Guild Wars 2

Arcana – Grandmaster Trait 12:Elemental Surge: Based on your current attunement, arcane skills cause a condition to foes that they hit.

Arcane Power: Your next five attacks do critical damage.

Anyone else notice that Arcane power will trigger this trait five times? I’ve been messing around a bit with it and found that this also works when using the Arcane Retribution trait which grants Arcane Power when HP hits 75%. Possible bug?

its not a bug, most ppl knew it, its still underwhelming tho (in my opinion at least)

ether evasive arcana too strong or arcana surge too weak, idk..

I experimented with this for a long time. Surge was mostly overlooked before because conditionalists weren’t a practical option.

It might make more sense now though, but I would have a hard time justifying a condition build that used arcane abilities instead of sigils.

yeah, it’s a known thing. you can stack like 90s burning by using arcane power and drake’s breath, but then you’d have to take arcane surge.

it’s not good.