For a long time, due to the special class of horned eagle knights, the night elves needed to study the reasons why the "horned eagle beast ride" could have under the premise of having both archers and horned eagle beasts, and the popularity and appearance rate have not been high, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are highly criticized. With the change of version, after the Night Elves no longer need to study the "Horned Eagle Beast Riding" skill, they can directly combine archers and horned eagle beasts to become Horned Eagle Knights. This time, let's take a look at the specific role of the Horned Eagle Beast Knight, which was much criticized in the past, but now it is slowly appearing in the game.
To understand the specific role of the Horned Eagle Beast Knight, it is very important to learn more about the characteristics of this class, and the difference from before the fusion. In the next time, let's take a look at the specific characteristics, specific attributes and detailed functions of this special class.
Class attributes
Health is 780 points: Since the Horned Eagle Knight itself is a combination of the Horned Eagle Beast and the Archer, the setting chooses to combine the original health of the two as the health of the new class, so in the absence of special circumstances, the health of the Horned Eagle Knight is the 255 health of the archer plus the 525 health of the Horned Eagle Beast, for a total of 780 health points.
Movement speed is 350: Archers move 270 before merging, Horned Eagles move at 400, and 350 after merging. The setting of this point is still very user-friendly overall, after all, the design of the horned eagle beast model as a mount is much larger than that of the archer, and the movement speed will be reduced after the archer is carried, but it will not be too much.
Retains Archer Attack Power: The archer before the fusion is a ranged piercing unit, and the Horned Eagle Beast is an air melee unit that seizes air supremacy for the Night Elves. The combined Horned Eagle Beast Knight did not maintain the Horned Eagle Beast's air superiority, but only retained the archer's attack power intact.
Armor type change, value increased by 1 point: The archer before the combination is a medium armor unit of 0 points, the horned eagle beast is a 0 point unarmored unit, and the armor type after the combination becomes light armor, and the value increases by 1 point on their average.
Range reduced by 100: After the Horned Eagle Beast was equipped with an archer, the newly emerged Horned Eagle Knight did not improve its range without improving its range while retaining only the archer's attack power, but reduced it by 100 on the basis of the archer's range. This means that under normal circumstances, the range of the Horned Eagle Knight is 400, and the range of the Horned Eagle Knight who has studied the hard bow skill is only 600.
Class characteristics
Enhance the survivability of archers: Due to the low cost and relatively fast production speed, the output ability of archers who can easily accumulate in the early stage should not be underestimated. When the game comes to the middle and late stages, with the blessing of the two skills of "archery" and "hard bow", the archer's attack power and range are still very good after being improved. The Horned Eagle Beast Knight, compared with ordinary archers, although the range is 100 shorter, and the armor attribute has changed from a higher medium armor to a somewhat fragile light armor, but the 525 health point increase still greatly improves the survivability of the archer.
Greatly increases the archer's movement speed: In addition to the low health, the base movement speed of 270 is also one of the archer's biggest drawbacks. After letting them ride the Horned Eagle Beast, although they could not continue to maintain the base movement speed of the Horned Eagle Beast 400, the base movement speed of the 350 was not low. In actual combat, this basic movement speed increase of up to 80 will undoubtedly greatly improve the fault tolerance rate of the class. Without considering the restraint of the class, the extra 350 movement speed is greatly improved, whether it is the pulling or harassment suppression effect in the battle.
Practical effect
Fast leveling: The Air Force in Warcraft 3 is easily limited by opponents, but it is still very effective in leveling. With this class, the effect is still very good if you need to take down some large monster points mainly in melee units.
Roundabout Harassment: Although the movement speed of the Horned Eagle Beast Knight is not as high as that of the Horned Eagle Beast in the initial state, it also exceeds many ordinary classes, and the effect of relying on its own movement speed to bypass and harass the opponent is also not bad.