Air Magic

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This article refers to the secondary skill. For air magic spells, see School of Air Magic.

Secondary skills
Expert Air Magic.png Air Magic
Expert Archery.png Archery
Expert Armorer.png Armorer
Expert Artillery.png Artillery
Expert Ballistics.png Ballistics
Expert Diplomacy.png Diplomacy
Expert Eagle Eye.png Eagle Eye
Expert Earth Magic.png Earth Magic
Expert Estates.png Estates
Expert Fire Magic.png Fire Magic
Expert First Aid.png First Aid
Expert Intelligence.png Intelligence
Expert Interference.png Interference Horn of the Abyss
Expert Leadership.png Leadership
Expert Learning.png Learning
Expert Logistics.png Logistics
Expert Luck.png Luck
Expert Mysticism.png Mysticism
Expert Navigation.png Navigation
Expert Necromancy.png Necromancy
Expert Offense.png Offense
Expert Pathfinding.png Pathfinding
Expert Resistance.png Resistance
Expert Scholar.png Scholar
Expert Scouting.png Scouting
Expert Sorcery.png Sorcery
Expert Tactics.png Tactics
Expert Water Magic.png Water Magic
Expert Wisdom.png Wisdom
Air Magic
Basic Air Magic.png Basic Air Magic: allows your hero to cast air spells at reduced cost.
Advanced Air Magic.png Advanced Air Magic: allows your hero to cast air spells at reduced cost and increased effectiveness.
Expert Air Magic.png Expert Air Magic: allows your hero to cast air spells at reduced cost and maximum effectiveness.

Air magic is a secondary skill that increases the effectiveness and reduces the costs of spells from the School of Air Magic.

Air Magic is a school of magic, along with Earth, Fire and Water Magic. There is a special rule in place that offers schools of magic more often as a choice when leveling up than the secondary skill learning percentages suggest: A new school of magic will be offered at least every 4 levels for Might heroes and every 3 levels for Magic heroes. If can be offered more often by chance. Example: The Might hero was not offered a school of magic when reaching levels 2 and 3. The hero will then be guaranteed to be offered a magic school at level 4. At level 8, the hero will be offered again a new magic school if none was offered at levels 5, 6 and 7.

Heroes with Basic Air Magic as a starting skill:

Chance to get[edit | edit source]

Out of total 112 for Shadow of Death, and of (112 + Interference chance) for Horn of the Abyss Horn of the Abyss.
Banned skills change the probability.

Town Class Chance to learn
Town portrait Castle small.gif Castle  Knight  3
Town portrait Castle small.gif Castle  Cleric  4
Town portrait Rampart small.gif Rampart  Ranger  1 (lowest)
Town portrait Rampart small.gif Rampart  Druid  2
Town portrait Tower small.gif Tower  Alchemist  4
Town portrait Tower small.gif Tower  Wizard  6 (highest)
Town portrait Inferno small.gif Inferno  Demoniac  2
Town portrait Inferno small.gif Inferno  Heretic  3
Town portrait Necropolis small.gif Necropolis  Death Knight  2
Town portrait Necropolis small.gif Necropolis  Necromancer  3
Town portrait Dungeon small.gif Dungeon  Overlord  1 (lowest)
Town portrait Dungeon small.gif Dungeon  Warlock  2
Town portrait Stronghold small.gif Stronghold  Barbarian  3
Town portrait Stronghold small.gif Stronghold  Battle Mage  3
Town portrait Fortress small.gif Fortress  Beastmaster  1 (lowest)
Town portrait Fortress small.gif Fortress  Witch  3
Town portrait Conflux small.gif Conflux  Planeswalker  2
Town portrait Conflux small.gif Conflux  Elementalist  6 (highest)
Town portrait Cove small.gif Cove  Captain  3
Town portrait Cove small.gif Cove  Navigator  6 (highest)
Town portrait Factory small.gif Factory  Mercenary   3
Town portrait Factory small.gif Factory  Artificer   3


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Some may find the information in this section subjective or irrelevant.

Like other magic schools, Air Magic is very important. At the expert level, Haste may help a lot as your entire army will possibly move before the enemy's army, and even some very slow units get decent speed. Dimension Door and Fly are extremely helpful for moving on the adventure map. Chain Lightning may wipe out the whole opposing army (while it's a double-edged sword, as if there are less than five stacks, Chain Lightning will damage your own troops - initially it hits four stacks, thus you get unable to use it against an enemy with that exact stacks number), and Lightning Bolt is useful on early stages of the game. Other helpful Air spells are, for example, Disrupting Ray, Precision, and Counterstrike.

The main reasons for choosing Air Magic are Fly, Dimension Door and Haste spells. The first two are perhaps the most powerful adventure spells, together with Town Portal. However, both of them are typically banned in custom maps. Nevertheless, Expert Air Magic causes Haste to be cast as a mass spell, which still makes it worth the secondary skill slot. Other noteworthy spells are Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning, both powerful combat spells.

Don't forget view air, it lets you see ALL towns and player heroes even in areas that you haven't explored yet. Requires no movement points and only 1 spell point.


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