Watch Tower

[e][h] Watch Tower

Building Information

Cost:

 110  80  60

Hotkey:

W

Hit Points:

500

Armor:

/ 3 (3)

Requirements:

• War Mill

Built From::

Peon

Food:

0

Race:

Orc

Classification:

• Mechanical

Sleeps:

no

Formation Rank:

0

Sight:

1600 / 800

Acquisition Range:

900

Level:

1

Selection Priorty:

2

Pathing Map

Icon

Combat

Damage:

16 - 19

Range:

800

Weapon Type:

missile

Cooldown:

0.6

Targets:

• ground
• structure
• debris
• air
• item
• ward

The Watch Tower is a basic defesive structure. With its high range it can be used to defend against tower rushes. The Reinforced Defenses upgrade changes their armor type to Fortified, making them very hard to kill. The dps is greater than a Knight but they cost half as much, trading off mobility for attack power like most static defensive structures. As is standard for static defences in Warcraft 3 they cost more lumber than other buildings to both build and repair, and it is typical to block them off with other buildings (delaying units from attacking them, maximizing their damage).

Because it has one mini-square more range than all the other towers in the game, it is possible to build a Watch Tower to attack another tower while out of range and destroy it. To do this you must build 12 mini-squares away horizontally or 8 diagonally ( 11/7 resp. for buildings with extra pathing like barracks or altars).

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.

Spiked Barricades
	Cast Type : Passive Target Type : No Target  Damage Type:  Magic Enemy melee units attacking the building take damage.
Targets Allowed : Enemy Spike Damage : 5 per attack plus 20/50% of the attacker's damage Upgrade required : Spiked Barricades

Reinforced Defenses
	Cast Type : Passive Target Type : No Target Upgrades Burrows and Watch Towers so that they have Fortified armor.
New Armor Type : Fortified Old Armor Type : Heavy
Upgrade: Reinforced Defenses
Cost : 75 175  Research Time:  60 Researched at : War Mill  Hotkey : D  Requirements : Stronghold

Upgrades

Spiked Barricades

Surrounds Orc buildings with spikes that damage enemy melee attackers. Deals 5 damage per attack plus an additional X % of the attacker's damage. Researched at : War Mill  Hotkey : S  Cost : 25 75  Research Time:  60 Base Damage : 5 per attack Additional Damage : 20% of the attacker’s damage

Improved Spiked Barricades

Cost : 50 100  Research Time:  75 Requires : Stronghold Base Damage : 5 per attack Additional Damage : 50% of the attacker’s damage

Version History

Balance Patch History
Version	Release	Balance Changes
1.30.0	2018-08-08	Reinforced Defenses gold cost increased from 50 to 75. Reinforced Defenses lumber cost reduced from 200 to 175. Reinforced Defenses now unlocks with Stronghold instead of Fortress.
1.15	2004-05-10	Watch Tower build time increased to 60 seconds from 55 seconds.
1.03	2002-10-09	Watch Towers now do 16-18 damage, down from 19-22 damage.

Trivia

• The Watch Tower has the highest attack rate of all units in the game
• Its dps is the highest of all Orc units