Quote Originally Posted by Big_John
actually, wc2 wasn't balanced at all because of bloodlust. online, anyone playing human v orc was only doing so to see if they were skilled enough to break the orc player before they got ogre magi. it was a way to challenge yourself, but you had no illusions.

paladins v ogre magi was the only imbalance, iirc (there might have been a smaller one with the other casters), but it was a huge one that essentially broke the balance of the whole game.

i had to get that off my chest.
By the time you have ogre magi, Bloodlust didn't matter. Numbers did. I played a game with a friend of mine the other day - any ogre who was given bloodlust was almost immediately slain, sometimes having landed a single blow first, sometimes without an electric punch. The Runes were far more effective.