Obelisk

The obelisk is a support structure, formerly known as the dark pylon.

It was long used only by the Dark Templar of Shakuras, but was made available to other factions as the war for survival became more desperate.

The obelisk is no longer central to the protoss macromanagement mechanic.

Abilities
All abilities are present as soon as the obelisk can be produced.

Development
As a dark pylon, the obelisk was similar to a pylon. It provided psi and power to protoss buildings like the pylon, but also has special abilities. However, Blizzard was not entirely happy with the dark pylon in February 2009, as they felt Null Shield was uncompetitive. Early versions of the dark pylon cloaked surrounding structures. Its purpose was to hide a protoss player's tech tree and cloak photon cannons until they began firing, but it was removed from the multiplayer game as it wasn't useful enough.

The Dark Templar were set to have more defensive structures as of March 2008.

The obelisk no longer has a cloaking ability.



As of February 2010, the obelisk lost Argus Link and Proton Charge. These core protoss macromanagement mechanic was moved to the nexus.