Ability Dealing No damage

[1337Elite]

Hi guys.

Yesterday I decided to make a custom ability which I though would be the simplest trigger enhanced spell I've ever made. Instead I ended up with this thing that deals no damage at all, except the decaying damage that the dummy spell already has. Below is the trigger anyway.

Crippling Blow
    Events
        Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Crippling Blow 
    Actions
        Set tempInt[1] = (Level of Crippling Blow  for (Casting unit))
        Set tempInt[2] = (tempInt[1] x (10 + ((Intelligence of (Casting unit) (Include bonuses)) x (Integer(0.90)))))
        Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing (Real(tempInt[2])) damage of attack type Chaos and damage type Death

 

[HBtheOnly]

Hmm I'm not too sure but you should change it to "starts the effects of" instead of "begins" because they could abuse that.. Anyway that might work.

 

[BRUTAL]

you could also do what i usually do to check if the event is right in the first palce like the guy above said
put an action before all that being a game message and if that shows then you know the event is right

 

[1337Elite]

I'll try that. I've got "begins channelling an ability" or "begins casting an ability" on all my spells. Oh well, I'll report back with the results.

I got it to work. It was the damage calculation that always returned zero. Oh well, thanks for your help. ^^

 

[darkRae]

> I've got "begins casting an ability" on all my spells.

That's bad.
Change them to 'Starts the effect of an ability' unless necessary.

 

[1337Elite]

Oh yeah, that's what I use btw. "Starts the effect of an ability" & "Starts chanelling..", those are what I use. I'll change this one to that too. ^^

But hey, what's the bad thing about using begins casting an ability? Is it because of the timing? The fact that you can't interupt the spell, or something else? No one have never given me a concrete answer to that.

 

[Romek]

Oh yeah, that's what I use btw. "Starts the effect of an ability" & "Starts chanelling..", those are what I use. I'll change this one to that too. ^^

But hey, what's the bad thing about using begins casting an ability? Is it because of the timing? The fact that you can't interupt the spell, or something else? No one have never given me a concrete answer to that.

You can quickly press Stop/Hold Position (or give another order) After casting the spell. And the spells effect will happen, but the cooldown won't start and mana won't be drained.