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Hello, maybe its getting late or I am just plain stupid.
Below a part of a system i am working on, where willpower and toughness act as a magic- and physical-shield on NPC's. Toughness is decreased/destroyd with physical damage, and Willpower with magical damage.

Willpower and Toughness gets assigned when the NPC is created (on=@create) based on their skills (magery, swordsmanship, etc.), stats and armor values..

Once created , players have to bring either the NPCS willpower or Toughness to 0% before they can start giving direct damage to the hitpoints (and on the hitpoints elemental-resistances still play in)

So its basically just another layer of fun and tactics for PVE.
However, I sliced up my "ON=@GETHIT" script to get some help... see below.

I need to blockout the damage to hitpoints, untill either willpower or toughness is at zero .. and truely, i could not figure out where to place the "Return 1"
Either they took no dmg at all, or all the time...


ON=@GETHIT
IF (<ARGN2> & dam_magic)&&(<eval <tag.magicalshield>> >= 0)
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EFFECT 3 i_fx_sparkle_2, 16, 16
tag.magicalshield=<eval <tag.magicalshield>> -<ARGN1>
resendtooltip=1
--> Return 1 here does nothing... NPC still takes hitpoint dmg.

ELSEIF (<ARGN2> & dam_physical)&&(<eval <tag.defenseshield>> >= 0)
EFFECT 3 i_fx_curse, 16, 16
tag.defenseshield=<eval <tag.defenseshield>> -<ARGN1>
resendtooltip=1
dorand = 3
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sfx 953
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IF (<eval <tag.defenseshield>> <= 1)
tag.lifeleft <eval <muldiv <hits>,100,<maxhits>>>
tag.defenseshield <eval <tag.defenseshield>>
tag.magicalshield <eval <tag.magicalshield>>
UPDATE 1
resendtooltip=1

ELSEIF (<eval <tag.magicalshield>> <= 1)
tag.lifeleft <eval <muldiv <hits>,100,<maxhits>>>
tag.defenseshield <eval <tag.defenseshield>>
tag.magicalshield <eval <tag.magicalshield>>
UPDATE 1
resendtooltip=1
ENDIF
--> Return 1 here blocks hitpoint damage totally...

Oh and if you tell me, that script is old, and slow and heavy on the server, please feel free to show me how to make it better (been away from sphere for some years)