Guild Wars 2

Ele is one of the hardest classes in the game thanks to lowest hp pool and lowest armor. If we’d like to chase warriors in terms of dps we would end up being dead constantly so we have to always sacrifice something. Im working on my condition build currently but had to ask this one.
Is there a chance to make ele focused on power and crit damage without any critical chance? Basicaly it would be abuse of arcane skills (arcane blast/wave + arcane power) and sigil of intelligence (9s cd – next 3 attacks have 100% crit chance).

I was wondering about such possibility and came up with something like this:
http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fFAQJAoYhUM6ZWywmBf0AdAB5rwvRBlTbrB-TViDABcqujDnAgQ0DEkyPAM/50+DU8AAUQJIMqEQKgH2CA-w

this is idea only for fun but if there is any chance for it to be viable… im awaiting opinions,

Just focussing on stats:

-4% chance to deal 208% damage
-96% chance to deal 100% damage

=> 4% * 208% + 96% * 100% = 1.0432

So (without fury) you have a lousy 4% damage increase from your ferocity.

and how does that math affect arcane power and sigil of intelligence ?

Taking Arcane Power and Sigil of Intelligence into consideration:

-Sigil of Intelligence gives you 3 crits per 9 seconds
-Arcane Power gives you 1.25 crits per 9 seconds
-Arcane Retribution gives you 1 crit per 9 seconds

=> To sum it up, you get 5.25 free crits per 9 seconds. Considering that D/D is a very fast paced playstyle, the increase in overall damage is not that high. As far as I know, this is also the number of hits and not the number of skills that will crit, so a single AoE would use up all your free crits.

I don’t know about intelligence but the arcane buff procs even for attacks that miss. Arcane retribution won’t activate nearly as much as the maximum possible on paper. Ferocity in general is the weakest offensive stat.

A lot of these crits will be activating at random times which means it’s not any better then crits from precision.

It’s not worth giving up so many utility and trait slots for a build like that where most of the crits will not even be on-demand.