Yet another TFT Beta Patch: 315

Blizzard released another TFT Beta patch, patch 315. It includes some major changes, just see for yourself:

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WARCRAFT III BETA VERSION HISTORY
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- BETA PATCH 315
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2003-JUN-10

Maps:
Two Rivers - Miscellaneous improvements to creep and start location balance

Changes to Neutral Buildings, Units and Heroes:

- Forest Troll Shadow Priests have had their starting availability delayed
by 60 seconds to 120 seconds.
- The Beastmaster now has a smaller "footprint" or collision size - 32
down from 48.

Undead Changes:
- Spirit Touch now replenishes 4 mana per casting, down from 5.
- Spirit Touch and Essence of Blight now affect a maximum of 6 units per
casting. Note that multiple obsidian statues can be used together to
heal a larger number of units.
- The Tomb of Relics now sells dust of appearance, but no longer sells
clarity potions.
- Devour Magic now heals 50 hitpoints per spell devoured, up from 25, and
75 mana, up from 50.

Human Changes:
- Lumber Mill cost reduced to 120 from 145.
- Lumber upgrade effect doubled to +10 lumber capacity per level of
upgrade, up from +5 lumber capacity per level of upgrade.
- Human masonry upgrade cost reduced to 100/25, 125/50 and 150/75 from
100/100, 125/175, 175/250.
- Guard Towers and Arcane Towers now cost 70/50 to upgrade, down from
80/60.
- Mortar Teams now have a limitless supply of flares, but they can only
use one flare every 2 minutes.
- Gyrocopter air to air damage increased to 12-13 from 7-8
- Gryphon Aviary cost reduced to 140/150 from 170/190
- Dragonhawks are now correctly a level 3 unit instead of a level 5
unit. This only impacts the experience gained when they are killed.

Night Elf Changes:
- Archer hitpoints reduced to 240 from 300.
- Archers now have a new passive ability, Elune's Grace. This ability
grants them 35% damage reduction against piercing attacks, and 20% damage
reduction against spells.
- Hippogryph Rider hitpoints reduced to 765 from 825 and armor increased
to 1 from 0.
- Huntress hitpoints increased to 600 from 575.


Orc Changes:
- The Voodoo Lounge now sells clarity potions, but no longer sells dust of
appearance.
- Wyvern damage reduced to 36-44 from 39-47.
- Wyvern poison now deals 4 damage a second up from 3.3 damage a second.
- Wyvern speed reduced to 320 from 350.
- Batriders no longer require a fortress to build.
- Spirit Link cost reduced to 75 from 100.
- The Tauren Chieftan now has a smaller "footprint" or collision size -
32 down from 48.

Other:
- If a player owns only one hero (dead heroes count), and is at tier 2 or
tier 3, they gain bonus experience of 10% for tier 2 and 20% for tier 3.
This affects all experience gain - both creeping and killing enemy units.

They better do a beta patch 315a and the only change it does is renaming the Destoryer! WORSE. NAME. CHANGE. EVER!:nono:

dude, humans definitely got the better part of this patch

agree

I like the humans changes too, but i hate the name destroyer!

What are you guys smoking? It's been destroyer for like 8 patches.

Good Point, DataAngel...

I love the "Other" fixes!! 10% for Tier 2 if you have one hero and 20% for Tier 3 if you have one hero!

THAT IS SO COOL BECAUSE I NEVER GET MORE THAN ONE HERO EXEPT WHEN I USE KotG AND PotM!!!

AHHH so cool!

Night Elves get nerfed again!!! oh and in TFT being night elves is a bad idea Undead-Swarm, because NE got ruined already.

I cant remember the last time the NE got better from a patch.:reallyang:

On the up side the Humans got the most out of it this time. (insted of the orcs)

and some magazines say that TFT is finished and released on 1st june...

lol it has gone gold weeks ago (= it's being shipped to stores etc) and yes it will be available the first of July, not June..

I wouldn't say they really got nerfed... Definitly not better, but I think it evens out...

Both the Archer and the Hippogryph lost 60HP, but the Archer now takes 35% less pierce damage and 20% less magic damage, and the Hippogryph now has a better Armor Rating, so it takes less damage too... That's almost even, I think...

Plus, the Huntress got an extra 25HP, and a lot of people (at least in WC3, I don't have the beta, so I could be wrong) use Huntresses almost exclusively...

"Plus, the Huntress got an extra 25HP, and a lot of people (at least in WC3, I don't have the beta, so I could be wrong) use Huntresses almost exclusively..."

No, not most people... If I remember correctly huntresses are CHEAPER (175 gold and some wood) but I think their armor is Unarmored(I know this is PROLLY wrong) and their attack is weaker than in Retail Warcraft 3...

But hey, balancing with Huntress finaly fixes pure-huntress players and makes them use some archers (the poor, underused archers) as backup for their more quicky dying huntresses!

Undead-Swarm

It is all true, Hunts have been ruined too.

very nice!