Armorer
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Basic Armorer: reduces all damage inflicted against the hero's troops by 5%. | |
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Advanced Armorer: reduces all damage inflicted against the hero's troops by 10%. | |
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Expert Armorer: reduces all damage inflicted against the hero's troops by 15%. | |
Armorer is a secondary skill, that reduces the physical damage done to hero's creatures. Physical damage means damage done by enemy creatures engaged in melee or ranged combat. Armorer secondary skill does not reduce damage from spells cast by enemy heroes or creatures.
It should be noted, that due to a bug in the game, the damage from arrow towers during siege combat is not reduced by armorer secondary skill, but actually increased the corresponding amount (fixed in Horn of the Abyss).
See the Comparison of Armorer, Offense and Archery.
Heroes with Armorer as a starting skill:
All Beastmasters start with Basic Armorer except Tazar, who starts with Advanced.
Edric the Knight – Basic Armorer
Galthran the Death Knight – Basic Armorer
Marius the Demoniac – Advanced Armorer
Mephala the Ranger – Basic Armorer
Neela the Alchemist – Basic Armorer-
Roland the Knight – Basic Armorer 
Illor the Captain - Basic Armorer 
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Tark the Captain - Basic Armorer
Heroes with Armorer specialty:
Heroes with Armorer specialty receive 5% bonus per level to their Armorer skill.
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 |
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 Castle |
Knight | 5 |
| Castle |
Cleric | 3 |
 Rampart |
Ranger | 8 |
| Rampart |
Druid | 3 |
 Tower |
Alchemist | 8 |
| Tower |
Wizard | 1 (lowest) |
 Inferno |
Demoniac | 7 |
| Inferno |
Heretic | 4 |
 Necropolis |
Death Knight | 5 |
| Necropolis |
Necromancer | 2 |
 Dungeon |
Overlord | 6 |
| Dungeon |
Warlock | 1 (lowest) |
 Stronghold |
Barbarian | 6 |
| Stronghold |
Battle Mage | 4 |
 Fortress |
Beastmaster | 10 (highest) |
| Fortress |
Witch | 4 |
 Conflux |
Planeswalker | 5 |
| Conflux |
Elementalist | 1 (lowest) |
 Cove |
Captain | 2 |
| Cove |
Navigator | 1 (lowest) |
 Factory |
Mercenary | {{{21}}} |
| Factory |
Artificer | {{{22}}} |
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Importance
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Armorer is a very useful secondary skill. As it reduces all physical damage at expert level by 15%, it effectively increases allied creatures' health by 18% (17.64% to be excact). Reduced damage leads to fewer casualties in battles, and more troops for the next battle. In extra large maps this may give the needed edge to vanquish the enemy. Predictably, two of three heroes with Armorer specialty appear in towns whose style is mostly defensive (both Rampart and Fortress have slow but very tough units with abilities which make them perfect for defending towns, namely Dwarves, Dendroids, and Gorgons), thus if you start for these towns, Mephala or Tazar would be a very good choice since they make your towns truly impregnable.