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.
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!
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.
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 :(
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 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 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).
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.
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
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.
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
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 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.
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"
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 🤗
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.
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.
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.
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!
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)
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?"
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
"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
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!
first warden, then dreadlord, omg my favorite heroes thx grubby
Naga spotlight, she sees so much play in competitive compared to other tavern heroes
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
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!
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
Asaply as possible, a true fellow Dutch wordsmith.
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!
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.
Tinker is probably the most complicated hero with the most crazy interactions. Funfact, you can repair him during his ultimate.
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.
Looking forward to seeing more of these, lore segments are very cool :D
Need that Pandaren spotlight, and then it splits off into three videos spotlighting Storm, Earth, and Fire
Id love to see a dark ranger one!
24:25 I like when lore and gameplay line up like this!
Commenting to keep the series going! I'm casting my vote for Mountain King, rock and stone!
fellow Deep Rock Galactic gamer 🫡
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
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 :(
Looking forward to the Firelord! Always felt like a noobtrap to me, because it looks more menacing than it is 😂
Great video as always! Looking forward to the inevitable Tinker spotlight 😆
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.
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 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.
5:43 The Dreadlord Slip Experiment
Dreddy my favorite hero to play
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
Mr Grubby, the lores on these heroes spotlight are always poggers. I like to hear it every time you do.
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.
Banes sleep actually maked you invulnerable for a few frames i believe! I remember saving a teammate from a necro ult once with it!
Great stuff!
Damn, I live for that Inferno summoning
I never learned so much about a game I didn't play for 20 years
love those spotlights, looking forward to the next
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'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
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.
Mountain King, TC, Crypt Lord and DH are all great choices, also any Neutral hero will be an absolute delight to watch.
These are some of my favorite videos. Really great insights and just makes me want to do tons of games with those heroes 😂
Finally my favorite hero is covered. I can die happy now!
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
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.
I love these spotlights. i played this game a lot when i was in highschool. your videos are 10/10 keep it up.
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
Nice! Grubby dropped another new hero spotlight for a game I haven't played in 16 years
And then, after I get rid of this fool...Oh! Hello! I didn't know you were there!
Can't wait until we get to Firelord.
Id also lava to see that.
I want to see Crypt Lord! He's my favorite
Been waiting for this one, my favorite hero of all time. Thanks!
Definitely want to see this series continue.
If we ever get around to human heroes again, I want the next one to be Bloodmage. He's got so many interesting quirks.
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.
I'd like to hear mostly about Keeper of the Grove, Brewmaster, Firelord and Shadow Hunter.
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.
OMG..Grubby speaking about lores of warcraft world and heroes?!! Love this content already.
I'd love to see you do one on Dark Ranger, probably one of my favourite Hero/unit!
Looking forward for the DrugLord tho
The completely anticipated Jaraxxus made my day.
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"
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 🤗
My favorite hero !!!
Dreadlord strategy feels so lore accurate, a cunning expansion with a solo dreadlord.
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.
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.
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.
Check the mouse cursor left screen at 0:08 LOL
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!
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)
More grubby talks yasss
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?"
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
I've been looking forward to this video! I love this series. Also yeah I come from the Tyler1 video :)
WoW Shadowlands lore: 1:13
Warcraft 3 lore: "They are Burning Legion's KGB."
Yeah this is amazing. I might add "As ASAPly as possible" to my everyday vocabulary
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.
firelord and tinker would be goated!
Dark ranger needs to be shown, the best hero for fast creeping to lv6 to spam charm
I want them all and the serie to be completed! thx Grubby and thx to all those who support you.
Grubby, I love you. Just so you know.
I would love to see Shadow Hunter in the spotlight as it is one of my favorite heroes due to his flexibility
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.
Finally a video about druglo.. er... dreadlord
Love these! Please keep em up grub.
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.
Great video!
My favourite hero is the Demon Hunter. I’d love to see a video on him sometime!
Shadow Shaman or Bloodmage next! Loving the series.
The Sleep Lord!
The Drug Lord!
Dress Lord
BedLord :D
feel like blood mage and death knight are too iconic not to do
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 miss this game so much. I havent played since i was a kid 8-9 years ago
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 :/
only 19 more left ! good work grubby !!
I really want to learn more from Neutral heroes!
Please go Neutrals :D
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.
Been waiting for this one!