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there are different armor caps for different encounters, for an average act I boss, 22 armor will reduce roughly 40% damage. Visit http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/shadows-taldarim/forum/20720-gear-mercenary-compendium/#p1 for a basic list of items to find out which items stack with eachother

Shadows of the Tal'Darim Hero Arena is nearing Alpha stage, I may have an open beta sometime next week. Players will be given the opportunity to level their hero 1-80 in a 3v3 PVP environment (similar to Battleground Levelling in WOW.)

Players must set up their own teams through the lobby, and you only gain experience from teams 3 levels below you or higher. Features a Aos/sotis mode, a Capture the Flag mode, a Domination mode, and a Deathmatch mode, most of which only take 10-15 minutes

@Sting187 After being sent east. you deal with the Zerg Queen in the south part of the eastern wastes, Help a Zealot prisoner get this teleporter working, help a Dark Templar purge that temple to the north. If you've defeated the Queen, and helped the Zealot prisoner get his teleporter working,

• The temple to the north unlocks when you approach this dark templar dude.
• Chal'marr will give you the quest to go face the Destroyer if you return to him.

I don't want there to be too many UI buttons but I'll look into some sort of quest tracking system or quest log.

Ok yeah i see why that ramp wouldnt be accessible, i just recently changed the walls nearby and one of them still had collision properties. Fixed.

Your second key to act II should go away when you zone in to act II.

thanks, I'll look into it. and btw the 1-6 hotkeys usually only work if you're targeting something. It's a part of a custom targetting system where you left click your target and hit a 1-6 hotkey to instantly execute that spell against your target. There are 3 ways to select a target. Attacking it, left clicking on it (as if you were to select it), or just press tab when you're nearby. Pressing tab repeatedly will cycle through random nearby targets.

yea its NA, supports up to 5 players. Content difficulty scales with amount of players present, so for each player present, it adds 100% health 15% +damage to the creatures you're fighting.

mobs will also typically drop more loot if there are more players present

Next release in a few days, but i want to deal with as many bugs as I can before I implement the VERY COOL new features. Amount of user input has been great thanks guys. On current US bnet build (0.88d)

• Keyboard turning implemented (Lock Camera mode only). You now hold left mouse if you want to use A/D to strafe left/right.
• You can now hire Mercenaries (unselectable hireables that follow you around)
• You unlock new mercenaries by completing quests. You can have one mercenary of each type.
• Mercenaries scale with your hero level, and grow stronger as you grow stronger.
• You unlock the marine mercenary and mercenary vendor early act I
• You unlock the Firebat mercenary when you get the key to the east in act I
• In act II, you get a Zealot mercenary with Lifestealing
• Many new talents for 6/10 heroes implemented in act II. These talents are so ridiculously beneficial you do not benefit from them in Act I.
• Map automatically removes quest item duplicates.
• Many many bug fixes (like that teleporter by that cliff in the eastern wastes)
• Zone borders cause the camera to 'jump' on unlock mode (default camera mode) The amount of zone borders has been reduced to minimize this annoying effect.
• The cinematics are completely redesigned and should work regardless of how many players are present.
• Dropped items should now be unselectable (and won't deselect your hero when you accidentally click on them.) I applied this change in the last uploaded version 3x (to over 120 items) but the editor kept crashing before I could save.

over next few weeks I've got some minor interface updates (keyboard turning, improved tab targetting) but i want to do some hero adjustments in preparation for my next mysterious branch of the project. Next update in 2 weeks

I want all heroes to be doing around 1.5k-3k single target dps by level 45, so there will be a few new talent upgrades introduced in act II. I just did Killing spree and another rank of improved merciless strike for the Dark Templar, and the class feels AWESOME. A few things I'm working on (and will be working on)

• Marauder damage output has been increased through another rank of 'Improved Seeker Missile.'
• Dark Templar - Killing spree is an ultimate that causes you to jump target to target every 0.24 seconds dealing a merciless strike to each target until up to 8 targets are hit.
• Improved Merciless strike rank 2 makes your merciless strike effect hit 2 targets
• evaluating Ultralisk Damage (at level 45+)
• evaluating Queen Infestor Damage (at level 45+)
• evaluating Spectre damage
• evaluating Ghost damage
• evaluating Roach damage
• The rest of the classes are feeling pretty balanced (when properly geared). Send feedback if you get a character up to that level, I'm interested in hearing what kind of numbers your pulling on what class (so i can nerf, or buff you accordingly)

thanks will! I usually post updates every week unless i make breakthrough changes, it's fine if you don't get to update for awhile, I'm just glad this got through to the RPG fans over at EU.

I am completely changing the UI next release, so players will have a new XP bar, player portrait, mana bar, target portrait, Stats dialog tooltip text (you have X% chance to crit etc), these changes are already live on US bnet.