Acid Spit problem (kills with one hit)

[aarkshark]

Acid Spit
    Events
        Unit - A unit Begins casting an ability
    Conditions
        (Ability being cast) Equal to Acid Spit 
    Actions
        Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within ((Real((Agility of (Casting unit) (Include bonuses)))) x 5.00) of (Position of (Target unit of ability being cast))) and do (Actions)
            Loop - Actions
                Unit - Create 1 Dummy Caster for (Owner of (Casting unit)) at (Position of (Casting unit)) facing Default building facing degrees
                Unit - Add a 30.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)
                Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Night Elf Warden - Shadow Strike (Picked unit)

Thats the trigger and this is the spell...

Shadow Strike
Decay Power-1.50
Decay Damage-5.00

And somehow, it kills instantly on hit, while i just want it to poison them...
Any help will be appreciated,
aark

 

[Waldbaer]

Well, this won't help really, but firstly, you should always use the event "unit starts the effect of an ability" for spells.
And then I remember I had this kill-bug once, too... but I think I didn't get it, too. Perhaps you could try to give the Dummy units poison arrows instead of shadow strike and just set their attack cooldown to a very high value? :?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Firstly your spell leaks a load of groups and a load of locations.

You did not tell us enough for example what damage intervil you set it to.
If it was 0.00 it would inflect enough damage to 1 hit kill the unit.
Also maybe you should check the unit hp you cast it appon.

If that doesnt work try using soul burn.
It has simlar effects.

 

[aarkshark]

3 things:
The ability itself does not let you modify the interval
and i cast it on an Abomination, 1-hit killed it to..
and finally, i dont know much about how to fix leaks or what leaks are

ill try the soul burn thing

 

[br4inless]

Some Abilities cause problems if you set certain values to 0, like when you set a duration to 0 it will be an everlasting buff better set it to 0.01.
Maybe you set such a value to 0 but you also should make sure your dummy caster can´t attack (I had once one that could and he killed everything very quickly:S)

 

[aarkshark]

Thanks for all the ideas, but Waldbar's was the only one that worked. There was no values set on 0.00, lowest was 0.01, so i assumed that it was a glitch.

Ive got abit of work left on the spell, but nothing major,
thanks for all the help,
Aark

 

[PurplePoot]

oh, also, dont use Casting Unit ( or any other Event Response that could be replaced with Triggering Unit ), as Triggering Unit runs faster xD