Unit - Add Buff

[Meatmuffin]

The title says it all, I'd like a function that does that because the most common method of doing that is adding an aura that affects only self, but it requires a system to be dispellable.

This could be fixed by simply allowing UnitAddAbility to add buffs.

 

[DracoL1ch]

its not that easy. then you have to somehow setup if its good or bad buff, physical or magical. tons of stuff based on that system, you cannot just run over it.

 

[Meatmuffin]

Then it could be a seperate native, UnitAddBuff which takes those arguments, for example UnitAddBuff(u, buffId, booleanPositive, booleanPhysical, booleanMagical)

 

[Zwiebelchen]

Buffs in WC3 are basicly just extensions to abilities. A buff alone is useless and does nothing beside adding some art. All the data applied by buffs comes from the original ability.

So even if you would be able to add buffs, you could not make them do anything, which kinda destroys the point of having such a native, as you could just use a modified tornado aura to apply a simple buff anyway.


Buffs need a system to be useful.

I recommend http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/jass-resources-412/system-buffhandler-242121/

It's powerful and the struct extension syntax is nice, allowing you to create custom buff groups and then add your specific buffs as extensions to these groups.


You can literally code entire spells with this library alone. Coding custom buff steal or dispel abilities is a piece of cake aswell, once you translated all the normal WC3 buffs to buffs that use this system.