The screenshot clearly hints that the buffs are not tied to the skills of the _BARBARIAN, Watson!

Yeah, maybe =)
Perhaps it really is that way. Genius xD
I just don't remember what I was linking the Elementals' core perk to; it used to work (before). Apparently, it wasn't linked to them but to some other skill.
Ugh, developers, developers... the entire Orc faction is made haphazardly.
They should have made noble barbarism like in the third Heroes game (and they had magic up to level 3), rather than this half-animal hodgepodge that works crookedly.
