Sentry Ward

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

Sentry Ward
A form of plant originally grown in the garden of a fearful king.
Consumables Cost 50 Sell Value 25  / Count Stacks NO LIMIT / Inventory Slot Stock 3 INIT / 8 MAX 70 Active Plant Charges 1 INIT Bonus ? Shareable Usage Alert ? Recipe

Additional Information

• 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.

Ability

Plant

Plant

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Ability

Area

Affects

Self

Plants an invisible and phased Sentry Ward at the target location, which reveals nearby invisible enemy units and wards around it.
Provides flying vision in a small area for a short while upon planting.

Cast Animation: 0 + 0

Cast Range:  500

Vision Radius: 150

Vision Duration: 12

Ward Duration: 420

Holding the CTRL allows Plant to be cast on an allied hero, sharing a Sentry Ward with them, using the item's cast range.

The ward takes a fixed amount of attacks to be destroyed. Creeps take more attacks than heroes, treats Illusions and Creep-Heroes as creeps.

Hero Hit Count: 2

Non-Hero Hit Count: 10

Attacks against Sentry Wards cannot miss. Melee units have an increased attack range when attacking Sentry Wards.

Attacker Accuracy: 100%

Melee Attack Range Bonus: 150

The player that placed the ward can always attack it with any of their units. However, all their attacks are treated as non-hero attacks, until the ward comes within the 50% deny range.

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Sentry Ward (Summoned Ward)

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An immobile, invisible and phased ward that provides True Sight around it.

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This unit does not attack.

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Reveals nearby invisible enemy units and wards, rendering them visible to the owner and their team.

Radius: 1050

Aura Linger Duration: 0.5

• Cannot be placed in the following areas:
  • Fountain areas, including the ramp.
  • Roshan's pits.
  • Within the bound radius of buildings and trees.
  • On impassable terrain.

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Observer Ward

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Sentry Ward

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Hidden modifier

• Has two cast modes:
  • Regular cast, can only target the ground.
    • In this mode, the targeting cursor depicts the ward model, with arrows pointing at it, along with the following indicators:
      • The True Sight radius the ward would cover if placed at the current location.
      • The True Sight radius of allied Sentry Wards, in green.
      • The True Sight radius of allied Towers, in green.
      • The True Sight radius of visible enemy Towers, in red.
      • The vision radius of all Watchers, in green, regardless of alliance.
      • The spawn boxes of neutral creep camps, in yellow, turning red when the cursor is within the spawn box.
  • CTRL cast, can only target allied heroes.
    • Cannot target allied Illusions, Clones, Couriers or the Spirit Bear.
    • However, regular sharing by dragging them item onto them works.

• Selecting a placed allied Sentry Ward shows the name of the player that placed the ward, right below the health bar.

• Holding Alt shows all allied Sentry Wards' True Sight radius with a green ring.

• Destroying an enemy Sentry Ward prints out a chat notification to allies.

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 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.

Trivia

• This item is based on the Sentry Wards from Warcraft 3.
  • In DotA, it is pluralized to Sentry Wards as well.

Gallery

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  In-game model

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  Item icon progress

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  Early item icon concept

Recent Changes

Main Article: Sentry Ward/Changelogs

Version

Description

7.38
(2025-02-19)

• Reduced restock time from 80 to 70.
• Increased True Sight radius from 1000 to 1050.

7.33c
(2023-05-13)

• Increased True Sight radius from 900 to 1000.

7.33
(2023-04-20)

• Reduced max stock from 10 to 8.
• Increased restock time from 70 to 80.