I’ve started experimenting with Bloodmage against Orc in caster based strategies, as both first and second hero. (Archmage as the other hero, naturally.) Banish is really cool against Blademaster because 1) it doesn’t have a cooldown, 2) it lasts 4 seconds at level 1 (Storm Bolt lasts 3 seconds against heroes at all levels), 3) Bloodmage usually has lots of mana.

Nowadays in a lot of X-vs-Orc matchups, it’s just a focus-the-Blademaster game. If you keep him perma-banished, you can actually fight the Orc’s army, and Warcraft is more fun again!

repost, I know

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I was discussing with a clanmate today. My position is that map layout is most important in how viable gargs are (mostly distances, that is to say). It doesn’t really matter if the human has an archmage. mercs are a little annoying, but not the biggest deal either in my opinion. so TM may be too far for gargs, while TS natural expo may not be.

maybe something to think about.

http://blackerlotus.bl.funpic.de/Galerie/CutieCraft/

lol ;)