[Altered Melee] Sha'tar

[Wasabee]

Sha'tar V1.1

Information

The Sha'tar, which means "Born from Light" in Draenei, are a strong faction headed by the naaru A'dal. They rule over a reconstructed Shattrath City, which is a major hub in Outland located in the Terokkar Forest's northwestern corner. They lead the war against Illidan and the Burning Legion with the aid of the Aldor and the Scryers.

Characteristics

Almost all units have the Gift of the Naaru - When a unit is attacked, there is a 50% chance to be healed based from thrice the amount of damage taken.

Huge emphasis on defensive tactics and heavy artillery.

Experimental magic-tech weaponry.

Variety of multi-functional support units.

Tech-tree

Tech-tree Overview Working on it. Heroes Blood Knight-Lord Magister Grand Anchorite Exarch Description Preview Cunning Hero, adept at melee combat and killing enemy units. Undying Flame - Innate Passive Grants 1 attack damage for every nearby enemy unit. When Blood Knight-Lord's health falls below 35%, she gains 50% attack speed. Avenging Wrath Blood Knight-Lord slams the ground, dealing damage in area, slowing attack and movement speed of enemy units for a few seconds. There is a chance that Blood Knight-Lord slams the ground with more power, ripping out waves of pure force dealing damage in outer area, making her to gain attack speed. Cutting Edge Blood Knight-Lord bursts into her inner rage, rapidly attacking everything on her path, dealing damage and quickly moving towards the targeted point. Redemption Aura Emits an aura that heals nearby allied units whenever the Blood Knight-Lord is attacked. Also allows you to force enemy units within 250 radius to attack you. Has an Area of Effect of 500. Blood Knight-Lord will not be healed by this aura. Purifying Annihilation When Purifying Annihilation is activated, it gives the Blood Knight-Lord bonus armor, bonus hit points, bonus damage and spell immunity. Description Preview Mystical Hero, adept at offensive range magic. Arcane Barrage Channels powerful arcane energy into the Magister, after 3 seconds the Magister is able to move and the energy is released into a devastating barrage of missiles which hunt down their target. Summon Mana Golem Summons a powerful mana golem to attack your enemies. Tether Tethers the Magister to an allied unit, granting bonus movement speed to both. When Magister restores health or mana, tethered units target gain same or more than the amount. Any enemy unit that crosses the tether is slowed and damaged. The tether breaks when the allied unit moves too far away, or Magister cancels the tether. Event Horizon The power of Black Hole forms in front of the Magister generating a micro-black hole which will travel slowly toward the target point, The black hole drags enemies into it, upon reaching its destination the black hole explodes dealing damage and throwing the enemy units back. Description Preview Mystical Hero, adept at healing and supporting holy magic Light of Dawn Heals units in a cone from the Grand Anchorite to the target unit. Scales of Judgement The Scales of Judgment determines the good and evil of a target enemy or ally. If the target is an enemy, it damages and decreases its armor. If the target is an ally, heals it and increases its armor. Once judgment is finished, it will select a new target and seek it. Consecrated Aura Gives additional mana regeneration and armor to all friendly units in the map. Seraphic Ascension The Grand Anchorite calls for the heavens, and causing all friendly units in an area to become invulnerable, while causing damage per second to hostile units. If a unit leaves the area, the effects will cease upon that unit. Description Preview Warrior Hero, exceptional at commanding units and controlling the flow of combat. Fortitude Unleash a powerful light force into a position. The bolt ignites all nearby souls in 400 range, dealing damage proportional to health. Afterwards, any allied unit struck will be healed both health and mana and enemy unit will lose hit and mana point per second for 20 seconds. Always left 1 HP. Initial damage is spell and the interval effect is pure. Volatile Light Infuses a target area with holy light for a set amount of time. If any friendly unit enters the area, they will be healed over time for 4 seconds. Any enemy unit that remains inside the area will miss more often on attacks. Battle Focus Aura Enhances nearby allied units' attacks with a chance to deal additional damage and avoid attacks. Azuremyst Barrage Stuns units in a 100 degree arc in front of Exarch. The stun increases with proximity to the Exarch. Azuremyst Barrage has 450 range, maximum 10 second stun. Units Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Artificer - Worker Basic worker unit. Can harvest gold and lumber, summon structures and Repair. Can become Living Vigilant. He can 'summon' structures so it is recommend to stop manually building structures to avoid wastage of resources. This also make him excellent in power building like human peasants. Attacks land units and trees Peacekeeper - Melee Unit Durable foot soldier. Has Shock Sword and Defend ability. Can learn Unwavering Strength. Attacks land units. Scout Ranger - Ranged Unit/Scout/Stealth Detection Basic long-ranged scout and attacker. Can learn Fleet Foot, and True Sight upgrade. Attacks land and air units. Arcanist - Primary Spellcaster Adept at debuffing enemy units. Can initially cast Confusion, which causes enemy attacks to miss. Can also learn Mana Sap and Ethereal Warp. Attacks land and air units. Anchorite - Supporting Spellcaster Adept at buffing allied units. Can initially cast Soothe, which increases the life of multiple wounded units. Can also learn Nullify Magic and Devotion Armor. Attacks land and air units. Inversionist - Melee/Siege Support Elven warrior excellent at disrupting enemies units and structures. Can initially cast Bond Breaker, which reduces armor and gives vision of an enemy structure. Can also learn Reverse Stasis. Attacks land units. Scryer Transport - Amphibious Transport/Scout/Stealth Detection Heavily armored amphibious transport vehicle, effective at carrying units across the battlefield. Can be upgraded with Flares and Temporal Warp ability. Can travel on water. Cannot attack. Skyguard Sentinel - Anti-Air Unit Fast moving medium armored vehicle, extremely effective at destroying air units. Can learn Overload ability. Attacks air units. Ashwing Moth - Light Air Unit/Anti-Magic Unit Swift flying unit, excellent against magic units. Has Magic Disruption and Phase Shift ability. Can learn Devour Link. Attacks land and air units. Vindicator - Melee Unit/Support/Siege Unit Melee support. Can initially cast Aldor Might, which increases attack damage and life regeneration rate. Unmounted Vindicators has increased life and mana regeneration rate. Can also learn Elekk War Training. Attacks land units. Nether Ray Skyguard - Heavy Air Unit/Anti-Tower Unit/Ground Support Powerful flying creature, mounted by a Draenei crossbowman. Can learn Trenchant Breath ability. Attacks land units. Arkonite Artillery - Ownage Device/Siege Heavy long-range siege weaponry with self-repairing modules. Effective against buildings but extremely slow and vulnerable. Has Siege Mode, allows to anchors itself to the ground to enable Arcane Depleted Shells ability along with increased damage and attack range. Can learn the Arcane Depleted Shells ability. It is the longest range unit in the game. Build limit of 2 units. Attacks land units and trees.

Screenshots

Screenshots Structures Units Screenshot 3 Screenshot 4 Screenshot 5 Screenshot 6 Screenshot 7 Screenshot 8 Screenshot 9

Additional Information

To play as the Sha'tar, select Human when choosing a race in the lobby.

Also includes zoom command, just type -zoom xxxx to your preferred camera distance and -zoom reset to use default settings.

Credits

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Change Log

06-03-2020 Map posted in Map Development Section. 06-14-2020 Updated to V1.1 Full changelog here.

Author's Notes

I've been developing this map since 2016-2017 but I lost it when my computer broke. This is all new and different from what I did before. It is almost complete except for further tests and balancing. I'll forward to your reviews and takes for this faction.

 

[Wasabee]

Update: Fixed the map link sorry

 

[Daffa]

This is basically a finished race IMO. Why not Map Section?

 

[Wasabee]

This is basically a finished race IMO. Why not Map Section?

Well I still don't feel that this is enough to be in the Map Section so I think this is the best place for now.
It lacks testing and I am still planning to make changes aside from balancing. I don't raelly want to spam it in the Map section.

 

[Kyrbi0]

Not a faction/race I've ever been interested in, but I love your presentation & your setup. You look like you're on the right path, and I'm always excited to see more custom factions. : )

 

[Riki]

I gave this a pair of tests and noticed some things that you can improve:

Spoiler: Notes

• I appreciate the hotkeys you added to the faction. They are very similar to the ones I usually use and make selection a lot easier.
• Since Arkonite Generators give 10 food, you can reduce the amount of food produced by the Main building from 12 to 10. IMO, a Main building should produce more than 10 food when the specialized food structures give 8 or less.
• Perhaps the Arkonite Generators have more mana than they will ever use. You could reduce it to 200.
• There is a strange bug with the Artificers. When these become Living Vigilants and then return to their original form they can no longer summon buildings.
• I don't know if it is intentional to increase the armor of the Scryer Towers when they use their ability (the description does not indicate anything about that).
• The Peacekeepers are very powerful for a T1 melee unit. If you consider their stats, abilities, and upgrades, you have a unit that easily defeats a Grunt. I would recommend reducing hit points and maybe balancing abilities.
• The Unwavering Strength upgrade appears to have an error. In theory it should increase attack speed by 20% but actually increases it by, I don't know, 2000%? Check it out.
• A part of the Wind Walk description is still present in Fleet Foot. In addition, in the upgrade of this ability, both the name and the description do not match those of the ability.
• Elekk War Training upgrade seems to take too long researching.
• Confusion and Mana Sap should have some visual effect on the target to know which units are affected.
• Soothe is definitely too powerful for only 5 mana. I suggest increasing the mana cost and reducing the amount of hit points healed.
• Devotion Armor should also cost more mana.
• Bond Breaker reduces the armor of buildings by 17. The description says that it should reduce it by 4. Also, you can select friendly buildings with it.
• Nether Rays have mana that they (apparently) aren't using.
• Some Hero spells may also receive balance improvements.
• There could be some other things yet. But for now these are the ones that I could notice.

Overall, it's a good job with a great potential. I like several of the ideas you used in your units and your buildings. Good presentation by the way.

 

[Wasabee]

Ohh thank you very much! Also it seems like I still missed some easy mistakes haha.

• Since Arkonite Generators give 10 food, you can reduce the amount of food produced by the Main building from 12 to 10. IMO, a Main building should produce more than 10 food when the specialized food structures give 8 or less.
• Perhaps the Arkonite Generators have more mana than they will ever use. You could reduce it to 200.

I'm not sure of changing these for the mean time.

• There is a strange bug with the Artificers. When these become Living Vigilants and then return to their original form they can no longer summon buildings.
• I don't know if it is intentional to increase the armor of the Scryer Towers when they use their ability (the description does not indicate anything about that).

These things I will check it further because I'm not sure of what causing them to behave like that.

The other things you've mention they will be fixed in the next update.
I'll be balancing the hero spells further.


Edit: I know why the Arificer's behave like that. I just need to add the build list to the living construct in order for them to build normally again.
EditEdit: The armor was coming from the DataE1 which is the Data Damage Cooldown. Yeah it doesn't do what it says in the object editor lol.

 

[Wasabee]

Hello I'm back here again for an update. I'm very busy right now so the updates are slow.
Here is the full changelog of V1.1.

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Units

Heroes

Structures

Items

Credits to Ceterai for these Glowing Mushroom Icons.

Artificer Fixed the error of not being able to build structures after transforming into a Living Construct. Living Armaments (Ability) Changed hotkey for Back to Work from W to E.

Peacekeeper Unwavering Strength (Upgrade) Added a Techtree – Requirement of Sanctum of Lights. Increased Gold Cost to 250. Decreased Attack Speed Bonus upgrade from 200% to 20%.

Scout Ranger Updated the model. (Credits to Biridius for helping me.) Fleet Foot (Ability) Fixed tool tip. Increased movement speed increase from 10% to 20%. Increased transition time to 1 second.

Arcanist Confusion (Ability) Changed Buff Art – Target. Mana Sap (Ability) Fixed Buff Art – Target Attachment Point.

Anchorite Soothe (Ability) Decreased Heal per Target from 200 to 150. Increased Cooldown from 1 second to 5 seconds. ]Increased Mana Cost from 5 to 50. Devotion Armor (Ability) Increased Mana Cost from 7 to 75.

Inversionist Bond Breaker (Ability) Fixed Tooltip. Increased Mana Cost from 75 to 90.

Vindicator Elekk War Training (Upgrade) Decreased Training Time from 300 seconds to 40 seconds.

Nether Ray Skyguard Removed Mana.

Blood Knight-Lord Avenging Wrath (Ability) Reduced bonus damage from 65/130/195 to 50/100/150. Cutting Edge (Ability) Fixed DISBTN Icon Path.

Magister Arcane Barrage (Ability) Increased Cooldown from 8 to 12 seconds. Event Horizon (Ability) Increased Cooldown from 20 to 180 seconds.

Grand Anchorite Seraphic Ascension (Ability) Increased Cooldown from 0 to 200 seconds.

Hall of Lights, Sanctum of Lights, Terrace of Lights Dominion of Authority (Ability) Fixed the Trigger Conflict which was preventing it to work properly. Living Armaments (Ability) Changed hotkey for Back to Work from W to E.

Arkonite Generator Arkonite Repairing Modules (Ability) Increased Mana Cost from 20 to 35.

Scryer Tower Scryer Flare (Ability) Removed the Data – Damage Cooldown which gives Scryer Towers additional armor when activated.

Arko Mine Changed model’s Art - Tinting Color to 0/0/250.

Orb of Manatite Fixed Item Hotkey from R to Z.

 

[Ωmega]

kuya, fully finished na ba itong campaign? Let me know if I can play it na with little to no bugs. thank you!

 

[Lord_Of_Outland]

they buildings have a too simple look - just recolored in purple human and undead buildings if you interested there will be pack of dalaran buildings which will be more suitable for them

 

[Wasabee]

kuya, fully finished na ba itong campaign? Let me know if I can play it na with little to no bugs. thank you!

It's only an altered melee map not a campaign.

they buildings have a too simple look - just recolored in purple human and undead buildings if you interested there will be pack of dalaran buildings which will be more suitable for them

Yeah I've seen this one before but I kinda like what I have for the buildings right now.

 

[Lord_Of_Outland]

It's only an altered melee map not a campaign.



Yeah I've seen this one before but I kinda like what I have for the buildings right now.

Okay

 

[Ωmega]

It's only an altered melee map not a campaign.

ay oops! I actually meant altered melee. but, is this map finished na ba? wala na bang tweaks na gusto mong ilagay? To play as Sha'tar dapat Human piliin diba? But how about the Scryer Blood Elves? How do we play them? What race should we pick to play them? Thank you!

 

[HuanJuan]

There is no information about which version of WC III is needed, and I played on 1.31. It looked interesting for me, but after I met my normal computer ally: the game became so laggy, that I needed to force quit from the game back to windows. Yes, I was seen you have 2 other melee maps for 1.21b or some sort, but here, in this page there is NO INFORMATION about which version of Warcraft III game is recommended to play this map (Sha'tar V1.1).

 

[Wasabee]

There is no information about which version of WC III is needed, and I played on 1.31. It looked interesting for me, but after I met my normal computer ally: the game became so laggy, that I needed to force quit from the game back to windows. Yes, I was seen you have 2 other melee maps for 1.21b or some sort, but here, in this page there is NO INFORMATION about which version of Warcraft III game is recommended to play this map (Sha'tar V1.1).

I only got an old version which is 1.27. I think it's playable in the new versions.