Blizzard hatred

So, UnitAddTimedLife takes a buff.

Use 'BHwe' and it will show Water Elemental, nice!

Now change the water elemental buff's tooltip to Water Elementali, the timer bar will show "Water Elementali"

Now make a custom buff based off BHwe, change the tooltip to something else and use the new buff with that native.

It will always show "Timed Life".

It looks like this native either takes buffs for no reason or it has a list of "valid buffs" that does not take custom buffs into account, either way. I hate blizz...

Maybe it only works with the buffs you can select in the GUI for this function.

It wouldn't be the first time they did something dumb like that; the incinerate ability is just as pathetic.



Of course, on the other hand, at least incinerate is fakeable if need be.

i know this... it does use only hardcoded buffs... abils may use custom buffs for summons.

So, in case this is needed for a new unit you just created and you don't need the duration to be variable, just use a dummy summon spell. Otherwise, you're out of luck.

I think I knew it as well, but re-finding it out makes me remember of blizz' odd decisions.

It is not a summon, I can't explain more without leaking info about my hero for the contest too early, but I think I'll have to use option two: avatar.

maybe i'm off-topic but avatar has a buff (object editor lie)

I don't think "Timed Life" looks terrible at all. At least they didn't make it like "Default String" or something.

But it would look nicer if you can set the text on it...

Darn, Avatar ignores any buff you give it as well. It looks like it automatically picks BHav .

I am going to have to be more creative on this one.

Maybe I'm missing something but why not just edit BHav?

Yeah its pretty stupid, you may need to use a normal buff and when that buff runs out the unit dies instead of using then UnitSetTimedLife ability

Chemical Rage and Metamorphosis?

I didn't want the overhead of having to make another unit.

Edit: I actually worked it out, I am impressed, I didn't know that was possible and that happened, I love useful bugs... they almost make up for the lame bugs...