Not countin the ranks of 20 and below (for practicing) i spent about half the chars life at hero ranks.
2. Most of my solo against group killings were at hero ranks.
3. Non battleragers have a. Invoker shields (at times) barrier (if mage, and if frisky non mage) shield stoneskin aura haste enhanced haste enlarge reduce minor ward healing equipment casting equipment (though good idea to remove against villagers) if empirial then also empirial defense, and the list goes on, and believe me there are ways at hero to get everything from added hps/ strength/ con/ int wis etc for every fight with ease as well hit/dam etc, that villagers cannot. Yes, the fact that I eat villagers for breakfast because I do prepare makes battleragers so sick, even with deathblow. I have had previous battleragers taken out by lone warriors just because they prepared and worked hard for their character to be successful.
As for thirst, please thirst on me.

As for beating 75% of opponents one on one, ask lotho how to do it with style and grace (even if a bit painful) aka balator.
The only reason they come at me with that many is (not all of them mind you) they dont bother to do a char that amounts to anything. They make a char to gang people, period. I remember war masters that could handle their own against anything. Healers that were feared. Shamans that could hold their own and win (duergars at that) against three paladins.
Damn now those were fierce days
As for now, they dont prepare, they do nothing but log on, log off if noone, stay on if others.

As for me not being a badass. My non battleragers are always more badass than my battleragers, just because things are much, much more easier to survive with them, and in quite a few situations easier to kill with them. You want a badass though? Comming right up.