Eagle Eye

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
Pathfinding
Resistance
Scholar
Scouting
Sorcery
Tactics
Water Magic
Wisdom

Eagle Eye
	Basic Eagle Eye: gives your hero a 40% chance to learn any 1st or 2nd level spell used in combat.
	Advanced Eagle Eye: gives your hero a 50% chance to learn any spell up to 3rd level used in combat.
	Expert Eagle Eye: gives your hero a 60% chance to learn any spell up to 4th level used in combat.

Eagle Eye gives heroes a chance to learn spells cast by enemy hero spellcasters in battles. The spells are learned after the fight is won. The chances for each level of Eagle Eye can be seen on the table below. Also requires Wisdom of the appropriate level, to learn spells.

Heroes with Eagle Eye (basic) as a starting skill:

•   Ash the Heretic

Heroes, having Eagle Eye as a specialty and a starting skill (basic):

•   Geon the Warlock
•   Malcom the Druid
•   Nimbus the Necromancer
•   Oris the Battle Mage
•   Sanya the Cleric
•   Serena the Wizard
•   Tiva the Witch

Artifacts affecting Eagle Eye:

• Bird of Perception - gives a 5% bonus to Eagle Eye
• Stoic Watchman - gives a 10% bonus to Eagle Eye
• Emblem of Cognizance - gives a 15% bonus to Eagle Eye

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
Castle	Cleric	6
Rampart	Ranger	2
Rampart	Druid	7
Tower	Alchemist	3
Tower	Wizard	8
Inferno	Demoniac	3
Inferno	Heretic	4
Necropolis	Death Knight	4
Necropolis	Necromancer	7
Dungeon	Overlord	2
Dungeon	Warlock	8
Stronghold	Barbarian	2
Stronghold	Battle Mage	5
Fortress	Beastmaster	1 (lowest)
Fortress	Witch	10 (highest)
Conflux	Planeswalker	2
Conflux	Elementalist	8
Cove	Captain	4
Cove	Navigator	2
Factory	Mercenary	2
Factory	Artificer	4

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Generally, Eagle Eye is considered one of the least desirable secondary skills, as the preferred ones are those which improve units' strength (Archery, Armorer, Offense), help in casting spells (various schools of magic), or make gameplay significantly easier (Diplomacy, Logistics, Tactics). However, it may sometimes help when it's impossible to get a spell from your town's Mage Guild (e.g. Bless in Inferno, or Curse in Castle and Rampart) and you are expecting to fight a battle against another player early on in the game, before you capture their town. For that reason, Eagle Eye is compatible with Scholar. Together with advanced or expert Wisdom, Expert Eagle Eye may be situationally usable for Stronghold and Fortress heroes, as their Mage Guilds are limited to 3rd level, and learning Resurrection and having Advanced Earth Magic could change the whole dynamics of battle.

Part of the criticism behind Eagle Eye is that even with Expert Eagle Eye and all three of the Eagle Eye artifacts equipped, it still can not guarantee learning a spell used in combat, totalling to a 90% effectiveness rate. Other flaws include requiring the battle to be completed before the spells are added into the spell book (i.e. they won't appear there during the battle which could have been really helpful), inability to learn 5th level spells, and inability to learn adventure map spells.

Problem with skills like eagle eye and learning is also with the limit on how many skills can a hero have. Adding eagle eye or learning will make sure, that some of the important skills will be missing, giving enemies an advantage.

Things that ruin Eagle Eye

• Starting spells
• Mage Guilds
• Shrines
• Spell Scrolls
• Scholar
• Scholar (Adventure Map)
• Tome of Air
• Tome of Earth
• Tome of Fire
• Tome of Water
• Aurora Borealis

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See also:

• Secondary skills