Barrage
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Elite Bow Attack. All your Preparations are removed. Shoot arrows at target foe and up to 6 foes adjacent to your target. These arrows strike for +5...17...20 damage if they hit.
- Concise description
Elite Bow Attack. Deals +5...17...20 damage. Hits 6 foes adjacent to your target. All your preparations are removed.
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[edit] Acquisition
- Prophecies
- Factions
- Nightfall
- Commander Kubeh (Arkjok Ward, only during the quest The Great Escape)
- Bearer of Misfortune (Domain of Pain)
- Eye of the North
[edit] Related skills
[edit] Notes
- Since the extra arrows are fired at foes adjacent to your target, always try to target an enemy in the middle of a large group.
- Each of Barrage's arrows counts as a separate attack. Effects that trigger on attack/hit can trigger multiple times; however, some skills have no effect, or only affect the first arrow.
- Contrary to the description, Barrage will not fire an arrow at your target and 6 adjacent targets as the maximum attainable amount of arrows shot by Barrage is 6 arrows.
- No effect
- Preparations are removed.
- Affect the first arrow only
- Most paragon chants work on the first hit only, e.g. Anthem of Flame, "Go for the Eyes!", Anthem of Envy, "Find Their Weakness!".
- Poison Tip Signet and other skills that only effect the next hit.
- Affect many arrows
- Nightmare Weapon and Splinter Weapon up to the "next # successful attacks" limit of those skills.
- Affect all arrows
- Conjure Lightning, Conjure Flame and Conjure Frost.
- Heart of Holy Flame and Judge's Insight converts all arrows to holy damage.
- Zealous and Vampiric weapons will trigger multiple times. A Zealous weapon will (with high enough expertise) sustain the cost with just two targets.
- Sundering weapons trigger independently for each arrow.
- Vigorous Spirit will be a great boon.
- Hexes such as Empathy, Spiteful Spirit, and Insidious Parasite are extremely dangerous to Barragers.
- Adrenaline is gained for each hit, so Barrage is a way to quickly gain Adrenaline for spamming useful shouts such as "Save Yourselves!"
- Most spirits influencing bow attacks will work on every attack (e.g. Favorable Winds).
- Non-preparation attack modifiers will work, including Aggressive Refrain and Burning Refrain.
- Critical hits are checked individually for each arrow. Each arrow can trigger an Assassin's energy gain from the Critical Strikes attribute and the skills Critical Defenses, Critical Agility and Critical Eye. Skills that improve the chance to score a critical hit act on every arrow - examples include Critical Eye, and Way of the Master.
- Order of Pain will also trigger on all arrows, as long as you are dealing physical damage.
- No effect
- Primary PvP-only Rangers will be able to use this skill, even if it is not unlocked on your account.
