Can a dummy caster be faster?

It does not affect critically the spell I'm making, but I just found that creating a dummy, giving it an ability and telling it to cast it takes time, even if the ability has zero casting time. So, as is, I have to call a TriggerSleepAction before removing the unit, or add an expiration timer to it, oherwise the spell isn't cast.

Just out of curiosity, is there a way to have the spell cast instantly?

removing the ability 'amov' and then setting the dummy caster's turn speed with triggers to any value will allow the caster to cast instantly.

Aka, you can make a private unit within the spell scope and have it cast all the abilities you need for every instance of the spell. If its an instant cast, you can use 1 for all players, otherwise I would just use 1 for each player and make it an array. Now you don't have to worry about removing the caster ever.

Cool, man. I didn't even think of using a scope, was doing it the old non-vJass way.

What do I do with the unit in the meanwhile? Maybe nothing, if it has the elevator-thingie-invisible skin and locust, right?

Yes, it is instacast. My hero casts a modified Banish (with increased mana and no movespeed penalty), the dummy casts modified Rejuvenation (with negative life and mana, and 3 levels to suit duration to the levels of Banish). If i set the Buff on the Rejuvenation to none, the unit gets the green art from Rejuvenation. So do I give it a dummy buff with art model: NONE, or... what? Then it will show a second buff icon, right (since Banish has one of its own)?

...or if I give it the same buff as the Banish, will it show only once? I'm conjecturing because I don't have W3 with me now, and no internet at home at the moment :(

I'm toying around the idea of an ethereal race. Very hard, Heroes especially are very very unbalanced (for both good and bad). So far been fun, tho.