Guild Wars 2

I’ve always wanted to try and create a build around arcane power and arcane blast, with the idea that you don’t need lots of critical chance, and can instead dump into critical damage.

Sadly, this never seems to work out for me.

Anyone have success trying to do something like this?

Arcane power from the trait has been buffed to last 30 sec as far as i know
Also you can precast it and get to use it more times during the actual fight.But its way unreliable to base a build on critting 5 attacks which is like a burst even in pve i think.For pvp rumors say that immob will stack in duration so i could see going for double arcane power and elemental surge and doing 5 sec immob to set up bursts or 15 sec chills and funny stuff like that
Imo id use it for that utility before id even consider to take it for a 1 time burst every 45 sec

^Arcane Power is only useful for abusing Elemental Surge. But even then it’s pretty weak since it procs every per individual hit instead of for every attack so is useless for PvE. In WvW/PvP you can’t cover your condis very well.

I have also never got it to quite work. Just like Signet builds.