There seems to be a gentleman agreement to always land the army outside the city and don't have the units without wings fly over the walls. And interestingly enough making two single goblins (Hero + 1 Goblin) fly is exactly as hard as making the population of a whole continent (as long as it fits into an army) fly.
Under Expert Earth you can jump from town to town, resurrect any creatures to maintain your powerful army as durable as possible and also have the ability to make the most powerful attack spell devastating in your arsenal. Earth magic is broken. The best counterplay against this is to wear the Orb of Negation or Ring of Oblivion with the Shackle of War and with fairly enough Mighty Gorgons. The mentioned Orb and Ring can only be obtained in Horn of the Abyss unfortunately.
no contest, there's no other game in which magic feels as _magical_ as in homm3. spells of this game are absolute masterpiece of artwork, giving you the feeling of controlling the whole game with your mind.
1. Advanced and expert Bless also gives +1 dmg to max. So your gremlins damage from 1-2 become 3. Same logic for curse. 2. Shield is ok, but not one of the best spell. 3. Blind makes retaliation weaker (50%, 25%, 0%) 4. Visions is below average. In most cases it is easy to predict neutrals behaviour. As I remember it have some synergy with diplomacy, but even then its just meh. 5. No berserk. It's just the best spell in the game. At least at the same level as town portal or dimension doors. 6. Raise Dead is fine. And deserves to be in this list. 7. Summon elementals are also ok.
Level 1- View Air and View Earth are among the most important spells for spying where your opponent is. Also, Mass Curse is brutal against low level armies.
expert berserk is pretty OP it turn all units in a 19 hex radious hostile toward any creature closest to them, so basicly cast it at the beginning of the battle amongst the enemy units and they will start attacking each other if your talking about meteor shower, it is like a weaker implosion with a 5 hex area effect
Honestly I rarely use slow and haste to make my units move further/enemies move fewer tiles. I almost always use those spells in order to gain the advantage of first strikes, especially useful if you have an army with many ranged units, it's really nice to get those first hits in before the enemy is allowed to use any units. Generally I prefer mass slow on expert level, because it makes it more likely for my archers to get two hits before any melee engages happen, whereas with haste, I am still forced to attack early with my melee units instead of waiting for the enemy to approach.
2:00 While I do agree that Shield is an awesome buff, I DON'T think that Basic Shield was exactly a reason why that Troll steamrolled that Master Genie... : )
Town portal.... not one of the best... THE best ! Mainly when you play in very difficult and impossible difficulty. And then : Slow, Bless and Prayer, at the master level, of course ;)
@@HuyNguyen-jl7go Each defense point reduces damage by 5% if the enemy has more attack than your defense, and by 2,5% if you have more defense than your enemy's unit attack. If your unit have less defense than the enemy unit has attack, 6 defense is -30% damage recieved, which makes stone skin better (shield doesn't affect ranged attacks). If you already have more defense it only gives 15%, which makes shield overall better.
shield is better but works only for meele(reduce meele damage -30%) , but if you expect some distance damage too you should use stone skin spell which is universal because just increase your defence points, there is also air shield spell which give you more protection but work only for distance atacks
@@ereshkigalvandrekkenov5657 but wouldn't the 5% be multiplicative? As in 5% then 4.75% and so on Cause if not then that would make any unit with 20 or 40+ def immune to damage which is obviously not the case
Yes, the 5% is multiplicative, so having 40 defense more than the attacker has attack will "only" block 87% of damage (and the 10% isn't really a -10% on final damage but it removes a +10% base damage bonus from the attacking creature). Shield remains better than stone skin against anything that is not an archer
Man, you must realise that game is based on reality. In anciant times there were really heroes who were using that movement spells and there was no way to ban them. Their enemies probalby didn't like it but that is how life works
Town specific as well like for fortress you almost need haste but something like dungeon has the black dragons scorpicores so it might be better to just slow the enemy. Good catch tho
I love your videos! It would be nice if when you finish or dont know what to do with homm3 videos try to do homm5 videos like this i would like to see what you think about that if you play homm5.
What do u mean? Pls clarify. You press C for cast spell. The book has 2 types of spell. Adventure map spell and battle spell. Left side page of book and at the bottom , you can find map spell and batyle spell
Good list, but you forgot several great spells: Magic Arrow, Cure, Dispel, Curse, Quicksand, Animate Dead, Teleport, Meteor Shower, Chain Lightning, Berserk and Sorrow. Water Walk can also be great on island maps. But most important of these are probably Animate Dead and Berserk.
Great job. My top: 1) Slow( with expert earth magic) 2) Blind 3) Forgetful(with expert water magic) 4) Town Portal( expert earth), ressurection and clone 5) Dimension door( expert air) without any question One question: where do you find fly spell and dimension door in The empire of the world 2 map???
Thanks. To your question, I didn't find it. Since I already finished the map, I unlocked all the spells just to use fly and dimension door only to demonstrate for this video.
Easy: Against AI i only need town portal and a super hero. Against humans there are a lot of useful spells, but the most important: Mass slow, Mass haste, Blind, Mass bless.
Great video but i think, that in 4th level, there should be more offensive spells live chain lighting or meteor shower because they are crucial to the early game (on 200%) to kill... something
@@VersusARCH if your hero has it as a specialty though it does get pretty crazy how easy you blast through the build up month or 2 which is good for players like me that are impatient and usually play the 8 town maps. Solmyrr is one for tower
Yeah this one could be the best sometimes but its all depends on the army type , items of your oponent, or the positioning troops on the battlefield, sometimes berserk could be the best sometimes doesnt work, also armagedon, implosion, haste, slow, chain lightning, blind, resurection, curse, bless
@@leafsfanforever2896 For Armageddon you need to have the fastest unit to be the first to act on the battlefield. Phoenixes are the fastest units in the game and protected by fire. That way you always start the battle with armageddon, win and move on.
You should have made some kind of a TOP10... This way it's not interesting, it just seems like some random tutorial on practically ALL even marginally useful spells. Also, it's tough to compare battle to adventure spells... it's completely different. My TOP5 battle spells: 1. Berserk 2. Prayer 3. Slow 4. Haste 5. Blind Whereas out of the adventure spells Town Portal kicks ass... Then Dimension Door and Fly, in that order.
I think it would be difficult to put all best spells in order, so I decided to do the best 3-5 spells for each level. I personally think the best battle spells are Haste, Slow and Blind, as you can get access to them pretty quickly and they stay useful throughout the game.
clicked on this link only to say - before anyone says anything - that Dimension Door and Town Portal are not the best spells in the game but the most cheating spells in the game. Not fly, not mass slow / haste / whatever, not blind, not berserker, clone, resurrection or any other spell. DD and TP are the spells that break the game, and if those 2 spells are not allowed Heroes 3 does indeed become a strategy game like it was meant to be in the 1st place. So, yeah.... I can go watch the video now, and see what OP thinks are the best spells
Casting mass slow is pretty much the same as mass haste. Technically. It's all situational. I'd rather slow down opposing heroes if their attacking in a siege. But having them cast mass slow and haste, is kinda useless especially if the other hero has expert despell.
Nope. Shield protects you 30% total damage output of melee only. Stoneskin protects you all types damage type with %. Like 1 hero def has 1% def resistance to all types attack. Shield is better bcoz most troops are melee. Stoneskin gives u 5 def rating to units
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Fly is an interesting spell, in-universe. Imagine seeing an entire army, thousands of monsters and soldiers, flying towards your city over a mountain
I never though about that, that must be very spectacular view :-)
There seems to be a gentleman agreement to always land the army outside the city and don't have the units without wings fly over the walls. And interestingly enough making two single goblins (Hero + 1 Goblin) fly is exactly as hard as making the population of a whole continent (as long as it fits into an army) fly.
That is exactly what happened to me yesterday and I decided to call it a day 😅
Step 1: Get expert earth magic
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Win the map
Step 2: Hope that Mage guilds won't troll you and give you that spell.
Neko_ValentinE_Butterfly hehe... summon water elemental!
get expert air, with dimension door and fly, you become troller
that secret spell is town portal of course :D
Under Expert Earth you can jump from town to town, resurrect any creatures to maintain your powerful army as durable as possible and also have the ability to make the most powerful attack spell devastating in your arsenal. Earth magic is broken. The best counterplay against this is to wear the Orb of Negation or Ring of Oblivion with the Shackle of War and with fairly enough Mighty Gorgons. The mentioned Orb and Ring can only be obtained in Horn of the Abyss unfortunately.
What an adorable picture of an Ancient Behemoth grandpa with his grandkids Behemoths.
no contest, there's no other game in which magic feels as _magical_ as in homm3. spells of this game are absolute masterpiece of artwork, giving you the feeling of controlling the whole game with your mind.
1. Advanced and expert Bless also gives +1 dmg to max. So your gremlins damage from 1-2 become 3. Same logic for curse.
2. Shield is ok, but not one of the best spell.
3. Blind makes retaliation weaker (50%, 25%, 0%)
4. Visions is below average. In most cases it is easy to predict neutrals behaviour. As I remember it have some synergy with diplomacy, but even then its just meh.
5. No berserk. It's just the best spell in the game. At least at the same level as town portal or dimension doors.
6. Raise Dead is fine. And deserves to be in this list.
7. Summon elementals are also ok.
Ur right
berserk should not exist - total OP
@@Iosif-Bitie-glava.37.stih.17 Ever heard of mass cure or dispell?
@@VersusARCH If you can cast it before your fastest units kill each other.
@@ZombboniZZ I play Dungeon 😎
In one game I made Malekith so strong that his implosion did over 10,000 damage (33-34 Ancient Behemoths, for example).
Damn. That should be at least 5months
Just saying, the behemoth family at the end was absolutely adorable :)
Level 1- View Air and View Earth are among the most important spells for spying where your opponent is. Also, Mass Curse is brutal against low level armies.
I cant even describe how much valuable is View Air\ Earth, at expert you know exactly where the enemy towns are \ heroes.
apart from Meteor Shower you actually added all the spells that I would have added as well oh and Berserk, I would definitely put that on the list :D
agbrenv Yes, Berserk exellent spell
I planned on putting Berserk here, I even downloaded the picture, I forgot :/
I dont use it I preffer slow blind chain and implosion dont have time to use it .Is it good?
Expert Bersek is OP Spell.
expert berserk is pretty OP it turn all units in a 19 hex radious hostile toward any creature closest to them, so basicly cast it at the beginning of the battle amongst the enemy units and they will start attacking each other
if your talking about meteor shower, it is like a weaker implosion with a 5 hex area effect
I like how in HOTA how if you are not on a water map you never see the water related spells. I always play on no water maps.
Now top 3 worst spells:
3. Scuttle Boat
2. Magic Mirror
1. Remove Obstacle (proudly sitting on the throne)
Scuttle boat is not useless (although I do wonder why anyone would need magic to set a wooden ship on fire). 🤔
What about Hypnotize? This spell is weak as hell.
@@modycebula8161 i thought hypnotize is a good (not great) spell though
40% chance to deflect Implosion isn't a bad thing
Quicksand is a rubbish spell as well
Luv the Implosion's visual and sound effects.
ffarkasm ;DDD
Honestly I rarely use slow and haste to make my units move further/enemies move fewer tiles. I almost always use those spells in order to gain the advantage of first strikes, especially useful if you have an army with many ranged units, it's really nice to get those first hits in before the enemy is allowed to use any units. Generally I prefer mass slow on expert level, because it makes it more likely for my archers to get two hits before any melee engages happen, whereas with haste, I am still forced to attack early with my melee units instead of waiting for the enemy to approach.
True, slow is better versus PVE. But in PVP, haste is best. Either way theyre both awesome on situation
The only thing i would add is berserk =D
I like the Slayer one as well. But Slow and Haste are really crucial and especially helpful from the very start of the game.
2:00
While I do agree that Shield is an awesome buff, I DON'T think that Basic Shield was exactly a reason why that Troll steamrolled that Master Genie... : )
Town portal.... not one of the best... THE best ! Mainly when you play in very difficult and impossible difficulty. And then : Slow, Bless and Prayer, at the master level, of course ;)
Dimension door...
love your vids and the music. absolutely boom.
And no Chain Lightning? My favourite spell...
Could be here as well. Solmyr would be proud :D
Eh. It’s handy early on with Solmyr, but the damage doesn’t scale fast enough to keep up with how powerful the buffs are.
Not that great.
Roger Gurman It’s a good spell but not one of the best I would add berserk instead..
It gets some bonuspoints for looking cool.
Did you create those maps yourself ? I would love to play those maps
6:20 what's the music=?
Shield or stone skin? Every time I go to cast one of these I wonder which one gives the higher advantage. Assume expert earth for both.
shield scales better , -30% melee dmg received is no joke . Expert stone skin gives 6 def , meh .
@@HuyNguyen-jl7go
Each defense point reduces damage by 5% if the enemy has more attack than your defense, and by 2,5% if you have more defense than your enemy's unit attack.
If your unit have less defense than the enemy unit has attack, 6 defense is -30% damage recieved, which makes stone skin better (shield doesn't affect ranged attacks).
If you already have more defense it only gives 15%, which makes shield overall better.
shield is better but works only for meele(reduce meele damage -30%) , but if you expect some distance damage too you should use stone skin spell which is universal because just increase your defence points, there is also air shield spell which give you more protection but work only for distance atacks
@@ereshkigalvandrekkenov5657 but wouldn't the 5% be multiplicative?
As in 5% then 4.75% and so on
Cause if not then that would make any unit with 20 or 40+ def immune to damage which is obviously not the case
Yes, the 5% is multiplicative, so having 40 defense more than the attacker has attack will "only" block 87% of damage (and the 10% isn't really a -10% on final damage but it removes a +10% base damage bonus from the attacking creature).
Shield remains better than stone skin against anything that is not an archer
Raise Dead. You missed it. Very usefull for necromancer castle
Also missed Death Ripple.
@@Zeithri lol read the damage of death ripple and come back here xD
Raise dead / resurrection are the same
Berserk is a great spell. Chain Lightning and Meteor Shower are also good damage spells. Necromancers Rise Undead is really strong spell too.
Movement spells are must have for any hero, but I prefer to ban them because usually are map-breakers.
Viking II dumb question, but can you ban it PvE?
I agree though.
You can ban whatever you want by open the map with the editor.
Thank you! Have been playing the heroes of might and magic 3 since 2002, and didn’t know.
It’s true you do learn something new everyday!!!
Yes, everyday! I feel the same! Too much to learn from the past actual videogames...
Man, you must realise that game is based on reality. In anciant times there were really heroes who were using that movement spells and there was no way to ban them. Their enemies probalby didn't like it but that is how life works
Slow and haste are not just about making units faster/slower. Its about to play with your slower unit each turn before ur enemies faster units.
Town specific as well like for fortress you almost need haste but something like dungeon has the black dragons scorpicores so it might be better to just slow the enemy. Good catch tho
Mass slow + Golden Bow or Bow of the Sharpshooter + 3 ranged stacks = killer combo :)
Wont work against Dragogeddon...
@@VersusARCH If you have Orb of vulnerability or inhibition, it does.
No cure/dispel when you have blind and foregetfulness?
Im a very noob guy but are people still playing this online? If that is so, that is aweesome!
yes they are, you should download HOTA (horn of the abyss) and there my friend, you can play online
@@HermanosKida I got it, I must try it! Thanksk
What're the titles of the tracks in the background?
No view air or view earth . Its great mapscanner and easiest tool to find enemy castles and grail
I noticed the maps are very detailed in this video what is this?
I want someone to post the sound effects of the magic spells?
4:57 what unit is that on the left? A modified genie?
Nymphs they are part of the cove faction in the horn of the abyss mod ;D
I love your videos! It would be nice if when you finish or dont know what to do with homm3 videos try to do homm5 videos like this i would like to see what you think about that if you play homm5.
I played homm 5 a little bit, I don't know if I have enough knowledge about that game to make videos about it.
What do you press to use the town portal i had iy on my valeska with expert earth magic and expert wisdom and i cannot use it
What do u mean? Pls clarify. You press C for cast spell. The book has 2 types of spell. Adventure map spell and battle spell. Left side page of book and at the bottom , you can find map spell and batyle spell
no chain lightning?
Any comments on chain lightning
How many spells can you put on the same stak of monsters? (haste, bless, prayer, shild, stoneskin, counterstrike, blind, etc.)
5 stack but i dnt know any beyond 5 buff/ debuff
Good list, but you forgot several great spells: Magic Arrow, Cure, Dispel, Curse, Quicksand, Animate Dead, Teleport, Meteor Shower, Chain Lightning, Berserk and Sorrow. Water Walk can also be great on island maps. But most important of these are probably Animate Dead and Berserk.
berserk is the OP of all spells in combat. No question about that.
@@Iosif-Bitie-glava.37.stih.17 Unless you are fighting Undead or Black Dragons
@@HeyHEY-fg9rp Or Elementals, or Golems, or Titans, or Fangarms =).
Great job.
My top:
1) Slow( with expert earth magic)
2) Blind
3) Forgetful(with expert water magic)
4) Town Portal( expert earth), ressurection and clone
5) Dimension door( expert air) without any question
One question: where do you find fly spell and dimension door in The empire of the world 2 map???
Thanks.
To your question, I didn't find it. Since I already finished the map, I unlocked all the spells just to use fly and dimension door only to demonstrate for this video.
You said without question but then asked a question
Where is the strongest DMG spell berserk?
Great video !
Thank you !
nice video but liked it for the music tracks nice pick :)
Love ancient behemoth grandpa.
3.Defens Fire+Armag
2.Berserk Expert Fire+Force Field
1.The good layout from the start
Ya, agreed with the list.
Dispell and berserk are really good.
I dont really know how to use berserk. Can you help?
@@feiamw2751 you can use it when there's a strong enemy unit and near another enemy unit. You can get expert fire and cast berserk in some area.
@@realshi3841
Woahhh okay.. Thank you for sharing. Gonna try it when Im free. Tks again!
Dispel is worse than cure. Cure works only for your army, while mass-dispel dispels everyone in the battle :/.
name of those maps ?
Empire of the World 2, Lord of the Rings, Wayfarer..
@@richiabosuli3193 Wayfarer, my most favourite map. It took me more than 40 hours to win
What about Meteor Shower and Chain Lightning
What is this map called?
What map ? there are several maps in this video
From the first clip
That's Lord of the Rings.
Best single spell = expert dimension door
With the Expert Haste with Armor of the Damned Combo armor and Orb of Negation makes Dragons look bad for their magic resist.
No Cure?
Easy: Against AI i only need town portal and a super hero. Against humans there are a lot of useful spells, but the most important: Mass slow, Mass haste, Blind, Mass bless.
Why not mass prayer? You get multiple bonuses at once and often steal the initiative.
Animated death is broken for necromancers, death ripple also, chain lightning and beserk
Death ripple is only handy early on, it doesn't scale up in damage enough to be useful after the first 2 weeks of game play
Great video but i think, that in 4th level, there should be more offensive spells live chain lighting or meteor shower because they are crucial to the early game (on 200%) to kill... something
By the time you manage to buy 4th level mage guild it is no longer early game, besides not all towns even have 4th l evel mage guild.
And what when your enemy have recanter's cloak? Good thing for stronghold and fortress :p
@@VersusARCH if your hero has it as a specialty though it does get pretty crazy how easy you blast through the build up month or 2 which is good for players like me that are impatient and usually play the 8 town maps.
Solmyrr is one for tower
town portal has no competition.
If i wanted to read i would have opened an article.
Berserk is one of best spell, i wonder why you don't list it ?
Slow and Haste are just gamechanging, even tho they are easy to aquire.
1. Slow
2. Resurrection
3. Town Portal
I think Animate Dead should be included, being cheaper than Resurrection.
But it does not give back those units after battle right?
@@MrVargatron on expert it does
Only works for undead so nah.
Top 1 should be TP that is amust have spell. 2. Dimension door 3. Resurrection /animate deas
Where is the most powerfull spell in a game (againist might heroes) - berserk?
Yeah this one could be the best sometimes but its all depends on the army type , items of your oponent, or the positioning troops on the battlefield, sometimes berserk could be the best sometimes doesnt work, also armagedon, implosion, haste, slow, chain lightning, blind, resurection, curse, bless
Armageddon is pointless unless you have Mass Protection from Fire
@@leafsfanforever2896 For Armageddon you need to have the fastest unit to be the first to act on the battlefield.
Phoenixes are the fastest units in the game and protected by fire.
That way you always start the battle with armageddon, win and move on.
Where is the chain lightning? 😀 You can use the chain lightning artifact which protects you from lightning spells and doesen't harm your creatures
Omg the music from non movie pirates of the carribean game
Nice list but you missed one of the most amazing spells BERSERKER on expert fire magic is just too OP.
no magic arrow
Could be here as well, nice spell for the beginning and doesn't cost much spell points.
It would be a great video,but i heard heroes 4 song
common that song is wonderful !
The naval theme, and it is one of the best HOMM IV soundtrack.
Best Lv1 should be View Air. Side hero learns View Air and stand on Magic Plain will be a SATELLITE of your game!
Never even thought about using it that way, nice trick.
Simon Tollin Subscribe my channel you will learn more, I promise.
What the tits is that unit at 4:53?
You should have made some kind of a TOP10... This way it's not interesting, it just seems like some random tutorial on practically ALL even marginally useful spells.
Also, it's tough to compare battle to adventure spells... it's completely different.
My TOP5 battle spells:
1. Berserk
2. Prayer
3. Slow
4. Haste
5. Blind
Whereas out of the adventure spells Town Portal kicks ass... Then Dimension Door and Fly, in that order.
I think it would be difficult to put all best spells in order, so I decided to do the best 3-5 spells for each level.
I personally think the best battle spells are Haste, Slow and Blind, as you can get access to them pretty quickly and they stay useful throughout the game.
Roko Škrabić I'd say in most cases haste is a way better spell than prayer, since prayer is hard to get and costs more for just an attack bonus.
Gavin Wightman
Yes, relatively speaking, Haste is better. But absolutely... Prayer is obviously stronger.
Chainlightning
OHHHHHHH SHIIIIT 6:29
spells level/mana balance is incredibly bad. the worst amongst homm.
all Earth spells are tediously overpowered. Fire and Water spells are somewhat underwhelming. Needs balancing.
clicked on this link only to say - before anyone says anything - that Dimension Door and Town Portal are not the best spells in the game but the most cheating spells in the game. Not fly, not mass slow / haste / whatever, not blind, not berserker, clone, resurrection or any other spell. DD and TP are the spells that break the game, and if those 2 spells are not allowed Heroes 3 does indeed become a strategy game like it was meant to be in the 1st place. So, yeah.... I can go watch the video now, and see what OP thinks are the best spells
bla bla first of all finish any gigantic map for HotA without those spells, than I see what you say about those spells and balance of the game
hota is NOT Heroes 3, which is what this clip is all about. And in Heroes 3 DD and TP are cheat, so stop being butthurt
bla bla yep stop your butthurt about this spells, game was developed in 1999 and you still launch salutes from your ass, thats enough of that ;D
so butthurt LOL
bla bla yours still continue?)) You cant stop it?)
PVE games best spell; BERSERK!
I wanted to put it in the list , I even made a short video about it but I forgot ..
I know they already havw artifacts but they need to mod the game with new spell that does mass slow and mass haste at same time
Casting mass slow is pretty much the same as mass haste. Technically. It's all situational. I'd rather slow down opposing heroes if their attacking in a siege. But having them cast mass slow and haste, is kinda useless especially if the other hero has expert despell.
Stone skin is better than shield
Nope. Shield protects you 30% total damage output of melee only. Stoneskin protects you all types damage type with %. Like 1 hero def has 1% def resistance to all types attack. Shield is better bcoz most troops are melee. Stoneskin gives u 5 def rating to units