Playing with Negative Values Help!!!

[Kratoz-X]

hehe its true playing with negative values mayber is not rigth but

to "heal" a unit you use "set unit hp (current unit hp + heal value)"

but you can negative damage that unit to simulate damage?????????????

damage that unit by -100 means 100 heal??????

wtf

 

[Dr Super Good]

Yes, a negative times a negative makes a positive. Be aware that damage is subject to reductions while setting unit hitpoints is not. Correct healing behaviour like holy light on friendly living units actually gets reduced by magic reduction where as setting unit hitpoints bypasses all reduction.

 

[defskull]

As DSG stated, you have to take into account that dealing damage means you have to calculate its spell/physical reduction

When a tooltips stated it heals 300 HP, if you're using damage as your healing method, then you have to know the risk of using damage as healing method because it will calculate the unit's armor (for physical damage) or unit's magic resistance (all hero-type unit naturally has 25% magic resistance), and the actual value on the tooltips can be misled

 

[Kratoz-X]

ok i think i get it so i can use that so take care on overpowered heals? how weird

 

[WaterKnight]

No, you may do it as you want. The hints here only describe the standard behavior in wc3. But in case you do not know, there is also the Unit - Damage Target action, which features some of the mechanics depending on parameters.

 

[Talavaj]

you can however use it in skills that lets say "deals damage, this skill is not affected by resistances"
for example in boss fights who have very high damage reduction otherwise
drawback is this doesn't count as unit kills unit event nor is eligible for the xp obtained while damage target is, iirc

or other things if you are creative