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One thing that is overlooked about Fire Magic is the effect of the Blind spell. So, if you attack a blinded enemy, it will retaliate when awakened from blind, but depending on the fire magic skill, it will be either 50% of normal damage (basic fire magic/none at all) , 25% dmg (advanced) and NO RETALIATION on expert Blind. SO, you cast expert Blind on an enemy, then cast slow, then you can attack it with a powerful unit , attack it with archers and then blind it again before it has a chance to act.

Estates could be good for universities lol.

In this video you keep saying Logistics when pointing at the Pathfinding icon, and you call one of them bad and the other good
So which is which? Which one do you actually say is the good one and which is bad, its impossible to know when you say the wrong name when pointing at the icons

All good amazing vid, creative criticism : you keep saying fraction when talking about faction. One letter difference and completley different meaning of a word :)

Sorry my guy, hard to take advice when you call out pathfinding and hover over logistics

I like mysticism. Especially when I play Luna. Her Firewall isn't that costly and regenerating even 5 points a day can save you a painstaking journey back to the castle 🙂, let alone spending there whole night 🙂

my top 10 skills....diplomacy.......intelligence.......water , earth magic for clone and teleport to base.....and logistics

Best ability is diplomacy, period.

Nice video but disagree on ballistics skills, it depends on the hero and units, in some cases its mostly useful when you attack a castle and you lack flying units

So just to be sure, is Earth Magic any good?

In most PvP maps, town portal, dimension door and haste are banned, making Water and Fire magic way more competitive against them.

Me realizing 20 years later, after installing VCMI and watching that video that I actually never play HOMM3 properly despite likely hundreeds of hours spent on It ... ;)
Thanks for the explanations !

Water magic isn't useless if you cast prayer(am i type ,,prayer,, correct).

Considering this video is meant for beginners you use a lot of terminology that make no sense to new players. What the hell is a Jebus Cross, What the hell is a pandora box. Maybe you should do a video for beginners that explain what this strange language you HOMM 3 players speak is. All in not so helpful for new players cos we don't understand what your saying half the time.

For me..Wisdom first..then Logistics

First Aid is for small maps when you play high Hp units early on. Generally not a pick, but there are some niche games where it can work

Learning should be more like the Heroes 5 version where you get an extra primary skill every 5/4/3 levels.

With Sorcery, it would be cool if they made it so that it can also penetrate magic resistance, so it lowers enemy magic resistance by 10%/20%/30%. Maybe make it so that it resists Interference too.

Mysticism, maybe it could regenerate a portion of the spell points spent during combat after you win, like 15%/30%/45%.

They should rework the skills imo
Incorporate scouting into eagle eye.
Incorporate learning into scholar.
Ballistics and first aid into one skill, call it field works.

They could do the same for some of the others as well, like putting mysticism into sorcery and maybe bake luck and estates together. Not so sure about that. But the first 6 i mentioned definitely needs it. Learning and eagle eye is especially useless.

what about a skill list for vs computers?

drinking game: drink one shot everytime you hear "earth magic"

Eyo, water magic has CLONE. Clone the Archangel, resurrect with that clone, repeat. It's a specific case with Castle, but still, clone also takes retaliation from the opponent, it attracts opponents to be hit instead of the army, etc.

you aint know enough about water magic bro ... Clone is WM,Bless is WM, Mass Dispel and Cure are WM
also what you know about Forgetfulness ? cause thats amazing water magic, Myth and Teleport also verry usefull WM so you better try these in game before you talk bad about WM

Diplomacy is absolutely the best early on. Absolute top priority.

Water magic and especially bless can be the most useful skill of course we are not mentioning here clone with archangels :)so at least dont say it is useless because it is not :)

earth magic, when you say that it reminds me of the video with where that piece it fits? into the square:))

Damn Necromancy skill is broken. You get heroes after battles apparently 😉

I always go for these 4:
Logistics, Earth, Air, Luck. The rest can be a gamble (to make every game play different). Combined with Town Portal and you will always win.
The most useless:
diplomacy, eagles eye, intelligence, water, path finding,

It depend on your needs to win the game.

I haven't played in years, but I always loved getting Pathfinding and Logistics to be able to move around the map longer and further to defend if needed or to surprise someone by coming out of nowhere from really far away. Maybe I am crazy or was doing it wrong, but the only spell masteries I remember using often was Air? For Mass Haste and you needed to have max level in order for the spell to cast on everyone. Maybe I am wrong, again, been a long time. I still do have Heroes of M&M 4, but have not played that in several years. (I tried HoMM5, but did not like it for some reason).

Earth Magic, Logistics, base H3 diplomacy, Wisdom, Offence, Armorer. 7th and 8th skill would be pathfinding, second magic school, tactics. Then Intelligence and resistance. Anything else is probably either a waste of skill slot or "oh well i have to pick something"

Earth Magic, meh, definitely medium tier, i wouldn't prioritize it over earth magic. Anyway, let's move on

That's some lucky dice. 5 and 2 both shown.

i turned off the video where you failed to differentiate between Logistics and Pathfinding. not only you aren't familiar with the game you make guides for, you don't even know alphabet order
also, your usage of the word "useless" is incorrect

1) logistics
2) wisdom
3) earth magic
4) air magic
5) Ofense
6) Armorer
7) Archery
8) Mysticism ( on map without wells)
9)Tactics
10) Leadership
11) Path finding
12) Water magic
13) Inteligence
14) Luck
15) Sorcery
16) Fire magic
17) Diplomacy
18) Estates
19) Fire magic
19) Navigation
20) Interference
21) Scholar
22) Ballistics
23) Learning
24) artilerry
25) First aid
26) Eagle eye

Resistance and necromancy are usually locked.

Must skills are:

Wisdom, logistics, earth magic, air magic, offence, water magic.

Secondary skills depending on map and faction:

Archery, Leadership, Navigation, Necromancy, Pathfinding, Fire Magic, Tactics, Intelligence.

The rest is just garbage.

I cant believe he said water magic is useless. Water magic has some of the most important spells which is dispell and cure. Do you realize you cannot dispell your units without water magic? I could use berserker on your army over and over again and destroy it without making a single move with my units.

Very good tips! 👍❤️

It's not HOMM but some random mod :/

Fraction? Like 3/7?
But seriously, nice introductory video to new players!

Water magic worst? Do you ever heard about clone? Cure(much useful than dispel)?? Teleporting?! Mass Weakness? Mass Bless? YOu mistake pathfinding with Logistic .. Wisdom, Leadrship(except Necropolis), Offense, Earth magic, Logistic, Air Magic - almost always need!...If you play Castle, Fortress, Tower, Rampart you need water magic! If you Play Stronghold, Inferno, Dungeon - you need Fire magic. But if you Play Tower or Necropolis you can have all magic... You need Archery if you Play Tower, useful for Castle, Dungeon and Stronghold. YOu need Armory...specially with Fortress, Rampart...etc....there is alot combinations:

Tower Hero: Wisdom, Earth Magic, Water Magic, Air Magic, Archery, Luck and Logistic - ver1 (luck, archery, clone, bless, precision - combos)
Tower Hero: Wisdom, Earth Magic, Fire Magic, Air Magic, Sorcery, Offense, leadership, Logistic - ver 2 (most universal)
Tower Hero: Wisdom, Earth Magic, Air Magic, Inteligence, Armory, Sorcery, Logistic, Leadership - ver3 (armory +tanks, inteligence+sorcery)

For each town it look a bit different:)
Don't take Archery with Fortress or Inferno.

Isn't the most important spell for earth magic Town Portal?

Holy crap, he really only used one picture for an entire "video." Lazy as fuck!

Take a shot every time the guy says Earth Magic

Earth Magic (Town Portal), Air Magic (Fly, Chain Lightning), Logistics

Some sidenote to earth magic: at expert, you can cast a 3 hex force field, behind that any two unit can even survive a legion of nagas...just don't forget to cast it every two turn😅.

Greetings niggas… I’m doing the spoils of war campaign and I’m thinking I want as many artillery specialist heroes as possible… I’m in the second mission… if u start the third mission with heroes strong in artillery and archery.. i think it will help u clear guard stacks and acquire mines and the like…

Isnt it a good combo for first-aid specialist and phnix ceature?

I agree with most😃. Good skills overview👏😃

Ok, so to summarize...
Earth magic: the best skill, should always be a priority.
Eagle eye: useless.
All good/decent skills: they're good but not as good as earth magic.
All bad/below average skills: they're crap but not as crap as eagle eye.
Got it.

I don't care what anyone says, I like water magic lol.