List of spells (HotA)

List of spells includes all the available spells in Heroes of Might and Magic III. The list is sortable by name, level or class.

Name	Level	Class	Effect
Bloodlust	1	Fire Magic	Increases the attack skill of target (or all) allied creature for melee attacks.
Cure	1	Water Magic	Removes all negative spell effects from target (or all) allied troop and heals it for (10/20/30 + (power x 5)) health points.
Curse	1	Fire Magic	The targeted (or all) enemy unit(s) deliver minimum or reduced damage when attacking.
Dispel	1	Water Magic	Removes all spell effects from target allied, enemy or all creatures and the battlefield.
Bless	1	Water Magic	Target (or all) allied creature(s) inflict maximum damage (or maximum +1) when they attack.
Haste	1	Air Magic	Target (or all) allied troop's speed is increased by 3 (or 5) hexes per turn.
Magic Arrow	1	All Schools	Target, enemy troop receives (10/20/30 + (power x 10)) damage
Protection from Fire	1	Fire Magic	Reduces damage taken from fire spells. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies. Effect increased from 30%-30%-50%-50% to 50%-50%-75%-75%.
Protection from Water	1	Water Magic	Reduces damage taken from water spells. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies. Effect increased from 30%-30%-50%-50% to 50%-50%-75%-75%.
Shield	1	Earth Magic	Reduces damage taken from hand-to-hand attacks. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies.
Slow	1	Earth Magic	Decreases speed. Basic: Single enemy. Expert: All enemies. Advanced/Expert Slow reduce speed by a new reduced formula (old speed x 0.5 + 1).
Summon Boat	1	Water Magic	Summons unoccupied boat to nearby body of water.
Stone Skin	1	Earth Magic	Increases defense rating. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies.
View Air	1	Air Magic	Reveals location of all unclaimed artifacts.
View Earth	1	Earth Magic	Reveals location of all resources.
Blind	2	Fire Magic	Prevents any action from being taken by target enemy creature.
Death Ripple	2	Earth Magic	Inflicts magic damage on all living creatures.
Disguise	2	Air Magic	Modifies the army composition scouting report visible to enemies.
Disrupting Ray	2	Air Magic	Reduces defense rating of a single enemy. May be used repeatedly on the same target.
Fire Wall	2	Fire Magic	Creates wall of fire at target location that inflicts magic damage on creatures that pass through.
Fortune	2	Air Magic	Increases luck. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies.
Ice Bolt	2	Water Magic	Inflicts magic damage on a single enemy.
Lightning Bolt	2	Air Magic	Inflicts magic damage on a single enemy.
Precision	2	Air Magic	Increases ranged attack rating. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies.
Protection from Air	2	Air Magic	Reduces damage taken from air spells. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies. Effect increased from 30%-30%-50%-50% to 50%-50%-75%-75%.
Quicksand	2	Earth Magic	Places quicksand at random locations on the battlefield. Only visible to caster and creatures native to the terrain. Creatures attempting to pass through quicksand become stuck and make the location of the quicksand visible.
Remove Obstacle	2	Water Magic	Removes obstacles from the battlefield. Basic: Only trees, rocks and other natural obstacles may be removed. Advanced: May also remove fire walls.
Scuttle Boat	2	Water Magic	Destroys nearby unoccupied boat.
Visions	2	All Schools	Increases information shown in scouting reports of towns, creatures and heroes.
Weakness	2	Water Magic	Reduces attack rating. Basic: Single enemy. Expert: All enemies.
Air Shield	3	Air Magic	Reduces damage taken from ranged attacks.
Animate Dead	3	Earth Magic	Reanimates killed undead creatures. Reanimated creatures are not lost when combat ends.
Anti-Magic	3	Earth Magic	Grants spell immunity to a single creature.
Destroy Undead	3	Air Magic	Inflicts magic damage on all undead creatures.
Earthquake	3	Earth Magic	Inflicts damage on random castle wall sections during a siege.
Fireball	3	Fire Magic	Inflicts magic damage on all creatures in area.
Force Field	3	Earth Magic	Places force field at specified location. Creatures cannot pass this field.
Forgetfulness	3	Water Magic	Prevents use of ranged attacks. Basic: Single enemy. Expert: All enemies.
Frost Ring	3	Water Magic	Inflicts magic damage on all creatures in area.
Hypnotize	3	Air Magic	Allows control of actions taken by enemy creature.
Land Mine	3	Fire Magic	Places landmines at random locations on the battlefield. Only visible to caster and creatures native to the terrain.
Mirth	3	Water Magic	Increases morale. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies.
Misfortune	3	Fire Magic	Reduces luck. Basic: Single enemy. Expert: All enemies.
Protection from Earth	3	Earth Magic	Reduces damage taken from earth spells. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies. Effect increased from 30%-30%-50%-50% to 50%-50%-75%-75%.
Teleport	3	Water Magic	Teleports ally to location on the battlefield. Expert: May teleport creature over castle walls.
Armageddon	4	Fire Magic	Inflicts magic damage on all creatures on the battlefield. Damage reduced from 50*(spell power) + 30/30/60/120 to 40*(spell power) + 30/30/60/120.
Berserk	4	Fire Magic	Forces enemy to attack closest creature.
Chain Lightning	4	Air Magic	Inflicts magic damage on initial creature and reduced damage on nearby creatures.
Clone	4	Water Magic	Creates clone of allied creature.
Counterstrike	4	Air Magic	Allows extra retaliations per round. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies.
Fire Shield	4	Fire Magic	Inflicts magic damage proportional to damage taken from hand-to-hand attacks.
Frenzy	4	Fire Magic	Increases attack rating and sets defense rating to 0.
Inferno	4	Fire Magic	Inflicts magic damage on all creatures in area.
Meteor Shower	4	Earth Magic	Inflicts magic damage on all creatures in area.
Prayer	4	Water Magic	Increases attack rating, defense rating and speed. Basic: Single ally. Expert: All allies.
Resurrection	4	Earth Magic	Resurrects killed living creatures until the end of combat. Advanced: Resurrected creatures are not lost when combat ends.
Slayer	4	Fire Magic	Increases attack rating of a single ally against Dragons, Behemoths and Hydras. Advanced: Effect applies to Angels and Devils. Expert: Effect applies to Titans.
Sorrow	4	Earth Magic	Reduces morale. Basic: Single enemy. Expert: All enemies.
Town Portal	4	Earth Magic	Teleports hero to closest allied, unoccupied town. Advanced: May choose any allied, unoccupied town.
Water Walk	4	Water Magic	Allows movement to visible land across bodies of water.
Dimension Door	5	Air Magic	Teleports hero to visible location.
Fly	5	Air Magic	Allows movement to visible land over all map obstacles. Cannot fly through cave walls in the underground.
Implosion	5	Earth Magic	Inflicts magic damage on a single enemy.
Magic Mirror	5	Air Magic	Reflects hostile spells to a random enemy. Basic: 20% chance of occurrence. Advanced: 30% chance. Expert: 40% chance.
Sacrifice	5	Fire Magic	Destroys and removes living, unkilled allies to bring previously living, killed allies back to life.
Summon Air Elemental	5	Air Magic	Summons allied Air Elementals for the duration of combat.
Summon Earth Elemental	5	Earth Magic	Summons allied Earth Elementals for the duration of combat.
Summon Fire Elemental	5	Fire Magic	Summons allied Fire Elementals for the duration of combat.
Summon Water Elemental	5	Water Magic	Summons allied Water Elementals for the duration of combat.
Titan's Lightning Bolt	5	Air Magic	Inflicts 600 magic damage on a single enemy. Requires Titan's Thunder.

Damage Spells

Name	School	Lvl	SP Cost	Damage Equation	AOE Size	Dmg 1	Dmg/SP 1	Dmg 10	Dmg/SP 10	Dmg 25	Dmg/SP 25	Notes
Magic Arrow	All	1	5/4	10/20/30 + (power x 10)	1	40	10	130	32.5	280	70
Lightning Bolt		2	10/8	10/20/50 + (power x 25)	1	75	9.38	300	37.5	675	84.38
Destroy Undead		3	15/12	10/20/50 + (power x 10)	*	60*	5*	150*	12.5*	300*	25*	Damages all undead troops
Chain Lightning		4	24/20	25/50/100 + (power x 40)	*	140*	7*	500*	25*	1100*	55*	Strikes up to 5 troops
Titan's Lightning Bolt		5	0	600	1	600	inf	600	inf	600	inf	Requires Titan's Thunder
Death Ripple		2	10/8	10/20/30 + (power x 5)	*	35*	4.375*	80*	10*	155*	19.38*	Damages all living troops
Meteor Shower		4	16/12	25/50/100 + (power x 25)	3-wide	125*	10.42*	350*	29.17*	725*	60.42*
Implosion		5	25/20	100/200/300 + (power x 75)	1	375	18.75	1050	52.5	2175	108.75
Fire Wall		2	8/6	10/20/50 + (power x 10)	2/3-hex	60*	10*	150*	25*	300*	50*	Damages all units passing through hexes
Fireball		3	15/12	15/30/60 + (power x 10)	3-wide	70*	5.83*	160*	13.34*	310*	25.83*
Land Mine		3	18/15	25/50/100 + (power x 10)	4/6/8-hex	110*	7.33*	200*	13.34*	350*	23.33*	Damages first unit passing through each hex
Armageddon		4	24/20	30/60/120 + (power x 50)	*	170*	8.5*	620*	31*	1370*	68.5*	Damages all troops
Inferno		4	16/12	20/40/80 + (power x 10)	5-wide	90*	7.5*	180*	15*	330*	27.5*
Ice Bolt		2	8/6	10/20/50 + (power x 20)	1	70	11.67	250	41.67	550	91.67
Frost Ring		3	12/9	15/30/60 + (power x 10)	3-wide	70*	7.78*	160*	17.78*	310*	34.4*	Does not damage center hex.

(*)NOTE: All damage/spell point effieciency is calculated based on:

• Hitting one target
• Expert proficiency

Adventure Map Spells

Name	School	Lvl	SP Cost	Effect
View Air		1	2/1	(Bsc) Displays the location of all artifacts on the view world screen. (Adv) Displays the location of all artifacts and heroes on the view world screen. (Exp) Displays the location of all artifacts, heroes, and towns on the view world screen.
Disguise		2	4/2	Modifies the army composition scouting report visible to enemies.
Visions	All	2	4/2	Increases information shown in scouting reports of towns, creatures and heroes.
Dimension Door		5	25/20	Teleports hero to a selected location on the adventure map. The spell may be cast 2/3/4 times per day. Reduces the hero's movement by 300/200 movement points.
Fly		5	20/15	Allows the hero to move over water/obstacles with 40%/20%/0% penalty.
View Earth		1	2/1	(Bsc) Displays the location of all resources on the view world screen. (Adv) Displays the location of all resources and mines on the view world screen. (Exp) Displays the location of all resources, mines and terrain on the view world screen.
Town Portal		4	16/12	Hero is teleported to the nearest(Bsc)/any(Adv) allied town. Reduces the hero's movement by 300(Bsc)/200(Exp) movement points.
Summon Boat		1	8/7	50%/75%/100% chance to summon the closest unoccupied boat to the hero's location. Can summon (player/neutral)(Bsc)/enemy(Adv)-owned boats. (Adv) Creates a boat if no eligible boats exist.
Scuttle Boat		2	8/6	50%/75%/100% chance to destroy unoccupied boat.
Water Walk		4	12/8	Allows the hero to move over water with 40%/20%/0% penalty.

See also

• List of spells
• Horn of the Abyss (Documentation)#Spells 2Template:Keywords