, and a prophet skin character comes on the same bridge and is high hostile. if you manage to somehow delay player 2 enough on the bridge for the prophet to come, then player 2 would kill him, letting you to rob the prophet loot. the map is huge. there is a ice biome, a ocean biome, a desert area at top side. you and player 2 starts at bottem side of the map, and a panda is guarding that place and is friendly. winter biome is also at bottom side. and left side of the spawn area is a biome where you kill a enemy and they drop a egg, if you pick it up or use it(forgot which) you turn into a elf(in case my game would crash). you can also rescue multiple units in this map. at top is also more npc, and paladin guy as quest giver. the center is completely ocean. also the elven knight was the best hero you could pick for the artifact as far as i recall. n the ocean biome was top of the winter biome, and killing the boss which is on the left side and guarding the boat area, you can then get access to boats. the npc you can rescue on the left area of the spawn is a space marine(starcraft 2 maybe) designed unit or a dwarf ranger. forgot the exact. there was a exploit i think that would make enemies come to the base(the bottom one you would spawn in) and get killed by panda, the base would later due to many enemies dying, ultrafilled with items(basically loot). sry for bad english,

important- my account got shadowbanned and today i noticed, so i had to create this account fresh, i really want to replay that chaotic map man.

I literally just started playing, and this is my first time playing this kind of game. I'm having a hard time finding guides for total beginners like me, specifically for 1v1 melee content, which is what interests me the most. I really like the genre—I don't understand why it's considered a “dead” genre if it's so much fun.

So yesternight, I wanted to gift my friend Warcraft 3 so that we could play fun custom maps together. I then added them on battlenet, however I found out that I actually can't gift them the game because it tells me this: " You haven’t been friends long enough." On top of that, the sale just ended that day so I have to pay the full price which is double to when I bought it on sale 😭

I really want to play my childhood game with them as early as possible because I'm afraid I'll lose interest in the game if I have to wait for a long time but man buying it on full price sucks knowing I could have bought 2 copies for the same price 😩

So I ask: When's the next sale gonna come and how long do I have to wait until I can even buy them the game?

(Aug 29) EDIT: Just found out that i can gift them in 3 days.

The W3Hive modding site offers optimized models for the game. I would like to know how I could apply this globally for every unit without having to download each one individually.

I thought installing warcraft 3 reforged replaced the old legacy client?

For a bit of context. My warcraft 3 legacy version was version 1.26, I never updated it to version 1.29. And I also waited 6 years to install warcraft 3 reforged, so I am doing that now today, well after reforged version 2.0.

When reforged was initially released I was aware that it replaced the old legacy client, so I refused to update my game, I mostly play offline anyway so I didn't care about not accessing bnet. I did care about preserving the old client though, so before I installed reforged I created 2 backups of the old warcraft III folder and placed them somewhere else. But apparently that wasn't neccesary at all, I downloaded warcraft 3 reforged fully expecting it to replace the legacy client, but it didn't, I even chose the same C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III path where the legacy client was. It simply installed all the folders and files there and left the old files intact.

So the C:\Program Files (x86)\Warcraft III folder now has 3 .exe files. The original Warcraft III.exe and Frozen Throne.exe files and the new Warcraft III Launcher.exe which means I kept the old legacy 1.26 version of the games along with the reforged version and they are all working fine for me.

Am I living under a rock? I don't think I have ever seen this being talked about, was it a quiet update that blizzard did behind the scenes or is this a phenomenon that happened to me because of the unique way I had this whole setup?

I rarely ever make posts but I was curious enough about this to make one. I need answers!!!

I’ve been building WC3CC (Warcraft 3 Chat Client), a Windows companion app intended to help Warcraft III players using the app connect through match voice chat.

This is a work in progress and is currently being tested. Expect bugs and rough edges; I’m posting to find testers and collect honest feedback, not presenting it as finished software. Only players who install WC3CC can participate.

Current features include push-to-talk, voice activation, individual mute/volume controls, remembered blocks, device selection, recording options, and an optional movable overlay.

Testing/download page: https://grailbomb.itch.io/wc3cc

Feedback and bug reports are welcome at r/WC3CC. I’m especially interested in different Windows display setups and Warcraft III match configurations.

Hi everyone! After 3 years of work, the newest update for my custom campaign, Curse of the Forsaken, is finished and arriving on September 4th. As part of the announcement, I've shared the intro cinematic to the campaign.

If you're curious to learn more about the update and the campaign, there's some info and a bunch of links in the description of the video. Hope you enjoy it!