1 AoW Fast Hunts Tech

A beginner friendly Night Elf build: Keeper of the Grove, Hunter's Hall and a single Ancient of War into Huntresses, tech at 23 food with Ultravision. Sturdy units that forgive weak micro.

By AlterEgo· Updated 25 September 2026

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Full guide1 AoW Fast Hunts Tech

This build is good for beginners who are still learning the game and not confident in their micro, since Huntresses are much beefier than Archers. It sees most use against Orcs going Blademaster and Grunts, and is fine against Ghouls, Footmen or small numbers of Archers or Fiends. At higher levels players usually go Huntresses for early aggression instead.

Easy. You also see variants with an early expansion and mass tier 1 units with a Keeper in Night Elf versus Orc.

Build order · 13 steps

#	Food	Instruction
1	5	Send 4 of your 5 Wisps to the gold mine. The 5th Wisp builds an Altar, then scouts the enemy once the Altar is up.
2	5	Queue 2 Wisps.
3	6	Your 1st Wisp produced builds a Moon Well, then shift-click it onto a tree so it harvests lumber after.
4	7	Rally your 2nd produced Wisp to the gold mine so you have 5/5 on gold.
5	7	Queue as many Wisps as you can (8 more, for 10 on wood including the scout). Rally all of them to harvest wood.
6	10	Start training your first hero (Keeper of the Grove is good with Huntresses for lockdown).
7	18	When you have 160 wood build a Hunter's Hall and an Ancient of War.
8	17	When you have 40 wood get a 2nd Moon Well.
9	20	Train a Huntress.
10	23	Start the tech to tier 2 as soon as possible.
11	23	At 40 wood build Moon Well #3.
12	23	Continue Huntress production. By tier 2 you should have 4-5 Huntresses.
13	-	Research Ultravision as soon as possible.