Control magic vs orc wards is very powerful but lets be honest neither witch doctor not serpent wards are popular vs humans regardless of control magic.
However i do feel like Control magic should have something like ~60 seconds cooldown considering that it is now much easier to get and costs less mana per health.
I watched grubby too, and guess what. He still won.
This was an issue because he was playing a mass doctors and FS request. His opponent saw this and massed breakers.
They did a bit of a good job but once he put a couple tauren into his army and crushed the human opponent.
Gods, you people are clueless. Repeating the same wrong thing time and time again. Although it is blatantly wrong.
Yes they can steal level 3 wolves, stop lying.
Proof:
Didn’t even see this video, but, wow. That range IS ridiculous. Also, like Grubby pointed out in the end, there is no minimum mana cost for Control Magic, nor is there a cooldown. . . so the human player can steal as many wards as an orc player can put down and still have enough mana to steal a full hp lvl3 farseer wolf.
Or it will steal absolutely nothing from the Tauren Chieftain since Tauren Chieftain has no spells it can steal anything from. If one goes Orc Farseer against Humans then expect to see Spell Breakers to steal your summons.
It also has a very high mana cost. Often equal to or more than what is being stolen.
Totems to do not exist in Warcraft III. There is an Orb building classed unit which bares the name, but ultimately it is a unit like all other units. Wards are Wards and summoned units.
To prevent wards from being effected by control magic they would have to be given magic immunity. This would potentially make less sense than currently since then they would somehow resist being incinerated by Flame Strike or other high damage abilities.
Mechanically it is a building classed unit. It is not a ward or summon classed unit like Stasis Ward and Healing Totem are.
It is modelled around being a totem pole…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totem_pole
http://classic.battle.net/war3/orc/buildings/taurentotem.shtml
It still costs a ton of mana to cast. A breaker might be able to cast on 1-2 full health summons before running out of mana completely and it will be many minutes to replenish that mana without aid of a mana well or other strong mana regen source.
It has a 5 second cooldown. It also costs as much mana as a percentage of health the target has. This means that if the Spell Breaker is out of mana it cannot steal anything as it cannot afford the mana cost to do so. If it is still able to do so then that is a bug.
Wards have very low HP which is why they can steal so many of them. Like wise the Human could just dispel the wards using Priests.