Buff & Status Effect Manager

1. Create Category: "Debuffs"

• • Type: Debuff
• • Color: #FF4444 (red)

2. Create Effect: "Poison"

• • Category: Debuffs
• • Tags: dot, poison
• • Duration: 5 seconds
• • Has Tick: ✓
• • Tick Interval: 1 second
• • Tick On Apply: ✓
• • Stacking Mode: RefreshAndStack
• • Max Stacks: 5
• • Scale With Stacks: ✓
• • Cleanse Type: Poison

3. Visual Scripting: Deal Damage on Tick

1. Add Trigger to Player with Event: On Any Effect Ticked
2. Add Condition: Has Effect → Poison
3. Add Action: Change Attribute → Health, Subtract 10

With Scale With Stacks enabled, 5 stacks = 50 damage per tick

1. Create Effect: "Shield"

• • Category: Buffs (Type: Buff)
• • Duration: 10 seconds
• • Stacking Mode: Refresh
• • Has Cooldown: ✓
• • Cooldown Duration: 30 seconds
• • Cooldown Starts On Apply: ✓
• • Apply VFX: Shield bubble prefab
• • Apply Sound: Shield activation sound

2. Shield Logic (Code Example)

// On damage received, check for shield
var manager = GetComponent<StatusEffectManager>();
if (manager.HasEffect(shieldDefinition))
{
    // Absorb damage, maybe remove shield
    manager.RemoveEffect(shieldDefinition);
    return; // No damage taken
}
// Apply normal damage...

1. Create Category: "Crowd Control"

• • Type: CrowdControl
• • Color: #FFAA00 (orange)
• • Max Concurrent: 1 (only one CC at a time)

2. Create Effect: "Stun"

• • Category: Crowd Control
• • Duration: 2 seconds
• • Stacking Mode: None
• • Cleanse Type: Magic

3. Grant Immunity After Stun

1. Add Trigger with Event: On Specific Effect Expired → Stun
2. Add Action: Add Immunity (Effect) → Stun, 3 seconds

4. Disable Actions While Stunned

// In your action handler
if (manager.HasEffectCategoryType(EffectCategoryType.CrowdControl))
{
    Debug.Log("Cannot act while stunned!");
    return;
}

1. Create ImmunityProfile: "Boss"

• • Immune Categories: Crowd Control
• • Immune Tags: stun, root, silence

2. Assign to Boss

1. Select Boss GameObject
2. Find StatusEffectManager component
3. Assign "Boss" profile to Immunity Profile field

3. Show "IMMUNE!" Feedback

1. Add ImmunityFeedback component to Boss
2. Configure floating text style
3. Triggers automatically when effects are blocked

1. Create Effect: "Strength Potion"

• • Category: Buffs
• • Duration: 60 seconds
• • Stat Modifiers:
• — Stat: Strength, Type: Constant, Value: +10

2. Setup StatsBridge

1. Add StatsBridge component to character (alongside StatusEffectManager)
2. Ensure character has GC2 Traits component
3. Define GC2_STATS in Player Settings

1. Create Effect: "Regeneration"

• • Category: Buffs
• • Duration Mode: Permanent
• • Has Tick: ✓
• • Tick Interval: 1 second

2. Create Healing Zone

1. Create empty GameObject at zone location
2. Add StatusEffectAura component
3. Effect: Regeneration
4. Radius: 5
5. Target Mode: AlliesOnly
6. Remove On Exit: ✓

3. Heal on Tick

1. Add Trigger with Event: On Any Effect Ticked
2. Add Condition: Has Effect → Regeneration
3. Add Action: Change Attribute → Health, Add 5

Effect Setup

Assign appropriate Cleanse Types to your effects:

• • Poison, Bleed → Poison
• • Curse, Hex → Curse
• • Arcane Debuffs → Magic
• • Wounds, Exhaustion → Physical
• • Boss Debuffs → Undispellable

Cleanse Abilities

1. Create Effects

• • Wet — Category: Elemental, Duration 12 s, Stacking: Refresh, Tag water
• • Shock — Category: Elemental, Duration 5 s, Tag lightning
• • Electrocuted — Category: Crowd Control, Duration 3 s, Priority 5, plus an On Apply instruction (e.g. Play Sound, Change Attribute)

2. Create Interaction Rule: "Wet + Shock → Electrocuted"

• • Incoming: Mode Definition → Shock
• • Present: Mode Definition → Wet
• • Incoming Action: Block (Shock is consumed)
• • Present Action: Remove (Wet is consumed)
• • Result Effect: Electrocuted, Reaction VFX: your lightning burst prefab

3. Create Interaction Set and Assign

1. Create an Effect Interaction Set and add the rule
2. Assign it to the Interaction Set field of each enemy's StatusEffectManager
3. Or run Set Interaction Set (Scope: Global) once on game start so every manager uses it

4. More Rules

• • Burn melts Frozen — Incoming: Burn, Present: Tag ice, Incoming Apply, Present Remove
• • Frozen extinguishes Burn — Incoming: Frozen, Present: Burn, Incoming Block, Present Remove
• • Wet extends Frozen — Incoming: Wet, Present: Frozen, Present Keep, Present Duration Bonus 4

1. Configure the Category

• • Open your Crowd Control category
• • Exclusive: ✓
• • Equal Priority Replaces: ✗ (a second Slow refreshes via Stacking Mode instead)

2. Set Priorities

• • Stun → Priority 10
• • Root → Priority 5
• • Slow → Priority 1

3. React to the Outcome

1. A weaker incoming effect fires On Effect Blocked — show "Resisted" text
2. A stronger one dispels the active effect (On Any Effect Dispelled) and applies
3. Use Category Priority At Least (≥ 10) to disable input only while hard-stunned