Intrepid Warcraft III players have found a way to connect to the Warcraft III Battle.net servers meant for balance testing of the upcoming patch. They tinkered with the register editor of Warcraft III to gain access to the beta server.

But a few hours ago, the server is officially put up by Blizzard and is accessible without the need of editing the registry

The Westfall server contains the much anticipated 1.22 patch for Warcraft III. Instead of releasing it immediately to the public, Blizzard has decided to create a beta realm to garner player feedback regarding the game. This is an effort to ensure that the game finds better balance between the four races.

There are only a few changes in the posted change log. Karune, the Blizzard Community Manager, has mentioned that these will be updated, most probably when there has been enough feedback from the players.


The complete patch notes are posted below.

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Patch 1.22
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FEATURES

- There is now a replay auto-save feature in the options menu. Replays
are automatically saved to the "replay" folder.
- Added an option to always show unit and building health bars.
- You can now enable and disable the display of minimap signals
from players and other observers using chat commands:
/showminimapsignals and /hideminimapsignals.

BALANCE CHANGES

HUMAN
- Scout Tower repair rate changed from 12 to 20.
- Knight damage increased: Attack cooldown changed from 1.50 to
1.40 and base damage increased from 25 to 28 (Average damage is 34).

UNDEAD
- Increased Ziggurat base armor from 1 to 5.
- Reduced the build time of the Necropolis from 120 to 100.

NIGHT ELF
- Reduce the Orb of venom poison duration from 10 seconds to 8 seconds.
- Increase the experience gain from Dryads from Level 2 (40xp) to
Level 3 (60 xp).

FIXES

- The cooldown on unlimited usable items (example: the staff of
preservation) now persists after the item is dropped or traded.
- A cooldown exploit with potions has been fixed.
- When you unburrow a Crypt Fiend, its auto-cast will no longer be toggled
off.
- An exploit bug in which items could lose their cooldowns when transferred
between heroes has been fixed.

Source:
Patch 1.22 Notes and Updates