Ada hat darauf ja schon Mal was in einem anderen Thread geantwortet und ich grad nochmal auf moddb.
Ich kopier einfach Mal meine Antwort von moddb:
We have discussed this idea a few times, but it was always neglected, as it looks really cool at the first look, but after thinking a bit about it, it will be less and less interesting.
I will list some of the problems:
1.
We would need another spell for 25 powerpoints, because otherwise it can happen, that your balrog dies, you capture the ring and in the same fight you can get another ringbalrog, by just summoning him again, as the countdown was already back up.
So we would have to decide: Ringbalrog or Spellbookbalrog?
And I personally like a spellbookbalrog more, who comes more often, but for a shorter period of time. (many people play without the ring, especially in MP - all of those people wouldn't be able to get a balrog)
2. Then why don't we add him as normal hero?
The balrog only has very few animations - you don't notice it, as it always appears just for a short period of time and mostly is fighting while being alive - but while other heros or normal soldiers have dozens of different animations (different attacks, different idles, etc.), the balrog has only very few, which looks very curios when you look at him for more than a few seconds.
Also it is very difficult to add more animations, as the model is very complex and it would take way too much time to do so.
Additionally the balrog is only so cool, as you have him for a very limited time. I have played countless mods with a buildable balrog. You always build him and afterwards he looses his appeal. He will be a normal champion without anything special. (believe me - after controlling him in 5-6 games he won't be a special monster anymore)
By having him only available for a short period of time he will always be cool and when he appears, the enemies will always be shocked. (We can't balance him as a normal hero, as he would always be too strong or it would look very funny.)
Additionally the player who controls him will always totally focus on him, as he doesn't want to miss a second when he plays him.
If you play him as a normal hero, you wouldn't have this feeling.
3.But what if we have him normally as a spell, but still as a ringhero? (disregarding point 1)
We would need complete new abilities, as the current abilities doesn't fit for a hero which is on the battlefield forever - mostly they are too strong/the coutdowns are too short.
Therefore we would have too weaken his abilities... but... weaken his abilities as soon as he gets the ring? That will always look a bit stupid... And if we weaken his abilities also for the spellbook, he would be much weaker and would have no chance against the other specialpowers.
Therefore noone would buy the ability until he has either the ring or has bought all other spells.
4. It doesn't really fit into the role, the balrog had in the lord of the rings - he fought for noone, neither was he on the side of the orcs, nor on the side of the fellowship. He just existed, similar to the watcher, until someone woke him up, afterwards he tried to kill them and go back again. He just appeared for a small period of time and vanished afterwards - those two points doesn't fit into his role as ring(or normal) hero.
