Point defense drone

Point Defense Drone
Structure
Race	Terran
Role	Point defense
Armament	Point defense laser
Properties
Maximum energy	200
Energyregen/second	1
Life span	180 (240 with Durable Materials) (WoL/HotS) 14 (LotV) 180 (Co-op Missions Raynor) 60 (Co-op Missions Nova)
Sight	7
Production
Energy cost	100
Produced from	Raven
Hotkey	D
Movement
Collision radius	0.625
Protection
Hit points	200
Armor	0
Type	Air Mechanical
Armor type	Armored
Point defense laser
Damage	Blocks an attack
Targets	Ground Air
Range	8 (9 with Hi-Sec Auto-Tracking)
Meta
Targetpriority	20
Kill score	100
Productionscore	50

The point defense drone (PDD) is a defensive device deployed by the raven. It is constructed onboard through hundreds of thousands of AI-operated nanomachines. The drone uses lasers to accurately intercept many types of enemy weapon fire.

Game Effect

StarCraft II

Versus

The drone intercepts missiles and projectiles fired by certain enemy units and buildings. According to the in-game description of the point-defense laser it is effective against marauders, vikings, banshees, battlecruisers, thors, missile turrets, stalkers, phoenixes, photon cannons, queens, mutalisks, corruptors, hydralisks, and spore crawlers.

Its defensive abilities use up ten energy per shot. Units like vikings and phoenixes that attack twice or more per cycle will drain ten energy for each of its individual attacks (i.e. one viking attack consists of two missiles. Twenty energy would be consumed to intercept both attacks).

The ability was removed from the raven in Versus in the Patch 4.1.4 balance update.

Upgrades and Abilities

Point Defense Drone

Deploys a drone which intercepts missiles and projectile shots, such as those fired by missile turrets. It cannot stop special attacks.

Usage
Cost 100 Duration 14

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Durable Materials

• Increases auto-turret duration to 240 seconds (WoL/HotS, point defense drone has a shorter duration)
• Increases seeker missile duration to 20 seconds
  

Not available in Legacy of the Void

Acquisition
Purchased from Tech lab attached to starport Hotkey D Cost 150 150 110

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Hi-Sec Auto Tracking

Increases the attack range of automated defenses: missile turrets, auto-turrets, point defense drones, and the planetary fortress by +1.

Acquisition
Purchased from Engineering bay Hotkey H Cost 100 100 57

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Building Armor

• +2 armor for terran buildings

Acquisition
Purchased from Engineering bay Hotkey B Cost 150 150 100

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Co-op Missions

Point defense drones are available to Jim Raynor in Co-op Missions. They are generated by the Hyperion at level 5.

Point Defense Drone

Enable the Hyperion to deploy Point Defense Drone ability that shoots down enemy missiles. Call down the Hyperion from the top panel.

Campaign Acquisition
Unlock Reach Raynor Level 5.

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Heroes of the Storm

	The following section contains information from Heroes of the Storm and is not canon to StarCraft continuity

The model of the point defense drone is used for the scouting drone ability in Heroes of the Storm.

References

Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e

Versus Units and Structures Infantry SCV Marine Reaper Marauder Ghost Terrestrial Vehicles MULE Hellion Hellbat (HotS) Siege tank Cyclone (LotV) Thor Widow mine (HotS) Aerospace Vessels Viking Medivac dropship Banshee Raven Battlecruiser Liberator (LotV) Spawned Units MULE Drop pod Nuclear missile Basic Buildings Command center Refinery Supply depot Barracks Engineering bay Automated Defenses Auto-turret Missile turret Point defense drone Repair drone Support Buildings Orbital command Planetary fortress Sensor tower Bunker Add-ons Tech lab Reactor Advanced Buildings Ghost academy Factory Armory Starport Fusion core Campaign and Co-op Missions Units and Structures Mercenaries Devil Dogs Hammer Securities Siege Breakers Spartan Company War Pigs Hel's Angels Dusk Wings Jackson's Revenge Dominion Elite Guard Sons of Korhal Prometheus Company Death Head Aegis Guard Field Response Theta Outback Hunter Bulwark Company Shock Division Blackhammer Sky Fury Squadron Night Wolves Winged Nightmare Pride of Augustgrad Valor of Vardona Infantry Firebat HERC Medic Rebel Spectre Trooper Terrestrial Vehicles Armored personnel carrier Diamondback Goliath Militarized transport Predator Sensor drone Vulture Warhound Aerospace Vessels Asteria wraith Assault galleon Hercules dropship Science vessel Harvester Special ops dropship Sonar drone Sovereign battlecruiser Strike fighter Tac fighter Theia raven Valkyrie Wraith Spawned units A.R.E.S. Bio-mechanical repair drone Advanced Buildings Dominion starport HERC compound Merc compound Shadow ops Add-ons Tech reactor Support Buildings Laser drill Hive mind emulator Psi disrupter Nuclear silo Strike fighter platform Automated defenses Devastation turret Gun turret Flame turret Perdition turret Sentry gun Shrike turret Spider mine Cerberus mine Canceled Terran Units and Structures of StarCraft II v • e Scrapped Removed Units Anti-air walker Block B Bulwark D-8 charges Genetic knight Guardian Gundam HERC Hercules tank Incinerator Laser drill tank Mine drone Missile launcher Nomad Pillager Predator Prison infantry guard Quantradyne APOD-33 dropship Raider Ranger Red Adder Scavenger Scout Shredder Super crane Targeting drone Valkyrie Zeus battle tank Zeus lander Removed Buildings Drop pod facility Gun platform Listening post Munitions depot Radar tower Star base