Ability Question

[Demon25]

Recently I made a passive ability, that was supposed to have the Death and Decay effect around the Hero. I've experimented with the effects/buffs/art fields and have had no luck getting this to work.
Anyone know a solution?

 

[scorpion182]

use dummy unit to cast it

 

[Day-Elven]

Attach an effect to the unit when he learns/gets ability

 

[xenoche]

Base your ability on 'Unholy Aura'.
Set the life regeneration field to a negative value.
Set targets to 'enemy'.
Change the buffs attachments to whatever effect you so desire.

EDIT: Oh I see, you just want the Death and Decay effect.
As Scorpion suggested: Create a Dummy when the hero learns the ability. Use a periodic timer to order it to cast Death and Decay at the position of your hero.

Remember to clean up leaks, especially important with periodic events like these that can last an entire game, that's a lot of leakage.

 

[Demon25]

So basically i need to make a unit with no model and have it stay with the hero?

Is there anyway to do this without triggers?

 

[bountygiver]

So basically i need to make a unit with no model and have it stay with the hero?

Is there anyway to do this without triggers?

No, that would be impossible without triggers, especially when you want to do the actual damage dealing instead of negative hit point regeneration.

Or you can deal the damage using triggers instead of using the dummy casting Death and Decay.

 

[oxxo]

how about using a huge-range immolation variant? that way your hero can move around while "casting"

 

[Restor]

exactly, passive immolation from infernal, it is like aura with magic dmg to the area

(but it damaged values, not percentages)

 

[Demon25]

So I just use the passive immolation but use the death and decay art?

 

[Day-Elven]

Yes.
Restor is true. Take infernal's immolation and change it's arts.

 

[Demon25]

Do I need the change the Buff's art too or just the ability?

 

[oxxo]

the buff art is what displays the "art / visual effect", so you might wanna change that (if you want it to look like the original "death & decay", replace the buff with the "death and decay" buff. ofcourse you could just leave the original immolation buff, but it would certainly look horrible)

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Tip to art changing. Change everything. It takes max, like 15 seconds to do, and can make boring spells new and original.

 

[Need_O2]

changing art wont work
that effect needs to be triggered