item -> spell

im sorry if this has already been asked before but, how do you convert an item to a three level spell. i did what seemed obvious to me. since im trying to make something that adds 5 attack for 10 seconds then 10 attack 15 seconds... I based it off of damage bonus item. I changed it to hero made the item square 0 hero 1 and edited the dur1, 2 , and 3s to my liking, I edited the bonus, all the codes work fine (they were first problem, stupid blizzard making capitol i's instead of l's:( ) the problem is, when i play it ingame i see it on the research list, i click it, it upgrades, i click it three times it disapears (its all working) im getting all pumped up, but then i leave upgrade screen and it isnt there :( help PLEASE

don't upgrades disappear when they reach max?
or is it not the upgrade that disappears?

I dont know why it did'nt show up in the command card, but it would not have worked anyway. The attack bonus item is permanent, and I don't think you can make a duration of that. You will have to base it on some spell that increases it temporary (Or decreases it, and change the value to a negative one).

I only said that because i wanted to take you through the exact situation so no one would give me the answer to how to fix a some other prob. I said this part was good. Do you know of any spells that temporarly increase damage Arche? that was what my first ideas were but i couldnt find any :(

What about cripple with negative values?

Avatar increases the caster's damage temporarly but it makes your unit like 50% bigger (hard-coded i guess).

Martinez

EDIT: A cripple based spell that could target friendly units won't be used by the cpu unless you modify the AI.

Are you asking for a damage bonus spell for the caster or something that he can give to his allies?

If sth that he can give to his allies then Inner Fire has this type of damage increase.

i could use the avatar and change the size but inner fire works best because it needs to be used on allies. and doesnt cripple decrease armor? im not sure. i dont play around with unit or creep spells.

EDIT: nevermind, inner fire increases attack by a percentage. im looking through them all right now. ill use the avatar idea. Thanks

EDIT2: HFESJGDFGA:cuss: AVATAR HAS THE WIERDEST SETUP! the cost3 is mana drained per second!!! WHY!!! ITS 0! THEY DIDNT USE IT!!! blizzards out to get me :( im gonna make an empty spell and try to do it through triggers

Could you use the searing arrows and just remove the mana cost?..

I could but it doesnt only work on the hero and the unit i give it to would have it permanantly. SOMEONE HAS TO HAVE DONE THIS!!!! they did in DOTA but permanantly. this is really annoying. I cant believe blizzard didnt make a spell like this:no:

NO WAIT!!!! It only sez so in the comment! I've created a 3 level avatar based spell and it worked fine. It didn't drain mana per second.

Martinez

lol posted same time i did marinez. that would really be good if it worked. i just hope that it can be used on other units *crosses fingers*

Well actually the newest hero in dota has an attack raising spell that can be cast on allies. I checked that, and it's based on cripple, you know, you can always remove the decreasing armor by setting the value to 0.

cripple also decreases attack? thats good to know. if i knew that my life would have been easier, but i didnt, so it wasnt :( thanks

Umm sorry to tell you, but cripple also uses a precentage ://// so if you want autocast, base it on inner fire, and if you don't, base it on cripple.