Defenders of the Light (Act II released)

[Niethar]

Played the intro and the Family's Ingredients quest. Would play more, but it's very late and I'm tired.

From what little I played, I can see this is a very well crafted campaign, absolutely wonderful. The first quest is simple, but very different from what you'd usually expect from a Warcraft map, so it feels fresh.

However, I have 2 small things to point out:
- The intro/tutorial has a bit too much talking (as the intro itself points out). I noticed you tried to remedy it a bit here and there (winding path), but I suggest tweaking it some more, especially because the first cinematic on Act I is somewhat long too (though very well made).
- There were a few grammar mistakes. Very few, but I think I should point it out. I saw a couple on the second half of the intro (I remember one on the corridor before the part where you talk about armor, with the nerubian, water elemental, etc).

Out of curiosity: On the Family's Ingredients quest, I managed to spend only 80 gold and buy the 120 gold item with the merchant, but the merchant has a 145 gold item, suggesting you can save even more gold. Did I miss something? I passed through all 7 sellers and chose the cheapest ones.

Anyway, will definitively keep playing.

 

[Rufus]

So exciting!
I loved the founding of durotar, and this surely seems like a worthy interpretation of it!

Gonna play it sooooon.

 

[Championfighter25]

Out of curiosity: On the Family's Ingredients quest, I managed to spend only 80 gold and buy the 120 gold item with the merchant, but the merchant has a 145 gold item, suggesting you can save even more gold. Did I miss something? I passed through all 7 sellers and chose the cheapest ones.

There's a secret seller.
Calculate what's cheapest to buy from all 8 sellers and you can buy the 145 gold item.

 

[Venkolm]

Ofc. you made it!

 

[JinJang]

Have just create this acount, but Thịnh Hồ và Râu Đen?
The name chapter in loading screen should be Chapter 1: etc...

 

[deepstrasz]

- Transitioning to another map with at least one of your hero being reviving will crash the game.
~could instantly reviving (trigger) the heroes before level transition solve this?
- Sometimes enemies spawn behind trees and rocks. Not all of them can be fixed but many of them can be. Just let me know where the spawns specifically are so that I can fix them in future updates.
~there should be regions in places like those to move creeps to proper places if they enter those regions
- Sometimes you would see units' shadows on the map without any unit there. They are the unintended by-products from the spawn system. Just ignore them.
~could be because of items. You should pick them all up and remove them before level transition
- In Blood Feather, the Circle of Power may disappear (visually) after a game is loaded.
~did you use the animation vertex colouring/transparency trigger on it? You could make it visible once the game is loaded (game->a game is loaded) after storing it as a variable when the game is saved
- In Glaring Shore, the game may crash if all of your heroes die. I'm not sure if this bug is caused by patch 1.30 or not.
~weird, are there any periodic triggers which act on the heroes? You should turn those (the respective ones) off once a hero dies
- In King of Edenvale, the opponent hero sometimes just freezes and does nothing.
~there's surely a problem with a trigger not running either because of a bolean, integer or whatever you've used to make the trigger run; try using game text messages after conditions and such to trace where the issue happens (in which trigger or part of that trigger)
- In Fallen Lords, one of the bosses sometimes just freezes and does nothing.
~same as above
- Although some cinematics are not meant to be skipped, skipping some skippable cinematics may not work properly or may break the game.
~that should not really happen. Try tracing the triggers with text messages so you'll know when it happens
- Some tooltips are not fully displayed.
~for items, spells, units? That shouldn't be though unless you've used an external editor or some other way to write them?

I'll be playing it in the near future and will edit this post.

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EDIT: guess, I forgot and made a new post...

 

[Warseeker]

I've been looking forward to this for a very long time! I played it a bit and so far the campaign looks promising and the story sounds intreseting.
Will write a full review when I finish it.

- Sometimes you would see units' shadows on the map without any unit there. They are the unintended by-products from the spawn system. Just ignore them.

If it's about the items shadow you're referring to. You can fix that with this tutorial : Remove Item Shadow
Nevermind. You're actually right...

 

[nhs325]

Ah I see you are a Vietnamese map maker as well. Really great map BTW!

 

[TheDoener]

Played the campaign for 2 hours. I am playing on Patch 1.28.5 and the messages were only shown in the log and were not displayed.

 

[deepstrasz]

Played the campaign for 2 hours. I am playing on Patch 1.28.5 and the messages were only shown in the log and were not displayed.

Do you have subtitles turned on? If not, do it in the options.

Also, just in case @ThinhHo did not use the trigger: force subtitles on (something like that), he could.

 

[Venkolm]

- Transitioning to another map with at least one of your hero being reviving will crash the game.
~could instantly reviving (trigger) the heroes before level transition solve this?
- Sometimes enemies spawn behind trees and rocks. Not all of them can be fixed but many of them can be. Just let me know where the spawns specifically are so that I can fix them in future updates.
~there should be regions in places like those to move creeps to proper places if they enter those regions
- Sometimes you would see units' shadows on the map without any unit there. They are the unintended by-products from the spawn system. Just ignore them.
~could be because of items. You should pick them all up and remove them before level transition
- In Blood Feather, the Circle of Power may disappear (visually) after a game is loaded.
~did you use the animation vertex colouring/transparency trigger on it? You could make it visible once the game is loaded (game->a game is loaded) after storing it as a variable when the game is saved
- In Glaring Shore, the game may crash if all of your heroes die. I'm not sure if this bug is caused by patch 1.30 or not.
~weird, are there any periodic triggers which act on the heroes? You should turn those (the respective ones) off once a hero dies
- In King of Edenvale, the opponent hero sometimes just freezes and does nothing.
~there's surely a problem with a trigger not running either because of a bolean, integer or whatever you've used to make the trigger run; try using game text messages after conditions and such to trace where the issue happens (in which trigger or part of that trigger)
- In Fallen Lords, one of the bosses sometimes just freezes and does nothing.
~same as above
- Although some cinematics are not meant to be skipped, skipping some skippable cinematics may not work properly or may break the game.
~that should not really happen. Try tracing the triggers with text messages so you'll know when it happens
- Some tooltips are not fully displayed.
~for items, spells, units? That shouldn't be though unless you've used an external editor or some other way to write them?

I'll be playing it in the near future and will edit this post.

None of what you reported happened to me, while i was testing. He warted that this might happen for version 1.30 .

 

[TheDoener]

Do you have subtitles turned on? If not, do it in the options.

Also, just in case @ThinhHo did not use the trigger: force subtitles on (something like that), he could.

They are activated. I also get the "Hints" and the messages for path unlocking ... But every interavtion with a npc just pings the map and i have to read the message in the log. Cinematic messages function well.

 

[ThinhHo]

From what little I played, I can see this is a very well crafted campaign, absolutely wonderful. The first quest is simple, but very different from what you'd usually expect from a Warcraft map, so it feels fresh.

However, I have 2 small things to point out:
- The intro/tutorial has a bit too much talking (as the intro itself points out). I noticed you tried to remedy it a bit here and there (winding path), but I suggest tweaking it some more, especially because the first cinematic on Act I is somewhat long too (though very well made).
- There were a few grammar mistakes. Very few, but I think I should point it out. I saw a couple on the second half of the intro (I remember one on the corridor before the part where you talk about armor, with the nerubian, water elemental, etc).

Out of curiosity: On the Family's Ingredients quest, I managed to spend only 80 gold and buy the 120 gold item with the merchant, but the merchant has a 145 gold item, suggesting you can save even more gold. Did I miss something? I passed through all 7 sellers and chose the cheapest ones.

Anyway, will definitively keep playing.

Thank you for playing @Niethar. I agree, the intro and the first map have a lot of talking. However, delivering the story and the characters at this point is very important. To the gameplay stand-point, shortening it would be better. However, I would sacrifice the gameplay for the character development in this map. This is the longest cinematic that players have to watch anyway and they can skip if they want. Thanks for pointing out the grammar mistakes, I'll take a look at those for future updates.
About the Ingredient quest, yes, there's a secret seller.

Have just create this acount, but Thịnh Hồ và Râu Đen?
The name chapter in loading screen should be Chapter 1: etc...

Hi JinJang, don't tell me you created your account just for this.
Yes, Thịnh Hồ is my fullname but "Rau Den" is not what you're thinking of. It's one of the vegies in we have in Vietnam: Rau Dền
I named it Act I instead of Chapter I because this is not a map/mission that you look at at the campaign screen. That is a bunch of maps, a campaign in one single button.

Ah I see you are a Vietnamese map maker as well. Really great map BTW!

I would never have recognized where you're from with that username of your ha! Great to hear. I'd like to here from you while you're playing this campaign.

They are activated. I also get the "Hints" and the messages for path unlocking ... But every interavtion with a npc just pings the map and i have to read the message in the log. Cinematic messages function well.

I can't pinpoint exactly what the problem is. All of the testers and myself never encountered this problem. I'm sorry to say that you have to read the Log for now. I'll let you know if I figure out what the problem is.

I've been looking forward to this for a very long time! I played it a bit and so far the campaign looks promising and the story sounds intreseting.
Will write a full review when I finish it.

Wow, I didn't know you were looking forward to playing this. To so you know, your campaign Legacy of Lordaeron is a great campaign. It is a faithful adaptation to the original Rexxar Campaign. It is the one and only that I have ever seen that was inspired by Rexxar campaign. I've never seen any other campaign like it.

- Transitioning to another map with at least one of your hero being reviving will crash the game.
~could instantly reviving (trigger) the heroes before level transition solve this?
- Sometimes enemies spawn behind trees and rocks. Not all of them can be fixed but many of them can be. Just let me know where the spawns specifically are so that I can fix them in future updates.
~there should be regions in places like those to move creeps to proper places if they enter those regions
- Sometimes you would see units' shadows on the map without any unit there. They are the unintended by-products from the spawn system. Just ignore them.
~could be because of items. You should pick them all up and remove them before level transition
- In Blood Feather, the Circle of Power may disappear (visually) after a game is loaded.
~did you use the animation vertex colouring/transparency trigger on it? You could make it visible once the game is loaded (game->a game is loaded) after storing it as a variable when the game is saved
- In Glaring Shore, the game may crash if all of your heroes die. I'm not sure if this bug is caused by patch 1.30 or not.
~weird, are there any periodic triggers which act on the heroes? You should turn those (the respective ones) off once a hero dies
- In King of Edenvale, the opponent hero sometimes just freezes and does nothing.
~there's surely a problem with a trigger not running either because of a bolean, integer or whatever you've used to make the trigger run; try using game text messages after conditions and such to trace where the issue happens (in which trigger or part of that trigger)
- In Fallen Lords, one of the bosses sometimes just freezes and does nothing.
~same as above
- Although some cinematics are not meant to be skipped, skipping some skippable cinematics may not work properly or may break the game.
~that should not really happen. Try tracing the triggers with text messages so you'll know when it happens
- Some tooltips are not fully displayed.
~for items, spells, units? That shouldn't be though unless you've used an external editor or some other way to write them?

I'll be playing it in the near future and will edit this post.

Wow, some of the suggestions are very helpful. It may help solve the problems.
- Reviving heroes before transitioning is a great idea. It can definitely be done. I just need to examine if there's any other triggers that can interfere with this before implementing it.
- About units spawning behind rocks and trees I know the problem and how to fix it. I just need some exact locations where it happens.
- I may have used the coloring trigger on the Circle of Power. That's a great suggestion, I'll take a look into it.
- About the boss being frozen, it can be the triggers, which I checked and didn't find anything. I need more testing and find out the exact problem. It is not game breaking however. Due to it, sometimes players have more breathing room.
- The game-breaking-cinematic-skipping problem only happens with my friend who tested it in patch 1.30. Nobody got this issue. I'm 95% certain that it's due to the patch.
- Tooltips getting cut off is also the patch 1.30 problem. Many people have reported this issue from the patch.
Thanks @deepstrasz.

 

[felixng2012]

I love this style of campaign definitely looking forward to trying it!

 

[TheDoener]

In this photo was spawned a murloc behind the trees.

 

[deepstrasz]

Rau Dền

Spinach - Wikipedia Is it that (used Google translator)? I didn't know what it was supposed to be. Searched on Google but how you wrote it now gave me results, how it's in the game didn't give me much.

- About units spawning behind rocks and trees I know the problem and how to fix it. I just need some exact locations where it happens.

Yeah, you should skim the maps with the pathing shown (press P or go to the menu bar-view->Pathing).

- About the boss being frozen, it can be the triggers, which I checked and didn't find anything. I need more testing and find out the exact problem. It is not game breaking however. Due to it, sometimes players have more breathing room.

Happens to me too in a map. I still have no idea what causes it. I traced it but it's weird that it happens. I even have a periodical trigger that checks every 0.1 seconds but it still can happen for some reason. I'm using 1.29.2. I can't say it's a patch version bug because I don't know if it would work properly on a previous version since I can't downgrade the map anymore once saved on 1.29.2.

 

[Gogiman42]

Where can i find the spider crab meat?

 

[Alex Geary]

How am I supposed to find out the password to the gate where the Sea King is? @ThinHo

 

[Nicusor95]

Lets see what it is about in this new campaign ...

 

[ThinhHo]

In this photo was spawned a murloc behind the trees.

I got it. Thank you.

Spinach - Wikipedia Is it that (used Google translator)? I didn't know what it was supposed to be. Searched on Google but how you wrote it now gave me results, how it's in the game didn't give me much.

Yeah, it is the one.

Yeah, you should skim the maps with the pathing shown (press P or go to the menu bar-view->Pathing).

I've done it. There are many details I missed though.

Happens to me too in a map. I still have no idea what causes it. I traced it but it's weird that it happens. I even have a periodical trigger that checks every 0.1 seconds but it still can happen for some reason.

It is possible that the bug is internal. Maybe the triggers somehow interfere with the internal processing of the AI which causes the problem. It's hard to explain.

How am I supposed to find out the password to the gate where the Sea King is? @ThinHo

Spoiler

The enemies in front of the gate occasionally drop pieces of the password. You just need to piece them together in the right order.

 

[VadyaQ]

The campaign is absoletly marvelous! Cool heroes, a lot of cool ideas and good story as an addition. You got right after I got this Greed achievment and a ring. But unfortanately I may have to wait for another update to replay this - game crashes after I leaving The A City for a Wood location.

The campaign is great overall. But there are some things i want to point out:
1. Maps are huge. This is awesome! But its so dull to move around without some fast travel system, like teleportation to reincarnation stones or horses. Chen wouldnt mind donkey I think!
2. Constantly respawning enemies are annoying! I wanted to break my keyboard in Murloc's Den. But now I know there is another way around. Would be cool if instead of constant respawning they will stop respawning after completing some quests or killing the Boss. I guess noone really wants to grind levels on monsters when there is so questing.
3. Heroes inventory is not enough! Would be cool to have backpacks like in some other campaighns, since so much items in the game.

But its still one the best first realeses of campaigns i played. Keep up the good work!

P.S. How many level on memory test? Is it Endless. I gave up after 13th.

 

[Championfighter25]

game crashes after I leaving The A City for a Wood location.

Was at least 1 of your heroes getting revived while you transitioned to the new zone?
Because that tends to make the game crash every time.

3. Heroes inventory is not enough! Would be cool to have backpacks like in some other campaighns, since so much items in the game.

In most of the maps if you go to a shop, you can get a stash for 300 gold to store your items in.

 

[deepstrasz]

P.S. How many level on memory test? Is it Endless. I gave up after 13th.

From what I gather, those type of puzzles are only for you to break records but not useful for anything else.

 

[shadowhog]

The quest that requires you to get crab meat the spider crabs do not spawn? Am I missing a trigger somewhere?

 

[JinJang]

Actually i spent only 2h on this campaign don't have much free time.
If you add item boot of speed in the begining it might be better to switch map in my opinion, so happy to see that Vietnamese have a campaign in Hive ^^

 

[Championfighter25]

The quest that requires you to get crab meat the spider crabs do not spawn? Am I missing a trigger somewhere?

Depends which quest requiring the meat you're on.
In one of them you have to kill a giant crab that has 5000 hp. He is located on the bottom left of the map.
If you're not on that one then it's a bug.

Actually i spent only 2h on this campaign don't have much free time.
Nếu có item boot of speed ban đầu thì chạy map đỡ khổ hơn đấy bác, thật hào hứng khi thấy có người vn làm campaign trên này ^^

Edit your comment to be in English. It's against the rules to be in a foreign language.

 

[VadyaQ]

Was at least 1 of your heroes getting revived while you transitioned to the new zone?
Because that tends to make the game crash every time.


In most of the maps if you go to a shop, you can get a stash for 300 gold to store your items in.

None of my heroes were reviving. I've got no ideas why is game crashing.

And I know about the stash, it's just so much useful consumables in this game so backpack would be helpful 100%.

 

[Gogiman42]

I can't find any spider crabs or they do not spawn.

 

[ThinhHo]

Where can i find the spider crab meat?

The quest that requires you to get crab meat the spider crabs do not spawn? Am I missing a trigger somewhere?

I tested the campaign more than 60 times at this point and the spawn system always work properly. The first answer that came to my mind when I saw your question is that you're using cheat in the campaign. Cheats make the campaign unstable. That may have stopped the crabs from spawning. If it is not the case, please let me know.

The campaign is absoletly marvelous! Cool heroes, a lot of cool ideas and good story as an addition. You got right after I got this Greed achievment and a ring. But unfortanately I may have to wait for another update to replay this - game crashes after I leaving The A City for a Wood location.

I'm so glad to hear that from you buddy. I don't remember having any Greed achievement in the campaign. Also what map are you refering to for "The A City" and "Wood location"? I need to pinpoint where it happens so that and can look into the triggers. Does the "The A City" mean the outer Dark Wood (connected to Shimmer Coastal) and "Wood location" mean the inner Dark Wood?
I'd like to address the points that you made below. They are excellent points by the way.

1. Maps are huge. This is awesome! But its so dull to move around without some fast travel system, like teleportation to reincarnation stones or horses. Chen wouldnt mind donkey I think!

@Championfighter25 also said the same thing when testing. I can see that you're a progressive player who wants to make progress when playing campaign like this. So skipping random creeps is better than going through them for you. I'm a "grindy" player and I love the slow "grindy" nature of RPG games. Having too many fast-travel and teleportation systems break that feel of the game for me. For people who wants to make progress like you, if you're throughout and lucky, you'll be able to buy the Staff of Teleportation which allows you to teleport your hero anywhere you'd been to. The cost of this is one of your heroes' inventory slot.

2. Constantly respawning enemies are annoying! I wanted to break my keyboard in Murloc's Den. But now I know there is another way around. Would be cool if instead of constant respawning they will stop respawning after completing some quests or killing the Boss. I guess noone really wants to grind levels on monsters when there is so questing.

This is the core idea of Rexxar campaign actually and I want to keep that. I also improve a lot on that system. It seems like you had a different mindset playing through this. Rexxar campaign is for casual players, there's nearly no punishment when your heroes die. The resurrection stones in that campaign are so close to one another so you don't fall behind when you die. The resurrection stones in this campaign is fewer and farther away. There are reasons for that.
1) When the stones are far away, you'll be punished when you die. You have to fight through the enemies you fought before to get back to the point where you die. So one of the first lessons players should learn is that they're not supposed to die so often. If they do, then they'd get frustrated which you did.
2) Every time players die, they should learn something from the game. They should ask themselves the reason they die so that they don't make the same mistake again. The reasons usually come down to these:
- Their heroes are too weak, too under-leveled. When they know that they've perfectly execute the synergy of their heroes' abilities (or when they know that they did their best with their playing capability) and still die. That means they're under-leveled. (This is the most common reason)
- The enemy that they died to requires a better strategy to be defeated. They need to understand the enemies' strength and weakness as well as their heroes' in order to get through them. Maybe it's the kind of enemy that require AOE spells to clear them out. Maybe it's the kind of enemy that you need to focus them down. Or the kind of enemy which requires specific item composition to counter their existence. You'll a lot of enemies like these in this campaign. In Rexxar campaign, you sweep through enemies with ease (especially in Act I). In this campaign, enemies, even the simple ones, can kick your ass, unless you figure out a way to counter them.
- Murloc's Den is one of the maps that teaches you your heroes are under-leveled and you should run away. You need about 3 heroes at lv15 to properly go through this map. I hope you can learn something from the lines above so you can apply it to other maps as well.
Oh, and I love grinding levels on monsters even though there's no questing

3. Heroes inventory is not enough! Would be cool to have backpacks like in some other campaighns, since so much items in the game.

Some people suggested the backpack system before. I have to say I'd love to do that as well. There're so many items in the game. When you have more of them at your disposal, it'd be easier for you to create good item combination for your heroes. However, the complicated configuration of a backpack system may interfere with other systems in the game. Especially when transtitioning to different maps is a major feature of this campaign, it's even harder to implement the system without any bugs. Although I'd love to have the system in the game, I chose to not having it to have a stabler campaign.

P.S. How many level on memory test? Is it Endless. I gave up after 13th.

From what I gather, those type of puzzles are only for you to break records but not useful for anything else.

Yup, only to break records. Actually the memory test mini-game offers rewards if you reach higher records.

If you add item boot of speed in the begining it might be better to switch map in my opinion, so happy to see that Vietnamese have a campaign in Hive ^^

Haha, good to hear. Boots of speed give you a negative buff in this campaign. Having speed means giving up another stat of your heroes, unless you can find another item to compensate for the reduced stat.

 

[deepstrasz]

However, the complicated configuration of a backpack system may interfere with other systems in the game. Especially when transtitioning to different maps is a major feature of this campaign, it's even harder to implement the system without any bugs. Although I'd love to have the system in the game, I chose to not having it to have a stabler campaign.

Nah... you just make the backpacks invisible and invulnerable heroes or just use a or more packhorses which comes along in each map.

Haha, good to hear. Boots of speed give you a negative buff in this campaign.

The one that gives +40 speed and 1 hit point regeneration is without negatives

 

[shadowhog]

@ThinhHo Oh oops I totally forgot I used the vision cheat on one of the side maps. Guess i am restarting oh well lol

 

[deepstrasz]

This is the longest cinematic that players have to watch anyway and they can skip if they want. Thanks for pointing out the grammar mistakes, I'll take a look at those for future updates.

Longer than the one with the fire demon? I'm not really sure.

 

[felixng2012]

On the edenvale city level how do you get past that magic barrier? I used iseedeadpeople cheat to see what was pass there and there was a portal. I already did all side quests on the map so not sure what I need.

Btw I beat the murlocs with only two heroes level 7. It was tough but fun. Especially that murloc boss, not the emperor but the other one who did 300 dmg. Was tough. I had to use spells to beat him since his regen was so high took me a few tries and I was fortunate I still had an item that recovered mana.

I also saw a few items blocked by trees like a mana stone, wonder how its possible to reach them.

I like the map so far, only complaint is a lack of a storage/backpack system like someone else mentioned.

It was a nice touch to have two people who gave side quests also be villains too. I killed that bandit and mage haha.

 

[Championfighter25]

On the edenvale city level how do you get past that magic barrier?

The answer is in one of the bandit lairs.

 

[Lenneth]

I just arrived to Evandale city and I wanted to give some feedbacks for my gameplay experience.
I really like the campaign so far, quests are original, exploring the map is rewarding, the item system looks nice, the plot seems interesting and there's also easter eggs (the bear!).

Nonetheless there's a few things that bother me:
- I'm currently playing on hard difficulty and, contrary to what the tutorial implied, it's quite easy.
Maybe I got lucky but in the previous map I early found a mercenary camp and hired powerful mercs who can easyly kill any creeps.
Of course when my heroes were alone (ie when I entered the den of the murlocs), they were absolutely murdered.
-I think creeps respawn too quickly (1 minute or so). Overall I dislike that respawn mechanic which makes the game annoying
I know it's inherent to that kind of campaign but that's just my opinion.
-Also, the rewards for completing a sidequest are disappointing (I can't even rember what the demonlord drops and what's the point of getting a dog who can't even attack? )
-We souldn't have vision of the Evandale city's map, it's very hard to explore a map which is already revealed (and this one seems to have a lot of optional quests)

Anyway ThinhHo did an amazing job, and I'll continue my playthrough tomorrow.

 

[Petrovic]

I played for about 3 hours, but i can say with certainty that your campaign is amazing! Keep it coming!

 

[ThinhHo]

Nah... you just make the backpacks invisible and invulnerable heroes or just use a or more packhorses which comes along in each map.

The problematic thing is the trigger which you have to move the backpack unit to your heroes very frequently. This trigger must work in the background. This adds another layer of complexity to the trigger configurations. When there are too many triggers that run in the background, the game becomes unstable.

The one that gives +40 speed and 1 hit point regeneration is without negatives

Yeah, that is a very good item.

Spoiler

I'll nerf it. The bonus speed is a lot more than it should be.

Longer than the one with the fire demon? I'm not really sure.

Oh, well, now I'm not sure either.

Btw I beat the murlocs with only two heroes level 7. It was tough but fun. Especially that murloc boss, not the emperor but the other one who did 300 dmg. Was tough. I had to use spells to beat him since his regen was so high took me a few tries and I was fortunate I still had an item that recovered mana.

Wow, this is impressive!!! I never thought anyone would be able to pull it off with only two heroes level 7. Man, you really deserve a medal for this.

On the edenvale city level how do you get past that magic barrier? I used iseedeadpeople cheat to see what was pass there and there was a portal. I already did all side quests on the map so not sure what I need.

If you have tried @Championfighter25's suggestion and you still can't get pass that, I'd suggest you to come back to that gate multiple times as the story progress.

I also saw a few items blocked by trees like a mana stone, wonder how its possible to reach them.

Are you talking about one of the items in Shimmer Wood? I don't recall putting any Mana Stone in that map? You talked about the Mana Stone in Den of the Murlocs right?

It was a nice touch to have two people who gave side quests also be villains too. I killed that bandit and mage haha.

Hey, the mage is a good guy haha XD

- I'm currently playing on hard difficulty and, contrary to what the tutorial implied, it's quite easy.

The campaign difficulty is progressive. It gets harder and harder over time. I'd love to hear more from your experience when you got further into the game.

-Also, the rewards for completing a sidequest are disappointing (I can't even rember what the demonlord drops and what's the point of getting a dog who can't even attack? )

The rewards of this campaign are not consistent. A lot of those sidequests were made for variety, not for good items. Sometimes you get nothing at all but just a piece of story. Don't expect the rewards of the quests to be awesome. All of them are very inconsistent and they were all created for gameplay purpose. Also don't expect powerful items like in the original game. A lot of items in this campaign will throw you off with their negative sides. It's hard to tell which one is "very good". You have to figure out the best item composition for your heroes by combining the items you came across in the game. Some items only have positives and they are truly good items.

-We souldn't have vision of the Evandale city's map, it's very hard to explore a map which is already revealed (and this one seems to have a lot of optional quests)

It makes sense. I'll consider it.

I played for about 3 hours, but i can say with certainty that your campaign is amazing! Keep it coming!

Thank you buddy. I'd like to hear more from you in the future as you play through the campaign. I'd love to hear your impressions, your suggestions, tips and bug reports as well if you can find some.

 

[Warseeker]

Wow, I didn't know you were looking forward to playing this. To so you know, your campaign Legacy of Lordaeron is a great campaign. It is a faithful adaptation to the original Rexxar Campaign. It is the one and only that I have ever seen that was inspired by Rexxar campaign. I've never seen any other campaign like it.

Thanks! I appreciate it.

I tested the campaign more than 60 times at this point and the spawn system always work properly. The first answer that came to my mind when I saw your question is that you're using cheat in the campaign. Cheats make the campaign unstable. That may have stopped the crabs from spawning. If it is not the case, please let me know.

The vision cheat prevents enemies from respawning as well as standing in their spawn location.

@ThinhHo Oh oops I totally forgot I used the vision cheat on one of the side maps. Guess i am restarting oh well lol

You don't have to. Just disable the vision cheat and they'll respawn.

 

[felixng2012]

The problematic thing is the trigger which you have to move the backpack unit to your heroes very frequently. This trigger must work in the background. This adds another layer of complexity to the trigger configurations. When there are too many triggers that run in the background, the game becomes unstable.

Yeah, that is a very good item.

Spoiler

I'll nerf it. The bonus speed is a lot more than it should be.

Oh, well, now I'm not sure either.

Wow, this is impressive!!! I never thought anyone would be able to pull it off with only two heroes level 7. Man, you really deserve a medal for this.

If you have tried @Championfighter25's suggestion and you still can't get pass that, I'd suggest you to come back to that gate multiple times as the story progress.

Are you talking about one of the items in Shimmer Wood? I don't recall putting any Mana Stone in that map? You talked about the Mana Stone in Den of the Murlocs right?

Hey, the mage is a good guy haha XD

The campaign difficulty is progressive. It gets harder and harder over time. I'd love to hear more from your experience when you got further into the game.

The rewards of this campaign are not consistent. A lot of those sidequests were made for variety, not for good items. Sometimes you get nothing at all but just a piece of story. Don't expect the rewards of the quests to be awesome. All of them are very inconsistent and they were all created for gameplay purpose. Also don't expect powerful items like in the original game. A lot of items in this campaign will throw you off with their negative sides. It's hard to tell which one is "very good". You have to figure out the best item composition for your heroes by combining the items you came across in the game. Some items only have positives and they are truly good items.

It makes sense. I'll consider it.

Thank you buddy. I'd like to hear more from you in the future as you play through the campaign. I'd love to hear your impressions, your suggestions, tips and bug reports as well if you can find some.

Yes in the den of murlocs. I just found out how to destroy the trees though nevermind

Just one thing I noticed. Armor seems to be very very nerfed. As of right now its not really worth carrying any gears that give only armor. The damage mitigation is laughably low. Even 20 armor does almost nothing. You are better off getting more hp or more stats.

 

[JinJang]

Spent about 20 minutes at the memory test and i actually don't know how to do the mission. It said click on the circle in order but everytime i click and game over, and i don't really know which one was lit first, all circle is blur which is hard for me to know.

Spoiler: Shimmer Wood

• Too many healing even play on hard difficulty! (potion, healing wave, fountain, roast, rune...)
• The Reiner shop guy isn't invulnerable ( buy all of his stuff then kill him )
• Wizard not fight me back when i use Storm Bolt or Flame Strike on him
• When i killed the Wizard with Buri and mercenary creeps then move Adias to him, the cinematic start and we talk with a dead body, and everytime he said the item have a circle on it. That 's weird! He even said " We judge people too fast without knowing about them" ^^
• When the Corruptor is killed, blight should be remove and the forest should be normal again like NE campaign when Malfurion kill the banshee.
• Tunnel teleport point should be at the edge, don't need to move the unit inside of the tunnel.
• Sasquatch drop too many runes
• The fountain in the middle also have too many runes even though creep are easy to clear. I suggest you to halve all of the healing stuff to make this map more adventurous( should replace it by tomes maybe).
• Each quilboar drop a spirit link( 3 charge), kinda broken lol.
• Marine in the village?

Spoiler: Den of the Murloc

Damn this map is crazy, murloc keep spawning, poison attack draining hp, the only aoe is flame strike but countered hard by ensnare and in the fight i always surrounded by the small murloc. They even have towers which need 3 FS and a few hit to destroy. I don't know the guy beat this map with lv7 hero somehow did it but both my heroes are lv9 but still so squishy, Murloc Ritualist drop nothing upon death (not even a healing salve) i have to cheat some gold to buy potions because this cost me a lot of time to wait hero regen. Maybe just because i'm bad but this need to be improve.

Spoiler: Edenvale City

• No tower, no guard at the gate? ( no gate too)
• A lonely statue at the bottom left should add unit, building or sth
• Some optional quest don't need a cinematic, a few sentences is enough
• The only way to kill gimmy shade is cheat right? i have a idea that use invi potion to stun him but don't know is it work?
• I'm a paladin, Defender of the light! not the guy who clean the road just for a few buck!

Spoiler

I'm still do for money lol , and time still run when i'm in cinematic.

• Should be a ping on minimap immediately when cinematic end
• Only a few tree on the beach and it look not so natural
• Why the other heroes hide in the corner?
• After finish crab quest, in the cinematic Adias not stand there but run away :V i think this happen bc he was in multiple action (shift)
• Final unit test is impossible (3k hp and 100 chao dam+Slam)
• Buri have -1 armor when he at lv10, is this a bug or sth bc i remerber he was 1 armor at the beginning
• The Garithos guy ( don't remember his name) should be at max lv or lv10 cap bc he stole my exp

why the armor lost so much value? and health increasing each lv not so impressive, your heroes is nothing more than a knight with skill in normal game and thus item drop is not what i 've expected for. At least drop a unique item when kill the Corruptor.

You should ask Turnro about backpack, his campaign allow me to carry 6 more item at the begining and even switch to another map. Or if you don't want backpack feature on this campaign, i

recommend to have some item combination, don't need too complicated or overpower, just simple as Mantle of intelligent x2= Robe of Magi or Robe of Magi+Boots of Quelthalas+Belt of giant strength= Crown of King, that would be cool

 

[Warseeker]

A very unique and entertaining campaign I have ever seen, just like I expected it! I've had pretty much fun playing it. I've just finished it on Normal difficulty (I played it on patch 1.29.2). I managed to complete the main story but I haven't been able to finish all of the side quests though. Anyway, Here's my review and the list of some bugs I've encountred in some maps during my playthrough in this campaign :

Review

(Little Village)

- Buri can't give away the chicken to Amie. Only Adias can.
- Centaurs in Lordaeron? That's unusual! (I know it take place in a different world, I'm just referring to the template)

(Shimmmer Coastal)

- Some trees are placed on water which looks kinda weird.

(Shimmer Wood)

- The Centaure Firecaller gives Slow Aura buff that slows my heroes even though he has a Devotion Aura?
- Too many Runes.
- Creeps sometimes leash even when they're attacking you.
- After I returned to place where Buri died. Chen got teleported to a different zone during the cinematic.

(Den of the Murlocs)

- I am also curious to know how to get to those items behind trees. I killed all the Murlocs and destroyed their huts but nothing happens, Buri's Flame Strike ability doesn't work either.
- A shortcut in Southeast would be helpful.

(Edenvale City)

- Funny thing : The timer In that math mini-game can be tricky because one can simple pause the game and calculate like me!
- The Hard difficulty of that math mini-game is bugged?
- General Musko has also a Healing Wave ability which is pointless since Adias already has it.

(Edenvale Dungeon)

- Some gates open when destroying them? Normally, there should be a lever or something if that's the case.
- The Dee See Sceptre doesn't work in this mission? Although, I can summon other minions such as Furbolgs, Golems, etc...
- Gates can be destroyed with Storm bolt?
- I've noticed a bug. When you destroy the two Power Generators before killing the Blademaster the gate won't open.

(The Royal Palace)

- Adias can bypass barrels.

(Lonely Island)

- The Makruras are quite OP and they stun way too often.

(The Barrows)

- Neutrals hostiles units can bypass doodads.
- The Fel Orc Warlocks quest can be completed without speaking to Picolo.

(Dark Wood)

- Why is this map seperated into two parts? Can't you just fuse them into one single map?

(Longpass Valley)

- This level looks similar to the BloodElf campaign of TFT. Although, It has some additional features but they weren't effective since this mission is easy to beat imo.

(Stormhaul)

- The South base AI is bugged the units are just going back and forth doing nothing.
- I can't train Advaned Gryphon Riders. it says the techtree: Castle is Requited

And here's my thoughts on the campaign :

Transition : As a suggestion, It would be a nice to add a dialogue that shows you where the transition takes you whenever you step in a transition zone so we can know where we are heading.
Quests : : Apparently, sides quests aren't sync in all levels, you can only see the sub-quests of the map that you are in. It isn't a bad thing though but rather a good thing because It keeps things well organized and people wouldn't be confused about which map is the sub-quest in.
Also, I would like to point out something that was very confusing me : Some quests get marked completed without even being triggered in the quest log, like for example : When you kill that Bandit at the start of Shimmer Wood. The quest get automatically completed. However, when I went to Edenvale City, some guy appointed me about that bandit which is already dead...
Another example : The quest that Drek'thar gives you in the Barrows. Well, before I spoke to Drek'Thar. I spent some time exploring all around the map. till I got to the area where those purple stalkers are. But then after I spoke to him he sends me right back to that place which I already visited to collect Shimmerweed....The point is : Normally, there should be block paths until you pick up the quest. Same goes for the Fel Orcs Warlocks quest...
Stash : If I understood correctly, the items you store in the stash can only be loaded in other maps only if you buy another stash in that map, is that right?
Creep Respawn : I'd have to agree with the others, the creeps respawn way too fast. I don't have a problem killing some low level creeps that deals less than a 30 - 40 damage, but creeps with more than a hundred damage that respawn every 2 or 3 minutes, that's problematic unfortunately. Sometimes, I just have to make my way with cheats to speed up the progress.
Terrain : Terrain is well made in almost every map. Although, I do have some complaints about the size of the maps just like the others appointed out. On the one hand, it is fun to explore new areas and discover new stuff, on the other hand, it's time consuming, especially with those instant respawn creeps. that just kills the fun completetly for me.
Story : I must admit. This is the most amazing thing that got my attention in this campaign the whole time! The story is just brilliant and wonderful!
Gameplay : All the heroes' abilities are fine. Although, Buri's abilites weren't that uselful, the only ability that he has effective is Flame Strike. Also restoring mana is sometimes useful. But the two other ability are kinda useless imo.

Overrall. This was a great campaign, I really enjoyed it! A lots of efforts have been put it this project. I am very impressed on how it turned out. And I am looking forward to the sequel. 5/5 from me.


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P:S : When you release Act Two, will our heroes be transferred to that act directly or should we restart from Act One? If no, will you make it so that we can have starting heroes with a certain level and items in Act Two just like in Rexxar's campaign?

EDIT : How do I get to the Fallen Lords and The Abyss map? Where can I find the entrance to those maps?

 

[Championfighter25]

EDIT : How do I get to the Fallen Lords and The Abyss map? Where can I find the entrance to those maps?

Spoiler

For the first, you must complete the optional quest in the sub-map glowing cave (located in Dark Wood). A bonus map will then unlock after you've beaten the Act.
The portal to the abyss map is located in shimmer wood. You must hit a lever on the same map, that's located in one of the bandit camps.

 

[VadyaQ]

Considering this:" Also what map are you refering to for "The A City" and "Wood location"? I need to pinpoint where it happens so that and can look into the triggers. Does the "The A City" mean the outer Dark Wood (connected to Shimmer Coastal) and "Wood location" mean the inner Dark Wood?
I'd like to address the points that you made below. They are excellent points by the way."

I didnt buy any items during the very first quest and got Ring of Greed artifact which is the only OP Item I've got.

Im having a crush after leaving Evendale (thought it call Avendele for some reason) city for Shimmer Woods during loading screen. Got no idea why.

 

[deepstrasz]

Spoiler

The enemies in front of the gate occasionally drop pieces of the password. You just need to piece them together in the right order.

Spoiler

That's not good. I've encountered none of the pieces in my quick run to the gates in their region. If this does not happen, it's a small chance for someone to think having to grind to find the pieces there.... It's bad design based on luck which is not fun and might make people lose content. First, I thought the warlock was giving the passwords somehow and I tried those... I've killed lots of creatures near the northern gate and none dropped anything related to any password... The sea creatures in the south don't drop any words but only some white wa floating text appears when they die... wow, now I had ka... It's so random... Until now, this seems the worst luck based optional quest.
Tried writing in chat: kawa and waka because they mean something and tried kwaa and aawk and awak but nothing.

 

[renegade]

Where do i get Chen? I was in Dark Wood and something named Chen said "What was that?" when a shade keeps attacking me.

 

[ThinhHo]

Just one thing I noticed. Armor seems to be very very nerfed. As of right now its not really worth carrying any gears that give only armor. The damage mitigation is laughably low. Even 20 armor does almost nothing. You are better off getting more hp or more stats.

why the armor lost so much value? and health increasing each lv not so impressive, your heroes is nothing more than a knight with skill in normal game

Yes the armor of this campaign loses value due to the nature of the game. Most items in this campaign are meant to provide small improvement to your heroes, not a lot. The best items in the main game can increase your heroes' power in general by 100% for example. I don't nerf the armor. I nerfed the overall effectiveness of all items. Even though you get some of the best items in the campaign, your power should increase only by 20%. The item system of this campaign is designed with a different mindset than the main game. Items in the main game don't have negative stats. When looking at the items in the main game, you can tell right away which item is better. For many items in this campaign, you can't say the same thing. Because all items in this campaign are meant to be "potentially" good. Armor and other items are only valuable when you figure out the best item compositions for them. Here's one item composition for armor build I thought of: Defense Charm, Orc Shield, Magic Shield, Royal Armor, Royal Armor, Tough Armor. This composition can gives you a total of 105 armor and Hardened Skin ability to block incoming damage.

Spent about 20 minutes at the memory test and i actually don't know how to do the mission. It said click on the circle in order but everytime i click and game over, and i don't really know which one was lit first, all circle is blur which is hard for me to know.

It is possible that the video and texture settings on your computer is not high enough so the special effects don't show properly. Another assumption is that the game engine got bugged and couldn't display the special effects. You can try restarting your computer, not shut it down and turn it back on, for the special effects to be properly displayed again.

Damn this map is crazy, murloc keep spawning, poison attack draining hp, the only aoe is flame strike but countered hard by ensnare and in the fight i always surrounded by the small murloc.

This area is not meant for Buri and Adias. It is not imbalanced. People are mostly just underleved when they enter this map. Also Adias and Buri don't have good AOE to deal with the Murlocs in this map. Proceed with the main story and come back another time when your heroes are stronger. Until then, you will have a better chance to win the map.

You should ask Turnro about backpack, his campaign allow me to carry 6 more item at the begining and even switch to another map. Or if you don't want backpack feature on this campaign

It's not that I don't know how to make it. I know that making it would be a problem for the campaign, that's all. It would make the campaign more unstable than before.

I didnt buy any items during the very first quest and got Ring of Greed artifact which is the only OP Item I've got.

Im having a crush after leaving Evendale (thought it call Avendele for some reason) city for Shimmer Woods during loading screen. Got no idea why.

I'm still not clear on what you're talking about. Now I know that you play on Hard difficulty because you got Ring of Greed. You leave Edenvale City after the Edenvale Dungeon right? And was that when the game crashed?
Also what Warcraft 3 version are you playing the campaign on?

Where do i get Chen? I was in Dark Wood and something named Chen said "What was that?" when a shade keeps attacking me.

Oh, that was a bug. If Chen is not there, that banter shouldn't have run. Keep following the main quest, north of Little Village, and eventually you will get Chen.

 

[JinJang]

@ThinhHo Yeah you right, today i load the campaign and it show the effect (holy light) yesterday i only see the white circle. Can you give me some hint about the gate with magic wall? Run around map a few times and still stuck at that.

 

[ThinhHo]

Spoiler: Spoiler, Answer to Warseeker

Overrall. This was a great campaign, I really enjoyed it! A lots of efforts have been put it this project. I am very impressed on how it turned out. And I am looking forward to the sequel. 5/5 from me.

I'm very glad to hear this from you. This is a very good review every campaign should have.

Buri can't give away the chicken to Amie. Only Adias can.

After I returned to place where Buri died. Chen got teleported to a different zone during the cinematic.

I've noticed a bug. When you destroy the two Power Generators before killing the Blademaster the gate won't open.

Adias can bypass barrels.

I can't train Advaned Gryphon Riders. it says the techtree: Castle is Requited

They are all legit bugs. I'll fix them. Thanks.

The Centaure Firecaller gives Slow Aura buff that slows my heroes even though he has a Devotion Aura?

The Makruras are quite OP and they stun way too often.

Yeah, they are strong units for a normal Warcraft 3 game. For an RPG campaign like this, powerful enemy units should be expected. I'm not sticking to the traditional formulas of Warcraft 3 in this campaign. Makruras are not OP. They are just not normal Warcraft 3 units as you may have expected them to be. Their stun is their gimmick. To fight against them, you have to constantly micro your heroes against the stun spell. A-move against this enemy will never work.

The Fel Orc Warlocks quest can be completed without speaking to Picolo.

Also, I would like to point out something that was very confusing me : Some quests get marked completed without even being triggered in the quest log, like for example : When you kill that Bandit at the start of Shimmer Wood. The quest get automatically completed. However, when I went to Edenvale City, some guy appointed me about that bandit which is already dead...
Another example : The quest that Drek'thar gives you in the Barrows. Well, before I spoke to Drek'Thar. I spent some time exploring all around the map. till I got to the area where those purple stalkers are. But then after I spoke to him he sends me right back to that place which I already visited to collect Shimmerweed....The point is : Normally, there should be block paths until you pick up the quest. Same goes for the Fel Orcs Warlocks quest...

Yes, this was deliberate. Many quests were designed this way to grant players the freedom to explore, although it seems inconsistent in story telling at times. This kind of design was inspired from the game Dark Souls, one of my favorite games of all time. By the way, the guy in Edenvale City who talks about the bandit Balaro doesn't know that you'd killed the bandit when you were on your way to Edenvale City anyway, so saying what he says makes sense to me.

A shortcut in Southeast would be helpful.

It is a shortcut. However, you need to figure out how to open it. If you figure it out, you'd know how to get the items behind the trees. The North East shortcut is not supposed to be available until you defeat the Murloc Emperor. I'll fix it in the next update.

The Dee See Sceptre doesn't work in this mission? Although, I can summon other minions such as Furbolgs, Golems, etc...

Interesting, I'll take a look into this.

Why is this map seperated into two parts? Can't you just fuse them into one single map?

They were made as 2 separate maps with different purposes. It is possible to fuse them but it would take a LOT of work. I don't think it's even worth it to do so.

This level looks similar to the BloodElf campaign of TFT. Although, It has some additional features but they weren't effective since this mission is easy to beat imo.

Some players and myself had a hard time with this map. Maybe the previous update made it easier for you.

- The South base AI is bugged the units are just going back and forth doing nothing.

They are meant to only defend their base actually. The map was big and there are many AIs on both sides. It was very hard to make efficient AIs for the Alliance.

Transition : As a suggestion, It would be a nice to add a dialogue that shows you where the transition takes you whenever you step in a transition zone so we can know where we are heading.

I saw that you did this in your campaign. For this campaign, the return from doing this is not worth it at this point. At this point, I'll just focus on fixing bugs.

Creep Respawn : I'd have to agree with the others, the creeps respawn way too fast.

I may increase the respawn time in future updates.

Story : I must admit. This is the most amazing thing that got my attention in this campaign the whole time! The story is just brilliant and wonderful!

Yeah, this is one of the thing I'm proud of the most.

Gameplay : All the heroes' abilities are fine. Although, Buri's abilites weren't that uselful, the only ability that he has effective is Flame Strike. Also restoring mana is sometimes useful. But the two other ability are kinda useless imo.

Buri isn't a main hero. He doesn't even have an ultimate. He is meant to be Adias' support only. He was also added into the campaign recently. Many people complained that Adias had no support and the game is too hard at the beginning with only Adias, so I added Buri. This is a single player campaign so I don't plan for everything to be balanced. Some imbalances are intentional and there are reasons why they are there.

P:S : When you release Act Two, will our heroes be transferred to that act directly or should we restart from Act One? If no, will you make it so that we can have starting heroes with a certain level and items in Act Two just like in Rexxar's campaign?

Your heroes will be transferred to Act II directly with all items. If you start with Act II without going through Act I, your heroes will be defaulted as lv22 with no items. Chen and Darak would have their starting items just like in Act I. In theory, their data would be maintained and transferred to Act II when Act II is released. However, I haven't tested if it works correctly.

Spoiler: Spoiler, Answer to deepstrasz

That's not good. I've encountered none of the pieces in my quick run to the gates in their region. If this does not happen, it's a small chance for someone to think having to grind to find the pieces there.... It's bad design based on luck which is not fun and might make people lose content. First, I thought the warlock was giving the passwords somehow and I tried those... I've killed lots of creatures near the northern gate and none dropped anything related to any password... The sea creatures in the south don't drop any words but only some white wa floating text appears when they die... wow, now I had ka... It's so random... Until now, this seems the worst luck based optional quest.
Tried writing in chat: kawa and waka because they mean something and tried kwaa and aawk and awak but nothing.

You are right. This is the worst luck based optional quest. Optional maps are hard and tedious in many ways. They are meant for hardcore players. My first tester went through this map without asking me anything but the Warlock. I don't know how long she spent on this map and the other optional ones, but she did it.
I should make the drop rate 100% or something. I can really sense the frustration on your part and it makes sense. I may have to put some more hints in the game for tricky puzzles like this.
By the way, you missed another piece of the password for that door. You got 2 out of 3 pieces.

Spoiler: Spoiler, Answer to JinLang

Can you give me some hint about the gate with magic wall? Run around map a few times and still stuck at that.

It's somewhere near your starting point in the dungeon. It would be easier when you have another hero with you for this.

 

[hobby villain]

Orc campaign inspired hooked me, but...

1) Yeah, the intro is too tedious and you could cut down on the pain by leaving your design philosophy rants out of it. Ask yourself, what does the player need to know vs. what do you simply feel like sharing about your development efforts, and cut the latter part out and put it in this description instead. I think you could have removed the whole thing out, really. The only thing I needed to know was item stacking (if even that), the rest I would have found out without thinking you're a moron for not giving me a heads-up. And you could tell that without forced dialogues too. Maybe just tell us, in massive caps, skip the intro unless you're a total newbie.
2) It doesn't get better that it continues with a long talk with that boy. Voice acting would make it all nicer, but that's probably a tall order. Would have probably felt much better if I skipped the tutorial.
3) The first puzzle - the very first quest - isn't about using your brain, it's about jotting down notes. I would actually prefer it if the hero knew when he had found the best merchant for an item, and we had more elements like finding the guy hidden in the forest to it instead.

So anyway, got out of the village, met a fellow paladin. Whose skillset seems almost a copy paste from blood mage? The ultimate differs, the rest might even have the same stats. The protagonist has way more levels available to his skills than that guy, which seems odd. At the very least you should rename them so they sound more paladin-ish. He just feels like a blood mage with the wrong model to me.

Also the protagonist's skills seem to leave little room to creativity. I took his Q, then his W, and I can't upgrade either of them until level 4. So I seem to be stuck in a QWEQWEQWE cycle without having the ability to focus much on one of them. While we're at it, tooltip doesn't need to spell out the mana cost, the UI tells me anyway. But, big kudos on making the skills QWER.

However what really made me stop playing (for now anyway) is the constant running around. There's just nothing happening except me waiting for these normal speed heroes to cross a map. Sure there's combat here and there, but I don't feel encouraged to explore when doubling back after a dead end takes forever.

Your English is above decent. There are many maps whose language made me stop playing them. You could perhaps benefit from this though, as I felt you were using would in place of will often.

Oh also, destructibles that aren't meant to be obstacles should die in 1-2 hits. I need like ten swings to break a rock chunk to see if there's any treasure to be had.

Last edit (who am I kidding?): The morning of my departure I was able to kill the friendly family. Is that a whoopsie or an Easter Egg? I killed Tommy and his parents, but I guess that in order to complete the egg hunt I should have bashed Ivan's head in too