Attack type and Damage type

by **OmegaSui** on 18/7/2011, 9:20 am

I need Deckai to confirm his game constants here too.

Damage categories :

Value	Equivalent	Type	Applies Armour value
Unknown (Uknown)	Unknown (Uknown)	Universal	No
Normal	Normal	Physical	Yes
Enhanced	Enhanced	Physical	No
Fire	Magic
Cold	Magic
Lightning	Magic
Poison	Enhanced
Divine	Magic
Magic	Magic	Magical	No
Sonic	Magic
Acid	Enhanced
Force	Magic
Death	Magic
Mind	Magic
Plant	Magic
Defensive	Magic
Demolition	Enhanced
Slow Poision	Enhanced
Spirit Link	Magic
Shadow Strike	Magic
Universal	Universal	Universal	No

-> main damage types

Type	Applies Armour value	Classification
Normal	Yes	Physical
Enhanced	No	Physical
Magic	No	Magical
Universal	No	Universal

Unknown - Will ever do the damage
Normal - Normal Damages
Enhanced - Normal Damages more used in Unit Cause Damage Area
Fire - Will ever do the damage, more used in Unit Cause Damage Area
Cold - Like the cold effect
Lightning - Instant Damage without the small wait of 0.01~0.02 seconds
Poison - Can not kill units
Disease - Like Poison, more used in Unit Cause Damage Area
Divine - Damage goes through Chaos armour type.
Magic - Magical Attacks, like Spells! (Notice Anti-Magic Amulet if you get what I want to tell you)
Sonic - Lightning type more used in Unit Cause Damage Area
Acid - Disease more used in Unit Cause Damage Area with a lot of units
Force - I DO NOT KNOW
Death - Undead Attack
Mind - Magical Attacks, more used in Unit Cause Damage Area
Plant - Natural Attacks
Defensive - Normal+Fire Damages more used in Unit Cause Damage Area
Demolition - Reduced by Armor Resistance, like a normal attack, but ignores defence type
Slow Poison - Won't kill unit, most of the times used in a Single Target with a repeated timer
Spirit Link : Suicide Event. It converts a proportion of incoming damage into spell damage, and then shares that damage amongst all units with the Spirit Link buff.
Shadow Strike : You know.
Universal : Goes through anything, and does ever full damage.

Attack Categories:

WorldEditor Value	JASS Value	Equivalent
Spells	ATTACK_TYPE_NORMAL	Spells
Normal	ATTACK_TYPE_MELEE	Normal
Pierce	ATTACK_TYPE_PIERCE	Normal
Siege	ATTACK_TYPE_SIEGE	Normal
Magic	ATTACK_TYPE_MAGIC	Magic
Chaos	ATTACK_TYPE_CHAOS	Normal
Hero	ATTACK_TYPE_HERO	Normal

-> main attack types :

Type	Notes
Spells	This will damage spell-immune enemies if the damage is physical or universal, and will damage ethereal enemies if the damage is magical or universal. The Spell Damage Reduction (AIsr) item ability applies to this (and only this) attack type.
Normal	This will damage spell-immune enemies if the damage is physical or universal, and will never damage ethereal targets (regardless of damage type).
Magic	This will never damage spell-immune targets (regardless of damage type), and will always damage ethereal targets (regardless of damage type).

Note that even though you can change the values for Ethereal with the Gameplay Constants, only AT:Magic and AT:Spells will have any effect thanks to the hard-coded nature of ethereal targets.

Finally, Armour Type (as opposed to Armour Value) always applies, no matter the attack type. The values can be changed though.

Armour Types : I shall wait for Deckai's game constants first.

Finally :

Attack Type	Damage Type	Affects Spell-Immune	Affects Ethereal
Normal	Physical	Yes	No
Normal	Magical	No	No
Normal	Universal	Yes	No
Spells	Physical	Yes	No
Spells	Magical	No	Yes
Spells	Universal	Yes	Yes
Magic	Physical	No	Yes
Magic	Magical	No	Yes
Magic	Universal	No	Yes