Contents


  1. WGL May Qualifier will be continued today, with patch 1.31! 
  2. A whole new gaming mode, the Archon Mode.
  3. Hunter replaces CrunCher to play in WGL summer 2019.



WGL May Qualifier will be continued today, with patch 1.31!

The minor league of WGL which held by Netease and Blizzard will continue today. By the time, the Group Stage of Pro division and Open division will play at the same time. This is also the first patch 1.31 tournament that played on NetEase Platform.

Yesterday, Blizzard released the new patch of 1.31. After a day of debugging, the new patch was officially updated on the Netease Platform today. After the changes of the patch, which race will become the strongest race? Let's check on it by the coming games.

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

A whole new gaming mode, the Archon Mode.

The Archon Mode: Two players control the same "troop or camp" to fight against the opponents. In the game, two of them will be "sharing" the micro, and the units, and making the effect that is not easy to achieve by a single player.

This Mode will be played in Laoshou Cup (老受杯), for more details, please click here to the tournament announcement.


Hunter replaces CrunCher to play in WGL summer 2019.

According to our Warcraft III tournament organizer, dur0, CrunCher is not able to attend WGL summer 2019. Also the Third place of the WGL European Qualifier, htrt has declined the chance as well. "Both of them had to forfeit their spots because of their jobs." said dur0

Therefore, Hunter will play in WGL summer 2019.

Click here to Dur0's Tweet.



Thanks for reading. Join us and discuss with us!




Original Author: War3station
Translator: GLH


Laoshou cup (老受杯) is a Warcraft III Cup sponsored by Laoshou's fans, Rumei (如媚), and organized by the famous referee from War3station, Xiaotian (小天). The tournament will start on 2nd June, with a total prize of 2,500 yuan.


Information

Registration URL:
https://www.dianjingquan.cn/matchDetail.html?id=6240#/

Remark: If you don't have a Chinese phone number, please contact GLH on discord, then provide your Player ID, NetEase ID, and QQ Number to the Admin, Aragorn Wong, we will help you to contact War3station, they will help you to register the game.
Discord of GLH: https://discordapp.com/invite/PdaBwSJ


Schedule: 
2nd June - 3rd June, 2019, starting at 19:00 every day, we will hit the top 4 on the first day, and decide the champion on the next day.


Format: 
BO3, single elimination, Grand Final will be BO5.


Notice:
1. The game mode is Archon mode (we will explain at the bottom), participants have to sign up with 2 players.
2. Players have to use the maps provided by the organizer to play the game.
3. After submitting the registration information, please join the QQ group (807423172) and keep QQ online.


Map: 
EI, TM, LR, AZ, TS, TR, AI


Prize Pool:
Champion: 1,500 yuan
Runner-up: 1,000 yuan
Total: 2,500 yuan


Streming:
xiaotian, Douyu Room Number: 917571


The Archon Mode:
Two players control the same "troop or camp" to fight against the opponents. In the game, two of them will be "sharing" the micro, and the units, and making the effect that is not easy to achieve by a single player.








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!


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!