Arcane Echo

Arcane. The next weapon skill you use has significantly reduced recharge, and this skill's recharge is increased by the original recharge of the affected skill. — In-game description

Arcane Echo

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Slot

Utility

Type

Arcane

Training cost

3 Hero points

Game link

API

5635

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Arcane Echo

Arcane. The next weapon skill you use has significantly reduced recharge, and this skill's recharge is increased by the original recharge of the affected skill.

 Arcane Echo (10s): Your next weapon skill will recharge faster.

 Recharge reduced to: 1 second

— In-game description

Mechanics

•  Arcane Echo registers the reduction at the end of aftercast delay.
  • Activating in the middle of a cast, the effect will immediately consume upon completion.
    • Useful for avoiding reducing the wrong skill; ideal to cast Arcane Echo during the cast of the desired skill.
    • Useful for refunding the recharge of skills with long cast times, such as   Meteor Shower.
• For chain skills, it will only apply to the currently active skill.
  • For example, activating   Frost Aura will only refund the cooldown of Frost Aura and not   Transmute Frost.
  • When using the Spear, Arcane Echo will be consumed when unleashing the 2nd and 3rd tier Etching skills, despite them having no cooldown. Thus, it should be used prior to engraving the Etching.
• It will not be consumed on auto-attacks.

Related traits

Arcane

• Arcane Lightning — Arcane skills grant increased ferocity and have additional effects.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 24, 2025	Arcane Power: This skill has been reworked and renamed Arcane Echo. This skill now causes your next weapon skill to recharge instantly. The recharge of this skill is increased by the recharge of the recharged weapon skill.
March 19, 2024	This skill no longer grants bonuses to allies. This skill now grants a flat amount of ferocity for 5 seconds instead of the ferocity bonus being linked to the critical-strike stacks. Reduced the cooldown from 35 seconds to 30 seconds.
June 27, 2023	Reduced cooldown from 45 seconds to 35 seconds.
November 13, 2017	Fixed a bug that prevented Arcane Power from properly removing stacks during combat.
November 07, 2017	Reduced the number of stacks applied to allies from 4 to 2. The user of this skill retains 4 stacks on casting.
May 18, 2017	The number of stacks this ability applies has been reduced from 5 to 4.
May 16, 2017	The effects of this skill now apply to up to 4 other nearby allies within a range of 240. In addition to its previous effects, each stack of this effect now gives 75 ferocity at level 80.
October 21, 2014	Fixed a bug that caused attacks enhanced by this skill to only inflict one stack of vulnerability with Shard of Ice.
August 06, 2013	The buff provided when this skill is activated will now properly display the remaining number of charges.
January 28, 2013	The number of uses on this skill's effect will now decrease if an attack lands or if the attack is negated by Blind, Block, Evade, Obstructed, or Invulnerable.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Arcane Power has been added to the game.

Trivia

• A Guild Wars skill bears the same name as this skill.