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Arcane Shot

Arcane Shot	Level 100

30 Focus	40 yd range

Instant cast
Requires Hunter
Requires level 1

Requires Ranged Weapon
An instant shot that causes 110% Arcane damage.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Arcane

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

30 Focus

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Normalized Weapon Damage
Value: 1

Effect #2

Weapon Damage - %
Value: 110

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Comments

Comment by Duelicion

Before the new talent point trees I thought this wasn't a great help. But now it seems that Arcane shot has replaced the loved Aimed shot. First of it is instant cast and with the right spec can crit for over 1500 easily. It is worth using and putting talent point into it for the cool down.
One other thing about this shot. In Scholomance there are certain mobs that can only be damaged by magic attacks. Hunters this is about your only attack that you can do to hurt them. Trust me I have been in many instances where this attack has saved the group from a wipe. To me this is a must for all hunters.

Comment by skitzosmeagol

it was recently buffed in 2.0 and now scales with AP, the more AP the more damage :) unlike before 2.0 where it hit for very little damage and wasn't worth shooting, now it seems to be a substantial part of the hunter's DPS.

Comment by jmills

Yeah, arcane shot was given a good buff. Since the patch I've been hit with some 2k+ arcane shots. Nearly aimed shot damage values, and instant cast.

Comment by hellfirezkiv

How does this calculate in damage? I remembed AS being in static damage but i heard this "Before the Storm" patch buffed it significantly.

Comment by bjornolfr

With WoW v.2.0, Arcane Shot got a huge buff, I am seeing crits as high as 1300, whereas before it never hit for over 450.

Comment by Gulorg

Right now a lvl 48 hunters Arcane shot does 220 damage, can crit for up to 600. It's insane, not worth spending the talents point in imp arcane shot unless you are kiting a lot.

Comment by Garrior

Agreed. Curently, in raiding, the cooldown is unnessecary. You will not be using this much in raids.

Comment by redpenguin

this is a very useful attack,because one thing is that there are very little items in game and very few ways to build up a strong arcane resistance,meaing more damage less resistance and mana,its very good improved also,anoyther thing is it always hits with a few more damage points than it says ,very mana efficient and worth wile,great while chasing a runnner in PVP

Comment by nutschua

This is basically the bread and butter of hunters with patch 2.0, IMO. With T2 gear, i have critted as much as 1.9K on arcane, 1.4K ave. it doesn't use the same cooldown as Aimed Shot anymore, that alone makes it uber. But what i love about Arcane Shot the best, is that you can shoot it while you're moving or while you're kiting. Not worth spending the talent points in Improved Arcane Shot? Think about this, 5/5 Improved arcane shot decreases the cooldown a full second, so that's a powerful shot critting for 1.4K ave., once every 5 secs. Very very useful shot in PVE and PVP. Crit twice with a multi-shot crit in between and you kill cloth-wearers with just 3 taps on your keyboard.

Comment by damen31415

1st Macro:
/cast Hunter's Mark(Rank #)
/PetAttack

2nd Macro:
/castsequence reset=combat/target Serpent Sting(Rank #), Arcane Shot(Rank #), Arcane Shot(Rank #), Arcane Shot(Rank #)

3rd Macro:
/castsequence reset=combat/target Concussive Shot, Steady Shot(Rank #)

Hints for Optimizing your action bar: Put the Mark/Pet Attack Macro in slot 0, and put the Shoot Macro in slot 9. Then link the scroll down button on your mouse to slot 0, and the scroll up to slot 9. Put the Concussive Shot Macro in slot - and put your Frost Trap in slot =. Then link shift + mouse scroll up to -, and shift + scroll down to =.

Presto, your most useful spells in the most useful place, and you have freed up slots 1-8 for Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Multishot, etc.

Comment by damen31415

1st Macro:
/cast Hunter's Mark(Rank #)
/PetAttack

2nd Macro:
/castsequence reset=combat/target Serpent Sting(Rank #), Arcane Shot(Rank#), Arcane Shot(Rank#), Arcane Shot(Rank#)

3rd Macro:
/castsequence reset=combat/target Concussive Shot, Steady Shot(Rank #)

Hints for Optimizing your action bar: Put the Mark/Pet Attack Macro in slot 0, and put the Shoot Macro in slot 9. Then link the scroll down button on your mouse to slot 0, and the scroll up to slot 9. Put the Concussive Shot Macro in slot - and put your Frost Trap in slot =. Then link shift + mouse scroll up to -, and shift + scroll down to =.

Presto, your most useful spells in the most useful place, and you have freed up slots 1-8 for Raptor Strike, Mongoose Bite, Multishot, etc.

Comment by damen31415

Comment by P51mus

Very inefficient compared to steady shot, though is one of a hunter's few extra shots before reaching the BC area.

Good shot for kiting since it can be used on the move, and good for pvp.

But please don't use it every time the cooldown is up in pve. It's making your mana drain faster, for about the same effect as steady shot.

Comment by Linksoul

Range attack power times 0.15 right?
So 10 range attack power is 1.5 dmg plus the bonus?

Comment by Wolfos

From what I can see. Shammys will be severly done over by this (Earth shield and Shamanistic rage being magic dispel effects). Since this is an arcane school damage ability can it be affected by grounding totem? Otherwise shammys won't beat hunter 1vs1 again 0-o

Comment by kjeksomanen

Definitly a very very good spell. Kinda unbalanced too if you ask me.

Comment by firstartemis

Just a little theory craft.

Wep: Sunfury Bow of the Phenix and Mysterious Arrow

Steady shot will do 589 + .2* RAP

Arcane Shot will do 492 + .15 RAP.

If the expac was like the previous one with gear, Steady shot will destroy arcane shot in terms of damage.

Comment by rusty85

Agreed... If they removed arcane shot from the 'purge' that will be a waste skill, as we knows as, chimera shot, explosion shot, kill shot got shared cooldown and they all seems stronger, less mana, or more effective in dps...

Comment by bero

I wouldn't use it as a survival hunter, but as a BM hunter
how can u say that when u have a great talent like Lock and Load that greatly utilize arcane shot

Comment by lauritz001

Do I get this right?

It is RAP (Ranged Attack Power) * 0.15 + 492

So if I got a RAP of 2000 it is

2000 * 0.15 + 492 = 792

So my Arcane Shot would deal 792 DMG?

If so, I glad I found out, this @ has been irritating me, but I think I'm beginning to understand the meening of all this :S
And please down downgrade just because it is a Question, might be useful for somebody...

Comment by Schubaal

Mana cost reduced to 5% of base (down from 7%) in 3.0.8 (7% base for lower ranks, down from 11%)

Comment by wowman12

As of patch 3.0.8, the mana cost of this spell has been lowered to match Improved Steady Shot (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=37505)

Comment by Nephandius

Just a question:
I'm new to survival spec, I've always been BM and my secondary spec was MM. With the recent patch BM is totally pointless if you want to be competitive for a DPS raid spot, and MM is inferior to Survival as well. So, much to my own disappointment I did what almost every other BM or MM hunter did, I went Survival.

So far I'm getting more DPS than the MM spec I tried.

My issue: I put Explosive shot into a cast sequence macro with serpents sting and arcane shot and after I hit explosive shot it seems to put both explosive and arcane shot on CD. Is this normal?

in case anyone wants the macro:

/castsequence reset=15/target Serpents sting, Explosive shot, Arcane shot, Explosive shot, Arcane shot, Explosive shot, Arcane shot, Explosive shot, Arcane shot

Basically I spam my steady shot and go back to this whenever it was off cooldown, but it always locked up at arcane shot.

Comment by Clbull

At 5000 Attack Power, this ability will just deal 1242 (492 + 750) damage. Is it just me or does that seem extremely weak for an instant ability?

I'm pretty sure that Steady Shot before the 3.0.8 nerf did even more damage than this.

Comment by shmog

heres another way:

1.cast hunter's mark
2.concussive shot
3.arcane shot
4.serpent sting
5.run
6.repeat when arcane shot cooldown wears off

Comment by Epsilon7

boom headshot.

Comment by Wildhorn

As 4.0.1 (even after the hotfix to give 15-25% bonus damage to signature abilities) Arcane Shot deal more damage per focus than Kill Command, Chimera Shot (except if it is to refresh Serpent Sting) and Explosive Shot (except it Lock and Load proc).

Comment by Monnezza

Given that focus as a resource is limited over time, and that it s probably impossible in any circustancies to just indefinitely spam expensive shots (not steady or cobra i mean) without eventually running out of focus i wonder if DpF should be taken into account as the new primary parameter instead of DpS.

Comment by homegrove

Yeah what is up with that, I thought kill command was supposed to be the BM move, but I looked at it the other day and said.... it's not doing as much damage, yet costs more focus. /facepalm

Comment by JustAnt

We might call this shot a "focus dump" if all your other shots are on CD and you still have alot of focus left!

Comment by singe101

I just started a hunter two days ago, so these are just initial impressions. But I am really impressed with the damage of Arcane Shot. I keep an open mind and try different rotations, but also with an open mind I have hit some higher level mobs with an Arcane Shot 4-spam, usually eviscerating them in about 3 seconds. I mean the pet barely gets in an attack. Or one can mix in concussive and steady to a very simplified rotation, and on to more elaborate ones including pet attacks and the like. Even with improved serpent sting, AS cedes nothing. It started as my main trigger (thumb) button on the DeathAdder and will keep that honor.

Comment by Eillesthis

As of 4.3 when procs, in addition to the buff and the graphic above your head, the buttons for Arcane Shot and Explosive Shot on your Action Bar have glowing circling borders, the way traps do after Trap Launcher.

Comment by DonLexone

Patch 6.0.2 Where's f@#$ing Arcane Shot?

Comment by shadowhunter4786

For marksman hunters wondering where it went, Aimed Shot replaces it as the primary focus dump as of patch 6.0.2.

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