Totem droppings...new Class Feature musings

[Enforcer84]

I'm looking at creating a Shaman Class, (Yes, I know, WoW mark) and one of the class features is the ability to drop totems that give bonuses and other powers.

I originally created these as Custom Abilites (primary, Secondary, tertiary, and quadrary) and then the shaman would choose totems from a list for each category (one each of earth, fire, air, water). So far so good. Looks good on the sheet.

I do have a question though, the totems all have a time limit, (ie 1 round + 1 round/class level, for example) and I'm unsure how to set that in the editor. Any ideas?

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Custom Abilities hold the level they are attached to on a field called "xTotalLev". So assuming you set the "Tracked Resources" total charges to 1 you could use the following script:

~ If we're not shown, just get out now
doneif (tagis[Helper.ShowSpec] = 0)

~ Increase the tracker by amount equal to character level
field[trkMax].value += field[xTotalLev].value

 

[Mathias]

ShadowChemosh - the xAllLev field is preferable to the xTotalLev field when working in a class special.

That way, when you have a Druid/Ranger, Wild Empathy's effectiveness is based on the total of all levels of the classes that grant that ability, not just the level of one of those classes.

 

[Enforcer84]

Thanks guys.
It was great to meet you at GenCon Mathias!

 

[Enforcer84]

Alright I'm slowly pulling this bad boy together:

Here's what I want to Achieve for my 'Stone Skin' Totem:
Duration: 1/combat for 1 round +1/Shaman Level
Bonus: +1 Natural AC Bonus per totem Dropped

Shaman can have a maximum of 4 totems at anyone time. They are Primary, secondary, tertiary and quadrary class abilities.

I have it set for the 1/combat - but the script doesn't seem to be putting my duration on...not sure where it goes to tell the truth. And I'm at a nigh-complete loss on the AC Bonus...


Edit: Ok...now my eval script works. it gave me the appropriate number of rounds per combat. Going to see if I can put a string in there so it says, 'Rounds' but that's cool.

 

[ShadowChemosh]

Edit: Ok...now my eval script works. it gave me the appropriate number of rounds per combat. Going to see if I can put a string in there so it says, 'Rounds' but that's cool.

No need. This is already built into HL. Just pick it from drop down in the "Tracked Resources Section".

 

[Enforcer84]

Aaaand another question.

Looking to create a script that increases an race ability at higher levels

ability grants Fast healing 1 for number of rounds/day = to character level
at level 8 ability goes to Fast Healing 2
At level 17 it goes to Fast Healing 3

the above script does the rounds per day awesomely. For the bump in healing...I'm looking at the energy resistance class ability:

if (field[xIndex].value >= 3) then
field[listname].text = "Fast Healing 3"
elseif (field[xIndex].value >=2 ) then
field[listname].text = "Fast Healing 2"
else
field[listname].text = "Fast Healing 1"
endif

so I'd take the power 3 times...but...this is a race ability rather than a class ability. So is there a better place to look for something like this?

 

[Aaron]

Answered in the other thread

 

[Enforcer84]

Thanks Aaron!