The holepercent's series - Basic LWFN

[holepercent]

Welcome to the series, where holepercent (tries to) complete the game with every possible combination of 4 elements. The builds presented are by no means optimised for top scores but are more to give you, the player, ideas on how to approach any specific 4-element build.

 

Without further ado, here is the first build featuring the elements light, water, fire and nature. Back in the wc3 days, nova/windstorm/tidal/celerity was one of the strongest and arguably easiest builds to play to complete the game, with 2 aoe slow towers and strong splash available.

 

Here, the build is still strong but has some fundamental differences due to a re-design of tidal tower. What used to be a splash tower with an ability that had to be charged up is now a tower that has diminishing aoe with every attack. With waterfall towers, the tower reaches single-target at a much faster speed. Hence, the approach is to play this as a dominant single target build, with the aoe slows used to give velocity towers more firing time at greater distances. The main damage towers are tidal and velocity.

 

Replay

 

Approximate build order:

(Fire,Water),Light, Nature, Nature, Water, Fire, Light, Nature, Water, Fire. 

1 vapor
4 ice
8 tidal
9 flame
12 impulse
13 spring
16 velocity
18* velocity #2
19 tsunami
20 spring #2
22 monsoon
23 supernova
25 waterfall X2, pure nature
27 velocity X2
28 pure water
 

[Thunderbolt]

why use the last lumber for fire and not trade for essence so that you will have more money for more towers?

[holepercent]

26 minutes ago, Thunderbolt said:

why use the last lumber for fire and not trade for essence so that you will have more money for more towers?

mostly just to drop some tier 3 duals which do not see play very often...

[Thunderbolt]

with this build there doesnt seem to be money for it though (at least with normal)

[Norl_]

you need to adapt this a bit for normal mode, i got easy 100k score with it without losing any lifes before bosslevels on normal mode

[1209]

Could you make a 6-element guide? I've tried downloading the wc3 replays but the file doesn't seem to be working, it says it has 0kb.