Fearie Fire

Is there a way of making Feari Fire stack with itself ? like when you cast twice on the same unit it´s armor will reduce again, but the time doesn´t "resset", so the first cast ends and his armor is partially given back, but the second cast is still there... is there a way to do it ?

The way I would do it

One trigger: Detects when faerie fire (1) is cast. If unit has buff faerie fire (1), then dummy cast a faerie fire (2) with increased armor. This of course would reset the timer, so I would give faerie fire (2) several levels with differing duration. Once that is done, correspond the correct level of faerie fire (2) (ie, duration of faerie fire (2)) with the remaining duration of faerie fire (1).

Second trigger: when faerie fire (2) expires, dummy cast faerie fire (1) with appropriate duration (again, make faerie fire (1) have differing durations by giving it several levels)

At this point is the only way I can think to do it.

i think i got the idea but your post is very confusing.. but thanks, anyway. can´t you make a trigger in

Ok I'll clarify

First, lets designate our spell faerie fire (1) and faerie fire (2). (2) is the stacked effect, while (1) is the unstacked effect. If your faerie fire (1) lasts 10 seconds, make it have 10 or 20 levels, where the only difference in levels is duration. Level 1 = 10 seconds, level 2 = 9 seconds, level 3 = 8 seconds, etc. Do the same with faerie fire (2)

Make this trigger for the stack effect

Since you do not want it to refresh the duration, that adds the problem of making it last as long as the current duration, hence the "Find out how much time was left on faerie fire (1)"

If faerie fire (2) has a shorter buff duration than faerie fire (1) then you have to add a trigger to recast faerie fire (1) after faerie fire 2 expires. If you want this you would trigger it like this.

Hope that clears things up.
This may not be the best way, but it's one method.

IMHO, I would make the second cast reset the duration, it would be much easier to do and would'nt take much from the gameplay. Why make it stack if most of the time, it's only going to count one cast.

Again, it's your spell, just I thought I would share my point of view :)

ok... i´ve changed my mind..... it is much harder to make it to have different duration and it won´t affect that much the gameplay... so you guys can simplify it to work norma, ressenting the duration at each cast.

I tried something and it DOESN´T WORK. i´m so angry. evrything i try to make in my own doesn´t work. I created 6 abilities called blood crush ( modified feari fire). and i created 6 buffs based on feari fire the only difference is the name. So when the unit casts the spell, blood cruch (1) [ buff] is aplied to the target. so i made a trigger to check if buff 1 is already aplied to the unit, if it is so the dummy will cast blood crush (2), reducing armor by more 1 point and aplying the second buff, and so on:





Can someone help me to correct this ? and by the way.... i don´t know why my icon has a green square ( custom icon), when the upgrade that let you use the ability hasn´t been researched, the ability has BTN,DISBTN,PAS and DISPAS !!! why is it happening ?

If the stuff your working on isnt working, lower the complexity of your spells. I, personally, started making spells using Polar Offset, creating units and killing them, in order to do damage.
You have to know some basic math for that, though.

I just wanna reduce the guys armor by 1 at each cast... is it that , resseting the coldown.... is it that hard ? wy isný my triggers working ? what about the icon ? no one answerd me

Your trigger works fine except the case that someone casts the ability on a unit that already has the buff on level 5.

If thats not your problem than you must have done something wrong on the abilities.

Fist off, you can condense all that into 1 trigger by using an Integer A loop and an array variable. To do this, make 1 dummy ability with 6 levels instead of 6 with 1 level. Next, create an array variable of type "Buff", and in another trigger do this:
Then, change your existing BloodCrush trigger to the following:
That last If/Then/Else is just to check to see if it's already applied 4 times; if it is, it will refresh the duration by re-casting level 6 of the ability.

ill try it... but what syze must be the array ?

It doesn't actually matter. For any array variable, all the "Array size" box does is initialize the specific numbers with the default value. This is so that you don't get invalid returns, but as long as you are sure to set the variables equal to something before referencing them, you should be fine.


To be safe, you could make it size "5".

i made it syze 5, and i erased all the abilities and kept only 2, modifying one to be the dummy with 6 levels and the other one the castable with no armor reduction and 0.01 sec duration ( but i´ve kept the buff blood crush 1 ) to the ability... then i copied your triggers..... and take a gues !!?!?!?!? they didn´t work, evrything doesn´t work for me ........ the target didnt even -1 armor in all the casts.... i casted for 3 times and all the casts nothing heppend to him ...
take a look if evrything is fine

Whoops. I forgot 1 If/Then/Else, and your nested If/Then/Else had an incorrect condition. Add this line to the variable-setting trigger: Set BloodCrushBuffs[6] = Blood Crush (6)

The trigger should be this: