Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity. — In-game description

Improved Alacrity

Specialization

Chronomancer (trait list)

Tier

Master

Type

Major

Training cost

10 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Improved Alacrity

Alacrity applied to you is stronger but has a reduced duration. Gain increased critical-strike damage when you have alacrity.

 Recharge Speed: 50%

 Recharge Speed: 35%

 Critical Damage Increase: 10%

 Duration Decreased: 33%

— In-game description

Mechanics

Bug:

The reduction in duration doesn't affect Alacrity gained via  Persistence of Memory.

Anomaly:

Instead of increasing the Critical Damage attribute like the tooltip implies, this acts as a 10% multiplicative strike damage modifier only applied to critical hits.

• This applies -33% Boon duration of Alacrity to yourself. If you have 133% Boon duration, Alacrity will be applied to you as 100% duration.
• The increased critical-strike damage only affects the chronomancer, and not their illusions.
• The increase of recharge speed by 50% means an increase to 150%, which translates to a reduction of the recharge time of skills to 66.67% of their original recharge time.
  • In WvW the increase of recharge speed by 35% means an increase to 135%, which translates to a reduction of the recharge time of skills to 74.07% of their original recharge time.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 30, 2024	Reduced the alacrity recharge speed from 50% to 35% in WvW only.
August 02, 2022	In addition to its previous effects, this trait now also increases your critical strike damage by 10% when you have alacrity. This is a multiplier to total damage dealt, not additive with critical strike damage from ferocity.
February 06, 2018	This trait now causes alacrity applied to you to improve skill-recharge speed by 50%, but it reduces the duration of incoming alacrity from all sources by 33%. Alacrity applied to others is unaffected.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: Improved Alacrity has been added to the game.