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Observer Ward is an item purchasable at the Base Shop, under Consumables.

Available in the Base Shop
Observer Ward
Observer Ward icon
A form of half-sentient plant, often cultivated by apprentice wizards.
Consumables
Cost 0 Gold
Sell Value -  / Count
Stacks NO LIMIT / Inventory Slot
Stock 2 INIT / 4 MAX
2 minutes 15 seconds 135
Active Plant
Charges 1 INIT
Bonus ?
Shareable Yes
Usage Alert ? No
Recipe
Observer and Sentry Wards
UsedIn1
Observer Ward (0)

Additional Information[]

  • Stacks with itself and with Sentry Ward icon Sentry Wards in a single inventory slot, 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.
  • Observer Wards do not provide True Sight.
  • Killing an Observer Ward prints out a chat notification to allies.

Bounty Interactions[]

Grants Gold Gold bounty to the player that provided the True Sight as follows:

Gem of True Sight icon
  • To the player who bought or wield the item (regardless of its original buyer).
Sentry Ward icon
  • To the player who bought the wards or Sentry Ward icon Planted the ward (regardless of its original buyer).
Book of the Dead icon
Lightning Bolt icon Lightning Bolt, Thundergod's Wrath icon Thundergod's Wrath or Talent Rocket Flare icon Rocket Flare
  • To the caster of the ability (regardless of the original hero).
True Sight icon True Sight, Chronosphere icon Chronosphere, Kinetic Field icon Kinetic Field or Talent Aether Remnant icon Aether Remnant
  • To the player that kills the ward.

Ability[]

Observer Ward
Observer Ward model
Summoned Ward
100
+0
This unit has no mana.
Level 0
Duration Ability Duration 360
Armor Armor 0
Magic Resistance 0%
Status Resistance 0
Collision Size 18
Bound Radius 8
Vision Range (G) 1600
Bounty Gold 100 + 4/min
Experience 70 + 8/min

Plant
Plants an Observer Ward, an invisible watcher that gives ground vision in a 1600 radius to your team. Lasts 6 minutes.

Hold Control to give one Observer Ward to an allied hero.
Cast Range: Affected by Cast Range bonuses. 500
Vision Radius: 1600
Hero Attacks to Destroy: 2
Non-Hero Attacks to Destroy: 8
Gold Bounty Increase per Minute: 4
Experience Increase per Minute: 8
Duration: 360
Cooldown symbol
 1
Mana symbol
 0
Buff/Debuff
Modifiers [?]
modifier_item_buff_ward
Death

  • Cannot be placed inside the fountain area (including a small area in front of the ramp), or in Roshan icon Roshan's pit.
    • Cannot be placed on impassable terrain, or spots obscured by trees.
  • Neutral creep spawn ranges are shown before placing a ward, allowing camps to be blocked.
  • The radius of already placed Observer Wards is shown as well, allowing its caster to see how they overlap.
  • While having the ward selected, multiple indicators appear on the world and minimap.
    • The targeting cursor depicts the ward, with a green circle around it. The circle shows its vision range.
    • The minimap shows a yellow area, depicting the vision range when placed at that point.
    • The yellow markings consider trees and terrain height around the area.
  • The Ward's bounty increases by 1 Gold every 15 seconds, and the experience by 1XP every 7.5 seconds.


Planted Observer Ward[]

Planted Ward
Ability
Hidden
This unit is permanently invisible and phased.
Attacking Accuracy: 100%
Melee Attack Range Bonus: 150
Ally Deny Health Threshold: 50
Notes

  • The ability and modifier are not displayed in-game.
  • Melee Melee units have an extra 150 attack range when attacking Observer Wards.
  • Observer Wards can always be attacked by their owner, and can only be attacked by other ally heroes if they are within the spawn areas of neutral creeps, regardless of the ward's current health.
    • Observer Wards receive 10 damage from ally heroes when it has over 50 health.


Lore[]

  • 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 Observer Wards as plants and states that they are "often cultivated by apprentice wizards." This implies that they are grown as opposed to crafted, directly contradicting the White Sentry's description.

Gallery[]

References[]

  1. White Sentry description.

Recent Changes[]

Version
Description
  • Increased base experience bounty from 50XP to 70XP.
  • Increased experience bounty per minute from 6XP to 8XP.
  • Observer Ward icon Observer 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. [?]
  • U
    Increased Observer Ward icon Plant vision radius from 1400 to 1600.



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