Luck (secondary skill)

This article refers to the secondary skill. For the effects of luck in combat, see luck.

Secondary Skills
Air Magic
Archery
Armorer
Artillery
Ballistics
Diplomacy
Eagle Eye
Earth Magic
Estates
Fire Magic
First Aid
Intelligence
Interference
Leadership
Learning
Logistics
Luck
Mysticism
Navigation
Necromancy
Offense
Pathfinding
Resistance
Scholar
Scouting
Sorcery
Tactics
Water Magic
Wisdom

Luck
	Basic Luck: increases your hero's luck by 1.
	Advanced Luck: increases your hero's luck by 2.
	Expert Luck: increases your hero's luck by 3.

Heroes with Luck as a starting skill:

•   Ufretin the Ranger
•   Melodia the Druid
•   Astra the Navigator 
•   Henrietta the Mercenary 

Chance to get

Out of total 112 for Shadow of Death, and of (112 + Interference chance) for Horn of the Abyss .
Banned skills change the probability.

Town	Class	Chance to learn
Castle	Knight	3
Castle	Cleric	5
Rampart	Ranger	6
Rampart	Druid	9 (highest)
Tower	Alchemist	2
Tower	Wizard	4
Inferno	Demoniac	2
Inferno	Heretic	2
Necropolis	Death Knight	1 (lowest)
Necropolis	Necromancer	1 (lowest)
Dungeon	Overlord	1 (lowest)
Dungeon	Warlock	2
Stronghold	Barbarian	3
Stronghold	Battle Mage	2
Fortress	Beastmaster	2
Fortress	Witch	4
Conflux	Planeswalker	2
Conflux	Elementalist	2
Cove	Captain	7
Cove	Navigator	4
Factory	Mercenary	5
Factory	Artificer	3

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Luck is not a "must have" secondary skill which is essential, but still a decent bonus helpful in battles. Its relevance probably increased in Horn of the Abyss , as this mod enabled bad luck attacks (which are present in the original game's code, but do not normally work), which deal only half of damage, and Luck secondary skill can help avoiding it. Consider this skill playing for Necropolis (even though there's a very small chance to get it), as neither morale nor Bless spell can improve the attacks of the undead.

Having high luck is unquestionably valuable in combat. For several reasons, however, Luck is only a mediocre secondary skill:

• Maximum positive luck is +3. This may already be obtained through artifacts and adventure map locations (e.g. Fountain of Fortune), so often there is little need to also spend a secondary skill slot on it.
• Lucky strikes are not sufficiently numerous or powerful to rival the bonus damage of Archery or Offense. Even when expert Luck increases luck from 0 to +3, the resulting average bonus damage is 2.4 times lower than what expert Offense provides to melee attacks, and 4 times lower than what expert Archery provides to ranged attacks.
• Luck is unpredictable and therefore cannot be relied on when planning fights.

Things that ruin Luck

• Hourglass of the Evil Hour
• Pendant of Courage

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See also:

• Secondary skills