Apply Poison and Barbed Arrows.

If you make a proportion the 24 second for 15 energy is the same for keeping up Barbed Arrows up for 24 seconds so yeah Apply Poison obviously. my main point is,barbed arrows is also easily interruptable

The only reason Barbed Arrows is a skill is to make Poison Arrow look better. but in that case,running apply poison+screaming shot will give you the same for more.expertise will just keep you up energywise

Barbed has limitations so that poison arrow + barbed isn't an overpowered combo. I don't know why they bothered trying to make that balanced when they allowed Burning Arrow + Apply Poison in the very same campaign as Barbed Arrows.

The low duration of the Burn would make Poison Arrow + Barbed much more attractive if Barbed weren't so damned overbalanced.

The only reason I run in on my ranger is that I take 2 rangers one with the [card]burning arrow[/card] + [card]apply poison[/card] combo and the other with the [card]broad head arrow[/card] + [card]barbed arrows[/card] combo. It acts as a cover condition and is a little overkill for degen, but once the burning is off the target still has -7 degen for 10-15 seconds. Or I combine with a [card]virulence[/card] necro and take the BHA+Barbed. So it has its uses, you just have to look for them. And before you say screaming arrow pawns it, you have to factor in that barbed reapplies acting as a cover condition. ah but your forgetting apply poison lasts longer+covers conditions as well,so its worth BA/apply/screaming

Barbed has limitations so that poison arrow + barbed isn't an overpowered combo. They probably went a little overboard on its drawbacks, since the combo sees almost no use outside of arenas. If they removed the easily interruptable, and allowed sec bow att1 acks to be cancelled mid-attack, the combo might give crip shot a run for its money in some condition builds. But right now the difficulty in maintaining barbed, and the ease of getting poison arrow spam distracted/disabled, make the combo less attractive than your standard crip shot.

Outside of that pairing, barbed makes little sense. Maybe in a multiple ranger pressure build there'd be a way to fit it in, but it'd be a stretch.
Who cares it is overpowered now... Barbed Arrows+Poison Tip Signet= awesome if used right.

Edit: Barbed is a better choice for Broad Head Arrows because the energy from Broad Head sucks up most of the energy and making apply harder to keep up then barbed.

^^ what, you running 4 expertise? That person must be, as I run at 13 expertise and have absolutely no problems with energy while using BHA + Apply Poison.