The Founding of Durotar: Enhanced

[raypack]

Interesting

 

[Re uben]

Sorry just to ask if anychance you can made Rokhan wear his voodo mask

 

[deepstrasz]

I feel there might be more stuff to credit: Resources in use by The Founding of Durotar: Enhanced
Also don't forget external things please.

 

[AeroHydro]

Becoming an agile or intelligent shooter is indeed a novel experience. It would be greater if the other three brothers also have some room for choice, otherwise the gameplay experience is still close to the original version, where Chen is still core of the team.

 

[onemore-]

Nice Campaign

 

[Trailblazer]

The customisation options for Rexxar are really well made, most are balanced with a few exceptions like the fury warrior having 100% cleave damage with lvl 4 cleave. Would have been nice to have the ability to customise Carine, Rokhan or Chen a bit but having it like this still gives the feeling that you are basically playing the original which is nice

 

[Lang]

I want to share some point.
-Rexxar class that has skill Cleave is really strong in this campaign.
-The item artifact reincarnate bugging, if already reincarnated and the hero still carry that item and died again. It disappear and the hero not revived at resurrection stone. If the item drop after reincarnate, that will not make hero disappear
-I not really sure that I already discover all artifact. Most artifact on chapter 1 are useful for early game.
-Kinda not feel big difference, only custom Rexxar and several new items. The rest still feel the same.

 

[Gulla1999]

This is something i have been looking for an enhanced campaign on Rexxar Founding of Durotar. Warseeker always delivers some quality products.

 

[deepstrasz]

Level 2 Metamorphosis says 0 HP.

Anyways, nice edit. However, abilities are regular ones. Nothing fancy overall, just some replayability value added. Classes are purely gameplay mechanics not influencing the story in any way from what I can tell.

Approved.

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[muaddib]

i enjoyed the option you can customize rexxar. the story is of course the same, but it was nice to tinker around all those classes and specs! rexxar's survivability seems to alter a bit , so its a nice challenge too. the custom models and new random loot were nice to enjoy too. and kudos to the added epilogue as well. nice job

 

[fran bel]

Im goint to play this in yt!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr.Tic]

Love the concept, feels like this is how this campaign should have been Adds replayability and roleplaying to this RPG-esque campaign.

What it really needs now, would be a balance patch. Many of the abilities are very weak, which means they don't scale well into late game, and are also not balanced well between eachother. This makes some classes way worse than others. For example, Shaman Healer's Q (lvl 4 heals for 800 during 12 sec) is nothing compared to Healing Wave that your troll companion has, and the Spirit Link also isn't that good in 99% of the campaign, I'd wager. Some tooltips need fixing, like Shaman-Elementalist's R (Monsoon) lvl1 and lvl2 both say 50 damage, so it's same as Starfall that the Marksman has, only limited to a smaller AoE.. I didn't test it yet, but I hope it would do more damage on lvl 2, and more damage than the huge AoE that Starfall is.
I think probably all Rogue types are just subpar as well. The Assasin Rogue, the one with poison spells, has 2 spells that are basically the same, and the ultimate is really disappointing (-8hp/sec in an AoE), looks weaker than basic spells.
Another example is Command Aura (40%) vs Trueshot Aura (50%) - the Command Aura here is way better because it'll work on melee units, compared to the 10% more from Trueshot which doesn't works only on ranged resulting it to be an overall weaker buff.


Consider that there are Spell Immunity items, which, of course, are almost a must to collect, but many spells that are cast of self or other heroes, will be useless if you do have those items. So, another thing to think about would be making those buff spells be able to target spell-immune friendly units, same as Healing Wave already does.

What it needs IMO are ability tweaks/revamps that would make the spells viable both early and late game, meaning at least scaling the numbers should be changed, including mana costs.

Unrelated to abilities, I've noticed weirdly balanced enemies in Act2 starting map - some enemies are the same as in Act1 while they should probably have a much higher attack damage, like the rest in Act2 have. I honestly don't know if it's an oversight from the vanilla campaign, but it's something you might want to change purely if you feel like it, as it's nothing really important.

Oh yes, one more thing: Rexxar's stat growth per level - now I'm not sure about this due to lack of testing, but it seems his stat growth might be the same as in Vanilla, which is ok for Strength-based classes, but Agility and Intelligence based ones will not be on par then. As I'm saying, I didn't test all the classes to see if it's tweaked accordingly. For now I can say that my Marksman simply has loads of Str, and very little Agility, despite him being Agility based, and me buying loads of Agility tomes for him

Hopefully you continue to improve on the campaign, I'm looking forward to complete the campaign with the Marksman and then with some other classes as well

 

[LegaRoSS]

Wish it was in HD =(

 

[chaipun]

It was too hard to play death kinght class because other hero aren't undead and must of death knight skill need to play with other undead units ex. death coil to heal your undead friends , Death Pact and Dark Ritual that Sacrifices a friendly Undead and reanimated skill has long cooldown. It will be better if change reanimated to Raise Dead and make death coil , Death Pact and Dark Ritual can use to all unit

 

[Johnny WoW]

A complaint or bug that I have is that in the first mission after collecting the emerald herbs, when trying to return to Drek'thar I go through the portal and the game kicks me out of the campaign, I have tried it many times and it is still the same, is there any recommendations please it's a bit annoying

 

[Warseeker]

A complaint or bug that I have is that in the first mission after collecting the emerald herbs, when trying to return to Drek'thar I go through the portal and the game kicks me out of the campaign, I have tried it many times and it is still the same, is there any recommendations please it's a bit annoying

What is your warcraft 3 version?

 

[Johnny WoW]

What is your warcraft 3 version?

The... 1.27 versión

 

[Warseeker]

The... 1.27 versión

It is recommended that you play this campaign on patch 1.29.

 

[chaipun]

in Act 2 when rexxa death he not reincarnated and all of his item drop to the ground , so i try to enter to another map raxxa return but his class change from warrior back to beastmaster.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Rexxar tale - good old Rexxar tale. Thousand times have seen, thousand times has something to offer.
Your attempt, @Warseeker, is not bad - you use your cool feature from the Legacy of Lordaeron campaign and smash it into the Rexxar story, so now we can properly imagine how Rexxar would be if he weren't a hunter at all.
I'm playing as a shaman and it's nice and smooth.

Looking forward to see how it will eventually end, so I will update this humble review in coming future.
Thank you for continuing to deliver sweet things.

I like this campaign and recommend it to anyone, who cannot push himself to replay the Rexxar campaign for 201 times again but wants it anyway, but with flavor changes.

 

[Ardenaso]

vanilla rexxar beastmaster could be made more exciting/fun, like perhaps add unit upgrades to Misha and Quilbeast and they get upgraded on certain quest completion, and then command aura could be replaced by a passive skill that adds and upgrades abilities to Misha, Quilbeast, and the Stampede Lizards

 

[jindo12]

question, why is the campaign not showing in the menu?

 

[Ravager16829]

question, why is the campaign not showing in the menu?

Please provide your game version. Warseeker said version 1.29 is required to play this campaign.

 

[jindo12]

Please provide your game version. Warseeker said version 1.29 is required to play this campaign.

1.30

 

[Ravager16829]

1.30

Did you put the campaign file in the correct path? Campaign must be placed in "Documents\Warcraft III\Campaigns".

If that trick still doesn't work, you have to re-download the campaign again.

 

[Elrath]

Hey so I finished act 1 but there isn't an option for act 2. is there a fix for this?

 

[pacer]

It appears Rexxar's unit "type" is not correctly changed. Here I selected a ranged Rexxar but he always goes to the melee line, taking unecessary damage.

 

[Warseeker]

Hey so I finished act 1 but there isn't an option for act 2. is there a fix for this?

What patch are you playing on?

It appears Rexxar's unit "type" is not correctly changed. Here I selected a ranged Rexxar but he always goes to the melee line, taking unecessary damage.

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Must be a Reforged bug. I haven't had time to test this campaign on Reforged. It's recommended that you play it on patch 1.29.

 

[The Nightmare Book]

Rexxar tale - good old Rexxar tale. Thousand times have seen, thousand times has something to offer.
Your attempt, @Warseeker, is not bad - you use your cool feature from the Legacy of Lordaeron campaign and smash it into the Rexxar story, so now we can properly imagine how Rexxar would be if he weren't a hunter at all.
I'm playing as a shaman and it's nice and smooth.

Looking forward to see how it will eventually end, so I will update this humble review in coming future.
Thank you for continuing to deliver sweet things.

I like this campaign and recommend it to anyone, who cannot push himself to replay the Rexxar campaign for 201 times again but wants it anyway, but with flavor changes.

The Founding of Durotar: Enhanced

Founding of Durotar: Enhanced, as the title says, is an improved version of the original campaign featuring new models, abilities, and music.

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I had completed it and I can say that the campaign is mostly Rexxar-styled, but sometimes I felt unbalanced and unfair.
I played it as Rexxar-Enhancement Shaman, which is kind of neat representation of core gameplay (albeit I wanted to have, for example, some crowd control or non-channeling version of Earthquake), farming whole main maps & dungeons that made my heroes nearly unkillable.
Kor'gal is designed for Rexxar-hunter gameplay, so I think you can revise some moments of this boss battle for other non-summon Rexxar types, cause:

• We don't have items for duel, we can only pray for storm lizards and rune summoning
• Korghal has a divine shield, ghost wolves (they are weak), and healing wards!
• He just hits like a trunk.

Overall I liked usage of @bakr (?) models for Kul-Tiras Nation and additional dungeons are nice, yet short and quite useless.
An epilogue is kinda "rush to Thrall and watch cinematic for 6 minutes".

In conclusion, I liked this version of Rexxar. It adds something that the original campaign captured but didn't finish.
Variability.

 

[Elrath]

What patch are you playing on?

Must be a Reforged bug. I haven't had time to test this campaign on Reforged. It's recommended that you play it on patch 1.29.

Oh I'm not sure.... I just added it to the custom campaign and started playing. so Im assuming 2.0

How do I change patch?

 

[Ravager16829]

Oh I'm not sure.... I just added it to the custom campaign and started playing. so Im assuming 2.0

How do I change patch?

Please refrain Warseeker's post. You need 1.29 for the stable gameplay.
Here's a download link for pre-Reforged versions of WC3: WC3 Download Archive (1.00 - 1.31.1 + BETA & DEMO)

 

[pacer]

In the valley of spears, some artifacts are erroneously shown as shadow orbs. Reforged bug?

 

[Ravager16829]

In the valley of spears, some artifacts are erroneously shown as shadow orbs. Reforged bug?

Again, please refrain Warseeker's post. This campaign hasn't been tested yet for Reforged. For the stable gameplay, play it on 1.29.

 

[Warseeker]

In the valley of spears, some artifacts are erroneously shown as shadow orbs. Reforged bug?

Again, please refrain Warseeker's post. This campaign hasn't been tested yet for Reforged. For the stable gameplay, play it on 1.29.

I don't think this one is tied to Reforged but rather to the Object Data. Since Blizzard store their maps' objects data (units, items, abilities etc...) within the Object Editor for each map individually rather than the Campaign Editor which is shared between all the maps, it is possible that the data from those maps didn't transfer into this map (Valley of Spears) which is why they're displayed incorrectly.

 

[cuong vu]

10 unique items to obtain right? i play severel time but just find 2

 

[Warseeker]

10 unique items to obtain right? i play severel time but just find 2

They have a very low chance to drop from a random hostile unit.

 

[cuong vu]

They have a very low chance to drop from a random hostile unit.

Yes have some powerfull item i have

• +300 hp and 10 amor
• +5 all stat and have berserk
• +6 agi and 15% evasion
• add ability like tauren respawn

 

[ArgentDawn1234]

Hello Warseeker, can you show me the 10 unique items to obtain in Hard?
Also do I have to adjust difficulty for every map?

 

[ArgentDawn1234]

Another question: About the unique items, can you have 2 or more in 1 submap?

 

[Warseeker]

Hello Warseeker, can you show me the 10 unique items to obtain in Hard?

Spoiler

• Amulet of Foul Warding
• Petrified Scarab
• Creeping Vine Helm
• Necklace of Purity
• Wand of Nobility
• Gauntlets of Kalimdor
• Ring of the Martyr
• Boots of Epiphany
• Cloak of Clarity
• Death's Sting

Also do I have to adjust difficulty for every map?

No.

Another question: About the unique items, can you have 2 or more in 1 submap?

Yes, some maps drop more than 1 unique item.

 

[ArgentDawn1234]

Yes, some maps drop more than 1 unique item.

OK, so this means that some maps will have no unique items at all? Is there a limit for the number of them in every act?

 

[Warseeker]

OK, so this means that some maps will have no unique items at all? Is there a limit for the number of them in every act?

Yes, some maps don't drop unique items (those without creep respawn to be precise) I don't remember about the limit but I think each act has about 3 items it it.

 

[ArgentDawn1234]

Hello Warseeker, I'm playing as Frost Death Knight, it seems that Howling Blast doesn't reduce armor like in description

 

[Warseeker]

Hello Warseeker, I'm playing as Frost Death Knight, it seems that Howling Blast doesn't reduce armor like in descriptionView attachment 573684View attachment 573685

Interesting. It's been 2 years since I last updated this campaign. I'll come back to fixing it eventually.

 

[ArgentDawn1234]

Interesting. It's been 2 years since I last updated this campaign. I'll come back to fixing it eventually.

Thanks. Also, will you fix Cairne's skill points issue as well? He is lacking about 2-3 skill points

 

[Warseeker]

Thanks. Also, will you fix Cairne's skill points issue as well? He is lacking about 2-3 skill points

I believe this issue was also present in the original campaign. I'll fix that as well.

 

[K1lu4]

I believe this issue was also present in the original campaign. I'll fix that as well.

That would be awesome! By the way, you made me buy the game again after so many years kind sir, any eta on when the patch will be out?
I'll be playing this weekend.
Another quick one, going back to 1.29 is still needed?

Thx again for upgrading my favorite campaign of my favorite game!

 

[Ravager16829]

That would be awesome! By the way, you made me buy the game again after so many years kind sir, any eta on when the patch will be out?
I'll be playing this weekend.
Another quick one, going back to 1.29 is still needed?

Thx again for upgrading my favorite campaign of my favorite game!

Apparently, you can also play this campaign on 1.31, though you may expect some bugs and issues with that version. It's still partially stable, unlike Reforged.

Link for getting pre-Reforged WC3: WC3 Download Archive

 

[Warseeker]

That would be awesome! By the way, you made me buy the game again after so many years kind sir, any eta on when the patch will be out?
I'll be playing this weekend.
Another quick one, going back to 1.29 is still needed?

Thx again for upgrading my favorite campaign of my favorite game!

Hopefully soon. I'm updating Legacy of Lordaeron right now. When I'm done with it, I'll probably take some time to update this one.
You should be able to play this campaign on patch 1.29 up to the latest version.