[Q]Need Ability base with Missile and no buff

I wanna do some abilities like "throw axe", "throw xxx"...

But I can't find any ideal bases for that!!

Storm Bolt => Always stun, and skip the target's channeling skill. Setting the duration to 0 or 0.01 doesn't matter
Shadow Strike=> The green number is so ugly!

I tried to use a trigger with a unit which is able to attack for the missile art...but:

1.Be reduced by armor (a spell should not be reduced by armor)>"<
2.no use on ethereal units (spell should work on ethereal...>"<)


So any1 has an idea for an ability Base with missile art and without buffs? Or there's a way to solve this problem by trigger? How?

Easy for any spell use as your base Channel. You can change it so it resembles any spell in the game. You can have Instant, Point Target, AOE, Unit Target, or Unit and Point Target. You can also have missles buffs and all that good stuff.

well, the only way is to use stun, and modify it quite a bit...

You could try chain lightning with a max targets hit of 1. Then you could alter its missile and target art and set the LightningEffect field to some invalid values.

How would you modify it so that it doesn't stun? Please elaborate. :)

How about you use frost nova, if you set the duration and damage to zero it wont slow or deal damage.

Just about some of your answers:

• Channel is good unless your map is going to have computer players that need to use that skill, they will never use channel unless you order them to use it.
  
• For some reason if you remove chain lightning's lightning effect and set a missile, THE MISSILE WON'T SHOW.
  
• Parasite is the best answer, just use shift to change the summoned unit count to 0, the BIG problem with parasite is that it is autocast, just give it a non autocast icon and have a trigger that blocks the autocast order

nevermind computers

a trigger that makes em cast it is done in few secs

Uhm, hello?

Finger of Death anyone? :\

*Cough* Channel does all of that plus more and can be on a unit with any other ability.. IE: if for some reason the unit has Parasite he can't use the Parasite based spell.

Then how come it has all the missle fields? Are they just there for fun? I'm pretty sure that it can have a missle if you tell it to.

Yes but i thought the point of Channel is to basically mimic most spells in the game. Therefore the fields would work. I mean you can do AOE Self Casting Targeting why can't you do Targeting with a missle art? I would assume since it can be targeted towards something it would then work.

hu i guess your right i tested it and found out for myself sorry i wasn't on my computer when i posted those. I just figured it would work since the fields are there and given the nature of channel.

Precisely.
Spell with a missle? Finger of Death. As far as I can tell, that big bolt of red lightning is a missle art.
Doesn't interrupt channeling? No, Finger of Death does not interrupt channeling.
Show floating text? No. I don't notice any floating text.
Deals damage? Well, we all know it does.
Buff removal? It doesn't have a buff.

So apparently it fits his needs. So why exactly did I feel like you were directing that statement at my suggestion, saying it was wrong? I, by the stuff I told above, provided him with an ability that he needed.

What, are you camping this thread ready to tell everyone they're wrong or something?

I've seen Chain Lightnings missle art changed a while back in some AoS map. Why can't Finger of Death be the same?

If he REALLY needs this to be done the way he wants, and will not give up, then perhaps couldn't he edit an internal lightning art replacing it with some sort of axe model or something? He could also make the missle art of the lightning 0, and give the unit the Sphere ability right before casting (with an axe projectile), so it would appear to throw an axe.
Have you thought of that?