aim : levelling up item with hero for stat increase

[Razengami]

alright hello

i got a bunch of heroes, classes are uniques
i have this idea for a sword, it might be cool : i'd basically like to have an item that, by levelling up along with its wielder, would increase the stats it boosts

in other words, do i have any other way than just having to create hundreds and hundreds of variants for each item? (max hero level is yet to be determined ~100's acceptable)

i thought i could make it happen with tinkering with the "add stat" to the base stats, but i surprisingly discovered an old trigger which was quite useful in like, 50% of my buff spells so meh i dont trust this thing

there you go, my cry for help
best regards, and thank you in advance for considering my issue!

 

[Rogue Kessler]

Cleanest way is definitely to do multiple item versions and just do a replacement. This has the benefit of having the tooltip on the item always be accurate for how much stats it grants.

• Edit to add: If making a version for every level with a cap in the 100s seems daunting, maybe it doesn't scale every single level. Maybe there's a new item version every 5 levels, or every 10 levels. Whatever seems doable and reasonable for your game

An alternate way to do this would be with a hidden ability the hero has, with a periodic trigger to set the level of the ability to the level of the hero. Then the item essentially just becomes a dummy with a generic tooltip that says something like "Gain stats equal to N% of your hero level" without spelling out the exact value at the time.

 

[Razengami]

owouuuuu man i like your idea! haha been way too long without using the editor!
THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU'RE A GENIUS

edit : would you happen to know of any function that could change the armor type of a unit when paired to a buff?

edit 2 : also, how would one mark the thread as resolved please?