Mysterious Icon(s)

Due to Wc3's little icons, sometimes I've had problems identifying exactly what a particular icon stood for.

Now, over the years, I've been able to use cool programs like War3Viewer or Magos Model Editor to 'blow them up', and I've figured out a bunch of them (like "Mount Hippogryph"; never got that one. :P).


Anyone help a brudda out here? Personally, I've always thought it looked like a sand dune being blown away by some wind/magic, uncovering skeletal fossile remains of something. That, or going with the actual spell name, some orangey-magic blasting something to a skeleton?...
See what I mean?

*high fives* That's what I always thought too =P

looks to me like a summon getting ripped down to a skeleton and the rest blowing away.

For me, it's sort of what you said. It looks like a dinosaur's jaw fossil, and only part of it is revealed while the rest is hidden in the sand. But if I remember correctly, since the spell revives units, it would make sense that it is some sort of fossil/remain.

You remember incorrectly (YRIC), rofl.

Disenchant is the AoE Dispel of the Orcs; the Adept-lvl spell of the Spirit Walker (with Spirit Link being Initiate, and Ancestral Spirit being Master).

I always thought it was a skeletal minion being blown to bits.

I think it's supposed to be reminiscent of the old Exorcism spell from Warcraft II.

Exorcism from Warcraft II

If you look at the orc campaigns, they've got a lot of barren dunes with skeletons of giant animals poking out. I think this is one of those skeletons being sand-blasted of all the magic left in it.

first, on the current subject:

Tooltip of disenchant: "Removes all buffs from units in a target area. |n|cffffcc00Deals <Adcn,DataB1> damage to hostile summoned units.|r"
so maybe you can interpret the disenchant icon as a unit getting 'cleansed' of magic stuff - the magic stuff is 'evaporating'; OR a summon getting disintegrated. former seems more fitting. intuitively i always considered summon damage to be like a side effect...


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you know the crit strike icon? the red one? i never got it until today (coincidence that u made this topic just now also).

i always thought it was some grip or a muscle/tendon, an object that extends along the plane of the screen. i always saw it in this orientation.

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i just realized, today, after inspection in wc3viewer as you did, that it is actually a sword (turned red coz it is 'CRIT!') slashing through armor: armor extends on a plane diagonal to the plane of the screen and sword extends on a plane perpendicular to it! so, the grey/black stuff is armor, and the red curvy thing close to the left side is a sword!

all these years of looking at that uicon and wondering wtf is that is that a muscle or something what, then today... i finally know!

I see two things from the critical strike icon.

1. A high-speed spinning or moving object (dunno why)
2. An open wound

And your diagram is much less clear than the icon.

Honestly I never got that icon either, it appears to be a beaky skull of some description being bombarded with energy. The lack of colour contrast doesn't help clarify things at all :P
Of course, it looks cool, it's just unfathomable as to what it actually is.

There needs to be a WC3C competition...

"Pick one of these unclear icons and then recreate it using the same or close and similar theme and colour scheme to convey its idea with clarity, something they are in desperate need of."

Even if it's just two icons, a lot could come of it.

Crap, mistaken it for Ancestral Spirit :(

This icon is used in World of Warcraft, it's like the critical strike one, but is more "clear" to look

Here is what I can get from it.

The eye socket, a 'cheek' (forgot the bone name), broken teeth, the nose, and half-jaw.



It looks to me like a summoned skeleton being crushed by magic.