Sentry Ward
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Cost
50 Bought From
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Initial Stock
3 Max Stock
10 Restock Time
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The Sentry Ward is an item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Consumables.
Contents
Additional Information[edit]
- Stacks with itself and with Observer Wards in the inventory, there is no stack limit. The sell value adapts based on the number of instances in a stack.
- Wards from multiple players are combined when given by allies.
- Sentry Wards are completely shareable.
- Killing a Sentry Ward prints out a chat notification to allies.
- Melee units have an extra 150 attack range when attacking Sentry Wards.
- Sentry Wards can always be attacked by owner, and can only attacked by other allied players if they are within the spawn areas of neutral creeps, regardless of the ward's current health.
- Sentry Wards receive 10 damage from allied heroes when it has over 50 health.
Ability[edit]
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Plant
Ability
Target Area
Target Area
Affects
Enemies
Enemies
Plants a Sentry Ward, an invisible watcher that grants True Sight, the ability to see invisible enemy units and wards, to any existing allied vision within a radius.
Lasts 8 minutes.
Does not grant ground vision.
Hold Control to give one Sentry Ward to an allied hero.
Lasts 8 minutes.
Does not grant ground vision.
Hold Control to give one Sentry Ward to an allied hero.
Cast Range: 500
Hero Attacks to Destroy: 2
Non-Hero Attacks to Destroy: 8
Duration: 480
1
0
Modifiers
modifier_item_buff_ward: Dispellable with death only. modifier_item_ward_true_sight: Undispellable. Persists death.
modifier_truesight: Undispellable. Persists death.Notes:
- Provides 150 radius ground vision at its location for 12 seconds.
- Cannot be placed inside the fountain area (including a small area in front of the ramp), or in Roshan's pit.
- It is not possible to give couriers or Spirit Bear a Sentry Ward by holding Control.
- Creep spawn ranges are shown before placing a ward, allowing camps to be blocked.
- The radiuses of already placed Sentry Wards is shown as well, allowing to see how they overlap.
- Illusions and creep-heroes are treated as creeps when attacking the ward, so they take 8 attacks to destroy it, instead of 2 like heroes.
Placed Sentry Ward[edit]
True Sight
Ability
Aura
Aura
Affects
Enemies
Enemies
Adds the ability to see invisible units and wards to any allied vision within the Sentry Ward's range.
Radius: 900
Aura Linger Duration: 0.5
Modifiers
modifier_truesight: Undispellable. Persists death.Notes:
- The True Sight is provided in its whole area, it is not obstructed by anything.
- The True Sight is provided by an aura which affects enemies. Its debuff lingers for 0.5 seconds.
- Cannot detect units under the effect of Shadow Dance, Smoke of Deceit and Techies' mines under the effect of an Aghanim's Scepter upgraded Minefield Sign.
- Holding ALT shows all allied sentries' True Sight radius with a green ring.
Notes:
- The ability and modifier are not displayed in-game.
Tips[edit]
- The Sentry Ward is recommended when facing heroes who mostly relies on invisibility (Or using invisibility as an escape mechanism), especially Riki, Bounty Hunter and Weaver.
- It is great to be placed near towers or shrines, so it can help heroes gank over them.
- Sentry Wards' detection radius is quite large, making them useful for keeping an eye out on invisible heroes in key areas, given one has vision over that area.
- Sentry Wards are commonly used to de-ward enemy wards, as they are able to detect their wards.
- When dewarding, the ward is best placed so that its true sight reaches multiple common ward spots, so that it is more likely to spot enemy wards.
- If an enemy ward location is known, the sentry ward is best placed so that the enemy won't find it when they try to de-ward the sentry wards, like between some trees, but still so that their ward is within true sight range.
- Similar to Observer Wards, Sentry Wards can also be used to block neutral creep camps.
Lore[edit]
- Knowing how to craft a ward is an important skill for artificers of magical goods. Rylai showed great talent at crafting wards, and once considered becoming an artificer.[1]
- Despite this, the flavor text for this item refers to Sentry Wards as plants and states that they were "originally grown in [a] garden." This implies that they are grown as opposed to crafted, directly contradicting the White Sentry's description.
Gallery[edit]
In-game model
References[edit]
- ↑ White Sentry description.
Recent Changes[edit]
Main Article: Sentry Ward/Changelogs
Version
Description
- Reduced stock replenish time from 85 to 75.
- Sentry Wards can now always be attacked by allied players if they are within the spawn areas of neutral creeps, regardless of the ward's current health. [?]
- Reduced True Sight radius from 1000 to 900.
- Reduced gold cost from 75
to 50 .
- Reduced stock replenish time from 90 to 85.
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