Dark Archon Infomation

Hello,
This is to help people about the Dark Archon and its' abilities!

What is a Dark Archon?

A Dark Archon is a very powerful mage/spellcaster of the Protoss. It requires two Dark Templars which need the Templar Archives Building. This

unit is worth it, it is my personal favourite and best spellcaster ( unit with mana ) with all the strong abilities it has. Please note this unit cannot

attack because it can only use it's strong abilities, and the Dark Templar can attack but yet has no abilities.

Abilities:



Feedback - cost 50 energy , range 10 , research : FREE

This ability allows the Dark Archon a powerful force to drain all the enemies' mana. Also it will drain the same amount of HP from mana, EG: the

science vessel has 150 mana so it will take 150 HP off the science vessel. If a unit has more mana than the HP then it will be killed by this powerful

ability. It is only well used for units with mana (energy) like the Zerg Queen, Terran Science Vessel and the Protoss Arbiter. This ability is useless

against units with no mana because it will not effect them in any way and does not affect buildings.



Mind Control - cost 150 energy , range 8 , research : 200 mineral's | 200 vespene gas

This ability allows the Dark Archon to create a powerful attack in the enemy's mind to control the unit and become on Your side! But this strong

ability does have its' draw-backs. Not only does it drain the Dark Archons' shields so it is unprotected, but if it has no support or defence then the

Dark Archon is very vulnerable to enemy attackers. Use this ability when the Dark Archon is protected. The Dark Archon cannot summon this ability

on the spider mines, scarabs, interceptors and larvae. The best way to use this ability is to try and get an enemy worker such as the Protoss

Probe, Terran SCV or the Zerg Drone! So You can create a whole new empire of a different race!



Maelstorm - cost 100 energy , range 10 , research : 100 mineral's | 100 vespene gas

This ability allows the Dark Archon to stun a group of units which prevents enemy units from moving! So this is a good opportunity to get Your

attack force and attack the enemy before they recover from the stun. This Maelstorm ability will give You approx 12 seconds of normal game

speed time. This ability is very strong against Zerg as everything of theirs ( including buildings ) is organic. So with a few Dark Archons You can

create havok with this ability and move in with Your force to kill the enemy Zerg!

Thankyou all for reading my infomation about the Protoss Dark Archon and I sure did hope You did enjoy!
I wanted to do this because I love dark archon's and I wanted to do something about it and so I felt like sharing it with the forum community and thankyou all again!


Bonus 350 minerals for a great post

 

Mind Control is 150 energy, and it also removes your shield.

 

Yeah I got the shield bit and is it 150 energy? , I will edit it!

 

Yea, definitely 150 energy.

Would be nice if you put up some good strategies that can justify the production of Dark Archons, being as underused as it is. How can the abilities you described be used effectively? If you can't think of any, feel free to PM me, I'll help you out.

 

The stunning ability is called maelstrom. I know this for sure because I was quite suprised when I found it out - I thought it was maelstorm as well.

 

Feedback=BC Killer.

That's reason enough to have a couple DA's for base defense. Stop pesky Yamatos

 

Feedback just damages the BC. A full energy Wraith is immediately killed by a Feedback, though that isn't likely to happen.

 

Yeah, but it more importantly BURNS the energy, thus making it so the BC doesn't have enough to cast another Yamato. Combine that with other base defense, that's a dead capital ship.

150 is a helluva huge damage burst,

 

Yea but Wraith Cloak is much more usable then Yamato Cannon. Only if the opponent is massing the hell out of BC's will it be worth it to counter with Archons. Usually enemies make 2-5 Wraiths to harass your economy, which can be easily dealt with with an observer and a Dark Archon.

 

Yeah true and I haven't really got any good feedback and I do have what it is good use for and I do have maelstrom.

 

Why FC when you can MC? It's only 200/200 away.

 

maelstrom + psi storm totally pwns zergs, ground or air:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Step_8mQ-Fs

lol chojja was pretty dumb for having so many devourers, but if wouldn't have made a difference if they were mutas.

 

Wow thats pritty good!!! so what do people think of my info , no good feedback

 

Ha ha....BOOM headshot.


BTW......THREE THOUSAND POSTS!! Boo yah!!

 

LOL. That guy was totalled. Congratulations on the 2k posts. ;D

 

Its 3k and now were talking about the video...why the hell did I bother doing all that work!

 

HIJACK!!

I hereby declare this thread:
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Argh , no use! , why bother when I try to help and no good feedback and when someone does the same with a defiler and gets good feedback and more!

 

That's the spirit!!

 

You jealous? ;D