PRoblem with a custom ability (Attacking frost effect)

Since I found the footie quite useless at tier 2, and didn't find much equivalent (I'm a newb), I decided to make a new upgrade/ability.

"Frost Blade" is the upgrade that I made. It gives +8 base damage to the footie (for now), and allows (Via techtree conditions) 'Frost Attack' to work.

Frost Attack is an 'Ability' setted up like this :

Buffs : For now, frost arrow. I tried 'Frost attack (The undead building one), and some breaths of ice too.

The problem : It NEVER slows down the ennemy. What I want, basicly, is the effect of an Orb of Frost : +8 dmg, slow down.

I joined my w3o file.

ALSO : If anybody has comments about my change, regarding balance issue, PM me. Don't answer in the topic if you can't help about map, but you can PM me about the balance I done. (From what I see)

lol! Well.. your sroblem is that a buff is nothing more than a bunch of graphics. If you removed every buff from the game, nothing would happen to the actual stats, just you wouldent be able to see them change with animations! for example: You add the ica arrow buff to a footman's attack, you get everything you want, exept the action. To actually add the cold to the attack, make an ability based offf the ice arrow spelll (Make sure u set the range to 0 and levels to one (Damage to +8) etc. Then make it so it has no icon and remove its tooltip and icon placment. This will make it non existanjt in the game, but your footman will have the ability. To make it only happen on upgrade, just add a techtree requirment of your reaserch!

Remember: Buffs aer ONLY graphics and dont actually DO anything!

Ohh.... Well, I'll keep the buff for the gfx in the order menu :P

but thanks!

It didn't work. Frost Arrow must be set autocast and it is toggable. I tried "Frost Attack" (The undead one) but it didn't work neither. Any idea ? :(

Try using slow poison and changing it's buff. Same effect. The only problem is that it's possible the slow poison GFX is hardcoded (unchangeable) and you might have to import a frost SFX to replace it.

Same effect ? Slow poison does damage. I could easily do it if 'Frost Attack (Halls of Dead), Frost Attack (nerubian) or orb of frost' would work. But they don't D:

First of all, slow poison itself doesn't have to do damage. It's used in warchasers.

Next, those frost abilities might all be hardcoded to only work for ranged attacks. By rights, orb of frost should work, but it might just be one of those things. Experiment with orb of slow.

Oh, Sorreh D:

Trying the infamous slow poison.