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The Blackarrow is the dedicated ranged hunter among the six classes in Mistfall Hunter, fighting at distance with the bow and arrow as its exclusive weapon. You will also see the class written as Black Arrow in the reveal videos; it is the same fighter under two spellings. On the Classes page it sits as the bow specialist, and where the Mercenary muscles into a fight, the Blackarrow stays back and picks targets apart.

The bow branches into two archetypes, the Archer and the Hunter, and the two play very differently despite sharing the same weapon.

Archer

The Archer fires fully charged arrows that come with strong energy recovery, which gives the class real staying power in a drawn-out fight. That sustain pairs with a Mysticfly Arrow detonation mechanic to unload heavy burst damage when the moment is right, so the Archer alternates between feeding its own resources and spiking for a big hit.

Hunter

The Hunter is built around an ailment system instead. Its various debuff arrows apply strong status effects, and landing basic attacks extends how long those debuffs last. That stacking loop magnifies the build's damage over time and its crowd-control reach, making the Hunter the option for wearing enemies down and locking them in place rather than bursting them outright.

The class reveal named part of the arsenal that sits across both archetypes: Scattershot, Rapid Arrows, Impact Grenade, Soundwave Arrow, Lightning Arrow, and Concussive Arrow, backed by stealth and movement skills for repositioning between shots.

Archetypes at a glance

Second weapon

The Blackarrow's second weapon category did not make the launch build. The developers confirmed it slipped because of development timelines, so the bow and its two archetypes were the class's complete kit at release. The season roadmap has since confirmed what it is: a Javelin, arriving in Season 2 alongside a new season theme and a season-exclusive progression system. On August 20, 2026 the developers described the Javelin as being in full production and published a first look at its concept art, the first time the weapon had been discussed in writing rather than appearing only on the roadmap graphic. For the two-weapon stance system this fits into, see Combat and Weapons.

Balance at launch and after

The Blackarrow came out of solo-mode testing slightly overturned, with some skills and talents dominating high-tier gear matches, and with the Featherlight Arrow and Splatter Arrow talents poorly matched to their own playstyles. The launch pass trimmed the special arrows and re-pointed the talents. Mysticfly Arrow's True damage scaling was reduced slightly so it pierces high-tier affixes less easily, Paralysis Arrow's Exhausted state was shortened, and Shadow Step's charge-speed boost on breaking stealth was toned down.

The talent fixes cut in both directions. For the Archer, the Sepsis talent now requires a fully charged bow to boost splash damage, but scales that damage up further, which rewards the charged-shot rhythm the archetype is built on. For the Hunter, Power Infusion lost its fully charged requirement entirely and had its range expanded, matching the archetype's high-frequency hits.

After launch, the August 6 update removed the impact effect from Steel Arrow's uncharged shots and slightly reduced it on fully charged shots, alongside fixes for abnormal displacement when jumping after a side dodge and a stray collision prompt when aiming at stealthed units. The running record is on Updates and Patch Notes.

The August 12 update was a broader pass. Mysticfly Arrow, Steel Arrow, and Dodge Power Shot all had their cooldowns raised while Sonic Arrow had its cut sharply, which shifts the rotation toward the utility shot and away from the damage ones. Alongside that, the class had its PvP damage multiplier reduced specifically in solo mode, with PvE damage untouched, so nothing about how it fights monsters changed and nothing about squad play changed either. Three fixes shipped with it: the character's head disappearing while wearing the Forsaken Skeleton outfit, arrows fired by Dodge Rapid Shot wrongly carrying impact, and the abnormal displacement when jumping after a side dodge that the August 6 pass had not fully cleared.

The August 20 developer update set out where the class sits in the wider balance picture. Blackarrow was grouped with the Sorcerer as a ranged class with exceptional initiation tools and damage output that also retains safe kiting and survival options, and the developers said moderate burst-damage reductions had already begun, with further work driven by match data and by how specific map terrain amplifies ranged effectiveness. They also placed the class among those with a very high skill ceiling, and framed the goal as narrowing that gap without suppressing high-level play.