| Sorrow
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| School:
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Earth Magic
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| Level:
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4th
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| Cost:
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16
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| Duration:
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1 rnd/sp
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| Basic effect
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| Target, enemy troop's morale rating is reduced by 1.
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| Advanced effect
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| Target, enemy troop's morale rating is reduced by 2.
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| Expert effect
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| All enemy troops' morale rating is reduced by 2.
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Sorrow is a 4th level spell in the School of Earth Magic. It reduces the morale of target enemy creature stack. Sorrow is one of the mind spells, which makes some creatures immune to it. Additionally, Sorrow is a counterspell for Mirth.
Cretures immune to Sorrow:
Discussion
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.
