Moon Glaive and Chain Lightning attack problems

Hey, im having trouble doing 2 things in WE. I would greatly appreciate any assistance. :>

1. I want to make a hero that shoots a lightning bolt as his regular attack. I have seen this done in many maps, such as DOTA, but I can't figure out how to make it work. How can I make it work?

2. I want to make a hero that can get an ability that let's his attacks bounce to multiple targets, like Moon Glaive, and getting more levels in the ability allows it to hit more targets. I can't find a way to make that work either. How can I make it work?

for your first one you need to change his attack to missle (bounce) and change the full damage range to 400 (or what ever) then change the number of bounces it does wth out upgrades.

for your second one do what i just said and edit the moon glaive ability into a hero (by changing the "hero spell False" to true) and the rest is just chainging it to your liking.


edit: if you what your normal to look like chain lighing you will have to add the normal ability Lightning attack to your hero. It adds the lighting effect.

ok, to make a hero fire lightning as his attack change his missle to the missle art "Thunder Hawk, Chimera" and make the attack type instant, that should work.

The upgrade bouncy attack is much harder, what you need is a edited moon glaive upgrade (NOT ability, UPGRADE) that affects the hero, then get a trigger that detects when the hero levels up his ability and make it research a level for the upgrade. The hero also needs to have an area effect attack, a missle (bounce) type attack and max targets more than 1, check out the huntresses attack for the details.

Thanks a lot DarkMage and Phoenix! :>

Hmm, is it possible to combine these two things?

I mean, is it possible to have a hero with his regular attack being a lightning bolt, but then be able to get an ability (that triggers a moon glaive upgrade) to make that lightning bolt bounce to more targets?

(what im trying to get is have his normal attack be like chain lightning)

It seems as though it would not work because the "Chimera attack" set to "Instant" to get the lightning attack would conflict with a "missle(bounce)" attack. Please let me know if it IS possible, because i really want it to work.

Nope, it can't work. I just tested it and after changing the Chimaera's attack type to missle(bounce), the lightning effect given by the lightning attack no longer showed up. All that happened was a whole bunch of ghouls dying from invisible bouncing projectiles.

The ability lightning attack otherwise works with missle attack type and missle(splah) attack type, don't know about other types.

Edit: you could try to achieve the effect with the orb of slow ability; it can be used to attach any spell to the attack, it probably works with chain lightning easily. That way, with every attack, a chain lightning would be cast. A few problems: the damage from the chain lightning would be added to the original damage of the attack so it could be either too powerful on the first target or too weak on all the others, and in the command card, the orb of slow ability displays the disabled icon of the spell it is using, which is darker than the usual passive icons.

Thanks a lot Anitar, I will try this orb of slow thing :D

Orb of Lightning (New) works to the same effect, to fix the damage problem simply give the unit a damage of 1 - 1, if its a hero well theres not much you can do.