| Stone Skin
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| School:
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earth magic
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| Level:
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1st
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| Cost:
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5
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| Duration:
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1 rnd/sp
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| Basic effect
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| Buff, single target, defense rating is increased by 3.
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| Advanced effect
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| Buff, single target, defense rating is increased by 6.
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| Expert effect
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| Buff, all own stacks, defense ratings are increased by 6.
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Stone Skin is a 1st level spell in the School of earth magic. It increases target, allied troop's defense.
Heroes that specialize in Stone Skin
Stone skin is often compared to shield, which has similar effects.
They both reduce the amount of damage creature stacks receives, Stone Skin in terms of attack/defense, which increases or decreases the damage dealt, Shield reduces the damage the stack has gotten after this calculation, but only hand-to-hand damage, not ranged one (which Stone Skin takes care for), not magic (which would be in the Anti Magic Spell Buff domain, not Combat Buffs/Debuffs).
A rule of thumb wheter to use shield or stone skin in hand-to-hand combat is, that if enemy's attack skill is greater than your defense skill, use stone skin. Of course, with both spells active, your troops will receive considerably less damage.
