Warp Guide

[idodik]

I've learned how the Protoss build structures by looking at replays, no problem.
What I don't know is how do the Protoss use their pylons for warping units, and how do they warp units.
Teach me!

[CloudMax]

You need to research the ability to upgrade your Gateway into a warpgate in the Cybernetics Core.
Then you build a Gateway. When you have built it, you can update it to a Warpgate, it goes very fast to do so.
You can also transform back to Gateway if you want, that makes it easier for new players to use becouse you can have queues, in the warpgate you must manually click to summon a new one when the cooldown for it is over.
Spawning the units work like a summon spell.
You choose what unit you want to build, it will ask you where to put the unit (it must be in a pylon area), and when you cast it, the unit will take some time to actually spawn in that spot, and all the "spells" will get a cooldown so you can summon an entire army at once.
Ohh, right, It goes faster to create units in the warp gate aswell, so if you can macro good and summon new units constantly just when the cooldown goes out, you will make up alot of time.

[LordDz]

Does the Nexus ability work on the Warp Gate? (Haven't checked).

[CloudMax]

Does the Nexus ability work on the Warp Gate? (Haven't checked).

Due to the fact that the warpgate does not affect cooldowns (as far as i can remember), it wont have any effect.
Also the summoning time is standalone and does not happen inside the actual building so i think it wont have any effect on the warp in time if i remember it right.
So no, it does not make and difference. (if i remember it right ofc..)

[.Talon]

Yes it works, it lowers the cooldown until you can summon the next unit with it.

[CloudMax]

Yes it works, it lowers the cooldown until you can summon the next unit with it.

Ahh, so then it did work.
When i played, my brother said "so that spell is useless when you have warp gates" and i got confused..
And when i looked at the cooldown, i could not see a big difference, so i just agreed with him (actually i did see a very small difference, but i thought it was my imagination).
I did not know that the buff even could affect cooldowns at all.. It is a very nice feature actually
Now it will be so much easier to have buffs/items/whateever that increase/decrease cooldowns on things

[Mishou]

Really? I didn't know crono shift affected warp gates. This will will help my zealot+prism rush in the future.