Editing Earth Magic

{{About|This article refers to the [[secondary skill]]. For the school of magic, see {{l|School of Earth Magic}}.}}

{{Secondary skills}}
{{Secondary skill
| B_effect = allows your hero to cast earth spells at reduced cost.
| A_effect = allows your hero to cast earth spells at reduced cost and increased effectiveness.
| E_effect = allows your hero to cast earth spells at reduced cost and maximum effectiveness.
}}

'''Earth Magic''' is a [[secondary skill]], that increases the effectiveness and reduces costs of [[spell]]s from the [[School of Earth Magic]].

Earth Magic is a school of magic, along with Water, Fire and Air Magic. There is a special rule in place that offers schools of magic more often as a choice when leveling up than the secondary skill learning percentages suggest: A new school of magic will be offered at least every 4 levels for Might heroes and every 3 levels for Magic heroes. If can be offered more often by chance. Example: The Might hero was not offered a school of magic when reaching levels 2 and 3. The hero will then be guaranteed to be offered a magic school at level 4. At level 8, the hero will be offered again a new magic school if none was offered at levels 5, 6 and 7.

'''Heroes with Basic Earth Magic as a starting skill:'''
* {{H2|Grindan|Elementalist}}
* {{H2|Labetha|Elementalist}}

== Chance to get ==
{{Secondary skill chance explanation}}

{{ZET SEC SKILL CHANCE TABLE| 2 (lowest)| 3| 3| 4| 3| 3| 3| 4| 4| 8 (highest)| 3| 5| 3| 3| 3| 3| 3| 6| 4| 5| 3| 4}}

{{user commentary|
Earth Magic is one of the most important secondary skills, as some of spells from the School of Earth Magic are really crucial. Expert [[Slow]] can make enemy's troops fully incompetitive (or disallow someone extremely fast, like [[Archangel]]s or [[Phoenix]]es, to rush through the battlefield), [[Implosion]] may destroy a strong stack completely (even with Spell Power 10, Expert Implosion will do 1050 damage, which would kill e.g 10 [[Champion]]s), troops risen by [[Resurrection]] cannot remain after the battle without Earth Magic skill, and [[Town Portal]] will get the hero without the skill only to the nearest town (while sometimes it's very important to visit a particular one, e.g. to defend it when a strong enemy comes close, to get troops, to learn spells, or to improve skills in buildings like [[Hall of Valhalla]] or [[Wall of Knowledge]]. Town Portal can allow a hero to travel between all his towns). Moreover, [[Animate Dead]] is also an Earth spell. These spells can make a game really easier. Other magic schools are useful, but Earth Magic rocks.

There are several reasons to select Earth Magic, but one of the strongest motive is [[Town Portal]] spell, which is among the most powerful adventure map spells along with [[Fly]] and [[Dimension Door]]. Another excellent reason is the [[Resurrection]] spell (and [[Animate Dead]] for [[Undead]]), which permanently resurrects creatures at Advanced and Expert level (while on Basic level only for the duration of the battle). A hero with a lot of spell points, high [[power]] skill and Expert or Advanced Resurrection can win almost any battle without suffering losses (for example, by [[Blind]]ing the last enemy stack and then resurrecting all of their own troops).

Furthermore, with Expert Earth Magic, [[Shield]], [[Stone Skin]] and [[Slow]] become powerful [[mass spell]]s at Expert level. Slow as a mass [[hindering spell]] has especially devastating effects among enemy troops, as it reduces all enemy creatures' [[speed]] by 50%, which may change the outcome of battles against overpowering opponents.
Earth magic also contains [[Meteor Shower]] which is a great multi hex damaging spell and [[Implosion]] which is the strongest [[single target spell]] in the game, capable of destroying or crippling a power stack at the beginning of the fight.
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{{secondary skill 'see also'}}

== List of Earth Magic Spells ==
=== [[First Level Spells|First Level]] ===

*[[Magic Arrow]]
*[[Shield]]
*[[Slow]]
*[[Stone Skin]]
*[[View Earth]]

=== [[Second Level Spells|Second Level]] ===
*[[Death Ripple]]
*[[Quicksand]]
*[[Visions]]

=== [[Third Level Spells|Third Level]] ===
*[[Animate Dead]]
*[[Anti-Magic]]
*[[Earthquake]]
*[[Force Field]]
*[[Protection from Earth]]

=== [[Fourth Level Spells|Fourth Level]] ===
*[[Meteor Shower]]
*[[Resurrection]]
*[[Sorrow]]
*[[Town Portal]]

=== [[Fifth Level Spells|Fifth Level]] ===
*[[Implosion]]
*[[Summon Earth Elemental]]

==Description==
Considered the strongest spell school by most, Earth Magic basically does it all: good [[Direct damage spells|damage spells]], good [[Adventure spell|adventure map spells]], decent blessings, [[Resurrection]]/[[Animate Dead]], and last, but not least, [[Slow]]. If your hero is going to learn only one Magic School, Earth Magic would be it. Still, some tend to rank it a bit too highly; [[Town Portal]] is obviously an excellent spell, but it is also often [[banned]]. Resurrection is a great spell, but most of the time, it can't turn a [[Combat|battle]]. Slow is also great, but it won't help you that much if the enemy has better [[ranged unit]]s than you. That being said, Earth Magic is still powerful enough for it to be one of the "must have" [[Secondary Skills|skills]].

=== DiFool's Ratings (1-5) ===

* [[Direct damage spells|Direct damage]]   5
* Benefit own army            5 
* Weaken enemy army  3
* [[Adventure spell|Travel]]               4
* [[Informational spells|Informational]]   5
* Specialty helps?                       5

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