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Guided Arrow

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Guided Arrow is a level 18 skill from the Amazon's Bow & Crossbow Skill Tree.

Guided Arrow

Required Level: 18
Prerequisites: Magic Arrow, Cold Arrow, Multiple Shot
Synergies: None.
Details: Guided Arrows will seek a target, changing direction and pursuing an enemy well off the visible screen. This skill adds considerable damage at higher levels, and since it always hits (bypassing defense, though it can still be blocked) it can be the best choice to kill very high defense monsters, such as Diablo and Baal.

  • If you do not target a monster directly, the Guided Arrows will seek the target nearest the cursor when you shoot.
  • Prior to v1.09 this was the best single target arrow skill, since Piercing worked with it, and allowed each arrow to hit the same target multiple times. This was a bug and no longer functions.
  • Guided arrows select a target based on the Amazon's line of sight. If a monster is behind a wall or other obstacle and could not be hit with a straight shot, the Guided Arrow will not acquire it, even if you aim to the side of the wall. (This sucks.)
  • This skill is very handy to finish off running targets, such as leapers, teleporting bosses, or other players in PVP, since once locked on, you can continue firing at them even if they are well off your visible screen.
Skill Level Progression [e]
SlvlMana Cost

+Damage

SlvlMana Cost

+Damage

SlvlMana Cost

+Damage

SlvlMana Cost

+Damage

185%66.730%115.555%164.280%
27.710%76.535%125.260%17485%
37.515%86.240%13565%183.790%
47.220%9645%144.770%193.595%
5725%105.750%154.575%203.2

Lore:
Hunting and fighting during the night and in the deepest darkness is a necessary skill to any daughter of the Amazon islands. Devoted disciples of Athulua can, with great difficulty and strict discipline, train themselves to fire their arrows at targets blindly, as if the hand of Athulua herself guided the arrows. As might be imagined, this is an art that the Sisters of the Sightless Eye have long envied and yet have never replicated.