Bloodbane Woods

[deepstrasz]

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Most camp groups on the map are red or orange in terms of strength. Few are green.
There are powerful creatures blocking the way/road to other players/expansions. They can be circumvented through a narrow pass where the Taverns are located.
Too many Claws of Attack +6. They were dropped by the frist four different creep camps encountered.
I don't think Helm of the Battlethirst should drop, especially from the neutral hostile units defending the Mercenary Camp (south).
The three heretic/acolyte type units don't drop anything.
Large(r) armies cannot pass without being assaulted by neutral hostiles as most places are quite narrow outside the bases.
There is wider space where the northern Tavern is compared to that in the south. Terrain symmetry is required for ladder melee maps.
The Nether Dragon Roost calls for the map tag of Altered Melee.
Way too many Claws of Attack +6 drops. The item drops need to be settled properly.
Some creep/neutral building types are nearer to some players than to others.
If this is supposed to be designed for teamplay, I suggest the triggers in this map (Skeletal Coast v1.3) to avoid the proximity of enemy players when playing with less people.

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I guess you could increase the gold for the starting mine or reduce the one for the other mines since the guards protecting starting mines are tougher.
You could position the neutral buildings in the north to mirror the ones in the south. Their current location makes them look asymmetrically positioned on the minimap.
More terrain height variation wouldn't hurt. As it is now, it's mostly flat.
A must is fixing the ramps where the lake is. The one in the northwest is heavily flawed and smaller compared to the other ones.
Again, too many Claws of Attack +3.

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The northern neutral buildings do not mirror the position of those in the south. Some of them are a bit to the west.
The mines in the middle (along the lake) aren't symmetrically placed. Same goes for the ones in the southwest compared to those in the southeast.
Bladebane Armour dropped from some Fel Stalkers and Overlords protecting a mine. It gives +7 armour and might be a bit too much for a melee game. What do you think? (I think Ring of Protection +5 is enough) That creep camp also dropped Bundle of Lumber +250. That is not necessarily a bad idea. Found +250 Gold Coins at the Murlocs in the lake Once again, it's a nice idea if these resources aren't dropped very often.
You could also edit the netherdrakes not to sleep if you want. It'd be harder to train drakes without getting hurt first. You could remove the sleep at night option for many neutral units especially undead like the revenants.
Staff of Reanimation as a drop might be interesting but at least make it take some mana when used too as it's not a consumable.
Cheese drops. That's not good. It's totally useless. Please verify your item set drops and exclude level 0 items. At least make it useful somehow either add some attributes for it to give or make it have a price to be sold.
The heretics shouldn't all drop an item. One item per creep camp (especially green/weak creep camps) is quite enough.
Diamond of Summoning. This is a very useful item. You could make it cost mana, at least (found at a Goblin Merchant neutral camp).
In this version drop rates are very high in that many units from a creep camp either drop at least one item or more.

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