Custom Campaigns​

• Added ability to play Custom Campaigns.
• Players can download Custom Campaigns to play, or make their own.
• Some Custom Campaigns can be played using either Reforged or Classic art.
• Reworked front-end menu. Campaigns are now located under the “Single Player” menu.
• Custom campaigns now track the difficulty a mission was completed on.
• “Load saved game” menu can now reload custom campaign save files.
• Added informational prompt to show users where to install campaign files to.
• Added “Is Cinematic” option to the campaign editor to change campaign buttons to use the camera thumbnail instead of difficulty progression.
• Fixed campaign thumbnail in editor not displaying.
• Added campaign thumbnail preview support to Reforged.
• Added ambient sound support to Reforged.
• Added webm support to play as campaign backgrounds.
• Custom campaign list menu now auto-refreshes upon resuming game window focus.
• Added support to play custom movies under Warcraft III/Movies (file format dependant, vp9 encoded avi file + mp3 for audio under Warcraft III/Movies/Audio).
• Added friends presence support for Custom Campaigns.
• Updated default campaign backgrounds to Reforged style.
• Added user presence for Custom Campaigns.

Balance​

• Tavern Revive cost increased by 5% at all levels.

• Blacksmith lumber cost reduced from 60 to 50.
• Peasant HP increased from 230 to 240.
• Control Magic moved from T2 to T3.
• Siphon mana cost increased from 10 to 20 mana.
• Siphon Mana Drain rate reduced from 15/30/45 to 15/25/40.
• Holy Light cooldown reduced from 5 to 4 seconds.
• Polymorph cost reduced from 220 mana to 200 mana.
• Mechanical Critter sight ranged increased from 350 to 500.
• Siege Engine now has heavy armor.
• Siege Engine can now attack units.
• Siege Engine base damage reduced from 44 to 22.
• Siege Engine barrage damage increased from 14 to 16.
• Mass Teleport Cooldown increased from 20 to 30 seconds.
• Mortar Team HP increased from 360 to 380.
• Siege Engine no longer decreases in unit level when getting the barrage upgrade.

• Headhunters cost increased from 140 to 160 and lumber cost increased from 20 to 30.
• Blademaster Mirror images now do 10% of the Blademaster’s base damage.
• Endurance Aura movement speed bonus reduced from 0.1/0.2/0.3 to 0.1/0.15/0.2.
• Witch Doctor Healing Wards increased from 5 to 10 HP.
• Stasis Trap activation delay reduced from 9 to 7 seconds.
• Brute Strength bonus increased from 100 to 150 HP.

• Tranquility cooldown increased from 60 seconds to 120 seconds.
• Starfall cooldown reduced from 180 seconds to 120 seconds.
• Starfall mana cost reduced from 200 to 150 mana.
• Druid of the talon crow form now does piercing damage.
• Entangle duration on units reduced from 9/18/30 to 8/16/24.
• Thorn Aura increased from 0.1/0.2/0.3 to 0.15/0.30/0.45.
• Mountain Giants now start with +2 armor.
• Harden Skin damage reduction reduced from 12 to 8.
• Ultravision now requires tier 2.
• Immolation mana drain reduced from 7 to 5.
• Immolation Damage per Interval increased from 10/15/20 to 15/20/25.
• Immolation Duration reduced from 1 to 0.5 seconds.

• Anti-Magic Shield can now receive the same summon magic damage inflicted by dispel, purge, and abolish magic.
• Unholy Aura movement speed bonus reduced from 0.1/0.175/0.25 to 0.1/0.15/0.2.
• Animated Dead corpses can now be killable and have diseased cloud if researched.
• Ghoul Frenzy now adds 30HP to ghouls’ base health.
• Disease cloud reduced from 90 to 75 seconds.
• Obsidian Statue level increased from 2 to 3.

Items​

• Wand of Illusion reduced from 3 to 2 charges.
• Wand of Mana increases mana steal from 50 to 75.
• Circlet stats reduced from +2 to all stats to 1/1/2 but players can click to toggle the item to add an additional 1 stat to any attribute.
• Legion Doom-Horn movement speed bonus reduced from 0.075 to 0.05.
• Ancient Janggo of Endurance speed bonus reduced from 0.075 to 0.05.

Map Pool​

• In this patch, we’re updating the existing 1v1,2v2,4v4, and FFA map pools with various new maps and updates made by the community.

Bugfixes​

• Removed the character requirement for report description.
• Fixed an issue where clan ranks were visually displayed incorrectly.
• Added notification indicator when receiving a social request.
• Fixed an issue with leaderboards not updating.
• Fixed occasional crashes when loading into a map with high object counts.
• Fixed custom campaigns specific crash upon reloading into the campaign map.
• Fixed disc space error when trying to start a custom campaign mission.
• Fixed variable difficulty flag not being respected on custom campaigns.
• Added rich/color formatted text support to custom campaign menus.
• Player Profile: Viewing another player’s profile would occasionally display that they are a member of your clan even if they are not.
• Prevented loading of custom campaigns named the same as official campaigns to prevent save stomping.
• Fixed an issue where players where the client would freeze changing zones in the Founding of Durotar Campaign.

• Players can now create and join a Clan.
• The Clan option is accessible via the social tab.
• Members of Clans will have the following ranks:
  
  • Tauren Chieftan
  • Shaman
  • Grunt
  • Peon
• Players at the Chieftain and Shaman rank will have the option to kick, promote, or ban clan members.
• Clans will have their own unique Clan channel.
• Player Profiles now display your Clan, Rank, and Clan Tag.
• Players’ Clan tags are displayed in Social Menus and Chat.

• This update adds automated player reporting to the game.
• Players can now report others for: Language, BattleTag, Clan Name, Clan Tag, Clan Description, Clan Message of the Day, Clan Chat, Cheating, Game Name, Offensive Content, or Gameplay Sabotage.

• Added Join-by-Name functionality.
  
  • Players can join games by typing in the game name in the text box at the bottom of the Custom Game list.

• Matchmaking backend processing has been improved for team games.
• Added an information screen that explains ranked play in-game.
  
  • This can be accessed via the “I” icon in the Versus menu.
• Chat refreshes properly when switching accounts.
• Improved right-click context menu consistency to support Report Players, Invite to Team, and Invite to Clan.
• Added a notification indicator on Social button when you receive a request.
• Various visual improvements to ranked badges.
• Various visual UI/UX improvements to the Leaderboard.
• Player Profile can now be accessed from the main menu and single-player screens.
• Player battletag numbers are now visible everywhere.
• Visual improvements to the match history screen.