Taunt Ability Problem

[Eleandor]

I have this undefeatable creature (it's targetted as "Ancient"), and it's wandering along the map. It will attack everything that stands in its way. However, a certain unit (I'm using the Footman for testing purposes) will be able to place a ward (Distractor) that will cast "Taunt" (with targets "Ancient" only) so the undefeatable creature will only attack the ward until it is dead. Meanwhile, units around the ward should remain unharmed and should be able to run away without being followed by the creature, as the creature should only be attacking the ward.

Basically, I thought the following thing should work:
I have a ward casted by the footman with the taunt Ability (Ancient only) and a trigger that runs every 3 seconds. If it runs, the ward will cast taunt. So far everything works. But if I test in game, the taunt does work, but if there's a footman near the ward, the worm will give its priority to the footman wether the ward is taunting or not. Even more strange is that whenever the footman dies, the worm simply ignores the ward and moves on. The last problem doesn't occur when the ward is alone.

My question would be: how can I make the worm attack the ward and ignore any other creature as long as the ward is active? Apparently taunt doesn't help. Also note that the creature has the locust ability, so nobody can attacks it.

Thanks for your time

 

[Doctor-Pepper]

Very easy and leaky way would be:
Time: Every 3 sec of the gametime (lol, why 3)
Unit Group: Pick every Unit Of Type ---Ward---
Boolean: If unit (undefeatable creature) is in region - convert points to a region ( point is a position of the picked unit with offset 200, 200, 200, 200 [its basicly a radius of 200])
Than order Undefeatable Creature to attack picked unit)

Remember that Points and unit groups leave a lot of leaks. Specialy if u do it ever XX seconds. If you have a lot of those triggers your map could be ruinded by lag. Therefore read this topic: http://world-editor-tutorials.thehelper.net/cat_usersubmit.php?view=27242

The map with memory leaks should not be considerd a good WC3 map

 

[Eleandor]

hmm... your method didn't work either until I found out that the attack - targets allowed of the Creature didn't contain "ward" so it couldn't attack the ward

My method might have worked too then

Thanks for the help

 

[apocalypse_dude]

did you change the units priority in the object editor ?
give the ward high priority .. that might fix the problem

 

[Eleandor]

Yes I already did, problem still persisted. However, it's now solved Thanks to Pepper! Feel free to lock this thread unless you've got anything useful to add.