Lord of the Clans

[OutsiderXE]

Thank you for the review. An adventure version will not happen. I find the story too comical and disconnected from wc lore.

 

[taiga01]

hahaha,I remember the first time I played Lord of the Clans was 10 years ago, a great campaign

 

[Kaptain_MekaFather]

This custom campaign was AWESOME.
The quests, the 3d models, the musics used... as a big Horde fan, that was cool to play Thrall during his journey to became Warchief.

 

[Schmiki]

The quality of this campaign is astonishing. The cinematics, dialogues, voice overs, models, level design, features and gameplay are simply amazing. This project seems like an official Blizzard product. I can't recommend it enough to anyone who hasn't tried it yet. 10/10

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Played it recently for a walkthrough on my humble channel. And what can I say:

• Most boss fights seem to be arcade-like, so their damage except for auto-attack is dodgeable. I don't see this as a good example as a WoW player myself, cause not everything should be avoidable - I wanted to see some more phases for Blackmoore's final battle where Thrall is properly tested to use all he learned through a campaign. Maybe it was on Hard Difficulty, not normal. But I don't think so.
• Story: I like how you follow the original book inch by inch. And Warcraft 3 Reforged graphics make this look astonishing. I liked those inner building locations, they felt cozy.
• Voice lines: Sometimes phrases felt abrupting too soon, and sometimes AI Voicelining "roboticism" felt too uncanny.
• Gameplay: I barely forgot that Thrall's abilities can be upgraded, lol. I think that creating some extra button near Thrall's portrait would be cool. Or have a special item reserved for that, I don't mind having 5 slots instead of 6.

Please don't think that this list features minuses, hell no. It's my humble opinion and as a casual player myself. Overall campaign is very cool and I hope that "Last Guardian Reforged" will be similar or even cooler.
Recommend this campaign to all players, dearly!

 

[Darnish89]

Played it recently for a walkthrough on my humble channel. And what can I say:

• Most boss fights seem to be arcade-like, so their damage except for auto-attack is dodgeable. I don't see this as a good example as a WoW player myself, cause not everything should be avoidable - I wanted to see some more phases for Blackmoore's final battle where Thrall is properly tested to use all he learned through a campaign. Maybe it was on Hard Difficulty, not normal. But I don't think so.
• Story: I like how you follow the original book inch by inch. And Warcraft 3 Reforged graphics make this look astonishing. I liked those inner building locations, they felt cozy.
• Voice lines: Sometimes phrases felt abrupting too soon, and sometimes AI Voicelining "roboticism" felt too uncanny.
• Gameplay: I barely forgot that Thrall's abilities can be upgraded, lol. I think that creating some extra button near Thrall's portrait would be cool. Or have a special item reserved for that, I don't mind having 5 slots instead of 6.

Please don't think that this list features minuses, hell no. It's my humble opinion and as a casual player myself. Overall campaign is very cool and I hope that "Last Guardian Reforged" will be similar or even cooler.
Recommend this campaign to all players, dearly!

Sorry for asking and not trying to be rude. But "WoW"? Did you mean Wc3?

I do agree with the other notes

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Sorry for asking and not trying to be rude. But "WoW"? Did you mean Wc3?

I do agree with the other notes

WoW - World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft

Join thousands of mighty heroes in Azeroth, a world of magic and limitless adventure.

worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com

 

[Darnish89]

WoW - World of Warcraft.

World of Warcraft

Join thousands of mighty heroes in Azeroth, a world of magic and limitless adventure.

worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com

I know what WoW stand for but I dont get it then? Why compare a Wc3 campian's boss fights with WoW fights?
Maybe im wrong but what you wrote sounded like "I don't like that it's dodge able since in wow we learn that not everyhting is" or "I don't like that it's dodge able since in wow we see how boring that fact is".

Care to explain? Maybe OutsiderXE do understand you better tho (it's for him in the end anyway).

 

[The Nightmare Book]

I know what WoW stand for but I dont get it then? Why compare a Wc3 campian's boss fights with WoW fights?
Maybe im wrong but what you wrote sounded like "I don't like that it's dodge able since in wow we learn that not everyhting is" or "I don't like that it's dodge able since in wow we see how boring that fact is".

Care to explain? Maybe OutsiderXE do understand you better tho (it's for him in the end anyway).

Well... For example, the current WoW bossfights use multiple stages of the battle, where the boss changes the scenery, and skills or has help from his ads aka minions. In classic WoW most bosses have mostly abilities, that stack some debuff or deal high unavoidable damage thus forcing you to use cooldowns of your defensive spells properly, manage them through raids, and even worse - collect some specific resistance.
Modern WoW denies using magic resistance in the current design, instead focusing on void zones - avoidable damage - forcing raid to be proactive. Yet still you receive periodic unavoidable damage, need to soak something, etc...

This meme video shows differents of bossfight designs:

In the "Lord of Clan HD" campaign, most of the bosses have avoidable damage in my opinion. So Thrall has enough time to run out and don't take it. Especially when you learn fire elementals, you can use them as tanks, and in theory Blackmoore (for example) won't hit you. I don't advocate @OutsiderXE to change the Blackmoore fight into a 3-staged battle with dozens of SFX splashing on screen, yet I think that it would be better that Blackmoore stacked or used some non-avoidable spells.
Anyway, the current campaign design appeals to a bigger audience and forces you to be active, which is good.

 

[Darnish89]

Well... For example, the current WoW bossfights use multiple stages of the battle, where the boss changes the scenery, and skills or has help from his ads aka minions. In classic WoW most bosses have mostly abilities, that stack some debuff or deal high unavoidable damage thus forcing you to use cooldowns of your defensive spells properly, manage them through raids, and even worse - collect some specific resistance.
Modern WoW denies using magic resistance in the current design, instead focusing on void zones - avoidable damage - forcing raid to be proactive. Yet still you receive periodic unavoidable damage, need to soak something, etc...

This meme video shows differents of bossfight designs:

In the "Lord of Clan HD" campaign, most of the bosses have avoidable damage in my opinion. So Thrall has enough time to run out and don't take it. Especially when you learn fire elementals, you can use them as tanks, and in theory Blackmoore (for example) won't hit you. I don't advocate @OutsiderXE to change the Blackmoore fight into a 3-staged battle with dozens of SFX splashing on screen, yet I think that it would be better that Blackmoore stacked or used some non-avoidable spells.
Anyway, the current campaign design appeals to a bigger audience and forces you to be active, which is good.

Wow player myself. So I know the what you talking about.
I party agree with You, Blackmore fight could been better and a bit more about the mixed hate and proudness feeling Blackmore had and in one way "thankful" side of feeling from Thrall.

But again, it's Wc3 not wow.
And yet, reasenlty playe your Swarm and Darrow maps. Really nice stuff and a nice mix of wc3/wow

 

[OutsiderXE]

One of my late regrets is not making the big boss fights have longer and more complex phases; but it it what it is.