abilities/spells and the buffs section

[Slyguy07]

Okay I want to make a spell that says will stun or slow. I have selected the Stunned(pause) and Stunned under the buffs section for the ability and set a duration, but the effects of the buff never work. What am I doing wrong? I am using Chain Lightning as the base spell by the way. Also what the heck does Freeze do? I found no useful information on the tooltip in the Buffs/Effects part of the object editor.

Oh and also why does Finger of Death and Finger of Pain work on units who have Spell Immunity?

 

[Sluggo]

Buffs/effects are just spell animations, they don't actually do anything but look cool.
Everything to make spells is in the Abilities category.

 

[Slyguy07]

So what can I do to give the spell the stun part or anything else for that matter? Please don't say I have to use the JASS editor or anything else complicated...that stuff is beyond me heh.

 

[Darg]

I noticed you based the spell off chain lightning, which means there is no way you can get it to stun units. You're going to have to pick a stun spell and use that as the base ability.

I imagine you are trying to do something like "chain stun", but unfotunately the editing capabilities of spells in the editor are somewhat limited.

 

[slyguy101]

Dang. Yeah that really sucks. So without JASS it's impossible to do that? Wish they toss in a patch that would do that or something. The editor is great and all, but that's one thing I really wish you were able to do. Or should be able to do.

 

[Slyguy07]

Oops wrong username for this site lol.