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'''Hero specialty''' is a characteristic of every hero that typically improves their performance in [[combat]]. Specialties can be categorized into four types: [[spell]]s, [[creature]]s, [[secondary skill]]s and [[Hero_specialty#Production_specialties|production]]. Production specialties do not have an effect in combat, but instead generate certain [[resources]] (except [[wood]] and [[ore]]) for the kingdom. Most of the specialties are unique, but there are also specialties common to several heroes. For example, [[secondary skill]] [[Offense]] is a specialty of [[Crag Hack]] and [[Gundula]] (and also [[Corkes]] in {{hota}}), and the spell [[Resurrection]] is a specialty of [[Alamar]] and [[Jeddite]]. | '''Hero specialty''' is a characteristic of every hero that typically improves their performance in [[combat]]. Specialties can be categorized into four types: [[spell]]s, [[creature]]s, [[secondary skill]]s and [[Hero_specialty#Production_specialties|production]]. Production specialties do not have an effect in combat, but instead generate certain [[resources]] (except [[wood]] and [[ore]]) for the kingdom. Most of the specialties are unique, but there are also specialties common to several heroes. For example, [[secondary skill]] [[Offense]] is a specialty of [[Crag Hack]] and [[Gundula]] (and also [[Corkes]] in {{hota}}), and the spell [[Resurrection]] is a specialty of [[Alamar]] and [[Jeddite]]. | ||
Additonally, {{ab}} and {{sod}} expansions introduced [[Adrienne]], [[Dracon]], [[Gelu]] and [[Sir Mullich]], who have specialties that cannot be categorized into any of the four above mentioned. Adrienne's specialty is secondary skill [[Fire Magic]], which however does not work similarly to other secondary skill specialties, as it only allows her to start with expert Fire Magic. Dracon has [[Enchanter]]s and Gelu has [[Sharpshooter]]s as a specialty. The exception for these two is that Dracon can upgrade [[Mage and arch mage|Magi and Arch Magi]] as well as [[Monk and zealot|Monks and Zealots]] into | Additonally, {{ab}} and {{sod}} expansions introduced [[Adrienne]], [[Dracon]], [[Gelu]] and [[Sir Mullich]], who have specialties that cannot be categorized into any of the four above mentioned. [[Adrienne]]'s specialty is secondary skill [[Fire Magic]], which however does not work similarly to other secondary skill specialties, as it only allows her to start with expert Fire Magic. [[Dracon]] has [[Enchanter]]s and Gelu has [[Sharpshooter]]s as a specialty. The exception for these two is that [[Dracon]] can upgrade [[Mage and arch mage|Magi and Arch Magi]] as well as [[Monk and zealot|Monks and Zealots]] into [[Enchanter]]s, and [[Gelu]] can upgrade [[Archer and Marksman|Archers and Marksmen]] as well as [[Wood and Grand Elf|Wood Elves and Grand Elves]] into [[Sharpshooter]]s. [[Sir Mullich]] has [[speed]] as a specialty, which increases combat [[speed]] for all creatures under his command by +2 ([[Sir Mullich]] is disabled in {{hota}} by default). | ||
== Secondary skill specialties == | == Secondary skill specialties == | ||
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== Spell specialties == | == Spell specialties == | ||
All heroes who specialize in a spell start with | All heroes who specialize in a spell start with it. | ||
=== [[Bless]] === | === [[Bless]] === | ||
{{Sn|Bless}} is the specialty of | {{Sn|Bless}} is the specialty of {{Hn|Adela|0=}}. It causes [[bless]] to be cast with increased effect, based on hero level compared to the level of the target unit (the bonus is greater when used on weaker units). [[Adela]]'s bless specialty increases the damage of a unit using the following equation: | ||
* base damage * 0.03 * hero level / unit level | * base damage * 0.03 * hero level / unit level | ||
This extra damage is in addition to the bless spell. For example, at level 18 Adela will provide a 54% damage bonus to [[halberdier]]s, 27% to [[marksman|marksmen]], 18% to [[royal griffin]]s, 13.5% to [[crusader]]s, 10.8% to [[zealot]]s, 9% to [[champion]]s, and 7.1% to [[archangel]]s. | This extra damage is in addition to the bless spell. For example, at level 18 [[Adela]] will provide a 54% damage bonus to [[halberdier]]s, 27% to [[marksman|marksmen]], 18% to [[royal griffin]]s, 13.5% to [[crusader]]s, 10.8% to [[zealot]]s, 9% to [[champion]]s, and 7.1% to [[archangel]]s. | ||
=== [[Haste]], [[Prayer]], [[Precision]], [[Stone Skin]], [[Bloodlust]] & [[Weakness]] === | === [[Haste]], [[Prayer]], [[Precision]], [[Stone Skin]], [[Bloodlust]] & [[Weakness]] === | ||
Spell specialties work differently for the spells {{Sn|Haste}}, {{Sn|Prayer}}, {{Sn|Precision}}, {{Sn|Stone Skin}}, {{Sn|Bloodlust}} and {{Sn| | Spell specialties work differently for the spells {{Sn|Haste}}, {{Sn|Prayer}}, {{Sn|Slayer}}, {{Sn|Precision}}, {{Sn|Stone Skin}}, {{Sn|Bloodlust}} and {{Sn|Weakness}}. For those spells, the specialty adds a 3 points to the effect for 1-2 level creatures, 2 points for 3-4 level creatures and 1 point for 5-6 level creatures, regardless of their level. | ||
=== [[Fortune]] === | === [[Fortune]] === | ||
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=== [[Clone]] === | === [[Clone]] === | ||
The first time {{Hn|Eovacius|0=}} casts {{Sn|Clone}} | The first time {{Hn|Eovacius|0=}} casts {{Sn|Clone}} in a given battle, an extra clone appears on the battlefield. | ||
=== [[Slayer]] === | === [[Slayer]] === | ||
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== Production specialties == | == Production specialties == | ||
Some heroes' specialties increase a kingdom's daily income | Some heroes' specialties increase a kingdom's daily income of gold or [[Magical Resource|magical resources]]. No hero produces the resource needed to recruit the level 7 creature of their native town. These specialties do not improve with the hero's level, and thus their usefulness may decrease over the course of the game as the impact of other specialties becomes greater. | ||
This effect remains in place even when the hero in question is garrisoned in a town and no longer counts towards the limit of 8 adventuring heroes. As hiring a hero only costs 2500 gold, this way of collecting magical resources may, depending on the situation, be preferable to building [[resource silo|resource silos]] for the cost of 5000 gold and 5 ore. | |||
<span class="mw-customtoggle-ProductionHeroes" style="color:blue">'''<big>List of Production Heroes</big>'''</span> | |||
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{| border cellpadding="4" style="border:1 solid; text-align:left; background-color:lightyellow; margin-right:20px; float:left;" | |||
| '''Bonus''' || '''Heroes''' | |||
|- | |||
| +1 {{M}} | |||
| {{Hn|Rissa|0=}} | |||
|- | |||
| +1 {{S}} | |||
| {{Hn|Calid|0=}} | |||
|- | |||
| +1 {{C}} | |||
| {{Hn|Sephinroth|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Andal||0=}}{{-wh}} | |||
|- | |||
| +1 {{Gem}} | |||
| {{Hn|Saurug|0=}} | |||
|- | |||
| +350 {{G}} | |||
| {{Hn|Aine|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Caitlin|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Clavius|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Damacon|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Gelare|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Grindan|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Jenova|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Nagash|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Octavia|0=}}<br>{{Hn|Bertram|0=}}{{-wh}}<br>{{Hn|Leena|0=}}{{-wh}} | |||
|} | |||
{{clear|left}} | |||
'''NOTE:''' For a comparison between {{Hn|Lord Haart|0=}}'s [[Estates]] specialty and the +350 {{G}} specialty, see [[Lord Haart#Specialty]]. | |||
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== Unique specialties == | == Unique specialties == | ||
Revision as of 15:52, 7 February 2024
Hero specialty is a characteristic of every hero that typically improves their performance in combat. Specialties can be categorized into four types: spells, creatures, secondary skills and production. Production specialties do not have an effect in combat, but instead generate certain resources (except wood and ore) for the kingdom. Most of the specialties are unique, but there are also specialties common to several heroes. For example, secondary skill Offense is a specialty of Crag Hack and Gundula (and also Corkes in Horn of the Abyss), and the spell Resurrection is a specialty of Alamar and Jeddite.
Additonally, Armageddon's Blade and Shadow of Death expansions introduced Adrienne, Dracon, Gelu and Sir Mullich, who have specialties that cannot be categorized into any of the four above mentioned. Adrienne's specialty is secondary skill Fire Magic, which however does not work similarly to other secondary skill specialties, as it only allows her to start with expert Fire Magic. Dracon has Enchanters and Gelu has Sharpshooters as a specialty. The exception for these two is that Dracon can upgrade Magi and Arch Magi as well as Monks and Zealots into Enchanters, and Gelu can upgrade Archers and Marksmen as well as Wood Elves and Grand Elves into Sharpshooters. Sir Mullich has speed as a specialty, which increases combat speed for all creatures under his command by +2 (Sir Mullich is disabled in Horn of the Abyss by default).
Secondary skill specialties
All secondary skill specialties (e.g. 
Kyrre with Logistics, 
Crag Hack with Offense or 
Neela with Armorer) work in a similar way. They all increase the secondary skill by 5% per level. The formula for the calculation is as follows:
FORMULA: A x (0,05 x B + 1) = BONUS
where A = Secondary skill's effect percentage
B = Level of the hero
EXAMPLE: A = 30%
B = 20
30% x (0,05 x 20 + 1) =
30% x (1 + 1) = 60%
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From the example above we can see, that a level 20 hero who has 30% ability due their secondary skill (e.g. Crag Hack with expert Offense) would actually gain +60% in total.
Spell specialties
All heroes who specialize in a spell start with it.
Bless
Bless is the specialty of 
Adela. It causes bless to be cast with increased effect, based on hero level compared to the level of the target unit (the bonus is greater when used on weaker units). Adela's bless specialty increases the damage of a unit using the following equation:
- base damage * 0.03 * hero level / unit level
This extra damage is in addition to the bless spell. For example, at level 18 Adela will provide a 54% damage bonus to halberdiers, 27% to marksmen, 18% to royal griffins, 13.5% to crusaders, 10.8% to zealots, 9% to champions, and 7.1% to archangels.
Haste, Prayer, Precision, Stone Skin, Bloodlust & Weakness
Spell specialties work differently for the spells 
Haste, 
Prayer, 
Slayer, 
Precision, 
Stone Skin, 
Bloodlust and 
Weakness. For those spells, the specialty adds a 3 points to the effect for 1-2 level creatures, 2 points for 3-4 level creatures and 1 point for 5-6 level creatures, regardless of their level.
Fortune
Daremyth's and 
Melodia's specialty in the 
Fortune spell makes it always give +3 luck, regardless of the Air Magic expertise or their level.
Magic Arrow
Ciele's 
Magic Arrow specialty increases the damage of the spell by 50%, regardless of her level.
Firewall
Luna's 
Fire Wall specialty doubles the damage of the spell (increases it by 25% in Horn of the Abyss 
), regardless of her level.
Disrupting Ray
Aenain increases the effectiveness of 
Disrupting Ray by 2, regardless of his level.
Clone
The first time 
Eovacius casts 
Clone in a given battle, an extra clone appears on the battlefield.
Slayer
Coronius's Slayer specialty adds 4 extra attack to level 1 creatures, 3 extra attack to level 2 creatures, 2 extra attack to level 3 creatures and 1 extra attack to level 4 creatures, regardless of his level.
Other spells
Specialists in all other spells increase the efficiency of their spell (after spell power and base spell effect is calculated) by 3% per level, divided by target creature's level. It can be visualised with the following formula: C*(1+0.03 * L / n) , where n is the creature's level, L is the hero's level and C is the base effect of the spell (including spell power and the appropriate magic skill's effects).
Creature specialties
Devils, 
Behemoths, and Dragons, as well as every creature from level 1 to 6 in every town, except 
Gremlins, 
Centaurs, 
Pikeman, 
Pixies, 
Air Elementals and 
Medusas has a hero who specializes in them (Note: 
Galthran, the only 
Skeleton specialist, is banned by default in Horn of the Abyss and so is 
Tark , the 
Nix specialist, 
Xeron 
, the Devil specialist, 
Kilgor , the Behemoth specialist and 
Mutare and 
Mutare Drake , Dragon specialists). Creature specialties apply to both upgraded and unupgraded units, as long as the hero specializes in the unupgraded version of the unit. In Shadow of Death, 
Catherine specializes in 
Crusaders, and therefore 
Swordsman do not receive any bonuses. No heroes specialize in any of the neutral creatures, except 
Gelu 
and 
Dracon , who specialize in 
Sharpshooters and 
Enchanters, respectively, although they have creature-upgrade specialties. No heroes specialize in upgraded creatures only, except for Catherine (only in Shadow of Death , fixed in Horn of the Abyss ) and 
Bidley , but his specialty is a creature-upgrade one.
There are four types of creature specialties: Fixed stats creature specialities, creature upgrade specialties, Dragons specialty and the standard creature specialties.
Heroes who specialize in level 1-2 creatures (as well as Tark , Gelu , Dracon and 
Frederick ) have their entire starting army consisting of 3 stacks of the creatures they specialize in. Thus, 
Shakti may be hired with up to three groups of 30 to 40 
Troglodytes, and 
Valeska with up to three groups of 4 to 7 
Archers.
Heroes who specialize in level 3 creatures, as well as 
Bron, 
Illor and 
Todd , instead of the 2nd level creatures, have their specialized creature stack in their starting army.
Despite their specialty in different creatures, Xeron starts with a starting army identical to 
Fiona, the 
Hell Hound specialist, and 
Pasis and 
Monere start Air Elementals instead of 
Water Elementals.
Fixed stat creature specialties
These specialties are only present in banned-by-default campaign heroes (such as Xeron , Kilgor and 
Haart Lich ), as well as all Planeswalkers.
Fixed-stats creature specialities can provide a fixed attack, defense, damage, hp or speed (or multiple of these) bonuses to a creature, regardless of hero level. No hero increases creature HP.
Creature-upgrade specialties
These specialties are only present in banned-by-default campaign heroes - Gelu , Dracon and Bidley .
Creature-upgrade specialties allow the hero to upgrade specific creatures into the creature they specialize in, as long as they are placed in their army. The cost is equal to the difference in costs between the owned creature and the "upgrade".
Dragons specialty
Dragons specialty (only held by Mutare and Mutare Drake , both banned by default) provides 5 Attack and 5 Defense to all Dragons, including both their upgraded and unupgraded forms.
Standard creature specialties
Standard creature specialties, regardless of hero level, provide +1 speed to the creatures they specialize in. This bonus applies outside of combat and can therefore increase hero's Movement. They also apply +5% Attack and +5% Defense bonuses every n levels obtained after nth level, where n is the level of the creature they specialize in.
Thus heroes who specialize in level 1 creatures double their Attack and Defense at level 21; heroes who specialize in level 2 creature at level 42, those who specialize in level 3 creatures at level 63, etc.
Production specialties
Some heroes' specialties increase a kingdom's daily income of gold or magical resources. No hero produces the resource needed to recruit the level 7 creature of their native town. These specialties do not improve with the hero's level, and thus their usefulness may decrease over the course of the game as the impact of other specialties becomes greater.
This effect remains in place even when the hero in question is garrisoned in a town and no longer counts towards the limit of 8 adventuring heroes. As hiring a hero only costs 2500 gold, this way of collecting magical resources may, depending on the situation, be preferable to building resource silos for the cost of 5000 gold and 5 ore.
List of Production Heroes
| Bonus | Heroes |
+1 
|
 Rissa
|
+1 
|
 Calid
|
+1 
|
 Sephinroth Andal
|
+1 
|
 Saurug
|
+350 
|
 Aine Caitlin Clavius Damacon Gelare Grindan Jenova Nagash Octavia Bertram  Leena
|
NOTE: For a comparison between 
Lord Haart's Estates specialty and the +350 specialty, see Lord Haart#Specialty.
Unique specialties
Sir Mullich (replaced by default by Lord Haart in Armageddon's Blade, Shadow of Death and Horn of the Abyss) increases combat speed of all creatures under his command by 2.
Frederick increases the damage dealt by 
Automaton's Detonation at death ability by 5% per level.
Adrienne starts with Expert Fire Magic and Wisdom.