1) Well you cannot get ride of him, you will stick with him up to the end. You can however knock him out and don't wake him up (unless you travel).

2) GM learning is insane boosting. The more points to put in it the more XP you gain. Actually for each point in learning at GM you get. 2 XP bonuse. So 2 points in learning means you double your XP (100% gain). What do you want, I got a deal with NWC to make wizards smart ** whahahaha *** :p

No its not a bug, it is "was" described on the official home page.

3) I remember someone speaking about the time bug. Perhaps Bones can give more details about it.

4) Black chests can be found all over the place. They are just hard to disarm with a low level team. If you are not afraid to get some nasty damage you can go for them.

5) Game freezes. Do you have your video drivers up-to-date, or for older cards not too much up-to-date. That could be one reason. Another is low RAM or some other memory wasting application like a chat room, Skype, etc.

Other then that nice to see your head pop in here Ryder, long time not seen. Did you convert your kids to MM already? Or do you spare them this drugs I’m busy with Heroes V and I love the game. Must be polished out but it will be good. Most of the old Heroes fart is beta testing and we are jumping up and down for the final release. Hope to see ya around as well.