AoE Damage Reduction (was: Assistance Required!)

Im trying to make a hero ability and I cant figure out how.

I want to make a hero ability that casts like Battle Roar(you click the icon and it immediately casts on the hero using it, buffing the hero and units around the hero) but I want much different affects than Battle Roar.

I want the affects to be that all units affected by this hero ability will take reduced damage from everything: Ranged, Melee, Abilities, etc.

Thanks for your time!

nvm sorry dude thats not gonna work...DAMN im clueless im working on it though

ok thanks for trying, let me know if you figure it out

ok, i think ive got it!

All you have to do is base your spell on a scroll of protection and make it a hero ability (Check th lil box in the bottom of the list)! if you want it to work for magic aswell, just add the buff magic protection scroll thing! im pretty sure that'll work but is it the thing ur lookin for? ahh i dont kno, but message me if its not!

hmm I cant see to find the scroll of protection ability, is it called something else?

actually, its an item ability... shouldent be to hard to find........Well..yeah...... make sure your looking in buffs.... oh.. wait.. im not sure if it is a buff..... im not all that fasmiliar with it but know of the item.... srry!

I still cant find the base ability of scroll of protection, but I found that scroll of protection adds to armor, which i dont think would be the same as damage reduction. :(

Adding armor is reducing damage..

I think there's an item version of hardened skin. That will not have an icon in the command card. You could try giving the unit that ability for the druation of the buff.

thats what i said but alot more understandable

lol, im not sure that there is a hardened skin item ability, but there certinly was one in "Enfos Team survival" the shields gave damage reduction! in accordance to this is seems that you could make the ability an item ability! then use it! you could also modify it easily in this way! :D

Erh, ok the other guy had the right idea to begin with...Hardened skin only makes things more complicated.

Look under item abilities...find the ability "Item Temporary Area Armor Bonus" this boosts the armor of units around the caster. You'll need to change it from it's item form etc and add levels if this is a hero ability.

Seriously though, if you need to find the name of the ability that an item uses...look up the item! Then check the name given for it's castable ablities...it isn't hard.

Balth, that'd work if he wanted to increase the armour of the affected units, which unfortunately he doesn't want.

Hardened skin is the only way to apply a fixed absolute value reduction on the damage dealt to a unit. Any other way would involve reducing the damage of the attacking unit before the unit attacks, which is possible, but very difficult. Therefore applying hardened skin to the buffed units for the duration of the spell is the best way to do this.

Garith, making an ability into an item abilty isn't enough. Only abilities that already are item abilities will not have the icon. Its hardcoded into them. The only exception that I know of is Slow Aura (Tornado).

There are a couple other exceptions, too. However, abilities that are item abilities but also have unit ability counterparts have icons. I'm pretty sure any item ability similar to Hardened Skin will have an icon.

You might just have to accept that there will be an icon on the units if you want this ability.

You said you also want to reduce damage from abilities. To do that, in addition to the Hardened Skin, you'll probably also want to add the ability that the Runed Bracers has, which reduces damage from spells.

Lastly, to add the abilities to units around the caster and to remove them when the spell wears off or they are disenchanted, you'll need help from the Trigger Haven. I'll move you there.