Defence of Dalaran (v2.5) is a simple defense map, defend the castle for 25 minutes with your giant army and heroes. With five different races (and thus five differenent hero classes), there is some variety, but since races are slot assigned players will probably be stuck with a race they don't like

Testing the map using the Human race, I was startlingly suprised. Not being anything special, but a lot better than my guess for a first map (working on 7th map and none have been postworthy). A few things this map that I noticed immediately:


Gameplay was moderately fun. Nothing particularly outstanding in a good or bad way. Spells all worked and tooltips were present. However, I was kindof left in the dark on hero revival until he came back suddenly, which apparently turned out to be every 20 seconds. The hero revival brings us to our next point, leaks.



Overall, triggers are leaking all over the place and not very effective. They get the job done, but they should be optimized and leakless (because it's easy to do and good triggering, but mostly because of the immense map size). Nothing in particular caught the eye, except the complete lack of variables. 100% variable free. WTF?

The map starts to draw on you after a while. There is no keystone idea or anything to do really except kill wave after wave of giant undead horde. This is fun for a while, but quickly grows boring. The abilities on the units need updates, try more for passives on melee and actives on range, because a level 1 shockwave isn't going to matter on a meatshield, and microing any targetted ability is annoying. Use instant AoE like thunder clap or war stomp.

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A rather typical scene of fighting in Dalaran Defense

Altogether, this is an slightly bad map. Nothing special, has leaks, no custom abilities, but it will hold your attention for a few minutes, with maybe one or two replays. This map has a lot of useless content that needs fixing or relevance, so bewarned, this map is officially a 2/5

-Take tutorials on finding and destroying leaks. I cannot stress how important this is, it will make you a way better mapper and introduce you to custom script
-Along with leaks, maybe try adding a few basic trigger enhanced spells. I know my first were nova spells from the helper.net http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=92873 It's slightly dated information but it is still usefull (and leakless)
-You could implement better tooltips. Don't rely on blizzard defaults. Use colors and include tons of relevant information
-Balance this game. Single player it seemed impossible to win on my own. With a full game it seemed too easy.
-Absolutely DO NOT continue with that ridiculous spam of random tomes and goblin land mines. While it is a good idea to include secrets and cool easter eggs in a game, do not prioritize these over the game itself, and do not make it like this.
-Cite sources in an optional quest tab. Not doing this is *HIGHLY* looked down upon
-Try to add a unique element of gameplay to this map