Buff: Physical or Magical, and Permanent?

[Regalth]

Ok, here goes my question. I've designed an item that, when used, creates a buff on the casting unit and gives it an armor boost, via triggering. Later, through a text command, the player wipes away the buff, and with it the effect (again, through a trigger). My problem is, the game has other buffs, too, and it would be nice if they didn't get removed too. I know buffs are worthless for gameplay, but it would look kinda odd for a unit to have a +2 armor bonus without any graphic or explanation. I noticed that the trigger to remove buffs can choose to only remove Magical, or Physical, buffs.
My question, in short, is: How do I know if my buff is Physical or Magical?
Second question: How could I make a buff permanent? The maximum duration I can put into the editor is 1 hour, which would sorta work, but having a permanent buff would be better.
By the way, neither of these are life and death questions, so if you have no clue what I'm asking/how to help, don't worry about it

 

[SilverHawk]

Instead of a permanent buff, why don't you just make it a permanent attribute bonus? It's much easier. You could also make it an equipped item rather than a used one.

Can't help you with the other question; I looked in the buff editor but didn't see anything. Try searching the forums for it.

 

[AceHart]

They only thing on "physical" vs "magical" I ever found is this one:


Spell Categories
Spells come in three varieties: Physical, Magical, and Universal.


Physical Spells

Physical Spells cannot be dispelled, do affect magic immune units and normal units, and do not affect ethereal units.

Examples
- Poison of various types (NOT Shadow Strike)
- Ensnare & Web
- Critical Strike/Bash/other attack buffers
- Disease
- Similar spells which DO NOT require mana to cast (mana cost spells are ALWAYS magical or universal)


Magical Spells

Magical spells can be dispelled, do not affect magic-immune units, and affect ethereal units and normal units.
Magical spells do not affect buildings or mechanical units.

Examples
- Storm Bolt
- Carrion Swarm
- Bloodlust
- Polymorph


Universal Spells

Universal spells can work against anything, and cannot be dispelled.
They include ultimates and healing spells.
Some Universal spells cannot work with Mechanical Units.

Examples
- Heals
- Ultimates
- Auras



Anyone else?

 

[NoxMortus]

i believe to make a buff permanent, you just set the value to 0.

 

[SilverHawk]

That didn't work for me, so what I did is set the duration to 1 billion (it's virtually permanent, i.e. a VERY long time). And yes, you can do that, just shift double-click that field in the editor.