How to tell how someone died

[Castler]

I'm trying to trigger special effects based on how a monster was killed (so a main-hand attack triggers one effect, an off-hand attack triggers a different effects, talents and DoTs a third effect, etc.).

It looks like I could make up a last_damage_source field and set it as appropriate in preUseTalent, attackTarget, timedEffects, etc., then check it in die or on_die. But I don't know if I'm missing anything or if there's a cleaner solution.

Ideas or suggestions?

Thanks.

[lukep]

A different solution would be to put in in Combat.lua (and elsewhere). You would just add checks for "if target.dead then" at the appropriate points.

[darkgod]

Your solution sounds about right, since it's your own module you do control everything so should work.