Version 3.0.1
Build 24342
October 7, 2026

This patch includes various bugfixes and adjustments based on player feedback.

Reminder: Previous save files will no longer be valid. Campaign progress between Chapters and Acts are still saved.

For map creators, if any of your custom maps are still broken after this patch, please provide us with a link to your map and a detailed description of what’s broken compared to 2.0 in the forum and we will also take a look at it.

MASTER CHANGELIST

General

• Added the Silverpine Sprint and the Forgotten Hollow as standalone maps in the Maps\ForsakenKingdom\Scenarios folder.

Art

• Ambient Occlusion added to options menu for better shadows.

  • Enabling Ambient Occlusion may result in reduced performance.

• Animation: Following units have been reanimated.

  • Pandaren Brewmaster

  • Orc Grunt

• Animation: fixed several clipping issues with the following:

  • Human Paladin

  • Deathguard

  • Apothecary

• Following VFX have been re-adjusted to address feedback:

  • Arcane Tower Missile

  • Blizzard

  • Divine Shield

  • Inner Fire

  • Immolation

  • Rejuvenation

  • Starfall

  • Black Arrow

  • Forked Lightning

  • Frost Arrows

  • General Aura Target

  • Level Up

  • Speed Target

  • Orc Demolisher

  • Chimaera Acid Missile

  • Avatar of Light

  • Breath of Fire & Frost

  • War Cry

  • Life & Mana Drain

  • Awaken & racial revives

  • Banish

  • Death Coil

  • Grim Conviction

  • Item Attribute (DE)

  • Orb of Lightning

  • Orb of Slow, Missile, & Target

  • Roar Target

  • Rune Glow & Toon Boom (HD & DE)

  • Shadow Strike Target

  • Slow Target

  • Spirit Link Target

  • Undead Rally Point

  • Withering Fire Missile

• Fixed an issue with infinite looping animations with the Cocoon doodad on death.

• The following models have had their model tint and/or scale adjusted to better reflect their original appearance:

  • Sea Turtle

  • Giant Sea Turtle

  • Gargantuan Sea Turtle

  • Moss Covered Granite Golem

  • Mud Golem, Granite Golem

  • Wildkin

  • Enraged Wildkin

  • Beserk Wildkin

  • Giant Frost Wolf

  • Dire Frost Wolf

  • Dire Wolf

• Added a waterfall variant without mist particle effect to HD graphics (Doodads\Terrain\CliffDoodad\Waterfall\WaterfallNoMist).

• Cinematics: Fixed several FaceFX lipsync issues.

• Cinematics: Fixed several loc subtitle issues.

• Cinematics: Fixed several issues where map music would play over cinematics.

• Cinematics: Homecoming - Hid set dress crown in Uther Cinematic.

• Cinematics: Fixes for duplicated units in certain cinematics.

• Dynamic Portrait animation has been added and enabled on majority of units in DE graphics mode.

  • Portrait animations will now cut off to better match voiceline.

  • Lip sync on speaking animation has been improved.

• Short Grass tiles have been overhauled to better match classics.

• Ambient Occlusion has been edited to not affect terrain and close-up cinematics shots.

• Daytime lighting intensity on Lordaeron Summer biomes reduced by 10%.

• Aura FX will now tilt accordingly to the terrain angle to reduce ground clipping.

• Crypt Fiend burrow sprite will now properly display over angled terrain.

• Human Barrack’s selection box adjusted to proper scale.

• Reduced brightness and changed color of main menu transition to TFT theme.

Audio

• DE graphics will now use classic sounds.

The Last Days of Lordaeron

• Increased the health and damage of most bosses in this campaign.

• Garek’s Sweeping Strike damage decreased from 100/175/250 to 100/150/200

• Ilastar’s Surge of Light no longer procs while attacking destructibles.

• Ilastar’s Sacred Rebuke Talent now reduces the correct amount of Magic Resist on enemies.

• Players are no longer able to return to the throne room after the cutscene with Uther.

• Ilastar’s Mind Control no longer allows building from Acolytes.

• Units can no longer run out map bounds on some maps.

Forsaken Kingdom

• Overall campaign difficulty has been increased

  • In general, enemies deal increased damage and are more durable.

• Forsaken Kingdom campaign Heroes have had their base and per level attributes adjusted.

• Rebalanced several consumable items across the campaign.

• Fixed an issue where consumable items were not properly stacking in Act 2.

• Rebalanced many Equipment items.

• Added a Tome of Retraining to several vendors.

  • Tomes of Retraining will also reset talent points.

• Act 1: Silverpine Sprint - Added more fences and wider run-off areas. Collisions are now less likely to flip over the car.

• Act 1: Silverpine Sprint - Miko Screwmaker and the other drivers all had to remove their illegal engine modifications and are now several seconds slower.

• Act 1: Silverpine Sprint - Spacebar has been added as a brake key.

• Garek’s Relentless Cleave damage decreased from 100/175/250/325/400 to 100/150/200/250/300.

• Garek’s Undying Defiance movement penalty reduced from 40%/40%/40%/40%/40% to 40%/35%/30%/25%/20%.

• Deathseeker Arrows now stack with other attack effects, including:

  • Critical Strikes

  • Poison-tipped Arrows talent

  • Orbs

• Anya’s Umbral Rupture talent no longer damages allies

• Items Mark of the Phoenix, Deepsea Bag, Heart of the Firebender, Bindings of Helya and Essencium will now spawn projectiles as intended

Neutral

• Forsaken Paladin hotkey changed from F to Y to prevent conflicts from heroes of other races.

• Forsaken Paladin Righteous Fury attack rate slow increased from 30%/40%/50% to 40%/40%/40%.

• Forsaken Paladin Righteous Fury movement speed slow increased from 20%/30%/40% to 40%/40%/40%.

• Forsaken Paladin Righteous Fury mana cost reduced from 100/100/100 to 90/90/90

• Forsaken Paladin Righteous Fury damage reduced from 100/150/200 to 90/135/185

• Forsaken Paladin Consecration no longer affects air and mechanical units.

• Forsaken Paladin Consecration duration increased from 5 to 10.

• Forsaken Paladin Consecration cooldown increased from 8 to 10.

• Forsaken Paladin Consecration healing reduced from 25/35/50 to 15/25/35.

• Forsaken Paladin Consecration damage reduced from 20/30/40 15/20/25.

• Forsaken Paladin Sacred Aura Magic Resistance reduced from 15%/25%/35% to 15%/20%/25%.

• Forsaken Paladin Cleansing Fire no longer dispells nondispellable spells such as Windwalk and Doom.

• Forsaken Paladin Cleansing Fire damage buff now properly stacks with other damage buffs.

World Editor

• Natives added in 3.0 now have the Blz- prefix.

• [Aret] Tome of Retraining now has a boolean to reset talent points.

· Added new Blz prefix natives versions for:

·         GetEquippedItem

·         GetUnequippedItem

·         IsItemEquipped

·         IsItemInBag

·         GetItemEquipmentType

·         GetItemTag

·         UnitEquipItem

·         UnitUnequipItem

·         UnitUnequipItemFromSlot

·         UnitHasItemBagged

·         UnitExtendedInventorySize

·         UnitItemInBagSlot

·         UnitItemInEquipmentSlot

·         UnitHasItemEquipped

·         UnitHasLoadoutSlotEmpty

·         UnitHasAnyItemEquiped

·         UnitHasItemEquipmentOfType

·         UnitCanEquipItemOfEquipmentType

·         SetItemColor

Non Blz natives will be removed in a future patch

• New native and trigger BlzResetUnitTalents

• New native and trigger ChooseRandomItemExWithFilterAndIncludes

• New native and trigger BlzUnitHeal

• New native and trigger BlzRemoveEffect

• New gameplay constant CanInterruptByZeroDurationBuffs, upon disabling any buffs added with zero duration no longer interrupt channels

• New native and trigger BlzSetCameraAllowsHotkeyTargetLock and BlzGetCameraAllowsHotkeyTargetLock, previous functions to lock cameras now automatically disable hotkey locking

• Added trigger constants for Forsaken Paladin ability fields

• Added new gameplay constants for allowing illusions to receive healing and magic resist bonuses

• Native BlzUnitHeal takes unit whichUnit, unit source, real life, boolean isItem, boolean applyStatBonuses returns real

• Native BlzRemoveEffect takes effect whichEffect returns nothing

• Native SetThematicMusicAbsoluteVolume takes integer volume returns nothing

Bug Fixes

• User set hotkeys are now shown correctly on inventory buttons

• Fixed an issue where items that casted spells would make their owners respond slowly to unit commands

• Fixed an issue where attack rate bonuses were being reset when restoring a unit from cache.

• Fixed an issue where units standing on destructible bridges would cause low framerate in Reforged Graphics mode.

• Classic sounds now properly play in Reforged mode when toggled in the sound options.

• Added Forsaken Paladin to Tavern hotkey selection.

• Forsaken Paladin now speaks his English voice lines in other languages.

• Forsaken cursor now replaces Human cursor when on Forsaken theme.

• Theme backgrounds on main menu now immediately appear upon entering the game.

• Custom models with vertices but no faces no longer crash.

• Fixed a bug with loading custom assets in a map.

• Fixed custom textures not loading properly when launched through World Edit test map.

• With more than one map open in World Edit, closing a map no longer causes the next open map to lose its lighting.

• Fixed a bug causing the post processing dialog to disable sliders when reopened and checkboxes ticked.

• Fix crash for resource trading in koKR locale.

• Fixed a bug where “AIs2” ability was pointing to Strength Bonus instead of Attack Speed bonus.

• Model paths with periods in their file name when loaded no longer crash the game.

• Ability data beyond the 4th level now properly retain their default values.

• Negative healing numbers set in the World Editor will now drain unit hp.

• Fixed a crash when loading a save file on a map with long strings in JASS.

• Wind Walk, Ethereal form, Stone Form no longer cancel preset cooldown durations if cooldown is set to 0.

• Fixed an issue causing occasional slow performance on game start.

• Engineering upgrade will now properly switch abilities even if the are from a different base ability.

• Fixed crash when loading saved game that had unit with vamp item buff active selected.

• Fixed native UnitDropItemSlot functionality

• Resolve now applies to Aerial Shackles and Banish

• Fixed VFX tether offset for Soul Lantern

• Fixed VFX tether offset for Dark Ranger and Shadow Hunter

• Fixed an issue with broken SD / HD doodads due to DE variations

• Trees no longer play their hit animation when appearing out of fog.

• Item portraits no longer reset themselves constantly.

• Workshop now correctly displays in Reforged graphics.

• Human Keep Building now correctly displays in Reforged graphics.

• Trees are now properly shown as cut down when global fog is disabled in replays.

• Fixed an issue where destructibles don’t play their break animations.

• Fixed Starfall, Spellbreaker and Monsoon ability to use alias VFX instead of based ability VFX

• Fixed some cliff textures that were incorrectly using DE version in Reforged graphics.

• Fixed Reforged Outland Abyss cliff texture having transparent alpha instead of black.

• Fixed bug where default portrait MDL for custom units would not display.

• Fixed an issue where Agility was giving too much armor on some maps in the Forsaken Kingdom campaign.

• Forsaken Kingdom items now have their pickRandom values set to 0, preventing them from spawning in other maps.

• Various tooltip fixes for Forsaken Kingdom campaign talents and abilities.

• Guiding Hand no longer makes summoned minions last indefinitely

• Lights on items no longer remain when picked up by heroes.

• Loading a save while Grim Conviction is active no longer causes a crash.

• Fixed a bug where Leonid’s Hand of Justice talent was not properly reducing movement speed.

• Fixed a bug where Leonid’s Provoke did not have a mana cost.

• Fixed a bug where Anya’s Guiding Light had incorrect mana cost values.

• Fixed a bug where Garek’s Parry had incorrect mana cost value for level 5.

• Fixed several music bugs throughout the campaign.

• Fixed several infinite gold farming exploits.

• Fixed numerous graphical and pathing bugs throughout the campaign.

• Fixed several bugs regarding proper quest tracking.

• Fixed several bugs regarding boss fights and resets.

• Act 1: Undercity - Fixed a bug with permanent HP regen reduction for player heroes in Death Knight boss fight.

• Act 3: Naxxramas - Boss fights no longer crash when certain items are equipped on a hero.

• Consecration healing debuff now applies to periodic healing effects

• Casting two or more Consecration spells no longer infinitely stacks bonuses

• Cleansing Fire now applies the correct damage calculation

• Fixed an issue where illusions weren’t being given the right stats from Forsaken Paladin abilities

• Gargoyles no longer have a cooldown on returning to gargoyle form.

• Spirit Walkers no longer have a cooldown on entering ethereal form.