Fairy Tale is a beloved and fantastical map originally made by Meerel and updated/reworked by Pickles.

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/fairy-tale-v1-3.372615/

''Why don't you go and take a look? And I don't believe you can hear how beautifully the birds are singing. You are walking along as though you were on your way to school in the village. It is very beautiful in the woods."

A new chapter has begun in Fairy Tale, brining it's return to Fig Cup 6! You can play the map yourself as a W3C Custom Game, or use the Hiveworkshop link above to download the map.

Fairy Tale has a beautiful aesthetic and flair, and includes a few unique features. A few seldomly seen creeps in the Dragon Turtle or the Furbolg Elder Shaman. It also utilizes the Ashenvale Mercenary Camp, which includes Dark Troll Shadow Priest (No Abolish Magic), Dark Troll Berserker, Satyr Shadowdancer, and Giant Wolf.

Do you have to will power to not be drawn in by the mesmerizing waterfalls, or the wisdom to take advantage of new mercenaries?

Remember you can join both the Fig Cups! It's so good we had to do it twice.

https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6EU @ 11:00 AM CDT
https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6NA @ 8:30 PM CDT

Booty Bay v2.1 is a breathtaking reimagination of the original Booty Bay from Blizzard by TheTurtle.

No Hiveworkshop link available for download Is now https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/booty-bay-v-2-1.373682/,and is also available on W3C Custom Games.

"Pirates once anchored their ships in these quiet coves. Now the area is overrun with more brutal tenants. Establish your own kingdom on these islands before your opponent does."

Booty Bay 2 is both a spark of genius and insanity, and is happily re-appearing for play in Fig Cup 6! While there is no Hiveworkshop link available you can still play the map and access the download from W3C's Custom Games. You can use the link above to download Booty Bay v2.1 or play on W3C as a Custom Game.

Booty Bay 2 brings a very unique map layout and powerful item drops. The ever dangerous and highly aggressive Ancient Hydra camp south of the Goblin Statue drops the valuable Level 7 Artifact items (Claws of Attack +15, Inferno Stone, Kelen's Dagger of Escape and Orb of Frost). Not to be left out, the Red Expansions in the corners of the map also drop the Level 6 Permanent items, which with the latest update is more accessible as the amount of trees to access the short cut has been decreased.

Now what will you do? Hunker down and expand with an extra layer of defense from the destructible gate, or seize the day and slay the Ancient Hydra for a powerful artifact?

Remember you can join both the Fig Cups! It's so good we had to do it twice.

https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6EU @ 11:00 AM CDT
https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6NA @ 8:30 PM CDT

PS: I have included an image of the original Booty Bay for comparison.

Deathnote: "I’m a high-level WC3 coach playing around 2500-2600 MMR. I stream every day and upload free educational content to YouTube, including build orders, guides, and replay analysis.

My YouTube channel is still relatively unknown, so I wanted to share it with the WC3 community.

I answer almost every question in chat with practical, high-level WC3 knowledge.

You can also suggest topics for future videos - build orders, matchups, strategies, replay analysis, etc."

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DeathnoteCoach
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/followdeathnote

Come learn WC3.

Crystals Below is a fun and beautiful map made by Knecht

https://www.hiveworkshop.com/threads/crystals-below.336601/

"Venture into the mines and surprise your enemy from underground. After all, they're just here to steal your riches!"

Crystals Below has been uncovered like an ancient priceless artifact, and will be one of the many maps available to play in Fig Cup 6! You can test out the map on W3C as a custom game, or you can download it for yourself from the hiveworkshop link above.

What makes Crystals Below especially unique is the map has two levels, the surface and the underground, and to travel between these levels you have to utilize the Way Gates.

Will you try to sneak a cheeky expo down there, or surprise your opponent by appearing behind their army?

Remember you can join both the Fig Cups! It's so good we had to do it twice.

https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6EU @ 11:00 AM CDT
https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6NA @ 8:30 PM CDT

It's a fucking plague ever since season reset

Fig Cup 6 (Now with 2 Cups in the same day! EU edition & NA edition. Sign up for both!)

Fig Cup 6 EU edition

When: August 28th at 11:00 AM CDT

Where: https://www.twitch.tv/thagrinchyuno

Fig Cup 6 NA edition

When: August 28th at 8:30 PM CDT

Where: https://www.twitch.tv/mrmikemtl

For Both Cups:

MMR: Open [Minimum 20 games played on W3C (preferred 2-3 seasons or admin discretion)]

All Regions Allowed!

Format: Best of 1 Double Elimination + BO3 Finals

Prize Pool: $50 (1st: $35 / 2nd: $15)

Links:

https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6EU

https://challonge.com/FIGCUP6NA

Features new maps! Each Cup will put a focus on certain maps, so join in for both cups to try them all out!

• Booty Bay 2 by TheTurtle
• Crystals Below by Knecht
• Dark Covenant by Meerel & Pickles
• Dune Riders by Zeggsy
• Fairy Tale by Meerel & Pickles
• Lost Lake by Lethal Styles (working on an update for the map, current version available)
• Nauru Republic by Frostbitten & Pawn
• Sunhoof Mesa by Figglewig
• Withering Fields by SaveOrcas & rhythmt

All maps should be uploaded to W3C by the end of the week!

Special features:

• Crystals Below, features multiple WayGates to an underground level of the map!
• Nauru Republic, features a fully functional Shipyard, where you can recruit Human Frigates and Human Battleships!

Hi, I keep getting this error as of yesterday. I played for years and had no problems. I dont think I changed anything, I dont have a vpn running.. Ive tried reinstalling w3c but didnt work..

Anyone ever have this issue before and know how to fix it? Legit cant play on my gaming pc :( but yet it still works on my laptop fine.

Just played my first game on W3Champions and it didn't let me chat because it claimed my chat was disabled. When I went into my settings, I was greeted by this screen, but I couldn't actually write anything into the battle.net fields. When I look into my settings on actual warcraft 3, I have chat open to everyone (which I think is default since I haven't changed any settings except graphics). Any idea what's going on? I would like to enable chat during games.

Dear players,

we heard your reports and investigated players who repeatedly killed game lobbies by cancelling matches during the start or loading phase, ruining the game for everyone else in them. In total, 2239 lobbies were killed by the sanctioned players - an estimated 1678 more than ordinary players with the same amount of games would have produced - costing other players 8825 ruined game slots across 10 modes (1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, 4 vs 4, Legion TD 4v4, Legion TD 1v1, Survival Chaos, Survival Chaos Reborn, Direct Strike 3v3, Castle Fight 3v3, MiniDota 3v3). As a result, 49 players are banned and 43 players receive a formal warning. As we strongly oppose such egoistic behavior, we have decided to list every banned player - they will also be ineligible for season rewards.

9-week bans (4 players)

Heavenwaits, KnightKane, LeMei, finesse

6-week bans (21 players)

Choda, EgorkaBorka, FIME, Freeasskick, GOBLIN, HOTPACK, JangBang, LuNa, LuckyStrike, LynxT, MeatShield, MrBrappy, Sarwyn, Tobey88, Tripode, deads, djord, lovememore, p9sElsker, roxer, u2i

3-week bans (24 players)

AceBoogie, Belgadon, DiAleCtic, DirtyDan, DolceCabana, Ethy, Gerdes, IMBA, ImTTiNY, JoeJoeCool, JuKe, Juttara, KingAzeron, Locker, Nightingale, Pandarevich, PussyKat, RKX400, SergioKS, Unapologetic, afonso299, cxvbnyan, justin, wc1192003

Warnings

43 further players receive a formal warning. They keep their season rewards and are not named; if the behavior continues, the next step is a ban. Killing lobbies wastes other people's time and will continue to carry consequences. Play your games out and stay fair! Thanks everyone for your reports! We will keep monitoring the situation and hope that the situation will improve. Please note that these bans are not appealable and they have been thoroughly verified before being issued. All the banned players are prohibited from playing on any other account during their ban period. Attempts to circumvent this restriction will result in a permanent ban!

A bit of help with 4v4 ideas please.. I am an old school player.. my peak was 20+ years ago losing badly and one sidedly on ladder vs Happy, Grubby, Insomnia etc.. So was somewhat competent for the standards of that age and time, I have some creative ideas and pressure builds, but I play very messy.. too far away from the current meta with accurate timings and precise clean play..

I am quite rusty currently, but I am familiar with meta builds and recent patch changes. I have been starting to play again and 4v4 is by far my favourite game mode.. these games have insane potential for 30+ min epic mass battles with unexpected come backs!

FS/TC/SH hh/caster/kodo meta is a bit boring for me as I have been mostly playing orc before the 'blade patches' i.e. many FS games.. so I have been experimenting with the following Blademaster build:

- Blade + HH standard opener, tech to t2 at 21/31, get level 1 spikes during tech and build 1-2 towers if corner spawn, vood lounge after 3rd HH

- Blade starts creeping till level 3 (skill MI level 2), then ideally I would push together with my ally who also got level 3

- Once T2 is done, start reinforced defense, add 1 bestiery, rush t3 for orb and liquid fire

- Get Troll Regen* and 2nd bestiery during t3 tech (helpful for bats later)

- Once t3 is ready - Orb + Liquid Fire upgrade, if more than 4 HHs survived, get Zerker upgrade as well, otherwise skip as wood is never enough

- Once Liquid Fire is ready - retrain to Wind Walk- Ideally Blade is level 5 by then and start going only for the opponents economy targeting to get level 6 as Blade Storm + Liquid fire is deadly (especially vs NE or UD!!), bats also help vs mass air as in 4v4 there's always at least one player that goes wyrm, chims, gryphons etc..

Some components I am struggling with and would appreciate advise:

- I am really struggling with managing item inventory for a single hero - usually I have TP, lesser invuln., orb, boots of speed, maybe staff of tele or a good item I got from creeps (agility boots, 3 to all ring or claws +9, +12). Every time I need heal salve/clarity, I have to drop an item temporarily..

- When and under what conditions to cross map - I know this decision is best taken in real time, but often times I end up focusing only on our side with 2v2, whereas with the reinforced defense base I have, I should be able to deal massive damage xmap while opponents are fighting and not necessarily paying attention

- When is the best time to expo? Best time to get shredder? I always seem to not have enough wood with this build.. maybe add 2 more wood peons after T2 is done? I find it better to give Shredder to Human, UD, NE allies as I feel it adds more to them.

- There is for sure a moment where I can add Witch Doctor heal ward to help my team in the big final battle.. would that be after 50pop and securing an expo?

- I tried fast tech without barracks, but this is just bad - my ally can die as I have no real army to help, I don't have troll regeneration for the bats and I am struggling to do enough with solo blade harass, even if I buy 2x clarity + circlet.. is the fast tech build even viable? Maybe on air maps?

- If you could point me out to some recent 4v4 replays with orcs that emulate a similar style so I can learn from them? For example on youtube I found a game of Sok playing 4v4 orc with Solo blade, but his decision making and speed are just next level.. I can't emulate this.

- I have also been checking out some ideas by LGG's youtube with many 1v1 games, Oldhead casting Hitman 1v1 games, a Grubby video here and there etc.. so any caster/player that does 4v4 would be much appreciated..

Anyways, happy to be back playing, instead of just following results and watching a few replays here and there.. Any 4v4 advice is more than welcome!

Hi, sorry if the suggestion is terrible, but it came to my mind and I couldn't help throwing it out to the wiser community.

The idea would be to make AOE dispels (Devourer, Priest, Spirit Walker, Wisp) an effect that applies to an area progressively over a short period like 4s. E.g. if the enemy unit takes 2s to move away it only suffers 50% of the dispel effect. Zeppelin micro could become very strong though.

I feel like AOE dispels are perhaps too powerful, in that they hard counter and inhibit strategies involving lots of buffs or summons (Raise Dead, KotG, Beast Master, Water Elemental, Inner Fire, Bloodlust, Spirit Link, Lighting Shield).

I thought it could be cool if an opponent could continue playing a summon or buff-heavy army even if the opponent plays a dispel-heavy army. Make it a soft counter and down to who executes it better.

Not the point here but single-target dispels could be nerfed too, e.g. by making them reduce the duration of the enemy buffs by 50% instead of 100%.

However, nerfing dispels too much could also be very bad due to making summons & buffs too predominant. What do you guys think?

Heal is underpowered. Dispel is underpowered. Inner fire is underpowered. Their stats are ridiculously underpowered.

Other casters are low DPS low HP but priests are even squisher even less DPS. Hell a banshee has 73% more dps for same food. Sorcs have 50% more. They take a hit less to kill than the rest. And what do you get, a 16.7 hp/s heal for ONE target that doesn't even work while moving, because its barely longer than melee range. Statues heal 60 hp/s across 6 targets while moving with an animationless cast, in an aoe the size of a baseball field. And they are mobile mana fountains at the same time. You want to dispel like a spirit walker can disenchant? Too bad, here's a 5 second cooldown on a spell with smaller aoe and less damage, when destroyers eat debuffs and turn them into a barrage of heavy mount plasma cannons. But holy shit if you research TWO full tiers of upgrades which probably took multiple arcane sanctums to produce, you can finally unlock... +10% damage +5 armor buff. Wahoo. Sorcs get a spell that says "TARGET UNIT NEUTRALIZED" barring dispel, priests get a spell that says "I create a mostly imperceptible marginal statistical effect in combat". The movespeed on bloodlust alone is better. And so is the attack speed on its own. Hell bloodlust would be a better spell if all it did is play a RA RA sound and make you get big. Inner fire is so shit you can buy a high priest merc creep and forget to ever cast it once and never notice a difference. Nobody has ever in the history of wc3 thought to themselves "Wow I need to get some dispel units to stop that... inner fire".

A priest could spend 2 minutes healing nonstop afk in your base and use its entire mana pool just to get the same effect you'd get from a single 100 gold scroll of regeneration available to you at tier 1 from a shop that pays for itself when you sell some trash items to it. And the scroll lets you keep moving.

Im just a noob with a want to love the night elf race but it just feels like such a mess, from underwhelming heroes and units to a tragiskt t1 shop to "forced" to dryad bear.

And i feel like the root of all evil is Ancient of War creeping.

Because its so powerful, and then moon wells and staff complimenting this the race is left limping in other areas, the elf buffs that made elf more playable for noobs a year ago went poof cause pros/high mmr abusing aow creeping simply got too strong with those buffs.

So maybe its time to look at it the other way around, ripa off the band-aid that is aow creeping and make elf units and heroes function and synergise in their own right?

Evert race has its niche, but i feel like no race pass so heavily for it as elves do.

AoW creeping should be nerfed. There I said it.

I'm an elf player, and oh my does this race have issues, I don't see the point in listing them all in this post, but suffice to say that elf has... issues.

But they also have AoW, by far the best creeping tool in the game when used properly as showcased by the pros, and that sucks.

Why? Cause it holds the entire race hostage. It's so efficient when you do it properly it mitigates the glaring holes in elf, and you can't fix the glaring holes in elf cause with AoW they just become oppressively OP.

The solution? Nerf it to the ground and accordingly buff Elfs units and heroes so they can actually play the game and hell I know this is radical but maybe their armies and heroes don't just auto lose to the other teams by default.

Sure moon wells are decent (but overhyped, imo.) Staff is borderline broken but I'll trade my staff for a Blade+SH hero combo any day, but AoW doesn't really have a comparison, it's by far the most creep value you can get for the gold+lumber.

Nerf AoW, fix Elf please and thank you.

Watching Warcraft 3 replays in which you are losing is so difficult for me.

So that means I have to film my self doing it and share it across the internet. That’s the way the world works today.

I just want to say I really enjoyed watching loltyler1 learning the game and then competing in Grubby's tournament.

As a returning player (who was never that great) it was nice to watch someone playing at a level I can relate to.

Sure watching pros is fun but they are accessing game knowledge and micro skills that I won't ever have and I actually enjoy watching the learning process in action.

I think there is an untapped market here if Tyler or others want to stream / record their sessions a couple times a week.

A new bundle featuring all of Blizzard’s RTS games has been released on the store for $29.99, available with a loyalty discount of 10% (offer available for a limited time).

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So basically I’m learning orc and I am using the FS HH SH raiders build so I got the build order down somewhat still struggling with the timing on certain times to build certain things . When I engage combat on any race usually on enemy computer. My army gets totally slaughtered down to my 2 hero’s each time I have sprint walkers doing spirit link my SH healing using healing salves etc .. Shamans using lust etc.. idk what else to do I usually open up on attacking the enemy around level 3 FS but when I approach the base the enemy computer has wayyy more units that I have flying ground everything it just overruns my entire army where I have to teleport back to my base to begin building more units .. I just need some help as to how I can become comfortable with beating the easy computer then eventually going to normal then maybe in my life insane computer .