Trouble with Mana and Life drain

[NecroVirus]

Hey guys, I'm having a LOT of trouble with the special effects of life drain and mana drain. In my dungeon I have multiple high threat bosses, their attacks/spells/ultimates are all meticulously timed to their boss music which gets more intense as the fight progresses. It's really fun and exciting imo, especially since the enemy players will be aiding each boss in unique ways from a safe distance. Timing a boss to music is tricky tho so I just made them all invulnerable and instead their health will be drained by a Soul Stone (Eye of Sargeras) artifact that heroes are carrying.

Unfortunately I'm a bit new and I can't seem to make the life/mana drain effect appear at all, even on non-invulnerable units. Not sure what step I'm missing. To top it off it would mean a lot if I could silence the sound of the drain effect or choose my own sound loop for it.

Toss me a hand bros? Btw check out this SWEET boss room I made yesterday! Gonna have the 4 enemy players control slow moving floor runes that will cause various negative effects on the hero players all while they try to dodge the boss attacks!

 

[NecroVirus]

Hey bros, still lookin for help on this. Can anyone show a trigger set up of a dummy casting the lifedrain special effect on an invulnerable unit? Would help a LOT!

 

[Dr Super Good]

Can it be made to target invulnerable units? Some abilities have very strict targeting requirements.

You could always trigger the damage effect. Any spell cast on the boss and deal some damage to it. If you want a beam effect, use Chain Lightning or another beam ability as a base.

 

[NecroVirus]

So I got it to work randomly and I think it might be because the invulnerable unit also had locust. Anyone know and tricks to cast a timed lifedrain effect/other abilities on a locust unit?

 

[NecroVirus]

Purely visual effect btw, doesn't need to actually drain life. Just part of the show

 

[Dr Super Good]

Locust units are not really meant to be interacted with... Someone in the past came up with a way to almost fully restore a locust unit to a normal unit, maybe googling it would help.

 

[NecroVirus]

The world editor sure has some interesting mechanics that we all have to loophole around. Anyone know if the new Reforged editor will be different?

 

[Dr Super Good]

The world editor sure has some interesting mechanics that we all have to loophole around. Anyone know if the new Reforged editor will be different?

Reforged is an improved WC3 so the editor will also be an improved editor. Much of the mechanics will still be the same for backwards compatibility.