One of my favourites. I always thought Fire got too "tryhard" and elitist. If you didn't build the right things in the exact right order, and safeguarded your base against every little vamp trick in the book, you were scolded for being a massive noob.
Beast is a little more forgiving, and much more enjoyable for someone logging in to just have some quality good ol wc3 fun.
I used to be friends with M2tM many years ago. Has he abandoned wc3 completely? I remember he was working as a dev on his own game for some time.