modding skills to have negative energy/mana regeneration stat

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I have searched the forums and googled, but I can’t find anything regarding negative energy/mana regeneration (except in a thread asking if negative stats were possible, but without any further explanation other than a “yes” response). I hope I’m not duplicating any existing threads, but I am running out of unbroken wall space into which I can bang my head :confused:

What I’m trying to do here is something of a skill cost debuff to increase all skills used by X% (including skills not in my personal mastery tree) or to completely stop energy/mana regeneration. the concept is to either completely stop regeneration or increase all skills’ cost in order to increase the power of another skill (or to that effect).

What I have done thus far hadn’t worked, and upon looking around other mods and templates, I’m not entirely sure the engine can even support it…
I attached a skill_modifier to some attack skill that sets an auto-cast skill_buffselfduration for T seconds, with a controller cast_@selfonattack_100%. this auto-cast has a characterManaRegenModifier = -100 in order to completely shut off regeneration. I also tried changing skillManaCostReduction = -100… neither of these negative percentages seemed to work.

I also tried the set the auto-cast to be skillbuff_debuf. Also tested changing the base template for parameters_character to change the variable characterManaRegenModifier from array to equation and set the skill to have -manaRegen

So far, nothing seems to negatively affect energy/mana regeneration other than setting a negative for characterManaRegen (or skillActiveManaCost), but then there’s no guarantee that the negative regen or active cost will set my regeneration to exactly zero.

I also played around with the Spirit Mastery in Grimarillion since Insidious Miasma seems to have a negative health/mana regeneration, but even that doesn’t actually seem to reduce regeneration (other than the active cost associated with the toggled buff itself).

Is there something I’m missing? Thanks in advance!

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have you tried manaburn? or perhaps on activating the on self buff it costs you resource instead of -mana regen? could cast a channeling skill that consumes X mana/ sec and lasts x seconds and does no dmg.

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The thing that might be throwing you off is that modifiers are not multiplicative.

-100% does not mean 0 Energy Regen because every character has at least some % Energy Regen from Spirit.

You could achieve the desired result with -1000%.

Increasing skill costs is not something you can really do unless we revised how -% Energy Cost worked.

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You have not unfortunately.

While not entirely perfect, perhaps something like the skillActiveManaCost field is what you’re looking for? skillbuff_passive.tpl has the field inside of its Cast Config group. If you set the duration of such a buff to 1, you would get one “tick” worth of the Energy cost before the buff expired, unless you triggered the buff again.