This section discusses all aspects of the 1.18 patch including new features, updates, and fixes for Warcraft III: Reign Of Chaos and The Frozen Throne.

This patch was originally released back in March, 2005. This time, many known issues submitted by gamers/editors to the Battle.net Warcraft III forums were addressed and corrected.
Information sourced from Battle.net.

FEATURES FIXES MAPS Reign Of Chaos Frozen Throne BALANCE CHANGES General Human Undead Orc Night Elf Neturals Items WORLD EDITOR Features Fixes

FEATURES

- 6 maps from our Bonus Map program including (4)Excavation Site, (2)Echo Isle, (6)Hinterland Raid, (6)Ruins of Stratholme, (8)Azeroth Grand Prix, (8)Extreme Candy Wars 2004.

FIXES

- Fixed a problem that prevented selection sounds from playing when units were drag-selected.
- Fixed a problem that caused Gargoyles to become stuck in Stone Form.
- Fixed a problem with Dark Ritual or Death Pact leaving an unusable corpse.
- Fixed a problem that caused a player's units to continue to harvest esources after they were dropped and no one has control of them.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Ethereal units to take Physical damage from missiles that were in flight as they became Ethereal.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Magic Immune units to take Magical damage from missiles that were in flight as they became Magic Immune.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Unstable Concoction to kill the casting Batrider even after its target became Ethereal.
- Fixed the visibility of the Flamestrike de-buff icon.
- Fixed a problem with Defend not absorbing Piercing splash damage.
- Fixed a problem with melee units with Incinerate not damaging any units that they would Incinerate.
- Fixed a problem that caused Heroes holding items that increase their primary attribute to display an increase in their base damage on the info panel. Their actual damage was not affected.
- Fixed a problem that allowed morphing units in their alternate form to retain their alternate form bonuses when killed by a Mana Flare when activating their alternate form.
- Fixed a problem that allowed Destroyers to use Devour Magic on Watcher Wards.
- Fixed a problem that prevented Watcher Wards from being revealed by the Dust of Appearance.
- Fixed a problem that removed the Summoned state from Carrion Beetles when they burrow.
- Fixed a problem with Metamorphosis and Chemical Rage that allowed the timer to remain active after the Hero had died.
- Fixed a problem with Goblin Zeppelins being considered Undead instead of Mechanical in custom Reign of Chaos maps.

MAPS

Reign Of Chaos

Frozen Throne
- (6)River of Souls - Changes to allow AMM play.
- (8)Crossroads - Fixed a grammatical error.

BALANCE CHANGES

General
- Banshee build time has been reduced to 28 seconds from 35 seconds.
Human

Undead

Orc

Night Elf

Neutrals
- Drunken Haze movement reduction has been changed to increase by level. The new ranks are: 15%/30%/50% from the previous 50%/50%/50%.
- Breath of Fire initial damage reduced to 65/125/170 from 65/130/175.
- Tornado mana cost has been reduced to 200 mana from 250 mana.
- Incinerate can now be turned on or off. When turned on, it consumes 6 mana per attack. It is otherwise unchanged.
- Lava Spawns now require 15 attacks to replicate, up from 14.
- Summon Quilbeast cooldown increased to 25 seconds from 20 seconds.
- Summon Hawk mana cost increased to 50 mana from 35 mana.
- Pocket factory hit points increased to 300/450/600 by level from 300/400/500.
- Healing Spray effect per wave increased to 40/55/70 from 35/50/65.
Items
- Staff of Teleportation gold cost has been increased to 150 gold from 100 gold.

WORLD EDITOR

Features
- Added new trigger function: Environment, Terrain Pathability.
- Added new trigger function: Environment, Terrain Tile Type.
- Added new trigger function: Environment, Terrain Tile Variance.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Permanent/Expires.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Suspend/Resume.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Change Position to Point.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Change Position to Unit.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Change Age.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Change Lifespan.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Change Fadepoint.
- Added new trigger function: Floating Text, Change Text.
- Added new trigger function: Game, Enable/Disable Selection (Functionality and/or UI).
- Added new trigger function: Game, Enable/Disable Pre-Selection (Functionality and/or UI).
- Added new trigger function: Game, Enable/Disable Drag-Selection (Functionality and/or UI).
- Added new trigger function: Trigger, Get Trigger Name.
- Added new unit state: Plagued.
- Added new unit state: Snared.
- Added new unit state: Stunned.
- Added new unit state: Poisoned.
- Added new unit state: Polymorphed.
- Added new unit state: Sleeping.
- Added new unit state: Resistant.
- Added new unit state: Ethereal.
- Added new unit state: Magic Immune.
- Lightning triggers now have their own category.
- Lightning triggers now use the Z coordinate of the specified Location.
- Custom Lightning triggers can now use an explicit Z coordinate.
Fixes
- Fixed custom buff support for Black Arrow, Cloud of Fog, Inferno, Aerial Shackles, and Tornado.
- Fixed multiple-level support for Shadowmeld.
- Fixed Rain of Chaos' order id.