Arrow Cart

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

Arrow Cart

Location

World versus World

Type

Siege weapon

Interact

Yes

Destructible

Yes

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.

Usage

See also: Blueprint

• Building an arrow cart requires an Arrow Cart Blueprint or an Infinite Arrow Cart Blueprint and consumes 25  to complete.

Skills

#	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 bleeding arrows with increased range, damage, radius, and conditions. (Replaces Fire Barbed Arrows for players with at least rank 4 in Arrow Cart Mastery)
4	Toxic Unveiling Volley		60	Fire arrows that reveal stealthed targets. (Available to players with rank 5 in Arrow Cart Mastery)

Related world abilities

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[sic] to target.

See also: Siege weapon#Related world abilities

Gallery

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  Basic Arrow Cart (retired)

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  Superior Arrow Cart (retired)

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  Arrow Cart during Lunar New Year

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  Concept art

Version history

Patch	Changes
November 19, 2024	The siege equipment blueprint system has been simplified. Guild siege blueprints have been renamed to siege blueprints. Basic and superior siege blueprints are no longer usable. Guild arrow carts became arrow carts; Basic arrow carts and Superior arrow carts have been retired. Poison has been removed from Toxic Unveiling Volley (arrow cart skill 4) and added to Fire Barbed Arrows (arrow cart skill 3) at all Arrow Cart Mastery levels.
July 16, 2024	Alacrity can no longer be applied to players using siege equipment and will be removed from players when activating siege equipment. Arrow cart supply cost has been reduced from 40 to 25. Superior arrow cart supply cost has been reduced from 50 to 35.
July 07, 2020	Reduced power damage of all skills by 20%.
July 24, 2018	Players can no longer be hit more than once every 0.5 seconds by arrow cart attacks. Arrow cart damage against siege equipment has been reduced by 50%. The number of targets that can be hit by one arrow cart attack has been reduced from 50 to 25.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Arrow carts (all types) now require 10 more supply to build and have new, custom line-of-sight calculations.
September 15, 2015	Altered arrow cart line-of-sight checks to be more restrictive.
June 11, 2013	Arrow Cart Mastery skills have had their range reduced to be better in balance with other siege weapons.
May 14, 2013	Arrow cart damage vs. other siege weapons has been reduced to 50% of its current damage.
April 30, 2013	Arrow Cart Mastery has been added.

Notes

• The arrows do not count as projectiles but Area of effects. They are merely a visual effect.

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