[Spell] Can't get phoenix fire-based ability toggling to work

[AlfredKristal]

Hi

First of all, I'm very new to working in the world editor so I might be overlooking something very obvious..

anyway, I have been working on a pretty simple spell which makes the caster spray ice on surrounding enemies. This is supposed to be a toggle ability like mana shield or immolation so that it drains mana while spraying ice.

Currently I'm using a dummy spell, which is based on mana shield, for the toggling and then I'm using a trigger to give the caster the phoenix fire spell so that it starts spraying ice around it. Now to my problem: I can't get it to properly turn off again when the toggle turns off. I have been trying a little with "wait for condition" and set it to detect when the mana shield buff goes away from the caster but that doesn't work.

Anyone done this before or know an easy way to achieve the desired effect?

 

[Pyrogasm]

I would use Immolate rather than Mana Shield, but if your unit also has an immolate ability then it'll need to be mana shield. You'll need to catch the orders "immolate on" and "immolate off" (there are equivalent ones for Mana Shield) on a unit with your toggle ability:

• IceOn
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit is given order with no target
  • Conditions
    • (Issued Order) equal to Immolate (On)
    • Level of (DUMMY_IMMOLATE_ABILITY) for (Triggering Unit) greater than 0
  • Actions
    • ------- Give Phoenix Fire ability to Triggering Unit -------
• IceOff
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit is given order with no target
  • Conditions
    • (Issued Order) equal to Immolate (Off)
    • Level of (DUMMY_IMMOLATE_ABILITY) for (Triggering Unit) greater than 0
  • Actions
    • ------- Remove Phoenix Fire ability from Triggering Unit -------

 

[Dr Super Good]

Defend can also be toggled. In case a unit has both mana shield and immolate.

 

[Pyrogasm]

But Defend can't drain mana per second I believe?

 

[pOke]

You would also need to catch when the unit runs out of mana and order them unimmolate so it properly gets removed.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Oh they don't get automatically ordered that at low mana? Should've figured.

 

[AlfredKristal]

Thanks for the answers!

I have tried a little targeting orders, but I can't seem to find how to target the On/Off of the spell. I'll submit my triggers so that maybe you can tell me what's wrong! I'm using the original Immolation spell right now but will switch it out later when it's working

 

[Pyrogasm]

Neither of those triggers run? They should when you click the immolate button on/off since they're so simple.

 

[Abovegame]

Have you tried using another event maybe like

• Events - Unit starts the effect on ability

?

 

[Pyrogasm]

I believe I remember that event not catching toggle abilities.

 

[Dr Super Good]

It should catch the toggle on, but the toggle off will not be caught. Order events should detect both, unless turned off due to a lack of resources, something no event can detect.

 

[Abovegame]

Thanks for the answers!

I have tried a little targeting orders, but I can't seem to find how to target the On/Off of the spell. I'll submit my triggers so that maybe you can tell me what's wrong! I'm using the original Immolation spell right now but will switch it out later when it's working

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The order strings are: `immolation` for On / `unimmolation` for Off.
And not Immoltaion (On) , Immolation(Off).