[Spell] Reducing healing received

[Venkolm]

A'ight, i'm tryin' to complete a hero fo' my map, and there is just one last ability to be added.
Let's say it's gotta be like Mortal Strike, from WoW - hits the enemy target with a debuff, healing debuff. The target hit, will receive half the healing from friendly healing spells (and maybe runes too, still thinking about this one).
Any ideas how? How to make such a thing? I tried searching a bit such example/spell, but couldn't find any.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Only way I can think of is triggering all healing so that the heal logic can be reduced by a reduction quantity.

 

[Venkolm]

Ofc. it will be triggering. The question is how Going to bed, imma check myself better tomorrow, till then, if anyone have any ideas, please

 

[Dr Super Good]

Basically every heal ability must be triggered. Create a standard function that does healing. That function checks for healing bonus/reduction and applies it to adjust the heal amount before healing the unit (setting unit health).

One could map heal bonus/reduction to units using hashtable. Just remember to delete the entries when the unit gets removed to prevent leaks.

 

[Chaosy]

Bribe made a heal event system, probably the best way to go about it.
He said it is not perfect though, but it is still the best regardless.

 

[Venkolm]

I check'd out those ways and i can only say - Holy sh!t.
Thinking for another spell now

 

[Wark]

I've got a much simpler method: Banish.

Go into "Gameplay Constants" and make ethereal targets take less healing (by percentage) from spells.
This turns Banish into a healing debuff, although it also disarms the target. Added feature? Maybe.

This healing reduction, however, is completely separate from spell damage to ethereal targets. So, make sure spell damage to ethereal targets is 1.00, where healing is .5 or whatever you need.

Although, this does have a problem of things not being able to attack the target. I wonder if that can be changed...

 

[Flux]

There is a way to achieve this using the Life Change event. It's quite interesting concept to do and it's not been made before as far as I know, perhaps I'll make a resource for it something called HealModify/HealFactor which modifies the amount of heal/regen of a unit by a multiplication factor (e.g. setting it to zero will prevent the unit from increasing it's hp via heal/regen).