Offense
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Basic Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 10%. | |
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Advanced Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 20%. | |
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Expert Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 30%. | |
Offense adds 10%, 20% or 30% damage to the base damage of any Melee attacks from a hero’s troops. It does not multiply total damage by 110%, 120% or 130%.
To illustrate, take a creature stack that without offense does 100 base damage and 50 bonus damage from its high attack skill for a total of 150 damage. With expert offense, the total damage of 150 is not multiplied by 130% and is therefore not 195. Instead, the base damage of 100 is multiplied by 30%, which is added to the 100 base damage and 50 bonus damage for a total of 100 + 50 + 30 = 180 damage. In this case, then, expert offense adds only 20% damage, instead of 30%. In reality, the offense bonus is therefore 30% only when no other bonuses, such as from luck, death blow, or high attack skill are added.
Recommended for: Any Hero who can afford the extra slot
Heroes with Offense as a starting skill
All Barbarians start with Basic offense, except Crag Hack and Kilgor, who start with Advanced. The following heroes also start with offense:
- Sorsha the Knight
- Catherine the Knight
- Ivor the Ranger
- Rissa the Alchemist
- Nymus the Demoniac (Advanced)
- Octavia the Demoniac
- Clavius the Death Knight
- Tamika the Death Knight
- Arlach the Overlord
- Dace the Overlord
- Damacon the Overlord (Advanced)
- Shakti the Overlord
- Gundula the Battle Mage
- Alkin the Beastmaster
- Fiur the Planeswalker
- Ignissa the Planeswalker
- Monere the Planeswalker
- Pasis the Planeswalker
Heroes that specialize in Offense
- Crag Hack the Barbarian
- Gundula the Battle Mage