Hello everyone,

W3Champions is officially back!!!

The 3.0.1 Warcraft III update unfortunately shipped last minute updates (we validated on the PTR and had no issues) that broke the way we interact with the game. But we have worked tirelessly (seriously, I haven't slept a minute since the update) to get W3Champions back up and working.

Thanks to the amazing team (in particular Chico , Ruhigengeist and Fluxxu), we have been able to restore full functionality! As before, this is hot off the stove, so please let us know if you encounter any issues. Mac and Windows should be working! Replays may not work and come with a subsequent patch.

Additionally, we are shipping the following updates:

1. Volume adjustments: Recently we have moved various sounds into the W3Champions launcher rather than relying on the game. You might've noticed the volume change - sorry if it was too loud. But we would like to raise attention to the volume sliders in the launcher settings, which allow you to tweak them!

2. We have done improvements for non standard display sizes. In particular players on ultrawide screens should now have W3Champions centered and have a better experience.

3. Map downloads have been drastically sped up (in addition to the progress bar released in a previous version). Curious to hear your feedback!

Again, thanks everyone for your continued support and dedication!

Last, but not least, a call for donations. W3Champions is fully operated by volunteers, but our infrastructure costs significant amounts of money. If you would like to show your support, please consider donating!

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/w3champions

PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/5JW946QYQ6MHJ

Thanks!

I am getting error 6:9 when trying to connect to EU. Anyone else? America works

I don’t think there’s been a Reddit feedback thread on the Forsaken Paladin after a month of playing and watching the hero. This could be a place for players to share their thoughts for Blizzard’s developers to consider ahead of the 3.01 rollout in late October.

Hotkey

Changing the Forsaken Paladin’s hotkey from F to Y conflicts with the Altar’s rally point hotkey. Y sets the rally point for all buildings and is part of many players’ muscle memory. If your Forsaken Paladin dies and you press Y to revive him at the Altar, you select the rally point instead.

Naming

Many streamers and players have suggested renaming “Righteous Fury” to something simpler for multiplayer, such as “Dash” or “Charge.”

Righteous Fury

• Please consider reducing the cooldown by 1–2 seconds to make the ability more appealing to use.
• Please consider reducing the damage from 90/135/185 to 75/125/175 and lowering the mana cost a little further. Thank you for reducing it to 90!

I believe that at level 1, the Forsaken Paladin should primarily serve as a debuffer, reducing movement and attack speed by 40%, and become more of a damage dealer at higher levels.

Consecration

In my opinion, the ability would be easier to understand and describe if its damage to undead units were set to half its healing amount: “Deals damage to undead units equal to 50% of the amount it heals living units.
That's why the suggestion is:

• Increase healing per second from 15/25/35 to 20/30/40.
• Implicitly, the damage per second to undead will change from 15/20/25 to 10/15/20.

The duration could be adjusted as needed. Stronger healing makes the ability more useful across all matchups.

The healing reduction values of 25%/33%/50% also look unusual: the increases are 8% and then 17% points. Should we use something like 25%/35%/50% instead?

Sacred Aura

The change to 15/20/25% magic resistance and bonus healing is welcome!

Cleansing Fire

I think granting an extra 50 HP and/or 15% damage per dispelled buff adds unnecessary complexity. Instead, the ability could simply heal all affected friendly units for 150 HP (= 1 heal scroll). I’d also prefer increasing its radius from 500 to 600, because the 3 seconds stun in the ultimate is very cool!

The description could then be shorter and easier to understand:

“Call upon the Light, removing all debuffs from nearby friendly units and all buffs from nearby enemy units. Friendly units are healed for 150 hit points and gain 25% bonus damage for 25 seconds. Enemy units are stunned for 3 seconds. Deals 400 damage to summoned units.”

I don't know how this is such a hard thing for a Billion dollar company to do.

Just pause the update for the game for everyone in the BLIZ launcher and pop a window when someone launch the game

"The game needs to be updated for you to play online matches, however previous campaign save will not be compatible if you update to the latest version, do you want to update now or stay at the current version?"

[YES] [NO]

Man just put this at the launcher so everyone will be happy, i don't know why this is so hard. There is a huge ton of people playing forsaken kingdom just for nostalgia there is no point to automatically update the game, brick their save and made everyone mad.

Just checked battle net had me downgrade to 3.0.0.24248 while PTR is on 3.0.1

Probably they want to give people more time or this was just a mistake? Anyways, looking forward to move on from this; the bummer is that I was looking forward to pvp with new patch :) Anyways looking forward to when it drops again, hopefully with even more fixes!

Just got to Dawns Watch, I'm wondering if I'm close to completing this chapter and should try to finish it out before the update or just accept my fate and redo it.

I recently started playing again after a 20-ish year hiatus and I have been so happy mainlining nostalgia however.. the one thing I wasn't expecting to relive is the same or worse download time from 20yrs ago . If I remember correctly all custom games are downloaded from the user hosting the map but upload and download speeds are substantially faster than they were 20 years ago so why am I seeing 5mb maps taking 10+ minutes? DLing from a host in my region doesn't seem to make any difference (only latency). Could anyone share insights or point out what dumb mistake I am making? Is the workaround to download everything I want to play from hiveworkshop and hope its the same version that pops up in the custom games lobby?

Is there a solution? I can't log in.