Phoenix fire buff trouble

Any ideas why the phoenix fire buff isn't leaving units in my map until they die. It doesn't keep taking damage, but they still look like they are on fire and the buff shows up on them as well. It will stay there forever. I have phoenix fire buff set to defaults in the object manager.

If the pheonix fire buff is set to default, by right it should behave as the default pheonix fire buff is by default. Is there any other buff on the unit other than the pheonix fire buff that lasts forever? It's possible that buff interferes with the pheonix fire buff and causes it to last for longer times.

Hmm... strange. What kind of tinkering did you do to the phoenix fire ability?

Check to make sure the duration is not set to 0. You need to set the duration to at least .01 or else the buff becomes permenant.

Note: Im aware you said it is set to default, however just double check.

Well it actually started happening 2 patches ago, and I kind of ignored it (1.17) . Funny thing is that units are picking up the buff from mortars, and I don't even have phoenix fire ability on them.

I was hoping maybe someone else ran into this problem with patch that would know what it was. Looks like it may just be something I changed.

Are you using any orb based spells/items? I've heard a bug come with the Frost Orb, saying it would poison the enemy when using WEU. Are you using WEU?

Na just using WE. Maybe I'll just make a trigger to remove buff if acquired.

Ah, perhaps you have the issue when an ability has a buff cast as default. (In this case, the Phoenix Fire ability) I had this issue with the Battle for Hoth system. Simply edt the ability so that its effect last .01 seconds OR edit the Phoenix Fire buff to have no icon/effect.

Finally, thanks guys, I have it fixed now. I changed the buff and ability to .01 seconds and removed the icon.

Aha, so it did work. Good. Glad to hear it.