I disagree. At hero he would have to face some badass evils like me, Tinsalope, Frismund, Emperor and so on who would ass raped him all over the thera. And it would be a totaly different story for him.. I'm not sure he would last long because I would have made his life living hell for lvl sitting for so long

Instead of this he was lvl sitting at ranks where he did not have strong opposition with marans powers, tattoo(correct me if I'm wrong), leader position and very good hero set(not all hero marans had anywhere close set mind you).

Worst part that he was cabal leader and while his men had to deal with bad ass evils and die to them... he was sitting in safe. Which is not cool in my book.

Also I'm a bit surprised that imms who usualy do not encourage lvl sitting and as I remember I've seen in few pbfs frown upon.. just turn a blind eye in Ilrek's case.