Black Arrow

For the NPC in Kun-Lai Summit, see Black Arrow (grummle). For the Forsaken battleship, see The Black Arrow.

Black Arrow
Black Arrow Level 30 Marksmanship hunter talent 10 Focus 15 sec cooldown Instant Requires Ranged Weapon Fires a Black Arrow at the target, dealing (640% of Attack power) Shadow damage over 8 sec and summoning a Dark Minion to taunt it for the duration. When you kill an enemy, the remaining cooldown on Black Arrow will reset.
Properties
Class	Hunter
School	Shadow
Cooldown	15 seconds
Radius	40 yd
Other information
Level available	30
Related debuffs
Magic Black Arrow Taking (160% of Attack power) Shadow damage every 2 seconds. Duration: 8 seconds Dark Whisper Taunted. Duration: 8 seconds

Black Arrow is a level 30 Marksmanship hunter talent.

Notes and trivia

• Black Arrow is one of the Dark Ranger hero unit's abilities in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. It increases the damage of the Dark Ranger's attacks, and enemies killed while the effect is active are raised as skeletal Dark Minions.
• Many dark rangers in World of Warcraft can use abilities by this name. Notably, Sylvanas Windrunner uses a Black Arrow ability during her encounter in the Sanctum of Domination.
• One of Sylvanas's abilities in Heroes of the Storm is called Black Arrows. When activated, it causes all of her attacks to briefly stun non-player enemies.
• Sylvanas uses a black arrow to stun the Lich King during the Escape from Arthas encounter in the Halls of Reflection.

Patch changes

• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Removed.
  
• Hotfix (2017-04-17): Damage increased by 4%.
  
• Hotfix (2017-01-17): Damage increased by 8%.
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now costs 10 Focus (was 40).
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now a level 30 Marksmanship talent (was a level 50 Survival ability). Redesigned.

  Previous effect: Fires a Black Arrow at the target, dealing (567% 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. (35 Focus cost, 24 sec cooldown)
  

• Hotfix (2015-07-20): Damage increased by 25%.
  
• Patch 6.1.0 (2015-02-24): Now has a cooldown of 24 seconds (down from 30 seconds).
  
• Hotfix (2014-10-17): Damage increased by 15%.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
  • The effects of [Lock and Load] have been incorporated into Black Arrow.
  • Black Arrow's cooldown is reset if it is dispelled.
    
• Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Black Arrow now deals 10% more damage.
  
• Patch 4.3.2 (2012-01-31): Now ticks every 2 seconds for 20 seconds, as opposed to every 3 seconds for 15 seconds. The total damage dealt by the ability is unchanged.
  
• Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): Damage done has been increased by roughly 40%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): No longer increases the target's damage taken. Moved from tier 9 to tier 7, now requires [Wyvern Sting].
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Ranks 5 and 6 training costs have been lowered significantly.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Added.
  

External links

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