Breath of Fire -> Curse?

[weuser]

Is there a way to cast breath of fire on units and have their chance to hit when attacking be impaired for... 10 seconds?

(I'm making a breath of fire where the missile launched is dust)

 

[Boar]

Is there a way to cast breath of fire on units and have their chance to hit when attacking be impaired for... 10 seconds?

(I'm making a breath of fire where the missile launched is dust)

Impossible in the object editor.

Plausable in the Trigger editor.

 

[weuser]

Anyone got an answer about how to trigger this? (It's more like breath of sand than fire)

 

[Dr Super Good]

You could try testing shortly after the ability is cast to see which units have the fire damage buff and then remove that buff and get a dummy to cast a curse based ability on the unit which adds a chance to evade.

 

[tw3ye]

ul need 2 spells
breath of fire
curse(undead)unit)
ul need 1 dummy unit
And one trigger
(haha In WE) not one trigget

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to (==) Acid Bomb
  • Actions
    • Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units within 900.00 of (Position of (Triggering unit)) matching (((Triggering unit) has buff Acid Bomb) Equal to (==) True)) and do (Actions)
      • Loop - Actions
        • Unit - Create 1 Footman for (Owner of (Triggering unit)) at (Position of (Picked unit)) facing Default building facing (270.0) degrees
        • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Undead Banshee - Curse (Picked unit)

im kinda fked up ... its just roughtly to show u what u need to do...
clear leaks use unitgroup hash variable etc clean that too ... point variable hash ... clean that too

 

[Dr Super Good]

tw3ye, that leaks dummy units, locations and a group.

Do make sure that the buff does apply before the event fires. If not then none of the units will have the buff.

 

[Weep]

I can think of 3 different approaches to triggering this:

1. Easy but inefficient and inexact: use Breath of Frost instead. Use the event that the hero casts the spell, wait a short duration, then pick every unit in the map (or in a radius from the caster) on the condition that they have the buff placed by the modified Breath of Frost spell. Then, order a dummy to Curse every picked unit.

2. Easy but requires an additional system: have the hero only cast a dummy spell that does nothing but targeting. Then, at the spellcast event, have a dummy unit cast the real Breath of Fire from the position of the hero. Using a damage detection system (such as the one I have in the Spell section ), detect when that dummy causes damage; these will be the units hit by the Breath of Fire. Have another dummy Curse them.

3. Complicated but has no other requirements: trigger the wave spell, by indexing (tutorial here) each spellcast and periodically moving a point in the direction that the spell was cast and picking all units around it. Then, have a dummy unit Curse the picked units.

I'd suggest deciding on one of those approaches, and then giving it a try. If you can't figure it out, ask us again here for advice.

 

[weuser]

Thanks, all. Sounds very doable.