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How would i go about making say a staff will 3 hero abilities, or is it even possible, say 1 constant, 1 recharge and 1 mana based.


Im wanting to make 1 that has a really powerful monster lure on it a radience aura and perhaps something along the lines of monsoon as the mana based abilitie.

I have other questions but im trying to pace myself :)

thx for any help

Well, you have to ask yourself, "How would someone use these?" If you have two activated effects on the same item, how could you activate one or the other?

You could use the Spellbook ability to have two "usable" abilities, but the item would really only have the 1 Spellbook ability, which means you couldn't choose between charged or mana based.

However, having either one plus a passive ability is no problem. Go ahead and put them on the same item and they should work, no sweat.

Yeah i didnt think it was possible had to ask though. I appreciate the help though :)

ok i tried basing it off the Staff of teleportation, then the wand of wind, but i cannot get monsoon to work from an item.

Im going to try flame strike, but im thinking it might be non item abilities simply cant be assinged to an item?

Are you adding the hero ability to the item? If so, try this, I'm not sure if it'll work and I don't have WE open at the moment. But change the ability type. So set Is Hero Ability to false and Is Item Ability to true. Then try it. I'm not sure if this is your problem as I've never tried adding those abilities to an item before but it's worth a shot.

Thats not it, that was one of the first things i did.

Im thinking it might be because monsoon is a channel spell.

If this is the case is there a way to make a non channiling variant of monsoon?

Monsoon is like blizzard and 'rain of fire' so try it with those and see what happens.

Channeling spells ought to work. It's more likely that Monsoon is just one of those few spells that don't work as item abilites. You could try redoing the ability with triggers, or wait until (if ever) Blizzard fixes it.

Its looking like its one of those spells that doesnt work as rain of fire and blizzard work fine. :(

There's also a non-hero Monsoon ability but i dont know where it is. One of the Stormreavers has it. You could check that out.

You could also give the item a "dummy spell" (that is a spell with no other effect except that it is cast) and then use triggers to create an invisible, unselectable unit (a "dummy caster") at the position of the user of the item and give the dummy monsoon and order it to cast it.

Ill have a look at the other monsoon later on today, as to the triggers and dummy spells, id have to learn that 1st , havent dabbled with triggers at all as of yet.