Ok. For the hell of it, I'm going to play devil's advocate. Sort of. Let me rephrase the rant to be: at certain levels, for certain combos, giants with bash make the game no fun.

Say, an elf invoker up to the point where they get shields. Sure, there's reduce and enlarge. But the giant has those at his disposal too. And woe to the guy who gets caught by surprise. I've always chalked this up to, "Warriors kind of get screwed by mages at the high levels, so this is their time to shine."

But...maybe it needn't be that way?