Reverse Procs

[trevius]

Ya, I am sure we could use more effect types working properly or at all. But the idea of this would be to just use any existing effect types and have a check to proc when being hit. I will look into seeing how hard it would be to code and maybe write something up. I am pretty sure we could just copy the current proc code from There could always be a rule put in place to allow admins to enable or disable this extra check after chancetohit.

attack.cpp
Maybe add something like this to where incoming damage is calculated:

		TryNonWeaponProc(nonweapon, other);

And then the function would be a modified version of this:

void Mob::TryWeaponProc(const Item_Struct* weapon, Mob *on) {
	
	int ourlevel = GetLevel();
	float ProcChance, ProcBonus;
	if(weapon!=NULL)
		GetProcChances(ProcBonus, ProcChance, weapon->Delay);
	else
		GetProcChances(ProcBonus, ProcChance);
	
	//give weapon a chance to proc first.
	if(weapon != NULL) {
		if (IsValidSpell(weapon->Proc.Effect) && (weapon->Proc.Type == ET_CombatProc)) {
			float WPC = ProcChance*(100.0f+(float)weapon->ProcRate)/100.0f;
			if (MakeRandomFloat(0, 1) <= WPC) {	// 255 dex = 0.084 chance of proc. No idea what this number should be really.
				if(weapon->Proc.Level > ourlevel) {
					mlog(COMBAT__PROCS, "Tried to proc (%s), but our level (%d) is lower than required (%d)", weapon->Name, ourlevel, weapon->Proc.Level);
					Mob * own = GetOwner();
					if(own != NULL) {
						own->Message_StringID(13,PROC_PETTOOLOW);
					} else {
						Message_StringID(13,PROC_TOOLOW);
					}
				} else {
					mlog(COMBAT__PROCS, "Attacking weapon (%s) successfully procing spell %d (%.2f percent chance)", weapon->Name, weapon->Proc.Effect, ProcChance*100);
					ExecWeaponProc(weapon->Proc.Effect, on);
				}
			} else {
				mlog(COMBAT__PROCS, "Attacking weapon (%s) did no proc (%.2f percent chance).", weapon->Name, ProcChance*100);
			}
		}
	}
	
	if(ProcBonus == -1) {
		LogFile->write(EQEMuLog::Error, "ProcBonus was -1 value!");
		return;
	}

	//now try our proc arrays
	float procmod =  float(GetDEX()) / 100.0f + ProcBonus*100.0;	//did somebody think about this???
																	//AndMetal: aren't we doing this in GetProcChances?

	uint32 i;
	for(i = 0; i < MAX_PROCS; i++) {
		if (PermaProcs[i].spellID != SPELL_UNKNOWN) {
			if(MakeRandomInt(0, 100) < PermaProcs[i].chance) {
				mlog(COMBAT__PROCS, "Permanent proc %d procing spell %d (%d percent chance)", i, PermaProcs[i].spellID, PermaProcs[i].chance);
				ExecWeaponProc(PermaProcs[i].spellID, on);
			} else {
				mlog(COMBAT__PROCS, "Permanent proc %d failed to proc %d (%d percent chance)", i, PermaProcs[i].spellID, PermaProcs[i].chance);
			}
		}
		if (SpellProcs[i].spellID != SPELL_UNKNOWN) {
			int chance = ProcChance + SpellProcs[i].chance;
			if(MakeRandomInt(0, 100) < chance) {
				mlog(COMBAT__PROCS, "Spell proc %d procing spell %d (%d percent chance)", i, SpellProcs[i].spellID, chance);
				ExecWeaponProc(SpellProcs[i].spellID, on);
			} else {
				mlog(COMBAT__PROCS, "Spell proc %d failed to proc %d (%d percent chance)", i, SpellProcs[i].spellID, chance);
			}
		}
	}
}

I will see if I can figure out the best way to do it later if I get the time.

[janusd]

Trevious, I think what you're thinking of would work similar to the cleric line of reverse damage shields cast on a mob so that when IT hits things, IT takes damage. You may want to look at the way that spell works (I think it's a 62-65 spell) if you're thinking of pursuing this idea.

And while it's not Live-Like at all, it does propose some rather interesting ideas we could implement and some interesting strategies you could create on the custom servers.

And who knows... maybe Sony is spying on us and will steal the idea to include in live. After all, they stole our bot idea (calling 'em mercenaries). Now bots are live-like!