Working on a "Wyvern Sting" spell.

Magissia from the Hive tried to help me with this one. I want to get it working, but I'm not sure how.

What I want the spell to do: First, the hero fires a projectile that puts the target to sleep. Then, the target sleeps for 30 seconds. After those 30 seconds have passed, the target will suffer some amount damage (let's say 40), every 2 seconds for 6 seconds. If the target is damaged while sleeping, it wakes up and the poison damage above kicks in. I also want to be able to see the poison damage over the unit's head.

Here's what we had:

Part 2:


Problems: No projectile is fired from the hero (Sleep is the base spell); the damage displayed by the Shadow Strike version (Wyvern Sting (damage)) is irregular, and stacks with the initial damage, which also seems to appear every second or so.

My question is: How can this be fixed/made better?

waits are terrible, refrain from using them whenever possible. And I don't think I've ever found it necessary to use the wait command for abilities.

Also in order to get projectiles from spells that don't normally have a projectile, I recommend giving your casting dummy unit the sphere ability, like what the bloodmage hero has. That always fires a projectile from spells (projectile specified in the sphere ability, not the spell).

"Sphere" ability? I don't remember a Blood Mage having that. All I remember is Flame Strike, Banish, Mana Siphon, and Phoenix.

I was thinking something around using Stormbolt as a base for the starting spell and then using a trigger to put the unit to sleep (with the stun at a .01 duration) when hit by the spell for thirty seconds. Would that work?

As for the original, what would you have us do about the "wait" trigger?

problems:

Sleep is an instant ability, in other words, no missiles can't be set. So use other ability with missile to base on, like storm bolt.

Now do a trigger that detects when the spell has the effect and trigger the removal of the storm bolt buff, make a dummy unit cast sleep on that target.

For the poisoning effect, use other dummy unit to cast an ability based on shadow strike and take advantage of the text tag and damage configurability.

Only thing is if you don't want a stun effect, then it's not wise to use storm bolt. Try the acid bomb instead if you don't want a stun. Then again, sphere ability works just fine and is more versatile than having an ability that launches a missile. Sphere will always launch a missile regardless of spell type, which is why i prefer it.

BTW it's not a hero ability but a default unit ability.

I would suggest using dummy projectile with any kind of DDS. You can put a critical strike with multiplier of 0 and "never miss" set to true.

If the unit sleeps and doesn't move... Then edit stormbolt to have the "sleep" duration you want and then just edit the buff to have the Sleep debuff animation. Then, detect when damage is done to this unit (you need to dynamically add the unit to a damage detection trigger, which can be done in GUI so no need to use JASS or anything). Check whether or not the unit still has the buff, and if he does, remove it and create a dummy that casts a modified shadow strike (assuming you don't want the poison after-effect to be triggered).

So basically... What moyack said, but with one less step. If you're making Wyvern Sting from WoW, then using Storm Bolt as the base (with an edited buff) is fine for what you need for that first bit (stunning the unit for X duration).

Edit: If you still need help and you haven't gotten it, I will most likely make a demo map. I need to run, though. PM me if this is the case.

One problem with Shadow Strike, there's a version Magissia made using Unholy Frenzy instead of Shadow Strike. I modified that version to cast Shadow Strike, but the unit was taking 10 damage every 0 seconds for 15 seconds. Created a bit of a problem that I had no clue how to fix. The fixes are in the above code, but I'll show the code from the first version (part 1 wasn't changed, it was part 2):


I changed the sting to be based off Shadow Strike, and the dummy unit to be the Warden here. That was it, yet it caused the mass poison damage problem.

Edit: Thanks for all the help so far, BTW. :)

Edit 2: Okay, I tried to do it on my own. I made two triggers.

Trigger 1:

Trigger 2:

okay, problem, what happens is this: As soon as Wyvern Sting hits the target it falls asleep for one second and then wakes up as if it's already been attacked, I can't even get to the poison damage part. What am I doing wrong?