Me VS Math again. Percentage base damage.

[JFAMAP]

Hello everyone. This spell takes directly 10% of the health of target. But i want to deal 10% of their "current" health as a damage.


Basically i want to reduce current health of the enemy by 10%

If the enemy unit has 2000 health i want to deal 200 damage
When it's health drops to 1800, i want to deal 180 damage etc etc goes on like this.

• Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) x (10.00 / 100.00)) damage of attack type Chaos and damage type Unknown

 

[Wrda]

This spell takes directly 10% of the health of target. But i want to deal 10% of their "current" health as a damage.

"Taking directly 10% of the health of the target" already implies it's the current health.

Basically i want to reduce current health of the enemy by 10%

If the enemy unit has 2000 health i want to deal 200 damage
When it's health drops to 1800, i want to deal 180 damage etc etc goes on like this.

• Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) x (10.00 / 100.00)) damage of attack type Chaos and damage type Unknown

"life of (whatever unit)" is the current health, so I don't know what you're talking about when you say this doesn't work. How much damage difference does it take before and after the applied one?
Are you sure you're not accounting for the armor type? Attack type Chaos considers amount of armor.

 

[Lordul Dracula]

hi try this, test the paladin vs footman

 

[JFAMAP]

"Taking directly 10% of the health of the target" already implies it's the current health.

"life of (whatever unit)" is the current health, so I don't know what you're talking about when you say this doesn't work. How much damage difference does it take before and after the applied one?
Are you sure you're not accounting for the armor type? Attack type Chaos considers amount of armor.

No it was not about the armor and attack type but it seems Lordul Dracula solved my issue.

• Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) x (10.00 / 100.00)) damage of attack type Chaos and damage type Unknown

I was thinking it is gonna work like this but he did it like this

• Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) / 10.00) damage of attack type Chaos and damage type Unknown

Yes it works but here is another question.
I have tried to make it 50% instead of 10% but why it deals 20 damage to unit with 1000 HP
1000 to 980 when i change / 10.00 with 50.00? How this is works?

Edit: Ok just figured it out. I have to divide it 4 for the make it %25. Thank you so much everyone.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Edit: Ok just figured it out. I have to divide it 4 for the make it %25. Thank you so much everyone.

It's confusing to have it written as <value> / 10.00 when it could more clearly be written as <value> x 0.10. In your case V / 4 instead of V x 0.25.

 

[Wrda]

• Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) x (10.00 / 100.00)) damage of attack type Chaos and damage type Unknown

I was thinking it is gonna work like this but he did it like this

• Unit - Cause (Casting unit) to damage (Target unit of ability being cast), dealing ((Life of (Target unit of ability being cast)) / 10.00) damage of attack type Chaos and damage type Unknown

They're equivalent and have the same result. Y * (10 / 100) = Y * 1 / 10 = Y / 10

Yes it works but here is another question.
I have tried to make it 50% instead of 10% but why it deals 20 damage to unit with 1000 HP
1000 to 980 when i change / 10.00 with 50.00? How this is works?

Because dividing by 50 is 2%, not 50%. This has everything to do with proportions. How do we know? 1/100 is 1%, 2/100 is 2%. Now simply the latter: 2/100 -> 1/50. Anyway, this isn't a very intuitive way to work with, so either stick with the 1-100 range or 0.01-1 range.