An Attack Skill (Probably a noob question)

[Shyster]

So all I'm looking to do is make a skill which, when the cooldown is triggered after casting said skill, causes the hero to attack. It sounded simple in my head when all of a sudden I realized I have no clue how to do this. It doesn't seem like something people would normally need. It's also kind of 5 in the morning over here so I'd appreciate anyone's advice!

 

[Jampion]

I am not sure if I understood your question correctly. You want to make a skill that causes the hero to attack the target?

 

[Shyster]

I am not sure if I understood your question correctly. You want to make a skill that causes the hero to attack the target?

Yup. The idea is to make a one-off critical strike of sorts, and have it only apply to this one attack but have it hit very hard. Having a tough time thinking of the best way to do that tho

 

[Jampion]

I think it's hard to use an attack, because this could be canceled by the player. I would probably pause the attacking unit and play the attack animation and trigger the damage. The problem with this is, that it would not depend on the unit's damgage. I will test something now. If it works I may have another solution.

Edit: Is the skill supposed to have a target, or just to increase the power of the next attack?

 

[Shyster]

Edit: Is the skill supposed to have a target, or just to increase the power of the next attack?

It is targeted. I know, that murders everything. XD it'd be so much easier the other way but that's not as satisfying of a mechanic by a long shot.

 

[Jampion]

So here is a map with one targeted method and one instand method. The problems with the targeted method is, that the caster must have 0 cast animation time, so the caster starts to attack as soon as you use the skill. The caster gets a hidden critical strike and attacks the target.
After dealing damage the critical strike is removed.


I used Weep's GUI-Friendly Damage Detection. This is just a basic idea of how to make this skill. It has no levels and is not MUI.

Edit: Bugs fixed.

 

[Shyster]

Hey thanks for helping out with this. I've played around with it...so there's no way to avoid the delay caused by having a cast point greater than 0? Maybe I need to rethink this skill.

 

[Jampion]

You would have to use an ability that does not use cast time (windwalk, berserk), but I don't think there is a targeted ability that does not use cast time.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I think what he is after is like the Butcher from HotS where you can use his Hamstring ability and it immediately executes an attack after it finishes. This is very important to such hero play style as it allows one to quickly combo Attack -> Hamstring -> Attack.

Not sure this is possible in WC3. In Hereos of the Storm they probably achieve the effect by resetting the cooldown link for the weapon, or by giving the unit an insane attack speed for 1 attack.

 

[Shyster]

I think what he is after is like the Butcher from HotS where you can use his Hamstring ability and it immediately executes an attack after it finishes. This is very important to such hero play style as it allows one to quickly combo Attack -> Hamstring -> Attack.

Not sure this is possible in WC3. In Hereos of the Storm they probably achieve the effect by resetting the cooldown link for the weapon, or by giving the unit an insane attack speed for 1 attack.

Yeah that'd be pretty much how this would've worked. Geez, it sounds so simple but I guess they hadn't come up with the idea of resetting swing timers back then.