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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 408164

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 566402

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 480785

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

Comment by 20261

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 640671

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 Lock and Load 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 937813

“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 Thottbot

Do this even exist ?lol....

Comment by Thottbot

Blizzard was right to remove this. Slowed to 30% speed for 30 seconds by an ability with 0 mana cost and no cooldown? Besides which, it does damage over time and drains the target's mana? Only Shamans are allowed to be overpowered like this. :)

Comment by Thottbot

BEST:)).GOOD WORK BLIZZARD.DONT DELETE THAT SKILL

Comment by Thottbot

I use it on private server. It rocks!

Comment by Thottbot

ok lets be serios compared to the 5000 critical dmg of the worior execute i think removing that would be a bit harsh!
it would have been better if they would ban the person who spams it!

Comment by Thottbot

or put like a 10 sec cd on it?

Comment by Thottbot

How can I get this? Learn from trainer, recipe, quest?

Comment by Thottbot

OP!

Comment by Thottbot

I think it would be great if the blizzard put the black arrow back, but with cooldown and mana cost! but this ability without cd and mana cost, oh my god:P

Comment by Allakhazam

I'm not sure this spell exists. It's not on any of the Hunter trainers in Ironforge.

Comment by Allakhazam

mabbe its one of these "uberrare drops (books)" that can teach you how to shoot it from new lands that noone had seen yet ?

I am just hoping tho... it looks like a fake (but at least its POSSIBLE for it to be real :D, unlike that "sword of thousand truths" thing)

Comment by Allakhazam

This thing seems OP-ed if it ever was implemented. I mean 70%! SEVENTY! Along with freezing, frost trap, wing clip, and concusive shot, and possibly scatter shot if you're marksman spec. Seems a bit too much slow down moves. Plus the dot it does and mana drain.

Comment by Allakhazam

The thing about this ability that screams fake to me is the mana cost... or lack thereof. Not to mention the 0.0 cooldown.

Comment by Allakhazam

even if this spell isent real but should become real y is it black ARROW. if it requires a bow i will be a very sad troll

Comment by Allakhazam

might be a hero class ability leaked out =b probly not, btut hey keep promising...

Comment by Allakhazam

This is such a fake I mean come on its got like 3 different skills in one. I dont believe blizzard would make a skill that makes all other skills useless.

Comment by Allakhazam

Blizzard might add this as an ability at some point. I am guessing more or less one of the Marksman or Survival Talents for the expansion, as it was an ability of Dark Rangers (and a hero or two) in Warcraft 3.

http://www.battle.net/war3/neutral/darkranger.shtml

I think Hunters would be a little bit overpowered if it had the actual effect it did in Warcraft 3. :P Anything you'd kill with it would turn into a combat pet.

Comment by Allakhazam

imp cons shot!

Comment by Allakhazam

The icon displayed here is identical to the Silencing Shot icon. Perhaps this was a preliminary version of what eventually became Silncing Shot in the 2.0 patch? It must be, as it's listed at level 50, the place where Silencing Shot should be but isn't. Readiness (the level 50 Survival tree talent) is also not in this spell list.

Edited, May 28th 2007 2:02pm by Glornt

Comment by Allakhazam

I played a Hunter in beta and this spell did not exist in-game then either.

It's possible this is a new ability that just hasn't been added officially yet. Or maybe a racial ability, like priests already have.

Comment by Allakhazam

Black Arrow exist! I remembered having a night elf hunter that had the ability. I can see why they removed it, its really OP. But this happened on a private server with a 2.3 patch which I used to play on though.

Comment by Allakhazam

You don't have this on your hunter. This skill was removed from the game while it was still in BETA. It never made it to release.

Comment by Allakhazam

Every time a new patch come there come new talents.. maybe it will come as a talent next time

Comment by Allakhazam

I have this Shot on my lvl 70 hunter it is useful vs Rogues and Paladins but thats that.

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Black Arrow

Black Arrow	Level 90

35 Focus	40 yd range

Instant cast	30 sec cooldown

Fires a Black Arrow at the target, dealing 1570 damage over 20 sec.

Buff

Black Arrow	Level 90

157 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

Apply Aura: Periodic Damage
Value: 1 every 2 seconds (AP mod: 0.126)
PVP Multiplier: 1

Flags

Requires a ranged weapon
Cannot be used while shapeshifted
Initiates Combat (Enabled Auto-Attack)
Discount Power On Miss
Do Not Reset Combat Timers
No Partial Immunity
Force Display Castbar
Do Not Auto Select Target with Initiates Combat
Periodic Can Crit
Next modal spell requires same unit target

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