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Gilraen

Specialty:

All Blade Dancers and War Dancers in hero's army gain +1 to their attack and defense for every two levels of the hero, starting on first level.

Skills:

Basic Avenger
Basic Defense
Protection

Gilraen is better than Dariel, but yes... he is weak, another one of the weakest heroes in the game...

He start with Defense and Protection, the Wood Elves Hero is always good in Defence and Spell Power, and the creatures are not bad in defence. Actually the defence skill in needless for Sylvan (well the defence skill is always useful, but this is whole slot, and you can use it for luck or something more needful for Sylvan)

The Blade/War Dancers are creatures with very, very, very good stats for Lv. 2, but they have very low % survival, and they are easy to kill with almost all creatures on Lv 3-7...

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Not really. If you have tried him you know that he boosts their survivability a lot and his starting army is pretty good. Given some time his wardancers get dangerous with their combo and the battle commander ability boosts his strength right out of the blue.(leadership is easy to get) He actually makes his dancers durable when you charge them to block enemy ranged fire and they can keep doing it even better with these stats and a favourable morale. Such a great initiative... His starting defense is a bonus since he can easily get evasion or vitality to help sylvan's frail units which die no matter how much defense you have. I just don't like protection that much which is why I think him average.

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Vinrael

Specialty:

All experience that hero gains after battles is increased by 2% per hero level.

Skills:

Basic Avenger
Basic Enlightenment
Intelligence

Like Gilraen, Vinrael's starting skills (the Intelligence) skill is needless. This hero is weak in early game too.

He is good forbig maps, with many enemies and battles.

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He is average but can gain a good lvl advantage with his special stacking with enlightenment, even more if you get exp enlightenment fast. To exploit his mana you could go destructive and leave out defense since he gets extra defence from the enlightenment lvls. OR get over that you have a useless starting ability and choose your own path. I feel he disrupts my inner harmony!

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Wyngaal

Specialty:

Creature's in hero's army have a +0.5% per hero level bonus to their initiative on the start of combat.

Skills:

Basic Avenger
Basic Attack
Tactics

Well good hero, but weak in the game start... good skills and Specialty, all elves are strong in initiative, this hero can make them even stronge , on 15 Lv. he will get +7,5 initiative, and on Lv. 20 - 10 initiative, so not bad, but 10 initiative for 20 levels is not good enough, the mass light spells are better than the specialty...

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Hmm he now gets 2% per lvl and people have begun banning him from games...Too much of a percentage.
Regardless of unfavourable chances he will get you to play before your opponent with a greater frequency thus utilizing another way of defending his creatures! Since he starts with attack, defense is obsolete and he must prepare for a charge to end battles quickly. Attack is best with frenzy and nature's wrath instead of archery and luck->soldier's luck, leadership is a must for his ambushing tactics! This way he may attack with some creatures twice before enemy units get to play.

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Talanar

Specialty:

Blade Dancer, War Dancer, Hunter, Master Hunter, Druid, Druid Elder get Enraged ability.

Skills:

Basic Avenger
Basic Leadership
Recruitment

Talanar is very good hero for early game, he start with skills:

Leadership - good for all races (without Necro) and Recruitment - not bad in the game start

The specialty is good for the game beginning, you can split the Pixies in 2 stacks (one of them with only 1 creature) and just send the 1 Pixies so certain death , your Dancers, Hunters and Druids will get Enraged ability, and this can help a lot in the start and in neutral battles.

but the specialty is not very good in final battles.

..., also Talanar start with ballista - another good thing for the beginning

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I wouldn't call him a good one. Ok his special is better than you may think as the more the creatures that die the more attack you'll gain with enraged. Not exceedingly high but a +2-3 is not hard to get. But wardancers and hunters are the first to die, before they get the bonus and the druids aren't reknowned for their crazy attack power. Not much of a difference though it will help. Ballista? If you get warmachines good for you, you just 'gained' 4500 gold you'd spend in the blacksmith. Leadership has 10% chance to get which is pretty high, though Talanar ensures it. And recruitment... Nah, average.

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Ossir

Specialty:

All Hunters and Master Hunters in hero's army gain +1 to their attack and defense for every two levels of the hero, starting on first level.

Skills:

Basic Avenger
Basic Luck
Magic Resistance

One of the best heroes in Sylvan, the Hunters are good shooters, not strong, but not weak too, in good amount, and with Ossir, they get very, very, very good creatures.

Ossir start with Luck and Magic Resistance, very good beginning, and very useful skills for all races! You can easily reach Evlen luck and Dead man curse, and the skill is needed for the Nature's Luck (Units in hero army always have luck rolled on attacks.).

Also he start with some hunters - very useful in early game.

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Naturally the best. He once ambushed my Wyngaal and even though i shot first his master hunters remained...Most of them. And raped me shortly after. His resistance is his natural hunter protection from spells further augmented by the unicorns' aura. A warlock will still get to them but with half damage in all probablility. And if they play first they'll do enough damage. Luck is the way to go and I hate it that only he has it. Resistance you may feel prevents you from getting elven luck fast but how faster will the ones who don't have luck get it? Great starting army indeed, maybe more than he should

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Ylthin

Specialty:

All Unicorns and Silver Unicorns in hero's army gain +1 to their attack and defense for every two levels of the hero, starting on first level.

Skills:

Basic Avenger
Basic Light Magic
Master of Blessings

Maybe the best starting hero here (the best):

1. She start with a Unicorn (only 1 but it is Lv. 5 creature, very good start).
2. She start with with a First Aid Ten! You can attack the weak neutral armies with the Unicorn and heal it.
3. She start with Basic Light Magic --->>> Master of Blessings (Grants mass effects to Divine Strength and area effect to Cleansing spells, but doubles the casting cost of these spells. Hero wastes only half of his current initiative to cast these spells). LoL!

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I don't think so. Light is good but not a priority and you may not get divine strength or cleansing thus potentially a wasted ability. It's not as if you'll have the resources to get mage guilds early and other skills are more important in the beginning. You can get light later as it's not that rare. The tent isn't that great either though I like her concept! I'd say better for normal, big maps.
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