Spell Scaling

[Rob Janes]

Something I needed in my modification of 1.3.1 was the ability to have spells 'scale' so that their damage (or healing) was proportional to the level of the player, rather than having various 'rankings' and having the player relearn the same spell at a new level.

To accomodate this, it's as simple as modifying the 'vital' in the CastSpell sub (modCombat - Server Side)

In modCombat, just after it determines the type of spell, you will see
```
Vital = Spell(spellnum).Vital
```
To make it scale according to their level, you can use something like this
```
Vital = Spell(spellnum).Vital
Vital = Vital * Player(index).Level
```
That's a very basic version, as it will simply multiply the Damage Done * the Player of the level.  Since you don't want it to be too over powered you may want to work out a better equation, such as
Vital = (Vital * 0.80) * (Player(index).Level * 1.13)) –-my current version.

Good luck!

[leopoldobb]

Nice dude, you rocks  :star:

[pigboss]

dude thnks man!

[mitlark]

That's a very good part to tweak in the game :D, mostly because I don't really know if the player attributes are really doing something to the spell damage (they aren't right?).
Seeing that it is very simple, I will try also to introduce STR/INT/WILL influence percentage.

Good shortie tut ;D,
L'ark Mitsinikos

[pigboss]

and similarly, if you want your will or intelligence to affect your spell damage then use

Vital * GetPlayerStat(Index, Stats.Willpower)

:3

[Rob Janes]

Glad I could help, if you have any other requests :) I'll do them.

[leopoldobb]

Samu, do you can create a tutorial about mouse click based movement? *-*
For Origins. Please, thanks.

[pigboss]

I love you samu

[Guest]

do the stats actely do enything ?

[Kay-No]

When I did this I used the melee damage formula:
```
GetPlayerDamage = 0.085 * 5 * GetPlayerStat(index, Strength) * Item(weaponNum).Data2 + (GetPlayerLevel(index) / 5)
```
But replaced the str stat with int and the weapon damage with the spell damage:
```
GetPlayerDamage = 0.085 * 5 * GetPlayerStat(index, Intelligence) * Spell(spellnum).Vital + (GetPlayerLevel(index) / 5)
```(I think it looked like this)

By the way, when i made this and just edited the castspell sub, my HOT's and DOT's ticks didnt take affect. So i had to edit all of that too.

[Rob Janes]

My original post was soley for casting spells but the same theory can be applied to anything you want to 'scale'

[ayevdayev]

Thanks, this is a nice script (something that even a noob can easily add :)

NOOB QUESTION
Also, does this also have to be added to the client because I only added it to the server and i didn't test it out yet.

[Guest]

Very nice! This should really be the way EO handles such things. Ambardia had regular players on for 3 years and it was always a pain making new spells and items to accomodate the change in levels over time. Our highest level player at level 176 took him 3 years to get btw.

[Rob Janes]

It's stored Server-Side, as the Vital (Damage or Healing) is calculated server-side.

[Thor7]

Nice and simple!

Thanks Samu this can be applied and modded to most things :)

[ayevdayev]

I have a nice edit to this script.

Vital = Vital + Player(index).Level + (GetPlayerStat(index, Stats.Intelligence) * 2)
[Base Damage of Spell + Level of Character + (INT * 2) ]

[Jorgexander]

Hello, I'm new to VB6, and I have a question about this.
So, I added the code below Vital = Spell(spellnum).Vital like in this tutorial, but it doesn't seem to work.
If it helps, the equation I want is Vital + (GetPlayerStat(index, Stats.Intelligence) / 2)

[Drakiac]

Thank you so much for this! I'll be using something like it in my game.
-Drakiac

[RyokuHasu]

Here is My personal Scaling equation =D

```
Vital = (Vital * 0.6) * (Player(index).Level * 1.14) * Round((Stats.Intelligence + (Stats.Willpower / 2)))

```
Any one like it? =o

[Demon_Dax]

Thank you for this script. It is very helpful, and will make every spell useful.

[airdude2]

i added it and it dint change anything.

[Ruins of Hell]

@airdude2:

> i added it and it dint change anything.

Did you compile your source code? (File > Make server.exe OR Make Eclipse Origins.exe, depending on whether you are using the server or the client.)

[Lavos]

Is there anyway to have the same effect for Damage over time?

[DshWinchester]

@Lavos:

> Is there anyway to have the same effect for Damage over time?

yeh,search for '.caster' then change the 'spell(.spell).vital' to this

[Lavos]

@DishWasher:

> yeh,search for '.caster' then change the 'spell(.spell).vital' to this

Under what sub?