Yes? Oh hey darkness whats up? What?, the demon hunter left you a massage? No, i dont have his number. Yes? Ughhh, for the last time: im a Dreadlord, not a Drug Lord.
Here's a fun trick / special interaction - the Infernal can actually just straight up attack trees to destroy them, which is usually only reserved for workers or siege units that can attack ground. Likewise, the initial impact of the Infernal can be aimed into trees as it will simply destroy all trees in the landing zone when the rock hits the ground.
Yeah he is my favourite hero in the whole game. The most badass ultimate, very cool aura(I love life steal in all of warcraft, especially custom maps), very good utility sleep and badass aoe spell to counter low hp swarms.
when I was 9 or 10 years old I was so sad to find out that there were no campaign missions with that hero in Reign of Chaos. Then Frozen throne had one or two(?) but still not enough playtime in campaign there with that Dreadlords. Yet they were teasing it so hard... so many Dreadlords-Characters there.
16:17 Priestess of the Moon is described as a Warrior Hero, despite being an agility hero. I double checked by opening up my world editor from a 2015 install of the game. Not sure if it has been changed since. Firelord is described as a Mystical Hero, despite being an agility hero. Tinker is described as a Cunning Hero, despite being an intelligence hero. For the rest it's Mystical=Int, Warrior=Str, Cunning=Agi, I think.
That makes me wonder if Firelord would have been better as an intelligence hero, or stay as an agility hero. Agility synergize greatly with incinerate, while intelligence would fix Firelord's mana problems
@@timelesspizza9892But we already have only two neutral agility heroes, Dark Ranger and FL. If anything, I'd like to see dispel protection on Soulburn. - Adûnâi
I disagree, human lacks agility as well. It kind of makes sense from the lore perspective that elves and orcs would have agility. Whereas Undead are corpses and casters. - Adûnâi
@@angamaitesangahyando685 I think the early plans for the game included one hero of each type for each race, which was then changed during development.
Your hero spot light videos are the best! I know it takes a lot of time making content like this and the views per effort might not be comparable to gameplay but videos like this help break the barriers to entry for new players. You have to complete all hero's, even if you have to take breaks from this series, its way too helpful!
Grubs, dreadlords at early alpha were floating among their minions as lich hero does, old DL also had no legs and just the robe same as Lich. So, looks like somewhere in the middle of develeopment he changed his spec to a strength hero and went from slender vampire type to what we have now, a bat grunt demon :) thanks for the spotlight!
Yep, believe one of their 'Annoyed' lines references this. Something about them, "not wearing a dress", which doesn't make sense on the final model given they aren't wearing anything that even resembles a dress.
Back in the day in 2v2 ladder my buddy and I would run orc/undead, chieftain and dreadlord. I would take sleep and vamp aura and actually avoid points in swarm. His grunts and other melee units would benefit from vamp aura, and the chiefs’ endurance aura would help us sleep surround enemy heroes and units easier.
@@SAPH.. My fav combo 2v2 as well, the most satisfying wins for sure. However, with experience, I realized that it has two fatal flaws: 1. If you go ghouls, you have double melee composition, very sub-optimal for wc3, if the opponents know what they're doing, they'll easily kite you with double ranged or better balanced melee - ranged army composition. 2. Ok, go fiends, sounds amazing with vamp. grunts in front, right? Yeah, but it demands that you must stick together all the time, again sub-optimal for team games strategically. Sometimes you want to be able to split up and do cool things yourself, like creep, creepjack, harras or, say, defend your base against two opponents long enough that ally can walk, not TP. You can't do any of these things with dl+fiends, nor can you escape effectively if caught in the open or in front of the base. It's the worst, weakest, slowest and most defensless army combo available :(
I want to add to the "mobile defensive buildings" point at 13:45 - while it may not make any difference in practice, you can vampiric heal from night elf trees because they are classified as "ancients" and are therefore "alive" (because they consume a wisp on construction).
Dreadlord is a strength hero. He's described as cunning, meaning an agility hero. His stats say he's an intelligence hero and Blizzard says he should get caster items. I don't get it.
I would love to see more of the neutral ones, because every player could benefit from having more knowledge about them. For the others, you may do pairs? For example Lich and DK, FS and TC, BM and MK. Some of those combos I think do deserve a spotlight.
mapmaker insights: you dont see the decimal numbers of damage and health but they exist. its just not displayed in the ui. but if you have a unit with 100 max health and take 90,6 damage, the ui will display 10 hp left but your real health is 9,4. if you now would take any damage above 9,4 your unit would die. this is so you can always be sure that, a skill that deals X damage will or will not kill, if it would round down and instead display 9 health, and you would do 9 damage. the unit then survives with 0,4 hp and it would display 1 hp left after you just dealt 9 damage to its displayed 9 health. that would be very confusing. the reason for the decimals is so the game can regenerate health in lower decimals. as base health regen is 0,250 units have 3 decimals of current health calculated.
Hey Grubby, thanks for your detailed info about the DL. I'm a big fan of this hero. I decided to share a very interesting strat that contradicts all your recommendations, but works wonderfully :). It's against NE only and I achieve about 90% winrate with it. I've always wondered whether this could work at higher level as well. The strat is quite simple - DL solo with sleep, aura, sleep etc., no expansion, double crypt, no shop or any other prod. building, early graveyard with immediate attack upgrade, pumping ghouls, fast creeping wit sleep, teching to tier3, healing by canibalism, avoiding enemy or fighting by sleep/surround or killing archers by ghouls. When DL is Lvl5, health and armor scrolls bought, frenzy ready and population 60-70 (of 3-1 ghouls with some 1-0 gargs), it's time to an all-in attack. The elf doesn't have enough tier3 units to withstand the attack yet. Elf's base is literally eaten alive (including the main tree, especially if you got a scroll of the beast). When his army arrives, you sleep eventual big units (bears, chims, giants) and the rest is stunned by incoming infernal and massacred by the frenzy vampiric ghouls, supported by scrolls and gargs. GG. If elf goes mass air, you just retrain to carrion swarm and add fiends.
It's was endearing to see my favorite undead hero, finally had a lights shine upon. Thank you Grubby for a another enjoyable, hero dive in. Hope to see all of them and know all they little or not so secrets and shenanigans.
Anyone remember the time when Carrion Swarm would do max damage at the end of the spell cone and less at the start. Good old RoC. I think it made positioning more important for the DL.
I'm sure you already know this Grubby but one of my favorite strategies as Blood Mage is to banish a hero or vip unit(frost wyrm/aboms) and just let the Phoenix obliterate them along with help of any dragonhawks/gryphons nearby. Or banish them then surround
As a lore nerd it's so sad this "Sire Denathrius created Dreadlord and they used helm of domination to manipulate burning legion for the jailer" retcon is a canon story now. Pre shadowlands OG dreadlord story was good. Loyal servants of burning legion works as Lich kings jailer in wc3.
They kindaa tried to remedy it by saying that Denathrius had more plans for them that they now carry past helping the Jailer, but yeah, Jailer fucked up SOOO much of the lore
Yeah it's kind of a schism between OG lore nerds and new lore, which is forced to be made because of WoW content needs. Either way, Blizz said it's canon now so I go with it. It's still pretty interesting in isolated tidbits, even if it starts to feel convoluted or contrived sometimes. I feel like canon is the only thing that matters, rest is fanfic, which has the potential to be more awesome, but perhaps doesnt fit in a video of this kind, haha
Can't wait 'til we get to Firelord/Alchemist so Grubby can call them "one of the latest heroes added to the tavern fairly recently, about 20 years ago"
Fun fact: carrion means the decaying flesh of animals. There are no species of bats known to eat carrion in real life. The popular song Carrion Wayward Song by the popular American band Kansas is thus not very popular among chiropterae.
Carrion is decaying carcasses. I had to google it. Crows and vultures always come to my mind when I think if carrion. Never heard bugs but that also makes sense for that to come to mind.
7:20 Gotta love that attention to detail, where the little black visual effect of the spell doesn't appear above the Ghoul that didn't take damage. I'm guessing it means that the spell was essentially coded to disappear once it did its maximum damage (a neat way to prevent it from canceling Salves with 0 damage), and the only reason the green wave even remains in the air, is to ensure that the spell doesn't look awkward. And I like that detail about the black pulse, because the ability dealing no damage would look very confusing, otherwise. (Plus it gets especially noticeable in the Legends of Arkain campaigns, where some human factions can make Hydromancers, casters that can launch Crushing Waves, which deals 100 damage per unit, with a 300 damage cap. Army sizes in those campaigns can get quite enormous, so the lil detail about the spell effect actually saved those units from feeling jarring to use)
Ive seen some of your videos about WC3 and now since that Tyler1 showmatch and watching your detail analysis of the games got me addicted to wanting to actually improve at WC3 from when i was a kid and had both cds of WV3 😂 i only played custom games and very rarely played regular matches but i was a noob and wanted to upgrade everything and take creeps while doing so and didnt even know the income thing. You’re the best man. I will be improving everyday because of you
Grubby reading about Sire Denethrius like "I don't know how this is but I dig it." Also don't think we didn't catch that Monty Python reference! "wait, what were our chief weapons again?"
Yup, melee specialist in range dominated game, while being weak tank and weak dps himself in melee, and leading worst melee units specifically designed to not become potentially OP with his aura, therefore low ghoul hp/armor/dmg, and abom slow movement and attack rate and low armor. Requires insane skill and micro to be even viable with ghouls while having absolutely 0 synergy with fiends. My favorite hero, yet so unfortunate :(
@@krippaxxuseredarlordofthes9940 Gargoyles anti-ground is ranged, no? Yeah, dominate air, they do, but what if the opponent is like, raiders? I guess you instead go ghouls there, but hmm.
As a player returning after years and now making a strong comeback with UD, this is simply a perfect video. I enjoy your content and your charisma. Need DK and Lich 🤗
I'm loving this videos, bring a lot of insight into gameplay and match up, maybe in the future you can go into normal unit and touch into armor and dmg type too and how each race stack against each other, Thank you Grubby.
Grubby has become the ultimate Guide Maker for WC3. Spotlights, tierliets, analysis...you name it. And im all here for these spotlights. WC3 saved me Dota2 and reminded me what "fun" is.
Hey Grubby! Love these spotlight vids but I wanted to clear up the attack speed point 😅Gloves always provide an 18% increase on base DPS. The higher the base DPS, the better. So basic cooldown still matters but so does base dmg, and any effects e.g bash, crit, orb, or claws. Actually, claws of attack benefit solely from atk speed so would work better in your example. Extra Point: Atk Spd gains are additive meaning that each buff matters less than the last one. Meaning Orcs benefit less from Gloves once they already have TC aura!
OK I think that sounds true to me... how would you ELI5 the significance of good BCD? OR would you just describe his base damage at level 1 and his atq speed?
@@GrubbyTalks A smaller BAT increases the multiplicative impact of combining multiple types of attack increase (damage, attack speed, and proc-on-hit effects). This is a big deal in Dota because by late game you tend to stack a lot of those on the same hero. It's less likely to be important in WC3, where you can approximate the linear impact of any buff on a Lvl1 hero, and it's not that different from the impact of the same buff on the Lvl5 hero. But there is still a difference, and the more combat items you have on the same hero, the more difference it makes. In fact, there's already a small difference at Lvl1, because Gloves of Speed provides the same sort of IAS buff as base Agility score, so these two things are already getting diminishing returns with each other. Gloves of Speed won't really be quite 15%, it will be slightly less than that.
Remember in the wc3 chats, you could choose an icon for your profile, displaying your "prowess"? I think you needed 1500 wins in "1v1 Random Race" on bnet in order to unlock the infernal pic. That was unreachable for me, but damn looked it badass.
Grubby is definitely a Dreadlord 'cause I'm so easily lulled to sleep watching these videos. No joke, they're so useful for being able to get to sleep. Just wish there were more!
dreadlord was the coolest undead hero for me when i first got the game back in 2002 at the age of 10 and the hitting motion and sound was delicious. before frozen throne, the undead win screen used to be an epic art of a dread lord and i was sad when it was replaced with just a side profile of a crypt lord
I love getting random useful information from these videos - example 2hp/s regen and 1hp/s regen blight. If I google blight regen to know more there are never values stated on sites.
Both shockwave and the swarm has a hidden and short debuff to check if the unit was already hit. So, if your swam/shockwave projectile speed is extremely slow and/or the debuff is removed in the editor, single unit can be hit multiple times.
I live for the "Recently(6years ago)" moments
Its quite recent for a 20+ years old game
I remember him talking about a recent buff from 2010
I know bro, I know... same here, but we have to live for the future...
hilarious every time
one thing to remember: he's a Dreadlord, not a druglord. Also dont ask him for any demonhunter phone number
Who's this darkness anyway?
Also, he must hunt soon.
also he has nice balls
"He has received some hefty nerfs RECENTLY back in 2003. Then SOON after in 2018 received numerous buffs." 💀😆
That was my plan.
Agreed.
You thought of that?
Yes? Oh hey darkness whats up? What?, the demon hunter left you a massage? No, i dont have his number.
Yes? Ughhh, for the last time: im a Dreadlord, not a Drug Lord.
I must hunk soon
What mortal?
Very well
we NEED a bloodmage spotlight, probably the most creative and intresting hero in the game even if he doesn't see much play
I second this
bloodmage is based
Banish ftw!
I thought he was a tavern hero lol
He does see play quite quite commonly
Here's a fun trick / special interaction - the Infernal can actually just straight up attack trees to destroy them, which is usually only reserved for workers or siege units that can attack ground. Likewise, the initial impact of the Infernal can be aimed into trees as it will simply destroy all trees in the landing zone when the rock hits the ground.
Didn't know this until I saw Grubby doing it as a joke to exhaust an enemy's lumber supply lol
Did grubby add it, it's on the screen in white text?
Been playing 20 years and I didn't even know
hey Kari!
I always chose the Dreadlord as my first undead hero when I was a kid cause I thought he looked badass as fuck
Yeah he is my favourite hero in the whole game. The most badass ultimate, very cool aura(I love life steal in all of warcraft, especially custom maps), very good utility sleep and badass aoe spell to counter low hp swarms.
when I was 9 or 10 years old I was so sad to find out that there were no campaign missions with that hero in Reign of Chaos. Then Frozen throne had one or two(?) but still not enough playtime in campaign there with that Dreadlords. Yet they were teasing it so hard... so many Dreadlords-Characters there.
Same here lol
@@stiken4421 and just 1 demon hunter map in the og wc3!
@@ollipopped yeah :( that's also was sad
16:17 Priestess of the Moon is described as a Warrior Hero, despite being an agility hero. I double checked by opening up my world editor from a 2015 install of the game. Not sure if it has been changed since.
Firelord is described as a Mystical Hero, despite being an agility hero.
Tinker is described as a Cunning Hero, despite being an intelligence hero.
For the rest it's Mystical=Int, Warrior=Str, Cunning=Agi, I think.
That makes me wonder if Firelord would have been better as an intelligence hero, or stay as an agility hero. Agility synergize greatly with incinerate, while intelligence would fix Firelord's mana problems
@@kevin-7091 WAY better with intelligence, even if you decide to use soulburn.
@@timelesspizza9892But we already have only two neutral agility heroes, Dark Ranger and FL. If anything, I'd like to see dispel protection on Soulburn.
- Adûnâi
Dreadlord orirginally being an agi hero would also explain why undead lacks one.
I disagree, human lacks agility as well. It kind of makes sense from the lore perspective that elves and orcs would have agility. Whereas Undead are corpses and casters.
- Adûnâi
@@angamaitesangahyando685
I think the early plans for the game included one hero of each type for each race, which was then changed during development.
Your hero spot light videos are the best! I know it takes a lot of time making content like this and the views per effort might not be comparable to gameplay but videos like this help break the barriers to entry for new players. You have to complete all hero's, even if you have to take breaks from this series, its way too helpful!
first warden, then dreadlord, omg my favorite heroes thx grubby
Looking forward to seeing more of these, lore segments are very cool :D
Naga spotlight, she sees so much play in competitive compared to other tavern heroes
I think Blood Mage is the most interesting and unique hero design in the game, so it would be cool to see a spotlight on him!
Asaply as possible, a true fellow Dutch wordsmith.
Grubs, dreadlords at early alpha were floating among their minions as lich hero does, old DL also had no legs and just the robe same as Lich. So, looks like somewhere in the middle of develeopment he changed his spec to a strength hero and went from slender vampire type to what we have now, a bat grunt demon :) thanks for the spotlight!
Yep, believe one of their 'Annoyed' lines references this. Something about them, "not wearing a dress", which doesn't make sense on the final model given they aren't wearing anything that even resembles a dress.
24:25 I like when lore and gameplay line up like this!
Tinker is probably the most complicated hero with the most crazy interactions. Funfact, you can repair him during his ultimate.
Carrion refers to dead animals, usually of natural causes, in the open wilds(usually)
Dead humans on contrary are refered to as cadavers
So its actually undead flesh eating bats? Great.
Back in the day in 2v2 ladder my buddy and I would run orc/undead, chieftain and dreadlord. I would take sleep and vamp aura and actually avoid points in swarm. His grunts and other melee units would benefit from vamp aura, and the chiefs’ endurance aura would help us sleep surround enemy heroes and units easier.
@@SAPH.. My fav combo 2v2 as well, the most satisfying wins for sure. However, with experience, I realized that it has two fatal flaws:
1. If you go ghouls, you have double melee composition, very sub-optimal for wc3, if the opponents know what they're doing, they'll easily kite you with double ranged or better balanced melee - ranged army composition.
2. Ok, go fiends, sounds amazing with vamp. grunts in front, right? Yeah, but it demands that you must stick together all the time, again sub-optimal for team games strategically. Sometimes you want to be able to split up and do cool things yourself, like creep, creepjack, harras or, say, defend your base against two opponents long enough that ally can walk, not TP. You can't do any of these things with dl+fiends, nor can you escape effectively if caught in the open or in front of the base. It's the worst, weakest, slowest and most defensless army combo available :(
Check the mouse cursor left screen at 0:08 LOL
I want to add to the "mobile defensive buildings" point at 13:45 - while it may not make any difference in practice, you can vampiric heal from night elf trees because they are classified as "ancients" and are therefore "alive" (because they consume a wisp on construction).
and I've confirmed this from my experience tinkering in the world editor
Dreadlord is a strength hero.
He's described as cunning, meaning an agility hero.
His stats say he's an intelligence hero and Blizzard says he should get caster items.
I don't get it.
Mr Grubby, the lores on these heroes spotlight are always poggers. I like to hear it every time you do.
I want to see Crypt Lord! He's my favorite
I would love to see more of the neutral ones, because every player could benefit from having more knowledge about them.
For the others, you may do pairs?
For example Lich and DK, FS and TC, BM and MK. Some of those combos I think do deserve a spotlight.
i dont play wc3, just played campaign as a kid, but love the game, and love grubby talking, so fantastic 2nd monitor content right here
mapmaker insights:
you dont see the decimal numbers of damage and health but they exist. its just not displayed in the ui. but if you have a unit with 100 max health and take 90,6 damage, the ui will display 10 hp left but your real health is 9,4. if you now would take any damage above 9,4 your unit would die. this is so you can always be sure that, a skill that deals X damage will or will not kill,
if it would round down and instead display 9 health, and you would do 9 damage. the unit then survives with 0,4 hp and it would display 1 hp left after you just dealt 9 damage to its displayed 9 health. that would be very confusing.
the reason for the decimals is so the game can regenerate health in lower decimals. as base health regen is 0,250 units have 3 decimals of current health calculated.
Hey Grubby, thanks for your detailed info about the DL. I'm a big fan of this hero. I decided to share a very interesting strat that contradicts all your recommendations, but works wonderfully :). It's against NE only and I achieve about 90% winrate with it. I've always wondered whether this could work at higher level as well. The strat is quite simple - DL solo with sleep, aura, sleep etc., no expansion, double crypt, no shop or any other prod. building, early graveyard with immediate attack upgrade, pumping ghouls, fast creeping wit sleep, teching to tier3, healing by canibalism, avoiding enemy or fighting by sleep/surround or killing archers by ghouls. When DL is Lvl5, health and armor scrolls bought, frenzy ready and population 60-70 (of 3-1 ghouls with some 1-0 gargs), it's time to an all-in attack. The elf doesn't have enough tier3 units to withstand the attack yet. Elf's base is literally eaten alive (including the main tree, especially if you got a scroll of the beast). When his army arrives, you sleep eventual big units (bears, chims, giants) and the rest is stunned by incoming infernal and massacred by the frenzy vampiric ghouls, supported by scrolls and gargs. GG. If elf goes mass air, you just retrain to carrion swarm and add fiends.
Great video as always! Looking forward to the inevitable Tinker spotlight 😆
It's was endearing to see my favorite undead hero, finally had a lights shine upon. Thank you Grubby for a another enjoyable, hero dive in. Hope to see all of them and know all they little or not so secrets and shenanigans.
Id love to see a dark ranger one!
5:43 The Dreadlord Slip Experiment
HP and Mana are both _"Real"_ values in the game which means they are floating point (decimal) even if it's not shown in the UI as such.
If we ever get around to human heroes again, I want the next one to be Bloodmage. He's got so many interesting quirks.
Great stuff!
Anyone remember the time when Carrion Swarm would do max damage at the end of the spell cone and less at the start. Good old RoC. I think it made positioning more important for the DL.
Commenting to keep the series going! I'm casting my vote for Mountain King, rock and stone!
fellow Deep Rock Galactic gamer 🫡
I'm sure you already know this Grubby but one of my favorite strategies as Blood Mage is to banish a hero or vip unit(frost wyrm/aboms) and just let the Phoenix obliterate them along with help of any dragonhawks/gryphons nearby. Or banish them then surround
Looking forward to the Firelord! Always felt like a noobtrap to me, because it looks more menacing than it is 😂
As a lore nerd it's so sad this "Sire Denathrius created Dreadlord and they used helm of domination to manipulate burning legion for the jailer" retcon is a canon story now.
Pre shadowlands OG dreadlord story was good. Loyal servants of burning legion works as Lich kings jailer in wc3.
They kindaa tried to remedy it by saying that Denathrius had more plans for them that they now carry past helping the Jailer, but yeah, Jailer fucked up SOOO much of the lore
Yeah it's kind of a schism between OG lore nerds and new lore, which is forced to be made because of WoW content needs. Either way, Blizz said it's canon now so I go with it. It's still pretty interesting in isolated tidbits, even if it starts to feel convoluted or contrived sometimes. I feel like canon is the only thing that matters, rest is fanfic, which has the potential to be more awesome, but perhaps doesnt fit in a video of this kind, haha
Shadowlands is fanfiction and not canon. Yes I'm huffing copium.
@@GrubbyTalksSL didnt deserve most of the hate, just torghast and the jailer
Can't wait 'til we get to Firelord/Alchemist so Grubby can call them "one of the latest heroes added to the tavern fairly recently, about 20 years ago"
Banes sleep actually maked you invulnerable for a few frames i believe! I remember saving a teammate from a necro ult once with it!
I never learned so much about a game I didn't play for 20 years
love those spotlights, looking forward to the next
Mountain King, TC, Crypt Lord and DH are all great choices, also any Neutral hero will be an absolute delight to watch.
WoW Shadowlands lore: 1:13
Warcraft 3 lore: "They are Burning Legion's KGB."
You did cast Sleep on me a few times, but that's exactly one of the many reasons I watch the tier lists and hero spotlights, haha they're so relaxing!
I love these spotlights. i played this game a lot when i was in highschool. your videos are 10/10 keep it up.
These are some of my favorite videos. Really great insights and just makes me want to do tons of games with those heroes 😂
Doesn't the Priestess of the Moon tooltip describe her as a warrior hero?
Looking forward for the DrugLord tho
Been waiting for this one, my favorite hero of all time. Thanks!
Can't wait until we get to Firelord.
Id also lava to see that.
Fun fact: carrion means the decaying flesh of animals. There are no species of bats known to eat carrion in real life.
The popular song Carrion Wayward Song by the popular American band Kansas is thus not very popular among chiropterae.
... this is absolutely terrible. Hats off to you
And then, after I get rid of this fool...Oh! Hello! I didn't know you were there!
Carrion is decaying carcasses. I had to google it. Crows and vultures always come to my mind when I think if carrion. Never heard bugs but that also makes sense for that to come to mind.
I love this series so much. I don't play the melee mode (just Direct Strike) but I love knowing the details of how the heroes work.
Damn, I live for that Inferno summoning
7:20 Gotta love that attention to detail, where the little black visual effect of the spell doesn't appear above the Ghoul that didn't take damage.
I'm guessing it means that the spell was essentially coded to disappear once it did its maximum damage (a neat way to prevent it from canceling Salves with 0 damage), and the only reason the green wave even remains in the air, is to ensure that the spell doesn't look awkward.
And I like that detail about the black pulse, because the ability dealing no damage would look very confusing, otherwise.
(Plus it gets especially noticeable in the Legends of Arkain campaigns, where some human factions can make Hydromancers, casters that can launch Crushing Waves, which deals 100 damage per unit, with a 300 damage cap. Army sizes in those campaigns can get quite enormous, so the lil detail about the spell effect actually saved those units from feeling jarring to use)
Nice! Grubby dropped another new hero spotlight for a game I haven't played in 16 years
It’s my favorite series on your channel grub
Ive seen some of your videos about WC3 and now since that Tyler1 showmatch and watching your detail analysis of the games got me addicted to wanting to actually improve at WC3 from when i was a kid and had both cds of WV3 😂 i only played custom games and very rarely played regular matches but i was a noob and wanted to upgrade everything and take creeps while doing so and didnt even know the income thing. You’re the best man. I will be improving everyday because of you
Dreddy my favorite hero to play
Dreadlord strategy feels so lore accurate, a cunning expansion with a solo dreadlord.
Grubby reading about Sire Denethrius like "I don't know how this is but I dig it." Also don't think we didn't catch that Monty Python reference! "wait, what were our chief weapons again?"
The completely anticipated Jaraxxus made my day.
Finally my favorite hero is covered. I can die happy now!
Definitely want to see this series continue.
Damn. I always loved carrion swarm because i tought how much damage it can do, i never knew there was a limit of 1200 max dmg thing :/
I'd like to hear mostly about Keeper of the Grove, Brewmaster, Firelord and Shadow Hunter.
I'd love to see you do one on Dark Ranger, probably one of my favourite Hero/unit!
Dark ranger needs to be shown, the best hero for fast creeping to lv6 to spam charm
Honestly the hero sounds so good on paper, I wonder how it turns out it's a bad choice for first hero.
Hoping this video answers it. Let's watch!
*I'm pretty sure it's because wc3 meta dominated by ranged units, and dreadlord passive only works on melee units, but let's hear out
Yup, melee specialist in range dominated game, while being weak tank and weak dps himself in melee, and leading worst melee units specifically designed to not become potentially OP with his aura, therefore low ghoul hp/armor/dmg, and abom slow movement and attack rate and low armor. Requires insane skill and micro to be even viable with ghouls while having absolutely 0 synergy with fiends. My favorite hero, yet so unfortunate :(
Str hero who relies heavily on spellcasting. He's got the same issues as maieve - good on paper, but risky and unsafe in practice
You can go gargoyle and dominate air@@millancche
@@krippaxxuseredarlordofthes9940 Gargoyles anti-ground is ranged, no? Yeah, dominate air, they do, but what if the opponent is like, raiders? I guess you instead go ghouls there, but hmm.
I've been looking forward to this video! I love this series. Also yeah I come from the Tyler1 video :)
"Yes? Darkness, hey what's up? The Demon Hunter left you a message? No, I don't have his number..."
Been waiting for this one!
Love these! Please keep em up grub.
The Sleep Lord!
The Drug Lord!
Dress Lord
BedLord :D
Thanks for the videos and guides
As a player returning after years and now making a strong comeback with UD, this is simply a perfect video. I enjoy your content and your charisma. Need DK and Lich 🤗
I'm loving this videos, bring a lot of insight into gameplay and match up, maybe in the future you can go into normal unit and touch into armor and dmg type too and how each race stack against each other, Thank you Grubby.
Grubby has become the ultimate Guide Maker for WC3. Spotlights, tierliets, analysis...you name it.
And im all here for these spotlights. WC3 saved me Dota2 and reminded me what "fun" is.
Hey Grubby! Love these spotlight vids but I wanted to clear up the attack speed point 😅Gloves always provide an 18% increase on base DPS. The higher the base DPS, the better. So basic cooldown still matters but so does base dmg, and any effects e.g bash, crit, orb, or claws. Actually, claws of attack benefit solely from atk speed so would work better in your example.
Extra Point: Atk Spd gains are additive meaning that each buff matters less than the last one. Meaning Orcs benefit less from Gloves once they already have TC aura!
OK I think that sounds true to me... how would you ELI5 the significance of good BCD? OR would you just describe his base damage at level 1 and his atq speed?
@@GrubbyTalks A smaller BAT increases the multiplicative impact of combining multiple types of attack increase (damage, attack speed, and proc-on-hit effects). This is a big deal in Dota because by late game you tend to stack a lot of those on the same hero. It's less likely to be important in WC3, where you can approximate the linear impact of any buff on a Lvl1 hero, and it's not that different from the impact of the same buff on the Lvl5 hero. But there is still a difference, and the more combat items you have on the same hero, the more difference it makes.
In fact, there's already a small difference at Lvl1, because Gloves of Speed provides the same sort of IAS buff as base Agility score, so these two things are already getting diminishing returns with each other. Gloves of Speed won't really be quite 15%, it will be slightly less than that.
More grubby talks yasss
OMG..Grubby speaking about lores of warcraft world and heroes?!! Love this content already.
Yeah this is amazing. I might add "As ASAPly as possible" to my everyday vocabulary
Great content!! As always
Remember in the wc3 chats, you could choose an icon for your profile, displaying your "prowess"? I think you needed 1500 wins in "1v1 Random Race" on bnet in order to unlock the infernal pic. That was unreachable for me, but damn looked it badass.
Grubby is definitely a Dreadlord 'cause I'm so easily lulled to sleep watching these videos.
No joke, they're so useful for being able to get to sleep. Just wish there were more!
I would love to see Shadow Hunter in the spotlight as it is one of my favorite heroes due to his flexibility
feel like blood mage and death knight are too iconic not to do
AKA THE GRUB LORD !
only 19 more left ! good work grubby !!
firelord and tinker would be goated!
dreadlord was the coolest undead hero for me when i first got the game back in 2002 at the age of 10 and the hitting motion and sound was delicious.
before frozen throne, the undead win screen used to be an epic art of a dread lord and i was sad when it was replaced with just a side profile of a crypt lord
I love getting random useful information from these videos - example 2hp/s regen and 1hp/s regen blight. If I google blight regen to know more there are never values stated on sites.
My favorite hero !!!
Looking forward to seeing you cover Paladin next, Grubby! He's tied with Tauren Chieftan for being my favorite hero in the game to use.
Both shockwave and the swarm has a hidden and short debuff to check if the unit was already hit. So, if your swam/shockwave projectile speed is extremely slow and/or the debuff is removed in the editor, single unit can be hit multiple times.
I want them all and the serie to be completed! thx Grubby and thx to all those who support you.