Learning Night Elf - Becoming a better WC3 players

Hi guys - ark_rs here. I'm a 2.1k+ MMR Night Elf player from USA.
This series is intended to help players become better at WC3. Much of the focus is on Night Elf, but the same process can be applied to other races.

[@ilevitatecs2]

Welcome back. Between 1750-2000, I would wager the most likely reasons for NE losses are the following in order of likelihood - a) not being able to defend timing pushes (e.g. t2 human rifle tower push with naga, t3 timing push by UD tri hero frenzy ghouls fiends stats destro), b) not being able to delay an expansion from HU or UD, and c) applying pressure with kotg at 3 and creeping second hero simultaneously. Any videos or series covering one or all of those points would actually be value add material for players looking to evolve their games

[@arkRS]

Thx I'll keep this in mind. I think my upcoming videos will help most of what you've called out. Will likely get a few of them out in the next few days.

[@ilevitatecs2]

@@arkRS great, looking forward to it. I think position and target priorities and spotting positional weaknesses are important-not just saying “at this stage you’re buying time for your bear upgrade to finish, etc”…when to target towers, or where to keep DH in position to burn but not get caught out

[@Optaquon]

Thanks for making these NE videos! I'm trying to get into WC3 to mix it up after playing SC2 and your videos have been very helpful.

[@arkRS]

That's awesome! I started SC2 late last year myself, though haven't gotten back to it since January. Good luck in your WC3 games!

[@sstoveld]

omg return of ark elf series

[@hypeman7911]

those of little faith knew not that he would rise again, but those of faith, knew to subscribe and bide their time for the wisdom would be theirs.

[@milosorevic927]

This is a great video, though Idk if I should do a game save after every camp to find out the best route for each map, cuz it's like jg clear in league so I need to find an optimal route? The faster you are the better, and for sure it can be optimized the way you have, it's amazingly fast.

[@arkRS]

Until you're a top ~5% player, the challenge most people face is being able to creep + do their build at the same time. Once you can accomplish that, or are bored doing the same thing, you can broaden your gameplay more. I would recommend not relying on save games though, as creep AI breaks after saving the game.

[@baaaaaa2898]

Nice !

[@shacoon6267]

What a coincidence, just decided to Reinstall wc3, was lookin for a refresher and well, what can i say. Here we are

[@joshuabecton4746]

Hey Ark, will you be continuing your educational NElf series? It has helped me tremendously in becoming a better Night Elf main.

[@arkRS]

Glad to hear it's helped! Sadly I probably won't make any more videos. I had high hopes of continuing the series, but the time required to spend on making videos to the minimum level of quality I wanted to make is too much for me.

[@joshuabecton4746]

@@arkRS Aw man..do you stream? I feel you have such an innovative style and I would enjoy watching you immensely

[@arkRS]

@@joshuabecton4746 extremely infrequently. Sorry :(

[@slouchingpanda9503]

How the heck can you easily control that maby troops bruh 😢. It's so hard to multi-manage when playing this game.

[@sokarduga7285]

Hello! How can you cancel wisp queue without clicking on the wisp being queued? What's the buttons to press to cancel one unit from the queue?

[@arkRS]

Press the escape button. This also works to cancel buildings or upgrades in production.

[@SkyKid002]

I could be wrong but I think if you use esc it cancels the first one which you may not want to do if you still want some of your units but not all of the ones you queued

[@davechomp8336]

1:06 Why can you build the AoW so close? Whenever I do this, the creeps start attacking it!

[@arkRS]

Chances are you're building it just slightly closer than me if you have issues with this camp aggroing the AoW. On some camps you have to build further away (red camps or camps that protect gold mines for example).

[@AliceOnly671]

My bf keeps beating me so I am here to learn to kick his butt as a night elf.

[@arkRS]

haha awesome, good luck!

[@chrisp5093]

God, I dont need to hear your keyboard.

[@arkRS]

Sorry about that. The time involved for making the older episodes were a lot as I focused heavily on trying to clean up the sounds and plan what I'd say. I tried to take a different approach during my attempted comeback to reduce the time involved. I know the quality took a bit of a hit as a result and still ended up spending more time than I wanted to invest. I'd suggest avoiding the videos in this playlist, as I didn't do any sound management on these ones.

[@litofficial]

Shop is needed by t2. You missed that. Your aow creeping slow. Etc.

[@arkRS]

Can you clarify what was slow specifically? Shop isn't required at t2, but you certainly could incorporate it into your build if you wish.