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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 Active Skill [e]

Poison Dart
Used by:	Witch Doctor
Enabled at:	Clvl 6
Skill Description
Fires a deadly dart that deals poison damage and additional damage over time.
Type:	Direct Damage/DoT
Resource Use:	Costs Mana
Skill Rune Effects
Alabaster rune:	Fires a snake
Crimson rune:	Adds Fire damage
Golden rune:	Recovers Mana
Indigo rune:	Fires multiple darts
Obsidian rune:	Slows enemies

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.

Trait Synergies

No synergies with any of the traits are yet 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.
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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 The Witch Doctor uses a blowpipe to fire a poison dart.
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-* None known.
+* No [[synergies]] with any of the [[trait]]s are yet known.
-==[[Rune|Skill Rune]] Effects==
+==Skill Rune Effects==
 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>.
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 * [[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.
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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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