Ancient of Lore

[e][h] Ancient of Lore

Building Information

Cost:

 155  145  70

Hotkey:

L

Hit Points:

900

HP Regeneration:

0.5 at Night

Armor:

2 (3)

Requirements:

• Tree of Ages
• Hunter's Hall

Built From::

Wisp

Builds:

• Dryad
• Druid of the Claw
• Mountain Giant

Upgrades available:

• Abolish Magic
• Druid of the Claw Adept Training
• Druid of the Claw Master Training
• Mark of the Claw
• Hardened Skin
• Resistant Skin

Food:

0

Race:

Nightelf

Classification:

• Ancient

Sleeps:

no

Formation Rank:

4

Sight:

900 / 600

Acquisition Range:

500

Level:

1

Selection Priorty:

4

Uprooted Movement

Speed:

40 (80)

Turn Rate:

0.4

Move Type:

foot

Collision Size:

144

Cargo Size:

0

Pathing Map

Icon

Combat

Requirement:

Rooted

Uprooted

Damage:

41 - 51

41 - 51

Range:

128

128

Weapon Type:

normal

normal

Cooldown:

2.5

2.5

Targets:

• ground
• structure
• debris
• item
• ward

• ground
• structure
• debris
• item
• ward

Keeper of ground based spellcasters. Trains Druids of the Claw, Dryads, and Mountain Giants. Also contains the upgrades for Druids of the Claw, Mark of the Claw, Abolish Magic, Hardened Skin, and Resistant Skin.

Attacks land units.

Spells & Abilities

Blight Dispel Small
	Cast Type : Passive Target Type : No Target Removes nearby Blight once the building finishes construction.
Area of Effect : 768 Notes : Only blight that was created by buildings and has no source buildings nearby can be removed with this ability.

Eat Tree
	Cast Type : Active  Ability Type:  Physical Target Type : Tree Target Consume a tree to restore 500 hit points over 30 seconds.
Targets Allowed : Tree Duration : 30 s Hit Points Restored : 500 Hotkey : E

Uproot
	Cast Type : Active  Ability Type:  Physical Target Type : No Target Allows the Ancient to pull itself up out of the ground so that it can move and engage units in melee combat. Also gives the Ancient Heavy armor.
Animation Duration : 2.5 seconds Hotkey : R

Upgrades

Nature's Blessing

Upgrades all Ancients' and Treants' movement speed and armor. Researched at : Tree of Life  Hotkey : N  Cost : 150 200  Research Time:  60 Requires : Tree of Ages Armor Bonus : 2 for Ancient Protectors, 5 for other Ancients and Treants. Movement Bonus : 50 movement for Treants, 40 for Ancients.

Version History

Balance Patch History
Version	Release	Balance Changes
1.13	2003-12-16	Druid of the Claw caster upgrade times reduced to 25 seconds and 35 seconds respectively, down from 45 seconds and 1 minute. Eating trees now heals 500 hit points over 30 seconds, up from 200 hit points over 10 seconds.
1.10	2003-07-03	Ancients now attack while rooted. Hardened Skin upgrade cost reduced to 100/175 from 100/250, and damage reduction reduced to 12 from 15.
1.06	2003-06-03	Ancients temporarily lose their fortified armor when they uproot, becoming medium armor units.
1.03	2002-10-09	Eating trees now gives a constant, non-stacking healing effect for 10 seconds.