Improvisation

Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal. Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills. — In-game description

Improvisation

Specialization

Deadly Arts (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Improvisation

Use stolen skills twice. Reduce the cooldown of all equipped utility skills when you steal.
Cooldown effect will only trigger if all utility slots are filled and if at least one of your active utility skills is on cooldown. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

 Recharge Reduced: 25%

— In-game description

Related skills

Profession mechanic skills that are improved by this trait

•   Steal
•   Blessing Seed — Stolen skill
•   Blinding Tuft — Stolen skill
•   Bone Crack — Stolen skill
•   Branch Bash — Stolen skill
•   Branch Leap — Stolen skill
•   Club Shock Wave — Stolen skill
•   Consume Plasma — Stolen skill
•   Detonate Plasma — Stolen skill
•   Drink — Stolen skill
•   Drink Ambrosia — Stolen skill
•   Eat Egg — Stolen skill
•   Essence Sap — Stolen skill
•   Exploding Venom Sack — Stolen skill
•   Healing Seed — Stolen skill
•   Ice Shard Stab — Stolen skill
•   Mace Head Crack — Stolen skill
•   Rusty Scrap Strike — Stolen skill
•   Shoot Rifle — Stolen skill
•   Skull Fear — Stolen skill
•   Soul Stone Venom — Venom, Stolen skill
•   Throw Chain — Stolen skill
•   Throw Coral Shard — Stolen skill
•   Throw Crystal Shard — Stolen skill
•   Throw Cursed Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Throw Enchanted Ice — Stolen skill
•   Throw Feathers — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gear — Stolen skill
•   Throw Gunk — Stolen skill
•   Throw Lava Rock — Stolen skill
•   Throw Magnetic Bomb — Stolen skill
•   Throw Net — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill
•   Throw Rock — Stolen skill
•   Throw Scale — Stolen skill
•   Throw Unstable Reagent — Stolen skill
•   Throw Vine — Stolen skill
•   Time in a Bottle — Stolen skill
•   Tooth Stab — Stolen skill
•   Unstable Artifact — Stolen skill
•   Use Scepter — Stolen skill
•   Use Staff — Stolen skill
•   Use Trident — Stolen skill
•   Whirling Axe — Stolen skill
•   Whirling Strike — Stolen skill
•   Deadeye's Mark
•   Steal Defenses — Stolen skill
•   Steal Durability — Stolen skill
•   Steal Health — Stolen skill
•   Steal Mobility — Stolen skill
•   Steal Precision — Stolen skill
•   Steal Resistance — Stolen skill
•   Steal Strength — Stolen skill
•   Steal Time — Stolen skill
•   Steal Warmth — Stolen skill
•   Siphon — Steal

Notes

• Stolen skills will have two charges.
• Cannot recharge healing or elite skills.
• Specter does not have access to steal items and does not gain benefits from the steal skills portion of this trait.

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 15, 2025	Increased the cooldown refund from 15% to 25% in PvP and WvW.
June 27, 2023	This trait now reduces the cooldowns of all utility skills by a certain percentage when you steal, instead of recharging a random skill.
May 11, 2021	The cooldown of this trait has been reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
August 11, 2020	Updated this trait's description to clarify that in the case of sequence skills, only the currently visible skill will be recharged.
October 01, 2019	Instead of recharging an entire skill category at random, this trait now recharges one of your equipped utility skills at random.
November 07, 2017	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from working with ammo skills. It now restores 1 use to affected skills.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: Updated the text description to refer to Stolen Skills instead of Stolen Items. The skill-recharge portion of this trait now has a 20-second internal cooldown.
October 27, 2015	Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from recharging physical skills when stealing from an enemy.
June 23, 2015	Specialization update: Updated this trait to reflect the introduction of the specialization mechanic. This trait has been moved to the Grandmaster tier. No longer increses damage with environment weapons. Added: You can use stolen items twice.
December 14, 2012	Now also increased damage with environment weapons by 10%.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Improvisation has been added to the game.