Eagle Eye

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

Heroes with Eagle Eye as a specialty and a starting skill:

Artifacts affecting Eagle Eye:

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


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

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


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