'Undead' refers mainly to the Scourge, although the Forsaken used mainly Scourge units in Warcraft III (although these two are not allies, they are bitter enemies). 'Night Elf' refers to the night elf Sentinels, druids and Watchers, as well as their allies, dryads, Keepers of the Grove, treants, ancients, mountain giants, hippogryphs and faerie.
Wisp DetonateIf you're not regularly using Detonate, you're not using the Night Elves like an advanced player. There are many uses for Detonatethroughout the game. When the enemy Hero rushes, bring some Wisps and Detonate on their Heroes. If the enemy Heroes are using summonedunits, use Detonate on them. Take some Wisps and have them follow your Hero around.
When you meet the enemy, use them to Detonateon the enemy. If the enemy has a lot of spellcasters, use Detonate to get rid of their mana. Try to sneak up on them during combat.Send some Wisps to your allies in team games so the Wisps will be near the battle if your ally is attacked. Make sure you learn to usethe Hot Key as this makes it 90% easier to use Detonate. If you need Detonate in battle right-click your Tree of Life on your Hero andqueue up a bunch of Wisps.Detonate Counters: Run from the Wisps. Many Night Elf players that use Detonate aren't very good at it. So you can often run out of the wayand they will destroy themselves and miss.
You can also use instant kill spells such as Chain Lightning or Forked Lightning. You can alsofocus fire on them with ranged units. Click to Enlarge - 194 KB A Night Elf player tugs some Wisps around to use on enemy Summonables such as Water Elementals and to removeMana from casters. Click to Enlarge - 142 KB A Night Elf players Detonates on some Water Elementals and an Archmage.Using your Ancients for DefenseAncients can attack while rooted.
When you uproot, their armor drops from Fortified Building armor to Heavy armor making themmuch weaker. However, your Ancients actually take less damage from siege attacks when uprooted, so if your enemy isattacking primarily or exclusively with siege weaponry (as in the case of mass siege engines, for example), uprooting themcan actually help them survive. If attacked try to root as soon as possible.Since Ancients can attack while rooted, and it's not wise to move them during combat, it's best to build them in such a waythat the Ancients are close to each other and can back each other up. You can build your town so that they are neareach other or placed in such a way that they are ideally located. Always try to fight near your Ancients when someoneattacks your town for additional base defense.
Ancients cannot attack while producing a unit, researching, or upgrading. You will haveto stop those operations if you want to have the Ancients attack.When your town is under attack and there are enemy units around your Ancients, cancel building units so that the Ancients willattack the enemy.
Use Wisps to repair the Ancients. As the enemy backs away from the Ancients, then start using them for training.You can also start building additional Ancients in a safe area so that you can use them to train while the other Ancients fight.Use Map Terrain For DefenseIf there is a ramp leading into your town such as on Wetlands or Market Square, build on the ramp. Then if players try to attackyour town they will have a difficult time getting to your Tree of Life. Click to Enlarge - 162 KB On Wetlands a Night Elf player blocks their ramp with Ancients of War and Huntresses. The Huntresses can be placed on Hide (especiallywith a Moon Stone) so that the enemy doesn't even know why they can't get up the ramp. The Ancients of War also can defend the ramp andWisps can repair from the other side. In this case the two enemies were driven back from this setup and were forced to retreat (funny).You can even use Ancient Protectors and Glaive Throwers on the other side for defense.
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This makes it very difficult for the enemy toget into the town. Nature's Blessing can further enhance this setup. There is still room for units to pass through and get out ofthe town though. There are even Moon Wells to heal the units defending.Fast ExpandThe Night Elves, along with the Humans have the capability of fast expanding. Build a Tree of Life while you're attackingthe Creeps.Build a Tree of Life away from a Mine before the Creeps have been cleared.
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Once the Tree of Life is completed useit to fight the enemy Creeps there. Have to repair it using Wisps.The Tree of Life is often capable of clearing an expansion without too much help, depending on what Creeps are guarding it. Click to Enlarge - 142 KB A top Night Elf player is fast expanding using only 3 Huntresses and a Hero.Hiding ExpansionsUsing Eat Tree you can clear room for a Tree of Life hidden in the trees while still able to reach the Gold Mine.
You may find thisuseful when you're trying to hide an Expansion. Click to Enlarge - 182 KB A player cleared some room for the Tree of Life using eat Tree. During this FFA game everyone walked by this mine and didn't evennotice the player's expansion because of his hiding spot.Tree of EternityAfter your main Gold Mine is used up you can/should research Nature's Blessing (if you haven't already) and walk your Tree of Eternityto a new Gold Mine.
Be sure you have a Town Portal Scroll (and continue to buy them) so you can Teleport to the Tree of Eternityand save it. Click to Enlarge - 182 KB This Tree of Eternity walked to a new Gold Mine.Hide FunHide can be used to create invisible walls. This can be used to block off choke points such as Ramps or spaces into your town in betweenthe buildings.
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Click to Enlarge - 143 KB On The Crucible a Night Elf player uses Hide to create an invisible wall of Archers and a Priestess of the Moon. Confused, 3 enemyarmies bounce up against the invisible wall unable to exit the base. The 2 other teammates attack the enemy town while thisNight Elf player is 'blocking'.
The enemy team could have simply cast Blizzard or used any skill that can.SeedingWhen you notice that your opponent isn't scouting around his base, you caneasily build an Ancient of War nearby and start pumping out some units(Glaive Thrower works best). When you go to attack, bring those unitsand the Ancient(s) into your opponent's base, and keep building units as youattack. Be aware of units attacking the Ancient of War and your newlyproduced units (although they are foolish to do so, as it takes theirunits away from attacking your Glaive Throwers).One can also build Ancient Protectors inside your opponent's basewhile raiding, if you follow this up with an Ancient of War, you can buildyour whole army right in their base (perform with extreme caution). Thisstrategy works well against Night Elves (due to their delay in gettingdefenses), marginally against Orcs, but don't even try it against Humans orUndead (due early towers and to Militia or lumbering Ghoul and BlightRegeneration respectively). Document.write('