Guild Wars 2

A quick question, if I pop Arcane Power then doing Meteor shower, Ice storm or Glyph of storms. Does each meteor/iceshard/stormpulse reduce the 5 attacks that crit? Or does all of the skills hits doing crit for just one reduce on arcane power?

Hope you understand the question

Are you asking if each meteor counts as a distinct attack for arcane power and other limited numbers abilities like sigil of intelligence? If that’s your question, yes, each damage tick will proc arcane power.

So from the meteor shower only the first 5 comets will crit if Im not doing anything else (with arcane power)? Otherwise I never crit (4% crit chance) so that would have made a big different for me

Arcane power makes your first 5 strikes crit, don’t mistake with first 5 skills.
So yeah, multi hit skill like meteor – only the 5 first landed meteors will have 100% chance to crit.

Arcane power is pretty poor on a ptv/cleric ele. Having 5 guaranteed crit is useful either fo bursting, something you won’t do with only kittens, or proccing “on crit” abilities like vigor, something intel sigil will do better.

Atoss.1056:

Arcane power makes your first 5 strikes crit, don’t mistake with first 5 skills.
So yeah, multi hit skill like meteor – only the 5 first landed meteors will have 100% chance to crit.

It’s not even the first 5 impacts, but the first FIVE hits overall. So if 1 meteor hits 5 targets, you get to crit each target and your arcane power is used up.

The skill is 100% useless. Please never use it. Superior sigil of intelligence is WAY better if you want the effect.

Thanx for all replys.

I will ensure you BlackBeard, I wont use it

I have a simple change that would make it more useful as a trait and an utility. Make it so the kittens procs as an arcane skill for each hit. It would make elemental surge a trait worth getting. Pick up the trait as well as the utility and that would equal 10 total procs of elemental surge. Could be used to make staff builds viable and offer different types of scepter builds other than fresh air.

Im almost certain that arcane power does in fact proc elem surge, ive seen a few niche roaming staff builds running it.

Its probably a really difficult build with only 1 stun break every 75s (60 if you drop blasting staff for the arcane cd trait), but thats the only time ive seen this skill being used

Sizer.5632:

Im almost certain that arcane power does in fact proc elem surge, ive seen a few niche roaming staff builds running it.

Its probably a really difficult build with only 1 stun break every 75s (60 if you drop blasting staff for the arcane cd trait), but thats the only time ive seen this skill being used

It does proc it. once. I am saying that each crit that it gives you is an arcane. so it would make it proc 5 times.