All LORES OF MAGIC Tier List for Warhammer 3

Tier list of all lores of magic in Total War: Warhammer 3. Let me know if you agree or disagree in the comments below.

[teft]

Lore of Yin & Yang 3:00
Lore of Ice & Tempest 4:30
Lore of Slannesh 7:20
Lore of Nurgle 8:55
Lore of Tzeentch 10:20
Lore of the Great Maw 12:00
Deliverance of Itza 14:10
Lore of Little Waagh & Big Waagh 16:10
Lore of Nekekhara 19:05
Lore of Deeps 20:40
Lore of Vampires 22:15
Skaven Spells 24:35
Skaven Spells of Stealth 25:35
Skaven Spells of Plague 26:30
Skaven Spells of Ruin 28:40
Runic Magic 29:30
Lore of Shadows 31:40
Lore of the Wild 33:10
Lore of Beasts 34:30
Lore of Metal 35:50
Lore of Life 37:00
Lore of Light 39:05
Lore of Fire 41:15
Lore of Heavens 42:30
Lore of Death 43:30
Lore of High Magic 46:48
Lore of Dark Magic 48:55

[voodoodummie]

I think one small thing that was overlooked in the lore of Nehekara is its passive. It lasts longer than life bloom and heals more than curse of undeath while still being able to resurrect entities. On top of that, Nehekara has a base 3 WoM spell to activate it reliably. This really helps Settra's tomb guard spam between that passive, his resurrect skill, and the realm of souls army ability.

[ChristofCube]

You should make these longer, don't worry about the time. We all love the indepth analysis, and the tierlists in general.

[sev]

High magic is also available to the lizardmen, via the slann mage priests. You'll probably still take life, fire or even light over high magic, but it's a detail to take into account

[kacktustoo]

Yeah I'm totally on board with a warhammer 3 trier list for any factions/lords/mechanics etc that have changed.

It's really helpful to quickly get your thoughts on the value of things

[sammartin]

Seeing Ichy nuisance being rated highly is nice to see, I remember my first Grom campaign in WH2 I captured Helmgart and posted a goblin stack in there (I didn't want to invade the empire yet) and held out against three separate armies of increasing strength from Karl Franz, watching empire greatswords being beaten by basic goblins because they were exhausted and had -24 melee attack was hilarious

[rhagos]

The lore of Nehekhara passive is what really sells it for me since that is the only way tomb kings can recover entities.

[Plaeya]

I know you hate tier lists legend though I think this is just a great format to gain more information on the game, thank you always for your videos 💖

[TheRhysStreams]

Solid list as always, I don't think fire does enough these days to truly be S tier anymore but definitely a solid A still. That's my only quibble. Most competing lores do similar levels of damage potentially with more reliability since you can no longer pseudo-aim vortexes, and typically have some additional utility. Though props for calling out piercing bolts of burning IMO that's the sleeper in lore of fire that gets overlooked by a lot of people.

[lhays]

I personally love the lash of slaanesh. I know it’s not particularly damaging, but it’s always so satisfying to see infantry dudes go flying through the air after getting thwacked by it.

[hasahaso]

Nice tier list make more I always enjoy them

[DirtyMardi]

Tier lists are good because they can be used to cram a lot of structured information into a short video. Please do make faction and legendary lord lists as well!

[xtrasquish]

I will note that the vampire coast, or specifically the dreadfleet do have access to some of the lore of shadows now, as Count noctilus gets melkoth's and pit of shades in warhammer 3, which he didn't in 2.

[malcolmduncan]

I can't remember, has legend done a tier list of all his tier list videos yet?
I feel like that would be his masterpiece of tier list videos

[sicthemutt]

I love your tier lists I learn a lot from them. Thank you

[hanthony]

S Tier
Lore of Vampires 22:15
Skaven Spells of Plague 26:30
Lore of Life 37:00
Lore of Fire 41:15

A Tier
Lore of Nurgle 8:55
Lore of Tzeentch 10:20
Lore of Nekekhara 19:05
Lore of Deeps 20:40
Skaven Spells of Ruin 28:40
Lore of Shadows 31:40
Lore of Beasts 34:30
Lore of Metal 35:50
Lore of Light 39:05
Lore of Heavens 42:30

B Tier
Lore of Yin & Yang 3:00
Lore of Little Waagh & Big Waagh 16:10
Runic Magic 29:30
Lore of the Wild 33:10
Lore of Death 43:30
Lore of Dark Magic 48:55

C Tier
Lore of Ice & Tempest 4:30
Lore of the Great Maw 12:00
Lore of Nekekhara 19:05
Lore of High Magic 46:48


D Tier
Lore of Slannesh 7:20
Skaven Spells of Stealth 25:35

[Kinperor]

Shout out to Conductor Lore of Heaven HE wizards/archmages, they reduce the cost of Uranon's Thunderbolt twice (once from trait, once from leveling skill) and are readily available. Just a really great trait with a good lore of magic

[csmnstoica]

I think lore of Ice is severly underated. Heart of Winter is one of the best dps spells in the game. Since AI tends to blob around heroes/lords in W3 and the heroes/caster lord of Kislev are really tanky, you can cheese the AI very easy - 1 ice lord + 3 patriarch (all on bears) can solo any army. Just blob them up - heart of winter, heal when necessary. In two overcast heart of winter you will get army losses.

[UkeRocket]

Yay tier lists!! 😄

2 minor thoughts:
-Hand of Glory is actually amazing. Regular cast is good, but *overcast* it and it triples the DPS of an archer unit for very few winds.
-Fate of Bjuna is expensive, but if you have an abundance of winds, it deletes infantry. Not worth it if you’re not at high winds, though.

Great list though. Please more!

[casualplayeroftotalwar]

Thanks Legend, good to see another tier list. Though I think High Magic belongs in B or even in A tier; Soul Quench can be devastating for its cost thanks to its explosion damage (much much better than spells like Fireball) and if I am not mistaken, Tempest is actually attached to the unit it was cast on so you don't have to worry about the location (I am not completely sure).