Using unit's weapon damage in spells

[Veritas 117]

It's simple enough to get a hero's stats and base spell damage on them, but what about regular attack damage. I want to make a spell that uses the hero's attack damage + any bonuses from items when figuring the damage for a spell. For instance (Damage + bonuses) + (Strength) x (level of ability)

How can I get the damage the hero would do with a regular melee attack?

 

[Maker]

The basic idea could be

Unit begins casting an ability

Create x number of dummies to attack target y
Record min & max damage

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Unit starts the effect of an ability

Load min/max damage and deal damage based on that


I've coded such system but can't upload it right now.

Another method is to initialize a lot of data and then calculate the damage instantly.

A difficulty with both methods is how to factor in buffs.

 

[Veritas 117]

I see. So there is no direct code or trigger that can be called that has the unit's max and min damage?

 

[edo494]

unless you use SharpCraft, nope

the closest you can get is cache the values in variables for each unit, or what Maker said