Heroes higher than level 10

dattaangle; shutup :P

The problem is that the only way to get retail war3 to read your modified miscdata.txt is to put it in eiter war3.mpq or war3patch.mpq. Putting it anywhere else Will Not Work, because the game will overwrite it with the data from war3.mpq. Making a patch for multiplayer with a modded miscdata.txt won't help you as it would require you to put exp restrictions on every map that shouldn't let heroes have 15 levels, thus making all maps melee maps because of custom triggers. There are three ways I can think of to solve this problem:
1. Alter the order in which the game reads files, which would require some really extensive modding and will probably give other problems (Bliz patches that don't work; you can prolly forget multiplaying with anyone who hasn't done this).
2. Making an altered war3patch.mpq for your map; then find some people to play with; give them your altered war3patch.mpq and then you can play.
3. Beg Blizzard really hard to change the order in which the game reads files for us :)

Um... I was playing a pirate version over the weekend, and in the editor there is, in fact, a line that says 'max hero level' or something like that, and while honestly I never tested it, you can set it to over 10.

Eh, I think you're looking at "hero level" not "max hero level." It's not in the retail or the beta, pirated or legit.

There is something like max hero level but if you click it says set a value from 1-10. So eh not so good...

My bad, my bad. :)

Hmm, if that's a value in WE, maybe it's possible to find where it stores that value in the map and up it? At the very least it could cause a crash ;)

It is in miscdata.txt if I'm not mistaken, but putting it in a map file won't work. You'll have to put it in war3patch.mpq; which makes the game modded so you can't play online (with people who don't have the same file).