Original Author: TH000(video), War3station(summary)
Translator: GLH

After a long wait, patch 1.30.4 was finally updated on Netease platform.
Let's see how TH000 talk about the changes.

We made a summary about what TH000 said in the video.


1. Kotg+Alchemist combo may be disappeared.

Kotg's cast range is reduced, and the damage of Alchemist's Acid Bomb is weakened, these changes made these two heroes weaker than patch 1.30.1, at the same time, Night Elves may play with Demon Hunter first or Warden first, probably Panda Second.
Kotg may be summoned only on the map that easy to get to level 3.


2. Spell Breakers get a really big buff.

When Human faces the summoning heroes, once it comes to the Tier 2, then Spell Breaker will play an unparalleled role. The Water Elemental of the Archmage, the Wolves of the Far Seer, the Skeletons of the Undead, and the Treants of the Kotg will basically be useless, and Human will be very strong in direct fight.

At the same time, the Dispel of Priests will no longer matter.


3. Night Elves get nerfed in overall.

Besides Kotg and Alchemist, the Glaive Throwers, Huntresses, Mountain Giants get nerfed, this change will effect the game of Night Elf vs Orc and Night Elf vs Human.

For example, Huntresses's Owl has to be upgraded now, it will be influential when Night Elf is playing against Blade Master, if Night Elf wants to expand in Tier 1, the timing will be fixed, this make the Orc is easier to get the chance to harass.
The food cost of MG is increased, this change makes Night Elf be weaker when they are using this unit to play against Human, they may consider to use Bears and Dryads again.
For Night Elf Mirror, we may not see mass Glaive Throwers mirror again.

However, these changes may not effect Night Elf vs Undead, Night Elves may still keep bullying the Undeads.


4. Human players have to create the strategies with Blood Mage.

Flame Strike will be useful in direct fight, and you can also use it to kill Peasants and Peons, meanwhile, Alchemist is nerfed, Human players really need to create some strategies with Blood Mage.


5. Human can try to replace the Guard Towers with Cannon Towers, when they are playing against Undead.

Two Cannon Towers may be as strong as 7-8 Guard Towers, and you can spend the other resources on Flying Machines to fight against Destroyers. But, this is basing on that you can expand and finish the Workshop successfully.


6. Necropolis and Acolytes rush is useless now.

Seems Blizzard doesn't like this strategy.


7. The Orcs have to face their nightmare again.

The opponents will go to cancel the Orcs' buildings again.


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Author: War3station

Translator: GLH

Finally, we have a list for the top 8 in WGL'2018 Winter, in this article, we will show you two tables of the Top 8.

Nationality

1. There are fewest Chinese players in this time, 3 is much fewer than the average, 4.85. We had the most Chinese players in 2017 Summer, there were 7 Chinese players.

2. Compare to Chinese players, Korean players are having a big improvement, this may be the best chance for them to get the championship in WGL.

3. The number of European players are so stable, because of Foggy, in 2015 Grand Final, WGL didn't invite European player yet, this mean Foggy is be in the Top 8 every time!

Races

1. This is the second time that there are no UD in the Top 8, the first time is 2017 Winter. In fact, 120 carrys Undead in this tournament, but 120 wasn't qualified in this time, so the number of UD become 0 again.

2. NE is so strong in patch 1.30, in fact, NE is the most in Top 8 always, the average is 3.14. However, NE didn't be in Grand Final, so let' wait for the following games!

3. HUM is having bad days, in fact, Infi shouldn't included to complete HUM player now, it's hard for player to be in Top 8 in this patch if you use HUM only.

Actually, it's hard to make a completely balance game, thank you Blizzard to update the game in time!

Source:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/eEIY2Ml2bdzGUMZ29q9UTw?fbclid=IwAR1A1S3-mHu5--62obaQSHktZ6Ur-XEuph9rgG0pxBUTI5uVqjxr-4j4U_U

Author: Keke (可可酱)
Translator: GLH


On 2018 Nov 3rd, Blizzard published about Warcraft III Reforged. After 20 days, on Nov 23rd, we had a great news and a whole new plan for War3 in 2019!

On Nov 23rd, We had a conference at InterContinental Suzhou, and the conference published their eSports plan in 2019.

(2019 Blizzard eSports conference)

When NetEase eSports Director, IRIS, he were showing the outline, he said War3 is the origin of China eSports, and he said NetEase will focus on War3 in 2019.

After that, War3 department Director, Jake went on to the stage and started to talk about the plan.

He used "Ready to work", a quote by Peon for his opening.

There were three crucial words for us
"City Tour tournament" "Points system" "Professional clubs"

(   City Tour   |   Points system   |   Professional squads   )

**City tour tournament**
In 2019, WGL will leave Shanghai, and go to Xi'an, Chengdu, Beijing, and Wuhan.
We will have single competition and clubs competition in each city.
In single competition, distribution slots for each division: 6 Chinese, 4 Korean, 3 European and 3 Americans.
So, there will be totally 16 players in the offline tournament.


**Points system**
For Chinese players, they can get points from these two part: points on the ladder, points from other tournaments. The top ranked players will be qualified to the offline tournament.
For others, to be determined.


**Professional clubs**
In 2017, WGL included the clubs tournaments. NetEase is going to make this system to be more complete, and maximize the protection of professional players, and push forward the club signing system.
For more details, please wait for the news from War3station.


*Prizes*
Yes, In 2019, we will have 5,000,000 RMB for War3.

These prizes include clubs competitions, single competitions, the college star league, and second division league selection with online.

**Recruit new player**
We have a whole plan for the War3 college players, you can get the study fee for 4 years as a prizes. Does any college student want to know about it? Especially (OuShen)欧神, a fans always comment under our post.

"Let War3 be great again", this is not a dream anymore, it's real! With the Reforged edition, and the whole plan for War3, thank you for always be with War3.

You, are the hero of War3.



War3station_Keke is invited to the 2019 Blizzard eSports conference.

The following parts are her self-narrative.

 I am Keke, this is my honor to be invited to this conference, as a representative of War3 media and a tournaments organizer, and they gave me baseball clothing with the races' icon, I was in tears. These are the official products and also the clothes for the players in the WGL offline tournament. The fans who will be in the location have a chance to get these too.

UD version are being sale very fast

In the conference, I sat beside SYC and Magic Yang, and Zhou ning were setting near of me too, I saw a lot of friends here, like a staff of WCA offline, a player in WCG qualifier, but I forgot this ID. Magic Yang said he will come back and join us for the tournaments. The reporters from NGA were asking some much question, most of the question are about War3.

In the break time, I heard RNG(an eSport squad) kept asking a staff about the details of War3 tournaments, most of the squads I know were here, RNG, IG, WE, RW, most of them were here for War3.

In the question time, Magic Yang stood up and said: Hi, I am Magic Yang.
And the claps sound immediately for this man, to our senior commentator.

I was in tears again. Since 2010, this game was falling down, but we were still sticking with it, and now, we will be back in 2019!

Source:
https://www.cnwar3.com/frontActicleDetails/992

WGL official has published TON of information yesterday, it seems to be full of three pages, but don't be scared, let me(Anthor) to help you to have a summary.

Q: When is the WGL Winter offline tournament?
A:  There will be two parts,
  For group stage: Nov 28th to Dec 1st
  For playoffs: Dec 5th to Dec 8th
  (Wednesday to Saturday)

Q: Does this tournament open for the audiences? If yes, how much is the ticket?
A: Yes, it does, and it's free! At Nov 20th, NetEase will open the application, and you are able to enter the hall with the SMS, so please notice War3station on Weibo and Wechat official account, we will post it LINK for you at the first second!

Address for the tournament:
D1-104 / D1-105 VSPN Studio, No. 221 Huangxing Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai

Q: How much are the prizes?
A:

Champion: 40,000 RMB

Runner-up: 20,000 RMB

Third place: 10,000 RMB

Fourth place: 8,000 RMB

5-8th place: 5,000 RMB

9-24th: 1000RMB

So the player will get at least 1000RMB even though they lose in the first round, and you can use them for your travel in Shanghai.

Q: What is the format for the 6 player group stage? What is the format for the whole tournament?
A: For group stage, we will have round robin games with BO3, and the top two players will advance to the playoffs. If some players are having the same scores, this is the order for decide who will be the winner.
[1]   Total wins.
[2]   If [1] is same, compare the games between them.
[3]   If some players are having cyclical win-loss relationship, compare their net win (Win-Loss).
[4]   If [3] is same, play a tie-breaker games with BO3.

In the Playoffs, there are single elimination and BO5, and Finals will be BO7.


Q: So you are having 15 BO3 in a day? You have to start playing from the morning until the night?
A: We are having official stage and streamer, official stage will play for the important games, the others will be played by other streamer and caster, and they are chosen by the official. So the games will be played at the same time, we may not watch until the midnight.

My life is for War3!

Q: Is the patch is same as Oct race?
A: Yes, the games will play in patch 1.30, and there are no AI and TR, but we are having NI and CH.

Q: Can the players change their race in the tournament?
A: Well, this is a sensitive question.
The answer is YES! The players are allowed to change their races, but they have to choose the race before the map banning stage, and they are allowed to use only one race in each BO3.

Q: I am not able to be in WGL, where should I watch the games?
A: Here are the room number for WGL winter
Douyu: 525207;
Huya: 1584989003;
Bilibili: 3683436;
Panda: 1616331;
Zhanqi: 16301;
CC: 163001;

Q: Will War3station organize for the audiences?
A: Of course, we will give the audiences that souvenirs, cute avatar!

Q: How about the man we are really concerned, will he show up?
A: Yes! He is a hero, and he will come as a Superman, you may get the beginning, but you may not know what will happen afterwards.

Q: Player will get reimbursement for the flight and accommodation?
A: Sure, including the players from Peru, and not only the players, we also provide these to the caster from Europe, staffs from Americas, NetEase will provide flight, transportation fee in the city, accommodation, and foods at the days of tournaments.

Q: Will they provide for the audiences?
A:

Very well, let's play something big, @War3station (@魔坛情报局) on Weibo, at Nov 1st, we will draw a lucky man, and we will provide him the transportation fee from other cities, whether Flight or Railway, but this bonus is for the audiences in China without Shanghai and for the tournament days only.

Is Keke very sad for her money? But it's cool right?

Source:

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Jf6Z8qS0MpLHOwDs6SyrIA?fbclid=IwAR0pc9Iq4ZlQBGWF1kSsaFFv5Sbxugw2YVgqrwo6YgZBu287Eu27aTvJIUQ

Patch 1.30 was updated, 1.29 become the history of Warcraft III. Recalling the tournaments of these five month, the structure of Warcraft III didn't change thoroughly, 120, Lyn, TH000, Infi were still standing on the top. We are going to show you some data about 1.29.

(Translation)

Foreign player had more champion

Lyn, FoCuS, Foggy had the most champion in patch 1.29, these tell us that they are strong, and they are really hardworking. Especially Foggy and FoCuS, we may call them the normal of worker, they played in all games even the small tournaments.

Ranking of patch 1.29

Player     |     Champion     |     Runner-up

Chinese players had good result in big tournaments

There were only two offline tournaments in patch 1.29, GCS and Master's Coliseum, and Chinese Players won the champion for these two games. We may say, those players didn't play with 100% strength because they were playing game and streaming at the same time, and the prizes of offline tournaments stimulated them.

In the rank of award money, 120 win over Lyn with 15137 US Dollars, meanwhile Infi and TH000 just place under them. Although the result looks so-so, and the prizes of Master Coliseum are so much.

Ranking of patch 1.29 (Award Money)

          Player               |    Prizes (US Dollars)

The patch for Orc and NE, only the leader still survived for HU and UD

After the race war recently, we may know the strength of Orc and NE are stronger a lot than UD and HU, only Infi and TH000 for HU, and 120 only for UD, this gap may be bigger in patch 1.30.

Translation

Patch 1.29 is just a transition period, Warcraft III will be more interesting in the future

For conclusion, patch 1.29 changed Warcraft III, the game that stop changing for long time, and a lot of bench hero get their work, and some new tactics had created. Although some buff was too strong, like the Healing Spray from Alchemist, and the Thunder Clap from Mountain King, and these had been fixed in patch 1.30.

We may say the time for Warcraft III is coming back, the intervention of our Daddy Blizzard make Warcraft III become activated again. We expect Warcraft III will be better in the future.





Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/M6VOPdY6UdHg5neKvC0PTw

In sports, China is always having two destined enemies, one is Japan, another is Korea. We will not talking about Japan now, but Korea. Korea is a neighbor country of China, and they are always winning us in sports, for example, we had been losing Korea team for 32 years in football.

In people's impressions, Warcraft III China Team as strong as they in Table Tennis. Therefore, you will know why the fans were so angry on 2016's China Team.

However, when we are recalling the result in history, what we said just know is not true.


Beginning: Is too hard for "the King" Sky to carry the whole team, get 0 in the first battle


In the beginning of Warcraft III, we had only Sky got the good result in the international tournament, the others were still having a big gap between the greatest players, even Xiaot and Suho. On the other hand, Korea Team were having the four king of Undead, Moon, Zacard, absolutely an All-Star team.

In the first battle, China Team got a fiasco. In 2006, StarsWar2, China Team's members were Sky, Suho, wNv.XiaoT, Gstar, GuangMo, but they lost the game to Korea Team with 6-0, and there were Moon, FoV, Zacard, Lucifer, Sweet, in Korea Team. The big gap let Chinese felt hopeless.

StarsWar2's result

StarsWar3 was held half year after StarsWar2, China Team had improved much, when they were facing the Korea Team without Moon, Lucifer and Fov, China Team lost to Korea Team by only one point, and won the this tournament with the higher win rate(Korean Team lost the series to Europe Team).

StarsWar3's result

As you can see, in the beginning of Warcraft III, China Team were having a big gap to Korea Team.


Golden age: Lot of great players showed in Korea, WE members got their first win


In 2007, Warcraft III were having a lot of tournaments, and there were a lot of freshmen showed themselves. The WE Chinese members, Fly100%, TH000 started to carry the team, in 2007 StarsWar4, both China Teams were having well play, they won Korea team in group stage, however, they lost in the elimination stage at the same time, lost the chance for the champion.

StarsWar 4's result

Expect StarsWar, another popular tournament was the PPS clan war between China vs Korea. In this tournament, China Team won Korea Team for the first time.

In 2008 PPS 3 clan war, China Team got the big win against Korea Team, resulting 8-3, meanwhile, Infi got the champion in the single competition, this was a big time for China Team.

PPS 2

PPS 3

However, although this is the time for Infi, TH000, Fly100%, Sky, China Team still was the disadvantaged team. After two years, Sky was injured, and made the arrangement orderless.

StarsWar 5

The underrated team win always, 2016's China Team got a big punch.


After 2010, Warcraft III was becoming unpopular, a lot of players chose to change to another game or retire, only the Chinese players kept active in this game. When WCG said they were stopping this tournament, Korean players chose to go to duty, only Chinese players were playing this game, Chinese become the main melody of this game.

After that, 2016's China Team went to the battle against Korea Team. And all of us know what happen in this battle, the underrated Korea team got the big win with Lyn's unbelievable performance, even worse, this Korea Team was not the strongest Korea Team, and China Team was having TH000, Infi. In this moment, Chinese were having bad days.

First day of 2016 WCA result

Total points:

Conclusion: China Team result is worse than Korea Team in team competition


Korea is a kingdom of E-Sports, so it is the goal of China in E-Sports. For China, Warcraft III was the proud and the one of few games that Chinese can win against Korean. However, the team competition result is showing we are the disadvantaged team although we have great result in single competition, even in the last few years of WCG, the time that Chinese were having big time in Warcraft III.

韩国胜 means Korean Won, 中国胜 means Chinese Won

Tomorrow, NeXT Warcraft III clan war China vs Korea will start the play, China team was underestimated because the last clan war and patch 1.30. Anyway, let's support the representative players of China, we hope they will have a good play in Guang Zhou.



Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/P0GpStboR9NnJrvIUk6dbg

Sep 16th, Yule Cup race war was completed, the Horde won the champion in this war with the higher win rate and scores. The race war is a game for players to fight for the glory of their own race, and fight for himself at the same time. We believe the fight will be more exciting and interesting in the future.

8-1, Orc got a big win against Night Elves

Yule Cup become more interesting since second day, Soin and Xiaokk win with 2-0 each when they were playing against Moon and Colorful in the first part, let the Orc were full of confidence in this series. In the KOF part, Orc was unbeatable, the NE players lost their momentum in that night, only Colorful got the only point in this part. 8-1, Orc got the big win.

It was a massacre, every one didn't know that before the game. At the same time, we can see the tactics of Talons are completely solve by the Orc, Night Elves have to create the new way to play against Orc.


Three strong, the champion decided at the end.

The biggest question of this tournament was which race will be the champion. Human become the first eliminated race, because some great players of Human absent for this tournament, although TH000 was playing well, he knocked down Lyn, Moon in the games, but the teammate were not strong enough to carry in the series, and stay at the last place with 3 series loss.

Meanwhile, Night Elves was coming back with the bad starting, the big loss had excited their momentum, won over Undead and Human in a row, let them got the hope for the first place, at the same time, Orc and Undead have the chance to fight for the champion too, before the last series,  we didn't know which race would be the champion. At the last series, Fly and Lyn had a well play in the first part, and leaded the Orc to the first place with higher win rate and score, became the strongest race in this tournament.

Yule Cup race war Score Board

Race       |       Win/Loss (Series)       |       Win/Lose (Games)       |       Net Score     |       Score 

Big night! 120 & Lawliet completed AK(All Kill)

KOF is the system that make miracle always, at the last two days. The first player who made the miracle is Lawliet, when he was playing against Lucifer, the player who played so well recently, Lawliet was playing rush against rush, and defeated Lucifer, after that, Lawliet was unbeatable, even 120 also lost to him, and Lawliet completed the AK

The second player who did the AK was 120, in the history of race war, there was no one UD player could did the AK when play against Orc, 120 is the first player to did it. After this AK, Undead had the higher score than Night Elves in the last night, got the second place in this race war.

Yule Cup race war, the win rate of players

Players       |       Race       |      Games played       |       Win       |       Loss       |       Win rate

The only race war of 1.29.

This is the only race war in patch 1.29, patch 1.30 will be updated very soon. 1.29 is the patch for Orc, Human and Undead, Far Seer have been buffed very much, let their weakness, OvH become more easier too them, it is worth mentioning that, Orc players didn't lose a game in this tournament when they summoned Far Seer as their first hero. For Undead, the buffed of Dread Lord let the Raider Runs was not that terrible. For Night Elf, although Lawliet did a AK in this tournament, but we can see Night Elves are weakening.

However, all we talk about became history, patch 1.30 will be coming very soon.

Thanks for the players, they were giving a a lot of exciting and interesting game for us, let fight again in patch 1.30.



Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NcJ_ML4qLIi3FdsTnN6Yzg

At Sep 20th in Beijing (GMT +8), patch has been updated on NetEase, we have summarized some information for you, hope you enjoy with your game.

However, there are some bad news too, we hope you can stick to us.

----------Good news----------

Double client

After you update the platform, players have to download client 1.30, all the games will play on this client, but, for RPG games, we are still playing on client 1.27, this change will satisfy players from both mode.


New maps

Warcraft III add a few new maps, you can play on them on Match Play and Season Mode, the new maps will let the players create the new tactics and methods, Warcraft III need the new elements.

1v1 new maps

Northern Isles
Concealed Hills
Swamped Temple


We still can watch the replay in 1.29

Problems of Replays are always annoying to players, but we can watch 1.28 and 1.29 games in client 1.30.

----------Bad news----------

Patch 1.30 only supported in Win 7 and above

Patch 1.30 only supported in Win 7 and above, Win XP users have to pay attention here.

BUG, BUG and BUGS

Bugs always be there when the game just updated, a lot of data in some maps are the data in earlier version, and these make a lot of joke for us. The official staff are fixing them with OT, we believe we can play the complete version 1.30 as soon as possible.

BUG 1
Undead have Clarity Potion in their shop!

BUG 2
Death Knight's armor become 4 in the initial state.

BUG 3
Only fives heroes in Tavern.

BUG 4
Ghouls have different Hit Points in different maps.

BUG 5
Human can't build Gryphon Aviary in some maps.


Team China is in danger!

Team China have only a week to practice for the clan war, and Team Korea have practice on BN more than a month, and they played on some tournament with version 1.30, Team Korea will play the games with more suitable.


Some players are retired or going out from Warcraft III

We have the new version again, but some players are away from us now, Remind, Check, Yumiko, Life are going out from here gradually, Romantic has been banned, and WFZ said he will stop playing recently.



Source:
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/CVquQtzHLATyZzeotw0vRQ