Secondary Magic Effects

[Makinus]

What exactly are the secondary effects from magic levels? I know that water magic gives a unit the capability of water breathing and more water magic allows more units to be taken underwater.... earth magic increases protection... fire attack skill.... where i can find all the effects?

[Quitti]

Manual has it covered pretty well. Page 85.

[Jarkko]

You mean the effects listed on page 85 in the manual?


EDIT: Bah, Quitti beat me by a few seconds

[Makinus]

Thanks... forgot about the manual.... now i must dig it from my storage boxes.....

[thejeff]

Except water magic hasn't given water breathing since Dom2.

[Makinus]

Seriously? I didn´t noticed.... Maybe it´s because i rarely play maps with water....

[Jack_Trowell]

From memory :

Fire: attack+, old age-, and maybe normal leadership+ too
Water: defense+
Air: precision+
Earth: protection+
Astral: magic leadership++
Nature: old age++, supply+
Death: undead/demon leadership++, Fear+ (no fear aura until D5)
Blood: undead/demon leadership+, and maybe something else I'm forgetting

I think that other Path that astral give a (lesser) magic leadership bonus, but I cannot remember exactly, and as I'm posting from work I don't have the manual with me.

[Makinus]

From the Manual, pg. 85:

Air - Precision +1, Magic Leadership +5
Astral - Magic Leadership +10
Death - Undead Leadership +20, +1 do existing Fear
Earth - Protection +1, Magic Leadership +5
Fire - Attack +1, Leadership +5, Magic Leadership +5
Nature - Supply Bonus +10, Magic Leadership +5
Water - +1 Defense, Magic Leadership +5
Blood - Undead Leadership +5, Magic Leadership +5

[Quitti]

Also, nature increases your maximum age by 25 years I think, and death by 10. I think death also reduced the chance to get diseased (or all afflictions?) by old age. Is there anyone who knows better?

[Edi]

Age bonuses are explained in the FAQ. Death magic grants +30 undead leadership per level, not +20 as the manual erroneously claims. It was +20 in Dom2, but with the larger armies in Dom3, the bonus was increased.

Death magic does reduce chance of old age afflcitions. Someone did extensive testing on that sometime back.