Only 30 minutes? Was expecting 5+ hours mate

We need stuff like this, it makes the game interesting.

you need to buff mana burn for elf to even have a chance vs UD later game UD hero's DK LICH + 1 beat whole army of elf alone ....

Agree with removing fairy fire's "map hack" property. The same goes for whatever is in the belly of a kodo, makes no sense. What, is the unit using a walkie talkie inside the belly, somehow accurately reporting its location back to base?

Get rid of magic immunity and make those units just 75 to 90 percent magic resitance. That would sure shake some stuff up then caster would be fun again with diverse armies.

How will hu be able to play against DK into gargs if you now can dispel water eles on T2?

But for example HU has only 1 source of dispell. I am not talking about tech tree now, just saying that having only 1 dispell does not necessarily have to be bad. Maybe move dispell to statues, with reduced dmg to summons? Keep everything else as it is. You would still want Destroyers because they benefit from dispell by gaining dmg and are much stronger fighters than statues.

Remo, your opinion on the current PTR is always much appreciated. I like how you manage to separate your opinion as a player vs caster

Can you coil nova tanks? Maybe make mortars have an upgrade for 50% or some resistance to magic maybe make all dwarf recieve and upgrade for magic resitance. That would be interesting

I think people are not considering trade-offs when analyzing changes. Yeah, poly on heroes can be insane but how late in the game would that be? What are you giving up in terms of tech paths, unit composition, timing and resources to get to sorc master training? How many poly can you cast considering how expensive they are? Does the opponent have a good enough dispel? How expensive is the dispel compared to the poly? Just saying poly on heroes = imba is not the right way to go about it, in my opinion

9:35 Ghoul frenzy right now doesn't take 60 but 45 sec to upgrade. Should be 60 to put the power spike a bit later.

Firelord Lava spawn should cost 135 mana and Blood Mage flame strike 125 mana

Ud have frost armour to counter taurens on t2? You serious? I like the change. But human and ne will have it far easier to deal with that than ud.

I really appretiate remo advocating very interesting and fun change every single patch. I especially like the firelord suggested change.

I think they should remake the searing arrows, they should make it the longest range activatable skill shot with ~100dmg a cd of 10 seconds and mana cost of 100 or so. Then Potm can buy the orb on t3 and doesnt have a wasted skill. I think to have it as a skill shot makes sense in the phantasie of an hunteres that has the best aim. :)

2:00 How are chims a counter to polymorph? xD

what if they locked wand of negation behind having a temple of the damned or something like that

Blizzard had 3 major design mistakes for WC3:TFT: 1. Mana burn. This could still be fixed if they decreased mana burnt and gave it more damage so it's more like a nuke (e.g. 50/50/50 burnt but 100/150/200 damage). 2. Magic immune units. It would have been better if destroyers, dryads, and breakers had built-in status resistance like MGs. Too late to change this since the game is designed around them. 3. Armor type values. Casters have very low attack values so heavy armor takes 200% from magic, but that makes them countered too hard by heavy air (so heavy air is locked behind onerous tech requirements). Also too late to change this. I think the issue of magic immune units and armor types issues arose from WC3:ROC where mass casters was the prevailing strategy.

Hmm I think if we're looking for comp variety for NE, the place to look might be hunts. Their RoC design kind of had NE heading towards either archer + hunts, or Dryads + Bears, but hunts were the best T1.5 unit in the game and they got the nerf of unarmored in Frozen Throne. Except the NE army just doesn't have any durable core units to replace the with the exception of Bear and at one point in time the overtuned MGs. Even historically durable frontlines have been a struggle for NE as a result, the old DH+Beastmaster+Tinker comps come to mind. Give them something to mitigate there crippling weakness to ranged at T3 so they can actually be used in a late game army comp, maybe something like giving them Elune's Grace as a researchable upgrade, they would still trough in the midgame.

Tauren t2 is so good. Synergy with spirit link builds

Dont touch dh mana burn range please. Why u do this to us?

polymorph on heroes basically makes the spell cyclone (effectively removes the unit from the game). so it's not broken in that sense... but do hu need any hero disable? they already have by far the best in the game (storm bolt, clap). no amount of toggling potm arrow will make her useable. bottom line, it will always be better to have damage + effect over damage alone. and for the 10000th time. arrow should stack with orb! heroes with arrow skills are unfairly penalized by orbs. that means one of their skills is basically useless late game. heroes without orb abilities do not have this weakness, and none of the arrow heroes are even s tier. it will not break the game. there is no hero that blizzard is as oddly afraid of as the potm.

U need to start thinking about other matchups that are not 1x1

I think that they should completely redesign potm. Even replacing her with a clone of Mirana would be an improvement.

Human has no solution to level 5 dread lord. Need to fix this!!!!

they should make searing arrows stack damage like troll warlord or ursa in dota then we’d be cooking! also curse on gyros and tanks not getting enough attention XD

Sexy Remo-Demo giving his insights! Thanks a lot, was cool!

Tier 3 changes like polymorph are always hard to evaluate because you often don't reach a situation where they make the difference, so it will be hard to say how polymorph changes the dynamic. Taurens on tier 2 feel weird but in theory it makes, sense. I don't think they are super strong without pulverise anyway, but having them at tier 2 might make them viable with the plan to get pulverise later. Maybe polymorph will be a viable counter, if HU now has the additional ability to hex heroes, it might make the counter viable even if it were not worth it against taurens alone.

Remo is the man.

I would argue why polymorph shouldn't work on heroes, but I think they'll probably reverse it once they see a few games end because a hero got chain polymorphed and died instead of TPing out.

Nova mustn't be able to hit flying units and its damage shouldn't be instant.

Undead doesn't need human getting polymorph on DK

Tier 3 should unlock new units. Period.

Ah nice, und gets to go from winning every tourney to.. Still winning every tourney. Why not give orc wand of negation so they can counter all the skellies and tier 1 entangle?

Thanks for the changes! You'll find a way to make UD NE matchup more fun.

So happy about the firelord nerf. It’s been op for too long

the firelord / chemical rage is so dota inspired that this makes all of your arguments thus far groundless -.- come on, this is RTS and not HERO CRAFT

main ork, only tauren

With tanks being nerfed, Happy will be invincible, correct?

I’d make it burn less mana and do more damage, more like a nuke than a drain

wtf polymorph on heroes?!

Our community give so much good suggestions for potm and we got that... elf heros still F tier besides DH. Unfun tanks need still more nerfs but buffed AA.

stop the mana burn whine and start the coil nova nerf

- Magic immune units should receive 50% of heal from coil/holy light/tranquility etc. - Web autocast should be removed

Neo you worked so hard to establish yourself as a pro-UD Happy fanboi, and now you just throw it all away by complaining about all the UD buffs 😂

I wholeheartedly agree with every balance change idea + logic behind Remo's rant. One more thing to add and it's a radical one. *Farseer* The "Farsight" ability is a complete meme, that's never used outside of maybe campaign. Obviously, the two wolfies + the old timer himself are an amazing scouting tool for the Orc and the main reason why he's so popular that we barely even see Orc go for a BM first these days. The challenge here, is that reworking an ability could seriously shake things up for the other Orc heroes, so the below proposition takes into account the current state of the FS where I think he's "overperforming" a bit, to put it mildly. > Idea: 1) Make the Farseer's *default* attacks melee instead of ranged 2) Re-work his basic ability (i.e. Farsight) into an orb effect so he can activate ranged attacks for -a/-b/-c mana per shot, with some moderate +x/+y/+z damage, albeit not too exciting and with no special ability (just pure damage). > Reason: Currently, the FS's wolves can easily slip through where no Grunt or BM can fit, and effectively harass workers early on, so having an additional source of ranged DPS should come at some price. This not only fixes the 3rd ability problem, but also makes the SH and more importantly, the BM more attractive because currently FS is broke as a 1st hero in comparison. > Implementation: Thrall's model wields a hammer, so remodeling one arm should be a piece of cake + plus I already tested it in editor and whacking units with a hammer that makes the same sound as the MK's weapon is really sweet. I'm happy to hear your thoughts on that. cheers

One thing they can never figure out is to NERF the fing statues. Now they can purchase mass dispell and curse tanks. Broken. Terrible patch.

Troll post

With all respect, I love you remo and b2w, but ur sugestions for balance, 90% of them, are dogshit completely no sense

This is terrible. Blizzard needs to wake uo

As usual, worst balance suggestions on the market. Obsessed with mana burn range for some reason, just camt let go of that stupid idea. Wants frost wyrms to be easy to get .. basically the strongest unit in the game

The biggest problem with tauren, is that they are being kited. Instead of putting them at tier 2, making T3 for orc even more useless, give them a passive resistance to slow (sorc gives 50% slow and tauren only gets 25). And the problem with Frost Wyvern is that they get wrecked by piercing attacks. Give them a passive 4 damage decrease to every piercing attack, so that they still die to mass air (hyppos, gargs or human air), but live a bit longer against mass archers or rifles

night elf struggles ahhahaah dont even think about moonwell buff, elfs dont even drop items for better heal, humans strugled so much and now playing with happy with good odds, make elfs play serious and not lazy, kaho is one and only good night elf rigth now

IMO, mana burn is problematic due to its limited counterplay opportunities. To address this issue, I propose at least halving both the cooldown and damage of mana burn. This adjustment would result in less but more frequent damage to mana. Consequently, Night Elf players would need to engage in more micro-management to consistently focus on executing burn cycles effectively. Additionally, it would force Demon Hunter players to make riskier decisions, as they would need to pursue targets more aggressively and stay attached for longer periods. All this would also provide opponents with more opportunities to counteract and evade repeated burns.