Making an Item ability into a hero ability.

[Caboose]

Hey i'm a little new here so i hope that this isn't a common question, I didn't see it in the FAQs. Well i was trying to make the orb of corruption ability into a hero ability and I did complete with 3 levels, tooltips, all that stuff but when I put it on my test hero, he could learn it and it would add the damage that it adds but you can't see the ability in the little place where you normally can see them and also it doesn't decrease the armor of the enemy when he attacks them. How do I make the ability visible in the ability area?

 

[Pharaoh_]

Go to your ability, go to Stats - Item ability, set it to False and to Stats - Hero ability set it to True.

 

[Caboose]

i already did that, if I didn't I wouldn't be able to put the ability on the hero in the 1st place.

 

[Pharaoh_]

Yes, you could. Going from Abilities - Normal, it lets you add item/unit abilities.
Now, some abilities don't show up in-game. So, create an ability from "Bash"; copy and paste it, set every value to 0, remove Buffs and chances and do this:

• Trigger
• Events
  • Unit - A unit learns a skill
• Conditions
  • (Hero Learned skill) Equal to Corruption //This is the Bash-based ability; Hero Skill comparison
• Actions
  • If (All conditions are true) then do (Actions) else do (Actions)
    • If - Conditions
      • (Level of Corruption for (Triggering unit)) Equal to 1 //Integer Comparison
    • Then - Actions
      • Unit - Add (Item Attack Corruption Bonus) to (Triggering unit)
    • Else - Actions
      • Unit - Set level of Item Attack Corruption Bonus for (Triggering unit) to (Level of Corruption for (Triggering unit))

 

[Caboose]

Hey thanks man that worked, but there is still one problem. The orb of corruption takes away about 5 or so armor from its target but for some reason my hero is still getting the damage bonus from the power (which I intended) but his target isn't losing any armor. Its not a problem with the trigger because he was doing this even when he had the power but it was invisible, and i think it might be a problem with the actually ability, maybe I messed something up. Well i don't know maybe you could help with that too.

 

[DeftheLynn]

maybe you add another orb based ability ?
like life steal ?
so the corruption doesn't give any effect

 

[Rafinius]

I think he meant that maybe by mistake you gave your hero another ability with an orb effect on hit (slow effect/poison/lifesteal/manaburn/chance to cast on hit/etc.). The hero will only use one of them and there is no way to change that except by using an triggered ability instead of changing an existing orb effect.