Earth Magic

This article refers to the secondary skill. For the school of magic, see school of earth magic.

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
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Resistance
Scholar
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Tactics
Water Magic
Wisdom

Earth Magic
	Basic Earth Magic: allows your hero to cast earth spells at reduced cost.
	Advanced Earth Magic: allows your hero to cast earth spells at reduced cost and increased effectiveness.
	Expert Earth Magic: allows your hero to cast earth spells at reduced cost and maximum effectiveness.

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. For example: a 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 again be offered a new magic school if none were offered at levels 5, 6, or 7.

Heroes with Earth Magic as a starting skill:

•   Labetha the Elementalist
•   Grindan the Elementalist

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	2 (lowest)
Castle	Cleric	3
Rampart	Ranger	3
Rampart	Druid	4
Tower	Alchemist	3
Tower	Wizard	3
Inferno	Demoniac	3
Inferno	Heretic	4
Necropolis	Death Knight	4
Necropolis	Necromancer	8 (highest)
Dungeon	Overlord	3
Dungeon	Warlock	5
Stronghold	Barbarian	3
Stronghold	Battle Mage	3
Fortress	Beastmaster	3
Fortress	Witch	3
Conflux	Planeswalker	3
Conflux	Elementalist	6
Cove	Captain	4
Cove	Navigator	5
Factory	Mercenary	3
Factory	Artificer	4

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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 Archangels or Phoenixes, 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 Champions), 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 Blinding 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 spells 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.

See also:

• Secondary skills