WC3 Hero Spotlight: The Warden

WC3 Hero Spotlight: The Warden

00:00 Intro & Lore
01:40 The Warden's Abilities
05:54 How to use the Warden
10:26 The Warden's Stats
12:36 Common Skill Builds
15:10 Primary Objectives
18:20 Ideal Items/Buffs
21:28 How to Counter The Warden?
24:02 The Warden's Special Tricks/Interactions

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[HighLanderPonyYT]

"Recently, 10 years ago."
Flashbacks from the Tyler1 VOD. lol

[franslair]

Warden is the clearest example of why people made and played maps like dota, various ORPGs, hero sieges, etc. A hero that really doesn't amount to anything in mass scale strategic gameplay, but is fun to control individually.

[glisteningDiamond]

when Grubby mentioned Queen of Pain, I realised all of her first three spells are just taken directly from Maiev, and I played Dota and Warcraft 3 for more than a decade lmao

[taylorniall]

03:08 "Can be BLUNK into". Top Tier video.

[CrushTheBacklog]

Maiev was so effing badass in WC3. I wish she got more love in WoW but at least she made a peace of sorts

[pzalterias]

Maiev is such a badass. I think I loved play with her because the TP felt so modern at the time, I felt like a trickster. She's actually the ancestor of all LoL characters who flash

[TheVanillatech]

My favourite hero in the game. Savage. Would sell her own babies if it meant tracking illidan down.

[DrewPicklesTheDark]

I always found it funny the Warden is wearing what looks like plate armor, yet has less armor than the demon hunter who runs around with no shirt.

[catto]

I used to have a crush on her. Her voice still sound majestic ❤

[kenosgaming]

A game I'll never forget from WC3 was a 2v2 where my co-op buddy and I ran over the enemy night elf but they managed to keep their Warden alive. Warden proceeded to run over us for the rest of the game, never dying and always blinking out when we thought we finally had her shut down. Was wild to be on the receiving end of something like that.

[holaholahoy]

One thing I think would be cool if Grubby added at the end of the spotlight would be a model showoff. One closeup and maybe one rotation around the character in classic graphics and one with reforged graphics!
Really liking these spotlights, and I haven't played WC3 in years!

[Lezeik]

The intro is such a nice way of saying: playing this hero will get you stomped 6 feet under.

[theblackantonio]

Her death sound is the most epic and iconic in the game. 😂

[scienceboy]

After hearing the in depth explanation of the Warden's strengths and playstyle, I'm impressed how well the Heroes of the Storm team nailed it with Maiev.

[ИосифЛуна]

Lore: Special guys who hunt down daemon hunters.... Game: Hard-countered by daemon hunters...

[adamp]

Love the Warden, in my top 5 heroes for sure. I've kind of fallen in love with the Firelord now though, hope we get a spotlight on him.

[juliankanzuki]

I love this so much, as someone who played this game casually as a kid and is only recently picking it back up as an adult, I learned a lot here, like being able to avoid stormbolt with blink, I didn't know that. Awesome.

I hope you do this as a full series for all the Heros!! That'd be cool.
Can you do the Preistess of the Moon next? I know she's one of the weaker heros but she will always be my favorite, and she has some cool little mechanical secrets, like being able to increase her auto attack range if you manually cast searing arrows etc. or being able to attack during entangle effects that way too.

[relightrobot]

Glad you did Warden this early. She was always my favourite.

[goomshill]

Strategically warden is a way to funnel your resources into damage output. Very little/no utility, no big combat math changing auras or buffs. She just farts out damage and lots of it, but costs lots of gold and moon juice to keep up her mana, really wants to keep leveling up even past 5 as a solo hero to horde all the experience, wants multiple items. And since she's the bottleneck through which all your resources flow, enemy control abilities like hex, ensnare, storm bolt, polymorph become all the more powerful

A good contrast is the dreadlord. He has one of the next highest aoe damage outputs on heroes. But its limited in cooldown and overall mana usage, doesn't scale past 5-6, doesn't really need/scale with items as much as warden with blink. His aoe is so huge and long range he doesn't need to blink to set it up, he's got much higher base mana, he's just a one spell hero since sleep sucks. He can get away with sharing xp or being a 2nd/3rd hero. They can both show up to a HU base and massacre all the peasants, they can both pop a big ultimate at 6 and get a fat unit in a fight, but warden keeps scaling up and hunting heroes, DL can just use the mana from statues to wreck gyros.

[songsan]

One of my favorite WC3 heroes. Fan of knives and Vengence Avatar. Her storyline where she is able to use blink and get the black orbs is fun.