[General] How to insert two active abilities in an item?

[Barbafire]

Hello everybody one more time! My doubt now looks very simple: Is there a way to insert two active abilities in a same item?

I want to improve my healing potions, with instant cure, and a prolonged regeneration effect. The problem is: Only the first active ability in the list is used.

The item template, now, is:

• Instant Heal Effect;
• Passive Regeneration Bonus;
• Active Regeneration Effect (Like healing salve, rejuvenation or even "Edited Roar or Howl of Terror",
• Passive raw health bonus.

I tried to figure out how to do this without triggers, but I was not successful. If you tell me that there is no way without triggers, its ok. I know how to trigger it, and I'll do it. I'm trying to make my project as triggerless as possible, that's why I didn't go directly to Trigger GUI.

 

[Uncle]

Not possible without triggers. Not sure how that would even work, how would it know how to handle cooldowns/mana costs/cast order?

Anyway, just have a Dummy cast the Regen ability upon use.

 

[Barbafire]

Not possible without triggers. Not sure how that would even work, how would it know how to handle cooldowns/mana costs/cast order?

How it works when the item gets used:

• 1- Unit gets healed instantly;
• 2- Unit gets the bonus regeneration, that must be an effect. It needs to be dispellable through dispel abilities, not attacks like Healing Salve;

With the trigger solution, it will look like this:

• Healing Potion Lvl 1
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Uses an item
  • Conditions
    • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Healing Potion (Tier 2)
  • Actions
    • Set VariableSet Temp_Location = (Position of (Hero manipulating item))
    • Unit - Create 1 Dummy Arena Effect for (Owner of (Hero manipulating item)) at Temp_Location facing Default building facing degrees
    • Unit - Add a 2.00 second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)
    • Unit - Add Regeneration +500 to (Last created unit)
    • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Night Elf Druid Of The Claw - Rejuvenation (Hero manipulating item)
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_Temp_Location )

 

[Uncle]

How it works when the item gets used:

• 1- Unit gets healed instantly;
• 2- Unit gets the bonus regeneration, that must be an effect. It needs to be dispellable through dispel abilities, not attacks like Healing Salve;

With the trigger solution, it will look like this:

I know, I just meant that with how Warcraft 3 mechanics works, allowing multiple active abilities on a single button doesn't make much sense. Not important though.

Anyway, because I can't help myself, here's a suggested optimization:

• Healing Potion Lvl 1
  • Events
    • Unit - A unit Uses an item
  • Conditions
    • (Item-type of (Item being manipulated)) Equal to Healing Potion (Tier 2)
  • Actions
    • Set VariableSet Temp_Location = (Position of (Hero manipulating item))
    • Unit - Create 1 Dummy Arena Effect for (Owner of (Hero manipulating item)) at Temp_Location facing Default building facing degrees
    • Custom script: call RemoveLocation( udg_Temp_Location )
    • Unit - Add a 0.25 second Generic expiration timer to (Last created unit)
    • Unit - Add Regeneration +500 to (Last created unit)
    • Unit - Order (Last created unit) to Night Elf Druid Of The Claw - Rejuvenation (Hero manipulating item)

Also, if the Dummy unit is setup properly it will cast this ability immediately, no need for a long expiration timer.
(Copy Locust, Set Movement Type = None, Speed Base = 0, disable other interfering settings like Attacks Enabled)

 

[Barbafire]

I have some dummies set up properly with a tutorial that I've found here.

Thanks for the optimization. I'll test it here.