The Adventures of Rowan the Wise v4.5

[Turnro]

Shigu,

The fact you you created an account just to review The Adventures of Rowan the Wise is enough for me to answer the questions you have

- The fact there is no way to recover HP quickly here is a little annoying. The 'Sunwell' could heal like a Fountain of Life, or perhaps Buzan could Holy Light.

Just to let you know, this problem only exists on Hard difficulty. It's to make that chapter a little more challenging

- The second part is very generic, though Maiev and Uther's personalities' derailments where inexplicably funny. Being the first base-oriented mission, it would not be a bad idea (In Hard mode) to add a hint explaining that AI's attack forces are going to be huge from here onwards.

You are right to notice that there is a huge spike in Hard difficulty between TFT and The Adventures of Rowan the Wise. Aside from a few key missions, I found the original Warcraft 3 campaigns to be relatively simple on hard (which is why hard in this campaign is actually hard).

On the other hand, many people have managed to complete this campaign on hard, so it is not impossible. The fact that you are already on Chapter 7 means you should have no trouble finishing the campaign.

- How much time did Buzan take to take out the Night Elves and Uther so that Arthas already left to Northrend? (Not said, but implied)

You are right that there is no time specified between when all those events occurred, but you can assume that it was a while before Rowan received word from Arthas at the end of the second chapter.

- Is there ANY reason to complete the optional quest?

Well, yes. You receive a decent item from saving the required amount of villagers, and you get the satisfaction of completing a very challenging optional quest in Hard difficulty.

- There were a few crates near the start that I could not reach because of a river in-between (There were three Aberrations on the other side)
- Is the bridge at the north of the goblin base ever repaired?

Ahh... I believe you have found some potential goodies. If you put your mind to it, I'm sure you can figure out a way to get to the other side

- Is there any reason for the Alchemist's original second spell and ultimate to be swapped? Other than screw custom hotkey systems, there does not seem to be any

The Alchemist's hotkey spells were simply changed around the QWER composition, along with every other command in the game. However, I have noticed that some of these new hotkeys will take no effect in the game if you have specified your own custom hotkeys in Warcraft 3.

- A small hint mentioning that you cannot train Human, Dwarven or Gnomish units (As well as building Cannon Towers) would have been nice.

To be honest, I actually had that hint in a previous version of The Adventures of Rowan the Wise. It was removed because I thought that it would have been obvious that only Blood Elf units were available at that particular point. Nonetheless, it is something worth noting.

- I managed to trigger a bug on this mission: In my very first attempt, as soon as I saw I had to fight Arthas, I saved less than a second after finishing the cutscene, forced Arthas to Death Pact an Abomination, then Rowan and the Knights killed the other two and started hitting Arthas continuously until it ended. I forgot to save after that, and when retrying, I noticed Arthas had not summoned the undead waves he was supposed to, so my first battle with him turned out to be far easier than it should.

It is good you have informed me of this bug, since I probably would never have found it lol. Hopefully, no one tries to exploit this bug in the meantime.

 

[Shigu]

Small update as per my progress through the campaign

[Overall]

- Something I only noticed right now is that the number of expansions in base missions are too low. Chapters 2, 4 and 5, for instance, have exactly zero, and while Chapter 2 is a short mission, 4 is the only mission that can be speedran and 5 can still be completed in Hard, waiting for the gold to come is really annoying for moments. Chapter 7 and 8 finally have expansions, but they don't have much gold (Although protecting the expansions in 7 is far, far easier said than done. They work better as lures)

[Chapter 7]

- I only found the shipyard while kiting undead units with Logan's Phoenix, and it's a little irrelevant to the mission. Perhaps adding a expansion to the other coast (But without too much gold as it'd be a little too safe) or making the creeps drop some kind of really good item would make building ships worthwhile.
- Ultimately, destroying Sylvanas's base is not difficult (But REALLY annoying if you don't attack Sylvanas while she's busy attacking one of your bases, as she can turn the tides of battle by herself) compared to defending from her attacks, at least.
- In the following interlude, I finally noticed Mal'ganis's derailment. Weird, especially when his species is supposed to be cunning by nature XD

[Chapter 8]

- So you drastically ramped up the damage of creeps, eh?
- The first part is pretty nice, and much more different than the really-standard dungeon crawling of Chapter 6.
- Defend's tooltip says Footmen instead of Guardians. I think something like this happens in the previous mission.
- Compared to the previous mission, defending is moderately easy (No hero helps) but attacking... oh, attacking! I had to use three 100 supply forces (Well, 100 counting miners) and the third barely survived the assault. For moments I was cheesing with Logan's Flamestrike, as the undead strangely never rebuild structures. At least Sylvanas's forces rebuilt Ziggurats and upgraded them to Spirit Towers...
- The Scepter of Healing... pretty good but the active effect is pointless IMO. Still, being a walking Healing Ward is enough, and does WONDERS for the Shield Breaker in the following mission.

[Chapter 9]

- I don't really have much to say in this mission. Everything that is done here was featured in some way in previous missions. The survival waves were the only new thing.
- That being said, I made the mistake of holding out in the right part of Wave 2. Then a Faceless One Deathbringer spotted us and used Animate Dead. Cue everyone dying at the hands of the reanimated Deathbringers u.u

[Chapter 10]

- Oh, my... just tell me there are expansions in this mission.
- Only gave a small peek (Until Arthas demolished the by-then-barely-attended Silver Hand base) and it still gave me the chills.
- Not Sylvanas again
- By the way, I forgot to say that you were really nasty by giving Arthas an Amulet of Spell Immunity. Oh, and the Amulet of Spell Shield on Mal'Ganis - I lost the count of how many of Bevan's Ultimate I wasted by using it on him.

I have the feeling the final review of mine will come in at least a week o.o

 

[Daffa]

- Oh, my... just tell me there are expansions in this mission.
- Only gave a small peek (Until Arthas demolished the by-then-barely-attended Silver Hand base) and it still gave me the chills.
- Only gave a small peek (Until Arthas demolished the by-then-barely-attended Silver Hand base) and it still gave me the chills.

My memories from chapter 10, anyone can refresh it for me if I forget something
- There expansions,

Spoiler

south of the bases, except for elves, which is at the north.

- He has Amulet of Spell Immunity? Oh yeah, he did. I remember playing that chapter. Best way is Rowan (tank with Divine Shield) + Spell Breakers to kill him

 

[Shigu]

Surprisingly enough, I already completed the final mission, so here's the final part of the review

[Chapter 10]

- I seemed to trigger a bug on the AI: After having Logan Flamestrike the eight towers at the choke point in the right orange undead base (The one in which Sylvanas comes from), they never attacked again. I mean, they rebuilt forces (Because they were there when I assaulted that base) but stayed there doing nothing. While I didn't give them as much time as on Sylvanas's forces, Anub'Arak and Mal'ganis seemed to also suffer from that, as they never attacked after the first column of towers was destroyed (And all I did was send a Banished Logan, Flamestrike and leave immediately after).
- The mission ended up being easier than I thought, and the potential bug I mentioned had a great part in that. All I had to do was disable Sylvanas, stall Mal'ganis, destroy both bases, teleport the Blood Elves to the Dwarves, destroy Anub'arak and then do a three-way attack.
- Destroying the Lich King is more tricky than difficult. The five heroes can be kited (Which makes dealing with them a lot easier, as Anub'arak summoned carrion beetles and they blocked the path for Sylvanas and Arthas) and Rowan's Divine Shield is a terrific lure to let siege and flying units deal damage.
- When Rowan told Arthas he deserved a worse punishment than death, with this being a parody, I expected Arthas to say "But I'm already dead"
- RowAN, NathAN, LogAN, BevAN. All male heroes end in "-an", and all playable heroes bar Rowan appeared in two consecutive missions before this one. Something I noticed, just that.

[Ending]

- This time I correctly guessed what Nathan meant by finding valuables in the capital city.
- Proudmoore turns out to be worse than in canon. I wouldn't be surprised if he were the one who had Terenas bit by a spider.

It was a enjoyable campaign overall, and a good challenge. Good job

 

[Turnro]

- I seemed to trigger a bug on the AI: After having Logan Flamestrike the eight towers at the choke point in the right orange undead base (The one in which Sylvanas comes from), they never attacked again. I mean, they rebuilt forces (Because they were there when I assaulted that base) but stayed there doing nothing. While I didn't give them as much time as on Sylvanas's forces, Anub'Arak and Mal'ganis seemed to also suffer from that, as they never attacked after the first column of towers was destroyed (And all I did was send a Banished Logan, Flamestrike and leave immediately after).

Another bug? Having Sylvanas' base not attack is understandable, since they only attack at the beginning of the mission. But having other bases fall suit? This will definitely be something to fix in a next update.

 

[Shigu]

Another bug? Having Sylvanas' base not attack is understandable, since they only attack at the beginning of the mission. But having other bases fall suit? This will definitely be something to fix in a next update.

Oh, is Sylvanas's case intentional? That explains one case. My memory seems to be failing as I swore I've seen her attack more than once.

Now, I cannot really say if Anub'arak and Mal'ganis definetly suffer from that as I did not really give them much time to react. Basically the time it took Logan to heal (Without Rowan to Holy Light as he was busy holding out Arthas and Kel'thuzad).

Even if it were not the case, I found Anub'arak to be the easiest to deal with by a far margin. Upgraded Siege Engines tear his air support into shreds while Nathan + Cannon Towers gets the rest of the job done. Something to make him more difficult to deal with on Hard Mode would not be bad IMO. Like loading him with Armor and Strength items to become the insane tank he could be at A Symphony of Frost and Flame. With Obsidian Statues behind.

Arthas has an Amulet of Spell Immunity, Mal'ganis has an Amulet of Spell Shield to block careless Ultimates, Sylvanas has Life Steal and Banshees, and Kel'thuzad is too frail to get anything worthwhile.

 

[Kolgosh]

Excellent campaign, maybe too easy at some points. Your style is very Blizzard-looking, and the sounds make it special! I hope you're gonna upload much more campaign in the next months.

PS: I don't think that the terrains are bad, the overall quality of the maps is really impressive. Keep on like this.

 

[Turnro]

Excellent campaign, maybe too easy at some points. Your style is very Blizzard-looking, and the sounds make it special! I hope you're gonna upload much more campaign in the next months.

PS: I don't think that the terrains are bad, the overall quality of the maps is really impressive. Keep on like this.

Happy to hear, Kolgosh

I look forward to releasing more high-quality content in the near future.

 

[Ahman]

hello turnro
i will give u 5/5 for this campaign
I like the music
you took it from majesty 2 XD but its fantastic!
I hope u make more campaigns!
thank you

 

[Turnro]

hello turnro
i will give u 5/5 for this campaign
I like the music
you took it from majesty 2 XD but its fantastic!
I hope u make more campaigns!
thank you

Good pickup with the music. Happy you enjoyed The Adventures of Rowan the Wise.

 

[istvan921]

I think that u should change your dwarf units with these ones,with respect u could seriously update the dwarwen models.

U should use these units made by Direfury

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/dwarven-workers-252827/

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/dwarven-infantry-252738/

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/models-530/dwarven-knights-252722/?prev=u=Direfury&r=20&page=2

 

[deepstrasz]

From what I remember of this, it was quite an experience. I remember not liking all of the voice acting but still it's a worthy campaign, overall.
Edit: I see there have been some updates on this.

 

[Atshiel]

Well..it may be too late since the re-upload, but i played this again(My pc broked and i lost all the save-data)and now i'm stuck in Chapter 7.....Sylvanas it's too strong xd, some tips maybe? also some strange happened, when i picked up the legendary item of Chapter 7 it instantly appeared "Victory" and that was like o.o, so it jumped to the Interlude and after that Chapter 8.

 

[Turnro]

Well..it may be too late since the re-upload, but i played this again(My pc broked and i lost all the save-data)and now i'm stuck in Chapter 7.....Sylvanas it's too strong xd, some tips maybe? also some strange happened, when i picked up the legendary item of Chapter 7 it instantly appeared "Victory" and that was like o.o, so it jumped to the Interlude and after that Chapter 8.

Really? I hope you don't do this to win the chapter next time lol

 

[Atshiel]

Really? I hope you don't do this to win the chapter next time lol

Actually, i replayed it, cause it wasn't funny to win this way lol, now i'm stuck in the Final Chapter and didn't find the Legendary item on that Chapter and.....it's too hard(for me)

 

[Daffa]

Final doesn't have legendary item AFAIR.

 

[Atshiel]

Final doesn't have legendary item AFAIR.

Really?Cause i saw that was said that all the chapters had a legendary item in Hard Mode, lol.

 

[Turnro]

Really?Cause i saw that was said that all the chapters had a legendary item in Hard Mode, lol.

You are close There are a total of 10 legendary items to find. The only difference is that you find two of these legendary items in either Chapter 6 or 8 (I don't really remember which mission, but I know it was a latter one).

 

[Atshiel]

You are close There are a total of 10 legendary items to find. The only difference is that you find two of these legendary items in either Chapter 6 or 8 (I don't really remember which mission, but I know it was a latter one).

I will quit searching if its on Chapter 6, i would not like to confront Sylvanas again in Chapter 7 lol <.<

 

[Fro]

in cinematics mode, some character are speak to fast, so i can't read it.(its hard to explain)

 

[Turnro]

in cinematics mode, some character are speak to fast, so i can't read it.(its hard to explain)

Hi Fro,

For this particular campaign, I'm afraid there is not much I can do to help you with this issue. If the dialogues were displayed for longer, they would become inconsistent with the characters' voice timings.

 

[MadmanGoneMad]

What's new here? Why is it back on top? What's the update all about?

 

[Turnro]

What's new here? Why is it back on top? What's the update all about?

The latest updates can be summed up below:

Updates

- The entire campaign has been polished. This includes, but not limited to, changes to terrain, cinematics, and in-game events
- New custom music throughout cinematics and gameplay
- The hotkeys for units, buildings, spell, etc, have been changed around the QWER composition. However, these hotkeys will have no affect on the game if Custom Hotkeys is enabled through the user profile
- New items to find, with extremely powerful legendary items to acquire in Hard difficulty
- All known cheats that give the player an unfair advantage have been disabled on Hard difficulty. If a cheat is used, the player will automatically lose the mission.
- Several bug fixes, including AI tweaks and problems with hero spells

 

[Atshiel]

Hey Turnro can i ask you to tell me the soundtracks of the Lich King fight?Because i don't find it(I saw credits already but in especific)

 

[kakuzu]

Hey Turnro , how about to add some legendary items in easy mode too ? Of course not as legendary as in hard mode but still

 

[Daffa]

Legendary Items are compensation for cheat removal.

 

[kakuzu]

Legendary Items are compensation for cheat removal.

I see but at least can i get a list with the legendary items from the campaign ?

 

[Turnro]

Hey Turnro can i ask you to tell me the soundtracks of the Lich King fight?Because i don't find it(I saw credits already but in especific)

The soundtrack used was the ending battle music from Majesty 2.

I see but at least can i get a list with the legendary items from the campaign ?

Yes, most legendary items can only be obtained in Hard difficulty unfortunately. However, here is the list of legendary items you can find:

Legendary Items List

- Gem of Regeneration (Chapter 1)
- Ring of Mastery (Chapter 2)
- Seal of Protection (Chapter 3)
- Swiftwalker Boots (Chapter 4)
- Mindstaff (Chapter 5)
- Runic Bracelet (Chapter 6)
- Axe of the Ages (Chapter 7)
- Sapphire Necklace (Chapter 8)
- Crusader Armor (Chapter 8)
- Talendar Skull Helm (Chapter 9, Normal difficulty)
- Blessed Crown of Kings (Chapter 9, Hard difficulty)

 

[killervapor]

Turnro i found a bug at 5th mission. Undead didn't destroyed the second gate completely so they were only attacking from 2 sides.Gate left with almost 1 HP

 

[kakuzu]

The soundtrack used was the ending battle music from Majesty 2.



Yes, most legendary items can only be obtained in Hard difficulty unfortunately. However, here is the list of legendary items you can find:

Legendary Items List

- Gem of Regeneration (Chapter 1)
- Ring of Mastery (Chapter 2)
- Seal of Protection (Chapter 3)
- Swiftwalker Boots (Chapter 4)
- Mindstaff (Chapter 5)
- Runic Bracelet (Chapter 6)
- Axe of the Ages (Chapter 7)
- Sapphire Necklace (Chapter 8)
- Crusader Armor (Chapter 8)
- Talendar Skull Helm (Chapter 9, Normal difficulty)
- Blessed Crown of Kings (Chapter 9, Hard difficulty)

Thank you Turnro . Good luck with your projects !

 

[Turnro]

Turnro i found a bug at 5th mission. Undead didn't destroyed the second gate completely so they were only attacking from 2 sides.Gate left with almost 1 HP

Interesting bug. Thanks for pointing it out

 

[Footman16]

The Icon for the Gem of Regeneration causes macs to crash; if you send me a link to it I can make you a Mac compatible version.

 

[Turnro]

The Icon for the Gem of Regeneration causes macs to crash; if you send me a link to it I can make you a Mac compatible version.

Was this in Normal version? I am interested in knowing this, as the Gem of Regeneration only drops in Hard difficulty.

Thank you for your offer, but there shouldn't be too many icons that's causing Macs to crash. Just let me know of any future icons you are having trouble with, and I'll fix them in the next patch.

 

[Footman16]

Was this in Normal version? I am interested in knowing this, as the Gem of Regeneration only drops in Hard difficulty.

I had it on Hard Difficulty, I've played and completed the campaign before so I was interested in seeing the latest updates and legendary items.

Thank you for your offer, but there shouldn't be too many icons that's causing Macs to crash. Just let me know of any future icons you are having trouble with, and I'll fix them in the next patch.

Wow, that's great, it's fantastic the sheer amount of effort you put into your campaigns and also just how willing you are to accommodate the few Mac users there are but to accommodate for them nevertheless.

EDIT: Robe of the Archmagi causes crash, chapter 6 dropped by the sludge fiends and the Runic Bracers, also chapter 6 found in a crate over the broken bridge.

 

[Blazethesage]

I'm only a few chapters in so far, but I do want to say - gameplay-wise, this campaign is pretty cool so far. However, I do have a few things I want to... comment on.

Namely why every not-already-evil character that is Canon to Warcraft lore given a completely randomly new personality? Stoic, loyal, intelligent, strong Uther is... randomly turned into an idiot who doesn't think twice about killing villagers because some lady told him to. Brilliant, wise, powerful Antonidas seems genuinely confused that Rowan thought he wasn't being a selfish, cowardly asshole.

While I can accept it being an alternate story, making such drastic, random changes to established characters within the setting just feels... disrespectful to Blizzard and the source material.

EDIT: And now, having beaten it on Normal, I want to say... the gameplay is fun. I'm going to be brutally honest about the rest.

Gameplay: It starts off with a neat twist, with the neat way to get your spells at first instead of the standard, though I admit I'm happy to see the standard form come in after the timeskip. It's an interesting choice in the early missions to have access to footmen and knights, and nothing else - you're basically given the choice of whether you want to bother teching up to Knights (except that one part where it's mandatory), but once you DO have access to knights, Footmen become completely obsolete. The Defense in Dalaran had that neat almost-tower-defense sorta thing, and once the third gate fell, you basically HAD to fall back from the first two gates, even if you're dominating the other two gates, simply because of positioning.

It was a nice touch seeing the modified tech trees for the Elves and Dwarves, though the Dwarves' complete lack of healing aside from Rowan and the Scepter kinda hurts (not that Rowan is in ANY way a slouch in the healing department, especially at high levels). That final level is all sorts of fun, though. Once I took out the five satellite bases, I ripped through that last center base with seven control groups' worth of troops from all three bases, and it was a SLAUGHTER.

The Lich King put up a surprisingly tough fight though, simply because of the omni-present heroes, and the seemingly-instant resurrect-timer for them. Speaking of heroes though, holy BALLS, do we get some crazy stuff at high levels. Rowan straight-up oneshots Scourge casters at max rank Holy Light, and can almost heal upgraded Knights completely. Divine Shield manages to be even MORE broken than usual by virtue of still being targettable, but simply not taking damage for the duration - though with its long cooldown, in dungeon-crawlers, he ironically feels very squishy, due to having no access to any type of heals outside of consumables (as you never have priests), and is on one occasion paired with a ranged hero, and in the other gets stuck in massive melee clusters. And that passive mana pool boost - I admit, I never switched him away from Devotion Aura, that defense boost is simply too good to pass up. The Archmage whose name I forget... I'll admit; I don't like Mage Armor. It acts like Frost Armor, so autocasting it gets it put on ANYBODY taking hits, mana pool or no - and leaving it off makes it feel too micromanage-y to be real competition with Brilliance Aura. Those Water Elementals, though - and Frostbolt is a nice extra. Bevan - oh GOD, Bevan. That AoE heal is RIDICULOUS in a huge crowd of, say, upgraded archers. Plus that ultimate? Oh god, he's a FANTASTIC hero-killer. Mr. Mysterious... he's a Blood Mage. Flamestrike is great against clusters of towers, or squishies in the back - and at max rank can wipe out a squad of casters entirely. And DEAR HOLY **** THAT PHOENIX. It's RIDICULOUS, and SILLY and I LOVE IT. Mountain King is... a Mountain King. He's a little ball of death and building-murder because for some reason he breaks buildings GOOD. Stormbolt is a VERY valuable tool - especially in that Labyrinth.

I don't know if that last Forgotten One by the exit is skippable or not (I didn't try), but holy god not being able to Melee it HURTS - it was a tough fight even without taking on that massive Faceless one at the same time, and spamming Stormbolt at it every opportunity.

As for Terrain, no complaints whatsoever. The terrain did its job well, and didn't feel bland or boring. Nice job.

Voice Acting: I'll just say it right out, I'm a huge snob when it comes to voice acting, so I'll admit, this part will be brief, but negative - because like I said, I'm a snob and a jerk like that, don't feel bad about it. Some of the voice acting I found tolerable - Rowan himself was among the better voices, if not the best. A lot of it was poorly acted, and some of it was downright painful to listen to. I'm looking at you, Nathan. There were times I actually hesitated to use his spells because it meant listening to his voice.

Plot: I... won't lie. This feels like bad fan-fiction to me. Between the rather un-ceremonious offing of Uther and turning him and several others COMPLETELY out of character, the character Bevan being implied to be the Ranger General (I looked at his annoyed quotes) instead of Sylvanas, Halduron, or hell, any other canon character, and the rise of Rowan from recruit, to veteran, to LEADER of the Silver Hand, and then what he gets promoted to at the very end of the campaign? Ouch. A lot of characters were done a major disservice here, and I... wasn't thrilled to see it. Uther, Antonidas, Akama (how the hell did he even get to Azeroth?), Mal'ganis (a Nathrezim suggesting SURRENDER? What the hell, man), and Daelin Proudmoore (Don't think I didn't catch what happened at the end there)... it feels bad, man.

At least Kel'thuzad, Sylvanas, and Anub'arak were kept true to form (not docking points for Sylvanas, because come on, it IS an alternate story, it's entirely reasonable to have her not break free) - if only because they were just there to be faces to oppose you. No new lines, just stuff ripped from the campaigns, which I was happy to see actually, because it worked well when it was used, and they provided interesting opposition. I'll fully admit I was not expecting that treasure vault to be guarded by Anub'arak! Simultaneously a pleasant and "oh shi-" surprise!

Also, Nathan the Mighty. Not sure if he's an idiot, a scumbag, or both. Combined with his voice acting left Stormbolt, Avatar and his demolish passive as his only redeeming features in any fashion. Well, that and his forces giving me access to Siege Engines and Gryphons on the final level.

 

[Footman16]

Hey Turnro, perhaps a few hints for the Blood Elf chapter? It's insanely difficult mainly due to a combination of:

1. Charm being spammed by Sylvanas even on Spell Breakers.

2. Life Drain being spammed by Sylvanas to the point it replaces her basic attack since it appears to have no cooldown.

3. Sylvanas being spammed by Sylvanas since she takes at most maybe 30 seconds to be resurrected at the base meaning you can't attack whilst she's down.

4. Attacks being spammed by Sylvanas, the waves are too strong and too frequent with Sylvanas accompanying every single one and if she doesn't join it immediately she later just runs up to join them.

5. Dragonhawks being completely ineffective and useless due to Web.

6. Spell Breakers being completely ineffective due to Abominations.

7. Priests and Sorceress being completely ineffective due to Meat Wagons and Frost Wyrms and Crypt Fiends.

8. Gold becomes an issue quite quickly especially when the Undead choose to attack your expansions.

The only thing you have going for you is Rowan and Logan, two very powerful heroes but they're not invincible and thus they are not enough to carry you through the mission since they do eventually go down due to the first 3 points above. Also Frost Breath and Frost Effects get through Rowan's Divine Shield kind of defeating the purpose of it and making it substantially less effective.

I have tried and tried and tried using every strategy I know under the sun but none have worked thus far, I'm by no means a noob at Warcraft either and so would appreciate some kind of hint, tip or even a condescending statement of how to beat the mission.

 

[Turnro]

I have tried and tried and tried using every strategy I know under the sun but none have worked thus far, I'm by no means a noob at Warcraft either and so would appreciate some kind of hint, tip or even a condescending statement of how to beat the mission.

You will be happy to know that there is a strategy you can use to beat this mission. Someone took the liberty of posting how to beat this mission in Hard difficulty in a post made in January-February this year in this forum

 

[pieps32]

I haven't finished yet, I'm on the last mission, but managing 3 bases at once looked a bit complicated so I decided to take a small break and write my review since I don't think this last chapter will change what I think about this campaign.

Let's begin with what makes this campaign so special in my opinion : the voice acting. It's so rare to have a completely voiced warcraft 3 custom campaign and the voice acting is actually ok. I really like Rowan's voice, very "paladin-like", a very calm yet determined voice. Most voices were quite good and I was actually really amazed how good the night and blood elves' voices were (too bad the night elves didn't play a bigger role). The "worst" voices in my opinion were Tara's (a bit too high pitched and artificial imo) and Nathan's (he sounds more stupid than dwarfish) but it isn't bothering and it's really just great that even the in game voices (when you click on a unit) are done too.

Then there is the other interesting thing in this campaign : the story. I was suprised when I started playing because I misunderstood the description, I thought this campaign was supposed to show us what happened in other places in the same timeline as the main campaign. So seeing Uther turning mad and the night elves being invaders was quite surprising and while the Uther idea was funny and just didn't find it fitting to the universe. But the rest of the story is good and I like it.

Now about the gameplay. The first levels seemed rather typical but then the missions became really interesting and had really good unique mechanics (city defense, complete dwarf race, the dungeon crawler like mission and the final one with 3 bases). Too bad the missions are too easy and do not need the new units. I began to play on normal but quickly changed to hard and even then it's not actually that hard because the heroes are damn OP. I could wipe out most bases with just Rowan and another hero, Rowan being near indestructible with the items he got and the other hero being constantly healed by Rowan's power you almost don't need other units. But overall I had a really good time and I feel like the missions are encouraging micro management of your units more than other campaigns.

A really solid campaign, can't wait to finish it and to play the other campaigns from this series

 

[Turnro]

I haven't finished yet, I'm on the last mission, but managing 3 bases at once looked a bit complicated so I decided to take a small break and write my review since I don't think this last chapter will change what I think about this campaign.

Let's begin with what makes this campaign so special in my opinion : the voice acting. It's so rare to have a completely voiced warcraft 3 custom campaign and the voice acting is actually ok. I really like Rowan's voice, very "paladin-like", a very calm yet determined voice. Most voices were quite good and I was actually really amazed how good the night and blood elves' voices were (too bad the night elves didn't play a bigger role). The "worst" voices in my opinion were Tara's (a bit too high pitched and artificial imo) and Nathan's (he sounds more stupid than dwarfish) but it isn't bothering and it's really just great that even the in game voices (when you click on a unit) are done too.

Then there is the other interesting thing in this campaign : the story. I was suprised when I started playing because I misunderstood the description, I thought this campaign was supposed to show us what happened in other places in the same timeline as the main campaign. So seeing Uther turning mad and the night elves being invaders was quite surprising and while the Uther idea was funny and just didn't find it fitting to the universe. But the rest of the story is good and I like it.

Now about the gameplay. The first levels seemed rather typical but then the missions became really interesting and had really good unique mechanics (city defense, complete dwarf race, the dungeon crawler like mission and the final one with 3 bases). Too bad the missions are too easy and do not need the new units. I began to play on normal but quickly changed to hard and even then it's not actually that hard because the heroes are damn OP. I could wipe out most bases with just Rowan and another hero, Rowan being near indestructible with the items he got and the other hero being constantly healed by Rowan's power you almost don't need other units. But overall I had a really good time and I feel like the missions are encouraging micro management of your units more than other campaigns.

A really solid campaign, can't wait to finish it and to play the other campaigns from this series

Happy to hear you enjoyed this campaign, pieps32

 

[Pr0nogo]

Surprised that you're still active after all this time. I'm prepared to re-voice anyone since it's been quite a long while and my previous takes were pretty lackluster, so shoot me a PM with the full script if you're still interested.

 

[Warseeker]

Well, What can I say ?... It just I wounderful campaign, I liked so much. Great job seriously

 

[savinguptobebroke]

Hello I enjoyed the campaign lots as much as blizzards to say the least . I felt like the difficulty was just right . 5/5
The only thing I have to say is that I wish the factions were more varied . e.g.
The basic melee unit for the elves , humans and dwarves were basically the same even their hp was the same .

 

[Locrito]

Terraining can be improved even more. But well, maybe that's just me, I'm just too picky in terraining.

Some levels (even in hard) could be completed by only using the heroes. (Maybe that's just because I used to play in w3arena, so that improved my micro a lot. xD)

I still don't understand why Uther became nuts. xD

*SPOILER ALERT*
In the finale, at the end, who killed who? D': Rowan to Terenas? Or Proudmoore to Terenas? D': I'm guessing Proudmoore, since Rowan doesn't have a Sword (sounded like one.)

Anyways, too much blabbery. 5/5 my friend, really enjoyed this campaign. I'm replaying all of your campaigns to see how much did their quality improve.

 

[whitestorm7890]

Go home uther, you're drunk

 

[The_Lich_King]

Best Custom campaign ever.

 

[Svetli]

Very nice campaign. My rating is 5/5.

 

[MC_HeartAttack]

Did you voice Rowan yourself?

 

[Turnro]

Did you voice Rowan yourself?

Yes I did. Why do you ask?

 

[Cylian]

5 over 5. Hard to get that from me, but ... you deserved it.

 

[Turnro]

This campaign has been updated to fix some bugs and issues reported over the last year. Perhaps the main issue resolved was the rare occurrence of the player automatically losing the game while playing on Hard difficulty. In the end, I fixed this by removing most of the anti-cheat systems from the campaign (now only WhosYourDaddy remains).

You can view the change-log for the most recent patch here:

Version 4.3 Patch Notes

- The following characters have had their voice overs redone:
Lord Nicholas Buzan, Demon Summoner, Orc Bladesmaster, and Orc Raider
- Most Anti-Cheat systems have been removed. The player will now only instantly lose in Hard difficulty if ‘WhosYourDaddy’ is used
- Fixed a bug in Chapter 7 where the different boss phases with Arthas would not run when expected
- Fixed an item crashing issue on Mac computers from the new items added into the game from Patch 4.0
- Resolved an issue where the Night Elf attacks would be delayed as their forces would often get stuck inside their base
- Fixed a bug in Chapter 5 where the second gate to Dalaran would not get destroyed, blocking off Undead reinforcements
- Reverted the Hold Position hotkey back to H
- All Undead bases will now send constant attacks to the player in Chapter 10 Hard difficulty
- Added slightly more gold to the gold mines in Chapters 2, 4, 7 & 8
- Added new altar building models to the Dwarf and Blood Elf sub-factions
- Altered the statistics of Swordsmen and Guardians to make them more unique from Footman
- Re-added the Blood Elf/Dwarf building hints to Chapters 7 & 8
- Flesh Golems now have an anti-air attack
- The main bandit in Chapter 1 will now drop a healing potion in Hard difficulty
- Re-added +1 weapon and armor upgrades for the High Elves in Chapter 3
- Changed the legendary item location in Chapter 4 Hard difficulty

In addition, I have created my first YouTube video! It is a preview of the first chapter of The Adventures of Rowan the Wise. As I am big on self improvement, I am always interested in what you think so I can improve my future videos for my other campaigns: