Poison: Lost at step 1

[diggoran]

I need to make a poison ability that effects a target repeatedly until the effect wears off. The target already gets the Poison Sting buff, but it's hardly strong enough.

A while ago (the thread has died since then) I was told to "Periodically pick every unit with the poison buff and make them take X damage." in order to make a ROC compatible, trigger-based poison effect.

That sounded like a good idea, but can anyone show me an example of a trigger recognizing if a unit has a buff and then take action? The challenge is: no custom abilities/buffs. That shouldn't be toooo hard.

BTW: This tower upgrades from a 10 second poison, to 20 sec, to 30. It needs to be changeable in how long to effect the unit.

+Rep to whoever's works best on ROC

Edit: Original Thread

 

[Beetlebomb]

Well i'd be glad to help you, but sadly I dont know the limitations to RoC's triggering other then the expansion units being used.

 

[benj_war3]

How about this trigger? It functions when the unit is attacked and the attacked unit launches an attack that deals damage to the attacking unit..

TRIGGER ONE:

Events
    Unit - A unit Finishes an upgrade
Conditions
    (Researching unit) Equal to Guard Tower 0000 <gen>
Actions
    Trigger - Turn on AttackUpgrade <gen>

I also created a Trigger and turned it to initially off. For the attacked unit damage trigger.

Events
    Unit - A unit Is attacked
Conditions
    (Attacked unit) Equal to Guard Tower 0000 <gen>
Actions
    Unit - Cause (Attacked unit) to damage circular area after 5.00 seconds of radius 500.00 at (Position of (Attacking unit)), dealing 100.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal

 

[diggoran]

That is a splash effect. I think the best thing to do, because unitgrouping doesn't work too well, is to recognize a buff like poison sting and do x damage repeatedly. Need help with trigger work but I think that that is possible. Send all thoughts; I'll tell you if part isn't ROC compatible.

 

[Squishy]

Trigger
    Events
        Time - Every 1.00 seconds of game time
    Conditions
    Actions
        Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in (Playable map area) matching (((Matching unit) has Your Buff) Equal to True)) and do (Actions)
            Loop - Actions
                Unit - Cause (Picked unit) to damage (Picked unit), dealing 500.00 damage of attack type Spells and damage type Normal

Something like that?

 

[diggoran]

thanks and i see what you're saying but the "Loop...and do (Actions)" is one of those amazing bits that isn't in ROC.
+ Partial Rep

Edit: How do you get to "(((Matching unit) has Your Buff) Equal to True)"?