Thursday, July 19, 2007

Undead vs. Orc: A new perspective

Being an undead player, I've came across all kinds of Orc players with various strategies; from tower rush and mass bat raiders to mass kodo beasts and even goblin shredders.

Orc is essentially quite a versatile race to play with, as opposed to undead players who seems to know one thing: destroyer destroyer destroyer. More than likely, all skilled Orc players ALREADY knows what you, the undead player are going to make; so here is a new strategy that I observed some time ago, it is created by one of the bestest undead player out there - Sweet Saint.

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The essentials:

This strategy is crafted to go against a very typical orc harrass - grunts - raider strategy that brings us headaches.

The few things you will need to accomplish are the following:

1. A Death Knight and a Pit Lord as second hero.

the death knight serves all supportive purposes in the undead race, he has the ability to heal and his unholy aura will move the fat pit lord and the crypt fiends a lot faster.

2. Mass fiends

this strategy is created so that you can focus fire on the stupid grunts and raiders who will come surrounding your fiends, so you need a decent amount of fiends.

3. Banshee

banshee is the critical point to this strategy because of her skill - NOT POSSESS, but CURSE

yes curse, an auto-cast magic that will cause all enemy attacks to reduce to 66%, in another word, your entire army will grow one third once the entire enemy army is CURSED.

KEY POINT:

The key point to this strategy is that you will need a pit lord to further reduce enemy attack power by casting HOWL OF TERROR. This Area of Effect magic will reduce yet ANOTHER 1/3 of the enemy attack power, along with the curse, your army will now increase 2/3 in terms of health.

Given this point, your fiends will no longer die easy from the ensnare/surround of the Orcs, even a Tauren Chieftain's stomp won't do too much, since all the grunts and raiders will do is...MISS MISS MISS MISS MISS...you get the point.

However, this strategy requires precise timing and decent micro; if you are the type that moves fiends group by group one only ONE single fiend is being hit by 5 grunts, then I'd suggest you train your micro skill before using this strategy; since this strategy utilizes the power of Focus Fire to the max, you can NOT move fiends group by group, but one by one, to reach its effect.

Secondly, teching is quite important too; if you can not tech to banshee on time(you only need 3-4 of them) then you're still screwed, given that this strategy will ONLY work when the combination of Howl of Terror and Curse are in use.

So there you go kids, go try it out and have some fun defeating the stupid orcs in a different way!

MAKE SURE YOU UPGRADE THE FIENDS ATTACK, with the howl of terror and curse, you don't need armor that much.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

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