Arrow Cart

This article is about the WvW object. For other uses, see Arrow Cart (disambiguation).

An arrow cart is an area denial siege weapon that fires a spread of arrows with a maximum range of 2,500 units and an AoE target cap of 25. They are most effective against players and NPCs and can deal some damage to other siege weapons and gates, but deal no damage against walls. Arrow carts are both common and cheap, and can often be seen used in offensive and defensive manners. Their attacks do AoE damage over multiple ticks, creating persistent areas of denial which are difficult for players to stand or build siege in. They require line of sight, and their damage extends through gates.

Players can only be damaged by arrow cart attacks every 0.5 seconds and the damage of arrow cart skills is reduced by 50% against enemy siege weapons.

Skills[edit]

#	Skill		Description
1	Fire	3	Fire your arrow cart at the target area.
1	Fire Improved Arrows	3	Fire arrows with increased range. (Replaces Fire for players with rank 1 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
1	Fire Distant Volley	3	Fire arrows with increased range and damage. (Replaces Fire for players with at least rank 2 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
1	Fire Devastating Arrows	3	Fire arrows with increased range, damage, and radius. (Replaces Fire for players with at least rank 4 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
2	Fire Crippling Arrows	9	Fire your arrow cart at the target area. Arrows that hit cripple the target.
2	Fire Improved Crippling Arrows	9	Fire crippling arrows with increased range. (Replaces Fire Crippling Arrows for players with rank 1 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
2	Fire Reaping Arrows	9	Fire crippling arrows with increased range and damage. (Replaces Fire Crippling Arrows for players with rank 2 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
2	Fire Staggering Arrows	9	Fire crippling arrows with increased range, damage, and duration. (Replaces Fire Crippling Arrows for players with rank 3 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
2	Fire Suffering Arrows	9	Fire crippling arrows with increased range, damage, radius, and duration. (Replaces Fire Crippling Arrows for players with at least rank 4 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
3	Fire Barbed Arrows	9	Fire your arrow cart at the target area. Arrows that hit bleed the target.
3	Fire Improved Barbed Arrows	9	Fire bleeding arrows with increased range. (Replaces Fire Barbed Arrows for players with rank 1 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
3	Fire Penetrating Sniper Arrows	9	Fire bleeding arrows with increased range and damage. (Replaces Fire Barbed Arrows for players with rank 2 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
3	Fire Exsanguinating Arrows	9	Fire arrows with increased range and damage. Applies additional bleeding conditions. (Replaces Fire Barbed Arrows for players with rank 3 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
3	Fire Merciless Arrows	9	Fire arrows with increased range, damage, radius, and duration. (Replaces Fire Barbed Arrows for players with at least rank 4 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
4	Toxic Unveiling Volley	60	Fire arrows that poison all targets and reveal stealthed targets. (Available to players with rank 5 in Arrow Cart Mastery)

Related world abilities[edit]

Upgrade	Rank	Ability	Cost
Arrow Cart Mastery Total Cost: 60 Improve arrow cart skills	1	Increases range on all arrow cart skills	3
	2	Increases damage on all arrow cart skills	7
	3	Increases effectiveness of applied conditions	10
	4	Increases radius on all arrow cart skills	15
	5	Skill: Toxic Unveiling Shot — Removes stealth and applies poison to targets	25

Rank 1 increases range on all arrow cart skills by 300.
Rank 2 increases damage on all arrow cart skills by 25%.
Rank 3 doubles the Condition Duration on all arrow cart skills (this does not count towards the condition duration cap).
Rank 4 increases radius on all arrow cart skills by 180.
Rank 5 adds the skill Toxic Unveiling Volley which removes stealth and applies poison to target.

See also: Siege weapon#Related world abilities

Variants[edit]

Arrow Carts[edit]

Regular arrow carts are built with Arrow Cart Blueprints, which can be bought from Siege Masters for either 6 or 6 . Once deployed, they require 25 to build.

Superior Arrow Carts[edit]

Superior arrow carts deal 50% more damage than regular arrow carts and require 35 to build. They are built with Superior Arrow Cart Blueprints, which are made in the mystic forge. They apparently do not require line of sight (possibly a bug).

Guild Arrow Carts[edit]

Guild arrow carts are functionally the same as superior arrow carts, but they only cost 25 to build and also display the emblem of the owner's guild. They can be built with Guild Arrow Cart Blueprints which can be crafted by a Scribe (requires 200 ) or purchased in batches of four from a Guild commendation trader for 12 + 3