You have two options that I can see. One is, make certain items enable the Attack 2 of the unit to give it a ranged attack of the range you want. However, all items that give range will give the same range.
The second option is to have an upgrade to increase range. There's no ability that increases range, so it can only be done with upgrades.
However, once it's increased, I believe that trying to decrease that upgrade back to 0 won't actually change the unit at all. Upgrades in Warcraft 3 really can't be reversed.
I have a question on the enabling Attack2 part. How come the Orb's Effect I have been experimenting only enables Attack2 to attack air units. Am I the only one here that does not get it to work?
PS:I tried changing the unit's Attack 2 to attack Ground, but still fail at it. Pls. help
Item giving +range seems to be highly complicated to make and it would require more than 1 or 2 triggers. If u want to increase units range, u should use an upgrade. Make a dummy spell that does nothing and when hero learns it with a trigger research the upgrade that gives +range.
Use drunken haze, change the field 'Attacks Prevented' to Melee, cast that spell on the unit and add the orb ability, the unit will now use his ranged attack.
Both ideas of Upgrading and Drunken Haze work. Except for the disadvantages of both.
Upgrading- Unable to return to Melee attack range Drunken Haze- Remove the Attack Icon, which shows the attack damage. Further more, it is a neagative buff which is removed after the hero dies or morphed.
try making the upgrade with 2 levels - 1st for normal stats 2nd for upgrading range. then you can switch the levels of the upgrade via trigger, but i dont know the exact function at mom....
