Ability System problems

Development Programming & Scripting
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I wanted to create a basic ability system. This was the workflow i tried to achieve:

  1. create a blueprint for the specific ability (like a fireball) with all the information regarding it (What to do when used, costs, etc.)
  2. add it to the character when appropriate

So far this is the only way i got it working:

UPROPERTY(VisibleAnywhere, BlueprintReadOnly, Category = Spells)
	ATAbility* ability1;

In …Character.h . basically the Spellslot.
Then i created a class ATAbility. All my ability blueprints are childs of this class.
And this as TAbility.h:

UCLASS()
class  ATAbility : public AUsableActor
{
	GENERATED_UCLASS_BODY()

public:
	[...]

	UFUNCTION(BlueprintImplementableEvent, BlueprintCallable, Category = Ability)
		bool Cast();

	[...] 	
};

Now I can create an Ability with something like this (FireballAbility blueprint)

http://puu.sh/eneRT/a57e5c7378.png

But now I´m kinda stuck with some Problems:

  1. I have to spawn the Ability in the world (thats why it inherits from AUsableActor) … kinda sucks, but i could work with that
  2. Because it is a pointer to the object thats in the world, the Ability gets lost when I deload the level i spawned it in. And i have no clue how i would save my Character in a way that I could restore all the abilities after reloading.

Any ideas how i could circumvent my problems? Or maybe a good tutorial on something like this?
My last idea was to code all the Abilities of a characterclass in the characterblueprint, but that would be pretty meh.