Percent damage using DDS to mana help

[Accname]

Well, check that the unit has > mana burned as current mana, and if not add whatever's left. Surely?

If the mana burn burns 100 points of mana, the unit currently has 51 and is hit, mana burn will burn 51 points of mana.
How are you gonna detect now when the mana is 0 and was already burnt how much mana the unit had previously? Did it have 51? Or maybe only 7? Maybe even 100. You cant know.

 

[Smitty]

Unit is attacked, attacking unit has buff X, set Integer=mana of attacked unit

Seperate trigger, detect damage, check for buff, add 15% of int to damaging unit. This is straight off the top of my head, would need refining.

 

[Accname]

Would still not work in all cases, between the "is attacked" and the "takes damage" event is a (more or less) slight delay the duration of the attacking units damage point and, if the attacker is a ranged unit, the distance and travel speed of its missle.
You also have to consider if there was a splash attack with mana drain (although i am not quite sure whether feedback works in combination with splash damage).
There might also be a mana shield on the defending unit.

 

[Smitty]

Like I say, it needs work, but it's an option. Sure it's flawed in about a million ways, but it's an option

 

[Inflicted]

Feedback is a passive Mana Burn. It removes X mana and deals damage equal to how much mana was removed per attack.

I believe that he wants a % of the damage dealt to affect mana. Mana Burn has no relation with the damage dealt.
Rather just trigger it using the DDS.

 

[Accname]

I believe that he wants a % of the damage dealt to affect mana. Mana Burn has no relation with the damage dealt.
Rather just trigger it using the DDS.

That was the best solution to the original problem so far.

 

[Smitty]

He wanted a portion of the burned mana to be stolen as I understand it.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

If only the OP could clarify whether this was the desired effect. It seems impossibly ambiguous as of now.

 

[Inflicted]

Ok, so here is what I am trying to make
I want a unit with the feedback ability to return a percent of the mana drained to its own mana pool, or alternatively because that sounds hard I want a unit with the freedback ability to restore a percent of damage it deals as mana.

Okay I think I understand better now what he wants.
It's not a % of the damage dealt, but a % of the mana removed.
Eh, like mentioned above it would be easier to almost "cheat" this with set amounts. (eg it drains 20/40/60 and you want 50%, just restore 10/20/30 mana on every attack)
But if you really want to do like a "proper" detection of the amount of mana reduced, it might be slightly more difficult. As observed many times above.

 

[denmax]

Here's a solution. Don't use Feedback and we'll try to create a trigger that would imitate it

Example, a unit receives damage w/ condition that damage source has passive skill (in essence does nothing). Set current mana of target into a variable. Make it so that it removes mana MANUALLY and deals magical damage (if you want, you can create a Dummy unit to cast Mana Burn - but that will make the in-game text appear every time). Use variable to add mana to damage source.

I haven't entered WCEdit in 3 years. Can't remember how it is typed, but I'm hoping you got the idea

 

[Inflicted]

Here's a solution. Don't use Feedback and we'll try to create a trigger that would imitate it

Example, a unit receives damage w/ condition that damage source has passive skill (in essence does nothing). Set current mana of target into a variable. Make it so that it removes mana MANUALLY and deals magical damage (if you want, you can create a Dummy unit to cast Mana Burn - but that will make the in-game text appear every time). Use variable to add mana to damage source.

I haven't entered WCEdit in 3 years. Can't remember how it is typed, but I'm hoping you got the idea

Actually, that's a really good idea.
You'd want it to look something like this:

Eg:
Drains 50/100/150 mana per attack.
Restores 30% of mana drained back to the attacker.

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Game - GDD_Event becomes Equal to 0.00
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Temp_Real = (Mana of GDD_DamagedUnit)
    • Set Temp_Number = ((Level of Mana Burn for GDD_DamageSource) x 50)
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • Temp_Real Greater than or equal to (Real(Temp_Number))
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Set mana of GDD_DamagedUnit to (Temp_Real - (Real(Temp_Number)))
        • Unit - Set mana of GDD_DamageSource to ((Mana of GDD_DamageSource) + ((Real(Temp_Number)) x 0.30))
      • Else - Actions
        • Unit - Set mana of GDD_DamagedUnit to 0.00
        • Unit - Set mana of GDD_DamageSource to ((Mana of GDD_DamageSource) + (Temp_Real x 0.30))

Temp_Number - Global Integer
Temp_Real - Global Real

Using a dummy icon inplace of the actual Mana Burn ability.

 

[Smitty]

That means spells will burn mana too. Use the attack detector in the snippets section maybe.

 

[Inflicted]

That means spells will burn mana too. Use the attack detector in the snippets section maybe.

Gah, your right :/