HoMM: Olden Era – Advanced classes explanation

Author: Liso1 November 6, 2025 0 Comments

You might not have noticed it while playing the HoMM: Olden Era demo, but heroes actually have advanced subclasses that can be unlocked by choosing the right combination of secondary skills. These subclasses grant heroes very powerful passive abilities.

For example, the Temple faction and its Clerics have two subclasses: Inquisitor and Ascendant. If you manage to unlock the Ascendant subclass, all of your hero’s spells will cost 0 mana. That’s right — no mana, no problem.

To unlock this subclass, you need five specific secondary skills. However, the game doesn’t always offer all of them when you level up, so it’s possible you won’t be able to collect all five and thus won’t unlock the subclass.

At the moment, there’s no in-game list showing exactly which secondary skills are required. Each subclass has its own icon, which appears next to a secondary skill during level-up, hinting at a possible connection.

For instance, to unlock the Ascendant subclass, you need: Expert Primal Magic, Economy, Logistics, Resistance, and Sorcery. Once you have all these skills at the Expert level, the Ascendant subclass unlocks automatically, and your hero’s spells will cost no mana at all.

In the next part of the article, you’ll find a list of all available subclasses for the four factions featured in the Olden Era demo — Temple, Schism, Dungeon, and Necropolis — along with details on which secondary skills are required to unlock each subclass, and most importantly, what passive abilities they grant your heroes.

Temple: Knight
Swashbuckler: Heroic Strike deals +200 basic Damage.	Paragon: All allies always deal maximum and take minimum Damage.
Required secondary skills: Nightshade Magic, Intelligence, Leadership, Luck, Offence.	Required secondary skills: Daylight Magic, Battlecraft, Diplomacy, Summon Avatar, Tactics.
Temple: Cleric
Inquisitor: Enemy hero can only use each spell once per battle.	Ascendant: All the hero’s spells always cost 0 mana.
Required secondary skills: Arcane Magic, Battle Magic, Defence, Insight, Scouting.	Required secondary skills: Primal Magic, Economy, Logistics, Resistance, Sorcery.

Necropolis: Death Knight
Harbinger of Doom: Enemy creatures in battle have the minimum possible Luck and always land an unlucky strike when attacking.	Walking Rot: All enemies always have minimum Morale.
Required secondary skills: Primal Magic, Sorcery, Luck, Scouting, Defence.	Required secondary skills: Nightshade Magic, Diplomacy, Intelligence, Resistance, Tactics.
Necropolis: Necromancer
Soulweaver: After an enemy stack is killed in battle, a temporary stack of friendly wights appears in their place.	Chronomancer: Necromancy works for all creatures and not just Undead.
Required secondary skills: Arcane Magic. Battlecraft, Insight, Logistics, Summon Avatar.	Required secondary skills:Daylight Magic, Battle Magic, Economy, Offence, Tactics.

Dungeon: Overlord
Bodyguard: +100% Attack.	Envoy: +100% Defence.
Required secondary skills: Nightshade Magic, Intelligence, Leadership, Diplomacy, Offence.	Required secondary skills: Daylight Magic, Scouting, Luck, Defence, Sorcery.
Dungeon: Warlock
Heir: +100% Spellpower.	Merchant: Grants +10,000 Gold daily.
Required secondary skills: Primal Magic, Summon Avatar, Battlecraft, Insight, Tactics.	Required secondary skills:Arcane Magic, Economy, Battle Magic, Logistics, Resistance.

Schism: Oathkeeper
Unbound: Increases the level of all hero’s spells to their maximum.	Unfeeling: Enemy loses all Focus Charges at the beginning of each battle round.
Required secondary skills: Daylight Magic, Scouting, Offence, Sorcery, Leadership.	Required secondary skills: Nightshade Magic, Resistance, Diplomacy, Intelligence, Economy.
Schism: Riftspeaker
Unstoppable: 10 Attack, Defence, Spell Power, and Knowledge.	Unfathomable: All enemies always deal minimum and take maximum Damage.
Required secondary skills: Primal Magic, Tactics, Battle Magic, Insight, Battlecraft.	Required secondary skills: Arcane Magic, Logistics, Luck, Summon Avatar, Defence.