Improvisation/history

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June 27, 2023

  • Improvisation: This trait now reduces the cooldowns of all utility skills by a certain percentage when you steal, instead of recharging a random skill.
Improvisation.png

Improvisation

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Deadly Arts
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
15 Recharge time
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

May 11, 2021

  • Improvisation: The cooldown of this trait has been reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
Improvisation.png

Improvisation

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Deadly Arts
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
15 Recharge time
Improvisation

Use stolen skills twice. Recharge one random equipped utility skill when you steal.
Goes on cooldown regardless of whether a utility skill is recharged. Does not affect inactive sequence skills.

— In-game description

August 11, 2020

  • Improvisation: 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

  • Improvisation: Instead of recharging an entire skill category at random, this trait now recharges one of your equipped utility skills at random.
Improvisation.png

Improvisation

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Deadly Arts
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
20 Recharge time
Improvisation

You can use stolen skills twice. One random equipped utility skill when you steal. Goes on cooldown regardless of if a utility skill is recharged.

— In-game description

November 07, 2017

  • Improvisation: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from working with ammo skills.
    • It now restores 1 use to affected skills.

August 08, 2017

  • Improvisation: 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.
Improvisation.png

Improvisation

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Deadly Arts
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
20 Recharge time
Improvisation

You can use stolen skills twice. One random skill category is immediately recharged when you steal.

— In-game description

October 27, 2015

  • Improvisation: Fixed an issue that prevented this trait from recharging physical skills when stealing from an enemy.

June 23, 2015

  • Improvisation: 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.
Improvisation.png

Improvisation

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Deadly Arts
Tier
Grandmaster
Type
Major
Game link
Improvisation

You can use stolen items twice. One random skill category is immediately recharged when you steal.

— In-game description

December 14, 2012

  • Improvisation: Now also increased damage with environment weapons by 10%.
Trait VII.png

Improvisation

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Deadly Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Improvisation

Stealing recharges all skills of one type (venoms, signets, traps, tricks, or deceptions). Deal bonus damage when wielding a bundle.

Damage.png Damage Increase: 10%

— In-game description

Original version

Trait VII.png

Improvisation

Specialization
Thief icon small.png Deadly Arts
Tier
Master
Type
Major
Improvisation

Stealing recharges all skills of one type (venoms, signets, traps, tricks, or deceptions)(Random one of five)

— In-game description