Make hero lose life after ability ends

[Primal_Fury]

Okay, I'm currently making some random hero ideas for mine and I ran into a problem with one ability. It is basically the same as Avatar with a different stats, but I want the hero losing it to lose 200 life after Avatar form over. I've tried using triggers for this and I think that mine is close to working. The trigger so far is...

Events: Unit finishes casting an ability.
Conditions: Ability being cast equal to Berserk.
Actions: Set life of casting unit to life of casting unit (Need a -200 here)

The problem I've found is that I can't find the last part at the end about the -200. If anyone could help me figure out a way to make this work, that'd be great.

Also, is there any way to make an aura that increases max hp by a %?

 

[NRinpun]

Well for starters, you can use two triggers to run an efficient health loss after avatar. One simply starts a timer (no timer window as that'd be pretty silly) for the seconds of your ability (find out the formula pattern you've used which is most likely the level of your ability times something and perhaps even plus or minus something). The second is for when the timer expires, and then you can reduce the health. Why not use a wait? Because waits aren't perfect. If you use a wait, you might end up losing health a little bit AFTER the ability is finished.

There's an action in the dropdown known as "Arithmetic". You can put your (life of casting unit) in the first operand, a minus for the operator, and then 200 on the second operand.

I don't think so. You can trigger one though and that's a nice idea...an aura that lightly boosts hp by some percent.

You'd trigger one by having a trigger check if a unit has a buff and if so add it to a unit group (every .01 second and no, that shouldn't be too laggy). If not, remove it from unit group. Then you can have another unit group that manages the real "default" max hp for it to be restored to a unit upon leaving the group whilst taking a percent of the unit's max hp and adding it to the unit's max hp for units in the group.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

One works, though you need one variable of type 'Unit'.

Avatar
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
    Actions
        Set Caster = (Casting Unit)
        Wait 30.00 seconds  //However long Avatar lasts on your ability.
        Unit - Set life of Caster to ((Life of Caster) - 200.00)

 

[Primal_Fury]

Okay, thanks. I'm not really great with the editor yet and didn't get all you said, but I did need to skim over it quickly. I'll try some of that out though, and I thought I might need to use a trigger for the aura. Thanks for reply, because that's been bugging me awhile.

 

[NRinpun]

It'd be better if he used a timer, though. They're more accurate for things like these. Use waits for simple special effects, such as randomly occurring tremors over a various landscape.

 

[NRinpun]

No problem. Don't hesitate to ask if you're having trouble

 

[XXXconanXXX]

True, but if he doesn't know too much about the editor, it would be best to use a simpler version rather than the more efficient version that'll be more confusing.

 

[NRinpun]

True. I get your point, but I personally think timers are simple. All he has to do is create a one shot timer and set a timer variable to said timer and then have the timer variable expire

 

[Primal_Fury]

Well, I know a bit about the editor. Just not too great with all the trigger types, usually find the stuff by looking around. But for XXConanXXX's idea, since I have 3 levels of it, would I need an Array Variable for each level or something like that? Because each level has different length.

 

[NRinpun]

That's what I was saying. Wait or timer, it doesn't matter. His thirty seconds is really any number of seconds.

Different length? That's what I expected. Is there a pattern to your seconds increase? I'm just saying, if your avatar lasts ten seconds, then twenty, and then thirty, you will want to wait (Level of Avatar of (Casting Unit) x 10).

 

[XXXconanXXX]

What's the wait increment for each? Like 30 / 40 / 50?

 

[Primal_Fury]

Well, the ability times for level 1/2/3 are 10/15/20, put waits at that...might need to put them 1 second later or something.

 

[XXXconanXXX]

Avatar
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Avatar
    Actions
        Set Caster = (Casting Unit)
        Wait (5.00 + (5.00 x (Real((Level of Avatar  for Caster))))) seconds
        Unit - Set life of Caster to ((Life of Caster) - 200.00)

That'll work.

 

[Primal_Fury]

Yep, that did it. Feel kind of bad now that couldn't get on my own...but I would have never got that second action LOL. Thanks to both of you though. My next objective is to get that aura.