Ability buff icon does not appear

[Kammerat1]

Hey. I tried searching all over the internet and I can't seem to make my buff appear in the unit's status bar.
The unit casting is a tower (Tower Defence map) and the spell applies DoT and movement speed reduction. The spell is based on Liquid Fire. The effect applies on hit. The effect works and the fire underneath the creep appears, but when clicking the target no ability icon/buff icon appears in its status bar.
I've tried creating a custom buff/effect but I can't make it actually show.
Does anyone have any clue how to solve this?
Does whether an icon shows up depend on what spell I base the spell on? Heeelp.

 

[Uncle]

A lot of Ability related stuff is hardcoded and can't be changed.

I imagine the devs found no need to give Liquid Fire a buff since it can only target structures and buffs aren't displayed on structures.

You can always trigger these effects yourself using Damage Events/Dummy units to get around these limitations.

 

[Kammerat1]

A lot of Ability related stuff is hardcoded and can't be changed.

I imagine the devs found no need to give Liquid Fire a buff since it can only target structures and buffs aren't displayed on structures.

You can always trigger these effects yourself using Damage Events/Dummy units to get around these limitations.

Thank you. I've never worked with dummy units before. I'll see if I can figure it out