Destruction skill

[rollems]

Does Archmage attack/damage lightning strike gets increased by Destruction skill ?
what all does Destruction skill increase ? only chaos spells ?

[ckdamascus]

Does Archmage attack/damage lightning strike gets increased by Destruction skill ?
what all does Destruction skill increase ? only chaos spells ?

Archmage attack will NOT see an increase.

I think Destruction does affect a few other trees. You can check the user based manual, but in general, any spell that does Damage, will be affected.

It is generally more efficient to raise intelligence though, but if you want the ultimate in damage, that's the way to go.

For example, Trap which is in distortion, is affected by Destruction.

http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/attachment.php?attachmentid=3540&d=1286132646

As a nifty side note, it seems the most efficient Damage/Mana spells are Trap and Kamikaze. :)

[onepiece]

Unless the unit has an ability that is the same as an attack spell (which I don't remember anyone has) it should be affected.

[BB Shockwave]

Yeah, Archmage attack damage is not increased.

But, I just noticed - Peacefullness spell will NOT decrease the Archmage's damage. Maybe it only decreases melee unit's damage?

[onepiece]

Peacefullness also has no effect on the damage of RuneMage (maybe doesn't affect mages?). It does affect units like RedDragon, Troll and EmeraldDragon

One curious effect is that if you use peacefullness on a RuneMage with 20 mind runes (health +200 =650) his health gets increased to 785 because it uses the base health (450) for the 30% plus the 200 for the abilities.
But if you use dispel after this, his health gets reduced to 450 but keeps the 650 as maximum health. He suffers 200 damages because of dispel! Now that's one strange bug.

[Zechnophobe]

Peacefullness also has no effect on the damage of RuneMage (maybe doesn't affect mages?). It does affect units like RedDragon, Troll and EmeraldDragon

One curious effect is that if you use peacefullness on a RuneMage with 20 mind runes (health +200 =650) his health gets increased to 785 because it uses the base health (450) for the 30% plus the 200 for the abilities.
But if you use dispel after this, his health gets reduced to 450 but keeps the 650 as maximum health. He suffers 200 damages because of dispel! Now that's one strange bug.

That's like when you get Shrunk via pygmy, when you unshrink, you will have less than full health. Annoying on big level 4 creatures :P.