Guild Wars 2

The Elementalist trait “Arcane Power” clearly states “Your next 5 attacks do critical damage” however in all my tests in both PvE and PvP the first attack removes the buff and you do not get the following 4. Please can this be fixed.

You are indded correct (well for me the 1st 2 hits are critical hits only – unless 1 is just luck), i knew something was up with my damage when using this skill. They should make it into a charge setup perhaps, so when activated the buff icon shows 5/4/3/2/1 (kinda like conjured weapons).

A video to show the bug (thought it would help), it’s quite clearly only doing criticals for 1 or 2 attacks and not 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbTDOYGE-uU&feature=youtu.be

Guess i’ll switch to another skill until this one is fixed, because it’s pretty useless like this.

MajorMelchett.6042:

You are indded correct (well for me the 1st 2 hits are critical hits only – unless 1 is just luck), i knew something was up with my damage when using this skill. They should make it into a charge setup perhaps, so when activated the buff icon shows 5/4/3/2/1 (kinda like conjured weapons).

A video to show the bug (thought it would help), it’s quite clearly only doing criticals for 1 or 2 attacks and not 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbTDOYGE-uU&feature=youtu.be

Guess i’ll switch to another skill until this one is fixed, because it’s pretty useless like this.

I know, it really does make the skill pointless, I had an awesome build that revolved around it in beta and now it’s just not viable. Funny that it worked in beta but not live.

Thought i should also add this incase people are just thinking the time is running out before 5 hits are done.

The skill lasts for 30 seconds or until 5 hits are made (well if the 5 hits actully worked) so it isn’t running out of time.
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I’m actully surprized more elementals aren’t posting about this, maybe they just aren’t noticing the issue (like i wasn’t until you pointed it out).

MajorMelchett.6042:

Thought i should also add this incase people are just thinking the time is running out before 5 hits are done.

The skill lasts for 30 seconds or until 5 hits are made (well if the 5 hits actully worked) so it isn’t running out of time.
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I’m actully surprized more elementals aren’t posting about this, maybe they just aren’t noticing the issue (like i wasn’t until you pointed it out).

Yeah I would have thought lots of people would made it known, I’ve submitted bug reports in game to no avail. Maybe it’s just not that popular at the moment. I was really surprised to see it wasn’t fixed in the patch today. Infact I was surprised at no Elementalist changes at all but that’s another story :P.

RageGaming.9450:

Yeah I would have thought lots of people would made it known, I’ve submitted bug reports in game to no avail. Maybe it’s just not that popular at the moment. I was really surprised to see it wasn’t fixed in the patch today. Infact I was surprised at no Elementalist changes at all but that’s another story :P.

Have to agree here, of all the classes needing work i’d say the elemental is top of the list – on top of this a number of our skills are broken/cause issues and over the past few days/patches not a single fix on anything.

I just want to know if it’s going to get a fix, on other things i have issues with i can say balance issues, BUT this is very clearly a broken skill.

MajorMelchett.6042:

Have to agree here, of all the classes needing work i’d say the elemental is top of the list – on top of this a number of our skills are broken/cause issues and over the past few days/patches not a single fix on anything.

I just want to know if it’s going to get a fix, on other things i have issues with i can say balance issues, BUT this is very clearly a broken skill.

I would like to know if they plan on fixing these issues or not, that way I can roll another class and not worry about this one. If the Arc Lightning issue was reported in BWE 1 and they just fixed other class issues, then this is obsurd.

Allcoast.1758:

MajorMelchett.6042:

Have to agree here, of all the classes needing work i’d say the elemental is top of the list – on top of this a number of our skills are broken/cause issues and over the past few days/patches not a single fix on anything.

I just want to know if it’s going to get a fix, on other things i have issues with i can say balance issues, BUT this is very clearly a broken skill.

I would like to know if they plan on fixing these issues or not, that way I can roll another class and not worry about this one. If the Arc Lightning issue was reported in BWE 1 and they just fixed other class issues, then this is obsurd.

Eventually we will be awesome!

Yeah I finally realized this today after I switched from my precision to power build (where did all the crits go?)

As mentioned above, the skill worked in beta but is borked now.

After another patch, that had Elementalists changes, including various bug fixes, Arcane Power remains broken.

Please can a dev confirm this bug has been acknowledged?

This is also the case for the Trait: Arcane Retribution, gain Arcane Power at 75% hp, not just the skill. The trait will activate, last a few seconds or 1 sometimes 2 crits. Unless intend to be a weaker version of the slot skill, however the tool tip does say: gain Arcane Power, not gain next 2 attacks in 5 sec critical

I created a topic as well regarding this issue, and did a lot of testing to see if i could figure out why it was happening.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Arcane-Power-not-functioning-properly-with-AOE-damage/first#post205555

I’ve described the problem in the post, but long story short: It’s an issue regarding AoE spells, since the arcane power charges trigger at “invisible” enemies.
I tested it with single target spells, and it used all 5 charges.

The bug is in the description. I did my own brief testing and it confirmed what Kris found. Arcane Power gave me a full 5 charges with the Scepter Fire AA. I tried it with Staff Fire AA and got two charges (a fair trade considering how much harder the Staff AA hits compared to the Scepter).