Working Attack-based Melee-autocast?

Hi,

I'm trying to make a melee-autocast spell which silences the target for 2 second upon every hit. The problem that I can't seem to find an auto-cast spell for melee units (with attack type normal). Can anyone help?

You'll need to trigger it.
Try editing an arrow spell and then use triggers for the silence effect.

The problem is that Poison Arrow (which has a buff to detect) doesn't work on melee units. You will have to use triggers to detect Autocast ON/OFF (for example a unit is issued an order with no target and issued order equal to "poisonarrows" or "unpoisonarrows" [ON/OFF]).

P.S: uh, Incinerate Arrow works on melee heroes, but it's quite bugged and the corpse explodes after death.

StockBreak:

I tried your method, and it works perfectly after a lot of triggering. However, there is only 1 problem I cannot overcome: how do you detect that a unit has been silenced? The reason I ask is because when the autocast is on, but I'm silenced, I won't be able detect it via trigger and turn off the trigger so that I can get free "buffed" attacks without costing mana.

I know 1 solution is to check if the unit has all of the abilities that can silence but that seems stupid, anyone?

check if the unit has the buff Silence. or soulburn or whatever you use.
if you use GUI, then its a boolean condition. else, you should use the native directly, which is actually the "abilitylevelcheck" (GetUnitAbilityLevel()) where 0 is equal to that the unit does not have the buff.. obviously.

yeah that was the only solution I can come up with; but it just seem so tedious!

If you are not familiar with JASS you can Enable a periodic event when the unit starts attacking (let's say every 0.1 seconds) that checks if the target unit has the Silence buff.

o I can assure you I am not incompetent in JASS... Again, what I don't like about this is that everytime I add a new ability based on silence, (for example Pacify, which silences and causes the unit to not be able to attack), I would need to add a new buffcode to be checked off on this spell. See where I'm going with this?