Guild Wars 2

Hey. I’ve just been doing some theory-crafting, and i came up with something that seemed very nice. On paper everything should be working perfectly, and enable me to deal huge amounts of AOE damage using Arcane Power.
However, i did numerous tests on the golems in the mist, and im positive that arcane power bugs when dealing AOE damage.
If i used “Churning Earth” while having Arcane Power activated and hit all three of the golems (in the mists), only one of them was certain to be hit with critical damage. Which one of the golems that got hit with critical damage was random.
Doing the exact same thing with only one golem in range, it got hit by critical damage as it should.
Whenever i use Churning Earth, Arcane Power dissapears as if i had used all 5 “charges”. And exactly therefore only 1 target is getting hit by critical damage instead of all of them.

This CANT be intentional.

I did some more testing and found out that it doesnt even matter if you hit any targets atm. Using Arcane Power and firing “Ice Shards” (Scepter Skill 1) into thin air, arcane power dispatches after 2 attacks, because Ice Shards in theory are shooting out three shards at every use, even though it’s not actually hitting anything or even shooting the shards.
And here we have our problem.
Somehow Arcane Power registers AoE spells as having multiple attacks (which can be discussed if they actually have. Imo they do not). This would be okay, if it at least hit up to 5 (5 charges on Arcane Power) targets with critical damage. The problem is that it somehow “hits” a lot of non-existing targets (using up all the attack charges.) and therefore not hitting the actual targets for critical damage.

I hope you’re able to understand what im trying to say, because something should definitely be changed regarding Arcane Power, it cannot function this way its too illogical.
This is not really a discussion thread but more of a bug report, i used the forums instead of the bug report becuase it seems to get better response.
Feel free to ask any questions if you have suspicion that some other factors can be the cause.

- Kris