Lightning Shield

I swear, object editor spells are so retarded.
I have another issue I'm wondering if I can work through. (But cannot figure out on my own)

Is there any way to make Lightning Shield not damage allies of the caster?

I'm assuming the tags don,t work?

trigger so that an allied affected by it will get healed, maybe.

No, the "Targets Allowed" field only changes who you can cast it on.

Also, computer allies still run away when you damage them with it.
So I need someway to avert the damage entirely so they don't run away.
Yanno?

Some things cannot be edited, its like unholy frenzy, if you cast it on ally its positive, on enemy negative, custom spell always positive.

sometimes it is all about using Jass to enhance things else it is impossible for no good reason

Targets for the Lightning Shield AoE are hardcoded, you'll need to trigger it.

Why not just triggering adding/removing Permanent Immolation from the target of the spell? That you can change the targets for.

That would cause an icon to appear on the target.

If you're going to trigger it, i suggest you use the Tornado Damage Aura, it has no icon and i'm fairly sure no buff icon either, it's basically Perm Immolation without the icon.

Pheonix-IV, in that case, put Immolation in a disabled spellbook. http://www.wc3campaigns.net/showthread.php?t=80186

Does it have to be in a disabled spellbook?

I thought you could just disable the passive for all players at startup and add/remove it as necessary. Am I wrong?

Oh, and Permanent Immolation doesn't have a buff icon either.

Disabled abilities normally don't work. I think a long time ago pheonix fire did work while disabled, but I can't remember perfectly.

Yes, it has to be a disabled spellbook. Passives in them still work.

Why bother with the whole spellbook shenanagins when you can just use Building Damage Aura, which is exactly the same as Perm Immolation, but without the icon?

Yes, you are right. It has no buff icon. And it also has two damage and two AoE vars

The real issue here is that I want to credit the caster of the Lightning Shield with the kills gained from the area damage.
If I use perm immo or building damage aura, it credits the person who the spell is on.
Also, for this map I'm limiting myself to not use the cache at all --
While still requiring it be 100% MUI. >_>

See the issue?

uhm... good old dummy trick again ?

make a dummy that have the immo/building dmg aura and put it on the dummy, the make a timer to set the position of the dummy above the spell target unit all the time .. ?