Ancient of War

[e][h] Ancient of War

Building Information

Cost:

 150  60  60

Hit Points:

900

HP Regeneration:

0.5 at Night

Armor:

2 (7)

Built From::

Wisp

Builds:

• Archer
• Huntress
• Glaive Thrower

Upgrades available:

• Improved Bows
• Marksmanship
• Sentinel
• Moon Glaive
• Vorpal Blades

Food:

0

Race:

Night Elf

Classification:

• Ancient

Sleeps:

no

Formation Rank:

4

Sight:

900 / 600

Acquisition Range:

500

Level:

1

Selection Priorty:

5

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:

37 - 47

37 - 47

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 primary assault troops. Trains Archers, Huntresses, and Glaive Throwers. Also contains Archer, Huntress and Glaive Thrower upgrades.

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
1.36.0	2023-05-09	Sentinel research cost reduced from 100/100 to 50/50 gold/lumber.
1.30.2	2018-11-30	Sentinel is an upgrade again. 100/100 cost, 20 second research, on Ancient of War, requires Hunter's Hall, no longer requires Tree of Ages.
1.30.0	2018-08-08	Ancient of War base attack damage reduced from 44 to 36. Ancient of War Hit Points reduced from 1000 to 900. Sentinel upgrade removed – researched by default.
1.13	2003-12-16	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.
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.