It's disappointing... a decade ago, Blizzard would have been the type of company that saw the legend of this fabled Mana Stone and created an easter egg in WoW as tribute to the shiny rock. Activision-Blizzard of current year would DMCA you for badmouthing Reforged and then ban you.
Kael wasn't sent to jail for working with the naga, he was sent to jail for misappropriating ivory towers to inflict cruel and unusual containment upon that meat wagon
I had flashbacks from every game NPC that goes about a rare item they give you:"this sword was used to defeat the dragon of.. it was handed to the king and the king gave it to his son on his deathbed.. and his son has defeated the hordes of.. single handedly with that sword" lmao
That would mean elves would help defending Lordaeron against the Forsaken. And Sylvanas might not even be successful in capturing it. Great, WoW story is broken now.
@@andregon4366 What about Detheroc's stronghold? Aren't elves more resilient to mind manipulation? Would their presence have resisted Detheroc's spell that enslaved Garithos and his people?
@Tommaso Stefanelli Unfortunately, he already did. The next campaign is Undead and none of the heroes here are playable in that one so there's no way for the Mana Stone to be carried over.
@@selectivepontification8766 Plot Twist, GGG will have a dramatic narration of betrayal...only for it to be revealed to be the Mana Stone in Illidan's inventory which the AI will most likely consume to use a spell.
Garithos was right all along he didn’t leave kaelthas to die he was right to have confidence in Kael to beat the undead, he didn’t need the naga’s help it was Kael’s fault for teaming up with the Vile naga instead of just following Lord Garithos’s orders
@@Destroyer2150 They did, but not frequently and only when low on health or to get within range to cast Fan of Knives. Same thing for Wind Walk with Blademasters (which made it a bit funny when the blademaster ran back with about 5 health just to proc the backstab damage and then got one-shotted).
Figuring out how to use Blink is a Starcraft 2 feature only. Just a shame the SC2 team couldn't come over to Reforged to add that one thing in, probly because those who programmed the AI to use Blink in SC2 were either fired or left the company due to it being shit. Just goes to show what happens when you don't appreciate your skilled and talented members properly eh?
Somehow the thing that impressed me the most in this video is how underwhelming the Naga Witch's forked lightning looks, it genuinely looks like an auto attack to me.
Yeah, same goes for chain lightning and the chimera attack. They've just made all the lightning related animations super brief and more subtle as well, it's super disappointing.
The Blood Elf Campaign was always my favorite in W3, the complete uniqueness of it all along with *essentially* 3 rag tag races pulling together always made it feel so good. I just wish the Dreanai got a bit more development in W3
Imagine my disappointment when Blizz made us kill all 3 heroes in WOW Burning Crusade... I was confused and angry. It feels like in WOW you are always the bad guy, LOL!
Frostmourne: in can give you ultimate power unknown through all the lands Also frostmourne: *true power is only really seen in cutscenes* Mean while random mana stone that has straight up been in the inventory of multiple heroes: look at what this thing has to do to mimic my powers
Naga: "Finally, our power is within your hands. What shall you do with it?" GGG: "I use the Royal Guard to stun-lock the last boss of your campaign" Naga: "... Well good enough for us..."
WHITE TEXT COMPILATION (because I enjoy watching videos podcast style, which means I miss out on a lot of the funny flavour text): Misconceptions 1:17 Bloodfiend: Hey Guys, can I play? (runs up while Kael is fighting some rogues) Bloodfiend: Guys? (is ignored) Bloodfiend: Aww... (resets position). A Dark Covenant 4:44 Acolyte: Seems like a good time to haunt this gold mine (while running past an array of guard towers). 5:44 Kael: Are you here for your first or second shot? (volunteering at a dragonhawk rider medical station). The Dungeons of Dalaran 5:57 Kael: Are you today's camera man? Kael: Oh, hello (the camera zooms uncomfortably in on him) Kael: Back off (the camera zooms away) 7:14 Kael: It's over Antonidas! I have the high ground! (while casting Flame Strike on Antonidas from an elevated position) The Search for Illidan 9:33 Tatsa Sweetbarrow: The world will remember Tatsa Sweetbarrow's heroic rescue of Illidan Stormrage! (before killing Maiev with Breath of Fire) 9:43 Kael: Kael'thas? More like Jail'thas! (while he and Lady Vashj bodyblock Maiev). Maiev: Not. Funny. Tatsa Sweetbarrow: I thought it was funny (standing off to the side). Gates of the Abyss 13:35 Naga Myrmidon: Run Bob! (while fel orcs close in) Bob the (Scout Tower) Builder: no no no no no no The Lord of Outland 17:09 Grant: I'm losing my voice.
Yo Ggg, the tower defence mission always ends in a victory, regardlesd of the number of waves cleared. It isn't reforged fault for once... Also Naga myrmidon on mission 2 is sad for you not picking him up
Ah, you're almost correct. You're supposed to only get the panda hero if you win properly by defeating every wave. So technically yes, you can lose, but you're not supposed to get the pandaren hero
@@blinky101 Are you absolutely sure? Because I am pretty sure i played with that pandaren on that map before, and I definitely never "won" the TD map nor played reforged.
@@zairaner1489 I'm pretty sure that's a bug. You're only supposed to get the pandaren if you successfully defend the portal against all waves. Otherwise, when the portal dies, the game basically goes "well, we saved as many as we could" and moves on cause it's only a bonus level. The issue is the bug, not the level design.
Gates of the Abyss was actually my favorite mission in the original Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne. You got full control over two armies, Naga and Blood Elves, and got to fight against a unique enemy in the Fel Orcs. I wish they could have given us one or two more missions like that in the Blood Elf campaign, as I really wanted to explore the Naga and Blood Elf rosters for more than one mission.
Lmao Mana stone and Royal Guards MVP! Never forget *o7* Illidan what a hero, he managed to regen to stay alive from Infernal's immolation damage, even survived the last seconds attack. But not Arthas' Frostmourne, he couldn't come back easily from that xD Would love to see you play Westwood games (Red Alert, C&C, Generals) without losing units
@@zairaner1489 I remember Anub'arak's Spiked Carapace being bugged back in the day, giving armor every time he levels up through the campaign, to the point that Anub has 90% damage reduction. Dunno if that stays or not.
Help, I'm addicted to your videos. I'm just so happy that someone is making Warcraft III content. Especially since AbelHawk finished his easter eggs series.
Dude, you gotta do a DOW campaign or two like this. I would love a video of trying to save every last Imperial Guardsman. With all the tanks and priests you wouldn't be able to hear the enemy over the sounds of "YOU HAVE CHOSEN, WISELY" and "AS SOON AS WE BESIEGE THE MACHINE SPIRIT."
Last boss on last lvl: haha what will you do now I’m too strong *two naga royal guards show up* Boss: oh no grant got access to the thing that made him suffer the last campaign
G, I'm dissapointed.... You forgot to mention how unique the objective of Gates of the Abyss is! I mean, you have FOUR portals, each one of them is reenforced with a progressively larger wave of demons! It hadn't been done before!
Blizzard = AHAH you cant defeat this powerfull demon lord that we made without loosing a unit. GGG = let me use your own weapon against you after all the suffering you make
I fairly recently ran through the entirety of the Frozen Throne (original CD copy) and applied many of the same tactics because I just love using my heroes and save my resources in the process. Enjoyed it greatly to see you do similar.
Fun fact: they patched Grant's exploit for Dark Covenant. The game forcably removes any town portals you might have from the previous mission, and there are none in the shop when you load into the mission. Gotta love them changing the things that don't matter, or are a slight exploit to make the game a little easier. A fully fledged game, well, that's simply too much work.
Grant: *Uses the "cheap" Mana Stone from the second mission throughout two campaigns to make his strategies work and do a deathless run* Blizzard: "Wait, that's illegal!"
Considering that the army he starts with seems to be decently sized (probably 50 supply including heroes), he probably doesn't have enough supply to spam Couatls to a critical mass.
Couatls are still not strong enough to handle the fel orc base since they get grounded by raiders and easily killed, I guess they could work versus the gates but idk.
Same here. Maybe you can't create enough coatls to make the demon gates easy if you don't lose your starting army, simply because of the supply it takes up?
I mean he starts with 38 supply. That's still 62 supply worth of Couatls. Now I don't know if they nerfed it in reforged but in the original they were only 2 supply so that's still 31 Couatls which is way over critical mass if you ask me
8:49 I know this is two two years too late but I remember the same thing happening in the original. My guess is that it was just a bonus mission and didn't want players to get stuck or something.
Fun fact: it is a bit easier to do the deatless run in reforged since you can stack several items, like the pocket watch towers or scrolls of healing on a single item slot while in the no reforged version you can only have one of those items per slot.
Also helps that the game doesnt take away the town portal for the mission like the original did 😬 just tried to do this striatgy and immideatly was not viable
It was really clever how u finished 2nd mission. I am really exiting to see how will finish undead's first mission. Kel'tuzad's weak units, overpowered quards attacking Sylvana's side, and couple of paladins in middle of the map.
@@ventu7907 Which he won't be doing, because he counts it as losing an acolyte, even though they're technically replaced by the Shade. He has another strategy to pass that stage.
Hey grant if you didnt know on the second mission if you move all outlying units to a corner (atcthe very back of each side) they will all teleport to the middle island after all the buildings are destroyed.
I remember when I played this. I would use Kael’s mana siphon power to pump mana into Vashj’s mana shield to tank shots. Since I don’t see GGG doing this, I’m going to assume it wasn’t actually a good strat
I'm so stupid. When you said, "Let's start off with Misconceptions." I was thinking you were going to explain something we misunderstood and got confused when you went straight to the mission. (I wasn't looking at the screen at the time, my TH-cam was on loudspeaker on my phone)
In the original version, the mission 2 needs a different strategy cause you cannot stack 5 ivory towers in the same slot. Found a way though, the two sorceress in the bottom side have Master Training, so you can cast invisibility on 4 units and create a barrier in the bridge with a space so thigh that only ghouls and necromancers can Cross (though you cannot stack ivory towers, you probably still wanna buy 5 and a scroll of town portal. With that and two extra towers that the workers can create you can Take out the ghouls an necromancers that cross the gap of your invisible units barrier, and with kael you can cast flame strike to the remaining enemies that are blocked by the barrier, that will damage them enough so that your towers can clear it and just move a unit so that they come one at a time.
On the first mission you can get a badass ogre with chaos damage from the southern part of the map. With it, army becomes quite formidable and and you can clean mobs near third observatory and only then establish base on the island. Then you won't have to deal with so many waves of undead.
You, sir, are a genius! 2:00 If you want to increase your gold income, build Town Centar further from gold mine, so more peasants can dig up gold. You can put only 5 of them if you build TC as close as possible. Also work for Orcs. Maybe it doesn't work in Reforged, I don't know. 4:00 And I think this wouldn't work in old WC3, you could carry only one item per slot. Maybe they change that in some later patches, or my memory is crap.
Well this is a delightful surprise to wake up to! I honestly didn't know that items carried over between campaigns, though; that's really cool. Mad props for managing this - I honestly wasn't sure if this was possible, mostly thanks to that Dimensional Portal level.
For the final mission in the final campaign, if you have a Horn of the Clouds, try dropping it in the circle Illidan wanted to capture, he will pick it up & instead of destroying your towers, he will cast cloud on them instead.
the Secrets mission always let you win the hero on the next mission if you got to the last 3 waves, that's nothing new. As for why that and mission 3 got reforged, maybe they started with all the missions involving Dalaran and got them done before corners where cut.
2nd mission if you hide all your unit at the edge of the land then after the undead destroy all the building the cinematic trigger. Then all unit u save will be teleport to the main island. However I am not suggest doing so cuz they take a tons of upkeep and you have no resources to buy house immediately.
The Tower defense mission will always be a victory after all towers have been unlocked, no matter which wave you lose in.. This is true both in the original W3 and in the Reforged.
In A Dark Covenant, green won't send terrifying attack waves unless you retake a base. And you can get OP Naga units if you let your bases die. Might make the run a bit less tricky. And if can just walk units out of your base in the start of the game and they won't get attacked
"Mana stone of Tree Grant" legendary item (get it? "tree" as in "three", ggg) maybe a month ago i would have wished blizz made it a legendary item in wow
Hmm... Now, I haven't played WoW since wrath, so pardon my old-timer talk here, with all the newfangled game mechanics... Mana Stone of the Grand Grant (product of an overfunded research project by the kirin tor - "the grand grant" - to produce better mana stones. And Giant n Grand are like, synonyms or whatever.) -Plus spell power -Chance on cast to provide the raid with a mana restoration buff (same numbers as replenishment, or whatever it was called. And stacks with it.) -Also can be used as a hearth stone, because bro, this rock's been everywhere and just wants to kick back at a tavern.
Actually, I did my own deathless challenge for this campaign and I found another path for the first level. Basically, once you get the boats, you travel to the bottom right corner of the map. Do NOT go to the middle of the map. There you will pick up 2 dwarf riflemen and fight an ogre warchief (lvl 9). If you macro well, you will be able to kill the warchief without losing a unit. The reason you want to kill this warchief is he will drop a rune of rebirth. Basically, he will reappear as a member of your party. You now have a 1200 HP unit that does over 100 chaos damage per hit, has the command aura and bash. With this character as your tank, you can slowly wipe out the undead base before you build a single structure. Once you have destroyed the undead base, the rest of the map is a cakewalk. However, it does take a long time.
Absolute fucking madman. I believed for the longest time that it's impossible to do this in TFT UD, but now I'm both excited and terrified to see what you come up with to best it.
I cannot wait to see the undead campaign. Specially after finishing it yesterday. And,my God, what a complicated campaign being, Sylvanas+Garithos Lordaeron siege and the final showdown between Arthas and Illidan forces, the hardest by far in all Frozen Throne in my case.
Damn, those were some nice strats that I never would've thought! I managed to go deathless on A Dark Covenant until the assault on the green base (since I could intercept the ground attacks while they were crossing the river on Zeppelins I only needed Dragonhawks and towers to defend from the fliers) but yea I never would've been able to destroy that without losing units lol. Also Gates of the Abyss was very well done, I always dread the first three minutes because it feels impossible to not lose all your weakened units. Lord of Outland is very easy in comparison, with your overpowered heroes and the two Royal Guards alone you can destroy almost everything so I literally only lost units because I purposefully let them die to bring them back at full with the Rune of Greater Resurrection as I was fighting Magtheridon. Additionally, Akama comes with a Staff of Silence which makes most enemy heroes total bait. One thing I do wonder is why didn't you use the Phoenix? Since it never despawns as long as you don't let it die it seems like it'd be the one summoned unit you'd be fine with. Also afaik in The Dungeons of Dalaran your melee units are magic immune (Lieutenants and Spellbreakers) so Flame Strike shouldn't harm them. Other than that, this was really cool to watch!! That Mana Stone has been to places alright.
On the phases, you can send all the troops to the corner and they get automatically teleported back to your main base. No need to run them away and tp manually.
Is that Illidan fighting the Lord of Outlands? AND FROM THE RIGHT SIDE COME TWO NAGA ROYAL GUARDS WITH A STEEL CHAIR OH MY GOD WHAT A BATTLE
BAH GAWD THAT MAN HAS A FAMILY
An amazing face turn for these Naga Royal Guards
the royal guards made that scene hahaha
BAH GAWD IT'S A SLOBBERKNOCKER! THE SHEER BRUTALITY! kek
Amazing comment
The three strongest units in the game that can exterminate the entire demon race
1. Furbolgs
2. Naga Royal Guards
3. Night Elf Hydralisk
1. The bullied
2. The bullies
3. Wrong game
you forgot that demons are scared of deez
@@JudicialBrat joe mama
@@Willdroyd XD
and some blue stone^^
Some elf veteran, to his grandkids many years later: "Let me tell you about a mana stone..."
Some stupid death knight to his grandkids many years later: "Let me tell you a story about this shiny blue sword ... "
Blov
It's disappointing... a decade ago, Blizzard would have been the type of company that saw the legend of this fabled Mana Stone and created an easter egg in WoW as tribute to the shiny rock.
Activision-Blizzard of current year would DMCA you for badmouthing Reforged and then ban you.
Excuse me, it is THE Mana Stone
Someone should mod in this legendary mana stone.
Kael wasn't sent to jail for working with the naga, he was sent to jail for misappropriating ivory towers to inflict cruel and unusual containment upon that meat wagon
Indeed. War crimes are very serious offence!
Khael'thas: "Geneva conventions? More like Geneva suggestions!"
@@_Tomon It's never a war crime the first time.
But, technically it is not a warcrime just warfare imprisonment which followes all Geneva convention laws of war,
Catapults don’t have rights
@@runtergerutscht4401 THE GENEVA CHECKLIST!
There's only one thing more powerful than the Mana Stone:
The Mana Stone.... held by a Furbolg Champion.
Or two mana stones!
I fucking loved that line, “frostmourne has nothing on this blue rock”
I had flashbacks from every game NPC that goes about a rare item they give you:"this sword was used to defeat the dragon of.. it was handed to the king and the king gave it to his son on his deathbed.. and his son has defeated the hordes of.. single handedly with that sword"
lmao
To be fair, frostmourne kinda sucks.
@@VK-sz4it yeah i was like "oy where's my chaos damage?" when i started the roc undead campaign lol
@@solarwrath1313 and basic paladin is better then basic death night in my opinion. And you lose all levels and all items.
@@sorta-7272 the irony is you somehow have a better weapon from the side quest and that weapon came from the main quest
Garithos: "YOU ALLIED WITH THE NAG- wait."
Kael: "What?"
Garithos: "nothing uh...YOUR STILL AN ELF."
That would mean elves would help defending Lordaeron against the Forsaken. And Sylvanas might not even be successful in capturing it.
Great, WoW story is broken now.
@@andregon4366 Kael faction leader for the horde, did nothing wrong.
And the blood elves aren't a dying race because >none of them died.
@@andregon4366 Pretty sure the story was busted long ago in the Night Elf campaign with the furbolgs.
@@witherkichian4867 Just watched that video.
You're right.
@@andregon4366 What about Detheroc's stronghold? Aren't elves more resilient to mind manipulation? Would their presence have resisted Detheroc's spell that enslaved Garithos and his people?
We need to get Carbot to animate the Journey Of The Mana Stone, that would be epic.
a carbot x GGG crossover would be sick as!
Edit: Funny engrish below :P
its brainless you new trash kids
@Tommaso Stefanelli Unfortunately, he already did. The next campaign is Undead and none of the heroes here are playable in that one so there's no way for the Mana Stone to be carried over.
@@selectivepontification8766
Plot Twist, GGG will have a dramatic narration of betrayal...only for it to be revealed to be the Mana Stone in Illidan's inventory which the AI will most likely consume to use a spell.
Wait if heros keep item from campagne to campagne does he not make the final mission of the undead impossible with this 3 heros boosted ?
Kael: Survives the undead onslaught and destroys the enemy bases without the help of Naga or major Alliance forces
Garithos: Hippity hoppity, *no*
That "advanced anticheese - cheese" is very impressive though.
Big Respect for Garithos! I wish he in Shadowlands than that elf loser Kael or reject Vashj.
Garithos: Hippity hoppity, your freedom is my property
Garithos did nothing wrong
Garithos was right all along he didn’t leave kaelthas to die he was right to have confidence in Kael to beat the undead, he didn’t need the naga’s help it was Kael’s fault for teaming up with the Vile naga instead of just following Lord Garithos’s orders
That mana stone had a more exciting life than I will ever have.
Well you don't live on Azeroth (probably thankfully) so it's not really a fair comparison
The royal guards: we were bad but now we’re good
And we’re moving into your neighborhood
Zuko here
They're coming back in the next campaign... good is relative
arthas is bad. royal naga guard good
@@thebenqisme yeah literally that guy is shit
lol Maiev, the hero with a literal teleportation ability, getting body blocked
I don’t think the A.I has ever really known what to do with an ability like Blink. It’s to situational to program
@@nevermore7285 If I remember correctly, even in Frozen Throne, AI wardens never used Blink.
@@Destroyer2150 They did, but not frequently and only when low on health or to get within range to cast Fan of Knives. Same thing for Wind Walk with Blademasters (which made it a bit funny when the blademaster ran back with about 5 health just to proc the backstab damage and then got one-shotted).
Figuring out how to use Blink is a Starcraft 2 feature only.
Just a shame the SC2 team couldn't come over to Reforged to add that one thing in, probly because those who programmed the AI to use Blink in SC2 were either fired or left the company due to it being shit.
Just goes to show what happens when you don't appreciate your skilled and talented members properly eh?
Somehow the thing that impressed me the most in this video is how underwhelming the Naga Witch's forked lightning looks, it genuinely looks like an auto attack to me.
Yeah, same goes for chain lightning and the chimera attack. They've just made all the lightning related animations super brief and more subtle as well, it's super disappointing.
For some reason, they decided to made it looks a lot thinner compared to the original looks.
They're kerrigan's auto atack
Old WC3, those skills were crisp, solid and looks like they hurt as hell
It's Magtheridon vs Illidan, we're in for a hell of a ma-What's this!? IT'S THE NAGA ROYAL GUARD WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!!
All hail the Mana Stone, true hero of this challenge
The Mana Stone, the hero we didn't ask for, but the hero we needed.
Something tells me that the AI will consume it in the next campaign
The Blood Elf Campaign was always my favorite in W3, the complete uniqueness of it all along with *essentially* 3 rag tag races pulling together always made it feel so good. I just wish the Dreanai got a bit more development in W3
nah Draenai fking sucks ass. they are just there to give an excuse for not having the Sons of Lothar there.
@@newfacepaula ? Do you mean there was intent on having a human garrison comprised of the Remains of Turalyon's expedition?
Imagine my disappointment when Blizz made us kill all 3 heroes in WOW Burning Crusade... I was confused and angry.
It feels like in WOW you are always the bad guy, LOL!
Frostmourne: in can give you ultimate power unknown through all the lands
Also frostmourne: *true power is only really seen in cutscenes*
Mean while random mana stone that has straight up been in the inventory of multiple heroes: look at what this thing has to do to mimic my powers
Naga: "Finally, our power is within your hands. What shall you do with it?"
GGG: "I use the Royal Guard to stun-lock the last boss of your campaign"
Naga: "... Well good enough for us..."
Stun locked into submission. What a way to crush the final mission.
WHITE TEXT COMPILATION (because I enjoy watching videos podcast style, which means I miss out on a lot of the funny flavour text):
Misconceptions
1:17
Bloodfiend: Hey Guys, can I play? (runs up while Kael is fighting some rogues)
Bloodfiend: Guys? (is ignored)
Bloodfiend: Aww... (resets position).
A Dark Covenant
4:44
Acolyte: Seems like a good time to haunt this gold mine (while running past an array of guard towers).
5:44
Kael: Are you here for your first or second shot? (volunteering at a dragonhawk rider medical station).
The Dungeons of Dalaran
5:57
Kael: Are you today's camera man?
Kael: Oh, hello (the camera zooms uncomfortably in on him)
Kael: Back off (the camera zooms away)
7:14
Kael: It's over Antonidas! I have the high ground! (while casting Flame Strike on Antonidas from an elevated position)
The Search for Illidan
9:33
Tatsa Sweetbarrow: The world will remember Tatsa Sweetbarrow's heroic rescue of Illidan Stormrage! (before killing Maiev with Breath of Fire)
9:43
Kael: Kael'thas? More like Jail'thas! (while he and Lady Vashj bodyblock Maiev).
Maiev: Not. Funny.
Tatsa Sweetbarrow: I thought it was funny (standing off to the side).
Gates of the Abyss
13:35
Naga Myrmidon: Run Bob! (while fel orcs close in)
Bob the (Scout Tower) Builder: no no no no no no
The Lord of Outland
17:09
Grant: I'm losing my voice.
I'm really glad you spent the time to talk about the MVP Mana Stone. Truly a legendary tale.
Those final royal guards made my day, I don't think I ever realized how OP they were until you took them on in these deathless runs.
Yo Ggg, the tower defence mission always ends in a victory, regardlesd of the number of waves cleared. It isn't reforged fault for once...
Also Naga myrmidon on mission 2 is sad for you not picking him up
Ah, you're almost correct. You're supposed to only get the panda hero if you win properly by defeating every wave. So technically yes, you can lose, but you're not supposed to get the pandaren hero
@@blinky101 Are you absolutely sure? Because I am pretty sure i played with that pandaren on that map before, and I definitely never "won" the TD map nor played reforged.
Was looking for this (comment). Feels like a blind bash on Reforge to please the old fanbase / the haters while it was that all along.
@@zairaner1489 I'm pretty sure that's a bug. You're only supposed to get the pandaren if you successfully defend the portal against all waves. Otherwise, when the portal dies, the game basically goes "well, we saved as many as we could" and moves on cause it's only a bonus level. The issue is the bug, not the level design.
@@blinky101 I remember playing it in classic, i still gets the panda even when i lose
Can we appreciate how quickly the deathless run actually starts after the opening skit?
Considering the amount of time spent on each one, I'd say it's very much deserving
Gates of the Abyss was actually my favorite mission in the original Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne.
You got full control over two armies, Naga and Blood Elves, and got to fight against a unique enemy in the Fel Orcs.
I wish they could have given us one or two more missions like that in the Blood Elf campaign, as I really wanted to explore the Naga and Blood Elf rosters for more than one mission.
The Belf campaign was easily the most fun to explore back in the day. What I wouldnt have given for a few more missions of it
Lmao Mana stone and Royal Guards MVP! Never forget *o7*
Illidan what a hero, he managed to regen to stay alive from Infernal's immolation damage, even survived the last seconds attack. But not Arthas' Frostmourne, he couldn't come back easily from that xD
Would love to see you play Westwood games (Red Alert, C&C, Generals) without losing units
That sounds really freaking hard
I see you everywhere, not complaining tho
Command and conquer Games kind of near impossible to win without losing an unit, Especially the earlier titles.
How in the world do you do a deathless run in a game where a unit dies in second with no healing unit
Good luck on the final mission of the Scourge campaign, A Symphony of Frost and Flame. If anyone can do it though, it would be you though.
It was bugged before reforged, so it would be a wonder if it wouldn't be anymore.
Yeah... I expect advanced cheese.
@@zairaner1489 I remember Anub'arak's Spiked Carapace being bugged back in the day, giving armor every time he levels up through the campaign, to the point that Anub has 90% damage reduction. Dunno if that stays or not.
It’s already been done. Grant streamed Scourge Deathless ages ago
You can cheese the whole mission by just imprisoning illidan in a force field made of shades
Help, I'm addicted to your videos. I'm just so happy that someone is making Warcraft III content. Especially since AbelHawk finished his easter eggs series.
Dude, you gotta do a DOW campaign or two like this. I would love a video of trying to save every last Imperial Guardsman. With all the tanks and priests you wouldn't be able to hear the enemy over the sounds of "YOU HAVE CHOSEN, WISELY" and "AS SOON AS WE BESIEGE THE MACHINE SPIRIT."
Last boss on last lvl: haha what will you do now I’m too strong
*two naga royal guards show up*
Boss: oh no grant got access to the thing that made him suffer the last campaign
Illidan could 1v1 him the way he was built with items from two campaigns
I've waited for almost 10000 years, and I was rewarded. Thanks!
G, I'm dissapointed....
You forgot to mention how unique the objective of Gates of the Abyss is! I mean, you have FOUR portals, each one of them is reenforced with a progressively larger wave of demons! It hadn't been done before!
You don't technically destroy the gates, so he gets a pass on this one
I've watched this several times now, and every single time the MSPaint Lady Vashj in the intro makes me descend into giggles.
Sir, I applaud your dedication. This series is so much fun to watch, and at the same time I can feel the pain you had to go through.
Blizzard = AHAH you cant defeat this powerfull demon lord that we made without loosing a unit. GGG = let me use your own weapon against you after all the suffering you make
He also didn't buff Ilidan, he can surely solo that hero with gear and buffs, it's not that hard.
@@acb1511 he did give him overpower item but if he is unit to buff him those unit could have die so not doing so was safer
@@arthurvaney6166 As far as I remember, you get inner fire + unholy frenzy + roar at least, this is +100% DPS untill they expire.
Was right about to go to bed too. Always time for another of these videos.
I fairly recently ran through the entirety of the Frozen Throne (original CD copy) and applied many of the same tactics because I just love using my heroes and save my resources in the process. Enjoyed it greatly to see you do similar.
what perfect timing. I JUST rewatched this series yesterday. All refreshed and ready to go B-)
Fun fact: they patched Grant's exploit for Dark Covenant. The game forcably removes any town portals you might have from the previous mission, and there are none in the shop when you load into the mission. Gotta love them changing the things that don't matter, or are a slight exploit to make the game a little easier. A fully fledged game, well, that's simply too much work.
My favorite campaign since childhood, been waiting for this!
Grant: *Uses the "cheap" Mana Stone from the second mission throughout two campaigns to make his strategies work and do a deathless run*
Blizzard: "Wait, that's illegal!"
Actually surprised you didn't use Couatls in the Gates of Abyss.
Considering that the army he starts with seems to be decently sized (probably 50 supply including heroes), he probably doesn't have enough supply to spam Couatls to a critical mass.
Couatls are still not strong enough to handle the fel orc base since they get grounded by raiders and easily killed, I guess they could work versus the gates but idk.
Same here. Maybe you can't create enough coatls to make the demon gates easy if you don't lose your starting army, simply because of the supply it takes up?
I mean he starts with 38 supply. That's still 62 supply worth of Couatls. Now I don't know if they nerfed it in reforged but in the original they were only 2 supply so that's still 31 Couatls which is way over critical mass if you ask me
@@alexei985 yeah I guess it could work, he would still have to be careful tho.
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I know this is two two years too late but I remember the same thing happening in the original. My guess is that it was just a bonus mission and didn't want players to get stuck or something.
Babe wakeup, Grant has a new deathless run
Fun fact: it is a bit easier to do the deatless run in reforged since you can stack several items, like the pocket watch towers or scrolls of healing on a single item slot while in the no reforged version you can only have one of those items per slot.
Also helps that the game doesnt take away the town portal for the mission like the original did 😬 just tried to do this striatgy and immideatly was not viable
It was really clever how u finished 2nd mission. I am really exiting to see how will finish undead's first mission. Kel'tuzad's weak units, overpowered quards attacking Sylvana's side, and couple of paladins in middle of the map.
Great run. The planning over several missions and even campaigns is insane.
Garithos jailed Kael'thas over the tax of all those towers.
I have been waiting for this so long! Luckily you decided to do the Tower Defense!
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Hold on, didn't the Naga come and give you the boats in the first mission so you could get to the observatories?
Won't you regret not dropping all of Illidan's, Kael and Vash's items during the final undead mission ?
Nah, that probably won't ever come back to bite him... :D
@@zairaner1489 this feels like forshadowing
@@theotherguy4456 Sadly, I haven't watched the vods for the ud campaign, so i can only hope it is foreshadowing ;)
It doesn’t really matter. Illidan can be imprisoned by shades in the last ud mission
@@ventu7907 Which he won't be doing, because he counts it as losing an acolyte, even though they're technically replaced by the Shade. He has another strategy to pass that stage.
Hey grant if you didnt know on the second mission if you move all outlying units to a corner (atcthe very back of each side) they will all teleport to the middle island after all the buildings are destroyed.
He couldn't do that because they're only teleported at the end of the cutscene that he never triggers. He unlocked an extra dimension of cheese!
Man I love these videos... its insane how skilled you are. I wonder what kind of crazy rules you will make for yourself once you get these all done..
I'm starting to love the effort you put into these videos.
I remember when I played this. I would use Kael’s mana siphon power to pump mana into Vashj’s mana shield to tank shots. Since I don’t see GGG doing this, I’m going to assume it wasn’t actually a good strat
I'm so stupid. When you said, "Let's start off with Misconceptions."
I was thinking you were going to explain something we misunderstood and got confused when you went straight to the mission.
(I wasn't looking at the screen at the time, my TH-cam was on loudspeaker on my phone)
Absolutely same
In the original version, the mission 2 needs a different strategy cause you cannot stack 5 ivory towers in the same slot. Found a way though, the two sorceress in the bottom side have Master Training, so you can cast invisibility on 4 units and create a barrier in the bridge with a space so thigh that only ghouls and necromancers can Cross (though you cannot stack ivory towers, you probably still wanna buy 5 and a scroll of town portal. With that and two extra towers that the workers can create you can Take out the ghouls an necromancers that cross the gap of your invisible units barrier, and with kael you can cast flame strike to the remaining enemies that are blocked by the barrier, that will damage them enough so that your towers can clear it and just move a unit so that they come one at a time.
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Improved Masonry
Increases the armor and hit points of human structure, and increase bunker capacity by 2
Wait, what?
It like when he said terran base in the orc campaign
On the first mission you can get a badass ogre with chaos damage from the southern part of the map. With it, army becomes quite formidable and and you can clean mobs near third observatory and only then establish base on the island. Then you won't have to deal with so many waves of undead.
You, sir, are a genius!
2:00 If you want to increase your gold income, build Town Centar further from gold mine, so more peasants can dig up gold. You can put only 5 of them if you build TC as close as possible. Also work for Orcs. Maybe it doesn't work in Reforged, I don't know.
4:00 And I think this wouldn't work in old WC3, you could carry only one item per slot. Maybe they change that in some later patches, or my memory is crap.
The opening scene was very funny.
I am angry that this does not have more views. This was amazing.
HAHAHA the medical station joke at 5:44 got me
Well this is a delightful surprise to wake up to!
I honestly didn't know that items carried over between campaigns, though; that's really cool. Mad props for managing this - I honestly wasn't sure if this was possible, mostly thanks to that Dimensional Portal level.
For the final mission in the final campaign, if you have a Horn of the Clouds, try dropping it in the circle Illidan wanted to capture, he will pick it up & instead of destroying your towers, he will cast cloud on them instead.
16:40-17:06 my favorite part of this video. The emotions are so real
love that mana stone story
i love these runs and your commentary to an unhealthy degree haha
Your videos always make me happy.
When I saw the royal guard.. I actually wanted to start properly cheering. It finally came full circle!
the Secrets mission always let you win the hero on the next mission if you got to the last 3 waves, that's nothing new. As for why that and mission 3 got reforged, maybe they started with all the missions involving Dalaran and got them done before corners where cut.
Oh thats actually a really good guess, they did reforge all dalaran missions didnt they
Great content as always! I wish I hadn't got so distracted by that awesome Warcraft 2 music.
I am very happy that i was right about mission 2 and gates being impossible to do normally.
I had to laugh at the intro ...Lady Vashj ... so good :D
GG man !
I just finished binging all of the videos and here comes a new one :) So happy.
2nd mission if you hide all your unit at the edge of the land then after the undead destroy all the building the cinematic trigger. Then all unit u save will be teleport to the main island. However I am not suggest doing so cuz they take a tons of upkeep and you have no resources to buy house immediately.
So far, incedibly fun to watch series both sc and wc, keep up the good work. :)
The Tower defense mission will always be a victory after all towers have been unlocked, no matter which wave you lose in.. This is true both in the original W3 and in the Reforged.
that meat wagon prison was the craziest thing i've ever seen
character vs ...
Mana stone vs goblin mines!
Who will win?
The Unsung Eminence in Shadows that made everything possible vs The true defenders of Azeroth.
Tough matchup.
some rplayers in goldshire obviously.
In A Dark Covenant, green won't send terrifying attack waves unless you retake a base. And you can get OP Naga units if you let your bases die. Might make the run a bit less tricky. And if can just walk units out of your base in the start of the game and they won't get attacked
"Mana stone of Tree Grant"
legendary item
(get it? "tree" as in "three", ggg)
maybe a month ago i would have wished blizz made it a legendary item in wow
Hmm... Now, I haven't played WoW since wrath, so pardon my old-timer talk here, with all the newfangled game mechanics...
Mana Stone of the Grand Grant (product of an overfunded research project by the kirin tor - "the grand grant" - to produce better mana stones. And Giant n Grand are like, synonyms or whatever.)
-Plus spell power
-Chance on cast to provide the raid with a mana restoration buff (same numbers as replenishment, or whatever it was called. And stacks with it.)
-Also can be used as a hearth stone, because bro, this rock's been everywhere and just wants to kick back at a tavern.
having a real time timer somewhere would be great to see how much time goes into every mission! :)
Giant Grant Games showcasing his Giant Grand Brain!
Damn that was some fine work! I was certain it was impossible because of mission 2 and general unit flimsiness.
I am crying over the history of that mana stone :)
as always the written commentary on the video fucking kills me the "hey guys can i play" fucking slayed me.
Remember kids:
Mana stone is MVP, it is even better than frostmourne:)))
Frostmorn maimed Muridan... It's a trash runeblade
Aren't there sobi masks available in the campaign?
I love how this video comes out at 2 in the morning and watch it within the hour. I need to fix my sleeping schedule lol
Actually, I did my own deathless challenge for this campaign and I found another path for the first level.
Basically, once you get the boats, you travel to the bottom right corner of the map. Do NOT go to the middle of the map. There you will pick up 2 dwarf riflemen and fight an ogre warchief (lvl 9). If you macro well, you will be able to kill the warchief without losing a unit. The reason you want to kill this warchief is he will drop a rune of rebirth. Basically, he will reappear as a member of your party. You now have a 1200 HP unit that does over 100 chaos damage per hit, has the command aura and bash. With this character as your tank, you can slowly wipe out the undead base before you build a single structure. Once you have destroyed the undead base, the rest of the map is a cakewalk. However, it does take a long time.
I actually wondered if he abused the resurrection rune of the golem far south of the map on misconceptions before the base building segment.
Absolute fucking madman. I believed for the longest time that it's impossible to do this in TFT UD, but now I'm both excited and terrified to see what you come up with to best it.
Oh when I played that final mission for the first time and saw that I had the Naga Royal guard, I was sooo happy :3 I knew nothing could stop us now
I cannot wait to see the undead campaign. Specially after finishing it yesterday. And,my God, what a complicated campaign being, Sylvanas+Garithos Lordaeron siege and the final showdown between Arthas and Illidan forces, the hardest by far in all Frozen Throne in my case.
Mad respect for you doing these runs. I still don’t know how you are sane.
I feel that "almost" at the end.
Thanks for the video.
Damn, those were some nice strats that I never would've thought! I managed to go deathless on A Dark Covenant until the assault on the green base (since I could intercept the ground attacks while they were crossing the river on Zeppelins I only needed Dragonhawks and towers to defend from the fliers) but yea I never would've been able to destroy that without losing units lol. Also Gates of the Abyss was very well done, I always dread the first three minutes because it feels impossible to not lose all your weakened units. Lord of Outland is very easy in comparison, with your overpowered heroes and the two Royal Guards alone you can destroy almost everything so I literally only lost units because I purposefully let them die to bring them back at full with the Rune of Greater Resurrection as I was fighting Magtheridon. Additionally, Akama comes with a Staff of Silence which makes most enemy heroes total bait.
One thing I do wonder is why didn't you use the Phoenix? Since it never despawns as long as you don't let it die it seems like it'd be the one summoned unit you'd be fine with. Also afaik in The Dungeons of Dalaran your melee units are magic immune (Lieutenants and Spellbreakers) so Flame Strike shouldn't harm them.
Other than that, this was really cool to watch!! That Mana Stone has been to places alright.
first 25 seconds already hooked me 100%
On the phases, you can send all the troops to the corner and they get automatically teleported back to your main base. No need to run them away and tp manually.
Good luck on the Undead... that first and last mission in that campaign are going to be rough
I’m so excited for the Frozen throne scourge vid dude