Percentage armor reduction?

[Yours Truly]

Is there any ability in the editor that reduces a percentage of the target's armor? If not, is there any in the triggers? All I can find are flat armor reduce abilities.

 

[Rheiko]

There isn't, I'm afraid.

 

[Jampion]

Devotion Aura has the option to increase percentage of the armor, but I think it only works on base armor, so I would not recommend using it. Other than that you can of course trigger it, bit it's a bit complicated. You need to find out the target's current armor, which is not that easy and increase it by a certain amount. For this you need multiple abilities, so you can set armor to any value (in a certain range).

 

[Map Designer]

Devotion Aura has the option to increase percentage of the armor, but I think it only works on base armor, so I would not recommend using it. Other than that you can of course trigger it, bit it's a bit complicated. You need to find out the target's current armor, which is not that easy and increase it by a certain amount. For this you need multiple abilities, so you can set armor to any value (in a certain range).

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[Dr Super Good]

One can use an ability system to provide an armor modifier (green +/- to armor). If one tracks all armor sources, then one can know a unit's current armor. Combining the two will give you the desired effect.

Someone made some custom natives that could read armor using an arbitrary code exploiy. However these might not work anymore and certainly could be broken by future patches if they do.

 

[Map Designer]

@dsg

are you talking about this? Armor Detection System

 

[Dr Super Good]

are you talking about this? Armor Detection System

No I am not. As far as I can tell that is the basic approach to get armor by dealing damage and seeing how much damage the unit takes.

 

[Razorfang]

there is a solution but its quite complicated,

Make a dummy abillity, use something like that targets a single target

set up a trigger that gives the targeted unit a devotion aura that has been tweaked to reduce the units armor by a percentage, set target to self and range to 100

make sure you make an appropriate trigger to remove this when time runs out or when a dispel like spell is cast upon the unit

 

[Jampion]

I think devotion aura's percentage based armor change is bad, because it only considers base armor iirc. Another problem is, that this solution would give the unit 2 buffs - one from devotion aura and one from the single target ability you mentioned.

when a dispel like spell is cast upon the unit

Can you even detect this? Another option is to use periodic checks, if the unit still has the single target buff, but it's inaccurate and inefficient.

 

[Razorfang]

well at least i tried to be helpful

 

[MyPad]

Someone made some custom natives that could read armor using an arbitrary code exploiy. However these might not work anymore and certainly could be broken by future patches if they do.

I see what you did there
Memory Hack

Anyway, I would suggest the armor system @Dr Super Good mentioned.

 

[Yours Truly]

Late reply,read the comments. I would try the devotion aura thing and changing my spell description to reduce base armor. Still, I'd try @Dr Super Good 's suggestion, but that is out of my league.