Item Abilities Appearing in the Command Card

[madmuffin]

I made a shield item, I gave it a modified version of Defend that acts as an item ability, everything looks hunky-dorey, but when my Hero picks up the item, for some reason it puts the Defend ability in the bottom left slot of his command card, which can be clicked and activated there. I wanted it to be like every other item in the game in which you click on the item to activate the ability, not for the item to give me an ability. Does anyone know why it is behaving like this?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Go to the ability "Defend" and make it "Stats - Item Ability" - True, and "Stats - Hero Ability" - False.

 

[madmuffin]

Go to the ability "Defend" and make it "Stats - Item Ability" - True, and "Stats - Hero Ability" - False.

That's the first thing I thought of, sadly no dice. It IS set to Hero Ability - False and Item Ability - True

 

[Pharaoh_]

Hm, maybe it is due to the fact that Defend is an order-based item. It is not considered as a spell. Try making a dummy to slow the caster, and a spell that reduces incoming damage, e.g. that Undead's Banshee spell.

 

[madmuffin]

Order-based item? You mean like how it just takes one click to do its thing, or because it turns on/off?

 

[Pharaoh_]

The on/off part.

 

[madmuffin]

That's probably it too, things like Kelen's Daggers of Escape work just fine. I'll probably do as you said and find a work-around that gives the same effect as defend with none of the hassle.