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Black Arrow

Black Arrow

35 Focus	40 yd range

Instant cast	30 sec cooldown

Requires Hunter (Survival)
Requires level 50

Requires Ranged Weapon
Fires a Black Arrow at the target, dealing (440% of Attack power) damage over 20 sec.

Your Black Arrow periodic damage has a 20% chance to trigger Lock and Load, causing your next two Explosive Shots to cost no Focus and trigger no cooldown.

When Black Arrow is dispelled, its cooldown is reset.

Buff

Black Arrow	Magic

Taking (44% of Attack power) Shadow damage every 2 seconds.
20 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

20 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

35 Focus

Range

40 yards (Long)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

30 seconds

GCD

1 second

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 1 every 2 seconds

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 20
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Comment by 2OfDiamonds

well with tweaking it can be made into a nice ability, like this its very much overpowered though.

i'd hit it!

Comment by Vlad

The Black Arrow was a Hunter ability removed from the game before retail release. The reason was simple, it was way to overpowered versus any class, especially melee classes. It is easy to get (level 50) and it's a shadow spell (kinda not fitting the hunter style I guess, oddly enough that Arcane, Frost and Fire is a part of the hunter accessories). Adding on top that this had a 30 seconds duration, who needs Wing Clip if you got this baby?

Comment by 2OfDiamonds

Roughly spoken, shadow hunters are former headhunters who have gone deeply into the arts of voodoo and Loa. However, they have not forgotten their hunting skills, which makes a shadow hunter very dangerous in combat.

They can stand far away from their enemies while throwing weapons at rapid speed, track down enemies with ease, and also heal themselves and allies.

Comment by Heartsalive

This spell is a reference to the spell Sylvanas had in Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne expansion of the same name. She was a High Elven ranger in life witch I think is pretty much the same as being a hunter. In undeath she's a Dark Ranger, a hunter that focuses more on shadow magic and necromancy than nature.
Black Arrow (Autocast)
Adds extra damage to attacks. Units killed while under the effect of Black Arrow will turn into Dark Minions.
http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/darkranger.shtml

Comment by Atarcus

Reading the 3.1 PTR patch notes I came across this from the changes to Lock and Load....

Lock and Load re-designed: You now have a 33/66/100% chance when you trap a target with Freezing Trap, Freezing Arrow or Frost Trap and a 2/4/6% chance when you deal periodic damage with your Immolation Trap or Black Arrow to cause your next 2 Arcane Shot or Explosive Shot spells to trigger no cooldown, cost no mana and consume no ammo. This now has a new spell effect and sound.

But no mention of this spell being implemented in game... the changes above would suggest Black Arrow deals periodic damage, but this wowhead tooltip states it doesn't =\\

...anyone know more?

Comment by Belgorod

It seems as though it has been added as a survival spec talent, as of 3.1.3, according to the talent calculator.

Comment by peevpeehunter

As of Wotlk this ability is now found in the survival talent tree.

Comment by JorgeWow

This is very overpowered if you know how to play your class. my lvl 50 survival hunter took down a lvl 57 gnome rogue enginner twinke rogue he has the best enchants for his level and my hunter beat him with simply using this rotation
Freezing Trap-Disengage-Black Arrow-Arcane shot-Concussive shot-steady shot over and over and always use black arrow when its ready and if LnL procs use the arcane shots fast or youll die

Comment by homegrove

Well now this doesn't scale with attack power.... it's damage will be slightly "less" than appealing =\',date:

Comment by flechett3

Seems like the only real use for this is to tag mobs that won't trigger traps. A good example of when I use this is in the Vortex Pinnacle on the Young Storm Dragons. Otherwise, I stick to rotating traps onto my targets for the LnL proc.

Comment by Ztup

I'm guessing the the answer is no, but does Black Arrow Scale with haste like "All DoTs" were supposed to in Cataclysm? I don't think Serpent sting does either. If the answer is indeed no, maybe that's what's needed to catch SV up to MM in terms of single target dps. Also, imagine getting to a certain haste threshold where you get an extra tick out of explosive shot...

Comment by ingen2

As of 4.3.2 this now has the same chance to proc on single-target as Explosive Trap

Comment by RichardA

~~Since nobody else has said this the last part "and any other enemy within the path of the black arrow" is new and will be implemented in 5.0. I will try and update this post if i ever get beta invite.~~

Ok, what I said was true at the time but I guess Blizzard must have decided not to use it in the release because its not on the spell description on wowhead anymore. However that being said since this spell changes so much (i.e awhile back it used to turn whatever it killed into a zombie) Blizzard could decide they like the addition and put it back in or they could change it to do something else.

Comment by Axebeard

“Then Bard drew his bow-string to his ear. The dragon was circling back, flying low, and as he came the moon rose above the eastern shore and silvered his great wings. ‘Arrow!’ said the bowman. ‘Black Arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!’"

Comment by Pipkins

The shared CD with Explosive Trap can be pain as you end up using Black Arrow pretty much as soon as its available, meaning you can't pop a trap mid-fight:q.

Comment by Bogdanov89

For some reason, this spell does horribly low damage compared to Serpent Sting pretty much until you reach MoPandaria levels.

During WotLK my Black Arrow did 4000 damage over 20 seconds, while my Serpent Sting did over 14,000 damage over 15 seconds - plus had an instant nuke upon application (about 2000 additional damage).

Comment by heartlessnobody

With Assurance of Consequence
Mythic Warforged
Item Level 588 4/4 you can keep this up all the time

Comment by Llokki

Am I correct in assuming that this does shadow damage, and thus benefits from Survival mastery (increased magic damage)?

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