How Hero Experience Works
While the concept of hero experience and how it works seems straight forward at first, there are quite a few intricacies in how hero experience works in Warcraft 3 that you should be aware of in order to maximize your potential hero levels in a game.
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While the concept of hero experience and how it works seems straight forward at first, there are quite a few intricacies in how hero experience works in Warcraft 3 that you should be aware of in order to maximize your potential hero levels in a game.
Instead of writing it all out myself, just check out what RehcraM (an old GYM admin) wrote on the issue here.
https://warcraft3.info/articles/232/hero-experience-in-warcraft-3-how-it-works
While it is old, nothing has changed from this article besides you will not get tome of experiences in 1v1 as they were removed from maps.
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