Warcraft III - Molten Core Reforged Teaser (2024)

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Warcraft III - Molten Core Reforged TeaserA simple teaser that I put together to give myself some motivation to continue working on this hobby project. The map has the name suggests is taking the Molten Core raid from World of Warcraft and reforging the raid in a Warcraft III format. Reforged in this instance meaning that it will not be completely faithful to Molten Core, in fact I take quite a few liberty's including the map, bosses, classes and boss fights. The map takes a bit of inspiration from various things; the heroes being heavily inspired both WoW and D&D, the boss combat inspired by the later expansion bosses of WoW and the Impossible Bosses custom game and the general concept of the map based off the Warchasers custom game. I envision that the team will work together pooling in resources whether that be gold, potions or crafting materials in order to overcome the bosses of the raid. Each hero has an 8 slot equipment inventory that is exclusive to the type of hero, whether that be weapons, armour type or usable relics. This allows a bit of build variety that can be utilized with the various archetype's/roles each hero has. I wanted to also add some random elements into the game, as such the resources available for crafting equipment, items purchasable and boss drops will vary from game to game. In addition to the 8 slot equipment inventory the hero has an additional 8 inventory slots to use various potions, scrolls, power-up's, etc. that can be used to buff oneself or fill in for missing hero classes. I decided to make this map after playing WoW Classic and realizing I don't have the time commitments to do vanilla raiding anymore, so I thought I'd make something similar to play through those old raids with some more exciting combat/twists on the originals. If I do manage to get the foundations completed I'm hoping I can turn around and make several other reforged raids and some original raids:Vanilla: Onyxia's Lair, Blackwing Lair, Ahn'quiraj (Ruins & Temple)The Burning Crusade: Gruul's Lair, Serpentshrine Caverns, The Black TempleOriginal: Garrosh Hellscream - This guy just needs a single fight dedicated to himself.Hellfire Citadel (Ramparts, Blood Furnace, Shattered Halls & Magtheridon's Lair)Tempest Keep (Mechanar, Botanica, Arcatraz & The Eye)Sunwell Plateau - The fact Kael'thas is a dungeon boss irked me, I feel he would be more fitting as a remade raid boss)Empire of Zul (Zul'Gurub, Zul'Aman, Zul'farrak, Zul'drak and Zul'dazar) - We have a raid for the first two? And dungeons for the next two? With a quasi-raid for the last in BFA? I feel a map where you can raid through any five of the troll tribe temples and fight the Loa and their aspects would be pretty sweet.The Frozen Throne - I felt the fact that Kel'thuzad, Anub'arak and Sapphiron weren't in the same raid as The Lich King was weak. I'd like to merge Naxxramas and ICC, getting rid of the stupid bosses like Putricide and his two kids and making the raid like an assault on The Frozen Throne and its legions of undead itself.The Black Empire (Yogg-Saron, Y'Shaarj and N'zoth) - I'd like to make some raids that focus purely on each of the old-gods and their servants, similar to Ahn'quiraj with the silithid and the Anubisath. I feel a remake of Ulduar focusing on the nerbubian and faceless ones, a raid with Y'Shaarj and the mantid and N'zoth with the naga would be neat.Legion - I had thoughts of making raids like this since Ragos ORPG back in 2006 and even from back then I had thought the end raid of WoW should have had Sargeras, Kil'jaeden, Archimonde, Mannoroth and a fight with all the Dreadlord's at the same time. I don't see this project being finished any time soon but as said above, hopefully just producing something gives me the motivation to keep trudging along. World of Warcraft Model Ports:If anybody would like any of the WoW rips let me know and I can send them through to you, I converted most of the models in the teaser and as such they are not as optimized as some WoW ports.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Ported by self:Earth Elemental (Vanilla)Fire Elemental (Vanilla)Unbound Earth ElementalUnbound Fire ElementalUnbound Fire Elemental LordCore HoundSalamander (Black, Blue, Red, Orange)Salamander Hunter (Black)Mountain Giant (Magma)Molten GiantMagma GiantRagnarosPorted by members of Warcraft 3 Underground:Earth ElementalFire ElementalCorehound (Vanilla)Firelands - Sulfuron Circle