The Frozen Throne

This is a sub-page of Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

To do: Comparison of the many things that were cut from Reign of Chaos but brought back for The Frozen Throne (E.g. The shadow hunter hero, red Eredar Warlock etc...) Look into the Frozen Throne Battle.net Beta

Much of the content introduced in the expansion pack was originally cut from the base game. For more information read this.

Unused Abilities#

Some unit abilities, while viewable in the editor, are never used by any unit throughout the game.

Spell Breaker Magic Defend

Would have made the Spell Breaker unit immune to magic.

Aura of Blight

Was supposed to boost regeneration of undead units.

Hidden Abilities#

The following abilities are inaccessible through normal means. Their functionalities remains in the game's code but all data pertaining to them are removed. Editing the game's slk files allows one to use these abilities.

Abar - Barkskin#

This ability increased a unit's Armor through DataA1, it is an auto-cast ability. No known glitches. This ability's Icon, Buff, and Effect graphics and Order ID are visible in the World Editor, but the ability and its data appears to have been scrubbed out.

Atpi - Pilot Tank#

This ability was for the Dwarf units. It allows the units with the Load Pilot ability (the Steam Tank) to load units with this ability into itself. However, this ability appears to be unfinished, as the "tank" will simply drive up to the unit and then does nothing, even with a cargo ability.

AIca - Cure Area#

This ability was for the cut Staff of Purification item. This ability dispels "Disease" and "Poison" type debuffs like Disease Cloud, Envenomed Weapons and Parasite, but some like Slow Poison and Orb of Venom are not affected by this ability. This ability's effect graphics can be used in the World Editor.

Amou - Mount#

Crashes the game when given to a unit. There are order strings referring to "mount" and "dismount".

Alea - Leash#

Turns a unit unable to be selected, but doesn't turn the unit invulnerable or untargetable.

ANgl - Exchange Gold for Lumber#

ANlg - Exchange Lumber for Gold#

AIpi - Invisibility Passive#

Appears to be an Item ability, a unit with this ability becomes invisible. Does not display an icon.

Unused Graphics#

Unused Icons#

There are several icons within the game files that are currently unused.

Unused Animations#

Crypt Lord#

The Crypt Lord model has several animations that aren't used in the game and 1 cannot be seen in the world editor. These are:

• Index 6: "Morph"
• Index 7: "Morph Defend"
• Index 8: "ONHOLDStand Spell Defend Alternative"
• Index 12: "Spell Throw"

Storm, Earth & Fire#

The Pandaren models from the Pandaren Brewmaster's "Storm, Earth & Fire" ability all have proper death and dissipate animations but because the animations are called "bla" in the model file, they cannot be played in-game nor seen in the World Editor.

Unused Models#

Cinematic CG Illidan#

Located in doodads/cinematic/illidanvictorycinematic/illidanvictorycinematic.mdx is a very strange model. It appears to be a heavily decimated version of the Illidan model used for the Frozen Throne intro cinematic. Perhaps they originally considered using this model for the Arthas fight. It is labelled 'Illidan victory cinematic' in spite of Illidan not winning in the campaign.

The model is not UV mapped to use its texture properly, resulting in the right foot displaying the heel at the front for example. It also appears to be missing some textures, such as its hair texture.

It uses two textures, both very different from the traditional Blizzard texturing style.

IllidanBody	IllidanWing

One major difference from the CG model is the lack of the Tattoos on the chest.

Although it is possible those were either added later, or were a separate texture layered on the chest of the model. The model has no animations and is in an A-pose at all time.

Unimplemented Gameplay Constants#

Within the World Editor's Gameplay Constants options, these options are marked with "(NYI)" meaning "Not Yet Implemented". Changing these Gameplay Constants does not affect the map in any way.