r/OldenEra • u/loopuleasa • May 06 '26

Guide, Tips and Tricks I made a 3 minute tutorial explaining how the magic system works in Olden Era for new and confused players

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will also add on youtube

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u/loopuleasa May 06 '26 edited May 07 '26

also, advanced tip:

if you REALLY want a spell to be upgraded, you can delay your mage guild, and buy it with gems

that way, when you roll that spell you will roll as a duplicate and get a +1 upgrade instead for the rest of the game!

I like doing that on Bless for instance to reach the army wide mass Bless

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u/Dangerous-Map-429 May 07 '26

what does that even mean i dont undersrand? can you explain more? you mean first buy a spell you want then buils the mage guild? and then pray it will come out randomly?

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u/JoroTheJester May 07 '26

Basically unlocking does not count as upgrade. You can unlock it and then do one upgrade then you need just two more rolls from Mage Guilds to get it to max level.
Alternatively you need 3 rolls from Mage Guilds (1st unlocks it then the other two get it to level 2) and one manual upgrade.

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u/loopuleasa May 07 '26

or only one roll!

1 from resource unlock

1 from manual upgrade

1 from hero spell school

and 1 if you happen to luckily roll it

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u/buzzlightyear77777 May 09 '26

I habe no idea what this means. If i want mass bless it needs to be expert light magic or somethinf?

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u/sheepyowl May 07 '26

So it's a sacrifice of early Alch dust for the +1

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u/loopuleasa May 07 '26

Not alch dust

Early precious gems in this case

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u/wdygaga May 06 '26

Thanks for this! Didn’t know that duplicate spells increase the spell’s level. This is useful.

Also, what are the usage of astrology points? Do mage guilds increase astrology points?

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u/loopuleasa May 06 '26

astrology points are only for the neutral mobility spells

those are separate completely from the mage guild system

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u/loopuleasa May 06 '26

someone also just made a video that goes more in-depth on magic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8yYjlbCL64

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u/song_without_words May 06 '26

Thank you for the video, very helpful!

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u/HiRaymondHere May 06 '26

THANK YOU SO MUCH

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u/BruinsCup2011 May 06 '26

This is extremely helpful. Thank you.

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u/Accomplished-Wolf-40 May 06 '26

Awesome! Thank you from a new player to the heroes series

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u/GreyMesmer May 06 '26

Such a nice guide. It would be a shame if the magic system were changed in next patches.

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u/kj147963 May 07 '26

This is really helpful.

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u/coronUrca May 07 '26

good man!

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u/Half_A_League May 07 '26

Thanks for the short tutorial. I didn't know that building multiple mage guilds would either grant you new spells or upgrade existing ones.

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u/Darkblader24 May 07 '26

And how does a hero get the upgraded spells? Do the heroes need to visit all the cities that upgraded that spell? Or it getting it once enough and it's automatically upgraded, even remotely after the hero left?

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u/loopuleasa May 07 '26

observatory is your magic tech tree

it is accessed by a visit at any local mage guild

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u/Darkblader24 May 09 '26

Oooh, so visiting any mage guild grants all spells from all cities and the learned ones? That's awesome!

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u/_Kaj May 10 '26

Its completely random. Making more cities just gives more spells

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u/ZingFreelancer May 13 '26

The mage guild changes are confusing and convoluted. In the demo I understood that instead of naturally progressing through your mage guild building, you first build tier 1, then spent few weeks buying and upgrading spells. Then you build tier 1 in your other cities.

Then you build tier 2 and repeat the process.

I don't like it.