Cooldown Reduction

[Karzama]

Hi,

I'm trying to make a trigger that reduces the cooldown of abilities when cast by a Hero, but it doesn't seem to be working. The text message reads correctly but it doesn't actually reduce... My test has a spell on 30 second cooldown and when cast the text reads 20 seconds but I have timed it and it's still 30 seconds! What am I doing wrong?? I think the event might be the problem?? Also I can't work out how to post it as a trigger so a code will have to do...

Spoiler

Hero Spell Cooldown
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
        ((Triggering unit) is A Hero) Equal to True
    Actions
        Set VariableSet TempUnit = (Triggering unit)
        Set VariableSet TempAbilityCode = (Ability being cast)
        Set VariableSet TempInt = (Level of TempAbilityCode for TempUnit)
        Set VariableSet TempReal = (1.00 + ((Real((Intelligence of TempUnit (Include bonuses)))) / 200.00))
        Unit - For Unit TempUnit, start cooldown of ability (Ability being cast) " over "((Ability: (Unit: TempUnit's Ability with Ability Code: TempAbilityCode)'s Real Level Field Cooldown ('acdn'), of Level: TempInt) / TempReal) seconds.
        Game - Display to (All players) the text: (String((Ability Cooldown Remaining of TempUnit for ability TempAbilityCode..)))

EDIT - I have just tried "unit begins casting" and it works, but spells obviously don't actual get cast before they are put on cooldown... any ideas of how to make this work??

 

[Uncle]

The Level field is indexed starting at 0. Meaning "Level: 0" is actually "Level: 1". So your TempInt variable should take this into consideration and subtract 1:

• Set VariableSet TempInt = ((Level of TempAbilityCode for TempUnit) - 1)

If the problem persists, try resetting the cooldown of the ability before starting it again.

 

[Karzama]

Thanks, it still didn't work even after resetting the cooldown, so I've added a 0.01 wait at the start and this seems to have solved it!

Spoiler

Hero Spell Cooldown
    Events
        Unit - A unit Starts the effect of an ability
    Conditions
        ((Triggering unit) is A Hero) Equal to True
    Actions
        Wait 0.01 seconds
        Set VariableSet TempUnit = (Triggering unit)
        Set VariableSet TempAbilityCode = (Ability being cast)
        Set VariableSet TempInt = ((Level of TempAbilityCode for TempUnit) - 1)
        Set VariableSet TempReal = (1.00 + ((Real((Intelligence of TempUnit (Include bonuses)))) / 200.00))
        Unit - For Unit TempUnit, end cooldown of ability TempAbilityCode
        Unit - For Unit TempUnit, start cooldown of ability TempAbilityCode " over "((Ability: (Unit: TempUnit's Ability with Ability Code: TempAbilityCode)'s Real Level Field Cooldown ('acdn'), of Level: TempInt) / TempReal) seconds.
        Game - Display to (All players) the text: (String((Ability Cooldown Remaining of TempUnit for ability TempAbilityCode..)))

 

[Uncle]

The issue there is that Ability being cast can change during that Wait. You can easily avoid this issue by using the method found here: local udg_

You "Shadow" TempAbilityCode which makes it act as a local variable. This way it will remain the same throughout the trigger even after Waits.