Observer Ward

Item

 

Changelogs

 

? Observer Ward
A form of half-sentient plant, often cultivated by apprentice wizards.
Cost 75 Sell Value 37.5 Active Plant Charges 1 INIT Bonus ? Shareable Usage Alert ? Recipe

Observer Ward is an Item purchasable at the Main Shop, under Consumables.

Additional information

• Observer Wards start with a stock count of 2 and are limited to a count of 4.
  • It takes 135 seconds for 1 ward to replenish in the stock.
• Stacks with itself and with Sentry 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.
• Observer Wards are completely shareable.
• Observer Wards do not provide True Sight.
• Killing an Observer Ward prints out a chat notification to allies.

Ability

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

Plant

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Ability
Target Area

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: 500

Vision Radius: 1600

Hero Attacks to Destroy: 2

Non-Hero Attacks to Destroy: 8

Gold Bounty Growth per Minute: 2

Experience Growth per Minute: 4

Duration: 360

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• Provides 1600 radius ground vision at its location.

• 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 an Observer Ward by holding Control.

• Observer Wards can be targeted by enemy Tango, Quelling Blade, and Battle Fury to be instantly destroyed.

• Creep spawn ranges are shown before placing a ward, allowing camps to be blocked.

• The radiuses of already placed Observer Wards is shown as well, allowing to see how they overlap.

• While having the ward selected, multiple indicators appear on the world and minimap.
  • The targeting courser depicts the ward, with a green circle around it. The circle shows its vision range.
  • The minimap shows a yellow area, depecting how much the ward would reveal when placed at that point.
  • The yellow markings consider trees and terrain height around the area.

• The Ward's gold bounty increases by 1 every 30 seconds, and the experience by 1 every 15 seconds.

• 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 Observer Ward

Ability
N/A

There is no description for this ability.

Tips

• Essential to victory, Observer Wards allow you to keep watch over areas and spy on your enemies while keeping you and other heroes safe. It is important to keep wards up in key locations, and destroy enemy wards.
• Observer Wards are considered essential to map control, providing vision for runes, watching out for ganks, and blocking neutral creeps from spawning in the jungle.
• Although it is common for the support to purchase wards, mid and offlaners can purchase them to set up ganks or block the enemy team's safe lane jungle camp respectively.

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.
• 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

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References

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