1.30.2 Patch Notes

General Discussion
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Hail Warchiefs, Lichs, Commanders, and Keepers,

We’re excited to release our first patch since announcement of Reforged! There are many great improvements, balance updates, and you can officially install classic Warcraft III if you own Reforged. The known issues will be patched very soon™. Installers can be found here:

GAME INSTALLATION

SPECIFIC CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS

  • Installation now supports verification of Reforged pre-purchase or legacy keys
  • Added a filter for lobby name
  • Added a filter for map name (prefix with @)
  • Maps will now be uploaded and downloaded from the cloud
  • All custom games from all gateways are now visible in the lobby browser
  • Port forwarding is no longer required to host your favorite map for custom games
  • Network traffic encrypted
  • Updated custom game listing to have all games (for filtering) but list still shows the first 100 games
  • Added region filter to custom game filter
  • Added auto refresh of game information if less than 100 games on list
  • Custom games that are full or cannot be joined are grayed out on games list (refresh to remove)
  • Added kick and ban to player menu
  • Limited color menu to selectable colors
  • For arranged forces, changing player color will change player slot in game list
  • Hosts have * next to their name
  • Latency is shown on the right side of player list
  • Improved peer-to-peer map transfer to increase download speed
  • Game lobby is hosted in the cloud in closest supported data center to host
  • Host leaving will not end game

HOST COMMANDS

  • !ban [name|slot]
  • !unban [name|slot]
  • !closeall
  • !openall
  • !hold [name]
  • !holds [name] [slot]
  • !swap [x] [y]
  • !abort
  • !kick [name|slot]

PLAYER COMMANDS

  • !mute [name|slot]
  • !unmute [name|slot]

BUG FIXES

  • Desyncs with certain custom maps resolved
  • Observer API outputting accurate information
  • Custom sound files with meta data play again
  • Breath of Fire translated in Italian
  • JASS Mouse Event IDs reverted to pre-1.30.0 order

KNOWN ISSUES

  • A host leaving a LAN game sometimes removes other players
  • Custom Hero Survival has a desync with random ability related to legacy code
  • !ban command is not functioning when typed but does function from the drop down menu
  • Instantly joining a custom game after it is created will cause errors and prevent the game from being listed for a period of time
  • If the host leaves a LAN game all remaining players will instantly be taken to the score screen
  • Leaving and rejoining a lobby with full observers can cause a crash if at least one player is on a Mac
  • Players may become desynchronized when a custom game starts using The Third War Reborn

BALANCE UPDATES

Hero Balance Changes
Archmage
Brilliance Aura

  • Level 3 mana regeneration increased from 1.75 to 2.00 per second

Blood Mage
Flamestrike

  • Reduced casting delay from 1.33 to .9 on all levels

Keeper of the Grove
Force of Nature

  • Treant damage reduced from 16 to 15

Entangling Roots

  • Level 2: Duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds
  • Level 3: Duration reduced from 7 to 6 seconds

Warden
Base Stats

  • +1 Intelligence

Pit Lord
Base Stats

  • +1 Agility

Orc Balance Changes
Tauren Totem
Base Stats

  • HP reduced from 1200 to 900

Human Balance Changes
Priest
Base Stats

  • Mana regeneration increased from .67 to .72

Spell Breaker
Tech Tree

  • Control Magic now requires Keep instead of Castle

Control Magic

  • Control Magic mana requirement reduced from 45% of enemy HP to 35% of enemy HP

Cannon Tower
Base Stats

  • Build time reduced from 75 to 65
  • Gold cost reduced from 200 to 150

Night Elf Balance Changes
Huntress
Base Stats

  • Decreased base damage from 16 to 15 (17-19 to 16-18)

Sentinel

  • Is an upgrade again. 100/100 cost, 20 second research, on Ancient of War, requires Hunters Hall, no longer requires Tree of Ages
  • Duration increased from 3 minutes to 5 minutes

Druid of the Talon
Base Stats

  • Gold cost reduced from 150 to 145

Glaive Thrower
Base Stats

  • Base damage decreased from 50 to 44

Undead Balance Changes
Acolyte
Base Stats

  • Movement speed reduced from 250 to 235

Items
Wand of Lightning Shield

  • Duration reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds
  • This reduces total damage from 400 to 200
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No hail to the harbingers. On behalf of the harbinger community I am shocked and appalled.

Thanks for the patch, Pete, Matt, and gang.

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Yaay! I’m so excited to play! :smiley: Thank you so much!

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Useless Human Updates…

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I look forward in abusing the hell out of the new cannon tower

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Although I’m happy with the updates in general, there appears to be some issues with custom games.

Many reports of people crashing when trying to browse custom games. Also when clicking on a custom game in the list, you’re sent back to the chat/Battle.net welcome screen and can only join a game by typing it in.

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-nativefullscr on the shortcut still doesn’t work for me. I just get a black screen with sound. Anyone else having this problem?

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I don’t think this will be enough to rein in the KotG meta. Treants and entangle were already strong skills for years, it was the buff to tranquility and access to mana to be able to cast both his spells comfortably that overpowered him. Getting more moon well mana, more base mana, more regen, lower treant mana costs in a race that already has 2 shop items to generate mana at tier 1 meant KotG changed from being an entangle dispenser to ‘archmage with a free brilliance aura’

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I can’t play this game anymore as my ping is too high, no matter what server I connect to. THANKS BLIZZARD

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I cant create an account!

I get a error after clicking “ok” in the account creation screen: “An error occurred while processing the request.”

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I find it hard to believe the Alchemist has not been touched considering his obscene level of power in the meta.

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Please consider the possibility of pre-set control groups in the options alongside custom hotkeys

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/warcraft3/t/pre-set-control-groups-in-options/

Thank you :slight_smile:

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I face exactly the same problem. Furthermore I can’t properly uninstall the PTR Version :confused:

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Change the location back to how it was before…

After the patch it is set to US West.

I switched back to Europe and i had my account back and logged in as usual.

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This patch is bad. Elf is still op as ***** , seriously montagn giant are op, hunts with moonglaive t2 are op, kotg is op, alchi is op, at least you nerf glaives but cmon …
-1 dmg to treant and - 1 sec to tangle lvl 2 ONLY ON HEROES ?! it insulting… blizzard, it is time to consider point of view of pros players instead of doing random buffs/nerfs it seems you don’t know what are you talking about.
Remember you should balance the game based on 1vs1 matchup, not on 4vs4…
lol…

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edit: I changed the location, still get the same error though. An error occurred while processing the request

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Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice, now i can play wc3 again

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Same issue, glad I’m not the only one =/

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It crash the game under 20 seconds once I start to browse games on battle.net.
Also I can’t even join game. Repair didn’t help.
Funny times

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