Reverse Life Drain Healing spell

[Sh4de]

I've been working on a custom race for my campaign, and wanted the healer
unit for the race to be a high health regeneration caster, that channels its
health into allied units. I tired changing life drain's damage to a negative value
and set the targets allowed to allies, but it still says that the target must be an
enemy. After failing at that, I figured I'd have to make it a trigger based ability,
but I'm not very good with those. Any help is appreciated
(sorry posted this in wrong section)

 

[mckill2009]

why dont you use healing wave instead and change its lighting to life drain?...

 

[Sh4de]

That doesnt drain health from the caster and is all upfront. This is meant to be like a WoW warlock's health funnel ability.

 

[Weep]

I tired changing life drain's damage to a negative value and set the targets allowed to allies, but it still says that the target must be an enemy.

OK, first, you don't need negative values - by default, if Drain is cast on an ally, it will transfer health TO the target, FROM the caster. It's just that, by default, it's not allowed to be cast on an ally. To get it to work:

1. Be sure Gameplay - Drain Transfers Life is set to True in the Gameplay Constants for your map.
2. The spell must have a non-zero "Drain - Life Transferred Per Second".
3. The target must not be at full health.

 

[mckill2009]

Healing wave can cause to suck life "IF" you put negative values and target unit is not full health...

 

[Bribe]

Moved to World Editor Help Zone. "Getting started on a trigger" does not belong in Triggers & Scripts, that forum is reserved for the fixing/enhancing of existing triggers.

 

[Sh4de]

Moved to World Editor Help Zone. "Getting started on a trigger" does not belong in Triggers & Scripts, that forum is reserved for the fixing/enhancing of existing triggers.

Yea, sorry about that.

 

[Super-Sheep]

healing wave can cause to suck life "if" you put negative values and target unit is not full health...

chainlightiningkk?

plus it doesnt suck health anyway it just deals dmg so i dont rly get your point

 

[mckill2009]

chainlightiningkk?

plus it doesnt suck health anyway it just deals dmg so i dont rly get your point

yes CL will work but that would nullify the point...the point is that negative values and targets allowed will work...

 

[doom_sheep]

there was something in gameplay constants about allowing siphon abilites to target allies but im not sure it works.

you could just trigger it.

 

[Weep]

there was something in gameplay constants about allowing siphon abilites to target allies but im not sure it works.

You're right! But I already mentioned that, and how to get it to work, in post #4.

 

[sentrywiz]

Interesting idea.

Use a dummy life drain that drains 0 health. That way you get the channeling lightning effect.

Next make a hashtable inputing the X you want the caster to transfer over each Y seconds. Save it into a hashtable. Before healing, check if the caster's health is lower than the amount of the health about to be lost.

I can't find the link but search the forum for wyrmlord's hashtable tutorial. Just modify the healing over time spell to both heal the ally and deal damage to the caster.

[cons]
-only thing you wont be able to control this way is IF the channeling gets interrupted, the healing effect wont. Like the unit gets silenced, but the healing finishes anyway

 

[chobibo]

there was something in gameplay constants about allowing siphon abilites to target allies but im not sure it works.

Scenario > Map Options
Look at the bottom of the window for the field Game Data Set and click the drop-down button, and choose the Custom(TFT 1.07,ROC 1.01) data-set.

 

[akrep_ve_su]

If all fails, make it via triggers.
1-) Create a lightining effect between caster and target.
1a-) Periodically renew this effect so they will appear "bound" to one other.
2-) Turn On the trigger that checks the range between caster and target.
2a-) If range is above 700 (for example) stop ability. (Assuming it is the max range for ability)
3-) Damage caster with triggers while modifying the health of target too.

It won't be MUI though. If a hero will use this ability however, you can use it. And If multiple players can pick this hero simultaneously, create variable index for each player. =)