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Techtree Contest #20 - Air Elementals (Custom Mini-Faction)
- Author(s)
- Kyrbi0
- Size
- 2.05 MB
- Rating
- Downloads
- 64
- Created
- Jun 15, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- Resources
- 1
- State
Pending
This bundle is marked as pending. It has not been reviewed by a staff member yet.
Created as an entry for TC20 - Rise of the Creeps.
To play as the Air Elementals, pick Human with 90% handicap.
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Created in Version 1.26 of the World Editor; please let me know if you run into any troubles playing it on later versions
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My chosen Creep was the Lightning Revenant
for which their only line of descriptive text reads:
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So my chosen Faction is the Air Elementals
I'm intentionally opting to play a little fast-and-loose with the idea of a "Warcraft-3-style faction"; I believe pretty stringently in certain guidelines normally, but for the purposes of a Contest (& for me to have any hope of succeeding), I'm choosing to make a sort of "mini-faction" (something I honestly wish was just the standard around here; would make for much less daunting Contests IMO. But I digress).
Now this won't be Naga-style exactly; it'll be a mix of that & a framework an old Scrolls of Lore buddy of mine, Volkrin, whipped up many years ago, plus some stuff of my own design. I fully expect to take a hit in Gameplay because this is my first time trying all this, and I can go into more detail later perhaps, but in brief it's meant to feature a restricted count of 'gameplay elements' (units, heroes, buildings, etc) while still attempting to hit most all the necessary functions of a faction/techtree, ideally:
=Rough Techtree Breakdown=
☁(Hero1) - (I) Stormfather (Mystical caster hero with wind/storm spellset)
(Hero2) - (S) Son of the Storm (Brawny bruiser hero with lightning spellset)
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☁(Worker) - Sylph (Speed-summons buildings, harvests resources, scouts)
(Infantry) - Spark Revenant (meat shield with electrical abilities)
☁(Ranged) - Gale Elemental (ranged infantry, anti-air)
☁("Flyer") - Wind Serpent (Anti-air, mobility focus)
(Siege Support) - Storm Elemental (Siege with immobile artillery mode)
☁(Def. Support) - Caladrius (Supportive caster)
(Off. Support) - Djinn (Offensive caster)
⛈(Ultimate) - Hurricane Elemental (T3OD (Tier 3 Ownage Device): heavy ranged support)
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~Michael Peppers~
For the code necessary to play this custom faction (CRS doesn't work without JassHelper/JNGP, lol)
~The Factioneers Discord~
For tons of help & support & troubleshooting & cheering on
~GhostThruster & the Judges~
For setting up & running a fun Contest
Djinn/Genie by Explobomb
Dreamspawn Pack by Retera, Spellbound
Eye of the Storm by Darkfang
Either or all of the following:
Thunderload (or Forked Lightning) by Darkfang
Either or all of the following:
Elemental Pack by Explobomb
Fury of Air by Blizzard Entertainment, Darkfang
Tornado by GAQ
Storm Sight by Blizzard Entertainment, Darkfang
Air Revenant by chr2
Elemental Pack by Explobomb
Great Elementals by Himperion
BTNLightingElemental by jigrael
Lightnings Multiple by Tranquil
LightningStrikeLarge by Callahan by Callahan
WindElemental by icewolf055
Cyclone by Champara Bros
BTNSpell_Nature_EarthBind by Blizzard Entertainment
Cyclon Explosion by Suselishe
BTNSpell_Lightning_LightningBolt01 by Blizzard Entertainment
Lightning Elemental by Tarrasque
TornadoMissile by BurninRose
CHANGELOG
- v2.0: Initial Upload
To play as the Air Elementals, pick Human with 90% handicap.
-
Created in Version 1.26 of the World Editor; please let me know if you run into any troubles playing it on later versions
===
My chosen Creep was the Lightning Revenant
for which their only line of descriptive text reads:
Wowpedia said:
===
So my chosen Faction is the Air Elementals
Wowpedia said:
I'm intentionally opting to play a little fast-and-loose with the idea of a "Warcraft-3-style faction"; I believe pretty stringently in certain guidelines normally, but for the purposes of a Contest (& for me to have any hope of succeeding), I'm choosing to make a sort of "mini-faction" (something I honestly wish was just the standard around here; would make for much less daunting Contests IMO. But I digress).
Now this won't be Naga-style exactly; it'll be a mix of that & a framework an old Scrolls of Lore buddy of mine, Volkrin, whipped up many years ago, plus some stuff of my own design. I fully expect to take a hit in Gameplay because this is my first time trying all this, and I can go into more detail later perhaps, but in brief it's meant to feature a restricted count of 'gameplay elements' (units, heroes, buildings, etc) while still attempting to hit most all the necessary functions of a faction/techtree, ideally:
- 2 Tiers
- 2 Heroes
- ~8 Units
- ~8 Structures
=Rough Techtree Breakdown=
☁(Hero1) - (I) Stormfather (Mystical caster hero with wind/storm spellset)
(Hero2) - (S) Son of the Storm (Brawny bruiser hero with lightning spellset)-
☁(Worker) - Sylph (Speed-summons buildings, harvests resources, scouts)
(Infantry) - Spark Revenant (meat shield with electrical abilities)☁(Ranged) - Gale Elemental (ranged infantry, anti-air)
☁("Flyer") - Wind Serpent (Anti-air, mobility focus)
(Siege Support) - Storm Elemental (Siege with immobile artillery mode)☁(Def. Support) - Caladrius (Supportive caster)
(Off. Support) - Djinn (Offensive caster)⛈(Ultimate) - Hurricane Elemental (T3OD (Tier 3 Ownage Device): heavy ranged support)
===
~Michael Peppers~
For the code necessary to play this custom faction (CRS doesn't work without JassHelper/JNGP, lol)
~The Factioneers Discord~
For tons of help & support & troubleshooting & cheering on
~GhostThruster & the Judges~
For setting up & running a fun Contest
Djinn/Genie by Explobomb
Dreamspawn Pack by Retera, Spellbound
Eye of the Storm by Darkfang
Either or all of the following:
Thunderload (or Forked Lightning) by Darkfang
Either or all of the following:
- Lightning Elemental by Tarrasque
- Lightning Elemental (No Omnilight) by Tarrasque
- Naked Lightning Elemental by Tarrasque
Elemental Pack by Explobomb
Fury of Air by Blizzard Entertainment, Darkfang
Tornado by GAQ
Storm Sight by Blizzard Entertainment, Darkfang
Air Revenant by chr2
Elemental Pack by Explobomb
Great Elementals by Himperion
BTNLightingElemental by jigrael
Lightnings Multiple by Tranquil
LightningStrikeLarge by Callahan by Callahan
WindElemental by icewolf055
Cyclone by Champara Bros
BTNSpell_Nature_EarthBind by Blizzard Entertainment
Cyclon Explosion by Suselishe
BTNSpell_Lightning_LightningBolt01 by Blizzard Entertainment
Lightning Elemental by Tarrasque
TornadoMissile by BurninRose
CHANGELOG
- v2.0: Initial Upload
- Joined
- Sep 4, 2008
- Messages
- 299
I appreciate that you made this in 1.26 (which is great for preservation) despite some people continuing to claim that nobody makes maps in pre-Reforged anymore whenever someone like me asks for tools/systems to be made compatible with older patches (or at least for older versions of said tools/systems, that used to be compatible, to be left/re-made available) 
Pre-Reforged development is forward-thinking development!
Pre-Reforged development is forward-thinking development!
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2008
- Messages
- 10,221
To be fair, we are a dying breed.I appreciate that you made this in 1.26 (which is great for preservation) despite some people continuing to claim that nobody makes maps in pre-Reforged anymore whenever someone like me asks for tools/systems to be made compatible with older patches (or at least for older versions of said tools/systems, that used to be compatible, to be left/re-made available)
Someday I may finally make the move (though maybe not all the way up to Reforged/latest). 
But I've been using v1.26 since it came out & I see very few reasons to jump ship just yet.
Footman16
Community Manager
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2012
- Messages
- 4,144
I know we had this discussion before on the discord but I really don't understand what you're afraid of from moving, it's the exact same WE except with more features lol. It would be no different to when you updated the WE from v1.01 onwards to eventually reaching v1.26.To be fair, we are a dying breed.
But I've been using v1.26 since it came out & I see very few reasons to jump ship just yet.
Either way, glad to see you join a contest and make a tech tree. I know you put a lot of thought into the blizzardness of techtrees and integration so it'll be cool to see all that theory crafting in practice
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- Jul 29, 2008
- Messages
- 10,221
We have! But for the public, in a nutshell:
- it's different. better in many ways, but different. I have to learn some new ways of doing things
- every version has weird quirks & even bugs, but the stuff that v1.26 has going on are a decade+ understood. The various Reforged patches brought about "new" and "exciting" bugs that, in some cases, still aren't worked out. I don't want to deal with all that, until I have to.
- I've kinda built up a lot of 'cruft' around my copy of v1.26; like, the folder has sorta become my main 'modding' folder, with all my maps & assets & saves & backup MPQs & alternate MPQs & mods & such... I wouldn't know where to begin, extricating it all, and am kinda scared to. Tons of stuff may not even work on the latest versions & would have to be left behind.
- correct me if I'm wrong, but the newest version requires Reforged (& the billions of GB-choking new assets that entails), and can't just be run 'natively' off a flash drive. Literally to complete this Contest I needed to be able to copy-paste my entire Wc3 directory onto an 8gb flash drive so I could actually work on my entry after my computer died... which would've been basically impossible if I was stuck on Reforged.
- a matter of principle. I dislike what Reforged did to one of my favorite games & to the modding community therefrom. I really dislike the new assets & how they divided the artistic community. By keeping my primary modding ventures back where they've always been, I do my own little meaningless 'protest' against what Reforged has done.
Absolutely! I am too.Either way, glad to see you join a contest and make a tech tree. I know you put a lot of thought into the blizzardness of techtrees and integration so it'll be cool to see all that theory crafting in practice
Yes I care a lot about that kind of stuff, but who knows if I can actually 'walk the walk'. I doubt it's as good as I'd like (gotta spend a looooot longer on something like this to fulfill that promise), but I hope it's enjoyable.
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- Messages
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Although you state this race as "mini-race", @Kyrbi0, I can say that it's already in a perfect playable state in terms of gameplay flow: tier two costs are combining both tier 2 and tier 3, am I right?
But I feel that grunt-type unit - revenant - is quite good for his active ability: he sacrifices barely any HP and gains a pretty solid bonus, which is noticeable when you have plenty of those revenants in your army.
Flying healer is nice. Sadly, not all of our army can fly, meaning that as AIR ELEMENTAL, I still need to buy ZEPPELINS if I want to drop onto islands for building a base. Odd.
Like this race!
Any chance for the Ethereal race from WoW TBC (and K'aersh patch for WoW TWW)?
