Difference between revisions of "Sentry"

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Sentry is a Discipline Demon Hunter skill unlocked at Level 22. It creates a mechanical turret that fires arrows at enemies, working much like the Wizard's Hydra skill.

Background

Sentry in action

The Demon Hunter throws a sphere onto the ground that fires arrows at nearby enemies.

Skill Effects

The following is a very quick list. See the Sentry rune effects page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.

Icon	Skill	Description

Evasive Fire
Hatred Generator
(Level 3)

[e]

Generate: 4 Hatred
Cost: 4 Discipline if you backflip

Shoot for 115% of weapon damage. If an enemy is in front of you at close range, you will also backflip away 15 yards.

	Chain of Torment	Create a tether between you and the sentry that does 240% of weapon damage every second to every enemy it touches.
	Vigilant Watcher	Increases duration of the turret to 48 seconds.
	Spitfire Turret	The turret will also fire homing rockets every 1.5 seconds aimed at random nearby targets for 240% weapon damage.
	Aid Station	Heals nearby allies for 8% of their maximum Life per second.
	Guardian Turret	The turret also creates a shield that reduces damage taken by allies by 32%.

Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.

Skill Design

The skill works similarly to those found in the Assassin's set in Diablo II. It is a trap of sorts that fires arrows at enemies. It's not known if the Sentry will go into action as soon as it's cast, or if it only activates when enemies move into range, as the Demon Hunter's other traps do.

It is assumed that much like the Wizard's Hydra, players may only have a set number of traps and/or Sentries active at once.

Synergies

No synergies with any of the Demon Hunter passives are yet known.

Development

Sentry was first announced in a Blizzard tweet in early January 2011. ^[1]

Demon Hunter is getting a few new toys. One of the coolest has to be the Sentry. --Diablo

It was explained in a bit more detail later that month: ^[2]

So the Sentry was given to the Demon Hunter. Is this identical to the Assassin’s sentry? I’m dying to know how runes change it. --NocturneGS
The assassin sentries were more like stationary magic dispensers. The demon hunter sentry is more like something a spy would sap. --Diablo

Fuller details came in February 2011, when Jason Bender spoke about Sentry in an interview:^[3]

So like I was saying, there are different kinds of traps and they are sort of the usual to some extent and then we have weird some stuff. The Sentry is by default your standard trap as you would expect, it’s a lot like Hydra. I will say that the runes will change how that works.

I don’t want to get into too much specifics about the runes yet, because those are still in development. But you have seen what the runes can do to the Wizard and what kinds of things it can do specifically for the Hydra, but with the gadget theme we can do even crazier and funkier stuff with gadgets, because we’ve learned so much from running for the Wizard’s powers that we can take a lot of that knowledge forward and take some ideas off the shelf and put those into things like the Sentry.

Definitely though, there are a ton of traps that can shoot out ranged stuff that can track you and then there’s traps that cover the ground and if you step on it, it’s going to hurt. So, the vanilla version of the Sentry is just what you expect, it’ll just shoot arrows.

Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Sentry became a level 22 skill.

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:

References

↑ New Demon Hunter Skill Sentry -- Incgamers 8th Jan 2011
↑ Demon Hunter Sentries -- Incgamers 19th Jan 2011
↑ Jason Bender and Christian Lichtner Interview -- DiabloFans 18th Feb 2011

JudgeHype.com July 2011 Press Event Coverage - The Demon Hunter (Translated by Zediono)
HardRock's Demon Hunter Skills and Their Rune Effects -- IncGamers 6th Sep 2011
Demon Hunter Active Skills -- Diablo III 12th Sep 2011

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[1] New Demon Hunter Skill Sentry -- Incgamers 8th Jan 2011

[2] Demon Hunter Sentries -- Incgamers 19th Jan 2011

[3] Jason Bender and Christian Lichtner Interview -- DiabloFans 18th Feb 2011

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-'''Sentry''' is a [[Demon Hunter skill]] unlocked at [[clvl|level]] 22. It creates a mechanical turret that fires arrows at enemies, working much like the Wizard's [[Hydra]] skill.
+'''Sentry''' is a Discipline [[Demon Hunter skill]] unlocked at [[clvl|Level]] 22. It creates a mechanical turret that fires arrows at enemies, working much like the Wizard's [[Hydra]] skill.
-Sentry has not yet been seen or tested, only described in forum posts and interviews.
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 The Demon Hunter throws a sphere onto the ground that fires arrows at nearby enemies.
 ==Skill Effects==
 The following is a very quick list. See the [[Sentry rune effects]] page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.
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+</noinclude>{{Demon Hunter Skill Evasive Fire}}
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-Drop a turret on the ground. The turret begins firing at nearby enemies for {{c_lime|40%}} of weapon damage. Lasts {{c_lime|20}} seconds.<br>Cost: {{c_lime|10}} Discipline.}}
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 It is assumed that much like the [[Wizard]]'s [[Hydra]], players may only have a set number of traps and/or Sentries active at once.
 ==Synergies==
-* No [[synergies]] with any of the [[passive skill]]s are yet known.
+* No [[synergies]] with any of the [[Demon Hunter passives]] are yet known.
-==Skill Rune Effects==
-* No [[rune]] effects for Sentry are known.
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 Skill tiers were removed for the [[July 2011 Press Event]], and Sentry became a level 22 skill.
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 ==References==
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 * [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=7962606#post7962606 JudgeHype.com July 2011 Press Event Coverage - The Demon Hunter (Translated by Zediono)]
+* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=8009356#post8009356 HardRock's Demon Hunter Skills and Their Rune Effects] -- IncGamers 6th Sep 2011
+* [http://us.battle.net/d3/en/class/demon-hunter/active/ Demon Hunter Active Skills] -- Diablo III 12th Sep 2011
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