UI attack icon problem

[ZiBitheWand3r3r]

Hero has 2 attacks enabled. 1st is melee, 2nd is ranged.
I want to switch between melee to ranged for a limited time.
Im using silence-based ability to disable melee attack.
All works fine with one side effect:
on UI attack icon dissapears while hero is silenced like on picture

hero can attack (2nd ranged attack is enabled) but this looks weird w/o attack icon displayed.
Any ideas how to fix it? (no metamorphosis please)

 

[Pyrogasm]

Use something like Orb of Fire to change to the second attack type instead; put the ability in a disabled spellbook and then add/remove manually to change the attacks. It has a Data - Attacks Enabled field too and it might not disable the UI.

 

[ZiBitheWand3r3r]

Playing as Paladin, you pick up Orb of Fire. Can you attack air from distance? Yes.
Can you attack ground target from distance? No.
That won't work but thanks for your reply.

 

[Pyrogasm]

Okay then you'll have to temporarily morph into an identical unit with a ranged attack. As long as all temporarily-added abilities are set to Permanent you won't lose them when transforming. This method is probably the best and will work with Heroes or units without any of the side-effects Chaos brings: Hero passive transformation. 1 bear form ability to morph to ranged paladin and 1 bear form ability to morph to regular paladin.

 

[wc3neverdies]

What about create a dummy ability(with same attack icon and position) with channel, and use triggers to make the unit attack?
This ability is added only when the unit is silenced, then u remove it
with a trigger like this :

Every 0.03 seconds
if
unit has bufftype = silence
then
add dummy ability
else
remove dummy ability

 

[Pyrogasm]

Because right click wouldn't work then. And in general, entirely triggering the attack is a lot of work to go through for very little payoff.