Magic Immunity (Item Power)

This article is about the Item Power called "Magic Immunity". For information about the innate unit ability of the same name, see Magic Immunity. For the sorcery spell, see Magic Immunity (Spell).

Magic Immunity
Item Power
Cost	700
Required Spellbooks
Valid Items	Sword Mace Axe Bow Staff Wand Jewelry Shield Chainmail Platemail
Effect
All	Magic Immunity
Availability
Create Artifact Treasure Merchant The Gift

"Magic Immunity" is an Item Power available through Sorcery, and like the unit ability so-named, immunizes the Hero against virtually every form of magical attack. It may be added to any Magical Item created for Heroes via Create Artifact. Some of the 250 premade Items possess this power, and these can be found mainly as Treasure during the campaign.

Effect

This enchantment represents a culmination of Sorcery's power to counter and nullify magic. It grants lasting, unbreakable Magic Immunity so long as the enchanted article is held or worn.

Main article: Magic Immunity

Magic Immunity does pretty much exactly what it is named for doing, protecting the hero from direct-damage spells, Unit Curses, negative effects from Combat Enchantments and Global Enchantments, Breath Attacks and Gaze Attacks. It raises hero's defense score to  50 against  Magical Ranged Attacks.

The Item Power is transient: it will dissipate immediately if the Hero ever removes or loses the item. While worn, however, it cannot be dispelled. This constitutes a serious advantage over the Unit Enchantment and may well justify the additional  Cost of imbuing Magic Immunity as an Item Power.

Strategy

Granting one of the single strongest abilities in the game, and rubbing the matter in by preventing it from being removed by Dispel Magic or Disenchant Area, "Magic Immunity" is easily worth the mana cost of enchantment and is an end in itself whenever you have 5 and the Artificer and Runemaster skills.

"Magic Immunity" expands opportunities for fragile heroes. Rear-line mages, who might otherwise be slain effortlessly by AI Wizards with commonplace stuff like Fire Bolt, Ice Bolt, or Psionic Blast, can engage these Wizards' forces safely. They can also no longer be disabled and killed— or even targeted, for that matter— with hexes.

Many creatures in Encounter Zones possess strong ranged magic attacks and will single a vulnerable Hero out unless he has this power. The hero will likewise be immune to most of the dangerous Special Attacks used by these creatures when they manage to close in and attack.

The only dangerous spell that might be encountered repeatedly, and against which "Magic Immunity" does nothing, is Cracks Call. Combining this Power with the "Flight" Item Power takes advantage of the AI's limitations: normally the enemy will Web and then attempt to Cracks Call a flying hero, but with "Magic Immunity", the AI will start considering alternatives to this combo with greater weight, and may be enticed to spend its  Mana on more expensive, but less decisive, Combat Enchantments and Summoning Spells.

"Magic Immunity" is part of a cluster of Item Powers, listed below, which derive from Unit Enchantment Spells that are entirely defensive and trigger against specific threats.

Icon	Item Power	Color	Cost	Triggers against:
	Resist Elements	2	100	Spell / / Special
	Elemental Armor	4	500	Spell / / Special
	Guardian Wind	3	400	Missiles
	Resist Magic	2	200	Any  Resist roll
	Magic Immunity	5	700	Spell / / Special
	Bless	2	200	Spell or Attack
	Righteousness	4	500	Spell / / Special
	Invulnerability	5	1,200	Damage

Of all these, Resist Magic, Resist Elements, Elemental Armor and Righteousness are entirely superseded by "Magic Immunity" as they all provide a weaker subset of its effects, while Bless is only partially redundant since it also protects from some Melee Attacks.

Acquisition

Three top-tier Champions possess Magic Immunity, and need not be equipped with this Power.

Mortu the Black Knight

Roland the Paladin

Torin the Chosen

Create Artifact

Main article: Item Crafting

With 5, "Magic Immunity" may be added to any Magical Item of your own design through Create Artifact. Crafting is an expensive and time-consuming process. The investment is more reasonable with the Artificer and Runemaster Retorts.

Casting Cost Structure for "Magic Immunity"

Base	Runemaster	Artificer	Both
700	525	350	175

Overland

Main article: Magical Items in Treasure

The game data files contain 250 pre-defined Items. Of these, 25 grant "Magic Immunity". This power causes a premade Item to demand that the Wizard have particular Spellbooks in order to appear in a Treasure Hoard, and the requirements are irregular. Even while this is one of the most common Item Powers among the pre-defined Items, it is therefore not likely to be found by most kinds of Wizards.

There are three different ways by which you can acquire one of these pre-defined Items:

• By winning a difficult Encounter.
• By purchasing it from a Merchant, a random petitioner.
• As result of a Random Event called "The Gift".

It is often better to acquire items in this way, as it means you do not need to spend any time or  Mana to create them. Still, Items found through these means are in no way guaranteed to exactly suit your needs.

The table below lists the pre-defined Items with this power.

Premade Items with "Magic Immunity"
	Item	Attributes				Realm Powers		Required Ranks
1400	Band of Chivalry	4	3	-1		Magic Immunity					5
1600	Wand of Balmoth	2	1	5		Magic Immunity					5
1650	Chain Mail of Immunity	5	1	3		Magic Immunity					5
1650	Gideons Harp	1	1	10		Magic Immunity					5
2050	Sword of Immunity	1	2	10		Magic Immunity					5
3150	Plate of Immunity	5	4	6		Magic Immunity					5
4000	Staff of Odin	3	3	20		Magic Immunity					5
1750	Plate of Enduring Immunity	4	2			Endurance	Magic Immunity			5	2
1300	Bow of Magic Immunity					Elemental Armor	Magic Immunity	4	5
2050	Shield of Transformation	1				Wraithform	Magic Immunity		5	4
2150	The Peacemaker	1	2			Magic Immunity	Power Drain			4	5
2300	Dracken Mace	3	2			Magic Immunity	Power Drain			4	5
3900	The Destructor	20	-4			Magic Immunity	Power Drain			4	5
1900	The Devils Instrument	2	5			Lightning	Magic Immunity			5	5
3100	Ring of the Mad Mage	4	15			Magic Immunity	Invulnerability			5	5
1800	Morphains Friend	4				Elemental Armor Magic Immunity	Stoning		4	2	5
2000	Ultimate Defense	3				Elemental Armor Holy Avenger	Magic Immunity		3	4	5
2200	Axe of Light	10				Elemental Armor Holy Avenger	Magic Immunity		3	4	5
2850	Axe of Haste	1				Haste	Magic Immunity		7	5
Merchant Only
	Item	Attributes				Realm Powers		Required Ranks
2300	Wand of the Grey Wizard					Dispel True x2 Power Drain	Magic Immunity Planar Travel	4	5	5
4200	Plate of Omnipotence	6				Wraithform Invulnerability	Magic Immunity		5	4	5
2750	Bird of Paradise					Magic Immunity Righteousness	Giant Strength Invulnerability	3	5	4	5
3800	Wand of Doom					Destruction Magic Immunity	Death Phantasmal	5	3	6	5
3650	Magical Crystal of Power					Wraithform True Sight	Magic Immunity Invulnerability	6	5	4	5
2300	Tammas Staff of Negation					Magic Immunity Planar Travel	Power Drain Merging	4	5	5	22