Malicious Sorcery

Increases attack speed while wielding a scepter. Reduces recharge on scepter skills. — In-game description

Malicious Sorcery

Specialization

Illusions (trait list)

Tier

Grandmaster

Type

Major

Training cost

8 Hero points

Game link

API

API

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Increases attack speed while wielding a scepter. Reduces recharge on scepter skills.

  Increased Attack Speed: 20%

  Recharge Reduced: 20%

— In-game description

Notes

• Affects both activation time and aftercast, resulting in an overall 20% increase to attack speed.
• The increase in attack speed affects the cast time of all weapon skills, utility skills, and gathering; as long as a scepter is worn.
• The attack speed bonus from this trait does not stack with  Quickness.
• This does not affect clones wielding a scepter.

	Skill	Traited recharge
Scepter	Illusionary Counter (PvE)	8	→	6.4
	Illusionary Counter (WvW, PvP)	12	→	9.6
	Confusing Images	12	→	9.6

Version history

For a detailed trait history, see here.

Patch	Changes
January 26, 2016	The attack speed increase from this trait has been increased from 15% to 20%.
July 28, 2015	Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from properly applying its increased attack-speed effect.
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 grants condition damage. Reduces recharge of scepter skills by 20%. Increases attack speed by 15% while wielding a scepter.
June 25, 2013	This trait grants up to 200 condition damage while wielding a scepter (based on level), up from 50.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Malicious Sorcery has been added to the game.