Orb of Slow - Passive ability trigger chance {Shadow Strike instantly killing target}

[Jerrin]

Aight.. This is pretty weird but here goes.

I've taken the Orb of Slow ability and chained it with a custom Shadow Strike ability, meaning that for every hit a unit makes, it has 15% chance to trigger a Shadow Strike.

That works all fine and all is good, except for one thing. Instead of dealing slight damage as supposed, the Shadow Strike kills its target instantly, and I have no clue as to why.

Here's how I've set the abilities, starting with the Orb of Slow.

Bloodletting
Data - Chance to hit Heros: 15%
Data - Chance to hit Summons: 15%
Data - Chance to hit Units: 15%
Data - Damage bonus: 0
Data - Ability Effect: Bloodletting (Effect) - Note, this is not an actual effect, just the name of the ability.
Data - Enabled Attack Index: 0

Bloodletting (Effect)
Data - Attack Speed Factor: 0.00
Data - Decay Power: 3.00
Data - Decaying Damage: 10.00
Data - Initial Damage: 30.00
Data - Movement Speed Factor: 0.50
Stats - Buffs: Bloodletting
Stats - Cast Range: 300
Stats - Casting Time: 0
Stats - Cooldown: 5
Stats - Duration Heros: 10.10
Stats - Duration Normal: 10.10
Stats - Targets Allowed: Ground, Air, Enemy, Neutral, Organic

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It's pretty annoying, but if no solution's found I guess I'll just reduce the chance to 1-2% and add non-hero to targets allowed. xD

 

[Battle_Shipper]

My guess is that something is wrong with your Shadow Strike ability. Try changing the casting time to 3, that's what it normally is on the normal Shadow Strike.

 

[Jerrin]

My guess is that something is wrong with your Shadow Strike ability. Try changing the casting time to 3, that's what it normally is on the normal Shadow Strike.

That fixed it, though I wonder why the casting time would cause the unit to die instantly.

+rep

 

[Battle_Shipper]

Hey, I found out why 0 casting time kills your target instantly. I tried it out with 0.01 casting time and 1 decaying damage and found out that the casting time for shadow strike ability is the interval between each wave of damage. For example at 3 seconds of casting time if you have 10 decaying damage, it's gonna deal 10 damage every 3 seconds. 0 casting time would be instantly so that's why it kills your target. Just thought you might like to know.

 

[Jerrin]

Ya, I'd very much like to know, seeing as I wasn't as much bothered by the bug as why it bugged. Anyhow, thanks for figuring it out for me.

I'll be back when next I'm perplexed by the (sometimes) oh so logical WE.

 

[Aeroblyctos]

Actually I have been wondering the same thing. Now I know why the old chapter 4 boss bugged...

For this, rep for both and thanks for the information.