Patch 1.30.3 and 1.30.4 PTR Updates

With the passing of the holidays, Blizzard is back to work on releasing patches for Warcraft 3. It looks like we're starting 2019 strong with Patch 1.30.3 release the first week of January and Patch 1.30.4 now released to the PTR.

These patches include a list of balance changes and a few bugfixes. Affected by the balance changes are the Keeper of the Grove's Entrangling Roots, Alchemist's Acid Bomb, Glaive Thrower's Vorpal Glaives, Defend, and Mountain Giant.

You can find the complete posts for Patch 1.30.3 here and Patch 1.30.4 here.

In the last couple of months, we have reached over 100 stars on GitHub, updated our homepage, and as usual caught up with support for Warcraft 3 patches

1.30.2

and beyond.

Tool updates

• The wurst family of tools now supports the latest battle.net stable patch (1.30.2).
  
• The wurst language was updated to allow

  class

  es to contain tuple array members.
  
• Improper usage of generic types now throws proper compilation errors
  
• Attempting to access objects that are known to have already been destroyed now fails at compile time
• Fixed a bug in local optimizations which caused unexpected behavior.
  
• Wurst no longer requires JavaFX, which enables wurst builds in a wider range of java distributions.

Standard library highlights

• Merged over a dozen awesome pull requests.
  
• Added

  DummyCaster

  in addition to

  InstantDummyCaster

  for channel based spells, and spells with delayed effects.
  
• Fixed some critical bugs in

  HashList

  ,

  HashSet

  and

  Knockback3D

  .
  
• We have newly-added code conventions - go align your formatting!
  
• We have begun writing in-depth package documentation

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Happy holidays everyone!

The Hive team hopes you have a good holiday season. As the end of the year nears, we wanted to look back and reflect on the great year that's been had.

• Blizzard has been hard at work producing a number of patches for Warcraft 3 bringing a plethora of tweaks and updates, which leads us to…
• Warcraft 3: Reforged was announced by Blizzard during Blizzcon; It's slated for release in 2019
• The 2018 Warcraft 3 Invitational saw the new patches in action
• Warcraft 3's 2018 World Championships also took place this summer
• Some big events happened with our community
  • A second member of our community, MindWorX, joined Blizzard's team
    
  • We affiliated with the Warcraft 3 subreddit, r/Warcraft3
  • The Wurst scripting language has continued active development throughout the year
  • HiveWE, an independent World Editor, has been released and updated to v0.4
• Our list of hosted projects continue to grow
  • Two projects have been added to our hosted project roster, Legends of Arkain and Island Troll Tribes
    
  • There's been tons of development on the other hosted projects bringing updates both big and small
• We've hosted 15 contests in the Arena with several more ending in early 2019
  
• The Maporino! 2018 contest concluded, hosted by members Jayborino and Deltron
• Hive's Facebook and Twitter pages have been active and growing
• Our resources section continues to grow with new maps to play, resources for your projects, and tools for your editor. Here's some stats from 2018's resources:
  • Tommi Gustafsson's Gnoll Campaign is the best rated singleplayer campaign
    
  • Nightelfbuilder's Gates of Elun'dris is the best rated multiplayer map
    
  • Misha's Towered Hunters Hall is the best rated model
  • Mr.Goblin's Horror Texture Pack contains the highest rated skins
    
  • Killcide and Mr.Goblin's Fel Meteor is the best rated icon
  • Bu3ny's Albatross Dive Attack is the best rated spell
  • Datboi's Terrain Generator is the best rated system
    
  • Eejin's Hive World Editor is the best rated tool
  • Ragnaros17's Melee Pack is the highest rated pack
• Lastly, I'm happy to be a new member of the staff as Multimedia Manager. I'll be helping out with social media and general graphics, such as the one above, and am excited to help out the community as it did to me in the past.

This year has brought us the announcement of Warcraft 3: Reforged. We look forward to what the new year will bring for Warcraft 3 and its community! If you can't wait, feel free to join one of the contests we have running over the next few weeks.



Bring on 2019!

Patch 1.30.2 is LIVE

Welcome new and returning players! 1.30.2 is live on Battle.net. Most of the patch notes have been detailed before in the previous PTR posts, but everything is live is now compiled in one place. This patch as most of you know completely overhauls the hosting system. Bots are no more at the trade of everyone being able to host with ease without opening the infamous 6112 port. Players can also filter and search for games in the client now.

Also note that there are issues with custom game lobbies crashing. The developers have stated that they are aware of the issue and are working on a hotfix.
Hotfix is live! +more patch info

Blizzard Forums Patch Notes


SPECIFIC CHANGES AND IMPROVEMENTS

• Installation now supports verification of Reforged pre-purchase or legacy keys
• Added a filter for lobby name
• Added a filter for map name (prefix with @)
• Maps will now be uploaded and downloaded from the cloud
• All custom games from all gateways are now visible in the lobby browser
• Port forwarding is no longer required to host your favorite map for custom games
• Network traffic encrypted
• Updated custom game listing to have all games (for filtering) but list still shows the first 100 games
• Added region filter to custom game filter
• Added auto refresh of game information if less than 100 games on list
• Custom games that are full or cannot be joined are grayed out on games list (refresh to remove)
• Added kick and ban to player menu
• Limited color menu to selectable colors
• For arranged forces, changing player color will change player slot in game list
• Hosts have * next to their name
• Latency is shown on the right side of player list
• Improved peer-to-peer map transfer to increase download speed
• Game lobby is hosted in the cloud in closest supported data center to host
• Host leaving will not end game

Host and Player Commands

Host:

• !ban [name|slot]
• !unban [name|slot]
• !closeall
• !openall
• !hold [name]
• !holds [name] [slot]
• !swap [x] [y]
• !abort
• !kick [name|slot]

Player:

• !mute [name|slot]
• !unmute [name|slot]

Bug Fixes and Known Issues

Bugs:

• Desyncs with certain custom maps resolved
• Observer API outputting accurate information
• Custom sound files with meta data play again
• Breath of Fire translated in Italian
• JASS Mouse Event IDs reverted to pre-1.30.0 order

Known Issues:

• A host leaving a LAN game sometimes removes other players
• Custom Hero Survival has a desync with random ability related to legacy code
• !ban command is not functioning when typed but does function from the drop down menu
• Instantly joining a custom game after it is created will cause errors and prevent the game from being listed for a period of time
• If the host leaves a LAN game all remaining players will instantly be taken to the score screen
• Leaving and rejoining a lobby with full observers can cause a crash if at least one player is on a Mac
• Players may become desynchronized when a custom game starts using The Third War Reborn

Balance Changes

Hero Balance Changes
Archmage
Brilliance Aura

• Level 3 mana regeneration increased from 1.75 to 2.00 per second

Blood Mage
Flamestrike

• Reduced casting delay from 1.33 to .9 on all levels

Keeper of the Grove
Force of Nature

• Treant damage reduced from 16 to 15

Entangling Roots

• Level 2: Duration reduced from 5 to 4 seconds
• Level 3: Duration reduced from 7 to 6 seconds

Warden
Base Stats

• +1 Intelligence

Pit Lord
Base Stats

• +1 Agility

Orc Balance Changes
Tauren Totem
Base Stats

• HP reduced from 1200 to 900

Human Balance Changes
Priest
Base Stats

• Mana regeneration increased from .67 to .72

Spell Breaker
Tech Tree

• Control Magic now requires Keep instead of Castle

Control Magic

• Control Magic mana requirement reduced from 45% of enemy HP to 35% of enemy HP

Cannon Tower
Base Stats

• Build time reduced from 75 to 65
• Gold cost reduced from 200 to 150

Night Elf Balance Changes
Huntress
Base Stats

• Decreased base damage from 16 to 15 (17-19 to 16-18)

Sentinel

• Is an upgrade again. 100/100 cost, 20 second research, on Ancient of War, requires Hunters Hall, no longer requires Tree of Ages
• Duration increased from 3 minutes to 5 minutes

Druid of the Talon
Base Stats

• Gold cost reduced from 150 to 145

Glaive Thrower
Base Stats

• Base damage decreased from 50 to 44

Undead Balance Changes
Acolyte
Base Stats

• Movement speed reduced from 250 to 235

Items
Wand of Lightning Shield

• Duration reduced from 20 seconds to 10 seconds
• This reduces total damage from 400 to 200

Patch 1.30.2 PTR Update #3 #4 and #5

As the whispers of Reforged continue to sweep across Azeroth, more additions to the new hosting system have been added to the current game on the Public Testing Realm. It includes various bug fixes, a few hero and race balance changes, and more host/player commands akin to some provided by bots. This should help with both host and lobby commands along with furthering personal player control of their social experiences.

See to all the changes on the official Blizzard post here.
As always, please test the game on the PTR and provide your feedback. Thank you!

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In addition, there was a known bug for Reforged pre-orders not including the game. Blizzard confirmed that you'll be able to get the original game as part of the Reforged pre-order on December 1, as stated here.

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4th PTR Update

More bug fixes for 1.30.2. Those who pre-ordered Reforged can also now play on the PTR!
PTR 1.30.2 Holiday Weekend Edition

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5th PTR Update

More bug fixes and addressing desyncs.
PTR 1.30.2 Updated Update with Updates