Has anyone heard any news in bettering heroes for actual combat? I hate having a high level hero sit in the back during actual warfare, afraid he'll get one hit.

Also, are heroes that level up going to get a selection of new abilities?

I say a very high level merchant should generate quite a bit of gold, maybe even that of a gold mine. Like everytime you level you can choose to level up your talent or take another, say a hero that generates 1 point of both tech/gold/arcane... Etc. Etc.

I don't know, anyone have news on this?