Basic attack cooldown

[kokon]

Is there a way to restart attack cooldown?
If I do a stun for 0.5 sec it does not affect attack cooldown so my stun does not help much as enemy is on his attack cd anyways.

BlzStartUnitAbilityCooldown
can I use it with basic attack? )

BlzSetUnitAttackCooldown
It will not change current cd as far as I understand. If cd is already over

 

[Remixer]

BlzStartUnitAbilityCooldown

It doesn't seem to work with basic attack.

BlzSetUnitAttackCooldown

It seems a little glitchy. One approach I've used is giving the unit a high attack speed bonus until its next account, which makes the next attack land super fast.

 

[kokon]

One approach I've used is giving the unit a high attack speed bonus until its next account, which makes the next attack land super fast.

Do a superfast attack with no damage and no animation. And then do a normal cd?...
Can you give me a jass sketch?...

 

[Rheiko]

Use damage detection system. Detect when a successful attack lands and then give the attack speed bonus. Detect again when a successful attack with the attack speed bonus lands then remove the attack speed bonus. Something like that.

 

[Pyrogasm]

I had an interesting thought and tested it but didn't learn anything useful for what you want to achieve. What I learned: if you reverse bear-morph into another unit type with a much higher attack speed you still can't attack until the full cooldown from your original attack speed has played out. Presumably all other morph abilities work this way but maybe not?

 

[kokon]

I've added a cargo hold for the duration of cd, but unit starts to run away...

 

[Uncle]

I've added a cargo hold for the duration of cd, but unit starts to run away...

Does Cargo Hold even work here? I know it acts as a Disarm but how does it apply to your problem?

Anyway, the "Can Flee" option is what makes units run away when they can't fight back. Set it to False in the Object Editor or you can try toggling it via triggers (may or may not work).

 

[kokon]

Thx Uncle. Now it does not flee.
But it seems because it does not have attack now. It gets deprioritized by combat AI. The original attacker does not continue to attack the same unit if other targets are available.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Thx Uncle. Now it does not flee.
But it seems because it does not have attack now. It gets deprioritized by combat AI. The original attacker does not continue to attack the same unit if other targets are available.

Do you get the same AI behavior if the unit has an attack in the OE but then you also give it Cargo Hold to disable that attack?

 

[kokon]

Do you get the same AI behavior if the unit has an attack in the OE but then you also give it Cargo Hold to disable that attack?

Thats what i do. I have an orc grunt. I just give him a borrow cargo hold and unit attacking that grunt swithces to other targets. At least this is what i think.

 

[Uncle]

Thats what i do. I have an orc grunt. I just give him a borrow cargo hold and unit attacking that grunt swithces to other targets. At least this is what i think.

Instead of Cargo Hold, try using a Dummy unit which casts a custom Soul Burn on your "Disarmed" unit. Change Soul Burn to prevent Attacks and get rid of it's damage and other unwanted settings.

 

[Pyrogasm]

You can also disable attacks with Silence if Soul Burn has other consequences. Silence is of course AoE but with a small enough radius you could center the cast on a unit and hit only that unit every time.