Health as spell cost

[Shendoo2]

i was wondering if there is anyway that i can make a spell cost health. i know i can do this with a trigger like when somone use's an ability it take costs like 50 health. But i wanted to to show like a health icon then 50, like how it shows the mana cost of an ability. Is this possible?

 

[Hoernchen]

There is no direct way to do such a thing, unless you never ever want to use mana, in which case you can change it's icons and use triggers to subtract the life.
Otherwise, you can do it using triggers, but it won't have the icon with cost, etc.

 

[Avator]

You'll have to enter in the ability description something like 'Health sacrfice: 100'. With a color it's easier to notice, just like mana cost.

 

[Smiddle]

I think there are some spells that cost resources (correct me if I'm wrong), and if you're only using one of the resources for your map, you can replace it with "health sacrificial points".

 

[Avator]

The only thing related to that is building or training. The problem is: You'll see the health icon as a resource then, which is a very bad idea, since health losing abilities are per unit and can't be expressed in player property unless only 1 unit is available per player.

 

[TerraNexx]

And you can heal triggering unit's mana for mana cost, and damage it for health cost, so it would lose mana only for a second..:?