Ancient Protector (Warcraft III)

For other uses, see Ancient Protector (disambiguation).

Ancient Protector
Race	Ancient
Faction	Night Elf Sentinels
Statistics
Hit points	600
Hit point regeneration	Night
Hit point regeneration rate	0.50 HP/sec.
Level	3
Gold	135
Lumber	80
Build time	55 sec.
Requires	Hunter's Hall
Hotkey	P
Combat
Weapon(s)	Throwing Rocks (Rooted); Ancient Claws (Uprooted)
Normal attack	45-54 (49.5 avg) Area Damage Radius: Full Damage Area: 2.5 3/20 Damage Area: 7.5 1/20 Damage Area: 12.5
Can attack	Ground, Structure, Debris, Air, Item, Ward Area Damage Targets: Ground, Structure, Debris, Wall, Enemy, Neutral
Range	70
Attack type	Piercing
Cooldown	1.70 sec.
Weapon type	Missile Splash
Secondary attack	26-33 (29.5 avg)
Can attack	Ground, Structure, Debris, Item, Ward
Range	Melee (12.8)
Attack type	Normal
Cooldown	1.40 sec.
Weapon type	Normal
Armor Type	Fortified (Rooted); Heavy (Uprooted)
Armor	1
Day Sight	190
Night Sight	80
Movement Speed	40 (While Uprooted)
Turn Rate	0.40

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

Spells and abilities

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 and engage units in melee combat.

Also gives the Ancient Heavy armor.

Duration	Effect
2.50 sec.	Can move, switches to attack 2, gets Heavy armor.

Root

Burrows the Ancient's roots into the ground, rendering it immobile, but allowing it to hurl enormous rocks through the air to damage enemy units.

Also gives the Ancient Fortified armor.

Duration	Effect
2.50 sec.	Can't move, switches to attack 1, 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: 3 Movement Speed: 80

Patch changes

• Patch 1.17 (2004-09-20): Rooted attack now uses a homing missile.
  
• Patch 1.13 (2003-12-16): Eat Tree now heals 500 hit points over 30 seconds, up from 200 hit points over 10 seconds.
  
• Patch 1.10 (2003-07-03): Ancients now attack while rooted.
  
• Patch 1.06 (2003-06-03): Ancients temporarily lose their fortified armor when they uproot, becoming medium armor units.
  
• Patch 1.04 (2002-11-04):
  • Ancient Protector cost reduced to 160/80 from 240/100.
  • Ancient Protector hit points increased to 600 from 550.
  • Ancient Protector armor decreased to 1 from 2.
  • Ancient Protector minimum range reduced to 0 from 200.
  • Ancient Protector ranged attack damage reduced to 1d10+44 from 1d13+51.
  • Ancient Protector damage type changed to pierce from siege.
  • Ancient Protector splash damage reduced.
    
• Patch 1.01 (2002-07-05):
  • Rooted damage increased to 52-64 (58 avg) from 43-65.
  • Nature's Blessing upgrade is now first available at Tree of Ages instead of Tree of Eternity.