well, i did nothing else!
it is when u start, but u haveto get use to it, one way or the other, or u need to stick with wc3...
thats what i said for like years now, geomerging might be nice if u wanna doodle aroudn a bit, but has no future...
there are good tutorials on max and zbrush (or maya, mudbox kombo would be fine, too. like maya or max for the modeling of lowpoly versions and zbrush or mudbox for sculpting)...
And i guess for the latter is a tablet highly recomended...