Offense

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Offense
Basic Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 10%.
Advanced Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 20%.
Expert Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 30%.

Offense is a secondary skill that increases all hand-to-hand damage caused by allied creatures in hero's army. As opposed to slightly misleading in-game skill description Offense increases the base damage by 10%, 20% or 30% depending on the level of the skill. This does not mean that the total damage (final damage) is necessarily increased by the same percentage, as it might also be increased by other factors, such as high Attack skill - compare damage formula.

Heroes with Offense as a starting skill:

Heroes with Offense as a specialty and a starting skill:

Chance to get[edit]

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
Castle  Knight   7
Castle  Cleric   4
Rampart  Ranger   5
Rampart  Druid   1 (lowest)
Tower  Alchemist   6
Tower  Wizard   1 (lowest)
Inferno  Demoniac   8
Inferno  Heretic   4
Necropolis  Death Knight   7
Necropolis  Necromancer   3
Dungeon  Overlord   8
Dungeon  Warlock   1 (lowest)
Stronghold  Barbarian  10 (highest)
Stronghold  Battle Mage   8
Fortress  Beastmaster   5
Fortress  Witch   2
Conflux  Planeswalker   9
Conflux  Elementalist   1 (lowest)
Cove  Captain   9
Cove  Navigator   4
Factory  Mercenary   6
Factory  Artificer   2


Comparison to Attack skill[edit]

This table shows how much extra Attack skill would need the hero of attacking unit have, in order to reach the same effect in damage increasing as with the Offense skill ( = how much is the Offense skill worth in terms of attack), assuming no other damage modifiers.

Offense level / Difference between Attack skill and Defense skill -20 -19 -18 -17 -16 -15 -14 -13 -12 -11 -10 -9 -8 -7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0+
Basic 2 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 3 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.3 2.9 2.4 2
Advanced 4 4.2 4.4 4.6 4.8 5 5.2 5.4 5.6 5.8 6 6.2 6.4 6.6 6.4 6 5.6 5.2 4.8 4.4 4
Expert 6 6.3 6.6 6.9 7.2 7.5 7.8 8.1 8.4 8.7 9 9.1 8.8 8.4 8.1 7.7 7.4 7 6.7 6.3 6

See also: