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Co-op Commander Guide: Vorazun

Matriarch of the Nerazim

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Commander Summary

Vorazun uses the power of cloaked units to wreak havoc around the battlefield, combined with a powerful ability to stop time.

Level Unlocks

Level/Icon	Name	Description
	Shroud of Adun	Vorazun's Dark Templar have improved shields and cost less vespene gas.
	Spear of Adun: Orbital Assimilators	The Spear of Adun harvests vespene gas from orbit without the need for Probes. Passive ability.
	Shadow Legion	Increases the number of Vorazun's Shadow Guard from 2 to 4. This ability is located in the top panel.
	Twilight Council Upgrade Cache	Upgrades Vorazun's Zealots to Centurions. New research available on the Twilight Council: Centurions are briefly cloaked and can pass through other units when charging. Allows Centurions to stun nearby enemies. Allows the Stalker's Blink to cloak and restore shields over time.
	New Unit: Dark Archon	Unlocks the ability to warp in Dark Archons from the Gateway. Powerful attack caster. Can use the Confuse and Mind Control abilities. Can attack ground and air units.
	Dark Templar Upgrade Cache	New research available on the Dark Shrine: Enables Dark Templar to teleport to nearby locations. Grants Dark Templar the ability to disable units, preventing them from attacking or being attacked for 10 seconds.
	Veil of Shadows	Increases the shield regeneration rate of friendly cloaked units by 400%.
	Spear of Adun: Event Horizon	Negates all armor of enemy units affected by the Black Hole ability. This ability is located in the top panel.
	Dark Archon Upgrade Cache	New research available on the Dark Shrine: Dark Archons start with full energy. Allows a Dark Archon to take control of a targeted unit permanently.
	Spear of Adun: Time Stop	Unlocks the Time Stop ability which freezes all enemies in place for 20 seconds. This ability is located in the top panel.
	Dark Pylon: Recall	Unlocks the ability for Dark Pylons to Recall friendly units to their location.
	Fleet Beacon Upgrade Cache	New research available on the Fleet Beacon: Permanently cloaks all Corsairs and Oracles. Increases the range of the Void Ray's weapon as it continues to attack. Enemies affected by the Oracle's Stasis Ward can now be attacked.
	Spear of Adun: Emergency Recall	Upon taking fatal damage, friendly cloaked or burrowed units are recalled to their owner's primary structure. This effect cannot occur more than once every 4 minutes. Passive ability.
	Spear of Adun: Chronomancy	Reduces the cooldown of Time Stop from 5 minutes to 4 minutes. This ability is located in the top panel.
	Strike from the Shadows	Increases the weapon damage of friendly cloaked or burrowed units by 15%. Increases the energy regeneration of friendly cloaked or burrowed units by 50%.

Highlighted rows denote large power spikes for the commander.

Achievements

The commander-specific achievements for Vorazun are:

Achievement	Name	Description
	Event Horizon	Kill 15 units trapped in a single Black Hole on Hard difficulty.
	My Turn	Kill 5,000 enemy units with Vorazun's cloaked units in Co-op Missions.
	Shadow Guard	Kill 50 units with Vorazun's Shadow Guard in a single mission on Hard difficulty.
	Your Turn	Your ally kills 1,000 units while Vorazun's Spear of Adun Time Stop is activated in Co-op Missions.

Calldowns

The calldowns for Vorazun, at level 15, with no mastery points added are:

Calldown	Name	Description	Recommended Usage	Numbers
	Deploy Dark Pylon	Warps in a Dark Pylon granting supply and power. Dark Pylons also cloak nearby friendly units and structures. Friendly cloaked units deal 15% more attack damage and 50% increased energy regeneration.	At the start of the game, warp in your first Dark Pylon to save you from building one for power and supply. Any other Pylons should only be warped in at strategic locations. Use your Dark Pylon's Recall ability to move efficiently around the map.	Cooldown: 60 seconds Energy Required: 25
	Black Hole	Creates a Black Hole that pulls in and stuns enemy units. Lasts 8 seconds.	Use this with Corsairs to deal with armored air units. A good placement of a Black Hole will allow you to deal with attack waves without losing any units.	Cooldown: 0 seconds Energy Required: 25
	Deploy Shadow Guard	Deploys 4 elite Dark Templar at the target location that last for 60 seconds.	The first Shadow Guard should be used to clear out your expansion. Make use of their Blink ability to move them quickly from one location to another, in addition to any Dark Pylons you have out.	Cooldown: 180 seconds Energy Required: 50
	Time Stop	Alters space-time, freezing all enemies in place for 20 seconds. Unlimited range.	One of the most powerful calldowns in the game. This should be used as soon as it is off cooldown, so make sure you are ready to push. Push into heavily fortified bases and use this as soon as enemy units start attacking you.	Coolup: 240 seconds Cooldown: 240 seconds

The Deploy Dark Pylon ability brings a Dark Pylon onto the battlefield. This structure has abilities itself, shown below:

The Deploy Shadow Guard ability brings Shadow Guards onto the battlefield. These units have abilities themselves, shown below:

Sub-Ascension Leveling

Difficulty: Moderate

As Vorazun's Corsairs can't cloak during early levels and Black Hole does not negate armor, build Dark Templars and Stalkers as your core army composition. Stalkers can deal with air units fairly well, especially when they have their Blink upgrades which can regenerate their shields rapidly. Due to the lack of Emergency Recall during early stages of leveling, use Black Holes liberally to ensure you do not lose Dark Templars.

While leveling through Mastery levels, allocate points into Power Set 3's Spear of Adun Energy mastery until you hit the desired number of points, before allocating them to Chrono Boost efficiency.

Masteries

Below are the three Power Sets for Vorazun with the recommended point allocations for each. Note that these are meant to serve a general, all-purpose build that is effective across all maps with no Prestiges selected. You are highly encourged to change these masteries to suit your playstyle and particular challenges you face (e.g. Weekly Mutations).

Power Set 1:

Power	Value	Recommended Points to Add	Further Considerations
Dark Pylon Range	2% per point 60% maximum	0	Dark Pylon range can be used if you intend on using Dark Pylons offensively with units that do not have cloak. For example, Void Rays can benefit from the general cloaking passives that Vorazun offers. By warping in a Dark pylon near your army, you'll be able to take advantage of those buffs, even if you use units that do not naturally have cloak.
Black Hole Duration	2% per point 60% maximum	30

Black Hole Duration is a better mastery as it gives your units more time to deal with enemies.

Power Set 2:

Power	Value	Recommended Points to Add	Further Considerations
Shadow Guard Duration	2 sec per point 60 sec maximum	30	Additional points into Shadow Guard Duration increases up time of the Shadowguard to allow for clearing of the expansion as well as dealing with early game attack waves. It provides Vorazun with an early-game pushing capability. However, they will be sacrificing Time Stop movement speed increases which will allow them to take out more high-priority targets.
Time Stop Unit Speed Increase	1% per point 30% maximum	0

Shadow Guard is generally a more versatile pick, as it provides Vorazun with a way of handling the early game. However, it does mean that Time Stop cannot be used as effectively to snipe targets.

Power Set 3:

Power	Value	Recommended Points to Add	Further Considerations
Chrono Boost Efficiency	1% per point 30% maximum	0	Points may be taken out of the Initial Spear of Adun energy mastery for the Chrono Boost mastery. However, this will sacrifice a player's early-game pushing potential.
Initial and Maximum Spear of Adun Energy	3 per point 90 maximum	30

A full 30 points into the initial energy will provide Vorazun players with the early-game pushing potential they require while they build up army and compounds very well with 30 points into the Shadow Guard duration mastery above. The Shadow Guard will need to be microed more carefully to take advantage of their full timer, but as a result, can solve Vorazun's Early game problems.

Prestiges

Below are the prestiges for Vorazun. Note that "Effective Level" is the level at which the prestige achieves it full effect.

Level	Name	Description	Effective Level	Notes
1	Spirit of Respite	Advantages: Emergency Recall recalls cloaked units to the closest Nexus or Dark Pylon instead of the primary structure and heals life and shields to full. Deploy Dark Pylon cooldown and cost reduced by 50%. Disadvantages: Dark Pylons lose Recall.	13	None
This prestige sacrifices Vorazun's mobility but allows her to quickly bring back recalled units onto the battlefield. The lack of mobility can be solved partially by being aware of mission timings. Another advantage of this prestige is it helps when playing against the Black Death mutator well by keeping infected units away from your mineral line. This prestige should be played while leveling Vorazun up to level 11, as it has no disadvantage.

Level	Name	Description	Effective Level	Notes
2	Withering Siphon	Advantages: Void Stasis, Confusion, Stasis Ward, Disruption Web, and Darkcoil may affect Heroic units and cause enemies to lose 20 life per second. This effect cannot kill. Disadvantages: Combat units deal 25% reduced damage. Stasis Ward duration reduced by 75%.	6	DoT effects do not stack Only way to deal DoT damage to air units is using Confusion
The fact that this prestige does not kill severely limits its potential utility. Additionally, the reduction of the Stasis Ward duration further reduces the effectiveness of this Prestige, since Stasis Ward with Stasis Calibration is a very powerful tool in Vorazun's kit for dealing with attack waves and other difficult situations.

Level	Name	Description	Effective Level	Notes
3	Keeper of Shadows	Advantages: Time Stop becomes targeted. All Shadow Guard who have died are resurrected at the target location. Disadvantages: Shadow Guard duration reduced by 40%.	10	Shadow Guard duration Mastery applied first, then duration reduced by 40% Shadow Guards do not need to be killed. Despawned Shadow Guards will also spawn Time Stop is still a global effect. Target location is where Shadow Guards spawn
This prestige allows Time Stop to get more powerful as the player utilizes their Shadow Guard calldowns. However, the duration reduction of the Shadow Guards will mean that the player will need to clearly know how to utilize them effectively, even while using the Shadow Guard duration mastery.

Both Spirit of Respite and Keeper of Shadows are solid picks for general Vorazun-play, and will come down to the player's preferred playstyle. However, playing Vorazun without a Prestige Talent selected also works fine.

Recommended Army Composition

The recommended army composition for Vorazun is below. Note that this assumes no Prestige talent selected and recommended Mastery Allocations. This is a basic recommendation for your army framework. It is recommended to gain an understanding for each of the units in the Units section and further add tech units so that you are able to better handle the situations you face.

Dark Templar/Corsair builds can handle anything that is thrown at them. The ratio of Dark Templars to Corsairs will depend on the enemy composition you are facing.

Combat Units

For more information on Vorazun's unit stats, comparison between units and upgrade calculations, visit the Data Tables page.

Vorazun's combat units are listed below:

Build Order

Below is the standard economic build order for Vorazun. For more information on how to read and construct your own build orders, please check the Build Order Theory page.

13 Dark Pylon
15 Assimilator
16 Assimilator
18 Gateway
19 Pylon
22 Change Rally to Expansion
23 Cybernetics Core
27 Shadowguard -> Gas -> Main
28 Twilight + Warp Gate
29 Assimilators + Nexus

Gameplay Guide

Playstyle Traps

A common trap for Vorazun players is to go for a mass Void Ray build. While Void Rays are powerful, they are slow and expensive to make, often putting the player behind for the rest of the game.

Dark Templars, combined with Corsairs are much more powerful and can be massed up much more quickly, due to the reduced gas costs of those units. Combined, they can handle most compositions effectively.

Time Stop Effects

Due to internal workings of map files and due to how Time Stop works in terms of mission triggers, Time Stop behaves slightly differently depending on the map with regards to the main objective and attack wave timings. The table below lists out how Time Stop behaves on every map. A "delayed" entry denotes a delay of 20s (the duration of Time Stop).

Mission	Attack Waves	Main Objective	Other Notes
Chain of Ascension	Delayed	Hybrid waves delayed	Ji'Nara can be pushed
Cradle of Death	No delay	Mission timer delayed	-
Dead of Night	N/A	Mission timer delayed	-
Lock & Load	Delayed	Lock overload delayed	AI will start to aggressively push locks
Malwarfare	N/A	Terminal purification delayed	-
Miner Evacuation	Delayed	Ship launch delayed	Delays Panic Launch times
Mist Opportunities	No delay	No impact on Harvesters	-
Oblivion Express	No delay	Train spawns delayed	-
Part & Parcel	No delay	No mission timer delay	Parts cannot be picked up during Time Stop
Rifts to Korhal	No delay	Mission timer delayed	-
Scythe of Amon	No delay	No mission timer delay	-
Temple of the Past	No delay	No change to mission time	-
The Vermillion Problem	No delay	Mission timer delayed	-
Void Launch	Delayed	Shuttle spawns delayed	-
Void Thrashing	Delayed	Void Thrasher spawns delayed	-

Playstyle Tips

• At the start of the game, use your initial Spear of Adun energy to place a Dark Pylon to give you supply and power.
• Your first Shadow Guard should be used to clear your expansion (and if possible, your ally's expansion).
• Most of your Spear of Adun energy should go into using Black Holes. Dark Pylons should only be placed at strategic locations.
• Use your Dark Pylons for mobility by using its Recall ability.
• Cloaked units that take fatal damage will respawn at your Nexus. Make sure you rally them accordingly.
• Stasis Wards can be used to chain-stasis enemies by placing a ward underneath already-stasis'ed enemies. Use this to handle high-HP targets and difficult Mutators.
• In the early game, focus on Air attack upgrades over ground attack upgrades, as Dark Templars will be dealing most of their damage through Shadow Fury, which does not get affected by Ground attack upgrades. Additionally, Corsairs need these upgrades in order to kill enemy units.

Note: All data generated on this site is based on Brutal difficulty. Timings, compositions and other elements may differ on easier difficulty levels.

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