Issue on mana cost

[Sh4de]

I recently got help creating a fire shiled ability, and it all works fine except that the ability empties the mana pool of the target on which its casted. It only costs 100 mana, and I can't find anything in the triggers that would cause it.

 

[Pharaoh_]

I never had the same problem before, but, since you trigger it, change the ability into Inner Fire as the base one.

 

[Raven0]

The item immolation spell drains all of the casters mana. You should try basing the immolation off of the Night Elf immolation instead of the Item one.

 

[Sh4de]

The activatable one? I'll need to trigger it to turn it on then won't I?

 

[chobibo]

Or you could use the Permanent Immolation [Neutral Hostile 2]

 

[Sh4de]

I've tried Permanent Immolation (Neutral Hostile 2) and the same issue occurred.

 

[Mech_Warrior]

This is very odd... every time you try to add ANY ability to the Spell Book, and give the Spell Book to the targeted unit, it drains all their mana. I tested with other random abilities, too, in your map... Critical Strike and Spiked Carapaces also drained all mana, even when they were the only spells in the spell book.

My only workaround, really, is to give the unit the Spell Book when they are picked, and then do 1 of 2 things:

1) Set level 1 of each ability to do nothing, and level 2 = level 1, etc. Then you can just keep them with the Spell Book having the level 1 abilities, and it won't do anything. And then in the trigger, set the level of their abilities to the level of the casting unit's ability + 1. Or...
2) Keep the Spell Book on this unit the whole time, and just disable the abilities inside the Spell Book for every player, until the ability is cast on them.

Sorry, I know that isn't a great workaround, but it's the only thing I could get to make it functioning, besides just adding the Mana back.

 

[defskull]

Yes, it IS weird
I tested the SAME EXACT method adding spellbook and what not, in my OTHER test map, it works perfectly, weird...

 

[WaterKnight]

It has to do with your upgrade, which adds 200 to max mana. I guess the upgrade is somehow updated when adding the spell in spellbook. Your Doom Guards have only 200 max mana as base, exact the same amount. When it's set higher, giving the spellbook might instead refresh mana.

 

[Sh4de]

is there a way to trigger a set mana trigger to set the units mana to the mana it had before cast? And if the target is the caster it subtacts 100 from that?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yes, using the natives which modify the unit state for mana.

 

[Sh4de]

Can you explain how that is to be done? I tired making a real variable and setting the mana of the target to that variable, and loading it afterwards, but it didn't work. I made the trigger look like this:

• Fire Shield
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
  • Conditions
    • (Ability being cast) Equal to Fire Shield
  • Actions
    • Set Daemon = (Triggering Unit)
    • Set FireShieldTarget = (Target unit of ability being cast)
    • Set TargetMana = (Mana of FireShieldTarget)
    • Unit - Add Fire Shield (Bundle) to FireShieldTarget
    • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
      • If - Conditions
        • (Level of Fire Shield for Daemon) Equal to 2
      • Then - Actions
        • Unit - Set level of Fire Shield (Effect) for FireShieldTarget to 2
        • Unit - Set level of Fire Shield Armor for FireShieldTarget to 2
      • Else - Actions
      • If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
        • If - Conditions
          • FireShieldTarget Equal to Daemon
        • Then - Actions
          • Unit - Set mana of FireShieldTarget to (TargetMana - 100)
        • Else - Actions
          • Unit - Set mana of FireShieldTarget to TargetMana
      • Unit Group - Add FireShieldTarget to FireShieldTargets
      • Trigger - Turn on Fire Shield Targets <gen>

 

[defskull]

Also, you don't need the Conditions to check the level of the Fire Shield and set the level to 2
Instead of doing this:

• If (All Conditions are True) then do (Then Actions) else do (Else Actions)
  • If - Conditions
    • (Level of Fire Shield for Daemon) Equal to 2
  • Then - Actions
    • Unit - Set level of Fire Shield (Effect) for FireShieldTarget to 2
    • Unit - Set level of Fire Shield Armor for FireShieldTarget to 2
  • Else - Actions

You can just do this:

• Actions
  • Unit - Set level of Fire Shield (Effect) for FireShieldTarget to (Level of Fire Shield for (Triggering unit))
  • Unit - Set level of Fire Shield Armor for FireShieldTarget to (Level of Fire Shield for (Triggering unit))

This trigger will keep track of the caster's Fire Shield ability level
If it's 2, then buff level 2, understand ?
It saves performance better

 

[Sh4de]

I created a separate trigger which sets TargetMana = mana of FireShieldTarget every
second, and added a .5 second delay between setting variables and adding the spellbook
and it worked great. Now the only issue with that ability is that when casted on another
target during the duration of the first target's buff, the variable will change and the first
unit with the buff will not properly lose the ability. I'm not sure how to get around this
though.