Protoss - Page 2

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Air Units:

Observer

Builds From: Unknown Shield: Unknown Health: Unkown Armament: Permanently stealthed and can detect stealthed units This one comes from the PC Gamer feature of Starcraft 2. There is very little detail about this unit in the magazine other than it seems to have remained largely unchanged from the original Starcraft.

Phase Prisim

Builds From: Unknown Shield: 40 Health: 100 Armament: We believe this may replace the transport but that is un-comfirmed. This unit also has one special ability: Phasing Mode Resource: Shows a stop watch with a 2 and a Psi symbol with a 2 next to it (we think this means that it takes 2 seconds to change modes. We also do not know how the Psi cost works because we do not see a change in Psi in the UI when changing modes). Deploy's a Phase Prisim into Phasing Mode and generates power radius similar to that of a Pylon. The Phase Prisim can change modes and act as a pylon anywhere on the map. In this mode it can supply power to any units or buildings and allow a remote site to warp-in units without building a fixed pylon. We also believe this will replace the transport unit but this is unconfirmed.

Phoenix

Builds From: Stargate Shield: 80 Health: 120 Armament: Air superiority fighter. One special ability: Power Overload Rapidly attack all nearby air enemies. The Phoenix is offline for a short duration after. The Phoenix is set to replace the Corsair and Scout units taking on features of both. It also will be able to attack ground and air units. The description on the Starcraft2.com site suggests that their air attack is much stronger than their ground attack (akin to Scouts), and the overload ability appears to only attack air targets (un-confirmed).

Warp Ray

Shield: 75 Health: 125 Armament: Fires a beam that does more damage the longer its fired. The Warp Ray is a specialist Protoss flyer. Its attack does more damage the longer it fires. Making it extremely effective against high armor/health units and even more so against buildings. But against smaller more numerous units its very weak taking far to long to kill one small unit.

Tempest

Shield: Unknown Health: Unknown Armament: Sends out small flyers to attack the enemy The Tempest looks to be the replacement for the Carrier. It has a ground to air shield making it very tuff against ground units. It also fires out small flyers to attack with.

Star Relic

Builds From: Unknown Shield: Unknown Health: Unknown Armament: Spell caster / Fires Fusion beam that slowly damages unit until it dies, then explodes unit dealing AoE damage, AoE stealth will hide units and buildings in a range around the Star Relic This looks like a replacement for the Arbiter. Giving it a new list of skills and a much more useful attack.

Mothership

Builds From: Unknown Shield: 350 Health: 950 Energy: 300 Armament: Attacks with multiple rays dealing what looks like medium damage (counted 4 rays at one time). The Mothership also has 3 special abilities: Time Bomb Energy Cost: 75 This is a special ability that slows down all enemy movement inside the field, then stopping attacks just before they reach the Mothership. Planet Cracker Energy Cost: 100 Deals heavy damage in what looks like an aoe radius beneath the Mothership to all ground targets in range. Black Hole Energy Cost: 150 The Black Hole allows the Mothership to create a hole in space. The hole is a target area skill and will suck in flyers in a radius around it. As per the game play trailer: The Mothership is the ultimate Protoss unit and requires significant resources to create. You also can only have one Mothership per Protoss player on the map at any given time (meaning if you loose your Mothership you can build another but you cannot have two out at one time). The Mothership is extremely powerful and very tuff to kill. Combined with its special abilities allows the Mothership to take on entire armies by itself.