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[Altered Melee] New breath in the world of WC3 melee battles

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Hey folks!
I'm tired of watching the same PRO games where million of time we see the same units and the same tactics (meta). I'm also tired to see the same heroes and the same abilities learnt. I really want WC3 is refreshed.

I just have taken a try to rebalance game and make things upside down. I would appriciate if you join me in the way to refresh WC3 basic gameplay to make melee games look renewed.
What are my goals?
  • Fix heroes to give players way to choose any hero and learn any ability.
  • Bring ultimates back to game.
  • Revive damage and armor upgrades.
  • Decreases the efficiiency of dispell abilities casters could back to the game.
  • Rebalance units that were never used in the game.

Here the main fixes (whole patchnote in the map description):
  • Hero ultimate now requires 5th level (instead of 6th).
  • All heroes learn automatically all 3 basic abilities at the 1st level.
  • All hero abilities has 5 level (instead of 3).
  • Max hero level is increased up to 15 and all heroes have got new ability (+2 to all stats per each ability level).
  • Hero gets additional learn point on 3/5/7/9/15-th levelup.
  • Hero food demand: 5 -> 10.
  • All dispelling abilities cost more mana (about +40%) and deals less damage to summons (-30%).
  • Siege long range units get speed equal 270.
  • Damage upgrades now add 2 attack dices (instead of 1). Armor upgrades boons additionaly HP by 10%. Lumber requirements and research time are almost doubled. Gold cost increased by 30%. Attack damage and armor upgrades gives bonuses to summon units but in lesser degree (1 dice, no HP boon). Neutral mercenary units can get attack and armor upgrades.
  • There a lot of lesser rebalance fixes to make unwanted units back to the meta (for example: mana burn is redesigned to bring more fun to games vs elf).

I based my fixes on grubby's tier list videos and analytics from Statistics Articles

Here is the map where I applied this changes:

Have fun! What are your thoughts about it?
If you have critics about changes feel free to post.
 
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