Sorrow

School of Earth Magic

Level 1

Magic Arrow *

Shield

Slow

Stone Skin

View Earth

Level 2

Death Ripple

Quicksand

Visions *

Level 3

Animate Dead

Anti-Magic

Earthquake

Force Field

Protection from Earth

Level 4

Meteor Shower

Resurrection

Sorrow

Town Portal

Level 5

Implosion

Summon Earth Elemental

School of Air Magic

School of Fire Magic

School of Water Magic

Sorrow
	School:	Earth Magic
	Level:	4th
	Cost:	16/12
	Duration:	1 rnd/sp
Basic effect
Target, enemy troop's morale rating is reduced by 1.
Advanced effect
Target, enemy troop's morale rating is reduced by 2.
Expert effect
All enemy troops' morale rating is reduced by 2.
Probability of occurrence (%):
Castle   10 Rampart   10 Tower   16 (10*) Inferno   10 Necropolis   10 Dungeon   10 Stronghold   - Fortress   - Conflux   10 Cove    10 Factory     * Without Library

Sorrow is a 4th level spell in the School of Earth Magic. It is one of the mind spells, and therefore some creatures are immune to it.

It reduces the morale of target enemy creature stack.

Units immune to Sorrow:

• Golems
• Undead
• Elementals
• Mechanicals
•   Giants and Titans
•  Fangarms 

•  Gold Dragons
•  Magic Elementals

•  Black Dragons

Artifacts rendering units immune to Sorrow:

• Badge of Courage (not in Horn of the Abyss)

User commentary

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Expert level of Sorrow is quite useful against wandering creatures at least in situations where it is essential that they do not receive an extra turn due to their +1 morale. However, casting Sorrow against a computer or a human player is questionable. Depending on the enemy morale, it will either reduce the chance (or eliminate) of enemy troops getting the extra turn or increase the chance of them to lose a turn. As the chances for bad morale are higher, the latter it is more favourable option. In other words, reducing enemy morale to -3 is better than reducing it to +1 - and if your opponent has morale in excess of 3, Sorrow might only reduce it to +2, or not at all. In conclusion, against wandering monsters the Sorrow is sometimes useful, but against human and computer players there are typically better spells to cast than Sorrow. In general, Sorrow is not as powerful as many other 4th level spells (Armageddon, Berserk, Resurrection), and possibly takes too much spell points than it is worthy of.

Related Topics

• Mind Spells
• Mirth