Tree of Life (Warcraft III)

For lore about trees of life, see Tree of life.

Tree of Life
Race	Ancient
Faction	Night Elf Sentinels
Statistics
Hit points	1300
Hit point regeneration	Night
Hit point regeneration rate	0.50 HP/sec.
Upgrades to	Tree of Ages
Level	1
Gold	340
Lumber	185
Food	Produces 10
Build time	120 sec.
Hotkey	T
Combat
Weapon(s)	Ancient Claws
Normal attack	41-50 (45.5 avg)
Can attack	Ground, Structure, Debris, Item, Ward
Range	12.8
Attack type	Normal
Cooldown	2.50 sec.
Weapon type	Normal
Armor Type	Fortified (Rooted); Heavy (Uprooted)
Armor	2
Day Sight	90
Night Sight	60
Movement Speed	40 (While Uprooted)

This article contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and/or official bonus maps.

The Tree of Life is a mighty enchanted sapling of the World Tree, Nordrassil, from which the night elves draw their life energies. This mysterious ancient is the key to the night elves' immortality and harmonious coexistence with nature. Nordrassil's energy, channeled through the tree of life, allows the night elves to benefit from its powers regardless of the vast distances that might separate them.

The Tree of Life can grow into the Tree of Ages.

Information

The Tree of Life is the Night Elves tier 1 town hall, the next upgrade being the Tree of Ages.

In order for the Night Elves to harvest gold, the Tree of Life (and its subsequent upgrades) must be placed close enough to a mine to begin entangle it. Uprooting the ancient will immediately cancel the process of entangling, or if it has already been done so, immediately release its grip.

Production

Units produced

Unit
Wisp

Upgrades available

Research
Nature's Blessings	Backpack

Spells and abilities

Entangle Gold Mine

Entangles the gold mine, allowing Wisps to enter and mine the gold.

Automatically entangles when rooted.

Duration	Range	Allowed Targets	Effect
60 sec.	50	Gold Mine	Entangles the gold mine

Eat Tree

Consume a tree to restore 500 hit points over 30 seconds.

Duration	Effect
30 sec.	Heals 500 hit points.

Uproot

Allows the Ancient to pull itself up out of the ground so that it can move.

Also gives the Ancient Heavy armor.

Duration	Effect
2.50 sec.	Can move, gets Heavy armor.

Root

Burrows the Ancient's roots into the ground, rendering it immobile, but allowing it to build units.

Also gives the Ancient Fortified armor.

Duration	Effect
2.50 sec.	Can't move, gets Fortified armor.

Upgrades

Nature's Blessing

Upgrades all Ancients' and Treants' movement speed and armor.

Research Cost	Researched At	Requirements	Upgrade Time	Effect
150 200	Tree of Life/Tree of Ages/Tree of Eternity	Tree of Ages/Tree of Eternity	60 sec.	Armor: 7 Movement Speed: 80

Patch changes

• Patch 1.19 (2005-09-19): Build time increased to 120 seconds from 110 seconds.
  
• Patch 1.13 (2003-12-16): Eat trees now heals 500 hit points over 30 seconds, up from 200 hit points over 10 seconds.
  
• Patch 1.10 (2003-07-03):
  • Reign of Chaos
    • Ancients now attack while rooted.
  • The Frozen Throne
    • Tier 3 town halls all cost 20 lumber and 20 gold less.
      
• Patch 1.06 (2003-06-03): Ancients temporarily lose their fortified armor when they uproot, becoming medium armor units.
  
• Patch 1.01 (2002-07-05):
  • Hit points increased to 1300 from 1000.
  • Nature's Blessing upgrade is now first available at Tree of Ages instead of Tree of Eternity.