Passive Hero Abilities

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A rather complicated issue, but I'll try to keep it concise.

I'm trying to make a passive ability which can be done by making it a behaviour. However I am going to attached the ability to a hero so it needs to be multi-levelled. The problem that occurs here is that in order to make it multi-levelled, it needs to be an ability, not a behaviour. My solution to this was to create an ability which gives the unit a behaviour. The problem here is that abilities of the type Behaviour must be clicked in order to be activated, hence it is no longer a passive ability. I did try to make the ability toggled and always on but when the ability is levelled up, the upgraded behaviour is not used unless it is turned off then back on.

The ability that I'm trying to create is a simple Attribute Bonus for a hero. I was going to write a tutorial on how to create a WC3 style hero and this is the only part that has me a little stumped.

There should be an easy solution to this problem but I can't find one. The only thing left that I can think of is to turn to triggering the ability. Any ideas anyone? +rep
 
I believe other people have been complaining about this too, and that multi-leveled abilities require the same ability to be copied for X amount of levels.

Is it possible to activate the ability when learnt? Or make it a dummy ability, and give the hero the benefits from the trigger upon learning?
 
Monsterous said:
I believe other people have been complaining about this too, and that multi-leveled abilities require the same ability to be copied for X amount of levels.
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This is actually not true. An ability actually supports multi-levels, but it just is not obvious. When you set some properties of an ability, there are options to add more than one item. Each item added is the data it uses for each level. If you look at the cost property, you will get what I mean.

Is it possible to activate the ability when learnt? Or make it a dummy ability, and give the hero the benefits from the trigger upon learning?
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As it is, I had to make the actual icon shown for it a dummy icon to get the correct 'passive' look. And by making the ability toggled and starting on I can get the ability to work fine the first time it is learn't. It is just when the ability is levelled up that it fails.

EDIT: I was able to create a temporary patch by using triggers to re-apply the ability. This is not ideal, but will do for the time being. If anyone finds a Data Editor solution to this problem, please post it here.
 
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