Most overpowered unit in a game??/ - Page 45

On January 05 2011 19:58 Akash wrote:



That game was so sick and fun,i'm sad it really didnt evolved into a bigger comunity and go for tournaments.The problem was that the guys who made them,when making the next game,Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria was turned into a TBS game and stripped much of its content.
But no.Those weren't the most OP things in Warlords Battlecry 3.

The most OP stuff in Warlords Battlecry 3 were the heroes themselves.And the campaign training thingie.
To what "campaign training thingie " im reffering too? After u did some missions in the campaign (for the High Elves or Fey) u could unlock the Fey Queen or High Elf Moonking.And they could train u for gold (which u earned as reward for doing missions).
But here is the interesting part.In the campaign there was also a Marketplace,were u could sell hero items for that gold.

Items came from 3 sources.Enemy AI heroes (which always dropped 1),enemy creep shrines (after u destroyed them) and crafting.
Crafting was available to 2 schools of magic:Rune magic and Alchemy.
Rune magic had a spell to spawn 1 of the 5 set Runic set (which sold for a hefty sum) and Alchemy had the Create Item spell which could potentially spawn any item in game if u had enough time and skill with that school of magic.

Do u see the line of tought here? Enter melee game,use all mana (and mana pots,each hero had 5 in a game) on spawning items,get the best ones ,leave game,enter campaign,sell items and go train urself for experience.
The gain rate of experience was bigger then actually killing stuff.I mean u still needed to finish missions to lvl up,but the "farming gold for getting trained" worked togeter.

And repeat that for hundred of games and then the real fun started.

I had a 280 Undead Tinker and my bro had a 350 Knight Runemaster.
Considering that it took u like to get any hero class to lvl 40 in a week (and lvls were gained harder and harder),imagine how much time u had to play to actually get your heroes to those lvls whitout using that method.
At that lvl the only thing that could kill u were other enemy heroes (if corectlly geared/corect skills) or enemy starting towers (which scaled with ur lvl).
Dragons/Titans could only finish u off if u were severelly wounded.

@kuresuti: The things u described up were a problem only for less then 100 lvl heroes.What does it matter if he was Summoner and spawned 10 Daemons and i had +20 into Critical Cleave (or critical pierce) and kill a Daemon in 3 sec?

Also,the higher your hero lvl means your starting tower lvl is also high.And he cant just run in to kill u.

And things like Call Lightning were a joke at high hero lvl.
For example my Undead Tinker.I staked Alchemy/Smelting/Warding and that undead skill which granted experience for new troops.I had lots of metal,quickly leveled up my Keep,got Doom Knights and Liches and collect win.Not to mention the fact that my lvl 6 skeletons had better stats then most Tier 2 melee units in the game.
Call Lightning meant nothing as long as i could overwhelm u with more stuff!

I really miss that game.Few games have gave me that kind of serenity while playing.
Except for WC 3 RoC campaigns or Sacrifice.