Contents


  1. Patch 1.31 released!
  2. Moon and Lawliet advanced to the WCG 2019.
  3. WGL: The games today have been postponed to tomorrow.


Patch 1.31 released!

In this topic, we will show you the differences of balance changes that we found between the patch and the PTR. Before we start the content, let us show you the first sentences in the Patch notes. I guess it's also a very important information from Blizzard: "This is our last major patch prior to Reforged."

Here are the differences of balance changes we found between the PTR and the patch 1.31.


Human

Control Magic
Additional mana cost up from 35% to 45%. *(We didn't see it on the PTR.)

Orb of Fire
-Bonus Damage reduced from 10 to 7. *(In PTR, it's 10 to 5.)
-New effect: Decreases the effectiveness of healing abilities and hit point regeneration by 35% for 3 seconds. *(In PTR, it's 50%.)


Night Elf

Demon Hunter's Mana Burn
Mana cost reduced from 60 to 50 across all levels. *(We didn't see it in PTR)

Keeper of the Grove *(We didn't see the changes of KotG in PTR) 
-Night vision radius reduced from 900 to 800.
-Base Intelligence reduced from 19 to 18.
-Tranquility's Invulnerability duration reduced from 3 seconds to 1.
-Force of Nature: Treant base damage reduced from 15 to 14.

Druid of the Claw's Base Stats
Minimum damage in bear form increased from 22 to 23.  *(We didn't see it in PTR) 

Glaive Thrower Vorpal Glaives Upgrade
Now increases projectile speed from 1400 to 2000.  *(In PTR, it's 1400 to 2400.) 


Undead

Gargoyle's Base Stats
Movement Speed increased from 350 to 375. *(In PTR, it's 350 to 400.)

Necromancer's Unholy Frenzy
-Renamed to Incite Unholy Frenzy.
-Sacrifices a target friendly Undead unit.
-All nearby non-mechanical units gain Unholy Frenzy - including neutral and enemy units.
-Raised to 175 mana. *(It's 125 in PTR.)
-Added a 5 second cooldown. *(We didn't see this in the PTR.)
-Ability area of effect is 250.
-Attack speed bonus reduced from 75% to 50%. *(We didn't see this in PTR.)


(New Item) Ritual Dagger
 -Damage interrupts regeneration *(According to Back2warcraft, it heals 125 hp over 45 seconds now, instead of instant heal.)
 -5 second cooldown between charges *(It's 20 second in PTR)
Neutral Heroes

*(We didn't see the changes of these three heroes in the PTR.)

Alchemist
 -Healing Spray
Cooldown increased from 0 to 6 seconds.
-Acid Bomb
Level 1: Primary damage reduced from 6 to 5, and secondary damage reduced from 4 to 3.
Level 2: Primary damage reduced from 11 to 10, and secondary damage reduced from 7 to 6.
-Transmute
Bonus gold granted reduced from 125% to 100%.

Firelord
Soul Burn
Mana cost reduced from 85 to 65.
Level 1: Damage reduced from 125 to 80.
Level 2: Damage reduced from 270 to 200.
Level 3: Damage reduced from 450 to 340.

Pandaren Brewmaster
Breath of Fire
Level 1: Increased damage from 5 to 7.
Level 2: Increased damage from 10 to 14.
Level 3: Increased damage from 15 to 21.

These are all we found, please tell us if you find something missing.



Moon and Lawliet advanced to the WCG 2019.

As most of us expected, Lawliet and Moon successed to win the APAC Finals. Lawliet won the tournament without any losing map, resulting 7-0; and Moon lost a map to Lawliet, resulting 6-1 in the final result.

 Of course, we believe all their fans had been worrying about Moon and Lawliet, because Blizzard just updated the patch before the game. Luckily, Moon and Lawliet didn't disappoint their fans, and advanced to the Grand Final of WCG 2019. Congratulations to Moon and Lawliet!

 These pictures are from WCG.COM .


WCG reported a news about APAC final, take a look here!
http://en.wcg.com/news/view/584 


WGL: The games today have been postponed to tomorrow.

The games today will be played on tomorrow. Here is the translation of the official announcement that translated by GLH.

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[Announcement of the May Qualifier]

In the update of patch 1.31, Blizzard added a verification mechanism, and it's resulting that the current NetEase battle platform can not successfully create a room and enter the game to play.

Therefore, the competition today, the Group stage of Open division in May Qualifier (29th May 2019) will be postponed to 30th May 2019.

By the time, the game will be played with patch 1.31, please share and let the players know.

-Netease Blizzard's tournaments organizing committee
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Before you leave from this topic, here are some remarks for you to know.
  1. Open and Pro division will play at the same time tomorrow.
  2. All the future games will be played with patch 1.31. 
  3. The games after tomorrow will follow the original schedule.


Thank you for reading! Come and discuss all the stuff with us!







Contents


  1. WCG: APAC Final will play tomorrow, Moon and Lawliet will fight for the Final.
  2. WGL: Group C and D will continue today, feat HuG, Check, WFZ, HawK.


WCG: APAC Final will play tomorrow, Moon and Lawliet will fight for the Final.

The WCG 2019 Asia Pacific final will launch in Seoul, South Korea on 29th May, and the first match will start at 09:00 am (Korean time, UTC+9). 

By the time, all the qualified players will fight for the Final, with Round Robin and Bo1(Best of 1). According to the rules, the top 2 players with the best scores will advance to the World Finals in Xi'an in July.

By the way, here are some information of the Regional Finals. On the other hand, Back2warcraft (Neo and Remo) will cast the European Finals.


Before the end of this topic, here are the Link for you to watch the APAC Finals.



WGL: Group C and D will continue today, feat HuG, Check, WFZ, HawK.




And it's the full schedule of the WGL May qualifier, the games will start at 07:00 pm (UTC+8) everyday.

(Mon)27th May---Open Division-Group A and B, first three rounds (Tue)28th May---Open Division-Group C and D, first three rounds (Wed)29th May---Open Division, last two rounds of all Groups (Thu)30th May---Pro Division, Group Stage (Fri)31st May---Open and Pro Division, Group stage 2 (Sat)1st Jun---Open Division, Semi Final and Grand Final (Sun)2nd Jun---Pro Division, Semi Final and Grand Final




Contents


  1. WGL: Happy and Cash won the WGL European Qualifier.
  2. H&W: Moon broke through the surround of Team Newbee and win H&W Masters.
  3. WCG: The chat of TeD and BO in the second round.
  4. WGL: The last  monthly qualifier will start today!


WGL: Happy and Cash won the WGL European Qualifier.

On May 26, WGL summer 2019 European Qualifiers continued the fight! Since he said yes to WGL, Happy won the European qualifying quota without losing a single map, easy and simple!

On the other hand, Foggy's performance made everyone so stunned. After he lost to the Russian random player JohnnyCage in the winner bracket Quarter Final, he was still fighting and reached the Lower Bracket Final. However, he lost to Cash's Human at last. Foggy fell in Europe!

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Foggy may not be qualified this time.

In the European qualifier, he was defeated by mTw.Cash, meanwhile, his points were not high enough to ensure he can qualify. Although he still has the chance to make a final stroke in the qualifier in this month, but it's very hard for him. Let's see if he can make a great performance and go to Shanghai!



H&W: Moon broke through the surround of Team Newbee and win H&W Masters.

(Original Author: War3station, Translator: GLH, Click here to Source)

26th May is the last day of the H&W China vs Korea Masters. In the end, Moon easily defeated Lawliet in the Grand Final. After winning the WGL Winter in 2018, he won an offline event again after half of a year. Along this event, Chinese players played poorly in this tournament, and the top three were taken over by three South Korean players.


Match for Third: eer0 struggled in the game and lost to Lyn.

In the last six battle of eer0 vs Lyn, eer0 won only once. The gap between the two players in this patch has been showed slightly. 

In the first set on EI, eer0 lost 3 Crypt Fiends and a TP for cancelling Lyn' expansion. After that, Lyn went to creep jack and killed 2 Statues. eer0's troops had died more than half before the last fight.

In the second round of TR, eer0's hiding from the Blade Master and grew up his Death Knight to level 3 in the early game. In the mid game, he snatched the three creep camps in the middle of the map when he was having the strong timing. Although it's hard to guess who will win the direct fight, but eer0 expanded secretly and this gave him a strategic advantage. Lyn made a desperate all in to the expansion, but the Undead could easily defend their opponent at their base. eer0 regained a map.

When we went to the the deciding game on CH, Lyn made the Ogre Lord following him to base. At the strong timing, Lyn expanded at the Gold Mine that nearer to eer0 base, the two Reinforced Defense Towers were hard and rock-solid, eer0 had no choice but to type out GG.


Lawliet's strategies has a great effect, but Moon was just too strong.

Before the start of the finals, everyone said that Moon would definitely win the championship. Even Lyn, who's always being calm also said, Moon has the 80% of probability to win. Of course, Lawliet won't surrender easily. On the first map on TS, Lawliet started with Panda first, he's forcing Moon to upgrade to Tier 3 to use Bears, and avoiding the battle of mass Archers. Moon is so good in mass Archers mirror, so Lawliet chose a different strategy.

If there is the pure and mass Bear mirror, KOG's three-level Aura is so good, but how about the situation if there are some Chimaeras? That's why Lawliet is the best Night player when straining on different situation. He could do anything before you realized it!



In the second set of LR, Lawliet started with DH first and he wanted to make a surprise. Moon certainly won't give the opponent another chance. In the mid game, Moon summoned Naga as second hero, killed the Alchemist and took the initiative. After that, Moon choice to play with Dryads, and let Lawliet could only stay at base. Under the desperation, Lawliet planted Ancients of Protector at home, and pushed to Moon's expansion step by step. When he reached there, he realized that Moon had already been waiting for him with his Bears. How should Lawliet fight? GG.


Moon is the king in patch 1.30.

The next two sets had completely been controlling by Moon, and we had mass Archers mirror again in these two games. From these two games, we knew that Lawliet really has no chance when he plays regularly against Moon. Whether it's heroes position in the fight, focus fire, or overall view in the game, Lawliet is not as good as Moon, his failure is also reasonable.

After all, Moon still took the chance of the ending of patch 1.30. In this patch, he is the king. Can the Night Elf continue their glory in next patch?



WCG: The chat of TeD and BO in the second round.

On the second map on TR, before BO typed out GG, this the chat between them.


BO: Hey TeD, when you are standing on the stage, and holding the champion trophy
BO: Please remember me and my contribution.
TeD: ............
BO: GG
TeD: gg

So...TeD is the champion of WCG 2019?



WGL: The last  monthly qualifier will start today!

Compared with the pro division, we believe the open division games will be more interesting. Colorful,HuG, Linguagua and WFZ, all of them hope that they can win the championship in this month, so they can get more points and advance to the WGL offline. And there left only very few quotas, who will get it? Let's watch the games today!














Contents

1. WCG Chinese Qualifier: TH000, TeD, Infi advanced to the Regional Final.
2. H&W: Results of Semi Finals.
3. H&W: Games today. (No spoiler)
4. Sam Cup#8 is coming!
5. WGL European will be continued today, Foggy drops to the Lower Bracket!



WCG Chinese Qualifier: 
TH000, TeD, Infi advanced to the Regional Final.


After a few weekends, finally we have the Top 8 of WCG Chinese qualifier, the winners advanced to the Regional Final and they will play with Round Robin, (Bo1)Best of one. The Top 2 players will advance to the WCG main event in Xi’an.

H&W: Results of Semi Finals.

(This news is from War3station, and translated by GLH. Click here to the Source.)


 Sorry I changed my strategy again.

 The first semi-final was unfolded between Lawliet and Lyn. While the Orcs are constantly developing new strategies, like Shadow Hunter and Pit Lord combo, the Night Elves is constantly improving at the same time. In this series, Lawliet chose to play with double Ancients of War and Huntresses. He slowed down his expansion but he kept suppressing on Lyn, and this let Lyn suffering in the game.
In the first set of LR, Lawliet hid from the Blade Master in the early stage, and then, the Keeper of the Grove stole the Creep Camp beside the Gold Mine near the Orc and he reached level 3 very soon. After Lawliet upgraded Tier 2 tech, his troops were everywhere. Meanwhile, the troops made the Shadow Hunter did not dare to go out to leveling before the Shaman army was formed. Lyn also scouted for the Lawliet’s expansion all the time. However, Lawliet built the base at a very strange position, and he cleverly fooled his opponent’s eyes and ears.
In the mid game, Lawliet sense that Lyn’s creeping and he went for a creep jack. Lyn was completely surround by the Huntresses. And Lawliet even grabbed the Zeppelin. After the Shadow Hunter was killed, Lawliet was having a very huge advantage, and he even had a Zeppelin show. What a terrible game for Lyn.
And the last two sets…
In the second set on TR, Lyn finally recovered got back this familiar timing. The Far Seer and TC combo was unstoppable. Lawliet didn’t have any mistake in his micro, he even once surrounded the TC and saw the hope of victory. Unfortunately, the Night Elf without the expansion was still unable to withstand attrition battle. Finally, Lyn struggled to regain a set.
In the last match on CH, Lyn used SH and Pit Lord combo again, but he still did not solve the survival problem of the SH in the early stage. The SH was being chased by KotG all the way, wasting a TP and he also delayed the leveling time. When the Orcs reached 50 supply, the Night Elf was already mining with 2 Gold Mines, and 70 supply. At last, Lyn had no choice and he typed out GG.

"I must win this time!"

When eer0 said "I must win this time," The audiences clapped their hands. We’ve never seen that eer0 so serious, seems that he really wanted to take down Moon and fight for his fans.

Unfortunately, who err0 was facing in this time, is the most terrible Moon. In the first set on EI, Moon still used the Huntresses to start the game for his opponent. 120 was afraid to the opponent’s Wisps, so he could only choose to upgrade his tech to tier 3. However, Moon’s leveling with a really good plan. In the final battle, he had trained his Alchemist to level 3, and the level 2 Acid Bomb made eer0 so suffering. When eer0 was facing the mass Faerie Dragons, there was no space to let him to micro his Crypt Fiends. 120 was being chasing all the way back to home, and lost the game at last.

In the second set of LR, it’s the same story as the first one. Even worse, eer0 missed a few Death Coil in the fight. This mistake directly led to the loss. After Moon’s clever and good fight, eer0 lost the series. Since the patch 1.30, eer0 still hasn’t win a single series on Moon.



H&W: Games today. (No spoiler)

The games were started at 12:00pm (UTC+8) today. It’s same as yesterday, considering some of the people haven’t watch the game yet, we keep the result first and share the video for you right here.



Sam Cup is coming!
Sam Cup #8 will be held at 8th June, and here are the information to register the game.
  • If you want to sign up tha game, leave a comment(Netease nickname, Race) on discord(https://discord.gg/4k482Vk).
  • or, you may direct message to the organizer on Twitch(kimchoonsam) or Netease(Iamanoob).
  • Players must add accounts(Iamanoob) to get guided on Netease.
  • Deadline is Saturday, 8 June 19:30 KST (UTC + 09:00).

Additionally, we will have SAM CUP #10, the prizes of #10 will be higher than the previous SAM CUPs! If you want to know more information, please click this Link to the website.
Link: https://war3.kr/free/41957


WGL European will be continued today, Foggy drops to the Lower Bracket!

Yesterday night, we had the WGL European Qualifier, and Happy finally played in WGL again. Meanwhile, Foggy was defeated in the first round and dropped into the Lower Bracket.

Source of the Image
Actually, even if Foggy doesn’t qualify in this qualifier, he can also try to get points to win the quota with a different way.

 According to the news from War3station, Foggy is ranking 11th with 25 points at the current standings of WGL points system. Apart from the first 4 Korean players and the first 6 Chinese players, Foggy is only two points behind Sok, and 7 points behind Lawliet. Let us mention again that, there are 2 open quotas (unlimited nationality) after the National and Regional quotas. As long as he has good results in the last monthly qualifier, it is possible for him to land on the Offline event.
Contents

  1. WGL May qualifier: The Grid was published, Moon and TH000 in Group A!
  2. WGL European qualifier will play tonight!
  3. H&W: Lyn vs Lawliet and eer0 vs Moon. (No spoiler)
  4. Syde will play for oCe.
  5. Result of WCG Chinese qualifier.



WGL May qualifier: The Grid was published, Moon, eer0 and TH000 in Group A!


Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

And there are the Grid of Open Division!
(Click here to the Source, Liquipedia.)





The Top 2 from each group will advance to the Ro8 (Group stage 2), and they will be divided to two groups and play with Bo3, Double Elimination in Ro8 (Group Stage 2).

 Information of the event
Schedule
(Mon)27th May---Open Division-Group A and B, first three rounds
(Tue)28th May---Open Division-Group C and D, first three rounds
(Wed)29th May---Open Division, last two rounds of all Groups
(Thu)30th May---Pro Division, Group Stage
(Fri)31st May---Open and Pro Division, Group stage 2
(Sat)1st Jun---Open Division, Semi Final and Grand Final
(Sun)2nd Jun---Pro Division, Semi Final and Grand Final

Map Pool
(2) Amazonia (1.30)
(2) Concealed Hill (1.30)
(2) EchoIsles (1.30)
(2) LastRefuge-1.3 (1.30)
(2)Nothern Isles (1.30)
(2) TerenasStand LV (1.30)
(4) TwistedMeadows (1.30)

Prizes


WGL European qualifier will play tonight!

Here are the bracket. According to the information from Liquipedia, we will have Winners' Bracket Quarterfinals, Semifinals and the Loser's Round 1.
(Click here to the Link, Liquipedia)



H&W: Lyn vs Lawliet and eer0 vs Moon. (No spoiler)

Considering that some people haven't watch the games when we post this news, so we decided to post the result tomorrow. Here is the Link for you to watch the games.


Watch LIVE: H&W Masters - Semifinals (Lyn vs. LawLiet // Moon vs. 120) from Back2Warcraft on www.twitch.tv


Syde will play for oCe.

According to the Twitter of Oceanus Gaming, Syde will play for oCe!
Oceanus Gaming's Twitter: https://twitter.com/OceanusGaming
Syde's Twitter: https://twitter.com/FollowSyDe



Result of WCG Chinese qualifer.

Here are the information we gathered. By the way, the Final of the Group (Round of 16) will play with Bo3! And the Top 8 players will play with Offline.

 Group A and B

Group C and D

Group E and F

Group G and H