Heroes 3 fan-made balance patch (mod) updated!

[chumchu]

Great work! I made an account just to comment on it =)

I have played a while with your mod now and agree with most of your changes. However there are a few changes things that I think would make it better.

Towns
Perhaps too many changes. Every change will make an old player have to re-learn the stats of a unit. That turns people off stuff like WoG.

Some changes were sorely needed though, like the cheaper cyclops cave, cheaper imps and better wights/wraiths.

- I disagree with some of the Castle buffs as their fragile shooters and expensive training grounds was just about the only downside with them.

- It is important that there are worthwhile upgrade buildings early so that early game choices are more interesting. If the upgrade is not really good you build a new unit building instead which unlocks higher leaves and gives more units/week. If get an upgrade building you have to get the units back to base and then back to the action as well. For instance the debuff to Ogre Mages, Silver Pegasi, Wolf Raider and Lizard warrior.

Artifacts
All good

Spells
Well balanced.

- Make town portal solely a fire spell as earth is the strongest and fire the weakest, then every lore has a good non-combat spell.


Secondary skills
Mostly good, learning was most needed.

- Secondary skills should be balanced both for primary heroes and scouting/transport heroes. Estates was already really good for a scout/transport hero even if it might be difficult to get to expert with it. Either go with 150/300/500 or the original. Scouting was balanced as it was IMO. If you double the radius from 5 to 10 tiles the area scouted quadrupples. It also makes it much harder to sneak up on the player with the scout hero as you seldom get to move 10+tiles straight in any direction with winding and rough terrain.

Eagle eye is still the worst but it is very hard to salvage =) Perhaps if you can learn spells from monsters OR if you can learn spells of higher levels without wisdom OR if you steal some spell points(half the cost?) when it happens it might be worthwhile.

I hope this was helpful. Thanks for all the good work!