Offense
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Basic Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 10%. | |
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Advanced Offense: increases all hand-to-hand damage inflicted by the hero's troops by 20%. | |
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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 (basic) as a starting skill:
All Barbarians start with Basic Offense except Crag Hack and Kilgor, who start with Advanced.
Alkin the Beastmaster
Arlach the Overlord
Catherine the Knight
Clavius the Death Knight-
Dace the Overlord -
Damacon the Overlord (Advanced Offense) 
Fiur the Planeswalker-
Ignissa the Planeswalker 
Ivor the Ranger-
Monere the Planeswalker 
Nymus the Demoniac (Advanced Offense)-
Octavia the Demoniac -
Pasis the Planeswalker 
Rissa the Alchemist-
Shakti the Overlord -
Sorsha the Knight -
Tamika the Death Knight 
Anabel the Captain 
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Bidley the Captain (Advanced Offense) -
Cassiopeia the Captain -
Derek the Captain -
Jeremy the Captain -
Tark the Captain
Heroes, having Offense as a specialty and a starting skill:
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Crag Hack the Barbarian (Advanced Offense) 
Gundula the Battle Mage (Basic Offense)-
Corkes the Captain (Basic Offense)
Chance to get[edit]
Out of total 112 for Shadow of Death, and of (112 + Interference chance) for 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 |
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+ |
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| 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 |