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-PurrsandMlem's playable High elves-
Since playing the campaigns always wanted to have the option for playing as the high elves, so have gone and created this mod map.
To play as high elves you need to select human race, ingame at begin you will get offered a choice to continue playing as human or high elves.
Sadly no AI has been written for high elves yet, so only human players got the joy of making use of them.
Since playing the campaigns always wanted to have the option for playing as the high elves, so have gone and created this mod map.
To play as high elves you need to select human race, ingame at begin you will get offered a choice to continue playing as human or high elves.
Sadly no AI has been written for high elves yet, so only human players got the joy of making use of them.
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General
The high elves are a variation of humans, thus are based upon them as a template.In practice however the high elves are played like a hybrid of human and night elves, having access to both swordsmen and archers, ballista as siege unit, later hippogryphs(and their riders) instead of gryphons as flyer, while kept the spellcasters of human roster. One of the changes i have made to them, is so that they regenerate hit points at a rate of 2.00 but only during day-time. (so like the night elves regen at night, but reverse in day-time) (flyers regenerate at reduced rate, like on night elves) |
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Units and Buildings
The Workers are, unlike the Peasants, not capable of turning into Militia at the dangerous situation.Units-wise both the Swordsmen and Archer is a copy of Human's Footman and Night elves' Archer, the Ballista is the Reign of Chaos Night elf siege unit, and can be spammed right away with only a Blacksmith. All ground combat units get trained at the Hall of Warriors, which uses the high elf reskinned model of a night elven Hall of Hunters. |
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Items and Summons
The Tower of Sun replaces the Arcane Sanctum as the spellcaster's building, with the latter's appearance being re-used for the shop.The Sanctum Vault as you can guess is the shop structure for high elves. Inside the shop are two new items, a blue version of the regeneration scroll that works for out of combat mana regeneration instead of hit points, and the Mana Stone Token that can be used to obtain Arcane Guardian golems, durable slow-moving units that can demolish bases rather quickly and are spell immune. Also i have decided to add Dust of Appearance and Anti-Magic potion, with the rest of items being the same as the human shop, including the Orb of Fire. The research for Backpacks is located within the shop structure instead, as to still give its anim a purpose. |
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Spells and Teching
On the Spellcasters there are some minor changes, like their version of Dragonhawk that gets named Wind Serpent is trained at thespellcaster building, and has Cyclone ability instead of the Magic leash. Noticeable is the new mastery upgrade in the Tower of Sun, that reduces mana cost for all of Priest and Sorceress spells when researched, that is only available after fully teching their spells. There are other new researches in the tech-tree, mostly recycled from RoC beta stuff like Town Watch, which gives all buildings increased sight-radius, or the single-stage Gold mining upgrade in the Blacksmith that becomes available with a Castle. Arcane Armor is a replacement spell of Inner Fire, with the change being that accelerates life regeneration rate by half while active instead of boosting the unit's damage while it lingers. |
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Heroes and Abilities
Hero-wise they have a variant of the Blood Mage that is called Battle Mage, with an awesome high elf appearance and different skill set.The Battle Mage can use Mana Shield with improved stats to protect himself, casts Mark of Fire on any unit to summon his Phoenix, and summons Spell breakers on the spot as his bodyguards, although he is limited to two at a time(one at first level of skill, even) Those high elf Spell breakers further differ in skill set from their blood elf counterparts assisting in the human armies, as they do not possess of a passive immunity to magic, but can instead use Magic Defend when required to turn immune to magic at the expense of movement speed, an ability that those permanent summons gain from level 2 onwards. At the third level they gain Control Magic ability for free without having to research it, and another difference is the lack of Feedback passive ability on all levels. When asked about the reasoning behind their methodical differences the high elven spell breakers replied that it would be unpurposeful to destroy the mana of spellcasters when they wish to control their buffs and summons, as their opponents then would not able to cast spells or summon creatures without mana thus leaving spell breakers with nothing to do beside standing about on guard duty. The Archmage and Paladin have gotten new models, and in the case of the Paladin a new set of elven personal names, while their skills remain unchanged from their Human counterparts. The only change is they got is life-regeneration change affecting all high elves. Other than those is available the Ranger hero, which can summon Warhawks to scout(and later assist in fighting), use Cold Arrows against opponents to damage and slow them, and has a Drain Mana skill which like the Drain Life skill of her Dark counterpart at the neutral Tavern works only on enemies. As an ultimate she can learn Sanctuary, which can be used to preserve one unit at a time. Oh and she can Hide too. As high elves dont have a direct replacement of the Mountain King, this new Ranger hero is filling in his spot at a vastly different role. |
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Pros and Cons
The strengths of high elves is their early aggressional capacity, thanks to having a pool of easily amassable tier one units. At late game theyare not weak either, the lack of magic immune units or fast ground units might pose an unique issue and challenge to overcome however. The addition of Hippogryphs, that are heavily armored unlike their night elf couterparts, opens up a whole new alley of strategies. As a weakness the high elves have got inferior defensive capabilities, having to rely on units more so than other races to defend their bases as the defensive towers become available later than other, yet each tower are reasonably a tad bit more powerful on their own, with both of the level 3 equivelants dealing considerable splash damage at an good rate of fire. Of those two the Sky-Fury tower can only attack Air units with the lightning bolt it has, while the Earth-Fury tower uses a dragon's breath against ground units. The Guard Tower can only be built with a level two Town Hall structure, and the Scout Tower may use Reveal ability after Magic Sentry. |
This is attempt to list of all people's works have been used, it may be incomplete and i apologize in advance for that.
If you happent to have your resource used, seen it and are not listed here please tell me as to be remedied.
If you happent to have your resource used, seen it and are not listed here please tell me as to be remedied.
- Ujimasa Hojo - majority of the fixed and improved default unit and building model replacements that have been used
came from his awesome 'x and derivatives' packs. thank you, and keep doing those man, they are all top notch ! - Retera - used Phoenix icon, made available the map script code for fixed Town Hall revealing.
- polardude - has been helpful towards me in the Map Development forum with my trigger inquiry.
- Ilya Alaric - makes very useful edits based on Ujimasa Hojo's models, of which have used some in this map.
- Elenai - the maker of the for a long time only available high elf building pack, of which i have used the main building.
- Footman16 - Ok, this dude is odd. First he made a rather unique edit for the nightelven Altar of Elders to turn it high elven, then never
released the model or something. Thankfully, he gave blanket permission to use any stuff of his mod-maps so i could bring you that. - Eagle XI - made combined main building of Elenai's set, teamcolor roof edits for that set and their icons.
- Himperion - has lots of good stuff residing in the simple edits thread, the model of the Highelf paladin, blue orbs for the Battle Mage.
- Saelendious - Ballista optimized model.
- Darkfang - the ultra hd version of Mana Stone icon that has been used for the Arcane Guardian's summon item.
- Zephyrius2412 - majority of Highelf upgrade icons in tech tree.
- SuperAttackrabbit - his Priest texture found unexpected use on the Battle Mage's middle segment of cape.
- stein123 - providing edits of several models on request, base image for the blue heal icon.
- Hallfiry - extracted and provided Warcraft 3 Alpha and Beta stuff.
- World of Warcraft (game) - some used icons are from WoW.
- Blizzard Entertainment - this map would not exist without them <3
Special thanks goes to all fellow modders of Hiveworkshop
[2023-09-19]-Uploaded initial version.
Hai!
This is my first map uploaded to the hive. Hope you like it and don't forget to tell me what you think.
This map took me only several days to create, but i think might have done a decent enough job.
Also i must warn that i am still using 1.27b, as in the last version before Reforged. I can only attest
to the map functioning in this version, and cannot offer any support on making it work on Reforged.
This is my first map uploaded to the hive. Hope you like it and don't forget to tell me what you think.
This map took me only several days to create, but i think might have done a decent enough job.
Also i must warn that i am still using 1.27b, as in the last version before Reforged. I can only attest
to the map functioning in this version, and cannot offer any support on making it work on Reforged.
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