Hey, everyone! Thanks for watching. Development of Azeroth Reborn is getting smoother over time as everyone on the team is already a seasoned veteran dealing with the WC3 data in SC2, so there aren't that many big changes to the mod since the last campaign was released. The most noteworthy additions are race-themed rally point indicators and the addition of online saving/loading, which is a huge technical achievement for Arcade campaigns. Damage and armor upgrades have also been standardized into melee/ranged/armor for consistency. This was done a while ago, but it's more noticeable here because the original night elf upgrades split is pretty different from the current one. If you have any questions, leave a comment right here and I'll get back to you. Thank you again and have a great day!

I love how its a full playthrough of just 2 hours, and already, 10 minutes of it is spent looking for furbolgs on first mission

Video Length: 2:22:20 We were this close to greatness.

Hey look, Tyrande's portrait is finally focusing on her face instead of her tiger's !

From a game design perspective, the reason why they give you so much intelligence in the first part of this campaign is probably because Tyrande is the first hero with a cast on auto-attack. They probably just didn't want players to run out of mana and sit around for ages while waiting on their mana to recover while still getting used to the skill-set and when to toggle the auto-cast. You could argue that Kel'Thuzad is a preparation for that with his auto-cast frost armour but you learn pretty quickly that it's not viable to have it on auto-cast all the time + Kel'Thuzad gets instant mana regen with Dark Ritual and is an intelligence hero so he can be more liberal with it. From a progression standpoint with learning mana usage on cast heavy heroes you get Archmage with brilliance aura to teach the utility of mana regen, then Kel'Thuzad with Dark Ritual to teach the utility of instant refills, then Thrall to introduce mana regen scarcity and the importance of potions and finally Tyrande who is a non-intelligence hero with a high mana usage. Just a nice and subtle game design choice to teach people about mana management without impeding gameplay too much.

Malfurion can't sound the horn multiple times or he gets sued by his fellow Night Elfs for causing a commotion. The mission is in eternal night time, if somebody blows a horn once he better have a good reason. If he is dooding the whole night murder is reasonable!

Oh a new grant video. Oh Azeroth Reborn Night Elf, it's probably a new series to enjoy... IT'S A WHOLE PLAYTHROUGH. We eating good today

The original WC3 model art style holds up so well still.

About the final cutscene: until literally a few seconds before you mentioned it, I had *always* believed that we were looking at a forest of tree stumps that were burned in the explosion. I must have watched it a dozen times or more, but this was the first time I ever saw some little movement that made it click for me that we were looking at an army cheering.

On the mission where you save Furion, the Keepers did drop their orbs unintentionally on death. Either the items were incorrectly labeled to drop, or due to how the RoC hard-coded inventory (inventory wasn't a standardized 'unit ability' until TFT, each slot was coded into the unit in the Trigger-editor, saving to a cache between missions), which made them drop them. A similar bug can occur on the sneaky Tyrande mission, where her entire inventory will be missing. A patch was introduced that brought inventories more in line with the inventory system from TFT. You can still find the unused variables in the editor on certain missions if you poke around. These bugs were also in the retail version of 💀Reforged💀 20 years later, due to it being based on an older legacy version reverse engineered from some ancient gold version. Quite fun!

Harvest Archimonde and take his lumbar!

I love how Malfurion defeated the burning legion, went to his man cave for a 10000 year nap and put the guards to kill his life if she tries to wake him up:)

Suggestion for Lore giving you Stimpaks in the first WoL mission. You destroy one of the boards, and one of the civvies comes out. "Hey, I snagged these off the Dominion, you can make more use of 'em than me." Like, out of one of the nearby houses or something

Yeah I wish Kerbal Space Program 2 lived up to the hype, and not yknow. 41:53 lol truly a day for the memes. lol love Grant's bear puns after freeing Illidan

I liked the episodic format, especially since Synergy gave insights in the comments.

Really should have added 2 seconds of content somehow

1:33:20 he was waiting for 10000 years and now he will make all the bear puns known to mankind

Thrall secretly juiced up on some Mannoroth blood. His chain lightning thus did chaos damage going through Archimonde's divine armour.

W3 Reforged we deserved, but never got...

Surely we’ll get a StarCraft 2 vs Warcraft 3 modded campaign

Prophet - "I summoned a legion of slaughtering demon worshippers who were killing everyone they could catch! When I was caught and executed, it was murder, I tell you, totally unjustified!"

I would love a Reign of Chaos vs. Legacy of the Void crossover! Go for it!

@19:35 I bet the devs seeded a bunch of int items early to help the new players with Searing Arrows autocast so they always have mana to wast on owls.

Grant asking the impossible of Synergy once again. Though at this point im of the same belief as Grant that u might be able to make Dwarf Fortress lol .

I just realized that the final night elf mission and the legacy of the void final mission have the same premise. We have to give up our immortality/khala to beat archamon

2 hours of Grant? Count me in boys! AND ITS NOT REFORGED EITHER WOOOO

1:13:18 nah, the recluse actually doesn't have much in the way of confirmed kills - just a lot of assumptions (Travis McEnery has some great videos on spiders, including the recluse, if anyone's interested). I feel like Australia is the land of animal assassins; you're know you're (probably) dead if you run into a grizzly, alligator, wolves etc., but in Australia you're dead and either have no idea what the culprit was, or the list reads like an anthro 'Murder on the Orient Express' 🤣

6:28 having used Night Elf Archers a lot I can say that them not controlling like drunken hippos in treacle will make them OP.

Grant, you're sleeping on the power of Australia's most fearsome creature, the saltwater crocodile. It is to Floridian gators as the giant Cave Panda Furbolg is to his lesser kin.

Hearing Lumber as Lumbar is kinda terrifying when the quote is "We will take you Lumbar, or your Life" i just imagine the Wisps just charging Archimonde with a set of Surgery Tools, no wonder he was writhing in pain.

57:42 In StarCraft 1, for an embarrassing number of years, I thought the SCV said "Border Scoutin'" instead of "Orders Cap'n?" I always knew it made no sense, but I could only ever hear "Border Scoutin'" and I had no idea what else it could be until a long time later I realized they said "Orders Cap'n?"

I SHARE THE DATE OF BIRTHDAY WITH LEEROY JENKINS AND TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD!?!!

hell yes baby. I love me some StarCraft 1 and/or Warcraft 3

grant, bears will eat you after they kill you. a kangaroo will just drown you just to drown you. they are herbivores. there is no reason for them to attack humans, but they will. they do it for the funni.

I am pretty sure we can all agree, that yes, we want the Raynor Space Program.

Ooooh, hand-spiders now that sounds fun. You have the main body and that has six legs and then each leg has a hand on it and each hand has five fingers and they all move on their fingy-toes all the time. You know, like tippy-toes but with fingers.

I personally see no difference in quality that Grant apologize for every time! Your content is the best!

Legacy of the Night Elves!

I think Grant needs to look up the Gympie Gympie tree.

TwitchTrollsGrant Legacy of the Void in August. Guys, ya boi here broke as fuck, so I'm gonna rely on you to make this legendary, aight? Grant, if you get a say in the mods, can you make some of it co-op? I like campaigns with allies, either AI or other players. Because it makes for some hilarious but effective strats.

In Chapter 4: The Druids Arise if you weaken the High Ground Orc Base enough the Undead Flyers will wipe them out and then start sending some attack waves at the Low Ground Human Base and eventually clear it for you. Then if you help the High Ground Human Base wipe out the High Ground Undead Base (not easy) the High Ground Humans will then start sending attack waves at the Corrupted Ancients at the end of the level.

Looks like Synergy made it way easier to save the furbolg in mission 2 since it can actually fight now, you've just got to go for the archers a bit after the cage and double back for him.

I've never been sure of the exact lore reason, but my headcannon has always been that Archimond was technically summoned to Azeroth therefore he would be vulnerable to a wisp's detonation.

Some W3 gameplay again still loving to see it ! by the way Grant maybe you already answer on live or other im a european watcher so catching your stream is a bit complicated, but i saw your vids when you where asking for content to make and i was wondering for maybe a bit of change over Starcraft modded campaign. There is a lot of amazing project done by the community on Hiveworkshop, Like Warcraft Re-reforged who for now only do the tutorial and the human campaign but its still amazing all mission are superfun to do and all "boss" fight are remade and are really cool. There is also The chronicle of the second war who is simply on a other level or simply on the level of quality Reforged was supposed to be ! Anyway keep what your doing your amazing !

So without doing a deep dive a WC3 Battlecruiser using hydra ratios would have 3850hp 65-67 damage a shot vs ground every 0.2 seconds. Depending on damage type would be killing an archer every second. Archers average 17 damage a shot every 1.5s. BC's 3 armour reduces this by 15.25% to around 14.5 damage a hit leading to needing 266 shots to kill a BC. It would take a single archer 399 seconds to kill a BC. Given that a BC will kill an archer a second the amount of archers roughly needed to take it down would be 35 archers ending with 1 maybe 2 archers left >< Though im sure my math is incorrect somewhere but thats not actually all that many archers D: No wonder hydralisks canonically shoot em down! Im sure a few more mitigating factors would actually let you get away with a few less (bc's overshooting for example)

Love what synergy has done with all of these campaigns. Really well done. I thought it was such a shame what they did with reforged and didn’t use the opportunity to add some kind of achievement system. It added so much replayabity to sc2 in comparison to Warcraft 3 campaigns

Holy shit when you called her "T-rand" at 20:10 I instantly thought of Day9. Spot-on impression

woah... didn't expect you to upload a full playthrough!

Azeroth Reborn is such an inspiring project. I hope to one day see an hour long retrospective on it, the SC2 modding scene and GGG's role in it

Absolute awesome mod. But I had one bug I guess on the mission where you meet Illidan, because a Bear at the end died like immediatly and I had looked into the twitch vod to see what grant does there and he just ran through. Did it again and finished the mission ... after around 2 hours ... nearly the duration of the gameplay ... on hard, while I played on normal. 07:50 I had that, it got implemented.

Fun fact: 13:42 Rain of Fire was an ultimate ability before it was given to the Pitlord in Frozen Throne. Hence why Snake Aes from Warchasers is broken after the patch, like many other things about that map.

1:34:55 watching Illidan leave a huntress to die so he can gain power is so on point lmao

@50:21 Grant: We're gonna stop by the moonwell cuz we're hurtin'. Malfurion: How dare you! Love these random-ass conversations between Grant's running commentary and these random pre-scripted characters. Edit, I think Grant forgot night elves were the original primal zerg and most of their buildings can fight.

Kerbal Space Program in SC engine please! Archimonde is too smart for carrying gem of true sight xD *"I wish there's a faction swap in WC3"* Well, wish granted. Jaina is a dreadlord, Tyrande is a troll, and Thrall is a human Archmage. But giant Goblin Shredder might give modders ideas

i'm so excited for blood elf campaign

Man, that final cutscene still looks lit af. Blizzard really were the masters of CG video game animation. So many iconic cutscenes that still hold up even to this day.

The lighting and unit pathing are so good!

Fun fact,in original warcraft3,when Thor zap Archy,he actually targeting an invisible human child at the proximity of Archy’s shoulder.

Good Gods, an actual VOD on the VOD channel?! Outrageously neat!

The SC 2 versus warcraft 3 mod would be extremely fun, but also, a zergling would have like 300HP and 40 damage, so it really would just be a "when you find a primitive civilization in stellaris" moment.

dear god grant, those bear puns were clawful :P

1:13:20 Yeah, seen one of those just wandering around school. Thankfully it seemed more keen to just find a hiding spot and I didn't mind it just chilling between the table I was sitting at and the wall. Glad I decided to leave it alone😅

Just watched the retrospective yesterday, and now this ... Sure why not

1:08:50 He didn't notice that was "The Biggest Panda Ever"! XD

okay, speaking from memory on the FU waves, since my dad played WCIII a _ton_ when i was little. my recollection is that the waves would escalate in difficulty up until the 15 minute mark, then archimonde himself would join in as a guaranteed kill wave and almost instantly wipe an ally off the map. IIRC it was theoretically possible to beat him, but basically impossible without cheats. pretty sure archimonde doing crazy damage to the orc buildings towards the end was because he was set up to do a cleanup wave, but something happened with the trigger and he spawned in way later than the equivalent 10 minute mark with the shortened mission timer

YES! 23:11 Starcraft vs. Warcraft would be amazing.

i can relate to the soapsud story, my grandad always repeated that "line" when he saw me play.

Eh. Honestly, given how much of a fanatic Maiev is and the depths she is willing to go to in her pursuit, I very much doubt the Watchers are much better than the prisoners they are supposed to guard. Remember that the big crime Illidan, one of the biggest heroes of the ancient Night Elves, was imprisoned for for eternity was to let the Night Elves remain immortal. And the thing that Furion banishes him for once again without even talking to him was doing the exact thing he was freed to do - fighting the demons and freeing the forests from the corruption.

I can't unhear, "Who threatens these lambs?" now.

my favorite part of this capaign is probably that in mission 3 the undead have a whole ass base with tycondrious in it for absolutely no reason, you cant see it unless you use the owl and they arnt connected to anything either, its just there vibing to give your computer more things to do for fun

I can confirm that you can cheese the last mission by the use of goblin land mines against the undead base, which is stocked in the two merchants buildings. The SC2 pathfinding makes this cheese significantly easier, despite the body blocking. I commend Synergy for keeping this cheese, when this exploit could had been patched

30:22 - My inner pedant compels me to butt in that it's "Ancients of Lore" - like "Attorneys General" or "Knights Templar"

Random thought. What would deathless campaigns in this look like? Like you wrestled the original thing into a victory, and this seems like it would be way easier. But if your mention of Hard being harder than even reforged, maybe it'd balance out into something interesting?

Was waiting for this.

Everything is so cheap, they don't cost any minerals or gas.

27:45 You can harvest as many lumber as you can fit peasants around the tree. The number of recommended lumberjacks would be dumb.

YES! 23:11 Starcraft vs. Warcraft is inevitable.

I already watched this on twitch but I'm still liking/commenting so youtube knows I enjoyed the video.

Don't worry Grant, your VOD content is always great

Despite its age, that final cutscene still holds up.

42:01 I didn't know that both memes were that old XD

Grant at 1:42:01: Illidan is... Me: out there somewhere...

Ahhh.. The true Warcraft Reforged is back ❤😂 This idea and its implementation is so much better than what ever happened at blizzard.

First positive reaction - of yea! Units are keeping their team colours when dying! (In Starcraft 2, by default only buildings do and not all)

0:48 hell yeah dude

I thought this was going to be an at least 5 video long thing. Oh well, this is going to keep me entertained through hospital today.

Regarding 23:10, I would absolutely LOVE to see a Warcraft vs Starcraft Mod in some way. It's been in the back of my mind for ages. As an idea it's amazing and would be very cool

I have a feeling this campaign was somewhat speedrunned, especially the Druids of the Claw part, but I am very gratefull to everyone who made this mod and to Grant for playing it =) Cheers!

21:50 If that's true then north of that gate there's some high tech reinforcements and healing. 21:57 Sure enough... it is BW Toss 23:20 NM its vanilla SC Zerg!

This year on Twitch Trolls Grant, Grant Trolls Twitch! This year, Grant gets his favorite games of yesteryear remade in StarCraft. TBH, not a bad idea. Many people played WC3 only for the custom games, few of which resembled classic RTS gameplay.

39:53 The taking to hobbits to isengard meme is from 2005. So it's more like an almost 2 decades than over a decade.

57:38 Malfurion does look like a big moth from the back!

Shando Stormrage is a nod to Gandalf Stormcrow. The game came out during peak LOTR hype, hence the multiple names, Gandalf, Mithrandir, The grey wanderer etc.

22:38 - Now, where's our boy? - In position.

My goodness, woooohoooooooO! Time for some warcrafting

I would love to see you play some KSP and break it in all ways possible!

1:12:02 Two words POISONOUS BIRD There's also poisonous plant that makes you wish you where dead and the pain stays for YEARS

Grant asks what is happening in Chapter 6 like he doesn't know the universe can barely contain its fury towards his jokes as he continues to make more.

The real reason that glaive throwers feel faster is because they got there speed buffed in the latest patch very good quality of life change for all siege weapons

My headcanon is that tyrande freed Illidan because when she woke Malfurion he had too much beard so she wanted to cheat on him and she remembered that illidan had a crush on her, when he transforms she is angry because now he was burning and stoney so she couldn't do the deed with him anymore.