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ObsoleteBlack Arrow

ObsoleteBlack Arrow

6% of base mana	35 yd range

Instant	30 sec cooldown

Requires Hunter
Requires level 80

Requires Ranged Weapon
Fires a Black Arrow at the target, increasing all damage done by you to the target by 6% and dealing [Ranged attack power * 0.115 + (4.6% of Attack power) * 5] Shadow damage over 15 sec. Black Arrow shares a cooldown with Trap spells.

Buff

ObsoleteBlack Arrow

All damage taken increased by 6%, and (4.6% of Attack power) Shadow damage every 3 seconds.
15 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

15 seconds

School

Shadow

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Magic

GCD category

Normal

Cost

6% of base mana

Range

35 yards (Hunter)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 553 every 3 seconds

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Mod All Damage Done % by Caster
Value: 6%
Affected Spells:

Tranquilizing Shot	Arcane Shot	Multi-Shot
Steady Shot	Kill Shot	Chimaera Shot
Focus Fire	Aimed Shot	Explosive Shot

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Comment by philippecote3

I hope this comes out, I might have to respec survival.
Any one think this will share a cooldown with something?

Comment by eevee

It's a trap!

Comment by Metle

My question is, will it override immolation traps debuff? seeing it's not related to stings.

Comment by Vanderez

I don't know if I like all the spelldamage from our shots.

Explosive shot: Fire damage (Yes I know ES and AS shares CD)
Arcane shot : Arcane damage
Black Arrow: Shadow damage

With Survival having both Explosive Shot and Black Arrow, we will have a problem at certain fights in the future, where a boss might be immune to either shadow or fire.

Am I the only one, who starts to get a bit worried about this change to survival hunters?

Comment by Tanaburs

I like a LOT what blizz is making to the hunter class.

With 3 plate classes in the game, dealing only physical damage would make hunter's life hard unless they used....new spells with magical damage.

I just hope they follow that example with rogues. Shadow damage is an obvious choice to them, and that way they would have sume use aganist the ret pally and DK plague...

Comment by Ianbray

A little history on Black Arrow from www.wowwiki.com

Black Arrow used to be a hunter ability that existed in World of Warcraft beta, but was removed from the game before retail release. It slowed the target's speed by 70%, dealt 150 Shadow damage and drained 150 mana over 30 seconds. This was probably removed because it was too strong and would allow hunters to become extremely superior to many casters.

It was rumored that this ability dropped from mobs in Molten Core, in a similar manner to how Tranquilizing Shot was taught to hunters from a drop from the boss Lucifron.

Comment by TK0680

Any idea if it'll proc Lock and Load?

Comment by piggywiggy7

Yay, just what we hunters needed. Another button to press.

Comment by Bent

It might seem as the target take 6% more dmg from everything that is attacking the target, this however is not the case.

Black Arrow Magic

All damage taken increased by 6%,
and 553 Shadow damage every 3 seconds.

The debuff says "All Damage taken increased by 6%", but if you read the tooltip on Black Arrow it says:

Black Arrow Fires a Black Arrow at the target, increasing all damage done by you
to the target by 6% and dealing Shadow damage over 15 sec.

All damage done by you to the target, so this debuff does not increase ALL damage taken, just ALL damage for you.

If this would be a raid wide debuff it would be in the paladin's spellbook *wink wink*

Comment by Shadowdarksider

Dark Ranger (Sylvanas) in Warcraft III was using a spell "Black Arrow" :)

Comment by ajjamajako

this is quite an awesome ability for pvp since 3.2, as you have snake trap, frost/freezing trap and black arrow (on same CD as the other 2 fire based traps) on separate CDs. Meaning you can have this up on your target most of the time in while using cc of the other 2 traps simultaneously. I really like this change...

rephrased for easier understanding :)

Comment by Ethesen

Wrong. There are 3 categories of traps. Look at this:

1st category (fire)

Immolation trap
Explosive trap
Black Arrow

2nd category (frost)

Frost trap
Freezing trap
Freezing arrow

3rd category (nature)

Snake trap

You can use a trap from each category at the same time.

Comment by Nerobyrne

The idea behind this spell is the same as freezing arrow, allowing you to launch a trap from afar. It's great when you use survival in dungeons, because it can get annoying having to run everywhere to place traps, which cuts down on autoshots.

Comment by Arcdragon

When I see a target hit by black arrow, the debuff reads as "damage taken increased by 6%," does this include damage from all sources or just from the hunter who fired it?

Comment by Merton

Does anyone know if this spell is at all affected by haste? Or for that matter is serpent sting as well? I've noticed DoTs and HoTs that ARE affected by haste and was curious if this fell under the same category as a result of haste.

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