Diablo fuckin III!

[A Black Falcon]

WC1 was the first to have distinct looking hero unit, I recall how badass Lothar was when you first rescued him in the dungeon level and revived him using clerics.
WC2 heroes didn't appear untill the expansion, They were just uber versions of regular units with their own soundsets and icons.

Yeah, right, I forgot to mention that... that was definitely another of my complaints about WCII when I first got it. Where had the heroes with actually different stats gone? Lothar, etc, were just normal units with different names... that the expansion added them in was great.

So... yeah. I suppose at some point I'll read some thing about how in reality a couple of those soldiers were some awesomely trained level 10 badarses with all sorts of moves that LOOK like magic but are actually just good training, like hitting the bad guy into the clouds (indoors) and somehow jumping a mile into the air to HOVER and deliver like 70 hits that can level mountains before falling back to the ground and cleaving the floor in TWAIN. I've seen the high level abilities those warriors in WOW have... Wish MY footmen and knights could pull that off. Then again, this is pretty much to be expected. Ever since D&D they had to let the physical fighters manage to keep up with the likes of ultimate wizards and holy paladins somehow.

You cannot question these things. Like the fantasy rpg convention that better weapons = more skill... while in the real world, having the best weapon ever would bring you nothing if you didn't have the skill to wield it, in games, all you need is the weapon, that gives you the skill instantly! :)

... and besides, without those added skills playing warriors would be really boring.

To be honest I found the level where you kill Medivh retroactively letdownish. That is, he was more or less an evil wizard at the time, but by WC2 they had added so much to that whole story that he basically became, literally, the physical incarnation of the greatest force of magic and evil in the entire universe.

Huh, hadn't really thought of that, but that is quite a contrast, isn't it... they later retroactively made him far, far more powerful...