Is there any reason not to Trigger abilities and spells ?

[Ommi]

Hey

so I have been looking over a lot of tutorials and guides and mostly all of them that have to do with spells and abilities make them from the data editor making abilities there that can then be attached to units.

So if there any reason to do that over simply triggering the spells ? or are there drawbacks to triggering over making them in the data editor ?

Thank you in advance

 

[Arkless]

A lot of people will tell you that the trigger editor is slow (bla bla bla...) but you can still stick to it till you get get performance problems (lags). And most of the time that's still not an editor but rather an optimization problem.

Use what you prefer.

 

[Siretu]

The satisfaction when you do a pretty data solution for an ability that would've required tons of code in warcraft 3 is hard to explain.