Changing manacost/cooldown of an ability inside a spellbook

[Zwiebelchen]

I do not have access to an editor yet, so can someone confirm if this works please?

I want a (non-hero) ability cooldown/manacost modified inside a spellbook.

Does it work if I create two levels of that ability and then simply change the level of that ability with different values for cooldown and mana? Does that work for abilities inside spellbooks?

 

[Nichilus]

Yes it works. Just give that ability more levels and then use the action "Increase level of ability for unit". It will increase even when the ability itself is in that unit's spellbook.

 

[Xonok]

Note that it even works with item abilities(although they reset to 1 each time you pick up the item)
This can perhaps allow making semi-classlocked items.

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Nice! I don't get why I haven't used that earlier. I designed my cooldown reducing talents by having two versions of the same skill instead swapping between two levels on the ability - which caused other annoying bugs when both orderstrings where the same and one ability just got disabled for that player.

For some reason my mind told me that I can not use multi-level abilities inside spellbooks.