A fan’s forum post provoked [WIKI]Bashiok [/WIKI]into a rare event; the reveal of a new [WIKI]Witch Doctor skill[/WIKI].
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A blowgun that you can buy different kinds of darts and also have different blowgun skills like a rapid shot and critical shot.
Bashiok: Wow, pretty good guess.
We have a new witch doctor skill called Poison Dart. Pretty much this.[/BLUE]
We saw 34 Witch Doctor Skills at last year’s BlizzCon, and nothing like [WIKI]Poison Dart[/WIKI] was among them. There’s no telling where it is in the skill tree, now that the 3 skill trees have been combined/reformed, but this would clearly have been in with the Voodoo Skills, where all of the direct attack, mage-like spells are were located.
Most (all?) of the WD spells available for use at BlizzCon last year were fairly slow-acting. [WIKI]Skull of Flame[/WIKI] has to be thrown across the screen. [WIKI]Corpse Spiders[/WIKI] and [WIKI]Locust Swarm[/WIKI] have to swarm/crawl over the enemy. [WIKI]Plague of Toads[/WIKI] have to hop their way there, [WIKI]Charged Bolt[/WIKI] style. [WIKI]Fire Bats[/WIKI] deal DoT, like [d2w]Inferno[/d2w]. With magical attacks like those, something like Poison Dart, that shoots out a lot of quick poisoned projectiles, would be very useful, to mix up the speed of damage delivery and aid in nailing fast-moving enemies.
It’ll be interesting to find out if this is a low, medium, or high level spell. A BB-gun, or a boss-killer? Personally, I envision it as a low/mid-level ability. I picture it quickly dealing draining poison damage, potentially to a number of targets, kind of like [d2w]Strafe[/d2w] crossed with [d2w]Teeth[/d2w]. The sort of attack that you’d use on lots of small enemies, to offset their health regen right at the start of a battle. Rather than some kind of mega killing attack that works against bosses.