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Revision as of 23:18, 19 September 2011

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Poison Dart is a Physical Realm Witch Doctor skill unlocked at level 1. 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

Poison Dart in action

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


Skill Effects

The following is a very quick list. See the Poison Dart rune effects page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.


Icon Skill Description
IconPoisonDart.png Poison Dart
Physical Realm
(Level 1)

[e]

Cost: 9.8 Mana

Fires a deadly poison dart that deals 100% weapon damage as Poison and an additional 40% weapon damage per second as Poison over 2 seconds.

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Snake to the Face

[e]

Every shot has a 37% chance to be a snake that clamps on to the target and stuns it for 3 seconds.

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Flaming Dart

[e]

Ignite the dart, allowing it to deal a full 227% weapon damage as Fire at once.

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Spined Dart

[e]

Gain 207 Mana every time a dart hits a target.

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Splinters

[e]

Shoot 3 darts at once that deal 63% weapon damage as Poison each.

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Numbing Dart

[e]

Targets hit by a dart have their movement slowed by 60% for 6 seconds.

Note: Information is based on a level 60 character and rank 7 runestones.


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.


Synergies


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:[1]

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.

Skill tiers were removed for the July 2011 Press Event, and Poison Dart became a level 1 skill.


Media

Poison Dart can be seen in action on video here:

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


References

  1. Bashiok forum post -- Incgamers 4th Aug 2010