Poison Dart

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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.


Skillrune 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.

<skill class="WitchDoctor">Poison Dart</skill>


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.



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