Micro Arena v4.12

The following are the fixes made in version 2a made by either Tifa_Lockhart or yoda_24.

Spirit Walker Spirit Walkers no longer count as units that count towards your army when they are in etheral form. If you only have etheral Spirit Walkers left, you will lose. This prevents people from stalling with etheral spirit walkers.

Infernal If an Infernal is summoned it will no longer cause a bug in the game causing it to either think no one has won or wait until the timer reaches zero to declare a winner.

Tinker The Goblin Tinker has been added to the heroes you can make. Have fun with him :P

Banning Players The person who sets the rules for each tournament may ban a person by saying #ban##. The second ## is the number of the player.

Surrender This was in the old version but there was no mention of it. You can surrender by typing surrender.

This is a list of many of the balance changes to make the map less rigged: - Militia changed to unarmored armor type. - Tauren Spiritwalker's Ancestral Spirit spell's cost raised to 380. - Ethereal Don't Count but if you're spiritwalker is ressurecting a tauren he will continue. - Naga Royal Guard Crushing Wave removed. - All Draenai armor increased.

Balances made by TM-Magic in 4.01. (Tifa/Yoda made some more versions, but I can't get my hands on them so I fixed somethings myself.) ------------------------------------------------------ Polymorph, duration is set to 50 seconds from 60. Banshees food cost set back to 2, but possess costs 300mp instead of 250mp and takes 6 secs to cast instead of 4.5sec Flying Machine Nerfed slightly, cooldown for air attack is set to 2.20 from 2.00 and ground attack is set to 2.70 from 2.50. (aka attacks slightly slower). 4.02 Balances ---------------------------- Dryad attack rate also slightly nerfed, cooldown raised from 2.00 to 2.20. 4.03 Balances -------------------------------------- Polymorph nerfed to 45 seconds. Militia armortype set back to heavy from unarmored but have 0 armor instead of 10. Banshee Possessing has shortened cast range, initially 350 range, now 280 range. Serpent wards cost a tad more mana (initially 30mp at all levels, now lvl 1 = 30mp, Lvl 2 = 34mp, lvl 3 = 40mp. 4.04 Balances --------------------------------------- Due to complaints, banshees were Nerfed even further. Their possess range is now 200 from 280, initially 350. 4.05 Balances -------------------------------- Banshees were nerfed AGAIN, Cast range of possess reset back to 350 from 200, mana cost of possess set back to 250 from 300, however, banshees now take 2.2x normal damage when in the process of possessing instead of 1.66x and the max creep level was lowered to 3 from 5 (means things like tauren, abomination, knight, and other big units can no longer be possessed).

4.06 Balances ------------------------------------- ™Polymorph further nerfed (still lots of complaints), lasts 40 seconds from 45seconds (originally 60 seconds), and cast range lowered from 500 to 400. ™Banshees were mesesd with again, hopefully for good. They're max unit target was set to 3 previously, now set back to the original 5, however, they take 3.5x normal damage while possessing instead of 2.2x set previously and from 1.66x initially. 4.07 Balanced ------------------------------ ™Banshees now take 5 seconds to cast possess instead of 6 set previously and 4.5 sec set initially, however, take 4.2x damage instead of 3.5 set previously. ™Wisps detonate now has 2x the effect (damage to summons, destroying mana, bigger area). 4.08 Balanced ------------------------------ ™Sorceress Polymorph now requires a range of 350 from 400 and initially 500, and lasts for 30 seconds from 45 and initially 60 sec. ™Banshee Possess now requires 200 cast range from 350, and amplifed damage was brought down from 4.2x to 3.4x while cast time was raised from 5 secs to 6.5 seconds. ™Engineer Robo-Goblin was nerfed slightly, Strength (lvl1 = 2, lvl2 = 3, lvl3 = 4, lvl4 = 5), and armor (lvl1 = 0, lvl2 = 1, lvl3 = 1, lvl4 = 2). ™Tutorial added. 4.09 -------------------- ™Arena change

4.10 Balances ------------------------------------- Dreadlord Inferno - Has an added 4 second cast time and only lasts 2.5 minutes instead of 3. Crypt Fiend - Burrow no longer gives 5 hp regen (which is rediculous), now its just normal (2.00 while on blight). Dryad - Attack cooldown changed from 2.00 to 2.30. Spirit Walker - Has 300 hp in eatheral form instead of 500. Chance to miss on hills is now 35% instead of the normal 25%. (Note: Some of these changes arn't because something is overpowered, but just to add more micro to the match). Warden - Instead of 2.4 str and 1.6 agi a level, warden gets 2.0 str and 2.0 agi. This is to make her easier to kill when you have her in your grasps. 4.10 Balances ------------------------------------- Dreadlord's Inferno was reset to normal, but the inferno unit itself was nerfed - damage lowered to 38 from 48, attack cooldown from 1.35 to 1.65 (slower attack speed), and 2 armor instead of 6. Firelord and Alchemist added Goblin Sapper - Buffed Kaboom! - Raised full damage from 250 to 300 and partial damage radius from 250 to 300. Spirit Walker Fixed - Was reset, but now has 250 hp from 500 and 2.55 attack cooldown from 2.75 while in Physical Form.

4.12 Balances -------------------------------------- Sapper - Kaboom! damage increased by 25 again, (250 originally, now 325). Mechanical classification added. Mountain Giant - Attack cooldown increased to 2.80 from 2.50. Shadow Hunter - Serpent Ward mana set back to normal (spell and hero are now set back to wc3 standard) Dreadlord - Inferno's duration was reduced by another 30 seconds, from 180 initially to 120 now. Warden - Str and Agi was set back to normal (back to 2.4 str from 2.0, and 1.6 str from 2.0). Shadowstrike now lasts 10 seconds on heroes instead of 15 (still lasts 15 on normal units). Blink mana cost increased from 10 to 15 at level 2 and level 3. Blood Mage - Siphon mana durration reduced from 6 to 5 on heroes (still the normal 6 on units), and cooldown increased from 6 to 8 seconds. Spirit Walker - Physical form hp increased to 350 from 250 and initially 500, Ethereal form hp lowered to 350 from 500. Banshees - Looked at once again, cast time increased to 6secs from 5 and initially 4.5 secs.

Tutorial - Basics Part I -------------------------- These rules are the very basics of micro. Knowing these basics will drastically change your gameplay. 1Target Damaged Units First. 2Remove Damaged Units from Combat. 3Never Chase a unit for the Kill (there are some circumstances when its ok). 4Don't forget to use Unit Abilities - KNOW WHAT THEY DO. 5Know Who to Target. (Usually CASTERS first, RANGED second, and MELEE last). 6Know Armor Types. (Know that Siege deals extra to unarmored and heavy armor takes extra from magic, ect) Keeping these few things in mind will help a lot, remember micro is all about winning, don't give a shit about being "cheap", just deminstrate your skills.