I’ve noticed a new bug most likely related to the Hunter’s Prey hotfix:
(BM) Black Arrow does not fire if used on a mob while out of combat. If you’re not in combat, try to open on an enemy with black arrow. It will not fire, but will go on cooldown.
I’ve only tested on BM and have not tested on MM.
Just kidding.
It works on the dummy but not pve mobs.
About to test in a duel.
Works in pvp, but not pve.
I tested with and without hunters prey talented. Both fail to fire when opening combat in pve on mobs.
Been happening since the 10/31 hotfix, i do believe it is indeed tied to the hunter’s prey bug that recently got hotfixed.
I wonder how this escaped the Pee-Tee-Arr.
Unrelated to hunter’s pray. I have it with MM 
Just posted a topic and saw this one… haha
Likely has something to do with the changes to prevent black arrow from hitting out of combat targets.
Same issue with MM. 
Ongoing issue. Even mid-combat, Black Arrow doesn’t work MOST of the time. When it does, it’s obvious, but it still goes on cooldown despite not working properly
So basically, Black Arrow either does like 50% of the damage it was doing in the PTR, or 0%.
Best rework ever, Blizzard. 10/10, would rework again.
Microsoft, is there any way you can un-nerf the QA budget by 10-20% or so? It might make some of this shiny new expansion’s features a bit more … playable.
This… explains a lot. I kept wondering why it was literally doing no damage but going on cooldown. It didn’t occur to me that it might be bugged.
Yeah. Id see like 30k damage and it was on cooldown. It didnt actually fire. That was an autoshot. SO I make sure to do something else before BA. Typically Steady Shot for the 8% haste anyway.
This is hotfixed today.
Now that it’s doing damage again, time to wait and see if they’ll eventually hotfix the damage to be … not terrible.
I’m only really doing open world content this season due to time and energy constraints, but I feel like it’s doing a solid amount of damage and procs often. I feel like 800k dps without using wrath sometimes is good