Difference between revisions of "Poison Dart"

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Poison Dart is a Witch Doctor Tier 3 skill unlocked at level 6. It's a ranged attack in which the Witch Doctor blows a poisoned dart at the enemy, dealing initial poison damage and damage over-time.

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]

Poison Dart Active, 5 ranks
Used by:	Witch Doctor
Skill Description:
Fires a deadly poison dart that deals X-X poison damage and an additional X-X poison damage over X seconds.
Skill Details:
Type:	Direct Damage
Quantity:	Duration
Effect:	Direct
School:	Poison
Mana cost:	Unknown
Cast time:	Unknown
Duration:	None
Cooldown:	Unknown
Synergies:	Unknown
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

The Witch Doctor uses a blowpipe to fire a poison dart.

Skill Design

This low-level direct damage skill first appeared in 2010. The casting animation is fairly slow, but the projectile itself is very fast and accurate.

Skill Rank Table

Blowing darts.

Rank 1: Fires a deadly poison dart that deals X-X poison damage and an additional X-X poison damage over X seconds.

Synergies

None known.

Skill Rune Effects

The rune effects for Poison Dart were revealed at BlizzCon 2010 by Wyatt Cheng in the gameplay panel^[1].

Alabaster rune: A snake is fired out to bite the face of the enemy.
Crimson rune: Substantial fire damage is added to the dart.
Golden rune: Mana is recovered with dart hits.
Indigo rune: Grants machine gun darts, allowing four (or more) to be fired in very rapid succession.
- Rank one: Fires 2 darts.
- Rank two: Fires 4 darts.
Obsidian rune: Darted enemies are slowed.

Development

Poison Dart was revealed as a Witch Doctor skill in early August, 2010. A fan in the official forums proposed a dart gun weapon for the Witch Doctor, and got more than he bargained for in the reply^[2]:

Bashiok: Wow, pretty good guess. We have a new witch doctor skill called Poison Dart. Pretty much this.

It was first seen in Blizzcon 2010 and skill runes were also shown at this moment. It was one of the Witch Doctor's starting skills, and Flux obligingly wrote about it:[1]

The main attack skill that the WD started with, this one was also disappointing while un-runed. It’s pretty much what you’d think; a tiny green projectile that deals impact damage and some DoT to the target. The dart moves quickly through the air so it’s got good accuracy, but the casting (blowing) animation is very slow. Lift the pipe, squat down into the shooting stance, fire, stand back up again, repeat. This results in a poor DPS, even though the actual dart isn’t terrible.

Media

You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:

References

↑ BlizzCon 2010 Gameplay Panel Transcript
↑ Bashiok forum post -- Incgamers 4th Aug 2010

BlizzCon 2010 Witch Doctor Hands-on Report

[1] BlizzCon 2010 Gameplay Panel Transcript

[2] Bashiok forum post -- Incgamers 4th Aug 2010

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-'''Poison Dart''' is a [[Witch Doctor]] Tier 3 [[Witch Doctor skills|skill]] unlocked at [[clvl|character level]] 6.
+'''Poison Dart''' is a [[Witch Doctor]] Tier 3 [[Witch Doctor skills|skill]] unlocked at [[clvl|level]] 6. It's a ranged attack in which the [[Witch Doctor]] blows a poisoned dart at the enemy, dealing initial poison damage and damage over-time.
-It's a ranged attack in which the [[Witch Doctor]] blows a poisoned dart at the enemy, dealing initial poison damage and damage over-time.
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 |ranks= 5
 |user= Witch Doctor
-|tree= Voodoo
+|tree= Tier 3
 |description= Fires a deadly poison dart that deals X-X poison damage and an additional X-X poison damage over X seconds.
 |type= Direct Damage
 |quantity= Duration
 |effect= Direct
-|school= [[Magical]]
+|school= [[Poison]]
 |resource= [[Mana]]
 |cost= Unknown
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 ==[[Rune|Skill Rune]] Effects==
-The [[rune]]s for Poison Dart were discussed at [[BlizzCon 2010]]. [[Wyatt Cheng]] narrated a short video of them in action<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/diablo-3-gameplay-panel-transcript/P2/ Diablo 3 Gameplay Panel Transcript] - Incgamers 23/10/10</ref>:
+The [[rune]] effects for Poison Dart were revealed at [[BlizzCon 2010]] by [[Wyatt Cheng]] in the gameplay panel<ref>[http://www.diablowiki.net/Gameplay_Panel_Blizzcon_2010#Skill_Runes BlizzCon 2010 Gameplay Panel Transcript]</ref>.
-<blockquote>The Witch Doctor's new skill called Poison Dart and that kind of fit with the Power Rune before but then we changed the skill so we had another version that would make it a rapid-fire skill and then it worked really well with Multistrike but then we had this wacky idea of the Witch Doctor being able to shoot a live snake that would attach itself to monster's faces and stun them. Where does that fit? It doesn't fit anywhere so we just changed the names of the runes then we can come up with as many kinds of wacky ideas as we want.</blockquote>
-With that said, the rune effects for poison dart are as follows:
 * [[Alabaster rune]]: A snake is fired out to bite the face of the enemy.
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 ==Development==
-Poison Dart was revealed as a Witch Doctor skill in early August, 2010. It came from a forum post by D3 CM [[Bashiok]]. A fan proposed a dart gun weapon for the Witch Doctor, and got more than he bargained for in the reply. <ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/a-new-witch-doctor-skill-revealed/ Bashiok forum post] - Incgamers August 4, 2010</ref>:
+'''Poison Dart''' was revealed as a Witch Doctor skill in early August, 2010. A fan in the official forums proposed a dart gun weapon for the Witch Doctor, and got more than he bargained for in the reply<ref>[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/a-new-witch-doctor-skill-revealed/ Bashiok forum post] -- Incgamers 4th Aug 2010</ref>:
+<blue><b>Bashiok:</b> Wow, pretty good guess. We have a new witch doctor skill called Poison Dart. Pretty much this.</blue>
+It was first seen in [[Blizzcon 2010]] and skill runes were also shown at this moment. It was one of the Witch Doctor's starting skills, and [[Flux]] obligingly wrote about it:[http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/hands-on-from-blizzcon-mega-pvm-report-witch-doctor]
-::'''A blowgun that you can buy different kinds of darts and also have different blowgun skills like a rapid shot and critical shot.'''
+<blockquote>''The main attack skill that the WD started with, this one was also disappointing while un-runed. It’s pretty much what you’d think; a tiny green projectile that deals impact damage and some DoT to the target. The dart moves quickly through the air so it’s got good accuracy, but the casting (blowing) animation is very slow. Lift the pipe, squat down into the shooting stance, fire, stand back up again, repeat. This results in a poor DPS, even though the actual dart isn’t terrible.</blockquote>
-::'''Bashiok:''' Wow, pretty good guess. We have a new witch doctor skill called '''Poison Dart'''. Pretty much this.
-Poison Dart was added to the game after the three-skill tree arrangement was removed, so it was never officially assigned to a skill tree, but it would clearly have been in the [[Voodoo Skill Tree]] if it had been, along with all the other spell-like Witch Doctor direct attacks.
-It was first seen in [[Blizzcon 2010]] and skill runes were also shown at this moment.
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+==Media==
+You can find pictures in the Diablo III screenshot and picture gallery:
+* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/ Diablo III screenshots and pictures]
+* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/gallery/search.php?keywords=Poison+Dart&cat=all '''Poison Dart''' specific gallery contents]
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+==References==
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+* [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/hands-on-from-blizzcon-mega-pvm-report-witch-doctor BlizzCon 2010 Witch Doctor Hands-on Report]
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-* [http://www.diii.net/blog/comments/full-witch-doctor-skills/ Full Witch Doctor Skill Trees and Stats]
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