[Spell] How can I make this

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Hi guys. I want to create a spell like this:
A hero send 5 lightning spirit to the target, creating a shield to protect it. Each natural spirit grants him bonus hp regen and block damage for him (by saying block damage, I mean it will heal the target before the target takes damage). When the shield is destroyed (it's destroyed when reach the total damage block or duration is over), the spirits will fly to random enemies within 450 range of the target, deal damage to them base on the damage block of the spirit. HP regen and damage block increase per level.
LVL 1: 1 hp regen per spirit, 30 damage block per spirit. (Total of 5 hp regen and 150 damage block).
LVL 2: 1.5 hp regen per spirit, 45 damage block per spirit. (Total of 7.5 hp regen and 225 damage block).
LVL 3: 2 hp regen per spirit, 60 damage block per spirit. (Total of 10 hp regen and 300 damage block).
LVL 4: 2.5 hp regen per spirit, 75 damage block per spirit. (Total of 12.5 hp regen and 375 damage block).
Duration: 20 second. Cooldown: 12s (Means that I can have 2 targets at the same time).
Example: I have this spell lvl 3 on the unit. It takes more than 300 damage and the shield is destroyed. The spirit fly to a random enemy within 450 range of the target and deal 60 damage per spirit when impact.
Hope I make it clear enough. XD

 

[TwoVenomous]

A hero send some natural spirit to protect the target. Each natural spirit can heal the target for 1 hp/s and can take 50 damage until being destroy.

Note: When 1 spirit is destroyed, the hp regen will descrease by 1. The spirits will fly around the target.

hey, that words are still vague.

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

I'll edit it.
EDIT: Done. Check it again.

 

[defskull]

So each time the caster receives damage up to 50, one random spirit will be destroyed ?
Since you can't actually target which spirit you want to kill, right ?

 

[Spartipilo]

Exactly. You just create the 4 dummies and set level of regen to 4 3 2 1

 

[defskull]

Exactly. You just create the 4 dummies and set level of regen to 4 3 2 1

And I thought your name was hayaku1412 until I re-read your name.

 

[TwoVenomous]

And I thought your name was hayaku1412 until I re-read your name.

he didn't have avatar

 

[defskull]

he didn't have avatar

I do hope you learn sarcasm in school (or in life).

 

[Spartipilo]

Anyway, it explains what he wants Remove a Dummy every 50 dmg and reduce the Hp regen ability every time the dummy dies

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Yeh. That's what I want. So how can I do it?

 

[Spartipilo]

You need a Damage Detection System, and a Hashtable or an Indexing System, then just handle the values.

The dummy circular movement is easy too, you can search around for warcraft triggered movement.

The regen is also easy with a single ability

Probably defskull will make a testmap as he ussually does with the answer to this

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

I hope so. Unit Indexing System and Damage Detection System are already in my map. But I'm not very good at using them. >.<. Hope Defskull will have a test map for me.

 

[defskull]

So basically this spell has no time limit. You sure bro ?

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Oops. Forget to mention the duration. May be 10s duration with 15s cooldown.

 

[Spartipilo]

These values and effects seems a little low and simple for me... 250 damage is dealt pretty fast; 2 or 3 hits and ¡boom!...

Suggestion:
I would give some other effect, like after getting each dummy damage interval (50 you said) make it fly towards the damage dealer and explode on it dealing that amount (50) in AoE and freezing targets for 2 seconds; also scaling the regeneration by 0.5 each level per dummy (0,5 - 1 - 1.5 - 2) and scale damage taken and dealt aswell (20 - 40 - 60 - 80); Also, I wouldn't make the dummy block the damage; but rather heal the unit when the damage has already been dealt.

 

[defskull]

These values and effects seems a little low and simple for me... 250 damage is dealt pretty fast; 2 or 3 hits and ¡boom!...

This is why we have balancing technique ;p
Make the damage dealt by unit at max in that map would be 10 - 15 damage, see the balancing occurs ?

 

[Spartipilo]

Yeah, I know it depends on balance But still, I take Dota as a good balanced map with comprehensible amounts of armor, hp, damage, regen and abilities like that.

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

These values and effects seems a little low and simple for me... 250 damage is dealt pretty fast; 2 or 3 hits and ¡boom!...

Suggestion:
I would give some other effect, like after getting each dummy damage interval (50 you said) make it fly towards the damage dealer and explode on it dealing that amount (50) in AoE and freezing targets for 2 seconds; also scaling the regeneration by 0.5 each level per dummy (0,5 - 1 - 1.5 - 2) and scale damage taken and dealt aswell (20 - 40 - 60 - 80); Also, I wouldn't make the dummy block the damage; but rather heal the unit when the damage has already been dealt.

Seem very interesting to me. Okay then, I'll change the skill description.
EDIT: Already changed. Read the first post again to see it. Thks for giving me ideas.

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Is there anyone knows how to do it?

 

[Spartipilo]

I don't know how to do the "block damage" part, it's tricky and have never been able to achieve it :/ But I can do the rest or do it as I suggested, not blocking the damage, but healing the target once it's dealt for each spirit) (WHen the spirit goes flying to the nearest target it heals the unit it's at)

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Okay. Try then. Send me a test map plz so that I can check it.

 

[Spartipilo]

I'll make it in JASS

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Oh man. I can only use triggers. >.<. Can u think of any other way that makes in trigger for me?

 

[Spartipilo]

Yes: You learning JASS. It's pretty easy.

I'm making it in a really easy way to customize so you don't really need to understand what's going on. In worst cases, I put a lot of comments to make reference to the GUI actions i'm using on the script (Notice that GUI is the Graphic Interface of JASS, so it's the same, only that JASS allows several improvements to GUI properties)

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Okay. I'm going to learn JASS (Worst case here). =)). Although I'm still learning GUI but now I have to learn JASS too. >.<. What a pity.

 

[Spartipilo]

I already made the dummies circle around the target and also heal the target (and near units. I'ts a regen aura that the dummies have with small range, small enough to prevent nearby units to be healed by it)

I'm trying to figure out how to to make the dummies fly away when damage cap is reached...

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

Make it something like this (Dont know how to do it but can explain to u a way):
+Set a real variable as a damage the target have taken. This variable will increase every time the target takes damage until it reaches the maximum damage
+Create a trigger (or JASS ) with this Event: Game - (the above variable) equal to damage cap (damage cap should be variable too).
Action: Pick a random unit within range of the target and do action:
Unit - order dummy unit to move to the picked unit.
When distance between dummy and picked unit equal to 0, deal damage to them and remove the dummy.

 

[Spartipilo]

Sort of. Probably tomorrow i'll post it finished.

 

[Kusanagi Kuro]

I'm looking forward to seeing it from u.

 

[Spartipilo]

http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/triggers-scripts-269/help-ability-224836/

Check it out. It's still not finished but at least you can play with it a bit to see if, at least what it's done fits your needs.