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EQ:Headshot  

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Headshot is a passive AA ability that only Rangers can purchase. It provides a chance that any Archery based attack on a lower-level humanoid mob can hit for extremely high damage, often a one-shot kill. The damage is treated as physical damage and cannot be mitigated or resisted. It works with both regular Archery and any spells that use an "Archery Skill Attack" (like the "Hail/Arc/Barrage of Arrows" directional AE spell line), as well as thrown weapons. This information is current up to the House of Thule expansion:

Rank	Cost (AAs)	Max Mob Lvl	LvL Req	Damage
01	04	46	60	32,000
02	05	48	61	35,200
03	05	50	63	42,440
04	05	52	65	46,480
05	05	54	67	58,785
06	05	56	69	?
07	05	58	71	?
08	07	60	73	?
09	09	62	75	70,880
10	12	64	77	76,600
11	07	66	79	?
12	09	68	81	? or 88,990
13	12	70	83	95,550 or 105,094
14	09	72	85	102,??? or 109,574
15	12	74	87	120,527
16	15	76	89	?
17	03	78	90	?
18	03	80	90	?
19	03	82	90	140,680

Note: There is variance in the damage done. Discs and activated AA's that affect spell damage will modify the maximum damage done, as will the spell Called Shots. Damage enhancing effects like Hunter's Fury will also modify the maximum damage done.

Zones (expansions) and mobs that the Headshot AAs work in include:

• HS Rank ?? needed - Nurga (Kunark) - goblins
• HS Rank ?? needed - Old Sebilis (Kunark) - entrance mobs. At higher ranks, all froglok models can be headshot.
• HS Rank ?? needed - Torgiran Mines (Ykesha) - most mobs
• HS Rank 4 needed - Crypt of Nadox (Ykesha) - entry mobs, trolls
• HS Rank ?? needed - Droga, upper sections (Kunark)
• HS Rank ?? needed - Plane of Nightmare (PoP) - non-named hobgoblins, slarghilugs, torment bats (NOTE: Summon, Immune to Root)
• HS Rank ?? needed - Droga, lower sections (Kunark)
• HS Rank ?? needed - Blackfeather Roost (TSS) - all harpies on level 2 and some harpy nobles on level 3
• HS Rank ?? needed - Blackfeather Roost (TSS) - LB harpy nobles on level 3 ??? confirmation needed ???
• HS Rank ?? needed - Plane of Nightmare (PoP) - Mephits
• HS Rank ?? needed - Crypt of Decay (PoP) - Puslings and non-named rats
• HS Rank ?? needed - Plane of Storms (PoP) - Diaku, giants (giants summon), named/mini giants, whirlwinds
• HS Rank 09 needed - The Barren Coast (TBS) - Blacksail Swabbies, Bloodthirsty Criminals, and Vicious Mutineers
• HS Rank 09 needed - The Barren Coast (TBS) - Blacksail Prates, Deadly Traitors, Murderous Saboteurs, and Nefarious Deserters
• HS Rank ?? needed - Halls of Honor (PoP) - most humanoid mobs
• HS Rank ?? needed - Plane of Valor (PoP) - arachnaes and crawlers (lumbering beasts and razorfiends can no longer be Headshot)
• HS Rank 12 needed - The Steppes (TSS) - most gnolls
• HS Rank 10 needed - The Barren Coast (TBS) - Blacksail Swashbucklers and Stormguard Knights
• HS Rank ?? needed - "Calling Emoush" raid event (DoN) - all of the goblins
• HS Rank ?? needed - Stoneroot Falls (DoD) - drachnids and orcs
• HS Rank ?? needed - Plane of Fire (PoP) - C1 area (lvl 79)
• HS Rank ?? needed - Plane of Fire (PoP) - C2 area (for most)
• HS Rank ?? needed - "Freeing an Elder" mission (DoD) - All living mobs except Drachnid Protectors
• HS Rank ?? needed - "Orb of Subversion" mission (DoD) - All living mobs except named
• HS Rank ?? needed - "Confronting a Traitor" mission (DoD) - All mobs except named
• HS Rank ?? needed - "The Lost Notebook" mission (DoD) - ALL mobs
• HS Rank 13 needed - Dragonscale Hills (SoF) - minotaurs and nymphs (rank 14 recommended. Rank 15 required for some minotaurs in building)
• HS Rank 14 needed - "The Lost Gnomes" mission (DoD) - ALL mobs
• HS Rank 15 needed - Dreadspire Keep (DoD) - orcs and human mobs
• HS Rank ?? needed - "The Lost Gnomes (Hard)" mission (DoD) - ALL mobs
• HS Rank 16 needed - Old Blackburrow (SoD) - most gnolls (Reavers summon, named req higher HS)
• HS Rank ?? needed - The Buried Sea (TBS) - Pirates
• HS Rank 16 needed - Bloody Kithicor (SoD) - Obliteration Army and Army of Light mobs (16 minimum, 18 for all)
• HS Rank =< 19 needed - Lower Guk: Darkened Ruins of Old Guk (seasonal) - minotaurs and living frogloks
• HS Rank =< 19 needed - Lost Temple of Cazic Thule (seasonal) - a few broodlings at rank 16, all non-named lizards by rank 19
• HS Rank 19 needed - Field of Scale (SoD) - most non named Iksar and all Sarnak
• HS Rank 19 needed - Old Kurns Tower and instances (SoD) - Iksar
• HS Rank 19 needed - Kaesora Library (SoD) - Some Iksar

As of the 1/13/2011 patch, Headshot only affects your current target. As of the 2/8/2011 patch, the levels affected by each rank of Headshot have been modified, 3 additional ranks have been added, and each rank beyond the first adds two levels to the maximum level of the target and additional damage.